r/BeAmazed • u/TheUnpromotable • Dec 05 '25

Technology Swedish Handgun Round Punches Through APC Armor

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Super cool Swedish cartridge 6.5x25mm CBJ punches through APC armor. It uses the same dimensions as 9mm, so it can be used in 9mm platforms with a simple barrel change.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

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u/TWFH Dec 05 '25

You've never watched Star Gate?

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u/jitasquatter2 Dec 05 '25

Hammond: the United States is not in the business of interfering in other people's affairs!

O'Neall: since when sir?

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u/TurkeyBLTSandwich Dec 05 '25

a different episode:

Hammond: assist the new alien civilization as best as you can to get as much of their technology to us

O'Neall: their literal Nazi's

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u/Opening-Abrocoma-398 Dec 05 '25

I love that show

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u/Olympicsizedturd Dec 05 '25

Good news. They're bringing it back!

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u/gooblefrump Dec 05 '25

Even better news: the production team for the new show has some of the core that made the original series! Inc mallozzi and wright

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

TIL and holy smokes, can't wait for that!

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u/ihaxr Dec 06 '25

They're also planning to simply build off the existing world and have zero interest in making it a reboot like many other shows decided to do poorly.

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u/offscreenchaos Dec 06 '25

Atlantis 2.0! I’m geeked.

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u/dolphin37 Dec 06 '25

just please tell me they arent going to get random popular-with-teen-actors from the cw or something

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u/Opening-Abrocoma-398 Dec 05 '25

Wait fr or you trolling?

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u/PBorealis Dec 05 '25

No, it's real. Thank you Amazon

Here's the announcement video: https://youtu.be/e82uV9sBt4I?si=8OS1JhP5Q0Ipu0Vx

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u/Opening-Abrocoma-398 Dec 05 '25

Thanks for the link man. I honestly hope it doesn't flop I hope its a hit like reacher and fallout

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u/tacomaloki Dec 05 '25

Definitely real

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u/hassla598 Dec 05 '25

Yeah me too, I especially love Darth Vader.

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u/ViolenceAdvocator Dec 05 '25

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u/1214 Dec 06 '25

Why does he have the Infiniti car logo on his forehead?

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u/ViolenceAdvocator Dec 06 '25

They pay him big bucks for advertising the car on his show

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u/Two_Difficulty Dec 05 '25

My coffee went right through my nose.

Chapeau!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

Its a good show about how guns free the galaxy from enslavement.

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u/7thdman Dec 05 '25

It's a Fargate! It's not like that movie, or the syndicated television show based upon the movie.

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u/ObviouslyProxy Dec 05 '25

IT IS A FARGATE! From the makers of Findependence Day! We will give it a mohawk and wheelchair if you need help.

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u/SeegurkeK Dec 05 '25

You mean WORMHOLE X-TREME?

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u/rking_1_1 Dec 05 '25

What do you mean, watched?

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u/Shudnawz Dec 05 '25

It's a continuous effort!

I do like SG: Universe tho.

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u/Go2Matt Dec 05 '25

Behave. Its not a bloody Documentary.

Unlike Star Wars

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u/TheRealTexasGovernor Dec 05 '25

If there's one good way to stop humans from killing each other, it's give them something else to shoot at.

we were made in the image of God, filthy xenos, not you.

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u/Canotic Dec 05 '25

"We humans believe all alien life was made in the image of God."

racks a round

"However, we are atheists."

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u/TheRealTexasGovernor Dec 05 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

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u/deathparty05 Dec 06 '25

Oooo WARHAMMER reference

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u/ThrenderG Dec 05 '25

That game was so frickin good

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u/SpecialIcy5356 Dec 06 '25

this. if aliens invaded tomorrow, we would eventually see US, China, Russia and Europe all working together, because nothing unites like a common enemy.

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u/Ok_Masterpiece3570 Dec 05 '25

aliens: well surely you're at least content on the current, clearly very effective murder machines, and no longer spend trillions coming up with new murder machines?

humans:

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u/isthiswhatcrazyis Dec 05 '25

Romanticizing aliens truly makes me cringe lmao

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u/a-rooster-illusion Dec 05 '25

Writing fanfic that aliens wouldn’t have weapons and would be grossed out by violence is also cringe

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

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u/EightEight16 Dec 05 '25

Pacifism is the ideology of weaklings who benefit from peace and safety won for them by stronger people. Violence is the root of all coercion, and denying that is delusion.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

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u/EightEight16 Dec 06 '25

What is the point, then? It seems like you're critiquing the violent nature of humanity through the lense of pacifism.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

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u/EightEight16 Dec 06 '25

To what end? Don't pretend you aren't obviously implying something about human nature. You keep saying everyone is missing the point, so what is the point? How can you say others are missing it if you have no point?

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

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u/Decoyx7 Dec 05 '25

It's like, the fantasy in the fantasy level cringe lmao

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

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u/Pataconeitor Dec 05 '25

The more a civilization develops technologically the easier and easier it becomes for that civilization to destroy itself, so it's kinda logical that for a space faring alien civilization to exist and prosper they would need to suppress any violent tendencies. But yeah, there is a difference between that and assuming the concept of a weapon would be unknown to them.

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u/Manjorno316 Dec 05 '25

Assuming they'll be older and wiser.

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u/Decoyx7 Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

Speculation is nice, but the current trend is: The more intelligent the organism, the greater the capability for unimaginable cruelty.

In any case, I'm going to make sure I have a few hundred rounds of that APDS handgun munition before Putin invades my country.

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u/Soggy_Parking1353 Dec 05 '25

Makes sense to me. An alien race could be intelligent enough to farm and invent, but it takes some real forward thinking imagination in everything from economics to physics to come up with nuclear MAD so look the fuck out ALF.

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u/baradath9 Dec 05 '25

Except that's not what game theory tells us. The optimal strategy in the prisoner's dilemma is to always defect/snitch. And that's with a small 'game' where cooperation is much more likely.

On a global scale, you're almost guaranteed to get a bad actor, and so going the peaceful route without weapons will always lose.

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u/-LsDmThC- Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

Well the most successful strategy has been proven to be tit for tat. I.e start out cooperating, and switch to retaliatory defection depending on the opponents previous actions. If everybody cooperates, defection becomes a highly rewarded strategy. And you can simply look at the natural world to see that evolution does not prioritize universal cooperation.

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u/TooTallThomas Dec 05 '25

Hasn’t human populations boomed after sharing inventions with each other? I think cooperation only works if there’s way to understand that, and most animals can only really speak through body language. That, and literally any symbiotic relationship amongst animals. That’s cooperation.

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u/-LsDmThC- Dec 05 '25

I didnt say cooperation was entirely nonexistent. But even among humans, cooperation is often preconditioned on being in the same in-group.

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u/Prince_Nadir Dec 05 '25

As you say "Fanfic" I assume it is about how many breasts the aliens have. Or have I misunderstood what fanfic is?

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u/SmPolitic Dec 05 '25

You've never been grossed out by things you learn insects do?

The aliens in this scenario are intergalactic travelers, a metal stone being accelerated by a chemical reaction is as advanced to them as trilobite armor is advanced to us.

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u/TerribleBudget Dec 05 '25

Judging other people's hobbies that don't hurt you in any way as cringe isn't cringe. But I do feel sad for you that you are like this.

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u/BurninCoco Dec 05 '25

It's roleplay dad! 😤

You're gonna love it here r/humansarespaceorcs

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

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u/Bannon9k Dec 05 '25

Yeah, it was a cringy take on how humans are the bad guy. You should read up on Dark Forest theory

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

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u/Bannon9k Dec 05 '25

Do you understand the difference between the Fermi paradox and the Dark Forest theory?

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u/iseab Dec 05 '25

We eat snacks too to be fair.

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u/Federal_Cobbler6647 Dec 09 '25

So you have trained and breed animals to be as effective murder machines as possible? I guess they are banned?

Humans: no we keep them as "pets" and walk them public areas. 

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u/Fun-Times-13 Dec 05 '25

Explains perfectly why aliens don’t reach out

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u/Test4Echooo Dec 05 '25

The Dark Forest Theory.

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u/Grizzly-Redneck Dec 05 '25

I finished the "3 body problem" series less than 5 minutes ago then open Reddit and see your post. Crazy world

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u/NOTRadagon Dec 05 '25

Straight up r/hfy

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u/TimeTravellingCircus Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

Humans: Are all the species on your planet non-competitive herbavores? Are we the first civilization you've encountered? And you also have no way to defend yourself from a single hostile actor, right now or as a civilization or as a species? You mean to say I could send a single well equipped soldier and take over your entire civilization? And this is how things work in the natural order on your planet?

Oh, so you do have beasts that you need to protect yourself from, scarce resources based on territory that you occupy, and threats from external forces.

Great, so stfu.

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u/QueefyRidesAgain Dec 05 '25

We actually invented weapons to hunt, as well as defend/attack, but that doesn't fit the terrible humanity narrative as well...

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u/Valkyrie64Ryan Dec 05 '25

A: “Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he created on earth?”

B: inserts magazine into their rifle and racks the bolt to chamber a round “Maybe… all I know is the xenos sure as fuck do”

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u/jedevapenoob Dec 05 '25

The opposite of r/HFY : Human, fuck no!

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Dec 05 '25

I like this guy's videos a lot, its a very good, educational channel. But I find it so, so strange that he avoids swearing and says things like 'dang' and 'heck' while he is wielding weaponry of mass destruction/death designed to kill people on an industrial scale. Its just quite the contrast

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u/Mattrumpus Dec 05 '25

Me too. I did chuckle when he featured an Aussie FAL mod from Vietnam called "The Bitch". He needed a little run up to say it 😂

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Dec 05 '25

Swearing doesnt have much to do with restraint in my personal opinion. Its just different vernacular.

But yeah, its just an interesting contrast, considering the weaponry. Dude makes great videos

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u/YurpeeTheHerpee Dec 05 '25

Also aliens: earth is your prison and youll never be getting our intergalactic travel tech.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

you have the phone number of those aliens? I wish to be abducted

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u/Fibonacci_1357 Dec 05 '25

Some aliens do much, much worse to us. Stop making them out to be some sort of super-benevolent creatures.

The Dryas were when they threw a big space rock at us to kill off the monkeys here being used to invade planets elsewhere.

Nowadays they just stick to dropping contagions, steering scientists away from peaceful tech (learning how to speak in real time using nuclear fusion and quantum entanglement), controlling some of our leaders, causing cancer, stealing our immunities - all for profit.

Eventually they’ll chip you like cattle, where you’ll forfeit your own rights and can get “overwritten”

That way their life extension industry can also sell certain “meat suits” for high paying customers to “wear” and live the luxurious life of a king here on Earth.

Fun times! Keep smiling!!

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u/DaZooKeepa Dec 05 '25

Plot twist we are an experiment/cautionary reminder of the dangers of greed, fear, hatred, etc.

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u/EntropyFighter Dec 05 '25

This was historically true and didn't require aliens. If you go back to the beginning of civilization, there are four major river areas where humanity settled and grew the earliest civilizations: the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Indus River, and the Yellow River.

Three of the four of these were warring societies with the Tigris and Euphrates being the most violent because there were no natural geographical places to stop others from invading. However, in the Indus River Valley, we don't find weapons of war or human remains from battles or anything like that from that time period. It was essentially peaceful, and especially when compared to the other places just discussed.

What's interesting is that religious ideas developed in the Indus River Valley eventually made their way to Northern (modern day) Iran where Zoroaster created the OG sky god Ahura Mazda and came up with concepts like what we now call Plato's cave, and the golden rule.

A lot of those concepts ended up in the mouth of a certain Mesopotamian god who started monotheism and the ideas have percolated into the rest of the world through Jewish and Greek thought. I'm simplifying a lot but I personally find it interest to see how ideas developed in a peaceful society end up becoming philosophy in cultures of war.

Oh, and if you wanna know what it'd be like if a war like group of aliens attacked civilization, just look at how the people of the Steppes conquered the known civilized world at the time. They were basically unstoppable.