sorry to bring the thread down, but i have some bad news related to one of the more unique guntubers;
Paul Harrell has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Well, fuck. Pancreatic is pretty much a death sentence.
sorry to bring the thread down, but i have some bad news related to one of the more unique guntubers;
Paul Harrell has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
It got my uncle. Dude was 40, his kids hadn't even left High School yet. Fuck pancreatic cancer (and cancer in general).Well, fuck. Pancreatic is pretty much a death sentence.
I think the survival rate is so low that once diagnosed Doctors basically consider you dead already, IIRC, albeit with at least a year. You may have a few years extra if treatment succeeds to some extent, but there's no real chance of survival.It got my uncle. Dude was 40, his kids hadn't even left High School yet. Fuck pancreatic cancer (and cancer in general).
I think the survival rate is so low that once diagnosed Doctors basically consider you dead already, IIRC, albeit with at least a year. You may have a few years extra if treatment succeeds to some extent, but there's no real chance of survival.
Yeah, and that's why it's considered a death sentence; it's typically diagnosed at too late a stage to really do anything about it.It depends. What makes pancreatic cancer very deadly is that it's typically asyptomatic in early stages, which means by the time anyone realizes you have cancer, it's late stage and there's no chance left. In roughly half of patients, pancreatic cancer isn't diagnosed until it's already at stage 4, with a five-year relative survival rate on the order of three percent.
Yes. The survival rate is as good as any other cancer if caught early, but. . . that's the rare, lucky case.Yeah, and that's why it's considered a death sentence; it's typically diagnosed at too late a stage to really do anything about it.
If a doctor diagnoses you and it wasn't caught, by some miracle, early, they're reading off a death sentence and already consider you a dead man/woman walking (though, of course they'd never say that openly).
There has been a lot of shady shit surrounding the XM7, So maybe it is a gimmick.
There are, in theory, ways around that. But yes -- my point is simply that the AR is already so good that it's going to take a very substantial change in the underlying technology to actually be "better enough".Thing is cased rifles have a big advantage over caseless. The case, when ejected, removes a lot of heat from the barrel.
sorry to bring the thread down, but i have some bad news related to one of the more unique guntubers;
Paul Harrell has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
And conversely, caseless rifles have much more compact ammunition for magazine capacity and bulk shipping. It's a performance vs. logistics issue, and the US military is one of the worst places in the world for one wishing to trade the current state of the former for the latter.Thing is cased rifles have a big advantage over caseless. The case, when ejected, removes a lot of heat from the barrel.
And conversely, caseless rifles have much more compact ammunition for magazine capacity and bulk shipping. It's a performance vs. logistics issue, and the US military is one of the worst places in the world for one wishing to trade the current state of the former for the latter.
Well, Textron was well on the way to making such a rifle, but they apparently ran into some problems with their polymer telescoped round firing rifle. It seems to work just fine out of machine guns, from what I've seen.It's quite likely that no cased ammunition repeating rifle will ever actually be "better enough" than the plain old AR platform to justify large scale procurement
...This has me wondering just how useful a plastic explosive based caseless small arm could be. Depending on the details, you might be able to put in a big block of plastic explosive that has the appropriate amount shaved off, then a separate magazine of projectiles has one pulled from it to be put in the front, all pressed into shape by the chamber.One of the big problems with the HK G11 was that the caseless ammo was really fragile, Not sure how that problem can be overcome.
...This has me wondering just how useful a plastic explosive based caseless small arm could be. Depending on the details, you might be able to put in a big block of plastic explosive that has the appropriate amount shaved off, then a separate magazine of projectiles has one pulled from it to be put in the front, all pressed into shape by the chamber.
But that's dependent on getting a plastic explosive with the right detonation profile made, and very complicated. I could see a boondoggle shotgun using it to make shot-switching practical, maybe a tank cannon variation, but those are the only two cases where the relative trivializing of mixing different shots and amounts of propellant would work right. And in the tank case the system might work out more as assemble-in-situ reusing a much smaller set of true shells because fuck redesigning the turret around the all-new breach assembly for large-scale fully-caseless.
If it's for the shooting in the air, it's at least understandable (again, rare but nonzero chance of bullet at terminal velocity harming someone ((and weird fact, because terminal velocity is what matters, the smaller the caliber, the higher the terminal velocity & the lower the threshold for skin puncture. Hence smaller caliber = more dangerous to shoot straight up.))). But knowing CA, it'll likely before some sort of assault charge or something stupid on the thief.Won't be surprised when the LA DA decides to have this guy arrested and prosecuted.