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That chair in the first Merkava pictures is cool. That's like the place for me.. I'd be there, humming and singing the ride of the valkyries from the top of my longues. I'd be the first who gets it, but it would still put me to military hall of fame.In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.
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By the way, I'm with the Norwegian National Guard these days...
My personal weapon is the Rheinmetall MG3. It's a belt fed GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun), actually a modernized version of the German MG42 from World War II. Many say it's one of the best machine guns ever made.
Technical Specs.
Caliber: 7.62 X 51mm
Muzzle velocity : 820 m/sec
Max. Range: 3750 m
Effective Range: On 2-leg: 600 m / Mounted: 1200 m
Magazine: Belt fed
Length: 1225 mm
Weight empty: 11,5 kg
Rate of Fire: Approx. 20 rounds per second
(1200 rounds per minute in theory, but in reality you just don't shoot like that!)
The German MG3 is actually a modified version of the World War II era MG42. It is modified to fire the 7.62mm NATO rounds rather than the old Mauser rounds. The MG3 was first put into mass production in 1968. It is rated as an extremely reliable machine gun and has one of the highest rates of fire in its class. (In Ghost Recon this is the best "Light" Machine Gun available.) It has very little recoil, a nice sound, and of course, a extremely fast rate of fire. (Pros: Foes drop like flies. Cons: Eats ammo like pop corn!)
Also, the barrel heats up pretty fast during sustained rapid fire. Under such conditions, you should switch barrels for every 150 to 200 rounds, so you need at least 2 or 3 of the things if you're going on a shooting spree."Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
-- Saddam Hussein
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Originally posted by Pekka
That chair in the first Merkava pictures is cool. That's like the place for me.. I'd be there, humming and singing the ride of the valkyries from the top of my longues. I'd be the first who gets it, but it would still put me to military hall of fame.
Kind of like the sergeant on the siege tank in Star Craft, eh?"Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
-- Saddam Hussein
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Well.. I'm real life sgt soo, so you know..it matches.
Hey, can you get me one of those mg3's? I promise not to shoot innocent people with it?In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.
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Originally posted by Pekka
*drool*... that is piece of serious firepower.
Yep, it is. (Don't invade Norway!)
Takes a bit of work to get used to it though...
(In the beginning, I was mostly hitting everything but the target. I'm better now though! )"Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
-- Saddam Hussein
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Originally posted by elijah
I had a bit of a run in with Bush's foreign policy think tank once...
/me bows in respect to the little guy in the white shirt.
Originally posted by Pekka
Well.. I'm real life sgt soo, so you know..it matches.
Hey, can you get me one of those mg3's? I promise not to shoot innocent people with it?"Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
-- Saddam Hussein
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Gangerolf, that looks familiar! I can already smell and feel the whole thing that was there when they took the picture.. Man I love winter sometimes.. Especially in the army.. I think high of the moments in the woods with freezing weather.. I don't know, I just kind of like it. I hated all the hot summer days in the woods.. sweating and being uncomfortable. But in winter it's so different. How about the night sky at winter? You know, clear sky in the freezing weather in the woods when there's absolute silence? Just you and your assault rifle, and secrelty smoking cigs in guard duty.. oh yeah.
Guardian, and you know.. ranks mean nothing. It's what you do that counts .In da butt.
"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
"God is dead" - Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" - God.
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Originally posted by Pekka
Guardian, and you know.. ranks mean nothing. It's what you do that counts .
-But for the record, if we were in the same army, I wouldn't mind saluting you.
(edit: fixed a typo)Last edited by Guardian; August 26, 2003, 08:26."Politics is to say you are going to do one thing while you're actually planning to do someting else - and then you do neither."
-- Saddam Hussein
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