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PATENT BREAKDOWN: US 4,023,465. INVENTOR: Thomas C. Inskip. WHEN: 1977. STATUS: Expired. Thomas teaches a forced reset trigger for the AK-47. While his main focus is a rather absurd variable rate of fire concept, the core mechanism is a capable three position forced reset trigger. Yes, three position in 1977! The system is similar to the FRT-15, but adds a robust method of selection: See Fig. 5. As the carrier moves rearward a cam surface (dark green) pushes down on the plate (yellow) which in turn forces the tail of the trigger (blue) down, moving the trigger into the reset position. The red part is what we would now call a locking bar, it holds the trigger in the reset position via the pin (orange) until the carrier moves back into battery, the trip surface (third drawing, light green) rotating the locking bar so that it no longer holds the pin. Fig. 6 shows how the plate (yellow) can be rotated to the rear so that it cannot engage the trigger, this prevents the forced reset much like the Super Safeties transverse movement. The patents own words are: "Upon further rearward movement of the carrier 20 as shown in FIG. 5 the cam surface 142 forces the trigger depressor plate 132 down against the upper surfaces of the trigger ribs 44 and 46, thereby causing the trigger 38 and the secondary member 56 to pivot counterclockwise (forwardly) even though the operator's finger may still be exerting pressure on the projection 42." And "The sear 108 remains in the down position until the carrier 20 has moved all the way forward (FIG. 1). The cam surface 104 on the carrier has now engaged the cam surface 102 on the disengagement arm 98 so as to pivot the arm 98, its rod 106 and its sear 108 clockwise to a position in which the sear 108 is out of contact with the sear pin 116.... At this point the operator's finger pressure on the trigger projection 42 may cause the rifle to fire again."

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

@RobProvince It's a 30 minute job when you have all the tools and everything goes well. It's another story when you get halfway through it and realize you're missing something or something completely stripped out.

Pads and disks is like a 30 minute job tops.

@RobProvince I had a place try to charge me $275 for replacing taillight bulbs when it failed state inspection before that reason, I drove to autozone and had it fixed in like fifteen minutes for like 20 bucks and had two bulbs left over.

A US-made Sierra Nevada Corporation AEGIR-W naval drone washed up on Turkey's coast. The 10-meter vessel can reach 25 knots with a 900 km range. Turkish media suggest Ukraine was testing it against Russia.

However, it will look different in the coming hundreds of years 😌

@rpotter_9 @DrewPavlou It's probably native free range idiots being influenced online.

Burning down a factory which was building drones to protect Ukraine because it’s too Zionist for you. TBH there’s no way these operations are not Russian funded.

This is how passenger trains have to operate in frontline regions - with a flatbed car ahead in case of mines, and drivers shielded by additional protective plates and mesh. Russia has been attacking Ukrainian trains a lot recently. 📹: tvoe_rivne / Threads

BREAKING: China has launched flares at a Philippine Coast Guard plane, with Philippine Coast Guard spokesperson Rear Admiral @jaytaryela on board, flying near Mischief Reef in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Philippines. The plane was filming the massive scale of the illegal land reclamation by the Chinese government in the area. China established control there in 1995, initially claiming that it was “only building a shed for fishermen.” Today, they have built artificial islands with a total reclaimed area of 1,379 acres (558 hectares) which they have developed into China’s largest military outpost in the South China Sea, featuring runways, hangars, radar systems and air defense systems. In 2016, the United Nations arbitral tribunal ruling (Philippines v. China) under UNCLOS declared that Mischief Reef is falls within the Philippines’ EEZ and that China’s claims and activities there violate Philippine rights. China rejected the ruling. The reef lies only 120 nautical miles from the Philippines and is more than 600 nautical miles away from China. China continues is aggression and land theft from the Philippines under its “ten-dash line” lie 🇨🇳🇵🇭

Fighterbomber now says another Ka-52 has been lost.

Mogged — and at $112 million less 🇨🇦🥱

@RhodGuard @radioactivered You understand that all the radioactive material was always going to release all that radiation on earth to begin witw, right?

@radioactivered Plus the risk of polluting ground water still exists. Anyway, you keep simping and bootlicking for a dying energy source. I'm not gonna see it again anyway.

Uhhhhh, not exactly….using your own example here, if each batch of nuclear waste is only dangerous for 100 years, older waste would still eventually become safe.Continuous production means there will always be some active waste that still needs containment, so management would be ongoing. However, if you were to compare that to other energy sources, nuclear waste is still easier to manage because it’s produced in small volumes, highly concentrated and securely stored UNLIKE fossil fuel waste, which is massive, dispersed and largely uncontrolled. Also, the cost of building nuclear plants is separate and doesn’t affect how long the waste stays hazardous, I didn’t “forget” anything regarding that, it was not the topic. 😊☢️

@KrypTanko What did you say?

When I go into my basement to issue orders to my 500 goblins.

In order to own a NY-compliant AR-15 in Nassau County, applicants must submit: Photo ID Birth certificate or passport Naturalization papers (if born outside the US) Passport-size photos Additional proof of residence $200 (cash not accepted) Fingerprints Character references

"Now do the USS Liberty." Every time Israel comes up, someone mentions the USS Liberty. Hey, even when Israel is not the topic, people bring it up. A lot of folks see it as some kind of ace-in-the-hole that proves without a shadow of a doubt that Israel is a raging enemy of the United States. So, yeah, let's talk about the USS Liberty. The USS Liberty was a US Navy technical research ship, which was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea near the Sinai Peninsula on June 8, 1967, two days after the start of the Six-Day War, in which Israel was attacked by a coalition of Arab states including Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon (so all of its neighbors). It was mistakenly attacked by Israeli forces, which mistook it for an enemy Egyptian ship. The attack resulted significant casualties for the US Navy, including 34 killed, 171 wounded, and the ship heavily damaged. Here's the story: Several days BEFORE the war started, the Liberty was ordered to proceed to the eastern Mediterranean to perform signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection in international waters near the north coast of Sinai, Egypt. They were initially provided an allowable closest point of approach (CPA) of 12.5 nautical miles (NM) from Egypt and 6.5 NM from Israel, but once the war started they sent follow-on messages increasing those distances to 20 and 15 NM respectively, and again later to 100 NM from both countries, BUT DUE TO INEFFECTIVE MESSAGE HANDLING AND ROUTING, THESE MESSAGES WERE NOT RECEIVED UNTIL AFTER THE ATTACK. So, the USS Liberty sailed right into the middle of a heavy, active war zone because of poor communication. This was a critical, deadly mistake, leading to the opportunity for further mistakes. Between 0545 and 0940 the Liberty was spotted multiple times by different Israeli aircraft, and was marked on the Israeli Central Coastal Command (CCC) control table. However, the Liberty was on the move, and at 0545 it had started at 70 NM from Gaza, and later it was about 20 NM from Arish (on the northern coast of Sinai). With the movement of the vessel, and multiple hours without any sighting, it was removed from the CCC control board 1100 due to the positional information being considered out of date. At 1124 it was reported that Arish was being shelled from the sea. This may have been due to exploding munitions that Egyptian forces had set on fire during their retreat. Israeli torpedo boats and aircraft were dispatched to the area. Multiple reports were sent back about the Liberty, and it was unfortunately not identified as a US vessel at that time, and there were reports about other vessels coming through at the same time, which may have also been mixed up with reports about the Liberty. Based on the available information, Israeli forces believed the USS Liberty was an Egyptian destroyer. At 1400 two Israeli Mirage III fighter jets were given permission to engage. They strafed the ship with their 30-mm cannons and rockets. In addition to killing as many as 8, and wounding 75, this initial attack unfortunately severed the ships antennas, and knocked down the flag, making accurate identification of the ship even less likely, and slowing the ability of the ship to communicate. Over the proceeding 90 minutes there were several more attacks from the air and sea, resulting in significant damage to the Liberty and its crew, before the ship was positively identified as the USS Liberty at 1530. At 1600, two hours after the attack started, and 30 minutes after its conclusion, Israel informed the US embassy in Tel Aviv that its forces had mistakenly attacked a US Navy ship. At 1640 the Israeli torpedo boats (which had been involved in the attack) returned to help, but were refused. Later Israel also provided a helicopter to fly US naval attache Commander Ernest Carl Castle to the Liberty. Within hours apologies were sent by Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and charge d'affaires Ephraim Evron to President LBJ. Within 48 hours Israel offered to financially compensate the victims and their families. This was a tragic incident of friendly fire, which is unfortunately all-too-common in war. Some have suggested over the years that it was an intentional attack by Israel, but there's simply not evidence to support that position, while there is significant evidence to the contrary: - As soon as Israeli forces positively identified the Liberty, they ceased the attack, and immediately apologized - Both the US and Israel conducted investigations afterwards concluded the attacks were not intentional - NSA transcripts later showed that the Israeli personnel communicating about the ship believed it was Egyptian - The attack happened while Israel was being attacked by multiple enemies, and was literally defending its very existence, which meant decisions had to be made quickly without all of the available information One point some have made is that survivors of the attack felt like it was intentional. And that's their prerogative. Getting shot at doesn't feel good. It feels intentional, whether it is or not. In the instance where the USS Liberty was getting shot at, at that point it was intentional in the sense that the Israeli forces did not know they were American, but believing them to be Egyptian, they were trying to kill them. But the fact is, many people who experience friendly fire report feeling it is intentional. And as I mentioned previously, friendly fire events are all-too-common. Here are just a few you might not be aware of: 1. Operation Cobra, Normandy, July 25, 1944 (World War II) - USAAF Eighth Air Force bombers mistakenly bombed US positions near Saint-Lo, France, killing 111, and wounding 490. 2. Gulf War, February 26-27, 1991 (Operation Desert Storm) - Multiple friendly fire incidents occurred resulting 35 Americans killed, 9 British killed, and 72 Americans/22 British wounded across 17 ground and 10 air incidents. One notable incident involved a US A-10 firing Maverick missiles on British armored vehicles. 3. Sicily Campaign, July 11, 1943 (World War II) - US anti-aircraft gunners fired on a formation of US C-47 transport planes carrying paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, downing several aircraft, and killing between 23 and 37 troops (estimates vary), and wounding at least 60. War is Hell, and friendly fire is part of that Hell. Multiple errors led to the USS Liberty being attacked, but the biggest was the failure in communication that resulted in the Liberty sailing right into the middle of an active warzone. That error cannot be underplayed. However, the USS Liberty incident is a far cry from the "headshot" argument for why Israel is an evil enemy of the United States. Using it as such as frankly childish. It's baseless. And it's quite easily refuted if you simply look at what happened and weigh the evidence rationally. Haters will read this and call me a "Zionist Shill" who "got the phone call" and on, and on, and on, but the truth is I just care about the truth. And no amount of baseless insults will ever change that. SOLI DEO GLORIA

>Submits an AI-written draft order to the trial court with 5 fake cases. >Unhesitatingly lies about it on camera before the state supreme court. >When caught, pretends not to have any idea what the judge is talking about. The next step will be blaming a law clerk.

I’m convinced the US Solved most of the air defense issues back in the 80s/90s then proceeded to completely scrap the projects. Here’s a good example a $30,000 fiber optic interceptor , would have been great for destroying Shahed drones, called the FOG-M