The year is 1965. 5 days ago the civilized world ended in a series of cataclysmic events, only a fraction of earths population remains. This has been just enough time for you to get your wits about yourself and go about wasteland business. To survive in the new and harsh semi-urban wastelands, you must arm yourself with whatever you see fit. Luckily you stumbled onto a vast armory containing virtually all weapons and vehicle technology available at the time. I say again, it is 1965, you may bring 5 weapons of any type and 1 vehicle. If you chose to have fixed or detachable armaments for your vehicle these WILL count as one of your weapon choices, including main guns, coaxes and so on. Which will it be? I've chosen 1965 to get a bit more interesting weapon and vehicle choices than you usually see in threads like this ^^.
BTW: Food, water and other things are implied, no need to include those. All weapons that are disposable you would get several of, if you opt for things like grenades they also come in a case or two. Note that the more you bring of anything, the more weighed down you will be and you may also need a more heavy duty vehicle. All weapons get a reasonable amount of ammo and magazines if needed.
My, likely a bit too overly detailed, list.
Primary Weapon: To enable myself to take out most living things at ranges of an impressive 800 meters and over with relative ease, I would chose the M14 Assault Rifle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M14_rifle]. It's very powerful, very accurate and reliable, and it's 7.62 round is highly available in virtually all countries around the world. I'd also have some high powered optics for it. The rifle also has a fully automatic firing mode, so highly versatile. Worth mentioning it was put in service already in 1957, so easily available for this time period. The only issue with this weapon would be that spare parts are somewhat scarce.
Secondary Weapon: As an easy-to-access weapon that could compensate for the parts-issue of the M14, I would chose the Israeli made UZI Sub Machine Gun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi]. It's compact and light, and seeing as well over 10 million of this weapon was made parts are much more readily available. Several clone versions with compatible parts exist trough out the world too. It fires the abundant 9mm round, likely the easiest caliber round to come by. First appeared in 1948.
Close Combat: A simple combat knife would suffice for this, as well a performing any other job that a knife would need to in the post apocalyptic wasteland. I'm not going to bother with the specifics on this, as knives are so common and in most ways so similar.
Anti-Vehicle: Though it was a tough race between the M72 LAW and my final choice, I eventually opted for the M20B1 [http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka]. Though I despise it's name (due to my negativity to anything with "super" in it's name, and my slight distaste of the word bazooka), the M20B1 trumps the M72 with it's ability to use several kinds of projectiles, and being re-loadable, where the M72 is a disposable weapon and you'll need to carry a larger number. It was also extremely widely used during WW2 and after, making parts and ammunition abundant. What I need from a recoil-less of the era.
Grenade: I'd chose my final weapon to be the M32 "Mills Bomb" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_bomb], the classic "pineapple grenade" of WW2, as it was produced by the countless million and any armory in the entire world at the time would have these in abundance. It's a relatively crude grenade, but functional and reliable, just what you need in a harsh environment like this.
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Vehicle: After much consideration, I have opted to not go with a heavy tracked vehicle nor a light jeep or truck, but rather the BDRM-2UM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BRDM-2-Command-latrun-2.jpg], which is the command vehicle version, without the armament and with much better space inside and room for storage on the roof. It's a decently fast vehicle, good protection against small arms and the view form the drivers seat is quite decent. It's also relatively fuel-efficient for it's type and day of age, and carries a fuel tank of a decent 290 liter capacity.
--And thats my list! By no means does yours have to be so detailed, I'd just like more opinions and ideas on what's best to bring with you in a 1965 post apocalypse ^^.
BTW: Food, water and other things are implied, no need to include those. All weapons that are disposable you would get several of, if you opt for things like grenades they also come in a case or two. Note that the more you bring of anything, the more weighed down you will be and you may also need a more heavy duty vehicle. All weapons get a reasonable amount of ammo and magazines if needed.
My, likely a bit too overly detailed, list.
Primary Weapon: To enable myself to take out most living things at ranges of an impressive 800 meters and over with relative ease, I would chose the M14 Assault Rifle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M14_rifle]. It's very powerful, very accurate and reliable, and it's 7.62 round is highly available in virtually all countries around the world. I'd also have some high powered optics for it. The rifle also has a fully automatic firing mode, so highly versatile. Worth mentioning it was put in service already in 1957, so easily available for this time period. The only issue with this weapon would be that spare parts are somewhat scarce.
Secondary Weapon: As an easy-to-access weapon that could compensate for the parts-issue of the M14, I would chose the Israeli made UZI Sub Machine Gun [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi]. It's compact and light, and seeing as well over 10 million of this weapon was made parts are much more readily available. Several clone versions with compatible parts exist trough out the world too. It fires the abundant 9mm round, likely the easiest caliber round to come by. First appeared in 1948.
Close Combat: A simple combat knife would suffice for this, as well a performing any other job that a knife would need to in the post apocalyptic wasteland. I'm not going to bother with the specifics on this, as knives are so common and in most ways so similar.
Anti-Vehicle: Though it was a tough race between the M72 LAW and my final choice, I eventually opted for the M20B1 [http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka]. Though I despise it's name (due to my negativity to anything with "super" in it's name, and my slight distaste of the word bazooka), the M20B1 trumps the M72 with it's ability to use several kinds of projectiles, and being re-loadable, where the M72 is a disposable weapon and you'll need to carry a larger number. It was also extremely widely used during WW2 and after, making parts and ammunition abundant. What I need from a recoil-less of the era.
Grenade: I'd chose my final weapon to be the M32 "Mills Bomb" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_bomb], the classic "pineapple grenade" of WW2, as it was produced by the countless million and any armory in the entire world at the time would have these in abundance. It's a relatively crude grenade, but functional and reliable, just what you need in a harsh environment like this.
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Vehicle: After much consideration, I have opted to not go with a heavy tracked vehicle nor a light jeep or truck, but rather the BDRM-2UM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BRDM-2-Command-latrun-2.jpg], which is the command vehicle version, without the armament and with much better space inside and room for storage on the roof. It's a decently fast vehicle, good protection against small arms and the view form the drivers seat is quite decent. It's also relatively fuel-efficient for it's type and day of age, and carries a fuel tank of a decent 290 liter capacity.
--And thats my list! By no means does yours have to be so detailed, I'd just like more opinions and ideas on what's best to bring with you in a 1965 post apocalypse ^^.
