So with all of that do you get the opition to stay in once your time is up or are you kicked out of barracks to make room for the next lot?
I could have stayed on for a further 6 months as a paid instructor if I applied for the position. Alternatively I could have applied to go to "Jälki RUK" which is a further officer course. I would have come out a 2nd lieutenant if I had. The last option would be to go career. 3 of the guys I served with have done so, and I know they will make fantastic officers because they were beasts of soldiers, but with level heads for recon. Sadly, I chose none of those options due to commitments back here in Ireland (farm, PhD opportunity, family, work). Many times have I contemplated dropping everything and going back.
Aye. By sheer coincidence, I did my service time on the same island where my Finnish grandfather served during the Winter War.
I'd be interested to see what it would do against RHA instead of just scrap steel. Raufoss rounds supposedly can punch through about 2 inches or so of RHA. Maybe it is because I watch too much mythbusters, but I have always been very curious about what kind of penetration bullets have against stuff. Like what does it take to go through a common exterior wall (aluminum siding, 3/4" ply, 3 1/2" FGB insulation and 1/2" wall board). What about a car door? A tile floor? What about a brick exerior wall? Cinder block wall? 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4 and 1" steel plate? Common engine block? Sandbag? 1/2, 3/4" plywood? Auto windshield? How much protection would say a 10" tree provide? 2x4? 4x4? What does it take to stop a .223/5.56? 7.62x39? 7.62x51? .30-06? .303? .50? .50AP? .50 Raufoss? 20mm?
Most rounds above 5.56 will go through the average houses wall after a couple of shots. Although I've seen a .50 round slam into a concrete wall and through three others before hitting a mound of dirt and stopping. That scared me lol
20-30cm of unpacked snow can stop a 7.62x36mm round at 150m At 50m a 7.62x36mm will pass clean through a 20cm thick tree. Sand is a fantastic bulletstopper though, similar to the way snow acts.
Until you get a tankie like me and go "600 meters, 120mm AP, fire when ready" and suddenly everything goes THUMP and sand goes everywhere Stop that.
Reminds me of some videos that a friend had shown me years ago. They had dozens of RC flying wings coating in phosphorus whizzing around down range to get shot up. The highlight of the event was when a few.... enthusiastic individuals rolled out their actuated turrets that they had built. They were typically mounted to a trailer or fixed to the back of a truck. One individual had 4 gatling guns mounted around his ball turret he sat in. Alas I saw the video so long ago that I couldn't tell you any specific weapons that were used, but needless to say it was rather impressive. I do remember that the fellow with the ball turret ended up overheating one of his guns to the point that the whole barrel assembly was warped (and needless to say destroyed.)
Some .50 and .60 (i think) rifles were built to shoot thraight through engine blocks, thus stopping moving vehicles dead.
They're called Anti-Materiel Rifles. They're usually associated with the Barrett .50 rifle that everyone got a royal hard-on over in Call of Duty. They're designed to smash into military equipment and light vehicals to put them out of commision. They're not really designed to hit human targets, but they do...
Indeed. There are some ammo rounds that have the tungsten penetrator tip that will punch through incredible amounts of steel.
Yup. As I said earlier - I have pics of 20mm Tungsten tipped ammo going through 100mm solid steel blocks without breaking a sweat... Thanks to my brother...
Scary stuff when you realise just how dangerous that kind of power is... and that it's hand-held. The one thing im very-curious to see is if in the next few years we develop rocket powered projectiles. Think of .75 calibre rounds that are basically APHEFSDSR (Armour-Piercing High Explosive Fin Stabilised Discharging Sabot Rounds... In English... a f*cking tank buster) with a rocket powered rear on it that can actively know what it's going to hit.
my uncle saved up and bought one.. he said you can shoot right through trees wish he didn't live in the mid west or I'd buy the 5 dollar bullets and have some fun =] @op on your welds need more practice laying beads strait xD
The welds on the front of the plate are from others in my class. I pulled it out of the scrap bin and welded them to each other to make a solid block.
