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I just watched this video on the PC-24. It does some pretty heavy lifting in advertising for the PC-24 but dammit it does make me wish we had these to replace the T-1. I would have loved to tried landing on SPRO type fields, grass fields, compacted dirt, etc. This could be adapted into a syllabus that really gets everyone ready for real world scenarios where we might be island hopping or landing on unprepared fields after a hurricane/earthquake before the Air Force spends more money teaching this in their MWS. I know this is about the budget but if the training came first, this would be a great trainer.

So threatening violation of Senate approved treaties is fine, just not actually doing it?

That's not the physics at play. The bullet is its fastest at the muzzle. The difference is the SD has a ported barrel to bleed gas and energy so it makes the 115s subsonic at the muzzle. My Thompson Machine 10-22 integrally suppressed barrel is the same way. The distance of the target doesn't matter. You don't hear the crack of the 115s into the dirt from the other two simply because the pressure wave doesn't get back to your ear. It's still there. Porting clearly visible here to make 115s subsonic:

It’s a cool little jet, the block 20 brings a lotta capes for the money. The right jet for a lot of Allies and some missions in the AF. Vaporware but a good approximation of a stealthish FA-50

This video does a better job of showing it, I've seen it in person. Note when he shoots short and the rounds hit the dirt you don't get the supersonic "crack" but when he shoots the longer range target the bullet with the MP5 and the MP5K both allow the bullet to accelerate supersonic and thus a much louder noise signature. With the MP5SD 115 and 124 grain stay subsonic and the noise signature is GREATLY reduced. If you are using an FRT and this is a range toy you probably don't care. I use the SD and my MPX for home defense and sound is a big issue.

Actually deploying troops to invade and occupy a nation without the approval of congress. Ordering our departure from NATO without the approval of the Senate. Unprovoked sanctioned assassination of one of our major enemy's heads of state. Everything else is just that: realpolitik. International relations are messy and gross, but necessary. Soft power is worthless unless it's backed by hard power.

What do you mean by this? Rounds don't accelerate once they leave the barrel. Are you saying if you use a lighter ammo for the longer range? I'm thinking about an FRT because I think the MP5 platform is one of the most obvious choices for an FRT. So this will be a range toy, since there's no universe where I use an FRT for home defense. My biggest concern with the MP5 versus the mp5k is that the MP5 ends up being remarkably similar to the MCX Rattler. As I grow my collection I'm trying to bring in guns that offer a different shooting experience, not just a different name or caliber. I'm also very average sized (that's what she said!), so the mp5k doesn't present the same ergonomics for me as it does for someone with a bigger build and gorilla hands. 😂🤣 I think with the vertical foregrip and a shorty suppressor, the mp5k will be a hoot to hand to someone at the range with a 30 round magazine of 9 mm. And I won't have to cry as I listen to the money flying out of the barrel at FRT speeds.

God bless little European Texas

I don't care for the MP5K. Yes the stock extends but it feel like a front heavy pistol until you fully extend. MP5SD for the win. The quietest gun I've ever shot which is a huge consideration if you are using this for home defense. The MP5 and MP5K are quiet up close but if you shoot beyond 20' feet the rounds will go supersonic and greatly increase the noise signature. Break Break - On day 12 of waiting for my electronic Form 4s to clear...so much for a faster process.

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Thankfully TACO not FAFO https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/trump-tells-europe-and-nato-to-hand-over-greenland-or-else Still, make Greenland Denmark an offer that they want to accept .

Either a SD clone (hide the suppressor attachment under the handguard) OR.. Make it look like the Iranian embassy SAS guns.

Of course we're zero help, but if I had to pick one child, er, MP5, it'd be the shorter one. 9mm isn't going to need the longer barrel. The increase is minimal and I'd rather save the several inches for the suppressor and keep it more compact. I think Zenith has a couple shorties. 4 and 5 or something. Between those, I would take the longer 5", but not the 8-9" options.

Realpolitik guys: What's the line in your mind? At what point is it just too far?

Bingo.

Read my post again, for comprehension this time. I'm trying to help some out there understand the higher math behind the political theater going on. We don't "just leave NATO" That's not happened once yet and I doubt we'll be the first. We're not going to invade Greenland (we don't even need to, Denmark is more than happy to pay for basing changing we ask for), and we're probably not going to leave NATO, even if other do. However, the wide receivers on the team needs to know they're not the O-Line, they're not the TE, and they sure as shit aren't the QB. To those who pay attention to the history of nations, what's happening right now is what that 'define the relationship' conversation looks like between allies. I fully expect some things will change out of this, but stop with the black-and-white good-and-evil right-and-wrong bullshit. Act like an adult who thinks with critical analysis in mind, not just so you can response with your party line. We've already got news anchors doing that, please don't join them. Turn off CNN and/or Fox news and start recognizing that you and I don't hear 1 percent of the high level conversations that occur around these events. More importantly, quit reading your own rhetoric into other peoples statements. You sound like a weepy melodramatic 5th grader trying to tell a sad story while blubbering. It's embarrassing.

So the price to our allies for leading the team is their land? Like a whole country worth? How about, if we don't want to be part of NATO and all that it entails, we just leave it. Its a marriage we set up and led, worms and all. Meanwhile, Putin is chanting "Fight Fight Fight" like an episode of Jerry Springer, which is so true its sad. And we're the battered wife? SMH.

I meant the other guy, not the "Dr."

Hmmmm, a lot there… your comment on my editing my original post seems accusatory so I’m not sure we are arguing in totally good faith, I reserve the right to adjust my statements as I write them then let them stand, enough on that. My original post expressed my skepticism on kinetic action and my later post with not one weapon used to change the status quo, other IOPs are available but all the talk of military action is just that, talk. No one is going to order anything even close to that, I was wrong on Venezuela but I’m positive about this. All other parts of the government would just say no and he knows that. Trump says outlandish bullshit to break norms, to cause conversation and discussion that would have been dismissed out of hand before and to get the other party to engage. Maybe it’s crass or uncouth but for him it’s SOP. I’m ok with it because the pre Trump world, norms, expectations and paradigm were a bad deal for the USA, for the working and middle class and emasculating. Nothing is free in this world, especially not security, if you want us to guarantee it for you, the terms occasionally must be updated. I use the freedom for Greenland as humor, nothing more than that. Golan Heights is apt as a metaphor as i meant it as strategic territory from which a foe could use to attack if they held. All of your other points are true but will not be going into the future methinks, Golden Dome will be built out and will have a need for terrestrial infrastructure, in very high latitudes, rare earth minerals will become even more valuable and critical so the infrastructure to produce them will be built as China and Russia use their rare earth minerals as leverage over us, Russia/China will develop some hard power expeditionary capabilities to reach into the Arctic, etc… I’d rather have a dissuading presence there than have to react and figure out how to push them back or out. They may not use all hard power to get a foothold there but prepare for the worst. If not blowing up NATO means not getting a better deal for the US than essentially the arrangement we have had since the early 90s because the Western Europeans don’t want change of any kind in it then it should not exist. I’m not sure how I came across as a warmongering a hole on this as I’m not but I’m also not in favor of us just being a dupe and simping for the rest of the free world.

Not entirely Greenland related, but a factor in our relationship. I’m not a huge Johnson fan (sts), but I thought he did a great job here and possibly even defused a bit of Trump’s bombastic speech.

If by “big job” you mean assclown, then, yes she is.

You got two arms and two hands, right? Both at the same time, obviously!

Buddy I hate to break it to you, but that's every president for the last couple hundred years. The only question is what he thinks his legacy should be. I doubt it's "expand the land mass of the US more than any previous president." It probably has a lot more to do with bringing back the post-war America he grew up in. It's not like he's hiding the ball. Make America Great Again. He wants the US to be the dominant force on the planet (again). He's bitched about tariffs and trade imbalances for decades. He hates drugs. He bemoans the collapse of manufacturing in America. He views illegal immigration as a scourge of foreigners coming to the US and importing crime while exporting wealth. And he is absolutely, 100% a petulant egomaniac. So anybody who slights him is almost certain to see him turn the government on them. Whether that's relitalatory investigations for domestic opponents or retaliatory trade policy for international opponents, that too has been quite predictable.

All these arguments assume that Greenland becoming an actual US territory is his no-kidding actual objective. I'm not saying he's playing 3D chess while everyone else is playing checkers, but he approaches many political topics, especially if he sees a 'deal' to be made, in a business mindset. Right or wrong, he is clearly willing to rattle the saber to get what he wants and use the saber when he thinks its worth it (low risk, high reward like we've seen him do recently). Do I think he's going to actually go to war with most of our closest allies over Greenland? No, but threatening to might make them considering either selling outright or selling large mining concessions. Finally, I think he rightly sees Western Europe as allies of questionable value and maybe this is a more forceful shot across the bow. Most have been drawing down their defense spending for years and would have trouble defending their own countries, let alone projecting power. Also, our values have been diverging. For example, Great Britain has had as many as 30 arrests PER DAY for saying offensive things online. Meanwhile, Great Britain also has anti-Israel protests where there have been videos of protesters holding signs saying "we support genocide" in reference to 'from the river to the sea' that have faced no police action. That clearly selective prosecution and lack of free speech is something I expect from China or Russia, not one of our oldest allies.