>>420641 It doesn't matter if a weapon is good or not, what matters if there's a company with enough financial backing to make it, and enough political backing to lobby it to get used. Jackhammer had neither.
>>420649 It's not wordplay. Before the advent of magnetically charged weaponry, railgun literally meant a gun on rails - or more accurately, a railway gun. They were phased out after WW2, since normal tanks allowed for more mobility.
The Federation had conventional weapons to begin with, they only switched to mobile suits after Zeon introduced them and they turned out to be mad overpowered.
The Gundam, the Guncannon and the Guntank were part of the "V Project" which was the Federation developing the technology for themselves, which lead to the creation of the GM which was the mass-production MS that made up most of their forces.
>>420740 >>420739 >>420737 There are different types of bullets - tracer rounds, armor piercing, incendiary, etc. The colours are there to mark which one is which, so you don't end up using normal ammo when you'd need AP, etc.
Is there any modern body armor used for protecting the legs and anything else below the waist?
Like when you hear the stories about heavily armed and armored bank robber where they manage to hold the cops off for ages it usually only ends after the crooks get shot in the dick/legs/hands while absorbing fire everywhere else.
>>421051 No, I just really like the design of the Mammoth tank. It looks twice the tank as any other tank, and I don't just mean the double barrels... it has dual threads, swanky looking turret, rocket pods, and in-game it has self-healing and is the only tank that can handle any kind of incoming enemy (rocket pods can kill enemy air and infantry both). It's the ultimate tank.
>>421055 To be fair the gun-arms are still mobile even while the tank is in its low-profile form and capable of being aimed in multiple directions to hit targets.
>>421058 That is true, but I was under the assumption that the tank mode is there for fast travel purposes, in which case it would make more sense to fix up the arms, so they don't have to be powered on to stay in whatever formation they are in (so gravity and the force of the travel doesn't make them flop around). Which would make the tank shape have a fixed form which is easier to manouvre, but also means there is more power for the engines.
You can still have an intermediate form with the arms moving freely, but it is just a weird lower-profile version of the normal stand-up mode, with lower height and different weight distribution.
>>420617 So for the handful of you here who know a thing or two about guns, do any of you think bottleneck pistol rounds may be making a comeback? >Ruger 57 was a surprising success despite the gun's lacking quality >The FK Brno and its polymer counterpart are doing really well for such a boutique gun with its own proprietary round >The prevalence of 40 S&W copsurp pistols means tons of 357 Sig compatible guns are on the market >On top of that 357 Sig is always a panic-proof round and is very powerful for what it is I'd be very excited to see it happen, if only to see new pistols chambered in 7.62x25
>>421706 >didn't grow up with old thing as we didnt have the channels for it >learn2piracy as teen I can verify old thing was better than new thing... usually.
>>421715 I got to fire a Mosin Nagant once and it was sweet.
But I did witness someone there firing a Barret .50 cal and it was especially awe-inspiring. Shakes the dust off the floor.
I would say newer ones. I mean, what older weapons can beat a mounted machine gun so powerful it can out-thrust a jet engine? Not a rhetorical question, I would love an answer. IDK much about guns.
Guns are one topic where new stuff can easily outdo old stuff, provided it is not some cheaply made lowest bidder junk. Personally, I'm waiting for railgun weaponry to become commercially viable.
>>421790 >revolver cylinder constantly spinning This is a strange Russian Roulette variant and I like it... unless the hammer also spins because fuck it.
How much maintenance actually goes into owning a gun?
Like if you've got your pistol or a shotgun in the home for ye olde cause of property protection, man's house being his castle etc, and it never actually gets used how often do you need to clean an fix it up?
>>422444 Its from a capeshit comic featuring a villain with 10 fingers, which for some reason the artist thought meant his gun needed many triggers...?