/AKM/ - Guns, weapons and the art of war.

what are some alternative methods to using expensive machinery for making steel parts?

so far i've only found this for barrels

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/08/13/make-a-factory-quality-9mm-rifled-barrel-in-your-kitchen-using-salt-water-and-electricity-ecm

not sure how far printing molds and then casting is useful when building something for a weapon but yeah.

>>5954

this, but how does someone build a workshop from scratch for this? machinery is expensive and if you want something that doesn't blow up on you after a bit there might be better ways than roughing it with power tools.

mostly thinking about that electromachining technique but for let's say we find something for receivers and whatnot

i can live with 3D printers just being useful for furniture and magazines maybe sights, i wonder if you could make your own sight with it.

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Basics of metallurgy.
Use Chrome Moly Vanadium or 416R stainless for barrels.

>>5963
>this, but how does someone build a workshop from scratch for this? machinery is expensive and if you want something that doesn't blow up on you after a bit there might be better ways than roughing it with power tools.

It's not as difficult as you'd think. Just pick a simple design and buy steel tubing and whatever other materials you need and manufacture all the individual parts one by one. You might start with the barrel, that being the most important part and the trickiest, particularly if you want rifling, but even that is doable with some pretty basic tools; see video. I don't know what the laws are about this outside of the US, but in the US you can legally make firearms at home for personal use, you just can't sell them or distribute them without a license.

It will probably take some trial and error and experimentation; you'd need to set up a test firing range a safe area where you clamp your gun down to a stable surface aimed in a safe direction and test fire it by pulling a string to actuate the trigger while standing very far away or behind some kind of barricade. It might be good to start off with something very simple, like a single-shot gun or even a black powder muzzleloader gun, before attempting something more complex. Just be prepared to spend a lot of money on ammunition for all the test firing you'll have to do.

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Tbh there's better options in the form of airgun, airbow, or using black powder/antique.

>>5712
I disagree as crossbows tend to be deadlier than any kind of airgun at the same price.

I feel like for the risk involved trying to defend yourself from an intruder in the best case scenario with a crossbow and how houses are built in countries with such gun laws, investing in a 3D printer and learning chemistry might be your best shot…

at least that's what i thought but my father saw a mile away what i wanted a 3D printed for and prohibited me from printing guns… he didn't say anything about AP mines tho

Want a gun but its impossible to get a gun license in your country? 3D print one brother

>>5836
You wont be able to get ammo, genius.
I guess that's not a problem if you just want a gun, but you cannot even go and shoot cans in the woods or anything. might as well make a slingshot tbh.

>>5869
why dont you reccomend some reading meterials then?

>>5871
Not OP but I recomend these. Please share anything else too if you guys have it since this is a basic rec list
On War by Carl von Clauswitz
US Army guerilla warfare manual and related manuals (urban warfare, counter guerrilla, etc.)

>Would metal gears actually be good weapons?
If they worked yes, kind of 4 or 6 legs is better
The height compared to a tank however is a major issue
Also they'd be very expensive to make
>If so, why haven’t they been made yet?
See above
>CAN they be made?
Maybe China in 5 years but see above

There's little practical benefit to legged vehicles over wheels/tracks. It would be no better at traversing rough terrain; if anything it would be worse, tripping and falling down hills and getting caught in trees and shit.

the mech is for anime bullshit coolness. irl we have nuclear-armed submarines that serve the same purpose

Any Metal Gear is going to be a jack of all trades master of none, especially in the mobility department. The two things it does best are things we have cheaper, more reliable alternatives for: Taking out hard targets like bunkers and emplacements can be done by attack aircraft, armored vehicles, and artillery without all the baggage that comes with nuclear capability. For warhead delivery we already have picrel. It's also so big that it could be pretty easily destroyed by laser-guided bombs, ATGMs, and big guns.

Shagohod is the only one I think could be made currently, but it would probably be too heavy to move over difficult terrain, it would also break down fairly often, as most complex weapon systems do, and again, it could be pretty easily identified and killed from the air and ground. Bipedal technology just isn't there yet even for a hypothetical.

Rapidly deployable nuclear weapons are something we've had figured out since the 50's. The Metal Gears were designed from the start as an allegory for those existing systems.

If you count the metal gears like Arsenal Gear and the Shagohod I can see those having some kind of real world applications. The walker gears also since they're infantry platforms that have the benefit of treads and legs for movement.

>>5909
it depends, if any of those designs (specially the geran copy) can use starlink or some other satellite Internet connection, then they are fundamentally different technologies. a low-cost, mass produced geran with an unjammable internet connection would be the perfect weapon for industrial warfare because it could easily counteract the logistical infrastructure of regular armies

american media likes to fear-monger about an impending prc invasion of the roc, which is extremely unlikely, but even if it were to happen, the prc would probably wait until completing their satellite constellations which are planned to support this type of weaponry

>>5910
why would satellite connection be unjammable ? GPS get jammed all the time

>>5910
>unjammable internet connection
>Unjammable anything
Well yeah that's how we ended up with glass fiber stuff. If it uses radio waves, it can probably be jammed.

Cheapening of AI and sensors for low cost drones which could guide themselves to targets and act with some autonomy after the point where jamming is expected. Recognizing landmarks and targets along with inertial navigation and no need for remote guidance.

>>5911
for a number of reasons, the most important of which is distance. gps gets not only jammed, but also spoofed (not only is the signal from the satellite interrupted, but it is replaced with a fake signal) because gps reception is passive, unidirectional, and analogical - the technical details make it extremely easy to interfere

>>5912
>If it uses radio waves, it can probably be jammed.
truism with no content. if you jam a fpv drone 30 meters away from a moving target, that's a problem. if you jam a geran-like long-range loitering munition 30 meters away from it's static target (once it is already diving in) it literally doesn't matter. there is a reason why ukraine uses those heavy bomber drones (that can carry both the ordinance and the antenna) and why they use them at relatively high altitudes (>100 mts) and why the videos you get from those are in 1080p while the russian single use fpv drones use 360p analog tv signal and still get partially jammed during the final approach: one platform is using satellite internet, the other is not. the underdog trick against that asymmetry is the fiber drones you mention, but that doesn't scale for things like gerans

>>5910
Pretty sure Gerans already use a satellite connection for guidance. Not that it matters much once the terminal AI guidance develops more. They generally strike static targets so they can just fly to the general area using an initially set distance/direction when launched then fly the last km or two to a pre-specified target with AI guidance.

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