Georgia Μilitary: News and Modernisation

PapaDragon wrote:
Happy to hear it!!!

I hope all 120 get blown up by Yemenis so that you can sell them twice as many vehicles and make even more sweet cash.

Should make everyone happy...well except for Saudis but you know, fu*k the Saudis...

TheGeorgian wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
Happy to hear it!!!

I hope all 120 get blown up by Yemenis so that you can sell them twice as many vehicles and make even more sweet cash.

Should make everyone happy...well except for Saudis but you know, fu*k the Saudis...

Haha, sorry won't happen. At least I doubt Saudis are that incompetent and careless.

We also don't depend on that. Saudis have pretty much guaranteed a second contract after this one, only twice as big. So for now, money's flowing. At least it is flowing from one direction. ^^

KoTeMoRe wrote:
MATV's at probably triple the price, are making nice scraps for Yemeni scrapyards. So consider yourself lucky.

Testing is about to begin on a new military-grade bulletproof vest designed by Georgian students.  If successful, Georgia's State Military Scientific Centre Delta could begin producing the military protection equipment and roll out the products to Georgian soldiers serving locally and abroad.  Delta experts welcomed the young inventors from a public school in western Georgia to the scientific centre earlier this week.  

After learning more about the uniquely designed bulletproof vest, Delta agreed to manufacture a test version of the vest for evaluation.  Manager of the Inventors Club of the Khoni Public School No.2 Mikheil Koshitadze spoke to Maestro TV about the invention. He told hosts of the Business Morning program about how his team of students had developed a personal armoured vest that prevented structural deformation upon bullet impact.  

The young inventors said their invention featured usual bulletproof vest protection from bullets but it further safeguarded its wearer from sustaining damage from the deformed vest after it was hit by a bullet.  The team's innovative layer of cubes for the vest held air under pressure and was expected to absorb kinetic energy received by the vest upon bullet impact.  Common armoured vests prevented bullet wounds but often the wearer was still injured after the vests typically deformed two to eight centimetres inwards.  

Koshitadze told the morning program the vest used same material as normal bulletproof armour and only differed in its construction, making its manufacturing easier.  Delta will evaluate a test version of the vest before making a decision on whether to commission it for production.  The Scientific Centre manufactured advanced defence and civilian equipment including unmanned aerial vehicles and military hardware for the Georgian Armed Forces.

TheGeorgian wrote:DELTA claims that their new "SMG-9" is far superior to it's classical counterpart MP-5 primarily due to a simplyfied, more efficient design and supposedly even beats it in ergonomics, also better price balance. They are currently interested in developing an analogue to the MPX. Potential use within the army special forces.

KoTeMoRe wrote:It's a blowback RO635. How is it superior to the MP5. For reference the RO635 is the submachinegun variant of the AR-15 system.

TheGeorgian wrote:

KoTeMoRe wrote:It's a blowback RO635. How is it superior to the MP5. For reference the RO635 is the submachinegun variant of the AR-15 system.

Well it's what they've stated. I am no weapons expert but I see more similarities with the MPX - which they mention as well - than the RO635. Maybe it's just exaggeration to sell the product - maybe it in fact is an improvement over the MP5. Guess we have to wait for more details.

You can actualy share your doubts on their fb page. They usualy do reply ^^
https://www.facebook.com/stcdelta/

KoTeMoRe wrote:
The MPX system doesn't have a buffer tube (while the SMG-9 keeps it). It is clearly an RO635 with a proprietary mag from Glock19 (32rounds). This is a trend among people with AR-15 tooling.

Wilson Combat/JM/DD/POE/JP Entreprise. I don't need to share my doubts. I've been on the right side of a JP Entreprise 9mm Carbine and here you can see such a weapon.

Doesn't mean the SMG is bad, it's just fairly simple and the action is really not comparable with roller lock MP-5.

TheGeorgian wrote:

KoTeMoRe wrote:
The MPX system doesn't have a buffer tube (while the SMG-9 keeps it). It is clearly an RO635 with a proprietary mag from Glock19 (32rounds). This is a trend among people with AR-15 tooling.

Wilson Combat/JM/DD/POE/JP Entreprise. I don't need to share my doubts. I've been on the right side of a JP Entreprise 9mm Carbine and here you can see such a weapon.

Doesn't mean the SMG is bad, it's just fairly simple and the action is really not comparable with roller lock MP-5.

I see, very interesting and yes you are right, it's simplyfied and uses Glock mags and looks very similar. I compared it with the MPX since it was mentioned as another project. Was never into any these conversions untill now. I would still want to wait for more information though and maybe test footage, because I do agree it's a bold statement, but they do keep to it.

TheGeorgian wrote:Hm, some concerning footage but well I've tried to reason with Delta over the jumpy chassis issue several times ...

The vehicle takes some beating with RPG-29, PKM and hand grenades after it jumped one time too much. We don't know what exactly caused it, maybe it was overloaded or already damaged or that simple design flaw but at least the protection holds up to it's promises. It wasn't designed to withstand the RPG-29 and the Houtis havin a hard time trying to burn and destroy it while the LAV got one shotted. Still, that initial failure is bad, very bad and that's because it's jumping like a horse while carrying weight. Ofc the chassis will give in after a while. They need to either fix that or use a completly different base.

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PapaDragon wrote:
Just make sure that production lines are warmed up because I have a feeling that Saudis will be ordering fresh batch pretty soon.