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  • It takes a huge amount of industry to produce firearms, not just the precision in machining, precision of alloys used, heat treatment of steels, supply lines, etc. Missing one of these vital attributes will lead to, at best, an unreliable weapon, or at worst, something that will explode and potentially kill the user.

    As Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe fighting the largest European war since WW2, anything that can shoot accurately is precious, especially a big ass .50 with a very long range. As they say, its hard to hide from a .50











  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAs rule as it gets
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    2 days ago

    Technically diamond? But cutting bits are only large as like 2mm, and are very expensive. Diamond also can’t support a very steep cutting edge, so you will be limited by possible edge geometry. Used for machining highly reflective, perfect, mirror finishes on parts.

    TLDR you’re right