Small arms and Light Weapons

When picking a gun, what would your primary consideration be?


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Aditya Ballal

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That explosion is a 155mm he 77 shell explosion
Bhagwan ke liye any one who has seen indian artillery videos knows about the veer discovery artillery video.
That clip of blast is from the same video
Can you send the original video?
 

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Is this normal or am I being too picky
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Pretty normal for Yahudis; they started their firearms industry on Russian weapons so just like Russian they give zero Fs to aesthetics so you'll often find welding or tooling marks on firearms, especially on older stamped guns like Negev and Galil.

Nothing of much concern as the welded areas won't witness any severe force; it's just aesthetic.

Here a HK21E from perhaps the Mercedes Benz of firearms industry; Heckler & Koch and still you can see bad welding marks.
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So it's pretty common to use welding in parts that aren't pressure bearing
 
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stamped sheet metal receiver gun, hence welds there to affix separate sections or internal bolt carrier rails etc together, it's normal
they just didn't bother to remove excess of welds by filing them off but does it matter ?

here is a better looking example of welds on stamped sheet metal receiver gun, FN FNC upper receiver
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and it's even more ogre on FNC's bolt carrier because well, they simply welded the gas piston rod with bolt carrier on FNC :shock:...even AK takes care by properly screwing gas piston inside extended carrier and so

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(from top to bottm, bolt carriers of early production FNC, later production FNC and civilian semi-auto production FNC, you can see the cost cutting done even at basic welding of gas piston rod with the bolt carrier here as welds decreased from top to bottm)

so yeah it's common on mass manufactured stamped sheet receiver guns-some manufacturers take care in keeping aesthetic by removing excess welds while some just let it be - beside as long as it works looks are secondary on a firearm
 

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