Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "The Armourer's Bench" channel.

  1. Yup, and that one has a solid state rocket booster option too, extending the range from 7km to almost 9km... (I've fired them myself in trsining back in 2003)
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  2.  @Br1cht  no heavy weapon systems are made for continuous use for thousands of rounds per month...
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  3. At least it's not as nasty as the Swedish Stridsvagnsmina 6, a mine that looks a bit like a bowl with straight upper half sides, it's a magnetic HEAT mine with a two step ignition, the first, weak charge, blows away any covering material, then the main charge detonates and sends a HEAT jet into the underside of the vehicle. The mine has a built in tampering detonator in the bottom which can be prepared with a hair trigger by placing a plastic disc with a small central magnet in a cavity in the bottom of the mine before the mine is buried and armed. The mine can not be reset or moved once armed or it will trigger the anti-tampering device, it will trigger on any sufficient change in the ambient magnetic field around it, it's battery lasts for more than 6 months, and the anti tampering detonator is also triggered by any attempt to open the battery compartment. If the magnetic disk is fitted, the anti tampering detonator can, iirc, activate even when the mine has run out of battery for the magnetic main detonator. Once it's armed, it's removed by blasting it/shooting it on site.
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  4. The shape, simplicity and metal screw also makes it easier to detect, recognize and clear after the war.
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  5. ​ @TheArmourersBench  yes, The big Swedish donated systems came with a "please keep out of the media focus as much as possible" rider.
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  6. ​​ @matsv201  the kpist m/45B version with the m/39B ammo punches through 5mm mild steel improvised body armor at up to 50m as used by the Katangan militia during the Congo crisis in the 1960ies.
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  7. It was an ambush weapon for archipelago delaying actions... Ie. You'd never carry it longer than 150-200m from the assault boat.
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  8. Unlike the original Hellfire AGM that provides the missile body and laser riding targeting system, the Rb17 missile has, iirc, a reduced HEAT warhead supplemented by a substantial secondary HE/FRAG charge. The reduced HEAT warhead scaled to penetrate post WW2 ship hulls and allow the HE/FRAG charge to blow up inside the hull and shower the crew and equipment with thousands of metal pellets.
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  9. 105mm howitzers are still only superior to 12cm mortars against open field targets over 7km range.
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  10. The Ukranian modded ones looks to be the larger variant of the MTLB
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  11. ​ @TheArmourersBench another good reason to use the small mortar setup over the mk19 is the angle of attack. The mk19 fires the grenades in a miniature howitzer like trajectory which is great against surface target or built up fortifications/buildings and soft skin vehicles, but it will struggle hard at reaching into the bottom of a dug trench. A mortar on the other hand, uses a parabolic trajectory, allowing the shels to come down at an almost right angle to the ground, and there's just no hiding from it.
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  12. Three second rule applies! Any Russian hardware that has been out of use for more than three seconds is free real estate!🤣
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  13. ​ @lazynpsychotic  I have a hunch it would be supplied the same way as the Leo2, with fiddly components that's finicky to clean or service would be replaced with a working one as a single module and the malfunctioning one sent back to depot armorers.
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  14. The thing is, the G3 didn't work as well rechambered in the 6.5×55mm iirc. (The 6.5×55mm has a slightly larger ammount of powder as a 7.62×51mm with a smaller bullet)
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  15. Would have been better if Putin hadn't forced that to happen though, the mad bastard.
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  16. The Rb17 mount was the first ever ground mount for the Hellfire family...
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  17. ​ @MatteV2  iirc, the Glock 17 was chosen as the new sidearm in 1988 just becausse it was the best one capable of surviving the preassures of the m39B
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  18. There are actually multiple vehicle carriers for the PvPjäs 1110: PvpjTgb 911 (open top variant of the Volvo L3314 with removable steel tube roll cage) PvpjTgb 1111 (canvas top variant of the Volvo C303) PvpjBv 20211 (canvas top rear cab variant of the Hägglunds Bv202) and Pvpv Bv 20611 (canvas top rear cab of the Hägglunds Bv 206)
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  19. ​ @RaytheonTechnologies_Official  my bet as a Swede who's father is a long retired staff officer of the Swedish costal artillery branch a branch that was dismantled in 2003, only leaving a single Amphibious battalion, my best guess is that the size of those house explosions was caused by the Rb17 igniting acuumulated dust and possibly other flammable things stored in the attic as the debris mixed with the air displaced from the shockwave, causing a "hollywood style" fireball effect.
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  20. By mating it with the feed system and steel belt of the MG42/MG1
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  21.  @TheArmourersBench  the 7.62×51 and the 6.5×55 cartridges has the same rim and base diameter as well as the same taper towards the neck and a very similiar over all length, so only the barrels was changed. And as the army eventually ran out of 6.5mm blanks, they just got the production switched to 7.62mm hollow wood bullets and retired the 6.5mm barrels. The same blank firing desintegrator muzzle device screws onto the flash hider threads and so didn't need redesign either, and when the G3 was adopted as the Ak4, a blank firing desintegrator muzzle device was designed for it. The 5.56 FN weapons also got desintegrator muzzle devices. The kpist m/45 however, used plastic bullet blanks and it's 2.5mm 'parlor ammo barrel' with a desintegrator device. The 2.5mm barrel without the desintegrator muzzle cap was designed to use tiny rounds where the casing was the percussion cap but zeroed so that a 15cm target at 10m equated a 6ft target at 100m.
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  22. ​ @Nathan-jh1ho  durability. Aluminium gets work hardened a little more by the recoil impulse of each shot fired, and that gradually makes the metal brittle and prone to cracking which makes a bad day in the field... That goes a lot faster in belt fed GPMG recivers than in select fire rifle recivers.
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  23. Except you know your units friendly frequencies, and if there's any friendy fibre operated drones in the air, so if there's no frequency with no active friendly fiber operated drone or a non-friendly frequency coming to/from the drone in the sights, it's open season. And capturing drones exposes friendly positions just as quickly as lighting up a searchlight at night since the drones transmit their own position back to their side.
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  24. ​ @rklkify  and tbh, those things were in Swedish cold war stockpiles from when we were able to mobilise a bit over 10% of the total population as pre-trained conscript reserves with stockpiles scaled to support that army for up to a year of nation-wide defense in depth and guerilla warfare against a significant part of the contemporary Muskovite tyrant's forces in their objectives to secure Norwegian Narvik port and Swedish Kirunavaara iron mine in the Arctic, Gotland in the center and the passage out of the Baltic sea and Danish Bornholm in the South. There are hundreds of thousands of the things, idk how many were donated though.
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  25.  @jic1  true, however, the functional parts of a howitzer is going to be easy enough to fix in any vehicle workshop big enough to physically fit it with lifting beams/eyes strong enough to lift the parts that needs to be lifted as long as parts, fluids and detailed manuals in Ukrainean is availiable.
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  26. Yes
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  27. ​​ @erinil0905  In homeguard exercises, my former unit was occationally issued NATO factory belted m13 linked ammo in 250rnd cardboard boxes left over after multi-national exercises, and as far as I could see, our Ksp58Bs ate those up just as reliably as they ate up the well used 49+1 round modular DM1 belts...
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  28. ​ @LackofFaithify  mules won't go into a combat boat 90 and disembark onto cracked granite cliff islands😂
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  29. Are you really so simple that you think any military unit would ever mount fewer than a dozen of these at a time, with at least two aimed to converge on any single vehicle in an ambushed convoy? And also combined with as many claymore type mines triggered in the same way on a separate fuse cirquit to perforate any dismounts or tank riders before anyone in the ambush force fires their personal or squad level suppoert weapons?
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  30. ​​ @hairydogstail  Akzo-Nobel eventually solved those ammo sensitivity issues by the time the project was disbanded iirc.
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  31. The best thing with these 105mm pack howitzers is that they are light enough to pull behind any modern SUV or larger delivery van like a Mercedes sprinter, Ford Transit or VW Transporter. The van option also allows to separate the cab in a front crew section and rear ammo rack.
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  32.  @richardkudrna7503  I did conscript training in 2003/2004 in a 12cm mortar platoon, while it used a more physically robust fire control system than a laptop and used 3 axis coordinates instead, correlated with propellant temperature, meterology data, exact position of each piece and exact position of spotter or target reference point, we could often fire for effect with the first salvo on each battery site. The mortar type entered service in 1941, the tubes we used were forged in the early 1950ies.
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  33.  @muwuny  dude, modern IFVs like the Bradley and CV9040 have been operating in the light tank AND APC roles since their introduction, only they carry more firepower than a ww2 medium tank.
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  34. Only if there are enough of them to completely prevent return fire, because this thing has a 90m long and 90° backblast cone that makes it very obvious where it's firing from the instant the gunner squeeses the main trigger after getting a hit with the spotting gun on top.
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  35. ​ @Oddball_E8  it's still better and less clunky than our first name for it: Lufttorped (air torpedo)
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  36. ​ @TheSundayShooter  or even swastikas of kittens...
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  37. That's the beauty of towed indirect fire systems, most of them use stand alone systems for positioning, communications and sighting wich means the effectiveness of the system can be upgraded a staggering ammount just by upgrading the other parts of the system while the firing piece remains the same.
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  38. Yup, it was originally designed as an ambush weapon for island hopping amphibious infantry of the Swedish Costal Artillery. And island is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the context. (Typical Swedish archipelago= area of 40-150 granite cliffs sticking out of the sea in a cluster at the mouth of a river estuary where about half are no bigger above the surface than an average family car, but many are around the size of a hockey rink and the largest are about the size of a major international airport, and any islet big enough to have cracks that's accumulated permanent soil is covered in pines, juniperbushes and thorny wild raspberry vines, with many housing one or more fishing huts, hamlets and summer cottages with jettys and private boats or public commuter ferry stops. Some of those cottages or fishibg huts however, were not what they appeared to be, they hid bunker entrances in plain sight, and inside those bunkers were small three-five man sonar, or radio listening posts that also controlled a number of local permanent seabed mine blockades that crisscrossed every approach along the entire Swedish coastline deep enough for a soviet ro-ro ship or wide enough for a zubr assault hoovercraft prior to 2003 when the entire Costal Artillery branch was disbanded to enable political tax cuts for the capitalist class...
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  39.  @erinil0905  yeah, I can see how that could happen, especially on very low or very high gas settings when the links either get time to shake and fall into places they aren't wanted or are fed through so quickly they might stack up faster and jam diagonally instead of cleanly falling out the other side.
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  40. No idea, but they should be able to fire original Hellfire AT missiles just as well as the modified Rb17 anti ship version the launcher was designed for
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  41. ​​ @aritakalo8011  and if the target isn't disarmed on the first salvo (5-6 simultaneous missiles from just as many different rocky islets) The crew that's first targeted by return fire will likely abandon their deployed launcher and find a less exciting place to be faster than a seagull takes a shit... A common practice in the Swedish army and Amphibious remnants of the Costal artillery branch, is to put a big plastic sack as a water proofing liner in the daypack and the kit bag as well as packing each change of clothes into their own plastic bags, all tied together with loose knots like the lift cells in an airship envelope. And to not suck the air out of the outermost bag just in case it might end up in water or required to serve as improvised flotation aid...
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  42. ​ @cucuawe465  that's pretty much exactly what it is 😈
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  43. ​​ @satanihelvetet  got the numbers wrong, 3011 should be 20611 (ie Bv206+ non-missile AT(11)
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  44. ​ @andersmalmgren6528  with a quick and skilled trigger finger it's possible to single fire it from the magasine too😉
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  45.  @jic1  possibly, but I'd expect artillery servicing would take priority over a lot of other things, and mind you, I'm including civilian gas station car repair shops and car dealerships as well as farm garages in my estimation of feasible locations.
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  46.  @StreuB1  it would have to be the heavy duty 5t sprinter variant with twin wheels and reqire a tow system modification, but yes
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  47. Anti personell mines are technically banned, along with unmonitored minefields. Russia has never cared about any international attempts to civilize warfare to minimise civilian casualties. The US at least tries to abide by the conventions on a RoE level, even those they have not formally signed or ratified.
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  48. It's up there on par with the PKM the worlds best GPMGs atm.
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  49.  @darkiee69  yes, but isn't the 6.5×55mm seated a bit deeper than the 7.62×51 so that the cartridge is more or less identical in length despite the brass of the 6.5 beeing 4mm longer? I've only shot the old m/96 in that caliber when I was in HVU back in 2001
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  50. It'd be very very short... as Orban is Putins saboteur in the EU.
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