Sipsey Street Irregulars: Praxis developments: Lightweight ammo cans; a South African 20mm rifle and militarizing your dog.

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Praxis developments: Lightweight ammo cans; a South African 20mm rifle and militarizing your dog.

You gotta hand it to the inventive Danes -- "New LWAC Ammunition Case Heralds Revolution In Military Ammunition Resupply."

A recently tested lightweight small arms ammunition case is on display on the PPD stand, S7-261, during DSEI. Utilising composite materials and innovative design it reduces the weight of a standard NATO ammunition case by 70% and increases the number of rounds that can be carried on a standard NATO pallet by 10%. . .

PPD’s LWAC can be safely packed and stowed with no requirement for modification to platforms, stowage systems or weapon mounts. Different colours can be incorporated into the composite LWAC case to signifying the type of ammunition within it, blue= training, green=operational etc. As the LWAC cases can be made transparent, still with the colouring pigment, the number of rounds can be counted without having to open the case saving time during stock checks. An RFID tag can be built it allowing each case, its content and its movement to be tracked from the moment the LWAC case is made to the moment it comes out of service.

And if you pick up one of these on the battlefield, you'll need those light weight ammo cans: From South Africa comes the iKUNZI PAW 20. The semiauto Personal Area Weapon fires 20mm x 42B ammunition from a Four round box magazine at a range out to 1000m. It’s no lightweight, coming in at 6.8kg.

And if you want to militarize your dog, there's the LBT-1608K-9 Tactical K-9 Harness.

7 comments:

oughtsix said...: According to the LEO current standard SOP, you had better body armor your dog... and train him to bite first and bark later.

Man kills my dog better kill me too... if he can.; September 20, 2015 at 1:24 AM
Anonymous said...: Hum, a hand held 20mm weapon..that would make a nice addition to anyone's gun cabinet..; September 20, 2015 at 5:06 AM
Anonymous said...: My German Shepherd would just dive into and cavort about in the first creek along the path, happily ignoring the dictum about keeping your powder dry. I think he'd stay home to protect my lovely bride, a role for which he is deadly earnest.; September 20, 2015 at 6:03 AM
Anonymous said...: Why DoD insists on using steel and not at least shift to a tempered aluminum for ammo cans, etc. is unfathomable. The weight savings for that alone would be significant while maintaining perfect seals. Moisture (and heat) kills ammo. All polymers are porous, some more than others, depending on the exact polymer chain(s) employed. Witness your typical 'plastic' HDPE gasoline containers-they are porous enough that moisture is absorbed through the plastic into the gasoline/gasohol. Gotta wonder if these blokes took this into consideration or are just ignoring it in the name of cost and weight reduction?
Bob Cat; September 20, 2015 at 8:13 AM
Moe Death said...: Domino got really excited by combat harness for dogs story, but she wanted to know where the pouch that carries the Chicky Stix and Bushmills was.

That dog is always thinking...

Bill and Domino
III; September 20, 2015 at 9:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Screw that...I'm militarizing my cats ! We'll see who freaking wins that. Now, only if the cats want to do anything....; September 20, 2015 at 1:46 PM
Anonymous said...: a load distribution vest on a dog these days needs to be a plate carrier.

and possibly fitted with a remote controlled weapon of some sort .
with the total disregard for life these days and the amount of dogs MURDERED by cops , we should balance the playing field a bit more , suit up our 4 legged friends to deal with the known threat these thugs present to our families protectors; September 21, 2015 at 8:19 AM

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