{"id":8869,"date":"2017-07-27T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/27\/qa-12-small-arms-in-modern-conflict-zones-with-nic-jenzen-jones-of-ares\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:17:06","slug":"qa-12-small-arms-in-modern-conflict-zones-with-nic-jenzen-jones-of-ares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/27\/qa-12-small-arms-in-modern-conflict-zones-with-nic-jenzen-jones-of-ares\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A #12: Small Arms in Modern Conflict Zones, with Nic Jenzen-Jones of ARES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xlNXEbR0Pzs?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This month&#8217;s Q&#038;A features a special guest, Nic Jenzen-Jones from Armament Research Services (ARES). We have a bunch of very interesting questions for him on modern conflict zones and insurgent groups:<\/p>\n<p>1:15 &#8211; Russian cartridge development similar to Mk318, Mk262, or M855A1?<br \/>\n2:25 &#8211; Small arms vs heavy weapons in the illicit arms trade.<br \/>\n5:13 &#8211; How do insurgents deal with ammunition supply? Old ammo? Obsolete cartridges?<br \/>\n9:05 &#8211; The container of Sturmgewehrs in Syria<br \/>\n11:36 &#8211; Why the move back towards .308 caliber rifles?<br \/>\n14:16 &#8211; What is the most interesting or surprising thing you have found in a conflict zone?<br \/>\n15:58 &#8211; What weapon system would you put on a technical?<br \/>\n17:22 &#8211; Do militias and insurgents try to standardize on weapon systems?<br \/>\n21:20 &#8211; Are locally produced arms affective or just hazardous to the users?<br \/>\n22:15 &#8211; Purpose in anti-mine treaties for small nations far from conflict zones?<br \/>\n23:18 &#8211; Popularity of rifle grenades<br \/>\n25:03 &#8211; Future of UK-based small arms production?<\/p>\n<p>ARES paper on self-loading rifle production and history: <a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/small-arms-survey-releases-working-paper-25-global-development-and-production-of-self-loading-service-rifles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/small-arms-survey-releases-working-paper-25-global-development-and-production-of-self-loading-service-rifles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>27:39 &#8211; NATO replacement of 5.56mm with something else?<\/p>\n<p>ARES paper on emergent ammunition technologies: <a href=\"http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/small-arms-survey-releases-working-paper-23-chambering-the-next-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/armamentresearch.com\/small-arms-survey-releases-working-paper-23-chambering-the-next-round\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>33:25 &#8211; What guns are the bad guys using?<br \/>\n38:02 &#8211; Is the man-portable antitank weapon changing the role of the main battle tank?<br \/>\n40:03 &#8211; Modern anti-armor systems, like the Russian T14 Armata<br \/>\n40:50 &#8211; Improvements in small arms and optics in Afghanistan, and are they a maintenance burden?<br \/>\n44:46 &#8211; How does the US firearms market impact worldwide arms trade?<br \/>\n47:41 &#8211; Interesting non-technical development in the small arms trade?<br \/>\n48:55 &#8211; North Korean AK88 helical drum magazine<br \/>\n51:14 &#8211; Future potential for careless ammunition<br \/>\n52:58 &#8211; Developments in de-mining and ordnance disposal<\/p>\n<p>Want to submit a question for the next Q&#038;A? 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We have a bunch of very interesting questions for him on modern conflict zones and insurgent groups: 1:15 &#8211; Russian cartridge development similar to Mk318, Mk262, or M855A1? 2:25 &#8211; Small arms vs heavy weapons in the illicit arms trade. 5:13&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/27\/qa-12-small-arms-in-modern-conflict-zones-with-nic-jenzen-jones-of-ares\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&amp;A #12: Small Arms in Modern Conflict Zones, with Nic Jenzen-Jones of ARES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14777,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8869\/revisions\/14777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}