"This Rifle Can Turn Anyone Into An American Sniper" Topic

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Armand

How would it make me American?

So you've got all these targets and forgotten your password to fire the thing…

Can I be a Klingon sniper? I fancy those cranial ridges,very macho, and yes I am getting thinner on top :)
Kak-Manure

No. No it won't.

Just what America needs…more weapons!

Yee…as in like…haw.

This rifle can, too:

…because it's the training, temperament, patience, and diligence that make a sniper, not the weapon. That Mosin-Nagant is said to be the one carried by Vasily Zaytsev at Stalingrad and with which he killed 225+ German/Axis soldiers.

The man (or woman) makes the weapon, not the other way around.

The balance on that thing has to be all wrong with all that gee-whiz stuff piled on top. Then there is the battery thing and the simple fact of what joy it would be to lug this contraption in the woods. We won't be fighting in deserts or wide open spaces forever. What happens to all this electro-whiz stuff in tropical rain forest?

Then there is the battery thing

Too bloody true. So much kit these days needs batteries to work. In triple canopy jay, especially if it's overcast (most of the time in the wet season), solar panels are not a viable option. Other solutions, such as hand-cranked generators or some of the body movement/warmth trickle chargers, just add extra weight for little benefit. Perhaps not a problem for MECH troops, but light infantry carries everything on its back when going in and coming out.

Protecting the electronics from heat and humidity is easy enough (protecting the optics less easy in a high temp', high humidity environment), but the battery terminals can corrode very quickly. Thick gold plating can minimise terminal problems, but gold is soft and soon wears off battery terminals- bringing us back to the corrsion problem.

We had the similar discussions in my old job (military COMMS procurement in DMO). All sorts of you-beaut battery-operated gear was being hard sold. If all of it was bought for issue, each rifleman would end up carrying >=4.5kg of batteries, on top of rat's, ammo', etc, for a 14 day patrol. Total load for each digger approached 50kg, which the phase manager and engineers didn't see as overly excessive. The hardest part was trying (but failing) to get the our engineers and the various vendors to understand why the diggers had to carry the lot, and why they couldn't marry up with a chopper/VEH re-sup every 2nd or 3rd day. The engineers and gun-runners (oops, I mean "Company Representatives") knew troops don't go out for 14 days any more and they never move more than a day away from a FOB. As one put it, "It isn't like the Kokoda Track or Vietnam now, you know, nobody sneaks around any more!" (or words to that effect).

Just remembering why I quit DMO……

Cheers.

Dal.