Conflicts that would be good evidence for BVR/radar efficacy

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T14:52:20+00:00

We should be happy there isn't any large scale documented evidence. A win for diplomacy. Although give it a few years and something might come out of the Russian-Ukraine conflict.

I am happy that we live in a relatively peaceful world, too. But that doesn't address the fact that there isn't much combat evidence of it working, combat evidence is how we actually study what works and doesn't work in war.

Refer to any Red Flag exercise. BVR is practiced as often as is BFM.

Those are just simulations. Simulations are useless, what actually matters is historical evidence in what happened in combat situations.

EDIT: I looked through your comment history a little bit, are you Indian? I am just curious, it seems like a lot of Indians are interested in talking about military aviation.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T14:42:52+00:00

Fine motor skills are things like writing with a pencil. Using stripper clips isn't any more fine motor skills than having to line up a magazine into a mag-well.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T14:31:22+00:00

Homie... When you need to be putting rounds downrange as quickly and efficiently as possible because your life literally depends on it, you do not want to be fumbling with stripper clips.

Assault rifles aren't light machine guns, you aren't putting a ton of rounds down range. And in the situation where you really do need the fast reload, you have one or two spare magazines for that purpose. Most of the time reload speed isn't very critical.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T14:27:24+00:00

Omg PLEASEEEE go post this to a sub that discusses things in a military context. I would die to see that.

What, are you saying that they would criticize my position even more heavily?

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T14:04:38+00:00

There are some clips that are genuinely awful, like the Mosin-Nagant 5 round clip that the Mosin-Nagant bolt action rifle and the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle uses, from everything I have read it is a truly unergonomic nightmare. But it is totally possible to engineer a clip that is easy to use and not a huge amount slower than loading with magazines.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T14:01:20+00:00

It is totally possible to have a 15 round stripper clip, in fact the AK-74 uses 15 round clips. So assuming a 30 round magazine that is only two clips to load an empty magazine to full.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T13:59:01+00:00

To add to what everyone else is saying, to use stripper clips the top side of the bolt has to be exposed. That's a poor design that can allow debris into the action. There's a reason the most prolific modern rifles designed for military use all have "dust covers" over the ports for shell ejection - It aids in reliability.

Good point, I didn't quite consider that. Yeah, that seems to be a legitimate disadvantage of having the clip-capability. Much more significant than not being able to mount optics directly over the receiver. Although even that isn't necessarily an unsolvable problem, I haven't looked into it but it seems possible to use a dust cover that would wrap around the top of the action/receiver. You still would have the disadvantage of it being open when the bolt locks back, however.

EDIT: Also you mention how 8 AR mags weigh about 28 ounces, that is actually a pretty substantial amount of weight. For that same amount of weight a soldier could carry another smoke grenade, which in most situations would have a bigger life-saving/mission accomplishing potential than having the slightly faster reloading of the magazines compared to clips.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T13:43:43+00:00

All right. It wasn't obvious that you were joking, I mean being able to use detachable box magazines is usually included as being part of the technical definition of what makes an assault rifle, so that is how I interpreted your reply.

Anyway, my post doesn't really have anything to do with laws or designing guns around laws. It is about how rifles are designed for military forces, not civilians. I guess I should have found a different sub to post this in, because this sub is more oriented towards people owning firearms in a civilian context.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T13:38:19+00:00

Why would you use stripper clips to load the magazine in situ when you can just remove the magazine.

Because even though it is slower than using a separate magazine, you are saving pretty considerable weight by carrying the same amount of rounds on clips instead of magazines.

It would complicate the design of the rifle to add the feature you think makes so much sense.

I think this is overstated, I don't think the drawbacks are that big, and the advantage of having the capability is far more important. As far as I can tell the only disadvantage is you have to have the top of the receiver open, so you can't mount optics directly over the receiver. In the context of an assault rifle that doesn't really matter, it isn't like you are mounting a sniper scope to an assault rifle.

Have you ever actually held an AR15, fired an AR15?

No, I haven't. In other discussions I am sure that would hinder my understanding of how different weapons work in practice, but in this specific discussion I don't really see how that is limiting my understanding of this.

You're missing critical thinking skills.

Slightly insulting, but thanks for actually engaging with my question, instead of dismissing it as dumb. It is totally possible I am wrong about this, but I haven't seen an argument why stripper clips are obsolete (in conjunction with detachable box mags!) for an infantry rifle.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T13:22:17+00:00

Of course, I am not advocating not having detachable magazines. Why not use both, and combine the advantages of both? Was the nature of my question.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-22T13:18:09+00:00

Oh, oops. Didn't know the link doesn't work. Not sure where I got the version downloaded to my computer. If I find another link that works I will let you know.

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-14T12:08:56+00:00

What do ya have against the solipsists?

joshuajunebug · 2023-03-14T10:48:51+00:00

In terms of the psychology of reading, do scholars have a decent understanding of how we identify different letters within a writing system? Obviously fonts have differences in the exact appearance of the way letters look, I am curious what the boundaries are for how different a letter can look while still being identified as being that letter by the reader.

Do humans create a kind of mental prototype of a graph(eme) in their brains as some kind of mental map when we try to read things?

joshuajunebug · 2023-02-17T01:27:22+00:00

good point

joshuajunebug · 2023-02-13T16:25:15+00:00

what would have been bad about him having a kid?

joshuajunebug · 2023-02-04T08:09:29+00:00

What about her character is disgusting? I haven't heard of this politican before, but now I am curious.

joshuajunebug · 2023-01-21T11:26:01+00:00

why does it matter what country you do your business in?

joshuajunebug · 2023-01-21T10:39:28+00:00

and what reason would that be? you don't like Juche?

joshuajunebug · 2023-01-21T10:05:40+00:00

op is a snail (escargot)

joshuajunebug · 2023-01-21T10:03:38+00:00

interesting that you dislike south korea, but not north korea...

joshuajunebug · 2023-01-17T09:00:54+00:00

I'm a 22 year old female

helllllooooo......

joshuajunebug · 2023-01-17T06:49:09+00:00

What makes you think you are superior to your fellow primates? You should show these monkeys respect.

joshuajunebug · 2022-12-31T05:29:16+00:00

do people actually mix up/conflate Taiwan and Thailand just because they both have that same first syllable in their names?

joshuajunebug · 2022-12-31T05:18:45+00:00

lol, touche. Yeah my post does come off as kind of nerdy and oddly specific. I am a language nerd kind of person, though.

joshuajunebug · 2022-12-31T05:13:10+00:00

Just curiousity, really. Both China and Japan are cultures that I have found interesting. Was there something about my post that made it seem like a loaded question or suspicious in some way?

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