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New rifles give Army snipers in Afghanistan needed range

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that is a good looking rifle, there must be a major overhaul going on. Didn't ground troops just get issued m4 carbines with match grade barrels to replace their m16s? And that starship troopers looking gun get issued recently?
 
lol i just noticed that the first pic shows what seems to be a really long wine cork converted into a suppressor
 
We need to leave afghanistan for about a year, and let all of our enemies feel safe and secure, then we need to go back and bomb the shit out of every single town and village we can find. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. lol. It would be fun. Everyone knows this.
 
theflyingpig said:
We need to leave afghanistan for about a year, and let all of our enemies feel safe and secure, then we need to go back and bomb the shit out of every single town and village we can find. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. Then we leave. Then we come back in a year and do the same thing. lol. It would be fun. Everyone knows this.
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We could bomb them into a Julian calandar!
 
QueBert said:
No, in the US I don't think there's many courses that are absolutely required to graduate, my school had no physics class, hell we didn't even have anything above pre Algebra for math.
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In the US, it's a state-by-state thing. If you grew up in Mississippi or Louisiana or Alabama, the bolded statement above is likely the norm.
 
yottabit said:
If you neglected air resistance, then the speed of the bullet relative to a bystander would increase due to the acceleration due to gravity (Potential Energy changing into Kinetic Energy), but the horizontal component of that speed would always remain the same, so it wouldn't travel any farther. Gravity only causes a change in the vertical component of the velocity.
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someone paid attention in mechanics!
 
It's a shame that a superpower and its allies from NATO have not being able to defeat a rag-tag guerrilla army who is underarmed and underequipped, I lost my respect for the U.S. they are getting their arses whooped, 10 years and nothing to show for? Wow.
 
QueBert said:
No, in the US I don't think there's many courses that are absolutely required to graduate, my school had no physics class, hell we didn't even have anything above pre Algebra for math.
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what? a US high school with nothing above pre Algebra? sure.
 
Kommander_Kink said:
It's a shame that a superpower and its allies from NATO have not being able to defeat a rag-tag guerrilla army who is underarmed and underequipped, I lost my respect for the U.S. they are getting their arses whooped, 10 years and nothing to show for? Wow.
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That's because the U.S. fights with rules. The Taliban have no rules. That would explain the enormously high civilian casualties...oh wait, it doesn't. :hmm: But that's because the Taliban hide amongst civilian populations. That's why what prompts the U.S. to bomb wedding parties. The Taliban love hiding there. :\
 
Pocatello said:
The majority of troops still use the 5.56 mm NATO round, aren't they even more at a disadvantage?
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the majority of troops dont need to or wont be effective at those ranges


this rifle was not developed for afghan im sure, its been coming for years, the M24 is old old old old old.

and the m24 is available in 300 winmag.......
 
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