Parakeetman
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Those protectors they wear around their necks to absorb shock and inflate reminds me of an actual product a buddy of mine used to work with the company that produced it here in Japan for bike riders. Was a motorcycle jacket that would inflate around the neck like that. Though the way it worked was a bit odd since it would activate if the safety wire got detached from its hardpoint due to the rider being separated from his bike.
There is all sorts of different stuff like that out there, just that this particular one I saw was made in Japan. They also had vests for horse riding that did the same thing.
Used co2 carts to inflate the protective sections.
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While I know this is just an anime and what nots am just writing this for my own personal amusement as noticed it while watching.
On another topic that I found odd is looking at the weapon systems that they are using in the series. No idea what the rifle is actually called, unless in the first episode they mentioned it and I missed it? Anyways that small bullpup rifle they use it looks as if it would use large sized rounds for it judging from the magazine and where the size of the port where the rounds feed into the rifle you would imagine that its firing some pretty large rounds. Would have guessed the magazine held around 20 rounds if we went by an imaginary size of said round from feed port and mag size with the thought that the mag is a double stack type of configuration.
Now comes the next part when you see it being fired and the casings flying out makes it look like its using ammunition for small caliber rounds and not rifle rounds. Which goes against the general look of the design and mechanics present. Some real rough calculations based off of estimates if the shipping containers were of standard measurements that the bullet (head once its separated from the casing) itself is around 7.4 inches~ 18.8cm~ rounded up. Which does not give it that large of a size when put into consideration the scale of the weapon its being fired from. Granted that the main character said the heads were being melted slightly still the general shape shown looks far more like pistol type of ammunition which appears "stubby" instead of actual rifle rounds which are more "pointed" in appearance so to speak. Even then with the slight melting of said rounds being fired taken into consideration does not really change the size all that much and as mentioned the casings give it the appearance of pistol type of ammunition. You would expect them to be using ammo meant to defeat armor which would lead the design to be closer to rifle ammunition. Even if there are HE rounds as the show states still the design would have to be the same as the AP ones for the most part as any major deviation from the actual design itself in terms of shape would effect aerodynamics and accuracy.
Basically what this looks like to me is trying to use a SMG that fires something along the lines of 9mm or .45 ACP to try and defeat body armor with... Since these weapons were supposed to be designed to defeat the Martian Cataphracts, seems a bit odd that the ammunition being fired from what seems to be the standard issue battle rifles to be so small. Guess that explains why they got their asses handed to them lol
The following images below are in order of evidence that support this observation. Areas with the white square around it shows what to take notice of in images below.
Next issue is the placement of the under-barrel grenade launcher.
Granted the launcher tube is not directly attached under the barrel as there is a buffer piece in between the launcher tube and muzzle of the weapon, still there would be a lot of heat generated from prolonged fire, which has been shown on multiple occasions with the show itself. Taking into consideration with the small size of the rounds itself from the topic discussed above this section the weapon was meant to be constantly fired in full auto.
The issue here is that the muzzle blast overpressure will cause stress and heat buildup on the buffer attachment between the weapon system and launcher tube. If prolonged fire is continued potential heat could be generated down towards the actual tube itself causing a malfunction with the launcher itself. Considering too that the grenades are pretty much inside of the launcher tube right under where the muzzle is with just the buffer part in between Id say heat build up would be an actual concern. On top of damage already caused to the buffer point of the weapon system from the overpressure from the muzzle blast. Seeing how its a "break-action" type of design with how its loaded means smaller parts for the hinges and locking points. Not exactly the kind of thing that you would want to be taking constant unnecessary stress.
This is an actual studied subject when it comes to weapon systems. Granted this is for a vehicle, the same general principals remain and what would be realistically considered when designing a weapon system for combat use.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a198199.pdf
Provided below is just 2 simple screenshots showing the issue discussed.
And this concludes the random post for the night caused by extreme boredom and inability to sleep.
There is all sorts of different stuff like that out there, just that this particular one I saw was made in Japan. They also had vests for horse riding that did the same thing.
Used co2 carts to inflate the protective sections.
---
While I know this is just an anime and what nots am just writing this for my own personal amusement as noticed it while watching.
On another topic that I found odd is looking at the weapon systems that they are using in the series. No idea what the rifle is actually called, unless in the first episode they mentioned it and I missed it? Anyways that small bullpup rifle they use it looks as if it would use large sized rounds for it judging from the magazine and where the size of the port where the rounds feed into the rifle you would imagine that its firing some pretty large rounds. Would have guessed the magazine held around 20 rounds if we went by an imaginary size of said round from feed port and mag size with the thought that the mag is a double stack type of configuration.
Now comes the next part when you see it being fired and the casings flying out makes it look like its using ammunition for small caliber rounds and not rifle rounds. Which goes against the general look of the design and mechanics present. Some real rough calculations based off of estimates if the shipping containers were of standard measurements that the bullet (head once its separated from the casing) itself is around 7.4 inches~ 18.8cm~ rounded up. Which does not give it that large of a size when put into consideration the scale of the weapon its being fired from. Granted that the main character said the heads were being melted slightly still the general shape shown looks far more like pistol type of ammunition which appears "stubby" instead of actual rifle rounds which are more "pointed" in appearance so to speak. Even then with the slight melting of said rounds being fired taken into consideration does not really change the size all that much and as mentioned the casings give it the appearance of pistol type of ammunition. You would expect them to be using ammo meant to defeat armor which would lead the design to be closer to rifle ammunition. Even if there are HE rounds as the show states still the design would have to be the same as the AP ones for the most part as any major deviation from the actual design itself in terms of shape would effect aerodynamics and accuracy.
Basically what this looks like to me is trying to use a SMG that fires something along the lines of 9mm or .45 ACP to try and defeat body armor with... Since these weapons were supposed to be designed to defeat the Martian Cataphracts, seems a bit odd that the ammunition being fired from what seems to be the standard issue battle rifles to be so small. Guess that explains why they got their asses handed to them lol
The following images below are in order of evidence that support this observation. Areas with the white square around it shows what to take notice of in images below.
Next issue is the placement of the under-barrel grenade launcher.
Granted the launcher tube is not directly attached under the barrel as there is a buffer piece in between the launcher tube and muzzle of the weapon, still there would be a lot of heat generated from prolonged fire, which has been shown on multiple occasions with the show itself. Taking into consideration with the small size of the rounds itself from the topic discussed above this section the weapon was meant to be constantly fired in full auto.
The issue here is that the muzzle blast overpressure will cause stress and heat buildup on the buffer attachment between the weapon system and launcher tube. If prolonged fire is continued potential heat could be generated down towards the actual tube itself causing a malfunction with the launcher itself. Considering too that the grenades are pretty much inside of the launcher tube right under where the muzzle is with just the buffer part in between Id say heat build up would be an actual concern. On top of damage already caused to the buffer point of the weapon system from the overpressure from the muzzle blast. Seeing how its a "break-action" type of design with how its loaded means smaller parts for the hinges and locking points. Not exactly the kind of thing that you would want to be taking constant unnecessary stress.
This is an actual studied subject when it comes to weapon systems. Granted this is for a vehicle, the same general principals remain and what would be realistically considered when designing a weapon system for combat use.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a198199.pdf
Provided below is just 2 simple screenshots showing the issue discussed.
And this concludes the random post for the night caused by extreme boredom and inability to sleep.
