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TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
New Submachine gun
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Hopefully more info will be published on them in the coming days.
That's not a SMG its a pistol in a carbine conversion shell. The PRC and Israelis both make models that are very close to that one. Particularly the Command Arms Roni. Basically you take a stock pistol make a few minor modifications and then place it inside the shell housing.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
15th International Exhibition of Police, Safety, and Security Equipment (IPAS) has been opened today in Tehran, like every year new and old achievements are presented to public, this year Iran Defense Industries Organization showed two new weapons for the first time.



A new multi caliber Assault rifle , there are 5.56mm and 7.62mm versions of it.
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The carbine shows a strong resemblance to the AK series but with a gas block like the ACR or Robinson Armament XCR. The receiver is using a AK based magazine well and the buffer tube is also AK based the rails might be original or commercial hard to say.
I find the camouflaged Iranian trooper interesting. His helmet is a bump helmet not a ballistic helmet. It has rails and a western style NOD mount. The black trooper is wearing a possible Opscore FAST but I am not quite sold on that as it seems a bit loose possibly a broken suspension system or a knock off. Both camo and black are wearing American made tactical gloves you can see the O logo on the flap.
The camo trooper has a interesting optics arrangement. It looks like a red dot sight with a magnifier then topped with a second red dot. This follows a western co-witness trend along similar lines to the ACOG reflex or G36 duel sight.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Pistol performance in ballistics yes but then most small smg in semi auto are little better. The key enhancement is ergonomics. In a pistol you support the weapon and recoil in the palm of a single hand + a support hand so say Hand and a half. In a carbine like a MP5 you have your hand on the pistol grip, a hand forward on the hand guard and the stock in your shoulder that's two full hands and the shoulder that means the weapon is intrinsically more stable. It also allows for larger siting and depending on stock you can add a cheek weld allowing for natural eye alignment to the barrel.
So in theory it can give depending on manufacturing some of the accuracy of a carbine smg to a pistol but normally lacks selective fire.
This could be corrected with using a selective fire submachine pistol as the base. Like say the Glock 18. But the shell would block the access to the slide mounted controls.
Really its a poor mans substitute. A option best for police agencies who just can't get SMGs.
 

delft

Brigadier
$65 billion and 14 years and Taliban took over city twice in one week ??

Is this some kind of joke ?

$65 billion is like UK entire defence budget !!

What the hell went wrong ?? Where and why
That's easy. A lot of the money went to growing corruption in the country because that is valuable to sellers of weapons and equipment. See the blog by Ambassador Bhadrakumar "
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TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Hate to say it but, in this case its pretty accurate. They never really rooted out the warlords. And the Afghanis never really stabilized as they should. The commitment needed for Such was cut out by lack of leadership in Washington and Kabul. The Taliban used the situation to build venom like a poisonous snake.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
The real tragedy is that everyone and their dog knew what was necessary to destroy the likes of Al-Q and the Taliban, just as everyone and their dog knew from day one no country will have the endurance to see it through.

The key to defeating the likes of the Taliban, Al-Q and ISIS is education and development.

You need probably 3-400k troops to protect, say 100k each of teachers, engineers, doctors/nurses and lawyers, and you need them to stay for at least a generation, maybe two or three.

That is ideally what the UN should be for - to pool the world's resources to help undertake the kind of massive state building missions no single nation or coalition can do by themselves.
 

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Except the UN would never do it. Heck half of UN organizations don't even operate in compliance with half of UN resolutions and sanctions.

The US leadership changed to a administration that wanted out of foreign affairs, so they pulled back in Iraq and AQ in Iraq became the root of ISIL. And now we see history repeats as the Taliban move back into the vacuum left by poor leadership.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
Except the UN would never do it. Heck half of UN organizations don't even operate in compliance with half of UN resolutions and sanctions.

The US leadership changed to a administration that wanted out of foreign affairs, so they pulled back in Iraq and AQ in Iraq became the root of ISIL. And now we see history repeats as the Taliban move back into the vacuum left by poor leadership.

Of course the UN would never do it, its become a pointless waste of money. I was saying that's what the UN should be for.

As for America, well IIRC, the withdraw was already planned and agreed by the Bush administration before Obama took office.

I see Obama getting way more than his fair share of the blame. But in this instance, he was merely following the roadmap set out and agreed upon by his predecessor. This move was also overwhelmingly popular amongst the American people.

Shouldn't really pin this one on Obama when all he was doing was uphold agreements already in place and execute the wishes of the majority of the American people.

Every time you loose a war, you always have people coming out of the woodworks afterwards (who never actually fought themselves) lamenting how the war would have been won had they been doing the leading (never the fighting amusingly enough).

All this blame-the-weak-willing-Obama is just a manifestation of that. With the implication the US could somehow have held everything together had another president "with balls" had been behind the desk, when in fact, any president would likely have done exactly the same thing, grand direction wise, because that was what the American people overwhelmingly wanted.

You are correct that history is being repeated, but what the American people and the world should blame the Obama administration for is its meddling in countries like Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

Even after the US pulled out of Iraq in earnest, Al-Q was a spent force and a threat even the Iraqi army could have handled.

It was the western back challenge financing, training and arming of "moderate" rebels in Libya and then Syria which created a new recruiting, training, proving ground and safe heaven for Global Jihadists Terrorists.

Many of the people the US would and probably should have been liquidating with drone strikes and special forces raids in Iraq and Afghanistan instead were given CIA money, weapons and training when they crossed into Libya and Syria. In effect, the CIA created a terrorist wonderland in Libya and much of Syria.

After the fall of Libya, many of these now well-trained, well-funded, well-connected and battle hardened hardcore Jihadists went back to Iraq and promptly wiped the floor with the Iraqi army and seized vast quantities of money, weapons and territory, which gave them the foundation on which to build ISIS.
 
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