#ak 47 prototypes

[saturniandragon]

Fuck do you mean there is no "AK-47" why did you say it like that

Because the Russians never called it the "AK-47"!

Strictly speaking, the name "AK" or "AK-47" only refers to the first three prototypes that Kalashnikov made in around 1950. Those are Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3.

Type 3 was the one that made it through and was adopted for use in the Soviet military, but they still just called it AK. The rifle had milled receiver (milled, as in, they took a big hunk of solid metal and then carved out the insides to make room for the internal components), so it was quite heavy, but reliable enough for military use.

There's a rumor about where the "47" comes from. Some people say that Kalashnikov himself once said "AK-47" in public and suddenly everyone uses it. But that's just a rumor, I haven't found a verifiable source.

In 1959, the Soviets modernized the AK by replacing the milled metal receiver with a stamped sheet metal. It was lighter, easier and cheaper to manufacture, and they named it the AKM (M for модернизированный, "modernized").

You can always tell apart an AKM from an AK by its straight buttstock, the ribs on the top of the cover (instead of smooth on the earlier AK), the absence of that long rectangle on the receiver just behind the wooden handguard, and the slanted muzzle device/recoil compensator.

By this point, it's done. Any Soviet-production Kalashnikov rifle produced since 1959 can not technically be called AK or AK-47. But the ship has sailed far into the horizon, everyone just calls it AK-47. Whether it's the 1950s prototype, the 1959 AKM, the Chinese Type 56, everyone says it's an AK-47. And honestly I'm fine with it.

If you delve really deep into the rabbit hole, then yes, you start to discover that there is no such thing as an "AK-47". But most people just don't bother, and that's okay.

One of the few games that got the AK-47 naming very close to being correct is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019).

They modeled most of it correctly, from the slanted down buttstock, the smooth milled receiver (even though it also features a Bulgarian sight mount that never existed until 1970s-1980s), and the flat muzzle end.

But even with most of these features correct, the presence and the abundance of pristine AK in 7.62x39 is severely anachronistic in the game's timeline. Urzikstani Liberation Force and the al-Qatala, however poor they might be, should have AKMs instead which are far more common, far cheaper to procure, and lighter to carry. Even the invading Russian forces in Urzikstan should have far moved on from the 7.62 caliber and should instead use 5.45 AKs.

[captain-price-unofficially]

An engineer from the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant posing with a 100-round AK-47 prototype. 1950

[a-tale-never-told]

Donlion: So it's settled, we're going to get rid of Assad once and for all, boys.

Petraeus: About time too. That fucking bastard has eluded us for months. And now he's finished. I assure you Mr President, We'll have Assad dead by the time of the midterms.

Mckain: Let's hope.

Donlion: Another thing I want to discuss is the technological gap between us and the Soviets. Now I'm not a technician, but it's clear that the Russians are desperate to advance their technological prowess. In a way to achieve complete tech superiority over NATO, they have begun the secret development of several projects, some of which we got and some of which were off-limits to get. We got this info thanks to informants from the inside, who are unfortunately deceased.

Donlion: For example, some of the dossiers and documents they had were interesting, to say the least. Thanks to a translator, we were able to decipher what the Russians were building. Let me show you.

Donlion proceeds to take out a few stolen Soviet dossiers from his briefcase. He opens the first one and puts it down on the table. It shows a tank with steel armor as well as a unique shape and a 125mm round gun.

Mcdonough: What the hell is this?

Donlion: This, my friend is Object 167, the design of what is to become the first prototype tank. As far as the informants say, it hasn't moved past the design stage due to a lack of key materials. It's similar in design to the T64 tank, except it was perhaps made to be cheap and easy to produce.

Obama: Like an AK-47 for tanks mainly.

Donlion: That's what it looks like so far.

Mcdonough: Jesus Christ...

[catgirlbutthole]

Hey uh kind of out of the blue but like I'm kind of curious, do you have any guns you would consider personal favourites for any reason?

i am absolutely wonderfully glad you asked i'm about to infodump.

CW for Firearms under the cut.

First of all i'm an absolute sucker for russian and russian allies (or former russian allies) weapons. I'm talking all the former soviet states, former USSR, china, north korea, the list goes on. The most famous of those guns would obviously be the AK-47 (or more precisely, i love the AKM, the 1959 modernisation of the assault rifle) and its little sister, the 5.45x39 AK74 (recognizable by the much more gentle curve on the magazine. As the 7.62x39 caliber used by the AK47/AKM is heavily tapered, its magazine is vary famously curved). But that doesn't stop there. I love the various AK copies made all across the world. For standardisation purposes, all allies of the USSR needed to use the same cartridge, and even the same weapons. So the USSR shared the blueprints for the AK47 to many countries, which all made their own version, sometimes with slight modifications. Exception made for Czechoslovakia, who already had world renowned weapon manufactures, and who were allowed to use their own Vz58 rifle, using the same cartridge and somewhat similar look (i love that it looks like if someone who had never really seen an AK47 was asked to draw an AK47). So I love pretty much all those AKs and AK variants (i will definitely list some of my favorites.)

But that's not all, because all through the life of the kalashnikov family of rifles (still in use today in many countries!), attempts have been made to replace it. Between 1980 and 1994, Soviets/Russians held a series of trials, with many gun designers submitting different prototypes to try and improve on the AK, especially to improve hit probability (because recoil makes hitting a target very hard when burst firing). Some of these never left the state of prototypes, but some of these were actually used in service, such as the AEK-971. It features a system of counterweights, that move forward as the bolt moves backward, to minimize felt recoil.

sidenote : the winner of the abakan trials was the prototype named the "ASM", designed by a Gennadiy Nikolayevich Nikonov, which is now known under the name AN-94. it did not replace the AK74 as it is much too expensive and complicated, but it is very interesting nonetheless

once again i will also list some of my favorites AK-derivative prototypes.

it is 1AM and i do not have time to make detailed paragraphs about other favorite weapons so im just gonna say names now, the PL-15 is beautiful, I love the HK USP Tactical, but not as much as the FNX45, love the AR18, big fan of the FNC (i mean i love the FAL so obviously), my favorite shotgun is the remington 870 in a long barrel long mag tube configuration but the SPAS12 is a close second. i think the FN Maximi looks amazing, i love the mk22 "hush puppy", i LOVE the PTRD because of both the story (or legend idk) behind it and the fact that it looks like a big tube with shit sticking out of it, love the Glock 19, i have a soft spot for the G3 (especially the G3SG1) and also the HK21 and HK33. although i'm not a big fan of bullpups i really like the AUG (specially the A2). It might be because i'm belgian but i kinda like the P90, it's like a weird love hate relationship, same with the MP7 (it's a cool looking thing but you know, 5.7x28 could have been a standard), while it is very classic and we see everywhere, i love a good ar15, not gonna lie (love the old school stuff like the Colt CAR-15). Big fan of the Accuracy International Snipers, especially the Arctic Warfare Magnum, i really like the older SIG rifles like the 550 series.

I will definitely continue on this post another day thank you so much for asking me about this.

[ultrajaphunter]

This night, RuZZian Project 22160 patrol ship “Sergey Kotov” was successfully attacked by Ukrainian naval kamikaze drones near Feodosia, Crimea.

According to RuZZian sources “the ship is dead”

The fourth corvette of the Project 22160 patrol ship series, “Sergei Kotov”, hull number 383.

On July 30, 2022, the ship was accepted into service with the Black Sea Fleet of the RuZZian Navy.

Characteristics:

Displacement: 1965 tons

Length: 91,3 meters

Width: 14,5 meters

Crew: 32+8

Armament: 1 × 76.2 mm AK-176;

anti-aircraft missile system "Shtil-1", short-range anti-aircraft missile system 3M-47.

Ka-27PS Helicopter, possible.

Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine regarding the attack:

“Destroyed enemy ship "Sergei Kotov"

On the night of March 4-5, 2024, the special unit "Group 13" attacked the patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet of the RuZZian Federation "Sergei Kotov".

The mission took place in cooperation with the Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.

As a result of the strike by Magura V5 naval drones, the RuZZian ship of project 22160 "Sergei Kotov" suffered damage to the stern, right and left sides.

The "kotov" was attacked in the territorial waters of Ukraine, near the Kerch Strait.

The cost of the sunken ship is about 65 million dollars.» https://t.me/DIUkraine/3551

RuZZian sources regarding the attack : “As can be seen from the footage shared in the media, our Black Sea Sailors Bravely Fought with the Enemy Naval Kamikaze Drone, which Attacked the Patrol Ship "Sergei Kotov".

[CORVETTE KILLERS:

The RuZZian Patrol Ship Sergei Kotov is the latest RuZZian Warship to be Sunk by Ukraine's Deadly Sea Drones.

Ukraine has Rapidly Prototyped and Deployed at least 3 Generations of these Capable Weapons.]

According to local reports, the Ship was Lost.

According to our data, the Entire Crew Survived, Evacuated, there are Several Wounded.”

Surviving RuZZian Naval Crews are being Transferred to the Harbor Patrol.

Sergei Kotov on the 30 of December 2022.

After a series of attacks on RuZZian ships in 2022, a TOR Air Defense System was installed on the Ship's Helipad.

“How the Sergei Kotov was sunk”- a video of the destruction of a Russian patrol ship by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine

[angry-kid-with-no-money]

47.

In the Federal Rules of Civil Proceedure, Rule 47 deals with selecting jurors (here)

The ak-47 got its name bc the prototype was created in November 1947

47 is the fifteenth prime number and has lots of other funky mathematical properties, most of which I dont understand

[gourmetgreys]

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The subsequent carbine designs would improve upon this by increasing the positions from two to four and then to six. The XM-177’s stock had two positions: all the way extended and all the way collapsed. The XM-177 featured the basic collapsing stock design that has carried onto the M4 and all its derivatives. However, they were fragile and as a result Colt went back to the drawing board. Earlier Colt prototypes tried to convert the fixed stock into a collapsible one. The other major change between the XM-177 and the M16 was the stock. As a result, there is more gas pressure inside the system, allowing it to run more reliably. However, they also significantly increase the back pressure even after the bullet exits the muzzle. The baffles inside the moderate slow the gas down, which does reduce the decibel levels when firing. On a 25.4 cm (10 in) barrel the gas port and the muzzle are very close to each other, reducing the amount of time for the gas behind the bullet to travel through the gas port and cycle the action before the bullet exits and the pressure drops. This is primarily due to the lack of dwell time, the distance between the gas port inside the barrel and the muzzle. At this time Colt had been struggling to get their short barrel carbines to cycle reliably. However, the most likely reason for the moderator was to improve reliability. Due to having internal baffles like a suppressor, some claimed that it reduced the decibels enough to make it sound like an AK-47 when firing. The exact purpose of the moderator is widely debated. The moderator added an additional 10.6 cm (4.2 in) to the barrel, reducing much of the compactness of the XM-177. However, the XM-177 had an additional muzzle device known as a moderator. This is half the length of the M16 from which the XM-177 is derived. The XM-177 E-1 featured a 25.4 cm (10 in) barrel. This created a complex command structure that was difficult to maintain due to the highly varied demands of each region.Īirmen using an Air Force variant of the XM-177 E1 during Desert Shield. In the early years of MACV-SOG, the unit operated in smaller units under a singular command. Specifically, from the Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities (SACSA) and his staff at the Pentagon. However, MACV-SOG had direct instruction from the Pentagon on specific missions. MACV-SOG had headquarters in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), with its subordinate units having multiple operational bases throughout Vietnam and surrounding territories. The first commander of MACV-SOG was Colonel Clyde Russell. The Military Assistance Command was a subsidiary of the US Indo-Pacific Command. MACV-SOG fell under the control of the US Military Assistance Command Vietnam, the US military command offering military assistance to South Vietnam.

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[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Kalashnikov Izh UV-4, 2022. The Russian company famous for making rifles and military equipment including the AK-47 has submitted patent images for an electric vehicle in 4-door, 4-wheel and 2-door, 3-wheel forms. This follows the presentation of a prototype in 2018. The company has yet to confirm an on-sale date, the 2018 prototype had a 67hp electric motor and a 150 km (93-mile) range.

[pollyna]

It takes Q and James three whole years before they find the time to have an actual date. In the meantime, they share meals while James is on missions, Q is working on new prototypes and trying very, oh, so-very, hard not to kill 003 and one particular night they end up dining in R&D, with porcelain plates and crystal glasses because they have to test a new AK-47 assault rifle but it's their first annianniversary too. Tanner dessert is as good as the rifle scope and it all tastes better when James kisses him.

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[greatworldwar2]

• STG-44 Automatic Rifle

The StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, "assault rifle 44") is a German selective-fire assault rifle also known as the MP 43 and MP 44 developed during World War 2.

MP 43, MP 44, and StG 44 were different designations for what was essentially the same rifle with minor updates in production. The variety in nomenclatures resulted from the complicated bureaucracy in Nazi Germany. StG is an abbreviation of Sturmgewehr. According to one account, the name was chosen personally by Adolf Hitler for propaganda reasons. The rifle was chambered for the 7.92×33mm Kurz cartridge. This shorter version of the German standard (7.92×57mm) rifle round, in combination with the weapon's selective-fire design, provided a compromise between the controllable firepower of a submachine gun at close quarters with the accuracy and power of a Karabiner 98k bolt-action rifle at intermediate ranges. Studies had shown that few combat engagements occurred at more than 300 metres (330 yd) and the majority within 200 metres (220 yd). Full-power rifle cartridges were excessive for most uses for the average soldier. Only a trained specialist, such as a sniper, or soldiers equipped with machine guns, which fired multiple rounds at a known or suspected target, could make full use of the standard rifle round's range and power. The British were critical of the weapon, saying that the receiver could be bent and the bolt locked up by the mere act of knocking a leaning rifle onto a hard floor. A late-war U.S. assessment derided the StG-44 as "mediocre", "bulky" and "unhandy", declaring it incapable of sustained automatic fire and prone to jamming, though the report accepted that its accuracy was "excellent for a weapon of its type".

In the late 19th century, small-arms cartridges had become able to fire accurately at long distances. Jacketed bullets propelled by smokeless powder were lethal out to 2,000 metres (2,200 yd). This was beyond the range a shooter could engage a target with open sights, as at that range a man-sized target would be completely blocked by the front sight blade. Only units of riflemen firing by volley could hit grouped targets at those ranges. That fighting style was taken over by the widespread introduction of machine guns, which made use of these powerful cartridges to suppress the enemy at long range. Rifles remained the primary infantry weapon, but in some forces were seen as a secondary or support weapon, backing up the machine guns. In early 1918, Hauptmann (Captain) Piderit, part of Gewehrprüfungskommission ("Small Arms Examination Committee") of the German General Staff in Berlin, submitted a paper arguing for the introduction of an intermediate round in the German Army with a suitable firearm. He pointed out that firefights rarely took place beyond 800 metres (870 yd), about half the 2 km (1.2 mi) sight line range of the 7.92×57mm round from a Mauser Gewehr 98 rifle or less for MG 08 machine gun. The German Army showed no interest, as it already had the MP 18 submachine gun firing 9 mm pistol rounds and did not want to create a new cartridge.

At the start of World War II, German infantry were equipped with weapons comparable to those of most other military forces. A typical infantry unit was equipped with a mix of bolt-action rifles and some form of light, medium or a general-purpose machine guns. A problem with this mix was that the standard rifles were too large to be effectively used by mechanized and armored forces, where they were difficult to maneuver in the cramped spaces of an armored vehicle. During the invasion of the Soviet Union, increasing numbers of semi-automatic Tokarev SVT-38 and SVT-40s were used by the Red Army – mostly elite units and non-commissioned officers – while some Soviet rifle companies were completely equipped with PPSh-41 submachine guns. After experiencing high volumes of automatic fire from these weapons, German commanders re-thought their small arms requirements. The German army had been attempting to introduce semi-automatic weapons such as the Gewehr 41, but these proved troublesome in service, and production was insufficient to meet requirements. By 1941, it was becoming clear that action needed to be taken. Although various experimental rounds had been developed to one degree or another by this point, the Army instead decided to select yet a new design, the Polte 8×33mm Kurzpatrone ("short cartridge"). This used a spitzer bullet and basic cartridge design of the standard 7.92×57mm Mauser rifle cartridge, cutting down the cartridge from the original 7.92×57mm Mauser to 7.92×33mm Kurz.

Contracts for rifles firing the 7.92×33mm Kurz round were issued to both Walther and Haenel (whose design group was headed by Hugo Schmeisser), were asked to submit prototype weapons under the name Maschinenkarabiner 1942 ("machine carbine") or MKb 42. Both designs were similar, using a gas-operated action, with selective fire. Since both rifles shared the title of Maschinenkarabiner 42 the letters (H) and (W) were added to differentiate the two. The MKb 42(H) along with the less successful MKb 42(W) were predecessors of the later MP 43, MP 44, StG 44. The majority of the MP 43's features came from the MKb 42(H), with the hammer firing system and closed bolt coming from the MKb 42(W). As work moved forward to incorporate this new firing system, development halted when Hitler suspended all new rifle programs due to administrative infighting within the Third Reich. Hitler ordered that newer submachine guns were to be built, and he strongly disagreed with the use of the Kurz ammunition. To keep the MKb 42(H) development program alive, the Waffenamt (Armament Office) re-designated the weapon as the Maschinenpistole 43 (MP 43) and, making a few improvements, billed the weapon as an upgrade to existing submachine guns. Much time was wasted trying to make the MP 43 a replacement for the Karabiner 98k rifle. This goal was eventually realized to be impossible; the MP 43 cartridge was too weak to fire rifle grenades, too inaccurate for sniping, and the weapon was too short for bayonet fighting. In September 1943, it was decided that the MP 43 would supplement rather than replace the Kar 98k.

Adolf Hitler eventually discovered the designation deception and halted the program again. In March 1943, he permitted it to recommence for evaluation purposes only. Running for six months until September 1943, the evaluation produced positive results, and Hitler allowed the MP 43 program to continue in order to make mass production possible. The weapon made extensive use of for the 1940s advanced cost-saving pressed and stamped steel components rather than machined parts. The first MP 43s were distributed to the Waffen-SS; in October 1943, some were issued to the 93rd Infantry Division on the Eastern Front. Production and distribution continued to different units. In April 1944, Hitler took some interest in the weapon tests and ordered the weapon (with some minor updates) to be re-designated as the MP 44. In July 1944, at a meeting of the various army heads about the Eastern Front, when Hitler asked what they needed, a general exclaimed, "More of these new rifles!". Production soon began with the first batches of the new rifle being shipped to troops on the Eastern Front. By the end of the war, a total of 425,977 StG 44 variants of all types were produced and work had commenced on a follow-on rifle, the StG45. A properly trained soldier with a StG 44 had an improved tactical repertoire, in that he could effectively engage targets at longer ranges than with an MP 40, but be much more useful than the Kar 98k in close combat, as well as provide covering fire like a light machine gun. It was also found to be exceptionally reliable in extreme cold.

A primary use of the MP 44/StG 44 was to counter the Soviet PPS and PPSh-41 submachine guns, which used the 7.62×25mm Tokarev round. These cheap, mass-produced weapons used a 71-round drum magazine or 35-round box magazine and though shorter-ranged than the Kar 98k rifle, were more effective weapons in close-quarter engagements. The StG 44, while lacking the range of the Kar 98k, had a considerably longer range than the PPS/PPSh submachine guns, more power, a comparable rate of fire, an ability to switch between a fully automatic and a default semi-automatic fire mode and surprising accuracy. At the end of the war, Hugo Schmeisser claimed that 424,000 MP 43/MP 44/StG 44 rifles were built between June 1943 and April 1945 in four plants: 185,000 by C.G. Haenel in Suhl; 55,000 by J.P. Sauer & Sohn in Suhl; 104,000 in Erfurt; and 80,000 by Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr, Austria. This was fewer than the 1.5 million ordered, and far fewer than the 4 million planned. Some 822 million rounds of 7.92×33mm Kurz ammunition were produced from 1942 to 1945. At the beginning of March 1945, the troops had 273.9 million rounds.

The Sturmgewehr remained in use with the East German Nationale Volksarmee with the designation MPi.44 until it was eventually replaced with variants of the AK-47 assault rifle. The Volkspolizei used it until approximately 1962 when it was replaced by the PPSh-41. It was still used by other public security formations thereafter. Other countries to use the StG 44 after World War II included Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, where units such as the 63rd Paratroop Battalion were equipped with it until the 1980s. Argentina manufactured their own trial versions of the StG 44 made by CITEFA in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but instead adopted the FN FAL in 1955, because it used the then more common and powerful 7.62×51mm NATO round. 7.92mm Kurz ammunition is currently manufactured by Prvi Partizan of Serbia. The extent to which the Sturmgewehr influenced the development of the AK-47 is not clearly known. Apart from external layout similarity and the gas-operation principle, the AK-47 was not a copy of the German gun because the AK-47 used a very different mechanism. However, tens of thousands of Sturmgewehrs were captured by the Soviets and were likely provided to Kalashnikov and his team, so it is likely that he knew of it while designing the AK-47. United States and, later, NATO developed assault rifles along a roughly similar path by at first adding selective-fire capability in a reduced power, full-caliber cartridge.

[moonamite]

More random stuff about Mer MG in the Mer au

-He has 2 hearts. Another had to be surgically implanted due to his unnatural size. -Due to the chemicals that were injected into his egg, he can regrow limbs/heal injuries in mere seconds. -The only things that can really potentially harm him are explosives and acid. -The testing facility he is stored in is built like an aquarium, but with stronger glass and heavily guarded. -MG is a bioweapon prototype. The first successful one. -His name isn’t Escargoon- He doesn’t even really have a name. His ‘name’ is “Capture Test Prototype 6″, being his job is to capture Mers and transport them to the Facility for testing, and him being the 6th prototype SDDD has made. -SDDD likes to show off his little ‘toy’. He places MG in the main Containment Tank, and has all staff members watch as he displays how tough his creation is. Think of the Orca show at Seaworld but evil. Examples of what MG has survived in these ‘shows’: Machine gun fire, a Sniper rifle shot to the head, a direct Shotgun blast to the face, rapid fore from 2 AK-47′s, Ect. -He has been ordered to terminate Mako Knight and either kill or recapture Goonie, and kill DMK after he disappeared into the sea. -MG has robotic spider-like legs inside a compartment on his back. Think of the fish in Gyo. -SDDD is proud of MG, but not in a father-son kind of way. More of a “Look at my new toy” kind of way. -MG has little to no experience in social situations due to being raised alone. (Fun fact: When thinking about how I was gonna do MG in this au, I thought a lot about Mr.X/Tyrant and Nemesis from the Resident Evil series.)

[mechanicalblue1]

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Elites are the ultimate combatant in the modern world.  They achieve this superiority through dedicated training, cutting-edge technology and marketability a recognizable and intimidating presence.  Let’s take a look at some of the newest tech that makes these the soldiers of the future!

Temperature Regulated Bodysuit - Comfort cannot be overlooked when it comes to an Elite’s performance on the battlefield.  This skintight suit can keep a person comfortable in temperatures ranging from -20 to 40 degrees celsius.  The suit is also breathable and reinforced in high-friction areas to prevent unpleasant wear and chaffing.

Lightweight Exoskeleton - This incredibly compact and lightweight exoskeleton allows Elites to perform feats of strength and stamina far outside the range of a normal human being.  Even the lightest-framed wearers are able to lift upwards of 500 lbs, run for hours without stopping, and leap 10 feet straight in the air.  Getting into a fistfight with someone sporting one of these is not advised!

Stab-proof Kevlar Weave - The outer shell of the suit is made of panels precisely fitted over the inner suit to provide the highest level of protection available on today’s battlefield.  The outer layer is made of a pierce and stab resistant kevlar weave.  Knives, bullets, teeth and insults deflect helplessly off this tough exterior.

Non-newtonian Impact Gel Layer - The inner layer of this shell is a sheet of non-newtonian gel that will absorb the impact of most small arms fire.  Being sprayed with an AK-47 is little more than a mild inconvenience with this level of protection!

AR Enhanced Helmet - The helmet is an integral piece to the Elite combat system.  It provides an augmented reality overlay of the battlefield, highlighting enemy combatants, dangerous areas, and predicted paths of enemy bullets.  The system also assigns a point value to each enemy combatant.  Elite combat is heavily gamified, allowing each Elite to level up with enough kills, earning new weapons and abilities to use on the battlefield as they compete with each other to make the world a safer place.  Higher levels of course come with higher pay.

Layered Impact Armor - This hardened armor is designed to project the vitals and main components of the exoskeleton from even the heaviest of attacks.  It combines layers of impact gel and hardened carbon nanofiber into a shell that sits on a thin gel layer that ‘suspends’ the shell around the Elite.  This helps to direct the blow of an impact around the body.  One Elite reported being struck square in the chest by a round from a .50 cal sniper rifle.  He noted that being knocked on his ass was more painful than the round itself.

Magnetic Weapon Attachment point - Flexibility on the battlefield is crucial.  Being able to stow and grab your weapon at a moment’s notice can be the difference between life and death.  The modern soldier doesn’t have time to mess with straps or holsters that can get in the way.  This universal system works with any weapon an Elite might find, allowing even greater adaptability.

Tactical Footwear - These shoes are comfortable, lightweight, waterproof and highly durable.  They sport a dynamic fit to adjust to every foot shape and provide a healthy arch support.  These are also the prototype for the latest addition to an ongoing multi-million dollar sneaker contract.  Get that money!

Microvibration Grappling Blades - This pair of blades are Orchid Mantis’ signature weapons and custom made for her.  The blade itself is a lab-made artificial obsidian glass.  It maintains the surgical sharpness of natural obsidian, with the added benefit of titanium-like strength.  R&D even spent an extra week of research to tint them her signature shade of pink.  The housing features a microvibration motor which allows the blades to slice through almost any hostile object with absolute ease.  The position of the blade is well-suited to Orchid Mantis’ style of mixed martial arts, which relies on blocking and trapping an opponent’s limbs.  Or as she describes it:  “Close the distance with your opponent; remove limbs until the threat is neutralized.  Repeat as necessary.”

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[a-tale-never-told]

Hence why Nikolai probably is armed to the teeth. The mission to kill him would probably be the final mission of the story.

He's been armed to the teeth even before they met him, just in case. Let's talk about this. First his front-line arsenal.

This is a Pm Makarov Pistol, built in 1951 and named after the designer of the pistol, Nikolaiy F Makarov. He calls it Gorky after Russian writer Maxim Gorky and has it on the right side of his hand. With an 8-round ammunition box, Nikolai modified it to have and receive heavier ammo ( 23 rounds) and laser sighting.

This is the second pistol he has, this time on the left hand. The Tokarev TT pistol, built in the 1930s, which he names Molotov, after Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov of the Stalin era. The 8-round ammo box has been given a boost with 26 rounds, as well as laser sighting and a silencer.

For some heavier firepower, Nikolai relies on his trusted AKM assault rifle, called Shostakovitch, after musician Dmitri Shostakovich. The most used variant of the Ak 47, as well as the one currently in service with the Soviet military and Kgb, This thing has a heavy amount of ammo and has a prototype grenade launcher attached to it that Nikolai stole from a dead soldier.

He also carries two of the Skorpion machine pistol, designed by Czechoslovakia. With 20 rounds each and being light to carry, this is the main Machine pistol of the Eastern Bloc.

This one is the Rpg 7 rocket-propelled grenade, which he calls Khrushchev, after Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. it is rugged, cheap to make, and equipped with thermal, frag, and anti-tank warheads. This thing is a huge threat.

And these weapons are the ones he mainly uses. Imagine what he has in the weapons room.

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China's New 'Laser Assault Rifle' Can Silently Sear Flesh From a Half Mile Away

China’s New ‘Laser Assault Rifle’ Can Silently Sear Flesh From a Half Mile Away

Elon Musk’s flamethrowers are mere playthings compared to this lethal new laser rifle.  Chinese scientists at the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics have developed a fully functioning prototype of the “ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle.”  The 15mm caliber weapon is being compared to an AK-47 because of its similar 6.6-lb weight, but it’s firepower capabilities sound like something…

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China has developed a new portable laser weapon that can zap a target from nearly a kilometre away, according to researchers involved in the project.

The ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is classified as being "non-lethal" but produces an energy beam that cannot be seen by the naked eye but can pass through windows and cause the "instant carbonisation" of human skin and tissues.

Ten years ago its capabilities would have been the preserve of sci-fi films, but one laser weapons scientist said the new device is able to "burn through clothes in a split second … If the fabric is flammable, the whole person will be set on fire".

"The pain will be beyond endurance," according to the researcher who had took part in the development and field testing of a prototype at the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shaanxi province.

The 15mm calibre weapon weighs three kilos (6.6lb), about the same as an AK-47, and has a range of 800 metres, or half a mile, and could be mounted on cars, boats and planes.

It is now ready for mass production and the first units are likely to be given to anti-terrorism squads in the Chinese Armed Police.

In the event of a hostage situation it could be used to fire through windows at targets and temporarily disable the kidnappers while other units move in to rescue their captives.

It could also be used in covert military operations. The beam is powerful enough to burn through a gas tank and ignite the fuel storage facility in a military airport.

Because the laser has been tuned to an invisible frequency, and it produces absolutely no sound, "nobody will know where the attack came from. It will look like an accident," another researcher said. The scientists requested not to be named due to the sensitivity of the project.

The rifles will be powered by a rechargeable lithium battery pack similar to those found in smartphones. It can fire more than 1,000 "shots", each lasting no more than two seconds.

The prototype was built by ZKZM Laser, a technology company owned by the institute in Xian. A company representative confirmed that the firm is now seeking a partner that has a weapons production licence or a partner in the security or defence industry to start large-scale production at a cost of 100,000 yuan (US$15,000) a unit.

Given their potential for misuse, the design and production of the devices will be tightly monitored and the only customers will be China's military and police.

A technical document containing basic information about the weapon was released last month on the Public Service Platform for National Civil-Military Integration, a website run by the central government to facilitate collaboration between the military and commercial sectors.

Chengdu Hengan Police Equipment Manufacturing company, a major hardware supplier for Chinese law enforcement agencies, also released a laser "machine gun" last month.

The weapon has a range of 500 metres and it can fire several hundred shots per charge, according to the company's product brochure.

Only a decade ago, such powerful laser weapons were something out of science fiction. In 2009 a US attempt to design a handheld laser gun resulted in something that "only works on nudists" because its beam was too weak to even penetrate a shirt.

But in 2015 Beijing upped the ante with a two billion-yuan fund to develop compact, powerful laser devices - an unprecedented budget for the field and one that triggered concerns in the US and other Western nations.

In recent years US forces operating in strategically important areas such as the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea have complained that they have been subjected to an increasing number of laser attacks from Chinese military bases or vessels that look like fishing boats.

Last month, the US government lodged a formal complaint that a "weapons-grade" laser device fired from a Chinese naval base in Djibouti had left two military pilots with minor eye injuries.

Wang Zhimin, associate researcher at the Research Centre for Laser Physics and Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said technological improvements in recent years meant scientists were able to develop smaller and more powerful devices in the same way that mobile phone manufacturers had done.

"This is no longer science fiction. They are already a fact of life," he said.

In the early days, due to technical limits, it was necessary to fire several beams and get them to converge on a target to cause any damage. They also needed a precise distance reading to have any chance of working.

Furthermore, the only devices available were slow, bulky and heavy, had a short range and required enormous supplies of power.

But the latest devices fire a single beam and can cause as much damage as large, truck-mounted laser cannons would have done.

But these developments increase the risk that the weapons could more easily fall into the hands of criminals and terrorists who could exploit their destructive capacity, for instance by conducting arson attacks without being detected.

Wang, who was not involved in the Xian project, warned that allowing these weapons to proliferate could be a threat to all countries.

There are no specific international protocols in place to regulate the development or use of this type of laser weapon.

The United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, initiated in 1980 and signed by over 100 nations, concentrates on earlier generation weapons and prohibits the use of those that could cause permanent loss of eyesight.

The document on Chinese government website classifies the ZKZM-500 as a "non-lethal weapon", meaning they are deemed less likely to kill a living target than something explicitly designed to do so, such as a gun.

The lasers cannot kill a target with a single shot, but if fired at a person for long enough the weapons would start to burn a hole in their body, cutting through them like a surgical knife.

Researchers stress that scientists in this field generally agree it would be inhumane to use more powerful weapons that could "carbonise" a living person.

Instead the document lays stress on the non-lethal applications of the technology.

For instance it says law enforcement could counter "illegal protests" by setting fire to banners from a long distance.

It also says protest leaders could be targeted by setting fire to their clothing or hair which, the document says, would mean they lose "the rhythms of their speech and powers of persuasion".

But one Beijing police officer said he would prefer to stick to more traditional crowd-control methods such as tear gas, rubber bullets or electrical stun guns, such as tasers.

"The laser burn will leave a permanent scar," he said. He said it would be a "horrid sight" that risked causing panic or transforming a peaceful protest into a riot.