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This is the 14.9x102mm SOP, a wildcat cartridge made by necking down a 20mm Vulcan autocannon shell casing. It was developed as a collaborative project among members of the Snipers Hide online forum. It has undergone several revisions since 2010.
It’s usually loaded with a hand-crafted low-drag 1,690 grain solid copper bullet, which it fires at roughly 3,350 fps. The projectile itself is roughly 4 inches long, with driving bands and an aggressive rebated boat tail to reduce base drag.
The sectional density is around 0.70, which is an astoundingly high measure of the mass-to-diameter ratio. It’s very heavy for it’s caliber, nearly a quarter pound.
The ballistic coefficient is about 1.85, which is an astoundingly high measure of how aerodynamic the bullet is during flight.
Here’s one unfired bullet next to a recovered bullet:
At the previously stated muzzle velocity, the bullet is carrying about 42,000 ft-lbs of kinetic energy. It remains supersonic out to 5,000 meters, or 5,400 yards.
For comparison, a similar monolithic bullet in .50 BMG usually maxes out around 800 grains at 2,900 fps. It has a sectional density around 0.44, a ballistic coefficient around 1.13, and it’s carrying less than 15,000 ft-lbs of energy at the muzzle.
For further comparison, you’d be hard pressed to find a 5.56 load recipe that hits 1,400 ft-lbs.
Here’s a comparison image of the three examples: one 14.9mm, one .50, and a stripper clip of green tip 5.56 NATO. The 14.9 is coated in black molybdenum disulfide film, which acts as a lubricant and helps extend barrel life.
Needless to say, the rifle that fires this colossal cartridge is appropriately huge. Currently, the test gun is a single-shot bolt action, which wears a 48-inch super-heavyweight bull barrel. The entire gun weighs in at about 100lbs, due to deliberately added weight.
This weight helps dampen recoil to a survivable level, although the designers suggest that a recoil-reducing stock, giant muzzle brake, and lighter barrel profile could bring the weight down to 30 lbs without inflicting enough blunt force trauma to kill the shooter.
At least a few other prototype rifles are under construction, include some magazine fed repeaters. Due to laws against rifled bores larger than .50 caliber, each 14.9mm (.59 caliber) must be federally registered as a “destructive device”.
whiskey-gunpowder
Watch this clip from Yuri Bezmenov a couple times… this is what lefties don’t understand. they are useful idiots who will be disposed of when the they are no longer needed.
Wholesome compares to cops killing innocent people in America.
lakwatsa-lazuli
Splatoon cops
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madamebomb
Why don’t you roll up in a futon and maybe you’ll calm down?
This is one of the dumbest takes I’ve ever seen about the police, people heard this and I see unironic comments saying “uwu japan so soft and sweet compared to barbarian usa.” Absolute nonsense!
Japan “boasts” of a whopping 99% conviction rate in criminal cases. This is statistically horseshit, and the only way to “achieve” such a feat is through a lot of lying and through the assumption that, because someone’s been arrested, then that person must be guilty.
The way Japanese law enforcement manages to convict someone, even for minor offences, is to hold them in cells under constant interrogation until they break down and sign a legal confession. The punishment can range from paying a fine to jail time, but the thing is that indefinite detention is a clear violation of human rights. Often they do it without citing any charges. Lawyers can’t access their clients. The police do not make their methods transparent. Why do you think Ace Attorney has you playing on the side of the defense? Because prosecutors and the police often work together to ensure a conviction as quickly as possible. The simple act of being arrested often means you’re fucked. And that’s not even getting into what that means for your social image and employment prospects. Japan also has the death penalty.
That quirky news report about Japanese crime being so nonexistent that cops don’t have anything to do? A total myth. Police make up honeypot traps over trivialities like stolent bikes to amuse themselves while they ignore cases of domestic violence, train chikan, and theft. The police turn a blind eye to organised crime and corruption (the seedy nature of pachinko parlours is an open secret)—often they have close relations with yakuza, and a lot of people say that yakuza aren’t a problem now, but what isn’t a problem about people who make money off child prostitution, loan sharking, and the drug trade?
What about the fact that you can’t film anything if the police don’t want you to? They can totally seize footage related to a detention and destroy it if it doesn’t paint them in a good light. A man was suffocated to death by an officer in front of a police box and the camerographer who filmed the incident was immediately told to turn the footage in to the police.
What about that Nissan exec who was jailed? Sure, no sympathy for corporate types, that’s fine, but isn’t it convenient that pretty much the only high profile arrest was of the Brazilian born French-Lebanese man? Did I mention that the police are racist and xenophobic? If you’re a Nigerian tout in Roppongi the police will absolutely keep a closer eye on you than on the middle aged salaryman groping schoolgirls on the train.
Not convinced yet? How about the fact that leftist activity and group organisation immediately puts people under scrutiny? Does anyone who called the Japanese police “wholesome” want to talk to the Zengakuren student activists who were attacked by them?
Like, it’s good that in Japan there’s a lesser chance of dying at their hands, but I’m honestly baffled that the first reaction people had when reading about them was to fawn and coo instead of getting suspicious over such positive headlines. But the reality is that cops aren’t your friends anywhere. They exist to uphold the status quo, not to really protect people—but that’d be too much of a bummer for the commenters on this thread, apparently. Taking the time to actually read about Japanese police would go against their image of Japan as this desexualised, neutered country where absolutely nothing bad ever happens.
(Before someone wants to call me a liar, I have sources:
Im reblogging myself in light of current events and because too many people in the notes gushing about “splatoon cops” got on my nerves. Japanese people are also protesting in support of BLM and i’ve already seen sooo many white expat weeaboos angrily screaming about “black politics infiltrating beautiful japan!!” 🤮
I don't really know who Laurence Fox is but he's apparently some asshole calling out the main actors of the Harry Potter series for standing against Rowling in regards to trans rights.
He apparently thinks of Rowling as their "creator" and that they have no right to disagree with her or call out her bullshit.
Obviously he thinks of himself as a lot smarter then he actually is and references HP as though it's all the they've accomplished.
And, of course, he's against BLM movement.
Let's hope he's right and he never gets another acting job again.
But jkrowling is right...
A female operator in M98 camo from Norway’s Coastal Ranger Commandos.
