Ron Bleac Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPrgbtDQhm4&feature=relatedIt has explosions. Watch it. It barely has any speech or narration in it, so it's cool for English speaking folks as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aryte Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 I like how there's 30 seconds devoted to digging a hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bleac Posted April 30, 2011 Author Share Posted April 30, 2011 It's an important detail! The shape, size and depth are all important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashbourne Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 In basic training I spent half a day on the theory and practice of holes in the dirt. It was enlightening, a true psychological challenge to get through that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazorFox Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 1. So the moral of the story is "If you dig a regular hole, the Russians will kill you. If you dig a hole, build a log cabin in it, and bury it, you will survive and PERKELE!!1! D8<"2. What is with you people and still using 7.62x39mm? Is the Valmet sufficiently accurate to compete with rifles in more modern calibers? I know they have milled receivers and are very well-built , but they're still basically just AK-47s.3. 6:11 - 6:42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Ansar Posted April 30, 2011 Share Posted April 30, 2011 Zen and the art of Trenches.(Also, those gunshots are heard in SO many other films and games. For example, everyone and their mother uses that gunshot for AK's in too many games.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bleac Posted April 30, 2011 Author Share Posted April 30, 2011 The 7.62x39mm is perfectly fine. While the RK is mechanically similar to an AK47, it's nothing like it and is more than capable of competing with more modern designs and calibers. Most combat engagements in Finland generally take place within ranges of 200-300 meters and the RK has sight adjustments up to 600. It's very accurate all the way up to its maximum ranging settings. There's a saying in Finland that if a man can't hit a target with an RK, it's not due to the rifle.It's because they're most likely a really shitty shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazorFox Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 The 7.62x39mm is perfectly fine. While the RK is mechanically similar to an AK47, it's nothing like it and is more than capable of competing with more modern designs and calibers. Most combat engagements in Finland generally take place within ranges of 200-300 meters and the RK has sight adjustments up to 600. It's very accurate all the way up to its maximum ranging settings. There's a saying in Finland that if a man can't hit a target with an RK, it's not due to the rifle.It's because they're most likely a really shitty shot.Huh. I know a good Yugo SKS can compete accuracy-wise with an AR-15 while simultaneously delivering a round with considerably more punch, but I'm surprised and impressed that anyone could crank 600-meter accuracy out of a Kalashnikov-based design, since the traditional Soviet-style stamped-receiver design typically isn't reliably accurate beyond 300 meters or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyphre Iredell Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 You don't, it's effective range is 600, so sight apertures are built to the possible max, just like the AR platforms 5.56x45 with an effective range of 800. Doesn't mean any bullet is accurate to that range, there is simply enough energy to penetrate a soft target. Anything beyond 300 has negligible accuracy outside a bolt action with an effective barrel length. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bleac Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 I've seen people hit targets up to 600 meters range with the RK and an AK, myself included pumping down a frame popup target from 550 meters. What Cyphre's saying is correct, though. The bullet will penetrate at that range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollowmenphobia Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Ron, how long would it take for a fortification like this to be built? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bleac Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 Ron, how long would it take for a fortification like this to be built?With the equipment in the video?Two days at most, at a lazy pace. If you're at it for most of the day? A day at most. Depends on the fortifications being built. The most work goes into building the logged trenches, but if you get those pre-built ones it can take less than an hour if you really go at it. Maybe more, maybe less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bleac Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 Shameless double post.Finnish military police in action, these guys are from the Guard Jaeger regiment in Helsinki. I was an MP as well, but in a different regiment and different area:[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgceb9PuW0No, it's not as cool as the video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatalitywolf firehawk Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 how else will they trick people into joining them jobs take for example the assult pioneers they say its some real awsome job but in reality you just dig holes engneers get the fun jobs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
