MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
I'm waiting for the re-make of 'Braveheart' with William Wallace played by Idris Elba and Robert the Bruce played by Julian Clary 
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Don the Don
Legendary Knight
Don't give them any idea's, they will re-write history soon as the original is too gruesome and non PCI'm waiting for the re-make of 'Braveheart' with William Wallace played by Idris Elba and Robert the Bruce played by Julian Clary
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Piltdown Man
Sword of Fenrir
As someone previously posted a āStill Gameā clip, I thought Iād do the same. I used to work with several girls who were ārestingā as is it known in the theatrical circles. One of them was the lovely Julie who features (her features) in this clip. She was great to work and socialise with.
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Don the Don
Legendary Knight
You must be confusing us for another place whose members frequently show their feminine side,
Great video thanks for sharing
Sarky Bāstard
Legendary Knight
Slightly ironic the .223/5.56 is a standard NATO calibre but illegal in England and Wales for anything bigger than tiny Chinese Water Deer and Muntjac. Scotland defines legal weapons by kinetic energy (mass x velocity) so .223 can creep in with a heavy enough bullet.
Brutally, wounding someone takes more people out of the battle than killing outright.
Brutally, wounding someone takes more people out of the battle than killing outright.
chas
Legendary Knight
I was told by an ex serviceman that the the rounds they used were designed to penetrate and buzz around the body to cause maximum damage without killing. The theory being a corpse is abandoned but an injured soldier consumes manpower with their recovery.
Sarky Bāstard
Legendary Knight
Not strictly true as that would contravene the Geneva Convention protocols on excessively injurious weapons.
The calibre describes not just barrel diameter but a whole raft of cartridge dimensions within which bullet dimensions can also vary - given that some of it is buried in the cartridge case. Go back to Vietnam with high rates of fire, often at short range with burdensome ammunition weights and the US decided the 30-06 (.3ā calibre from 1906 design) was overkill but the M1 Carbine and .45ACP pistol calibre lacked range. They lifted the Stoner system based on .223 Remington off the shelf pretty much - just as a few years before NATO had adopted its version of .308 Winchester as 7.62mm.
Early M16s used a short bullet with less spin in the rifling which was prone to tumble on impact or deflection. The Russians mimicked with the AK47 and 7.62 short being remodelled as AK74 with a 5.45x39mm cartridge. That seems to have tumbling properties too because of an air gap behind the jacket point before the lead antimony core. The Russians alleged it was a manufacturing quirk.....
By the time NATO adopted 5.56 it was formalised with a longer, more ballistically stable bullet imparted greater spin in the rifling. This makes it a much better penetrator - actually better at 1,000 metres than 7.62 because it loses less velocity. That however works for steel plate not flesh because you want maximum kinetic energy dumped in the target not passing through and being dispersed elsewhere...... wound ballistics is a gruesome subject of study.
So āFull Metal Jacketā is actually LESS wounding than a soft point hunting round and terrorists are not covered by the Geneva Convention when they need to be subdued amongst innocent bystanders.
Sarky Bāstard
Legendary Knight
Flip forward to Afghanistan and .223 lacked kinetic energy at longer engagement ranges and we seemed to be heading back to a median point closer to the AK47 original short round. Rather than reinvent the wheel we re-adopted 7.62 in a heavier rifle. That said, there was much chatter about .65 Grendel which is ballistically similar to my old .270 Winchester and about the āperfectā aerodynamic v. mass boat shape for a projectile just under .3ā - there was just no appetite for yet another calibre to complicate logistics.
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
Damn shame that we don't have any main party politicians with some balls who are brave enough to state the same obvious physical and biological fact!
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MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
What I find truly incredible is that those 'SJW's' don't seem to see how ridiculous and pathetic they are. It's a strange new world we live in where the pathetic little weird nerds who used to consider themselves the oppressed are now the oppressors in the name of stopping oppression. Bring on the End of Days and let God and the Devil sort it all out.
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
@MartytheMartian, your constant views of repent before God gives me an image of you.... The Bishop of Bath & Wells
Finally they do this with a lad who knows how to launch a bike!
Loads of yuppies being spanked by a bike
Of course it might have been a different outcome if Jez had been there in his new coiffeur conveyance