https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/fn-herstal-acquires-accuracy-international-44828614Thoughts on how the b*lgians now have the rights to the greatest sniper rifle ever invented?
>keymod in 2026
>>65190472Outside of just the sniper rifles it means than FN now have more manufacturing facilities in the UK which are a requirement for project Grayburn so could see them making the SCAR here if that gets selected.
>>65190472>Thoughts on how the b*lgians now have the rights to the greatest sniper rifle ever invented?That's not how you spell Seekins interchangeable caliber rifle currently for Delta force with high pressure ammo. Accuracy International doesn't even make carbon fiber barrels.
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>>65190621>>65190626Sneedkins
>>65190621>Accuracy International doesn't even make carbon fiber barrels.Great. Carbon fiber barrels are for hunters and target shooters that only ever do cold-bore shots. They are absolutely useless for the military, police agencies, etc.
>>65191353why would anyone want the most rigid barrel for a given weight i guess SOCOM is retarded and should have asked your opinion
>>65191353Wait, do you think military and police snipers are doing sustained fire with their precision rifles? Do you think they're just sailing That might be the dumbest thing I've read on here in a long time.
>>65191398>do you think military and police snipers are doing sustained fireDo you think the situation would never come up, so it shouldn't be prepared for? Before Chris Kyle was lying about being involved in Katrina, one of the things that made him famous was his involvement in Fallujah, where he was doing sustained fire with his precision rifle. Multiple ASI B4, MOS 0317, and NEC 5326 had to shoot their rifles a whole lot in those battles.
how many guys in the shed does this put them at now?
>>65191397carbon fibre has a catastrophic failure state added to which flaws and damage are typically impossible to detect. carbon fibre air tanks are often used with hazmat suits because they're light, but if they take any sort of impact then you usually discard them. or at least you should.
>>65190472Sako is better
>>65190570fpbp
>>65191942show me a single failure of a competition carbon fiber barrel. You are stupid, dont understand how carbon fiber wrapped barrels work and extrapolating from air tanks that hold pressure. Carbon wrapped barrels can fire and work if you cut all the carbon off the barrel its for stiffness and weight reduction retard.
>>65192615Maybe look up how often carbon overwrapped pressure vessels lead to massive rocket explosions and realise why relying on this not to blow up in your face after extended field use might be a bad idea.
>>65192630HOLY FUCK YOU ARE A RETARD
>>65192635Because a gun barrel is in fact also a pressure vessel retard.
>>65192636Dumb fuck the stainless steel holds all the pressure you dense retard. You get a stiffer lighter barrel with carbon fiber reinforcement which is what any sniper wants. Are you too stupid to understand its not being subjected to tens of thousands of psi.
>>65192642Can you tell me where the weight reduction is coming from?
>>65192643replacing thickness of stainless steel that only functions to reduce barrel whip and increase accuracy with carbon fiber to do the same job but lighter. Do i have to spoon feed you retard? What part of not a pressure vessel do you not understand
>>65192648So how it is that they can get away with using less steel in the barrel?
>>65192648I'll answer that for you. They can get away with a thinner barrel that would otherwise compromise its ability to hold pressure because it is wrapped in carbon fibre. The thing about carbon fibre though is that while you are right, it is very stiff, it does not stretch well at all. Instead the fibres snap. So over multiple pressure cycles it loses its structural integrity until eventually your pressure vessel fails catastophically.
>>65192671>>65192650NO its a fully functional steel barrel underneath that does not need the carbon fiber to work... Pencil barrels exist but cant be used for long range high precision specifically because of whip, lack of stiffness and thermal dispersion. Carbon is wrapped around a perfectly safe and functioning thinner medium to pencil contour. The carbon wrap is not exposed to any forces or pressure retards.
>>65192684Do you believe that a thinner pipe can hold the same pressure as a thicker one? That something like a coke can be pressurised to over 1000 bar and not rupture?
>>65192688>Most obvious no guns
>>65192688Jesus Christ I'm a Britbong and even I can see you're being blatantly retarded. They make precision barrels thicker to reduce barrel whip, it's not about pressure resistance. You replace the extra steel usually used in a heavy profile barrel with carbon fiber to provide the same benefits for less weight.
>>65193015>They make precision barrels thicker to reduce barrel whip, it's not about pressure resistance.Noted gun autist and US Army Major General Julian S. Hatcher did some practical experiments on this subject.He and his buddies took a standard off-the-shelf M1903 Springfield rifle, chucked it up in a lathe, turned down the outer diameter of the barrel alllll the way back the receiver, then test fired it, and repeated to process until the barrel bust. When the thing finally blew up, they'd removed so much material that the steel around the chamber was only like 2mm thick.For the sake of safety, rifle barrels are absurdly overbuilt around the chamber. The barrels are generally several times thicker in that area than they technically need to be.So yeah, thick-ass bull barrels are about reducing barrel whip and improving barrel harmonics by making the barrel stiffer. Any given commercial rifle barrel is more than strong enough to contain pressures far above the maximum specified pressure for a given cartridge.
