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The top two are airsofts, but I have to admit that the Heckler & Koch rifle elow is just a toy. That is, it makes a noise and shakes, but won't shoot 6mm pellets. For a toy, though, it's not at all bad, is it?
The pistols, shown above, are (Left) a H&K MP 7A1 made by a company called Shuang Ma. It has a working tactical light, and a laser pointer/dazzle light combo that slide onto the Picatinny rails. The sliding stock is released with a button. The magazine also slides out for loading the 6mm pellets. It also has a nifty folding foregrip. In a different photo I show it unfolded along with the extended stock. The MP 7A is what H&K call a Personal Defense Weapon. Small and light-weight, it is essentially a miniature assault rifle with a special all steel, 4.46 round with the muzzle velocity of an M-16 that will penetrate most body armour. Take that, Hit-Girl!
The pistol next to it (Right) is more or less a Rugar M-85 with a lot of bells & whistles. In another photo I show it stripped of the barrel extension, laser pointer, and Tri-Lux style sight. Under all that it's a rather ordinary automatic pistol. The airsoft appears to be made by Double Eagle, who call it an M39 for some reason. The laser pointer works by pressing a touch sensitive bult under the elastic on the hand grip. The sight shows an illuminated cross -- which seems to me to be too bright and too fuzzy. It tends to obscure the target.
The assault rifle below is a H&K G36, a 5.56 mm arm that replaced the older G3. As with the Ruger, it is adorned with a lot of bells and whistles. I show it broken down in a different photo.
The pistols, shown above, are (Left) a H&K MP 7A1 made by a company called Shuang Ma. It has a working tactical light, and a laser pointer/dazzle light combo that slide onto the Picatinny rails. The sliding stock is released with a button. The magazine also slides out for loading the 6mm pellets. It also has a nifty folding foregrip. In a different photo I show it unfolded along with the extended stock. The MP 7A is what H&K call a Personal Defense Weapon. Small and light-weight, it is essentially a miniature assault rifle with a special all steel, 4.46 round with the muzzle velocity of an M-16 that will penetrate most body armour. Take that, Hit-Girl!
The pistol next to it (Right) is more or less a Rugar M-85 with a lot of bells & whistles. In another photo I show it stripped of the barrel extension, laser pointer, and Tri-Lux style sight. Under all that it's a rather ordinary automatic pistol. The airsoft appears to be made by Double Eagle, who call it an M39 for some reason. The laser pointer works by pressing a touch sensitive bult under the elastic on the hand grip. The sight shows an illuminated cross -- which seems to me to be too bright and too fuzzy. It tends to obscure the target.
The assault rifle below is a H&K G36, a 5.56 mm arm that replaced the older G3. As with the Ruger, it is adorned with a lot of bells and whistles. I show it broken down in a different photo.
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It isn't made for potting someone in a trench a quarter of a mile a way. In fact, I gather it's really only meant for protecting yourself,or some head of state, from a maniac rushing you from less than 100 feet. By now there are probably some armour vests that are proof against the 4.6mm round anyway.
Let me put it another way. The 4.6x30mm has 421 Joules of muzzle energy and a cross section of about 16mm^2, the 5.56x45mm has around 1,700J and 25mm^2, the 9x19mm has around 450J and 63mm^2. When you consider that the 4.6mm has less muzzle energy that a 9mm and a smaller cross section than a 5.56mm you can pretty quickly realize it's not a manstopper. (Both the 9mm and 5.56mm have been criticized with that problem, too.)
Add on that the 4.6mm projectile is designed more like a rifle bullet than a pistol bullet, as well as effectively being armor piercing by being copper coated steel, it means at such a low energy it doesn't effectively expand, fragment or even tumble - all of which help amplify the wound channel. (Which is a major part of the 5.56mm's close-in wounding ability.)
Long story short, it's good for poking holes in people and making them bleed, but unless the shots are well placed they're not going to outright stop a determined person.
Add on that the 4.6mm projectile is designed more like a rifle bullet than a pistol bullet, as well as effectively being armor piercing by being copper coated steel, it means at such a low energy it doesn't effectively expand, fragment or even tumble - all of which help amplify the wound channel. (Which is a major part of the 5.56mm's close-in wounding ability.)
Long story short, it's good for poking holes in people and making them bleed, but unless the shots are well placed they're not going to outright stop a determined person.
My information was based on an article in Wikipedia, mainly. It wouldn't be the first time misinformation was available there, but its not a subject I've gone into very deeply since practical experience is often more important than what you read, and practical experience in the use of exotic firearms is not something I'm likely to come by.
A small round, to have the same stopping power of a round twice its weight, needs a muzzle velocity that is square-root of 2 times the volocity of the heavier round, that much I know. Then, of course, there are matters of air resistence cutting down range faster with the lighter round. As I recall, the argument behind the M-16's 5.56mm round was that, though it was lighter, the large propellant charge would send it much faster, and give it the same momentum of the old NATO 7.76 round. The drawback was that the M-16 wouldn't be as effective at long range. The 5.56 round was anyway, so I suppose it all depends on what you want to use the gun for.
A small round, to have the same stopping power of a round twice its weight, needs a muzzle velocity that is square-root of 2 times the volocity of the heavier round, that much I know. Then, of course, there are matters of air resistence cutting down range faster with the lighter round. As I recall, the argument behind the M-16's 5.56mm round was that, though it was lighter, the large propellant charge would send it much faster, and give it the same momentum of the old NATO 7.76 round. The drawback was that the M-16 wouldn't be as effective at long range. The 5.56 round was anyway, so I suppose it all depends on what you want to use the gun for.
I got the raw numbers from Wikipedia, it's a great place for stuff like that, but like you said it's full of rumor and misinformation. Basically if you're reading a Wikipedia article and it contradicts a source you saw elsewhere and that other source is more reputable go with the other one (and if you like edit Wikipedia to reflect it).
Well these days they're finding the 5.56mm has good stopping power at close range (like CQB) but at longer ranges it fails to stop. Though it's also due to the fact the Army is using the M4 with a shorter barrel vs the M16 that has a longer barrel which allows a higher muzzle velocity.
It's worth noting that bullets have crap momentum (mass x velocity) but amazing energy (mass x velocity^2) / 2 which means, among other things, that a bullet, even a shotgun slug, is very unlikely to throw someone around like Hollywood likes to do. (There's this little thing call Newton's Third Law which says if the person hit by the bullet flies back 20 feet so would the person holding the gun.)
Well these days they're finding the 5.56mm has good stopping power at close range (like CQB) but at longer ranges it fails to stop. Though it's also due to the fact the Army is using the M4 with a shorter barrel vs the M16 that has a longer barrel which allows a higher muzzle velocity.
It's worth noting that bullets have crap momentum (mass x velocity) but amazing energy (mass x velocity^2) / 2 which means, among other things, that a bullet, even a shotgun slug, is very unlikely to throw someone around like Hollywood likes to do. (There's this little thing call Newton's Third Law which says if the person hit by the bullet flies back 20 feet so would the person holding the gun.)
Little things have tipped me off not to trust Hollywood. One of them is that the thrwon-backwards effect only appeared in movies rather suddenly, a few years ago. No doubt it will disappear just as suddenly someday. Whether or ot a bullet has the momentum to knock someone off their feet, there is no time for the kinetic energy to be spread out that way. The bullet punches a hole through the soft tissues instead.
When I first saw the box in a store window, I walked right by. I thought it was some sort of K-Tel tone arm/record cleaner combination. It took going by it three or four times before I was curious enough to look closely, and then go in to ask how much it was. Under $20 as I recall. Although all plastic, it does shoot little yellow balls at a velocity high enough to pierce paper.
The one below it was even cheaper. About $12 as I recall... but it's entirely plastic and not remotely as real looking as the MP7. Actually, I don't even like that H&K much... its the ugliest toy gun in my collection, in my opinion. I don't know why -- there's nothing exceptional about it. Maybe because it lacks any strong character of it's own. The MP5's are uglier... but in a way that's distinctive and interesting. This one is a rifle you'd see in a comic book, drawn by someone who didn't know any in particular.
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