#weapon advancements

[historyofguns]

The 2025 SHOT Show, as covered by Andy Grossman on The Armory Life, was notably busy and showcased an extensive range of new products in the shooting gear industry. Noteworthy among these were the WX Founders sunglasses by Wiley X, which honor the U.S. Army Veteran Myles Freeman Sr. These sunglasses boast ANSI Z87.1 safety-rated removable side shields and lenses offering full UV protection. EOTech's Vudu 3-9x32 rifle scope also stood out for its compact and durable design, featuring an illuminated reticle with 10 brightness settings. The Meprolight MPO Pro-S, an enclosed red dot optic, offers adaptability to various firearms and is lauded for its resilience and versatility. Benchmade's collaboration with Greg Thompson yielded the SOCP Dagger Combo, useful for both training and real-world defense. The Sharps Bros. Meanstreak folding knife was commended for its smooth operation and quality build. Additionally, Decibullz provided notably affordable custom-molded earplugs, Mechanix Wear introduced gloves with improved ventilation for shooting sports, and Dead Air Silencers' Sandman X stood out for its robust suppressor design. Overall, the SHOT Show highlighted innovative advancements across various firearm-related products.

[wombywoo]

geared up ⚔︎

[pasta-pardner]

attack dogs shouldn't bite the hands that feed them

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Spock and Jim talking about historic war strategies as they observe Zar’s troops is cute (“Jim they are using a variation on the Roman manipular system” “Spock can you see whether they have stirrups?”) while McCoy is in the background like WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TWO ON ABOUT, only to have both of them turn around and start excitedly telling him about how the invention of stirrups by the Goths enabled them to defeat Roman legions.

Bones, you knew what you were getting into.

[lesbiangiratina]

Funny as hell. Yeah theyre doing great

[dephoraowo]

Hear me out, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji were equals in cultivation when they were teenagers right?

But look, Lan Wangji trained his whole life to get to this point, while Wei Wuxian only had 6 years to train.

If Wei Wuxian had the opportunity to start his training the same time Lan Wangji and the other cultivators did, he would absolutely demolish them.

[genimas]

How I think changes are represented regarding team RWBY, JNPR, STRQ

Fair warning: This post is loooong

Team RWBY- Outfit's colour pallets

Volume 2 outfits won't be in here cause I think that's a whole different problem

Ruby Rose

-Beacon Arc: Red and Black, this is the start, nothing much to say

-Mistral Arc- Atlas Arc: Add white, her mother colour, this may be because she start to follow her footsteps, do what her mother did, because she believes her mother is the perfect Huntress she needs to becomes

-Prediction: In Volume 10 she will have less white?

Weiss Schnee

-Beacon Arc- The Schnee's colour is white- it represents snow, ice, cold- and her outfit has cold blue, she got away from the coldness of her family, the ice is slowly melt

-Volume 4-5: The blue is now dominate the white, I also think this blue is...bluer than the Beacon Arc's blue, the impact her friends had left on her is so strong the ice still continue to melt even when she's back home even though it's dull and lifeless but BUT

-Volume 6: I never notice this detail until I started to think about all of this. The RED scalf, she didn't have it in Vol.4-5 because she was at home, she was under Jaques' thump again Whitley is too every time we see him he still not refuse Jaquess no red no RED on him. At the start of Vol.6 she's backs with her friends, her teammates HER FAMILY. Wow that made me kinda emotional, anyway enough rambling

-Atlas Arc: Even if she's back 'house' she's still with her real family so she still has that red on her and the blue now is more like ocean too

Blake Belladonna

-Beacon Arc: White, black and a hint of purple. At this point in time her dominant colour is black because she still in her 'From Shadow' phase *wink wink*

-Mistral Arc: This is a, kinda, special situation. Noticeably, Blake adds purple- her Aura colour- to the outfit, still not sure what this means though. But that not all, before Blake had the black to cover the white part of her outfit, but now it's the opposite, you can say she is wrapped in purity.

-Atlas Arc: Another thing to consider is the black on her outfit slowly shift into dark purple/violet-> she slowly step out of the shadow and become her real self. So the black-ish/purple-ish, maybe the black is the White Fang and after Blake's arc in Vol.4-5 it now wraps around her with the white?

Yang Xiao Long

-Beacon Arc: This is a bit hard; Yang colours, as this post points out, are brassy yellow (most likely her hair), orche, brown and black. Here's the problem, her palette doesn't change at all except in Vol.4

-Volume 4: She still has all the colour but is wrapped in grey (Mercury's colour, maybe) and if I'm right, gold can be dissolved by mercury, so that's how her defeated state is represent. Note: when she gets back on her feets, the jacket is gone

-Volume 5- Atlas Arc: The only thing I can say about her changes is that she's no longer the thrill seeker she was at Beacon and has more practical outfit choice

Team JNPR- Weapons

Jaune Arc

-Beacon Arc: Crocea Mors-The hand down weapon of his family, as he's trying to become the warior like those before him

-Mistral Arc: The shield+Pyrrha's crown thingy. The weapon is now more him, and it represent his growth at Beacon but consider himself unimportant

-Volume 7-8: Atlas upgrade. Less that destructive 'I'm not important' thought, more mature as a fight and a leader

-Volume 9: 3 words- the Ever After (and maybe also V8 final)

Pyrrha Nikos

Miló and Akoúo̱

Nora Valkyrie

-Pre-RWBY: A wooden hammer

-Beacon Arc- Atlas Arc: Magnhild-She is no longer that scared little girl back at S but a bubbly enthusiastic pink lightning 'still little' girl but with low self-esteem problem. Interestingly, no Atlas upgrade cuz her arc, changes, growth happen in V8 so

-Prediction: weapon upgrade for Nora in V10

Lie Ren

Pre-RWBY: His father dagger

Beacon Arc-Mistral: StormFlower-No longer the boy who stand by, he now actively helping people but also have problem with suppressing his feeling

Atlas Arc: Atlas upgrade. Ren has changed after his arc in V5, learn to express his emotion more yay [V9 Epilogue] and now he's one who try to keep the team together, good for him

Team STRQ- Outfit

Now is the part where I speculate the most

When we heard story about Summer and every time Ruby remebered her, she wears [pic.1] but when the tree showed Ruby the real Summer that is not perfect she wears [pic.2]

Qrow tried to be better in V7 and to signify that growth, he got outfit upgrade

Tai and Raven hadn't have their outfit changed, but those are what we saw throughout the course of the show

✨Speculation time✨ this kinda stupid so take this with a grain of salt someone pointed put that Raven's arm guards are similar to Summer's, so what if at Beacon one of them had a significant growth and that was a gift from the other *shrug*. Qrow's old outfit had a similar neck to that of Taiyang👀 no one else like that, maybe(?). I think those who changed are more likely the Branwens, yeah

[petrenocka]

Gabriel and V1 are the same. They are things that inflict violence. Things that kill, that destroy. They were created like that.

Even in his rebellion against the Council, Gabriel remains what they made him: still an executioner, he can only ever slay sinners, carve up their bodies and parade the disembodied carcasses in front of masses.

The greatest soldier of Haven, and the peak oh Humanity's military technology. An angel that ends rebellions, a machine that ends wars.

At the end of the world, with their masters dead and gone, still they can only kill. Even when there's nothing left, it'll be each other. Without reason.

It's what they are.

[bloodbrown]

I really want to do a rapier-only LoP run because I just love how elegant and beautiful P is with that sword

[clericofshadows]

REGIS SHEPARD - 15/??? "Well, what about Shepard? He's a spacer. Lived aboard starships most of his life." "Military service runs in the family. Both his parents were in the navy." "He got most of his unit killed on Torfan." "He gets the job done. No matter what the cost." "Is that the kind of person we want protecting the galaxy?"

[historyofguns]

The article from The Armory Life, written by Will Dabbs, MD, explores the historical significance and enduring legacy of the M2 .50-caliber machine gun, commonly known as "Ma Deuce." Originating in World War I, the gun was developed at the behest of American General John J. Pershing to counter German observation balloons and aircraft. Designed by John Moses Browning, with ammunition developed by Winchester, the M2 has been in service since 1921 and remains a staple in military arsenals worldwide. The weapon is praised for its robustness, versatility, and reliability, capable of being mounted on various platforms, including vehicles, ships, and aircraft. Though more than a century old, advancements like the M2A1 model have upgraded its features, ensuring the Browning-designed machine gun continues to be an integral part of military operations today.

[alteredsilicone]

why can you use transference on necramechs... they predated warframes but they're not warframe replacements

waddahell

is it because they have "sentient pulse disablers" which probably are void related (since otherwise sentients would have easily adapted to something technological)

honestly if i start thinking about necramechs my brain is gonna break

[autism-corner]

HAPPY BDAY + EARLY VALENTINE MY DARLINGEST <33

[ghoul--doodle]

Been thinkin about characters chosen weapons, fighting styles n habits lately so here’s Dex n Twenty! Or the only characters I had the energy to draw today

[tatatatatara]

Tatara 🤝 Roma: having their badass abilities and dope kakujas introduced only to be killed by an artificial ghoul in their 20s by just a few pages later

[oathofkaslana]

you can tell i dont give a fuck abt hi3 meta bc my most used characters are HoFi, HoO, and sirin. in that team.