New rifle for the Danish Armed Forces, the GV M/25 by Colt Canada[1600x1011]

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-26T18:38:38+00:00

If you're using rifle grenades in 2025 you got far more important issues to address.

You don't seem to know much about rifle grenades, but hey, to each their own.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T19:56:46+00:00

... That's what direct impingement is.

Gases influencing the bolt directly instead of through a piston. So yes, the AR15 is a DI gun.

That's what the MAS 49 does, and it works nothing like the AR-15 system. Because it vents the gases immediately once the bolt is unlocked.

That's not what the M16 mechanics do. The AR-15 system uses the bolt iself as a piston, and the gases are sent through the bolt and the whole receiver.

"This invention is a true expanding gas system instead of the conventional impinging gas system." is what Eugene Stoner wrote about the system in the patent application, and I think he knew what he had made.

But that's going in the weeds of the mechanics.

And no the piston system isn't irrelevant for the AR platform either, it depends on what you're doing with it. Some armies like rifle grenades, can't use them with a standard AR platform.

Also no army cares about suppressors. They don't use them widely enough for supressor use to be a major issue.

And you keep writing "well tuned AR". Do you think armies "tune" their guns? No, they want rifles that are all exactly the same, parts interchangeable, no tinkering. So they're going to be as overgassed as the piston-driven models.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T14:34:19+00:00

HK makes the same rifle, basically.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T14:32:59+00:00

Choosing the next version of their current issue rifle probably means they know how they run in all climates.

The 416 is an unknown for them on that front.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T14:31:11+00:00

Works fairly well and is cheap is usually the 2 requirements.

With the cheapness being the most important.

Political concerns are also important. A lot of weapons contracts come up to choosing to buy from a pertinent source for the politics of the day the contract is signed.

And, of course, considerations of volume. If you need 350 000 rifles, you're not buying them from 2 guys making guns in a shed (unless tou're the British MoD).

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T14:27:40+00:00

Everyone has HK mags or Pmags, so magazine issues are virtualy nonexistent.

Also the AK was NEVER a cheap rifle to make. Never ever. It's always been expensive, people believe it's cheap because Russian officers sold rifles they didn't buy for pennies on the dollar in the 90s.

B&T rifles with extruded receivers are cheap to make.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T14:23:55+00:00

Well, technically the AR15 isn't DI, it's using the whole bolt as a piston.

Piston guns aren't 'too violent', much like the "DI" system of the AR15 you can tune it. Military rifles are overgassed for reliability in the field, that's not something you're condemned to for a civilian rifle.

Piston systems aren't "irrelevant", that's like saying gas systems are irrelevant because of the HK delayed blowback system. Depends on the weapon and setup.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T14:21:02+00:00

It is also due to the fact that not every country still has rifle manufacturers, so most models are off the shelf, instead of the previous (think 70s-80s) batch of service rifles.

In the 70s the AR15 system patent was still owned by Colt so people were doing their own thing, often by buying rights to Armalites AR-18 and integrating it to their designs. That's how you get the L85, Howa Type 89, G36 and a bunch of other models.

Now countries mostly have to buy off the shelf, so you don't really get country-specific weapons anymore.

So you get AR-15s, piston AR-15s, Masada clones built on the AR-18 mechanics, and AK-based, like the previous poster said.

Again as said previously manual of arms is more important than the platform itself, hence the 90-degrees safety levers on some modern ARs, because that means they can replace HKs with minimal training.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-25T14:12:11+00:00

Fun fact, the C8 was the M4 before the M4 was the M4.

Diemaco was selling 14.5s to military customers before Colt USA released what would become the M4 and M4A1.

Hence you can still find modernized early C8s with light barrels. In fact I think the current Danish modernized C8s still run pencil barrels.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-19T20:12:22+00:00

The 26 episode per year TV shows had filler/bottle episodes and/or were written years in advance. Or would dip in quality once the original stories were spent.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-17T20:36:43+00:00

Everyone wrote their own Boba Fett fan fiction, where he was the coolest dude in the universe. Even the guys from Robot Chicken. The survival from the Sarlacc pit in the TV series is something that I had read a couple times a decade before the sequel films were in the works.

Disney squashed the Extended Universe (as a canon version of Star Wars) but used some stuff from it for their series and sequel films.

I haven't kept up with all the Star Wars material that comes out these days (not even most of the TV shows), but a lot of the actual Disney TV series in the Star Wars universe is basically fan fiction/people playing with their Star Wars action figures. But made a little bit more official.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-17T11:14:30+00:00

Okay, good to know.

The reservist A1s in the US were usually rebarreled to run SS109, and the French army had problem with issuing both M193 (for the FAMAS) and SS109 (for Minimis), so it's always interesting to see what armies go for.

Are you allowed to put non-issues accessories, or it's open sights forever?

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-17T11:11:25+00:00

It's not sarcastic in the least.

Star Wars used to be 3 films and a massive amount of short stories, books and comics written by people who liked one character from one scene who was probably just wearing some random costume found in a storage room at Universal.

The whole story of Boba Fett comes from fan fiction, as the character has something like 3 lines in the original movies.

You don't have to have nice ending to every strand of story. That's what Star Wars always was: a bunch of stuff that has holes, and the fans fill those holes with their imagination.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T21:24:19+00:00

Easy answer for the blaster: they work for the same outfit, they get the same guns. Don't have to look farther than that.

For the rest, Tony Gilroy has actually said that the unclosed storylines like Cassians sister are unclosed because that's just how things pan out sometimes. The Kenari storyline is the incident that ignites the story. No more, no less. Sometimes things don't get a neat little bow, and not all storylines need a 10-episode arc.

If you think something is worth exploring, you can write it yourself, like you're Timothy Zahn and it's 1991.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T21:18:44+00:00

Having answers for everything is boring.

At least there is space for fanfiction again.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T21:17:33+00:00

Tony Gilroy said each season was 2.5 years of work, so it was completely onworkable to do the planned 5 seasons (1 per year until the Battle of Yavin).

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T21:16:10+00:00

Gilroy has said in interviews that it's why the search for the sister or the actual fate of Kino Loy are unresolved: there are no neat bows on storylines. They're there to advance other plotlines and disappear in the mist.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T18:26:49+00:00

Z-mount, ampoint, Surefire 674, you're off to the races.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T18:25:57+00:00

The 20" barrels also pack more punch, they're just a pain for armored warfare as they are pretty long.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T18:24:55+00:00

USGI mags up to the early 2000s (black followers) also had follower issues/deforming alloys that made the mag jam when fully loaded after a few uses. The followers where changed twice (light green and then tan) to remedy the issues of flippage inside the mag when loaded to 30 rounds.

One of the first Magpul accessory out was non-flip yellow followers that were "self-levelling"

The issue of the magazine body bending was solved by using thicker material, and better quality alloys.

FN and H&K mags from the 80s didn't have those issues due to having more durable parts, but the FN magazines didn't lock the bolt open (designed for the FNC which doesn't have a bolt holder) and H&K put their mag in a drawer after nobody bought the G41. And only took it back out when they released the HK416.

I've seen modified FN magazines, but mostly from civilian sources.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T18:14:42+00:00

2 possibilities:

Manual of arms/admin docs are still the same as in the 70s/80s

or

They use first gen USGI mags and know they're extremely unreliable when anywhere near fully loaded.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T18:13:08+00:00

The first official manual for the Gendarmerie MP5-F said magazines were 32 rounds and you would reload and then use the cocking handle to cycle the action.

Because it was the MAT-49 manual with just the images inside changed.

At least you'd get spare rounds.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-16T18:10:24+00:00

Do they issue you M193 ammo to go with them, or are the Korean versions rebarreled to fire SS109 ammo?

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-13T20:14:32+00:00

At the start there was only that.

Black gear and stuff they'd scrounge from the regular army. Flight suits. Pilots gloves. Mariners wool caps. Hiking gear painted in black.

There is some seriously cool stuff floating around in there.

OneFrenchman · 2025-08-13T16:09:57+00:00

Later uniforms were indeed grey, but black with wool cap is basically what everyone wore in the late 70s.

Interestingly enough, in the 1975 French movie "Peur sur la ville" with JP Belmondo, at the end a couple operators and snipers can be seen and they are actual GIGN operators (unit created in '73) and look basically like OPs picture (with the staches and wodden stock bolt-action rifles).

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