New Israeli-American gun fires around corners

I have pictures but I don't know how to post them on FR.

Right-click on the pics and paste the properties.

Cool. A gun with a color camera instead of a scope. That will really help paint a bulls-eye on a target.

What in the property window do I copy n' paste?

Right click on the image and choose properties. On the box that pops up, you will see Address (URL). Just like a web page, an image is nothing more than a file located on a hard drive somewhere. This is the pathway/address of that file. Copy everything beginning with http://www to the end of the pathway, probably .jpg or .gif

After you've got that, you need to create an html command. Within html brackets type

IMG SRC="and here insert what you have copied"

Note, include the quotation marks as well.

If you have trouble with the html part, just paste the Address/URL of the image into a reply and I'll post it for ya ;-)

Thanks for the reply and your patience. I now understand how to post images from the net.

However, these great pics of mine are on my local harddrive, not on a website.

Ahhh. Well, that is a problem. If you have an account somewhere that allows you to host pictures, then we can do something about this but failing that...

American-Israeli invention ping. Wonder if this means the palis will learn how to throw stones with a curve and become a new recruiting ground for the MLB franchises?

Old stuff:- 7.92 x 33mm German MP44 assault rifle with curved barrel attachment.

From http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/exhibits/ex-corner.htm

On display in our Second World War gallery, this rifle is the subject of frequent enquiries. Many people have expressed surprise or disbelief that a firearm can be made to shoot around corners; yet this is precisely what the curved barrel attachment enables this weapon to do.

The attachment was the fruit of experiments, carried out in Germany during the early 1940s, with the object of providing a device which would enable troops to shoot from behind cover, without exposing themselves to enemy fire. Various deflecting troughs and curved barrels were tried with a number of infantry weapons, before the combination which we have on display was arrived at. The relatively short bullet fired by the MP44 made it particularly suitable for this rôle. The attachment deflects the flight of the bullet through 30 degrees and, with the aid of the prismatic sight which is fitted, a reasonable degree of accuracy can be attained.

A further version of the device was developed which deflected the bullet through 90 degrees. This was intended for use as a close-defence weapon by armoured vehicle crews; however it was found that bullets fired through it generally fragmented due to the stresses involved.

The curved barrel device has proved something of a technological dead-end. By contrast, the rifle itself was of fundamental importance in the development of modern military firearms, being the first "assault rifle" to see widespread use. The assault rifle concept grew from a realization that the ammunition fired by conventional rifles was too powerful for normal combat use. It could kill at over 2000 metres, but First World War experience showed that infantry firefights seldom occurred at ranges in excess of 400 metres. Consequently it was perceived that smaller and less powerful cartridges could be used. Although such thinking was current in several countries, Germany was the first to put it into practical effect.

Using a shortened version of the standard rifle cartridge, the German assault rifle was able to deliver controllable fully-automatic fire against close-range targets, while still offering the possibility of accurate aimed fire out to all normal combat ranges. This development revolutionized the infantryman's armament, rendering conventional rifles and submachine-guns obsolescent. The concept was soon taken up by other nations, most notably by the Soviet Union with the famous Kalashnikov Avtomat (AK47). Assault rifles are now standard equipment in armies throughout the world.

CORNER SHOT™ - 'MAKES TIGHT CORNERS AN ADVANTAGE™'

HOLY CRAP!

Thanks!

I hear that soon, the BULLETS will cruise in an arc. The tip slightly bends and makes the bullet fly around a corner at a wide angle.

I hear that soon, the BULLETS will cruise in an arc. The tip slightly bends and makes the bullet fly around a corner at a wide angle

Well, the M29 will fire a 20mm air-burst round, equipped, I believe, with a laser rangefinder, essentially the same thing.

High Explosive 20mm round with illustration of the internal circuitry necessary for distance programmable detonation.

Dang. It is a good thing that the good guys have these weapons....

Who said that the ones with these weapons are the good guys?

Eric Fox
Falun Dafa Organization