Balance between weight, encumbrance and utility really.

20 round are you thinking of the SLR? It fires 7.62mm NATO which is bigger and significantly heavier. 1 of the few downsides to the AK47 (which fires a shorter 7.62mm round) is the weight and length of the magazine, which makes it harder to fire prone.

You must love the Soviet Ppsh41 then. 71 round drum

Quite some time back. Military use now prefer 30 round though apparently some SWAT police still use the old 20 round mags since they don't need as much firepower

I think more related to Brexit, though I agree the Stump has basically rendered US assistance unreliable in its allies' eyes

We are outright in the midst of a financial crisis, but the govt media doesn't dare say it out

Not this close to election

% wise our defence budget is similar to the smaller EU countries right, around 1.7% IINM

IMHO neither side has the real political will, PH don't really have a separate defence strategy and BN is just there for the money

"Vote Trump for peace" they said
"Clinton is the warmonger" they said

This is exactly the kind of escalation that Obama and Clinton was hoping to avoid. Well done, Trumpers

more like the other way round. The investigation board has concluded its Russia already, but the Kremlin has been pushing alternative explanations since the very start: almost every single MH17 conspiracy theory can be traced back to initial broadcasts on various Russian media.

A critic of Putin who published a report covering MH17 in detail has even been assassinated: Boris Nemtsov.

pretty much yeah. remember Bush anybody? the tea party?

but everyone's rushing to suck Trump dick because hurr durr Russia says Clinton fund ISIS emails

Two sailors dead as Indian warship tips over during undockingTwo sailors were confirmed dead while a number of others are being treated for injuries after the Indian Navy frigate INS Betwa tipped over on Monday as it was being undocked at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.

"The incident occurred in the Cruiser Graving Dock during undocking evolution wherein it is suspected that the dock blocks mechanism has failed," Indian Navy spokesperson, Captain (IN) D K Sharma, was quoted as saying by the Indian media.

Pictures on social media show the frigate on its port side in the dock. Betwa has likely sustained damage to her mast and side, and it remains to be seen whether the ship can be saved.



INS Betwa lying on side after she collapsed down due to a mishap while leaving the port after a refit. #INSBetwa @indiannavy #navalcraft pic.twitter.com/piVGbUwlv4
— IADnews (@newsiadn) December 5, 2016


INS Betwa is an indigenously designed and built guided missile frigate of the Brahmaputra-class. The ship is 125 meters long and displaces 3,600 tonnes. It was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 2004.

good I guess, but what happened? can't rely on our stocks of KAB-500 any more?

Still there
your browser lah something

I didn't know we put Damocles pod on our Su30
Seems all the more reason to go Rafale for commonality now

Yes thats why I'm not terribly thrilled
The Typhoon pod is said to be better (I think its RAPTOR?)

I think he edited it and put it back up by the time I rechecked

The part about using Damocles to drop Paveway is gone

Either
1) we really did and its top secret or
2) we dropped a Russian LGB not Paveway or
3) we dropped Paveway but didn't use Damocles

Hmmmmmm

Yeah that's the one
Impossible to use lar then
sigh.... Damocles NG it is.

In the comments MA insists he heard Paveway not LGB and he deleted it because he was warned of "operational concerns"

Someone also pointed out we have KAB-500L already though.

Quick reloading is not as important when your 1 mag has 3 times the capacity of normal mag

The coffin mag is at least slightly more ergonomic than drum or box which is the only other option for 100 rounds, you still got chance to stuff that big banana in a strap somewhere relatively quickly

If you're firing drum or box also you will still be told to bring the mag back. That makes the process even slower (seen a SAW gunner reload right?)

This post has been edited by KLboy92: Dec 11 2016, 09:52 AM

How can you tell?
Looks like white shots from here. Aren't practice rounds usually blue?

Big mouth only (I hope)
The other partners won't let him get away with it

he bodoh or more likely, manipulating the story

every single major US project there are people painting negative picture for their own agenda

right now when F-35 is starting to be successful and partner nations are happy, right now is when he decide to cut?!?! it really IS F-22 all over again!

see also: Spruance, Ticonderoga, Aegis, F/A-18, F-15

Ozzies operating on a shoestring too

Almost exactly like us, all money sucked into their land vehicle project, new destroyers as well as 10 (!) new submarines

I didn't know their carrier wing was that inoperational
Now only do live fire exercise

How legit is this? sos forum paki: http://defence.pk/threads/denel-inks-r3-5-...alaysia.424277/

sos 2016
Well I have not seen the command and mortar variant turrets yet, so its new to me

Mm I see.

120mm mortar?