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Why are our tanks using diesel while the Americans use gasoline and jetfuel
>>64661708Metal melter
>>64664875BAAINBw suffers from profound mental retardation (nothing new), and as soon as someone who knows what a tank looks like sees this shit will yell at them to fuck off because Liebheer can't make a fucking tank engine.
>>64665212>BAAINBw suffers from profound mental retardation (nothing new)Does KNDS as well?
>>64661824The Cummincels are seething at this post
What are all these shitty off-topic threads on this board geared for diabetic zogbot-by-the-dozen responses?
Deep modernization of the Ukrainian ZSU-23-4 Shilka to -4M-A1 variant made by the Ukrainian charity foundation
Should do well vs shaheed spam.
This might be the first time I've seen footage of the Shilka on either side this entire war; they've been almost completely absent.
Thoughts the Stigler-Brown incident
>>64663883the crew did returned tho, and returned the favor by bombing Germany again Stigler was a traitor and nothing more
>>64665238From wikipedia". The American military attaché in Bern warned Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Swiss foreign minister in 1944, that "the mistreatment inflicted on US aviators could lead to 'navigation errors' during bombing raids over Germany"Based! I hope it is a true story.
>>64665234>>64665238Why were there Russians in a Swiss military prison?
>>64663319Reading the book makes you realize the rest of Stigler's life way more interesting than this one incident.Rubbing shoulders with other German aces, going from North Africa to Europe, watching the war slowly turn, it's really cool.
>>64665519To my understanding, the Swiss were only "Neutral" on paper and quite sympathetic to Germany at the time. So they did some favors for the Germans I assume and got a hold of some of their PoWs.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2209What are the warfare and tactical weapon implications of the US military not being able to reset a mission critical modem in a war with China?>Introduced
And snipers don't?
>>64661459All that kit and her hair is hanging over her eyes
>>64662408They do the same thing with the real guns. All the olympic stuff is minmax hyper specialized. Picrell .22lr free pistol
>>64659187snipers would use all the shit if it was war practical, but war isn't sport
>>64659187At the end of the day they dont, same way you dont need fancy optics and what not. It just makes it easier >>64661459I thinks its good to remind that these fuckers are shooting at a target like this.Scooring a 7 is absolutly terrible she ruined her chances at a podium position. Normaly the top 3 are decided because of who had the most bullseye 10s
>>64659187>File: target shooting.png
I don't get nuclear deterrence, the idea is that if multiple parties have a weapon of catastrophic but equal power, the fear of the other using it will keep the other in check, but if one uses it then the other party would be so fucked as to not even retaliate, so how does deterrence and MAD work?
>>64664310>it was no longer possible for a first strike to disable the enemy's ability to retaliate.I feel like the US could probably pull off a suckerpunch counterforce strike on India. They only have two boomers, geography is on the US's side and most of their stuff is focused on pulverizing Pakistan not getting blindsided from the other side of the world.
Considering all it takes is one rogue actor to do something retarded, is it safe to say nuclear war is inevitable?I find it incredibly astonishing that we've made it this long without having some sort of exchange.
>>64665053>someone will have to use the nukes to break the blackmailing thingNot necessarily. There were way more heinous instances of killing, espionage, playing chicken during the cold war. But it never escalated to nuclear use because nobody can guarantee that they can control nuclear escalation. That's why the simmering "I'm not touching you" behavior is so normal.>>64665176Can you guarantee that once you start going up the nuclear escalation ladder that you can control where is stops? Even with all our technology the answer thus far has always been no.
>>64665223>one rogue actorLike who? Anyone setting off a nuke, even in a clandestine manner would get immediately found out through those radiation tracking signatures and the raped out of existence for daring to use a nuke
>>64665176>Ok, that's it : I have enough of these motherfuckers pushing us around.>Let's bring 'hem down a peg, shall we ?>Target their fleet. Or that air base in the desert. With a nuke. a small one.If anyone is doing that, either they don't care dying over a misunderstanding or they will announcing so loudly that the target will have evacuated by the time the nuke hits.And even if they announce "look, it's only a small atomic weapon and it will NOT target your cities", you can bet there'll be some trust issues in the way.Even if the other side believes it, they might just say "fuck it, we'll do it too then". Will your side be ready to trust it ?And even then, would you then say "ok we both showed we aren't bluffing so let's stop before we actually wipe each other", knowing now that you are giving time for the other side to actually prepare for a full strike ?
A big majority of canadians now support purchasing new Gripen fighter jets over the F-35. At the same time, the canadian government is looking over cancelling the rest of the F-35 on order whilst considering buying swedish instead. Will this be the first big loss of locksneed martin? How will the americans cope when their own neighbor don't want their overhyped fighter?https://spencerfernando.com/2025/12/18/poll-canadians-support-future-purchases-of-gripens-over-f-35s-by-30-point-margin/
>>64656791Manufactured consent
>>64664086Ireland, has higher priorities
>>64656869What is woman name so secksi beautiful strong Indian immigrant man need Aryan wifey tell me bloody bastard
>>64663809Based. old kiwis are about to learn the ex minorities are no where near as egalitarian since they’re normal humans with in-group biases
>>64665225To be fair, that's activists. Not people even in the government, much less military.That said, to address it, I question whether the Irish Service (with their max of 4 ships even theoretically capable) could make it as far as Gibraltar without major incident. Anytime in the modern world that they have left their waters it has been with significant logistical support from European partners, such as training exercises or major international incidents. Recall that they aren't part of NATO and thus can't rely on easy port access.
It's a Christmas Miracle EditionOld: >>64652394
The delusion of .22lr as a training aid has always been funny to me. Im not saying shooting tight groups or plinking isnt fun or useful but anything you do with rimfire can be done with dryfire training wise
>>64665481Dry fire is gay and I'll never do it
>>64665481I would bounce around inside your skull turning your brains to mush if you said that shit to my face
>>64665517Nice 22 kc nigga
>>6466550922lr is even gayer
Ready. Aim. FIRE!Shock troops of the SS, rollout. Post tantalizing pics of your payloads and kristmas gear.Shipping deadline is passed! Quick, get it out so you still make the raffle! Make sure to send the tracking numbers to myself at wendigohunter at protonmail dot comthread theme: https://youtu.be/7pS3nx9zREE?si=ozZcmbvGApkzW3LJold thread>>64557036
>>64663884I was born ready, fren.
>>64664016>Of course we are currently at only about 3 needing grinch relief so farThat's way better than previous seasons.>we'd ship them a few temu switches and wish "oil filters" then notify some alphabetfagsFucking kek. Don't forget to add them to mailing lists impossible to get off of. Someone once added me to the QVC list.
BZ from OH: I think your pac/k/age might be a tad late. The USPS said that it's supposed to be delivered Monday the 22nd, but it just got to the Chicongo Processing Center an hour ago.
>>64664628Hopefully it won’t spend too much time in Chicago before making its way here. It’s less than a day’s drive. Maybe today it won’t arrive but I can foresee it coming in tomorrow.
This beautiful thing showed up. It likes it when I point a gun at it.
the Russian Army has deployed the use of horses
>>64665177Name his debut album title
>>64665405Dont tell me America will buy even more oil/gas from russia, and keep frozen russian funds secured indefinitely? Why would America do such a thing??
>>64664971...this isn't real right?
The Chinese golf carts don't look as stupid now.
>>64665308Missing apostrophe vs not knowing a common phrase https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/all-of-a-sudden
Winter stew at the right time edition Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikPrevious >>64656652
>>64664809Not handguns specifically, but it looks like Aussies are about to get fucked silly with more laws.
>>64664781Did you make that stew yourself?
>>64664809New striker fired plastic gun or another $4k 2011Ohh and a beretta 92 limited run special edition
>perpetrator was not blinded nor disoriented in spite of the hot spot from the officer's WML and two other lights along the police lineCandela is pretty much a meme
Putting some rounds through these Mec Gar 18rd 2011 magazines through my turkatto. So far no reliability issues in a stock pistol. At what point would you consider magazines reliable for carry or “duty”?
Independence class continues to be the goto testbed for the USN when it comes to fielding experimental autonomous/unmanned or high-trade systems.>The Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) achieved the historic milestone in the Arabian Gulf while launching a Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS).https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4363707/us-navy-in-middle-east-employs-attack-drone-at-sea-for-first-time/The way I see it, this provides even more asymmetric ability to the ship in the littorals and a long-range ground strike ability which some people have pointed out is missing without the inclusion of VLS cells or NLOS. What say you?I'm sure the thread will also become a shahed-style drone discussion so that's welcome as well, particularly in the context of launching from or targetting naval platforms.
>>64660420>The development is completedSorta. Its true they have one module of it. That said its not at all certified to actually operate on any ships. There is nothing physically stopping them from using it but there's not real certainty it would operate correctly or consistently. Don't expect to see it deployed to the field unless some extreme happens and the USN is looking to pull off a moonshot style operation.
>>64663416>Bringing up lack of bow sonar as an end-of-the-line argument is fairly outting. Bow sonar is arguably less useful in a littoral enviroment and (in the modern day) having your ship be your primary sensor platform (in the littorals) is a straight up retarded idea. Use of UUVs/USVs and aerial elements is far superior for a variety of reasons.The point you inadvertently make here is that thinking you are going to having the perfectly ideal setup every time is totally deranged. You have to account for things going sideways and you end up having to do with an imperfect setup because surprise, the enemy pulled a good move. You cannot count on the shore being friendly every time. You cannot count on there being no mines. You cannot count on the water being deep enough for your towed array. Are you going to drag it on the bottom, or have it so close to your ship that its affected by ship noise? You cant count on detecting enemy anti ship missiles at 30 km because their radar is in search mode. The independuncy/freedumb is simply not capable of doing more than gotta go fast. It cannot gun fight other ships. It cannot handle multiple anti ship missiles popping up over an island and diving down on it. It does not have rafted machinery, so it boldly announces its presence to any cowardly sub hiding in the deep as well to any enemy SOSUS array. The NSC cutter is barely less retarded. What I get from this and other failed projects is that the USN cannot design ships any more. Its incompetence paired with corruption paired with derangement.
>>64664810>The point you inadvertently make hereNo, I didn't>thinking you are going to having the perfectly ideal setup every timeNobody said this>You cannot count on the shore being friendly every time. You cannot count on there being no mines. >You cant count on detecting enemy anti ship missiles at 30 km because their radar is in search mode.All of this is still true even if you do have bow sonar>You cannot count on the water being deep enough for your towed array. Are you going to drag it on the bottom, or have it so close to your ship that its affected by ship noise?If you are operating at a depth where you shallow draft vessel is having to dragi its sonar on the sea floor then you are in an area where you will be able to physically see through the water to spot any subs, assuming they aren't run aground and surfaced. Its not a scenario that should ever come up for a warSHIP.>independuncyWorkshop this name more.>The independuncy/freedumb is simplyThe info I gave was generalized, it wasn't supposed to be about any particular ships, though of course I presented it in the context of the LCS and NSC as they are common topics.>It does not have rafted machineryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64664810>>64665488>What I get from this and other failed projects is that the USN cannot design ships any more. Its incompetence paired with corruption paired with derangement.Its significantly more complicated than that but I can't disagree with your assessment.
>>64659093Funny thing is that the Shahed is based on a crashed 2012 drone that Iran captured, we're relearning what we have invented from the Middle East because our society is so legally cuck restricted that sand niggers have more industrial experience than us now.
Post wheelgats. Just bought this 3rd change hand ejector dated to roughly 1912
>>64662522Heh…
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Posting revolvers in revolver general
>>64662588The 1858 is sexy, but wish it was a 45 and not .44
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