Steyr AUG - Japanese Gun Porn

This episode was brought to you by Slate Black Industries. For M-LOK grips and accessories, visit slateblackindustries.com The Australian F-88, also known as the Steyr AUG in some uncultured circles, it was obviously developed in the future. Most of the parts inside of the integrated stalk and grip receiver are made of plastic tupperware, especially the translucent plastic magazine. You can even see if the rifle's hungry or not. This tiny scope is a part of the receiver, so you can't pull it off and accidentally put it on backwards. It also doubles as a carrying handle, so if you get shot your mate can retrieve the rifle. This rifle can discharge cartridge cases to the left and the right to accommodate left-handed shooters, unlike some super complicated Austria, these dirty Kiwis, Saudi Arabia, and it's even seen deployment to America, to the Nakatomi Plaza. The AUG or the Australian F-88. You will not mistaken the silhouette of one of these things. It looks futuristic, it looks space-age, it looks cool. Operations are cool, two-stage trigger, but I've got to say, if I were to time travel back and find young me standing in the airsoft shop watching the Japanese gun porn, I never thought I'd work with AUGs so much, but we worked with the Austrian 25th Fallschirmjägers, paratroopers, so they were one of their elite infantry forces. So the Austrians are not part of NATO, they don't wear camouflage, they don't have body armor, they have helmets, no body armor. So when you get a combination of an extremely light setup, a bullpup-designed rifle, mechanized infantry, guys who were in peak condition, trained in the Alps, wow. When we were running exercises with them, now OPFOR, the opposition force in the US, is usually those are the guys who play the bad guys. They run around with blank firing AKs, all that type of stuff. Typically if you run a full-scale exercise with OPFOR, you expect for the first few days to be the suck, because the training cycle is that OPFOR will beat you to a pulp initially. You figure out your deficiencies, you figure out internally how to work with your soldiers to fix those items, you get your good tactics and procedures down, and then you go out and re-approach OPFOR, and you see that your tactics succeed. That is how a training cycle works. Now the Austrians, when they were running through exercises with us, and this was a huge combined exercises, multi-nation exercise under NATO, OPFOR didn't expect for them to have that type of speed and mobility, and you have these guys just dismounting from pinzgauers whenever they got ambushed, and fighting, pushing the OPFOR back, and the crazy thing is in the first few days, they actually pushed OPFOR back and took land from OPFOR, and then OPFOR called in armor and paratroopers when you're just running light skin pinzgauers against armor, you're dead. So the Austrians, for them, OPFOR actually took the first brunt in facing some extremely mobile units, and then they had to use a countermeasure, which was armor. The Romanians brought their tanks, and then the Austrians had to figure out anti-armor tactics to run them well. So that was interesting to watch. Whenever I showed up, I always had my helmet and everything, and the paratroopers were very interested in US body armor and camouflage, even though we were wearing ACUs, arguably one of the worst camouflage patterns ever. So I've still got pictures of me with the Austrian paratroopers, and we're just all hanging out, shooting the breeze, and they've got parts of my equipment on each and every single one of them. So yeah, that was one of my extensive exposures with the AUG, and they work very well if you're trained well with them.