Welcome to /k/, 4chan's weapons board. Our board centers around weapons, armor, and other myriad military technology. While guns are the primary topic, threads involving any other sort of weapons, from swords and knives to tanks and jet fighters, come up frequently as well.Discussions about politics, current events, or gun control belong on >>>/pol/Before posting a thread, please check our catalog to ensure that a thread about the same topic does not already exist.
All discussion of politics and current events goes on /pol/. >>>/pol/
Finished reading this last week, and as a read in of itself, I enjoyed it. Only the first half of the book is an actual book though, the remaining 200 something pages are all just source citations, which is cool but can be misleading if looking at page count. If you want to read it, you can find it on OceanofPDF.Tldr of the book>Russian biolab working on giga bioweapon (airborne pneumonic plague mixed with Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus), scientist has crisis of conscience and tries to destroy it, ends up releasing it on accident and getting infected>Infection causes 24 hours of engineered endorphin fueled euphoria to spread the disease as much as possible, then pneumonic plague but even more deadly and infectious kills you within a day or so>If you take antibiotics to ward off plague symptoms, you succumb to symptoms of VEEV in which your brain swells up and you get paralyzed then die>Oh fuck oh shit ensues>Literally within 6 days, the US and most of the world is in lockdown under martial law, POTUS spirited away to some secret hide out and military steps in domestically >Fast forward indeterminate amount of years>Only people who survive are people who perpetually keep their CBRN masks on (i.e, military) and survivors are disproportionately male>Russians rolled out experimental vaccine to defend themselves from their own bioweapon, side effect is terrible deformities in all children birthed by women who took the vaccine, Russian population growth absolutely halts and cannot continue >Europe barely holding on, most of the world in similar straits>Planets population lowered considerably to say the least I read Biohazard by Ken Alibek recently as well and that's a good read. But is there any actual truth to these "chimera bioweapons" where traits of two diseases are rolled into one package? Info is sparse online.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65432768>>65433598>>65435490>>65435496I suspect she intentionally wrote the actual makeup of the bioweapon to be something unwieldy and convoluted rather than going for something much more plausible because she wanted to reduce the risk of distributing ideas for easier ways to do bioterrorism. When reading stuff involving hypothetical terrorism and the like you often run into parts where the author gives wrong processes or comes up with some Rube Goldberg-tier way to commit an attack and it'll stand out so much compared to how competently the rest is written that I genuinely think they are self gimping it. They mostly are trying to raise alarm bells about safety measures and contingency plans, and I think are trying to balance convincing some politician to take it seriously after their legislative aide reads it and gets freaked out versus giving people ideas for causing mayhem. Synthetic prions are an example of something relatively easy to make that would be absolutely devastating, and I think there's something of an effort to keep that idea from getting too broadly distributed.
>>65432427>Biohazard by Ken AlibekI did a report on that book in middle school. I think I got a C
>>65435809Yeah that's true, but it's also way funnier if we distribute a fiction novel whose first 5 or 6 chapters detail the painstaking work the MC does in his garage to cause a common and nearly asymptomatic rhinovirus to initiate cytokine storms in ~25% of healthy hosts (doing a little trolling to the immune system) complete with pictoral diagrams
>>65434129>bioweapons are a solved issue and fortunately for most people they don't really workUntil some chud with ChatGPT Premium bioengineers some nasty shit in a gatorade bottle and wipes out half the world because he got ghosted again
>>65436129You would not believe how much money has been sunk into preventing flagship AIs from doing bioweapons work. I'm not sure if it's their absolute #1 priority but it comes damn close if not, which is honestly wild when you consider how few bad actors would actually try that hard to get around the basic security measures. Honestly until recently it was a case where you kinda already needed to know how to make one to get the models to do indirect tasks to assist you, but nowadays (particularly with Fable) they're basically just becoming wholesale useless for genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, and anything else in that vein. Probably only tightly controlled proprietary in-house LLMs for major biotech companies, from here on out
Slava slava oink oinkraine KEK
>>65436092Ukraine has sanctioned the bear's ability to have analogovnet Starlink
>>65436085>AI can't even decide if it's a flag or clothing on the pig>It also forgets that the yellow on the flag goes past said pigHonestly it's astonishing that motherfuckers even willingly pay for this shit
>>65436092Ufa got hit again, along with one of the Black Sea Fleet's strategic stockpiles
This thread has convinced me that russia is not losing the war and pathetic, but is actually winning and great
>>65436085>it's another zigger angry that russia is losing episode lol
Are fighter jets obsolete?
>>65432874Poojeets are
>>65434366>the man who fired that torpedo was at full mast for 3 hours straight
>>65432874>saar be mindfulkino
>>65434938but it makes you seethe so hard lol.
>>65432874Why is India so obsessed with these shitty ass relics?
The 30 round AK74 magazine is the best looking firearm magazine in existence
>>65435968>lays downcant go prone with an RPK mag dumbass
>>65435977Just hold your AK sideways
>>65435958Close but no cigar.
For me, it's the Lancer
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit editionPrevious >>65422878
>>65435860Nice.
>>65435860where to cop QoS engraved CH?
>>65435880My wife got it for me.
but enough about BRN-4 users!
He could be reading your comments
I have seen the occasional thread every few months revolving around /k/ adjacent movie recommendations, but have any of you watched any of these movies and thought "wow, that was dogshit."For me personally, the way of the gun was terrible. It is roughly a 120 minute long movie, and it has about 20-30 minutes of actual gun related scenes, which were pretty awesome, but the rest of the movie was dedicated to an uninteresting plot revolving around an annoying pregnant woman that I really wished would have been shot early, and the movie had an incredibly unsatisfying ending.
>>65435437It also bugs me that he does the long slow methodical check for magazines, which makes sense to do, but not if you knew you came to the fight with just one mag. So did he just forget? I guess maybe you can treat it like a realistic fuck up. He DID forget the mags but didnt waste time to slap his face and say "oh fuck!", he just moves on
>>65435379Mags were probably hard to find in 1999/2000. Also had to nerf the character for story.
>>65435544Its an IMI 332. I bought one because of this movie. Heavy, cumbersome but it looked badass. I dont remember the mag situation. Probably not good it was a pre 1989 ban rifle imported in limited quanities.
>>65435544*323 rifle
>>65414284If I recall in all the fighting the entire movie you see the robots grease like 2 hadjeets. Very shamefulWorst k movie I've seen is that god awful hippie crap Tigerland
This is my first ever 4chan post, so I'm sorry if it's dogshit.I recently turned 18 and I've REALLY been wanting to get my first gun. I live in a state in the US with pretty loose gun laws, so I think that it'll be fine actually procuring the gun. The only real issue is which gun I should get. I've thought about this before and I think a "good" choice is a Remington 760 chambered in .30-06. I should probably clarify that I'm NOT thinking of getting this because of it's bad history. What do you guys think? What should my first gun be?
>>65435793adding on to this, if you're insistent on getting a full power rifle, get a Mosin-Nagant. While still not a great price, (60-70 cents per round for surplus),7.62x54r is significantly cheaper than 30.06 (95 cents per round)
>>65435816that's terrible advice
>>65435711What do you want? What do you want to use it for?You could get something cheap to shoot to build your fundamentals. You could base your choice off of what you think is cool or fun. There's a some overlap to that. I think a bolt gun in 5.56 would be fun if I were starting over and a handgun in 22lr, 9mm, or .45. Or maybe a lever action in .357 magnum with an accompanying used Ruger GP100.
>>65435711What do you actually need it for? If you don't specifically need .30-06, a .308 rifle will make ammo cheaper and at least slightly more available. That or get an AR. >I should probably clarify that I'm NOT thinking of getting this because of it's bad history.I wasn't even aware of that until you mentioned it, to me it's always been just that one gun that's popular in PA for some reason I don't remember, and occasionally available secondhand where I live.
>>65435711Engaging in bait thread, where I live its 21 to handgun so you're stuck with rifles or shotguns for 3 hypothetical years. Get a PSA AR15 rifle or Maverick 88 shotgun, they're the cheapest dependable reasonable guns you'll find. I'd take the PSA for defense and Mav if you're into hunting or sports, they're both fun. If you're in a ban state good luck. Once you're 21 pretty much any less than 400 dollar 9mm or .380 pistol you find, Glock clones like PSA Daggers are pretty cheap or you could grab a Ruger LCP for 200
What's the best gun for dealing with robocops?
>>65433761Why has robotics tech stagnated for so long, these look like the exact same humanoid robots companies were showing off 25 years ago
>>65433764WHAT DOES HE WANT?
>>65433761M1 garand, blacktip
one of these days we're gonna be in trouble when they realize you dont have to make robocops/soldiers human shaped or sized.We know how to fight human shaped and sized things, it's gonna get more difficult when they are crab or spider shaped of various sizes.
>>65434106on the contrary, i get a good laugh whenever one of these things roundhouse kicks a kid in the face or stomach
>cruise missile: costs more per shoot, slower, can be shootdown with machineguns or manpads, requires complex mission planning, can carry less warhead>Balistic missile:cheap, requires specialized interceptors like thaad that cost millions, just sling it at the enemy, can carry tonnes of explosivesThe stealthy advantage of cruise missiles get fucked over by awacs btw
>>65436051>cruise missile: costs more per shoot>shoot>Balistic missile:cheap
>>65436109>Tomahawk 3.6mill>Atacms 1 mill>Prism 3millCheaper than the cruise meme
>>65436117>Flamingo is less than $600,000
What makes European weapons superior to everyone s else's?
>>65435903
>>65435903>d-don’t know>angry passive-aggressive chink ritualposting ensuesThe thing in your image isn’t really proving otherwise, angry and indirect scared chinkshill.
>>65435502the introduction of whitepowder
>>65435556and did exactly fuckall with it
>>65436108That's actually not true at all though. The Chinese did have matchlock muskets that they used and they also utilized artillery. Notably during the imjin war the Japanese armies that encountered the ming reinforcements had difficulty dealing with their cannons.
Will the ability for servicemen to sustain very high G forces be something you foresee being important for the militarization of space? I could see a future in which it isn't due to autonomous weaponry having that burden while manned craft moved much more slowly and acted as C&C only. Also, it seems like varying thrust would make doing so long term a lot easier, so you have high G "shifts" where crew are lying down and doing whatever possible to make it safer and more bearable and low G shifts for maintenance and breaks but I have never heard of this in fiction, is there some obvious flaw to it?
>>65436064Because both of them are actually measured by weight if you work in the industry, because volume varies with temperature, you dunce. Also, you need to use the farm gate price for ungraded whole milk, you dunce.
>>65436086Why do I need to do this? I have no desire to prove you right and that is the only possible motivation to follow your methodology I can think of.
>>65436091You can do it by volume if you want. The answer won't materially change. "Crude" milk is cheaper than crude oil no matter how you cut it.
>>65436098OK, but where did I mention "crude milk"?
>>65436101Here: >>65436013>Crude oil costs half that of milk."Milk" doesn't mean only the small fraction of the highest grade of milk, with the most expensive and constrained logistic chain measured at the packaged consumer retail price in a conversation about the relative scarcity of "Milk" vs "Crude Oil". Only an absolute mouth breathing retard eagerly digging to the most abyssal depths of the Dunning-Kruger trench would think that the thing he buys in a supermarket is Milk™ and that it tells him what all milk is worth so that he can infer some Big Brain Ideas about why we have wars over resources.Basicallt, fuck you for not being rigorous or thinking properly while smugly calling other people retards and thinking you're an insightful savant, buddy.
Thoughts about aicraft carrier/destroyer hybrids?
>>65435779You should probably learn what the Chinese system is called. As a hint, it isn't EMALS as that is the name of the system used on the Ford class.
>>65429248Neither does America anymore soon.
>>65435802>he's still spamming this lieit's truly implessive how angry and obsessed chinkshills get about the most random shit for no reason lol.
>>65435792Don't care. If the USN didn't want people to genericize it, they should've picked a more specific nomenclature than ElectroMagnetic Aircraft Launch System.
>>65429210Has anyone else tried? Just to rule out the very real possibility that Soviets were just shit.
Operator .45 edition Guide:https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikShooting challenge for the month of August (hg-08-2026)https://files.catbox.moe/brwglb.pdfPrevious:
>getting second thoughts on the color of holster>notice the change i want costs nothing when picking itfuck i hate bothering holster makers but I really want a different colori hope they dont give me some extra charge for the change
>>65436017Kek
>>65436023If they haven't even started working on it I doubt they'd be that pissed. Who's doing the work?
>>65436065im fine with the wait time, just hate having to make a correction after the factit's the hellhound arms holster
>>65436111I've never went through them, but an email could solve a lot of the anxiety, just ask if you could swap colors if the service hasn't started yet
