#fg's enfield

[fox-guardian]

Can we please have an happy Enfield to combat these sad times? Thank you.

A very happy minty boi for you

[melodiouswhite]

Of tragic teenage crushes

This is a request, written for @its-a-dark-place-here . Thank you to @fox-guardian for permitting me to use your Enfield for this.

Warning: Sappiness and swearing (directed to @fox-guardian who doesn’t like strong language)

Edward came home as grumpy as ever.

He had tried to confess his love to Richard Enfield and failed miserably. Instead he had resorted to petty, intellectual insults to keep a face in front of the 26-year-old man.

Dammit, why was it so hard to tell him how he felt?! Why did he always end up being mean to his older crush?!

“Fuck it all”, he muttered and buried his face in the pillow.

There he lay, wallowing in self-pity, until Dr. Henry Jekyll knocked on the door and told him it was dinner time.

They ate in silence, until Henry asked: “Is there something you want to tell me?”

“No.”

“Edward, is it about Enfield? Personally, I think you should leave it be, he is-”

“Shut up!”, the boy snapped. “Jut leave me the fuck alone!”

Henry frowned. “Hey now. Calm down. That's not how you talk to your father-”

“Exactly!!! With my father!!!”, Edward exploded.

How dare that old man! He wasn't his father! His father was dead! Henry was just his godfather. He had taken him in, after his parents' death in a car accident, six years ago.

Henry's face paled and he rushed off, without finishing his dinner. It was only now that Edward realised, that he had gone too far.

Fuck, I really keep dropping bricks today!

On the next afternoon, Edward was sitting on a park bench.

The morning had passed in icy silence, because he had been to cowardly to apologise to Henry. That sucked. Their relationship was awry, but the elder blond was the only family he had. And the old man had accepted his coming out as a trans boy, which his real parents had never done.

“Edward, are you okay?”

The black-haired boy blushed, when he recognised the voice of his crush.

“Do I look like I'm okay?”, he muttered.

Enfield sat down next to him and asked: “What's the matter, kid?”

Oh, how he hated being called 'kid'! Especially by him!

But instead of making another cutting remark, he just shrugged. “None of your business.”

The adult frowned. “Did you have a fight with your father?”

“HE'S NOT MY FATHER!”, Edward blew up.

“Whoa, Hyde, calm down! Isn't that in the eye of the beho-”

“SHUT UP! THAT IDIOT HAS A CRUSH ON YOUR COUSIN, BUT DOESN'T HAVE THE BALLS TO JUST TELL HIM ALREADY! AND THEN HE HAS THE NERVE TO ASK ME ABOUT MY OWN CRUSH!!!”

Richard sighed: “Well, to his defence, he doesn't know that Gabriel is autistic and needs it spelled out to him.”

“WELL, WHY DOESN'T HE, THEN???”, Edward yelled.

“Can you please stop yelling at me? I really don't know. It's not like I know much about the way older men love.”

Something clicked inside Edward's brain. He didn't know why, but somehow this seemed to be a chance to finally-

“Uhh … since we're speaking about love, Richard …”

Enfield tilted his head (damn, he always looked so adorable, when he did that!). “Yeah?”

“I'm in love with you!”, Edward blurted out.

The man's eyes widened and he blushed bright scarlet. Was that a good sign? Blushing was a good sign, right?

But then a heavy silence fell over them and the teenager wasn't so sure anymore.

“Well?”, he asked anxiously.

Enfield looked really uncomfortable, as he carefully answered: “I'm sorry. I can't be your boyfriend.”

Edward felt his heart crack and his eyes filled with tears. “Why?”, he choked, “Is it because I'm a trans boy? I can-”

“No, Edward! Don't think that!”

“Then why?!”, the boy wailed, “Is it because I'm so mean? I can change, I promise, I will never again-”

“Look, the main problem is that you're a minor. You're only sixteen and I'm almost twenty-seven. Besides, I don't like you that way. You're a good friend, but further than that- EDWARD, WAIT!”

But it was already too late.

The other had already leapt from the bench and proceeded to run all the way home. He burst through the front door, almost ran Henry over and dashed into his room.

There he slammed the door shut and flopped onto his bed.

A good friend he called me …

Just a good friend …

It wasn't fair!

Was he doomed to never be loved for his whole life?

Because honestly, if Enfield wouldn't love him, who would? It wasn't like he had any other friends!

And he just had to be in love with the only one he had!

Edward hated himself.

He hated himself for falling in love.

And he hated himself even more for falling in love with Enfield of all people.

Everything was in shambles, just because his heart was being stupid.

And now it was broken.

Dammit …

He buried his face in his pillow and let the waterworks flow.

[monmuses]

@fox-guardian I drew my bab Harriet and your Enfield (I love your design, I want to hug him so badly).

I love these two. Your Enfield is the purest of gents.

[fox-guardian]

The Shower Curtain 🛁

[adrianrmarsh]

Narrow-boats in the rain, Enfield Lock; Nikon FG-20, Ilford Delta 400 . . #ilforddelta400 #nikonfg20 #enfieldlock #narrowboats #filmphotography #filmphotograph #filmphoto (at Enfield, Enfield, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6VqSswnQ3w/?igshid=epw2b4qyjljf

[coopercorp]

Indian make engine components that define quality and expertise

While an engine is the heart of any automotive unit, the workability and the functioning is all dependent on the components that goes into the making of the engine. A flywheel, crankshaft, Cylinder liner, piston is some of the vital engine components without which an engine cannot exist. Among the renowned engine components manufacturers in India is Cooper Corporation that is a Satara based manufacturing company manufacturing engine components, engines and generators to suit a whole range of purposes and industrial applications. Among their engine components portfolio, Cooper designs, manufactures and supplies components to the OEMs within India and across the globe. Being one of the largest crankshaft manufacturers in India, Cooper ensures that they are in line with the cylinder requirements. Ditto with other parts, the company ensures that the products are designed to suit the varied industrial applications. Having said this, aluminium parts manufacturers take special care and caution to ensure that the engine components are in line with the international standards and global manufacturing processes.

 Key engine components in the portfolio

Crankshaft manufacturers in India adopt the forging and spheroidizing cast iron before the machining process, which again is very crucial in the whole making. While the engine requirements vary on the basis of single and multiple cylinders, the pin diameter, throw, pin and the main width, surface finish are some of the key components of the crankshaft. In other words, the crankshafts are tailor-made as per the needs and necessities of their individual customers and industrial specifications. Flywheel is again one of the crucial engine components that is made from cast iron and spheroidal graphite for better resistance and consistency. Flywheels typically are made from cast iron grades FG 20 to FG 30 and ductile iron depending on the functionality and industrial application of the engine.

 Being one of the renowned crankshaft manufacturers in India and as a player in flywheel manufacturing, Cooper ensures that the manufacturing process is supervised at every stage right from the designing to the supply of components to the respective Original Equipment Manufacturer. A lot of care and caution is taken to ensure that all is well and in order with the customer specification, quality control is in place and durability is tested for the seamless performance of the product.

 Forefront in contemporary technology among Indian manufacturers

 As an important player among the aluminium parts manufacturers in the country, Cooper foundry is equipped with a state-of-the- art research laboratory. Products are designed and tested individually for quality, resistance and optimum functionality. Probably, this is the very reason why the company is today known to be in the forefront of contemporary technology in the manufacturing sector in India.

 Cylinder liner manufacturing occupies a sizeable component of the Cooper Engine component portfolio as the company’s capacity is pegged at 2.6 million pieces monthly. Some of the renowned names in the automotive segment spawning Royal Enfield, Aston Martin, TVS Motors, Jaguar, Kawasaki are the customers for Cooper’s cylinder liners. Several of the engine manufacturers and OEM’s in Africa, Europe, China, Europe have long been customers for Cooper’s engine component segment.

 Redefining the manufacturing process in a whole new way

 Today, the company is among the renowned aluminium parts manufacturers of the country. Through the state-of-the-art technology and integration with automation and world-class facilities, the company has earned the trust and reputation through dedicated workforce and strong leadership. The company has now become a nucleus of all activities in the surrounding areas of Satara where the Cooper foundry is situated. 

Also Visit us at cylinder liners

[fox-guardian]

Bro can we get more pony content??? They are all icons and also !!!! Utterson as a pony makes my heart go 🧡💘💜💝💝💓❤️💛💙🖤💛💘💜💝❤️💛🖤💝❤️❤️💙♥️🖤💘💗💝💓❤️🖤💛❤️💛🧡💕💝💝💗💓🖤💚💘💞💝💗💙♥️💓🖤💛💘💙💝💓💞💚💛💗💚💙🖤💘💝❤️💗🧡💚❣️💝💟❣️💛💙💗💖💕💛💘💘💙❤️♥️❣️💟❤️💘💛🧡💞💘💝💗💜💚💛💞💜💛💚💝💓💞❣️💙🖤❣️💕💛♥️��️💘💞

Aaahhhh I wasn’t expecting anyone to get hyped over the ponies! I decided to digitize and color them and WOW was it fun!

Me being me, I tried to base their color patterns off of actual horse fur patterns, and lemme tell ya Enfield and Poole were d i f f i c u l t . Also I forgot to give Enfield his wings in the first drawing I did oops.

And here’s a height chart so we can all remember that even in pony form, Poole is huge.

[hermanwatts]

20th Century Small Arms: World War II

World War 2 started on September 1, 1939 with the infantrymen using the same rifles used a generation before in World War 1. The biggest difference was the use of a new generation of light machine guns – Bren guns, MG-34s etc.

The submachine gun did have an impact, and everyone wanted them. I read somewhere that half of the Soviet casualties (@ 390,000) were inflicted using the Suomi submachine gun. The Germans just could never get enough submachine guns. They had MP-28s, MP-34s, MP-38s, and then the MP-40 which was a simplified version of the MP-38.

The British did not have a submachine gun going into WW2. They bought some Thompson submachine guns. The Thompson was a good weapon but expensive (and heavy). They did copy the MP-28 (as the Lanchester) used by the Royal Navy. The Sten gun was demonstrated in January 1941 with production off the line in June 1941. It was cheap, no frills weapon that fired 9 mm ammunition, was 30 inches long, weight 6lbs, 8 ozs. About 3.5 million Sten guns were made. It had an average submachine gun range of 70 meters.

Sten gun

The U.S. would build a cheap, stamped metal submachine gun, the M-3.  It had a range of 50 meters. 650,000 were made. My father in law used one in WW2. Interestingly, tankers in the U.S. Army were still using the M-3 in the First Gulf War.

M-3 “Grease Gun”

The Japanese produced a small number of submachine guns with the Type 100. It fired the 8 mm Nambu pistol cartridge. It was based on the German MP-28. I have seen a reference to Japanese Naval Paratroopers using Swiss made MP-28s but no separate confirmation. The Japanese were obsessed with bayonets. They designed the Type 100 to take the bayonet. Why?

The Soviets took up the submachine gun with a vengeance. The PPSh-41 was a mass produced, cheap improvement on the PPD line of submachine guns. It had the 71 round drum, only fired on full automatic, and had a range of 120 meters. It fired the 7.62 pistol round. Whole units in the Red Army were armed with the PPsH-41 giving a large amount of fire power within short distances. The submachine gun is an assault weapon for close-quarter fighting. That fit in with Soviet doctrine of always being on the attack.

PPsH-41

The concept of rifle carbines took two distinct paths in World War 2. One was the shrink the conventional bolt action rifle. The problem is muzzle flash, loud sound, and recoil using those long, powerful rifle cartridges. The Soviets produced a carbine version of the Mosin-Nagant rifle, the M-44. It came in handy for urban warfare and appears to have been liked by the Red Army. I would imagine you would have a sore shoulder firing it after 10 or 20 rounds.

The British produced the “Jungle Carbine,” an attempt to make a small Lee-Enfield rifle for use in Burma. It did not work out well. There were problems with keeping the weapon sighted in. It was loud and had a nasty kick. It was retired after only a couple years.

Jungle Carbine

I mentioned the U.S. adopted the M-1 Garand rifle in the late 1930s. Gen. George S. Patton said it was “the greatest battle implement ever devised”. U.S. Army and Marine rifle squads had a great amount of fire power with 10 or 11 M-1 rifles, a Browning Automatic Rifle, and maybe a Thompson submachine gun or M-3 “Grease Gun.”

The Soviets were equipping their troops with a new self-loading rifle, the SVT-40.  It fired the 7.62 x 54R cartridge. The rifle was not rugged and distributed to NCOs mostly. It was also used as a sniper weapon. The SVT-40 had an effective range of 500 meters as opposed to 1,000 meters for the Mosin-Nagant. Perhaps most sniping was done within 500 meters.

SVT-40

The Germans did produce two self-loading rifles, the G-41 and G-43. Both used the 7.92 Mauser cartridge. The G-41 was heavy and had problems including cleaning the gas operation. Both were used as specialist weapons and not produced in great numbers. One wonders if a Wehrmacht rifle squad had been armed with G-43’s instead of Kar 98Ks.

G-43

The German paratroopers were part of the Luftwaffe and not the Wehrmacht. They were in search of that most elusive weapon that would be submachine gun, light machine gun, and self-loading rifle all in one. The FG-42 is sort of like a Browning Automatic Rifle but lighter. It fired the 7.92 Mauser cartridge. It had both full-auto and single shot capability using a 20 round detachable magazine. Weight was 9 lbs, 15 ozs. It was also expensive to produce. The guess is maybe 7,000 were produced in all.

FG-42

There were some interesting innovations in WW2 with new weapons that broke through the old thinking.

First, the U.S. M-1 carbine was a real breakthrough in attitude on rifles. The U.S. Army decided as John Weeks put in World War II Small Arms “arose from a sensible realization after World War I that pistols were not particularly effective weapons of war.”

The M-1 carbine weighs 5 lbs, 7 oz, has a 15 round detachable box magazine, and uses a 7.62 x 33 mm cartridge. Finally, the stranglehold on over powered cartridges was broken. Accepted in mid-1941, the first rifles were used in Operation Torch in North Africa in November 1942. The idea was for mortar men, drivers, signal corps, etc. to use the M-1 carbine. It was hugely popular with 6 million produced. After WW2, you see the French using it in Indo-China, the British in Malaya, U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam. There are pictures of a dead Che Guevara surrounded by Bolivian troops holding M-1 carbines. Somewhere in the world today, the M-1 carbine is being used. During the Battle of the Bulge, advancing German troops were picking up and using M-1 carbines from the stacks of captured American equipment.

M-1 Carbine

The Germans created the future in small arms with the Sturmgewehr 44. This had select fire capability, weighed 11.24 lbs, fired a 7.92 x 33 mm cartridge, and had a 30 round detachable box magazine. You may recognize the design which obviously was used for the AK-47. Some prototypes were used in 1942 on the Russian Front. The Soviets had surrounded a German Wehrmacht division. These rifles were air dropped and the division was able to blast its way through to safety. Unfortunately for the Germans, the StG 44 came out too late. It was not distributed in any number until October 1944. Estimates are around 400,000 were produced. What is amazing is how it continued to be used by a Yugoslavian paratrooper unit until the late 1980s and a batch showed up in Syria a couple of years ago! Where is the ammunition coming from?

Sturmgewehr 44

There are stories that the Soviets used a prototype of the SKS rifle in the closing days of WW2 in Europe. I did some digging and that is not quite true. Simonov was working on a carbine that fired the 7.62 x 54R cartridge. This is what was used. It was found of interest to continue development to what would become the SKS a few years later.

When it comes to jungle warfare, firepower, compactness, and weight are all factors. One weapon used to a small degree was the shotgun. The Winchester Trench Gun was used in the Pacific. There are accounts of the 31st Infantry using “riot guns” in the Battle of Bataan against Japanese rifle men hidden in trees in 1942.

Winchester Trench Gun

On January 11, 1942, the Japanese attacked the U.S. Army Philippine Scout 57th Infantry Regiment on the Abucay Line on the Bataan Peninsula, Luzon Island, Philippines. The Scouts were armed with M-1 rifles, Browning Automatic Rifles, and .30 Browning light machine guns. The 2nd Battalion, 141st Infantry of the Imperial Japanese Army made a frontal assault. The attack was repulsed leaving 200-300 dead Japanese. Considering dead are generally 1/3 of total casualties, the 2nd Battalion, 141st Infantry ceased to be an effective fighting force.

It is no coincidence the U.S. Army and Marines methodically ground up Japanese garrisons on their island-hopping campaign from fall of 1942 on. At most, one third of the U.S. Army was in the Pacific due to the Europe first strategy. Despite being the secondary theater, Japan was strategically in a no-win situation by the time the war ended in Europe. Geoffrey Perrett wrote in There’s a War to be Won that by 1945, platoons were doing the job it took companies two years earlier. Companies were doing the job of battalions. This force multiplication had a profound impact. The massive firepower a U.S. Army platoon or company could amass was unequaled except by Soviet Guard units armed with the PPsH submachine guns.

There were not that many “automatic rifles” used in WW2, certainly none used by the Japanese as portrayed in Marvin Albert as “Ian MacAlister’s” Skylark Mission or Jon Cleary’s The Long Pursuit.

  20th Century Small Arms: World War II published first on https://sixchexus.weebly.com/

[intacodez]

Todos los detalles sobre la beta abierta de Battlefield V

Electronic Arts y DICE han anunciado que la beta abierta de Battlefield V comenzará el 6 de septiembre a las 10:00 (CEST) y terminará el 11 de septiembre a las 16:00 (CEST). La pre-carga del juego comienza hoy mismo a las 10:00 (CEST), osea que ya está disponible a partir de este momento, y los jugadores que hayan reservado el juego, o están abonados a EA Access, Origin Access o Origin Access Primier tendrán acceso anticipado de 48 horas, es decir a partir de mañana, 4 de septiembre a las 10:00 (CEST).

Precarga – 3 de septiembre a la 10:00 (CEST)

Acceso anticipado – 4 de septiembre a la 10:00 (CEST)

Beta abierta para todos – 6 de septiembre a la 10:00 (CEST)

Finalización de la beta abierta – 10 de septiembre a la 16:00 (CEST)

Al igual que en las dos alfas cerradas precedentes, en la beta abierta será puesto a prueba Battlefield V con un gran número de usuarios para poner bajo estrés los servidores, comprobar los niveles de latencia y el matchmaking entre otras cosas como el equilibrio de armas, el progreso de personajes y otros detalles que tienen que ser pulidas antes del lanzamiento oficial.

El mapa nevado Fiordo ártico, ambientado en Noruega, podrá jugarse en modo Conquista durante toda la beta, y dos días (referidos a días dentro del juego) de la Gran operación “La caída de Noruega”, donde el modo de juego cambia de un día a otro. El primer día de la Gran operación está dedicado al modo Aerotransporte, donde hay que ayudar al propio bando a desplegar explosivos en los puntos de control. El segundo día será el turno del modo Avance, donde habrá que atacar o defender sectores clave.

También será posible descubrir el nuevo escenario Róterdam. Los jugadores lucharán por la calles de la ciudad holandesa antes de la guerra para ser ellos quienes terminen por derruirla con sus batallas.

Entre los vehículos se incluyen cinco tanques y siete viones:

Tanques

Valentine Mk VIII

Churchill Mk VII

Churchill con cañón montado

Panzer IV

Tiger I

Aviones

Spitfire Mk VA

Spitfire Mk VB

Blenheim Mk IF

Bf 109 G-2

Ju 87 Stuka B-2

Ju 87 Stuka B-1

C47

Mientras que las clases de personaje a disposición serán:

Asalto

Reconocimiento

Médico

Apoyo

Habrán varias armas disponibles, que variarán dependiendo de la clase de personaje elegida a principio de la partida.

La clase Apoyo hace uso de metralletas ligeras y escopetas:

Metralletas

KE7

Bren

FG-42

Escopeta

M30 Drilling

La clase Médico puede usar subfusiles:

Subfusiles

STEN

Suomi KP/-31

MP40

EMP

La clase Asalto tiene a disposición armas semiautomáticas o rifles de asalto:

Semiautomáticas

SMLE Turner

Carabina M1A1

Gewehr 43

Rifle de asalto

StG 44

La clase Reconocimiento son francotiradores expertos que usan fusiles de cerrojo

Fusiles de cerrojo

Lee-Enfield No. 4 Mk I

ZH-29

Kar98k

Además todos pueden usar armas de cinto o cuerpo a cuerpo como machetes, granadas u otros dispositivos.

Finalmente será posible dar una ojeada a “Vientos de guerra“, donde los jugadores vivirán a lo largo de varios capítulos el terror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y los eventos históricos que la caracterizan creando y personalizados los soldados de la propia compañía. En la beta abierta será posible participar el capítulo “Tropas de asalto”, y de completaros los desafíos antes del 9 de septiembre se ganará la chapa exclusiva de la beta “Vientos de guerra” que se recibirá al adquirir el juego. El evento “Tropas de asalto” será exclusivo de la beta.

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[fox-guardian]

Yknow that dancing thing w/ hyde, jekyll, utterson & lanyon. That but enfield and Poole break dance in the background .

there they go

[fox-guardian]

Alright, alright, my arm has been twisted enough.

Unfortunately, Enfield was on the other end of Jekyll’s gaze.

And this is what happens when you find out the truth about Jekyll and Hyde.

[fox-guardian]

Baby boi... baby...

[fox-guardian]

I got a bit of a pick, so prepare yourself. C6 for Lanyon, G7 for Enfield, E2 for Jekyll, E8 for Utterson, and H8 for Hyde? 👀

That was a lot *phew* but it was fun!!

[fox-guardian]

💚💚 TINY ENFIELD!! 💚💚

A gift for @fox-guardian

I made a small little doodle of kid!Enfield. He’s such a little angel and I love him.❤️❤️❤️

[fox-guardian]

Ponies. Because why not.

[fox-guardian]

High school teachers AU because of course. Utterson teaches english, Lanyon is the health teacher, and Jekyll does a couple science classes. Enfield and Hyde are classmates and Hyde causes immense trouble just cuz.

Also, in case you didn't notice:

Pawttie likes to help out, too.