Could an AR-10 reliably and effectively be built similarly to the "RPK" style of AR-15 builds, to serve in a heavier automatic rifleman/machinegunner role?
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Could an AR-10 reliably and effectively be built similarly to the "RPK" style of AR-15 builds, to serve in a heavier automatic rifleman/machinegunner role?
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>AR-RPK 5.56/.223
Just get a bipod, 16" or more barrel, scope+dot combo and done
What stock?
Actually what build?
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If I was making an AR-PK74, I'd ensure I used a heavy barrel and piston upper. Especially if it was full auto, don't want no melty gas tube/direct impingement to ruin the fun.
rpk isn't a battle rifle caliber tho
oh shit im drunk
just find the heaviest profile ar10 barrel you can and a big drum like a xproducts, that's about it
>heaviest profile ar10 barrel
Its not fun if you want to hold it for more than a minute
yeah but it's for a purpose
The RPK is 7.62x39 like the AKM so get a 20" 556 barrel
t. Owner of a 6.5 mememoor thats super front heavy
>t. Owner of a 6.5 mememoor thats super front heavy
i know this feel, i got the 20in heavy profile barrel for my ar10 and regret that
What's the problem? The thing was originally designed with a 20 inch barrel, you got too much stuff attached to it?
I feel like half the total gun's weight lays in the barrel, I need a tripod for it, good for shooting prone or on a bench but holding it for over a minute gets heavy
Is your stock rather light weight? It's just that I've never read complaints about the actual Armalite AR-10s being front-heavy before and I don't know why modern derivatives of that design would be much different.
The barrel I bought is a heavy profile gunner and yeah its heavy and the whole rifle is 12LB I think
Ribbed for her pleasure
I had this same problem with a 20" hbar. Selling it now. I just built an 18" with a fluted faxon barrel and it is nearly AR-15 weight.
>you got too much stuff attached to it?
i don't have anything attached to it, it's just a bare handguard
consider the idea a cheaper version of an M240 or M60
Yes. Id rather have a G3 or Scar H. The G3 itself had a drum magazine "RPK" variant from the factory with a quick change barrel so it theory the rest of the gun is capable.
This typed out like a no gun did it. What's up with that?
Because you're a closeted noguns tryi g to pass off vidya knowledge as truth. The HK21 and its variants are belt fed and designed as such. Further proof is your feeling no need to specify a variant of the G3, likely because the games you play refer to any variant of that weapon that way but you did, inexplicably, specify which variant of the SCAR you would choose. My guess, again, because the "SCAR H" is an option in one of your games and though you may now recognize it outside those frames of reference, you still add the "H" out of habit because that's the basis of your knowledge. Not being mean, just answering your question.
LMAO
yes, but the AR15 is the RPK equivalent because the RPK is chambered in x39 not x54r. a lower with a heavy stock and binary trigger, either a single 18-20" upper with compensator and red dot or a bunch of cheap shit 20"ers with irons to emulate quick change barrels. bipods, obviously, and drums although im pretty sure the RPK also had mags.
The 7.62x51 NATO or the civilian .308 is historically a common round for serious high capacity belt fed machine guns. A 100 round snail style c-mag in 7.62x51 can deliver the same rounds as belt fed machine guns at high capacity.
The magazine itself can fit snugly in a pouch, and backup magazines can be carried. The rifle itself is ideally outfitted with a bipod and optic. This is more effective than an RPK, but far less expensive than an M240 despite firing the same rounds.
Such a weapon is an alternative to belt fed magazines for high capacity machine guns as a squad role weapon. It is still capable of delivering large amounts of armor piercing ammunition, suppressive fire, and even threatening helicopters.
An AR-15 in 5.56 / .223 with a 100 round "snail" magazine is still comparable to an RPK or high capacity AK magazines, such as the rifles used by the Viet Cong in 7.62x39.
However, a high capacity magazine in 7.62x51 / .308 can deliver the same volume of fire as a 100 round ammo belt for a fully powered cartridge belt fed machine gun, such as in the M240.
It is really the cartridge, more than the AR-10 itself, that presents three advantages:
1. Widely available in many forms for a long time
2. Capable of long range precision shooting with optics
3. Historically proven in high capacity machine guns
The AR-10 is a formidable weapon for both infantry and marksmen, and with a full auto or rapid fire action, as a high capacity machine gun in a squad role.
The AR-15 is comparatively an M1 Carbine, whereas the AR-10 is a fully powered M1 Garand.
are those drums actually reliable enough? I thought they kinda sucked
C-mags are still shit but stoppages arent gonna be your main concern, awful loading and ergonomics are. You'd do better with a couple D-60s.
“ In November 2008, the U.S. Army Experimental Task Force (AETF) at Fort Bliss, Texas, evaluated six Beta C-Mag magazines. Four magazines—two with black covers and two with clear covers—were used with M4 carbines in three firing scenarios: controlled pair, controlled burst, and rapid fire. According to the memorandum summarizing the evaluation, the four magazines "performed flawlessly in all three scenarios without jams or stoppages". Additionally, two magazines with black covers were evaluated with M249 light machine guns in controlled burst and rapid-fire scenarios. These also performed without "issues", according to the memo, which also notes that soldiers "had only positive comments" about the C-Mag magazines during the After Action Review”
Is this AI??
>PrepHoleners can no longer tell the difference between autistic people and robots
>implying there was ever a difference.
There is a reason posters on /PrepHole/ are called robots anon.
mine works fine
>colt modular carbine
so does the 5.56 upper have a pseudo-magwell deal happening inside? or hows that actually work?
it's an insert you put in when you put on a 556 upper. I don't have it as I don't own a 556 upper, I just bought it for full auto 308
Is there a way to make an ar-10 or ar 15 look good? The stock and rifle shroud always look so terrible.
You have one of the better looking ones I've seen.
holy shit my dick
24" barrel????
Yes, from klein machining, chrome lined extra heavy barrel with an rpk bipod.
so sick. love it man don't let anyone tell you it isn't a dope build
Needs a lpvo
>nice
breh
LMG AR thread?
gonna need a source on that bipod chief
It’s an rpk bipod that fits flush and fully swivels on a 24” klein machining hbar upper. I think he sells the barrels standalone but might as well get the entire upper. There’s an aug bipod option too.
nice
v7 inconel gas tube + rifle length buffer tube would be a good start
>inconel gas tube
i feel nothing but pain for the people who have to make those. the factory must have suicide nets on the ground floor
Why?
he's a redditor, he knows nothing of manufacturing and is just trying to sound like he fits in here or has some kind of inside info
Wouldn’t LSW be a better term for these? Like canadian ARs or SA80s
Good place for finned barrels?
Too late for that. UGVs are going to become standard for fire teams and will hold a GPMG or 20-40mm grenade launcher. Probably the latter because targets picked up by drones can have grenades arced into them.
Soldiers will be able to lay down suppressing fire more safely by using their optic fire control system or drone screens to designate targets.
That and IFVs or trailing UGVs will have 60-81mm autonomous mortars for blasting targets IDed by the drone screen, the lighter than air comms/constant surveillance/early warning drones that are up overhead, or by infantry optics.
I wouldn't be surprised if every two fire teams start to have a small third team that sits back and helps run the UGVs, drone, and mortar support, while autonomous field guns can also be towed in for close organic support. Smart shells mean you don't need to volume of ammo that makes it necessary to pool these, while autonomous systems means a small group of men can run multiple systems effectively.
Future warfare is mostly going to be drone screens and rapid fire missions for targets found by then. As interception gets better, we will just move to firing spotters in by artillery, mortars, and missiles. Once a force's interception umbrella is compromised they will begin a retreat because fighting a modern drone force without interception for the highly accurate indirect fire will be suicide.
Ambushes will be conducted from miles away by loitering munitions and buried solar powered ATGM mines that can reach out a few miles against vehicles spotted by small spotters.
Battles will be decided by the micro, mostly autonomous air war that takes place from 50-5,000 feet above the battlefield.
Sounds like a lot of hooplah when any serious engagement will have the side that feels at a disadvantage unleash the biggest motherfucker of an EW emission possible to jam the entire battlefield. Antiradiation missiles can only do so much when every unit in position already got turned into popcorn, the fleshies will have to go in afterwards.
^the beginning of an eventual evolution to the following:
^but just imagine modified Abrams and Bradley and Strikers that have some localized servers to give the general AI enough computing power to do all the tasks necessary for the humanoid like robots.
These will be setup in configurations where there will mostly general A.I. assisted robotic humanoid platoons with a platoon or two including the hq platoon all human.
The future is not developing strictly autonomous systems as that is very short-sighted, developing a weapon that a person cannot weld and I think the pentagon knows this. Many future combat systems will be duel use, human/robotic due to the workforce issue and skill crisis...
There will always be core units that are 100% human and they will be augmented by many many more units worth of this general A.I. humanoids that can be removed and the weapon systems able to be used by human gunners/commanders, etc.
>pic unrelated
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Fight Fightlight MCR belt fed upper. They're not cheap though
The best ar10 lmg build is just gong to just be 2 regular uppers you can swap out when they get too hot.