Kamp Kuzma: The Operators' Campgrounds (For Operating)

Unfortuntately, this is not any of Val's work, that is yet to debut on this forums.

. . . I don't sound anything like that Val. . .

lol. It's so hard to tell the two of you apart when you use the same profile...

I guess that is true but I don't ever use the word debut.

That's true... Well, good night.

Mmmm I see I see... *nod nod*

VALERIY: Big news in the firearms market.

There's been a recall for Walther PK380 pistols after one of the workers discovered that certain PK380 pistols were still able to discharge a loaded round when the trigger was pulled even though the manual safety was on. Big safety hazard, right there. The recall applies to all PK380s manufactured between May and September 2012 by Carl Walther GmbH, which will have serial numbers between PK101201 to PK112155. Here's a picture of the pistol in question:


SARG Global, a fairly new R&D firearms firm, recently published specifications of a innovative rifle they were designing, designated SARG XS2012, this rifle uses a unique gas system which eliminates the accuracy problems of long and short stoke piston systems*.

The system is designed like a long stroke, with the gas piston fixed onto the bolt carrier, however, the piston is shorter than other long stroke rifles, piston being at about 6" length. Theoretically, this system is supposed to eliminate barrel wobble. The rifle is available in 5.56 NATO, .300 BLK or 7.62 Soviet, the designer is planning on selling at a retail price between $1300 and $1600 and calibre conversion kits sold for $350. The rifle comes in a nice Black polymer finish and weighs 7.6 lbs, to compare, the M16 rifle weighs 8.79 lbs loaded.


And finally, Remington and Colt are threatening to relocate factories if New York and Conneticut pass the legislation of mandatory microstamping** of semi-auto handguns. From the Fox News report:



Michelle Schimel, the chief sponsor of this legislation says that the implementation of microstamping firearms would help with crime solving and the added cost would be $12 to manufacture, part of that $12 would be from the decreased demand from customers. Many consumers of the market are worried that their marked cartridges could be collected by criminals from the gun range and planted on crime scenes, defeating the whole purpose of this legislation. And of course, any criminal would be smart enough to just sand off the stamp from their own firearm.

Last year Colt announced plans to open a new facility in Florida and earlier this year Remington announced the purchase of North Carolina based Para USA.

I'm not sure I undestand all this microstamping issue. How does it works exactly?

VALERIY: By using a laser engraver, they mark the firing pin with a stamp, an example being the photo I showed. That way, whenever that firearm ever shoots a round, the firing pin will stamp the primer with its serial number. Through this, the police will be able to trace a cartridge to the gun that shot it.

If you want to know more, read some wikipedia, it covers the whole controversy over this technology as well.

That sounds like a bad idea. Firstly every sane crminal would try to find and dispose of the cartridge.

Not to mention disposing of firearm that killed is a rutine from what I know.

Just keeping us on the front page.

Nice of you to do that, Asuzu but that's not necessary. Eventually sometime during the day, Valeriy or I will most likely post something here anyway.

Some nice innovations on the water-borne warfare front.

Rotinor, a German manufacturer located in Stuttgart, have developed what they call a "scuba scooter", designated SEABOB Black Shadow because of its alikeness to a bobsled, this is revolutionary technology. It uses a modern jet-propulsion system and are only limited in speed by the drag of the operator, reaching a speed of 8 miles per hour underwater, which compared to other current technology is fast. The Black Shadow is virtually silent and 100% emission free thanks to its jet-propulsion system.

The SEABOB is used already by various European Special Operation Forces but not Germany surprisingly. I imagine that we'll see the Kampfschwimmer using these, until then, they'll have to wait in envy of the other forces.


Nautiraid, a maker of canoes, released a new, innovative folding kayak. The two-seater kayak is designated SB Commando Mk VI, made from a frame of ash and birch plywood and covered in a skin of polyester fabric coated with black hypalon where it touches the water and non-reflective black fabric on its deck. The SB Commando MK VIhas a length of 5.40 metres, a beam of .74 metres and can carry up to 350kg. The complete basic unit weighs 37 kg.


While a lot of the attention, little as it all may be, is focused on the land effort in the Middle East, we should not forget the off-shore Naval operations which happen in the Mediterranean, I'm sure these new innovations will be game-changers in the future.

I cracked up when I saw this, its an electric screwdriver, very much resembling its pistol but that's not the only thing that makes it resemble one. It has a compartment to hold screwdriver heads which is revealed when you rack the slide back like an actual pistol. They've even shaped the sides of the slide to sort of resemble a Picatinny rail and an ejection port, which doesn't do anything but still.

Its not released yet but you can pre-order them from Amazon.com for $50. I'd totally get one.


On another note, here's a picture of German SEK(Spezialeinsatzkommando) using a special stock for the MP7. These guys are a tactical response unit similar to S.W.A.T. and this stock is designed to work with full body armor and not get in the way of their ballistic helmet visors, which is pretty handy for these guys.


And an obligatory promotion for the Planetside RP which is currently open in the Writing and Fan Fiction section of this Forum. If you like sci-fi and a story of survival, I recommend you join this RP, like they say, the more the merrier.

The SEABOB seems like really nifty piece of equiptment.
I'd like to see the screwdriver you mentioned, but you forgot to add pics.

The desing of that stock is really interesting and given that MP7 doesn't have much recoil it can be handled well but I'd need to try it for my opinion to be accurate.

VALERIY: Hah, Kei never checks to see if the pictures worked, thanks for the notice. Here they are:


On another note, these are pictures from a Russian inventor on a new bullet type designed for penetration. While the inventor never explained the design of it, I've read one person's assumption on it and it is that the centre of gravity in the bullet affects the yaw of when it encounters a solid object(bullet tumbling). In the cases of standard bullets, the centre of gravity and mass is at the base causing them to tumble on impact.

So what this design is meant to do is shift the centre of gravity to the nose of the bullet to increase penetration, a useful design for Anti-material rifles and anti-armour weaponry, which is probably why the bullet in the image is loaded in a 12.7x108mm casing, a calibre used by the Russian KSVK 12.7 Anti-Material Rifle and DshK Heavy Machinegun.

The inventor named these bullets "RusEngin", seeing as he's Russian, I'm not that surprised though I wish it would actually relate to its function more. It's a weird looking bullet but who knows, maybe in the future, this may become a standard weapon application.


Here's also an extract from a report from the 1950s when the US Military was studying the effects of a bullet's centre of gravity.

It was actually sometime after this was published that both America and Russia began to develop cartridges with bullets designed to tumble on impact. An example of this being the Russian 5.45x39mm which contains a hollow cavity in the nose to make it lighter and therefore, shift the centre of gravity towards the base.

Some could also assume that this kind of bullet may cause mis-feeding when used with semi-auto rifles like the M82/M107 or AS50.

To put all of this basically, the bullet is made so that the nose is heavier than the base. This will stop it from tumbling when it hits something.

Any suggestions as to what weapon my character should use on Planetside RP?

Quote me if you reply or else I won't be checking, will probably forget to do so.

Not sure, I have lots of suggestions depending on what role your character will be filling. If its nothing heavy and simply self defence, I'd suggest a pistol of some sort. If that's the case you could use the same pistol model as Lance or I, or would you rather a real world gun?

My character is the princess of the aristocratic government that Room's profile mentioned (lol herpderp).

Except that she lost all wealth, servants, etc. Now working on [insert affiliations that I need help/suggestions from Yukito with]. And stuff!

Depends on charater you want to play. If I remember correctly you wrote about being of nobility. Then I'd suggest for you to have some fancy gold and platinum rimed laser pistol of lady size (that would be size Compact or Subcompact).

Then I imagine a pistol would be enough for self-defence, unless you would prefer a PDW instead. PDW stands for Personal Defense Weapon and is similar to a Sub-machine gun except uses a more powerful bullet(in most cases) and is meant to be able to be carried on one's person somewhat easily. Examples are the FN P90 and HK MP7, the following are pictures of them respectively:


Lol, gold/platinum plated guns