Kamp Kuzma: The Operators' Campgrounds (For Operating)

Wow, that's quite something. Kinda shows the difference between our countries because I could actually buy that with what I make in a week. I may just get one now but unfortunately, tomorrow is when I take the section out field.

Wow... Now I wanna immigrate to Australia. O.O

The average monthly salary is 22 446 CZK. Some get more and some of course less.

EDIT: Talking about "bad luck":

Lance, the reason why the salary is high to you is cause you don't know they have high prices for all their stuff.

VALERIY: Guy had it coming. Soldiers fight even on the homefront.

Just wanted to remind people in case that Kei has taken his recruit section outfield for the duration of this week(returning on Sunday 9th) to train field exercises like field craft, first aid and other intense activities. He says that some people "peek in my thread every now and then without saying anything, they're most likely the ones who want to know."

Anyway, interesting stuff here. Guys at the Defence Distributed who are designing AR-15 lowers are making some unique designs, specifically one user 'WarFairy' who designed a P90-esque lower receiver for the AR platform. One model features an adjustable stock(nice) that extends it's length by nearly 8 cm more when fully extended, another is a pistol lower(no stock, just a grip) with either buffer tube or non-buffer tube variations. Obviously with the non-buffer tube version, you'll need an upper AR-15 receiver that likewise does not use a buffer tube(e.g. RRA LAR-PDS upper or Faxon Arms ARAK-21)


Note also that WarFairy's lower receivers also feature a finger hook at the bottom of the magwell, I assume that is to help with recoil when handling the weapon in the 'magwell' firing form.

Also interesting is a shot from an ex-Army Ranger Sniper Team Leader, Ryan Cleckner, who hit a target 1000 yards away with the Barrett M107 .50 cal AMR standing up. Amazing considering that thing weighs 16 kilos and recoil from a .50 BMG, even with the M107's compensator, is a bitch.


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I hope Kei enjoys those :)

As far as P90ish receiver goes... I don't know... It looks weeeeeeeird.

Holy sweet mother mercy of f*ck! Cleckner's the man. Also makes me thing if the compensator for M107 could be redesigned for more efficiency. Our military's .50 OP 96 Falcon compensator takes out 70% of recoil so it feel like 12 gauge shotgun from what I've been told by guys I know ant mind you Falcon is a bolt action and not recoil oprated like M107. Could be fun to try and test that compensator in M107 I wonder what it would change.

VALERIY: Yeah, I personally don't like it but whoever likes P90s and M4s will probably drool over it. Some hybrids are more successful than others is all I'm going to remark about it.

I imagine they could but the differences(externally anyway) between the compensator of the rifles in question are somewhat minute but these may play a difference. Falcon's have more vents as well as it's height being smaller than the M107/M82's. This would mean the individual vents would also be somewhat smaller. Generally from what I see in my fiddlings with air blasters(not sure if gas would work the same way or not but it's the closest thing I can relate it to), a volume of air escapes out of a smaller exit with more force than the same volume would from a larger exit. At least, that's what I've inferred from my experience.

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Also the Falcon(to me at least) looks like the love child of a KSVK and Denel NTW-20

Yeah might be the case. Jet engines work on this principle if I remember correctly, right?

I admit that Falcon's design is probably influenced by KSVK. I only know the people who fired it not build it so I can't be sure but is the feeling I have.

Also as date when I can go and get my firearms licence is approaching (on Wednesday) I've been doing intensive research on what should I get as my personal firearm. If I'd have the money I would end up with the CZ 75 (either classic or Phantom) or with a factor of CCW in mind with CZ75 Duty or CZ75 Compact D. But as I don't have a luxury of having so much money to purchase one of the above said weapons (if I don't get lucky on good second hand CZ75) I'll probably go for CZ 82 or 83 (82- military, 83- civilian) for simple reason: Solid, cheap and durable. It's a blowback action SA/DA military pistol with nice ambidextrous features chambered for 9x18 Makarov with polygonal rifling profile. I'm not sure, because official source doesn't cover pistols, if it's still serving in our military or if it has already been fully replaced by CZ75 (I think that at least Reservists have them but they are not happy as I mentioned maybe too many times). In all it is a solid pistol, easy to get, and more then enough for me who maybe is shooting since his youth, but this will be my first "real" firearm (I don't really count airguns though I technically own 3).
I feel like a child before Christmas. ^^'

VALERIY: Well speaking of Czech guns, Egypt some time ago announced their purchase to fully rearm their Armed Forces with pistols, smgs and assault rifles from CZ. They bought 50,000 CZ75 Dutys, some hundred Scorpion EVO IIIs and an unknown amount of 805 Brens.

That's really cool. How so that I hear about it now?
CZ 75 Dutys have a really good reputation so does the EVO III as far as I know. Bren is suffering some childhood diseases but nothing really serious within the actual gun itself as far as I heard. It's mostly plymer components and now I can't remember if the lower receiver is polymer or not.
Also interesting fact: Here people tend to refer to polymer gun components as plastic. In my eyes it's different and it's sheading the kind of light that someone who doesn't know much will think: "Plastic? Well that must be a piece of cr*p."
Personally I don't have anything against polymer components. It's been proven technology since the 80's and I don't mind it. Steel or plymer frame as long as it fits my hand I don't really care :D

VALERIY: Indeed, polymer is a reliable material, lightweight and weapons made from it are almost as durable as fullmetal counterparts. Although polymer weaponry has been around for quite a while now, I'm more interested in the developing polymer bullet casings, with 9mm plymer rounds already gone commercial and US Army already looking into developing a new polymer 5.56mm machinegun belt to replace their M27 chain links. It'd do pretty well in the military(or anywhere for that matter) because it weighs less than brass casings meaning more rounds for the same weight. Only problem would be the reusing part since you dont want to reload a spend polymer case(if you've seen it after its used) and at this point, its a bit more expensive than standard rounds. Still, I think polymer has a bright future ahead unless there comes a more effecient synthetic material.

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Also, there was for a limited time, 9mm polymer rounds for sale on Mothers day that supported Breast Cancer research, the cases were colored pink which is the standard color for the Breast cancer foundation research. Kei still has a box of them for collection reasons.

Mmmm that's interesting. Never heard about polymer casing before but it seems legit and maybe even better solution than the caseless ammo.

Mmmm here they sell at max T-shirts.

Hmm.

Czech guns look intresting and i like em.

Are there any other "intresting things"?

VALERIY: Well, relating to the Army. They're also in development for a new LMG, currently the project is designated as LSAT(Lighweight Small Arms Technologies) LMG. It's a belt-fed machine gun that's designed to either use polymer telescopic belts or caseless ammunition. Not interchangeable, there are two variants in development that use each ammo type respectively. Don't know much about the telescoping belts besides that it's casings are polymer but the caselss ammunition is linked by a polymer belt and can hold 1.5 times more ammunition. So 100 telescoped rounds equal to 150 caseless.

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Well if you're interested in firearms I'd recommend Hickok45's channel he's really honest guy IMHO and even though he's a Glock person he doesn't disregard any firearm with prejudice as far as I've seen.



Hope it won't go the same way as XM-8.

VALERIY: Hickok45 is my most favourite internet personality, that loveable old man from Tennessee always says the best of all guns and he's got a good shot.

Knowing the Army's track record with projects, it may just end up that way.

I dislike when interesting projects come to an end. -.-

VALERIY: Indeed, like what happened with the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche. First helicopter to implement stealth technology and then after planning to purchase over 1300 initial units, the project is scrapped.


Also this:

Yeah RAH-66 was one thing I've been really expecting to go all out and then suddenly they show it a middle finger.

Mmm... I'm not really expert when it comes to vehicles. I'm more knowledgeable in handguns so I don't really recognize the tank...

VALERIY: Definitely not an M1 Abrams, if I were to guess, I would have to say the Israeli Merkava Mk. 3 or Mk. 2. Tis a beautiful scene nonetheless.

Its Challenger 2, since it weights 62.5 tonnes and the image had www.defenceimages.co.uk