Post cool swords or swords you like, talawar of Mughal leader Aurugnzeb
>>64656236Did you do the Kerker Tourture Tour aswell? Its the Most fun I Had in a Museum in forever.
>>64656291>>64656263>>64656259>>64656253>>64656252>>64656247>>64656241>>64656238>>64656236Neat pics. I'm a little jealous since every time I've visited the Nürnberg castle the museum has been closed.
>>64657380>Axe like top edge>crossward is an actual knifeIt's not that hard to figure out is it?
>>64673595I heard that these serrations gave a fencer greater control over when the blade did, or didn't bind. Unsure if there's any truth in that.
Deep modernization of the Ukrainian ZSU-23-4 Shilka to -4M-A1 variant made by the Ukrainian charity foundation
>>64673700Those were tunguskas of you're talking about what I think you are.Though he too has been conspicuously absent other than the video of Russians bitching to tsar about all their tanguskas being broken.>16 2K22M1 Tunguska: (1, destroyed) (2, 3, 4 and 5, abandoned and later destroyed) (6, abandoned and later destroyed) (7, destroyed) (8, destroyed) (9, destroyed) (10, destroyed) (11, destroyed) (12, destroyed) (1, damaged) (2, damaged) (1, damaged and abandoned) (1, captured)Well I guess they must be doing something somewhere but I haven't seen it.
>>64673700Those were Tunguskas (lol).
>>64665984Yeah, some of the modernizations like Poland's seem to just chuck the radar and go fully electrooptical. I wonder which is the better approach
>>64665602Based WG:RD autist
>>64666458>The 23 mm guns themselves remain a major weakness They are not great, but they are available and ammo is cheap with a metric fuckton still in storage. For Geran type drones, the upgraded Shilkas seem to be 'good enough'(TM) to make the exchange economically viable and sustainable. A plausible tool to help defeat saturation attacks.
Speech: http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/5ceed4f1eb2058145a9bbbc60fcf07dd.kcmsftl;rd: Basically they want a nuclear sub fleet and are building a Blue Water navy, new surface ships explicitly referred to as 'Attack Destroyers'1/4: It is large.
>>64676729>Fuck you, anon, I will be fantasizing about this for weeks nowWell fuck you too LELDownload the Palin documentary if you have not already. You can put some scenes on repeat. I especially like the guide that meets him at the train station.
>>64676736>Do Norks smoke weed? Asking for a friend.Yes they do.
>>64676760Perhaps you haven't noticed, but North Korea's nukes don't have the range to reach the US and we could could easily shoot them down anyway. They are, however, conveniently located within range of Beijing, which doesn't have much available in the way of ballistic missile defense. It would be an existential threat to the norks if the chinks were to cut off the rice dole.
>>64676789Not before the Revolutionary Guard destroys the water supply and the economy collapses
>>64676713Read Sung. It's HP Lovecraft tier insanity:https://korea-dpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Kim-Il-Sung-Condensed-Biography-1.pdf
>Ukraine lost 87% of its Abrams tanks in under two years. Australia's 49 replacement tanks arrive as the 68-ton breakthrough weapon has been forced into a different role>It is now used not as a spearpoint but a "shielded hammer" — only surviving in a symphony of sensors, jammers, and screens.Tanks are now truly obsolete:https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/australia-completes-delivery-of-49-abrams-tanks-now-they-must-survive-the-drones/
>>64675676They've been steadily contributing to TZD for years now.
>>64660417We call those IFVs now
>>64659816PRAWRXD on YT
>>64659150Because there's no reason to? Ukraine is kicking Russia's ass just fine with what it has.
>>64676905Pathetic excuse for the freezing of US aid
I used to intern with a Class II FFL precision rifle builder who also manufactured some NFA items and no joke, you can literally make a good quality (albeit rough finished) suppressor for under $100 provided you have a lathe. You can make even cheaper wipe suppressors for close to $50 out of pipe tubing you find on amazon. I remember watching this video by an American volunteer in the Ukrainian International Legion who talk about a company in the Czech Republic that sold suppressors for the Bren 2 that cost $125 so clearly it doesn't cost that much to make them yet I'm having a hard time finding anyone selling even shitty .22lr whip suppressors for under $500. Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?
yeah
Not really.
>>64676719>Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?This might happen, but obviously it hasn't yet. I do think there's a lot of hype surrounding suppressor design. There's a deliberate marketing mythology about high tech baffle designs and stuff. Sure, they're better, but not that much better.I'm going to Form 1 a .22 can out of pipe and washers. It'll be fine. Next I'll make a .30 can from a piece of heavy steel seamless pipe that rolled off a truck next to a McDonald's where I was eating lunch a couple years ago.
>>64676719I don't think people know what a lathe is anymore.
>>64676719>Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?Yeah no shit. The tax hasn't gone away yet. Hence nobody is paying $200 to the government for a $100 can. This time next year, there will be solid options in all calibers for under $300, probably under $200. And hopefully soon after, grifters who sell $1000 cans with basic bitch internals will go out of business. There will of course still be a market for expensive cans. But they will only be those that have a truly market-leading quality in some regard (ie dead air's ultra quiet 3d printed baffles, surefire's reputation for durability, etc). No more $600 cans from random companies with nothing unique about them.
Now that the dust has settled, what is the /k/onsensus on the MiG-23?
>>64673866>In alternate reality soviet union>flight instruments monitor youi see you anon
Is there a single MiG-23 variant that has a computer that automatically set the wing angle configuration depending on speed?
>>64676592Seems to have been a Soviet design tradition. The Mig-17 actually had a telescoping stick so that the pilot could get get more leverage. It was reported that some Vietnamese pilots put a foot on the panel in extreme cases or pulled forcefully enough to bend the stick.
>>64676817IIRC from the Mig-23ML on. The problem was by the time the ultimate MIG-23 could be fielded, the USAF was converting to F-15s and F-16s
>>64664229No reason to have ever gotten rid of the MiG-21, aka the Flying Kalashnikov
Are modern U.S. shipyards still capable of producing ships on such a scale?
>>64676743>*had NO large military industry
>>64673170>Russian cruise missiles are the same as American cruise missiles>Russian SEAD is the same as American SEADLol, lmao even.
>>64671802why would they need to do that when they can barely scrape together crews for the ships that they have?
All I'm going to say is that the jingoist sentiment in this thread is both retarded and concerning. No one beat the Nazis, or Soviets, or Japanese by underestimating their enemy. They beat them by assuming and planning for the upper bounds of worse case scenarios and then achieving overmatch. No one has ever lost a war because they overestimated their enemy but many, many people have lost wars by underestimating them.
>>64676895This thread reeks more of cope than anything else. People don't want to admit that the US has declined dramatically since World War 2 with regards to steel production and shipbuilding. Yes, China can and will have a much larger (and newer) navy than the US if things go south in the Pacific. Current US military procurement is mostly Wunderwaffe which isn't a bad thing as a deterrent but definitely would not last in a war of attrition which is ultimately what China will try to drag the US into if it ever does go down. We can see the continued failing on this front with the Vietnam War and other later conflicts in the War on Terror.
Paul never used red dots or really any kind of optic. Was he right/wrong?I also miss Paul on another note.
>>64675702Only larperators get mad about Paul Harrell
>>64675422It's not a useful data point at all, he, and clearly you, legitimately have no idea how creating a control of measure based on thousands of real world examples works, at all.Your brain can not comprehend scientific theory, you're basically braindead, and Paul is literally dead dead.>>64675607>It gives an ideaNeat>its more interesting than gelSubjective, I find it ridiculous, boring and there to appeal to 12 year old kids and 50 year old southerners who wanna see DA MEAT GET SHAWT>He never claimed it was anything more.Rewatch every single one of his videos where he shoots it and get back to me.
>>64668600Use what works for you.I do better with irons during the day but dot at night.
>>64675948Go away Caleb
>>64676143Don't know what that means but stay mad parasocialfag
>>64676604Not really SOCOM is more like the old Ghost Recon games. Taking a small team of NPCs through a pretty open map.Full Spectrum Warrior is full of very linear enough areas that have to be puzzled out.>>64676618The Army paid for and got the realistic cheatmode delivered, Microsoft got the rights to release a public version. The cheatmode version giving the player an actual character that could be harmed really changed how it played.
This game is so fucking good fuck you Microsoft give me back my 360 data
>>64676169no
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>>64676444The loss of Pandemic and THQ was devastating to video games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1De13ZnrNI
>>64676723Guntuber drama is something I usually don't pay attention to but given what I've heard about GT especially with his pervious marriages I wouldn't be too surprised if behind closed doors he can be kind of a dick.
>>64676739I think it's kinda gay to hate on GT, he seems pretty based like Admin.like it's either parasocial losers or leftists who hates him.
>>64676748>GT bangs jewish whores>Is an adulter>takes money from isreal to shill their guns>BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WALLlmaothe only people who like him are parasocial losers like the paul harrel cultists
>>64676183>zoomer>autism>exmilbody count easily in the upper 60s and im not talking kills iykwim
>>64676353Most guntubers are absolutely devoid of charisma and public speaking skills, with James Reeves being the only exception I can think of. Remember the black background Garand Thumb videos where he would just stumble over his own script for 20 minutes?
Kinda surprised, this is actually pretty decent. Is Glock too big to fall? They seem to have stagnated.
>>64669992To be fair given the striker and later revised DAO guns they replaced it with, ruger didn't like the LC9 trigger either
>>64662345Be honest anon, were you daydrinking?Because resident wine enthusiasts The French invented magazine safeties I assume after too many dehydrated, tired and inebriated officers ND'd their rubies
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>>64663069What's the trigger on these like?
>>64662355>dust cover gapFinna buy one anyway
>The Special 2TL Type (特2TL型, Toku 2TL gata) was a class of auxiliary escort carriers built for the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. They were converted from Type 2TL tankers. It is also called the Yamashio Maru (山汐丸) class in some western sources.>Only the name ship was completed during the war and she was sunk by American aircraft before she could be used.>In 1944, the Japanese Army, which had already converted two passenger liners into combined assault ship and aircraft carriers, decided to acquire its own escort carriers to provide aerial anti-submarine cover for troop convoys. It therefore chartered two partly built Type 2TL Tankers, Yamashio Maru and Chigusa Maru, for conversion to auxiliary escort carriers.[1]>The conversion was extremely simple, with a 107-metre (351 ft 1 in)-long flush flight deck added. There was no hangar, the ship's eight Ki-76s being stored on deck. Defensive armament consisted of sixteen 25 mm anti-aircraft guns, with a depth charge projector forward.[2]>Yamashio Maru commissioned on 27 January 1945 and was sunk at Yokohama harbor by US aircraft on 17 February.[2][3] Plans were drawn up for conversion to a coal-burning freighter,[1] but she was never used as a carrier. Her sister ships, Chigusa Maru and Zuiun Maru, were incomplete when Japan surrendered and served after the war as tankers:[2]>Chigusa Maru was sunk in 1945. The ship was repaired as tanker in 1945 and scrapped in Sasebo in June 1963. Zuiun Maru was scrapped in Oskata on 15 June 1964.The IJA also previously built the Type A and Type C Aircraft Carriers, the latter seems to be the first amphibious assault ship made since its aircraft complement included autogyro rotorcraft
>>64676698three bombers with heavy payloads launched behind frontlines could definitely wreak quite a bit of havoc.there was that ill-fated ultra long range raid with P1Y bombers. Almost all failed to reach the target destination because of mechanical problems, but the two that reached it managed to strike unimpeded (one hit a carrier, the other apparently mistook a football field for a carrier and crashed into it)
>>64676845>heavy payloadsLol, no.
>>64676856>Bombs:1× Type 91 torpedo or2× 250 kg (551 lb) or 1× 850 kg (1,874 lb) bombsnear 2,000 Ibs of bombs is definitely a heavy payload, it's more than what nearly sunk the Franklin. The long lance needs no introduction.
>>64676862It really isn’t.That’s just about equal to a typical carrier based dive or torpedo bomber.Except a carrier can launch dozens of bombers + fighter escort. An I-400 has three.That long-range raid mentioned earlier? Twenty four bombers, each with a larger payload plus kamikaze pilots, and they only damaged a single small carrier. Three or even nine aren’t going to be capable of much more, while also requiring a 6500 ton displace submarine + crew.
>>64676878I think you're legitimately retarded, the advantage of three submarine launched bombers is that they can attack from unexpected directions in unexpected areas, with minimal chance of interception. A carrier is a big surface target that can be spotted by recon hundreds of kilometers away, it can't sneak up through any basically competent surface search blanket. Its strike projections and vectors also come from predictable directions and are usually large enough to be easily picked up on radar unlike 3 floatplanes.
No politics, no industrial feasibility or cancellation talk allowed.What is the logical military use case for a huge expensive "battleship" with 3x more displacement than a Ticonderoga and only a few more VLS cells? What advantage could it hold over Flight III Burkes, DDG(X), VPM SSNs, or an SSGN Columbia variant?>1. The core use case would be a large fast cruiser able to escort carriers at prolonged high speeds around the Pacific, in situations where conventional escorts and their oilers couldn't keep up, or would slow the carrier down with UNREP making for risky ASBM attack windows.This is reliant on it being nuclear powered, which isn't confirmed and makes it more expensive and industrially intensive. Perhaps the Navy has done the math and found that cruising around at an unbroken 35 knots is useful to increase the PLA's sea search volume or complicate ASBM kill chains. But it doesn't have that many VLS cells so it must rely on novel weapons as an escort to avoid magazine depletion. >continued
>>64672575>the whole thing is Gas/Diesel poweredWHAT THE FUCKTHIS IS THE WORST PART OF ITIT'S NOT NUCLEAR POWERED?!?! How the HELL are they going to power everything? Sustain long-duration missions, WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO PUT ALL THE FUEL????It needs to be NUCLEAR POWERED or call this bullshit off now
>>64675548Zumwalts also have 48 less VLS, no 5" guns or lasers/railgun (assuming thise aren't replaced with even more VLS in the future.
>>64672493A hull is a hull, and larger hulls have more capabilities. While the version displayed at the press conference lists a lot of experimental capabilities, they could build the hull first and outfit it with conventional weapons that will be replaced/upgraded over time, like most ships. Also, based on what the USN has been testing recently, we know that VLS mounted drone ships are the future. A Trump is merely a command and control vessel for a squadron of arsenal ships that have a minimal or robotic crew. So the numbers of VLS on a hull are secondary to its ability to guide long-range missile fire. That doesn't preclude the building of smaller control ships; it just makes the Trump a flagship. And the railguns have the potential, maybe, to provide more enduring fire support for amphibious operations than our current options, which will allow it to deploy to conflict zones that don't require an aircraft carrier or where the cost would be extreme for the benefit.>>64672859And that makes the Navy useless in most situations. Their strategic doctrine is completely fucked up. The Royal Navy was not a "We only fight boats at sea" organization.
>>64676176>Zumwalts also have 48 less VLS, no 5" guns or lasers/railgun (assuming thise aren't replaced with even more VLS in the future.It might have fewer VLS tubes, but it might have a lot more depending on which of the official spec sheets is correct (see pic related). It doesn't have a 5" gun because it has a 6" gun that actually works, unlike the railgun. And while it doesn't have a laser, it does have enough power generation to support one.
>>64674972The Ticonderega cruisers badly need a replacement. The Trump BBG would fulfill that job
Gripen pilot, shareholder, and spokesperson says stealth is irrelavent 70's tech on major youtubers podcast
It's over f22 sistersGripen chads have won
Lockheed Martin sales manager says stealth is extremely important in latest shareholder report
>>64676850 (OP) #>be Swede>work for a company building budget military jets>you could make stealth fighters, but a far larger country has that market cornered>launch giant publicity campaign so every journo in the sector talks about your Fighter Mafia wet dream>tell them stealth isn’t relevant and your jet can do everything better for a fraction of the costused car salesman vibes
Being less noticeable on radar will never NOT be relevant, even if it’s no longer functional near-invulnerability
>>64676850>Fox says grapes are shitty, fake and gay
Why do black guys ALWAYS keep this little rubber dingus on their AK charging handle like it’s some sort of accessory?
>>64671603Those are unironically the dumbest AK accessory. They actually make the charging handle harder to use.
>>64671638>>64672315You sound incredibly gay-tsundere for black people, anon. You need to get it out of your system.
>>64671602>Do you leave the protective plastic sheet on your phone screen or monitor?
>>64671457Nobody asked the important question as to how many black guys with AK's you know that would lead you to form a racial stereotype. I think that would be the bigger issue
Probably the same reason retards wear flat brim baseball caps.
