is the px4 storm a good pistol
>>65096756How's it different?Is it spinny?
>>65096419>underbidThey won the contract before that. The MHS was also for new 9mm ammunition. Glock partnered with Federal who came up with a three part, lead free bullet a la the M855A1. Federal had patents and didn't want to let anyone else to produce it, so license rights were shitty. This is a big deal for the Army if they wanted to up production using other manufacturers in case of war. SIG partnered with Winchester, who brought a FMJ flat point and didn't give a fuck about licensing. Glock also lagged behind on the ergonomics, which their plastic 2x4 grip has never done well in. It was the ammunition that really caved them. The fact that they were $100 million more expensive would have only mattered in a tie breaker situation like the XM9 trials.
>>65097379So it's another situation like the airland scorpion being hamstrung Textron's retarded maintenance contract?
>>65096420Yeah you're right the sphinx SDP should have won
>>65097379That's incredibly talmudic. How can anyone outjew sig with fucking licensing fees for fucking ammo? I wouldn't be surprised if the other competitors during the NGSW program tried to pull that shit too and now we're stuck with the fucking M7 and the M2shitty
Artillery autism thread. anything 20mm and up welcome
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/2047357912457105482
I want airdroppable vehicles, I want them now.No parachutes.
>>65100647This is legit comical
>>65101597what a hell of a way to die
>>65100647Not as good as that time the pissed off loadmaster cut the chutes on a dozen hummees and they all splatted in a row.
>>65100647Uncle Hank, their dead!
which blade shape is best or self defense?
>>65100907>Cold Steel starts a thread instead of buying an ad.No wonder all your shit is made in Taiwan
>>65100926Bread will never stand a chance. Or cut neatly.
I got the 5.5" Espada in SV35N a few years ago.It's nice.
>>65100907
>>65100907Fixed blade knife, 4-6 inches, has a design that supports both stabs and cuts. I'm very fond of trailing points like these three I'm about to link, but other shapes can work too.https://www.bladehq.com/item--Spyderco-Bow-River-Fixed-Blade--85407https://www.bladehq.com/item--QSP-Viper-QS166-C2--218051https://www.bladehq.com/item--CRKT-Clever-Girl-Fixed-Blade-Knife--34376
I became very intrigued by the idea of crazy sharp edges after watching this scene from the movie “Drive”. That is what got me started with my whetstone/sharpening hobby. https://youtu.be/SS-bO_xxCbQ?si=C2edudWcsQWeBjkv
>>65098853if you wanna be delusional sure. its obvious to everyone whose not you what this is and its really pathetic. wonder how long the bans going to be for this call out.
>>65098865Maybe, if it's been properly sharpened, but not everyone knows how to sharpen a straight razor. >even after they've been told how to sharpen a straight razor
>>65091272>>65091164We should take a moment to remember that most people don't sharpen their own knives and have never attempted to develop any skill at doing so. We should also observe a moment of silence to morn the loss of practical skills in our modern age.
>>65100179>We should also observe a moment of silence to morn the loss of practical skills in our modern age.In past age blade sharpener was literally a profession. And they used gay wheel grinders.
>>65096106>>65098853Yep, thought so.
Photographs only>no drawings, cartoons, game screengrabsany World War I/later military airplanes combat or otherwise that are not stealth
>>65101014nice
>>65098925Black Widow my beloved
Does anyone make smooth, relatively featureless suppressors without a retarded naming convention these days? It's never been easier to manufacture and register NFA items and somehow it seems like no one is even trying to fill the retro niche. I do not want a "badass" rollmark. I do not want it ribbed for my pleasure. I do not want it to say "whisper pickle ass bandit dead air jonkler water trash panda" on my can. Any good reccs?
SOS out of Arizona. It's just a chunk of shit that works and is robust.
>>65095789Sure, if you have a week to spare to get that shitty thing running.But before we put in all that effort, explain to us what kind of supressor you would actually build at home and what it's insides look like.Because I'm pretty sure the lathe is not getting us all the way there.
>>65095681Allen Engineering makes the AEM5 in 5,56 and 7,62 while Otter Creek makes the OCM5 in 5,56. I'm quite fond of mine.
>buy whatever suppressor you want>buy some thin walled aluminum or stainless tubing of the correct ID>cut to fitWould this not work? You'd have to make it removable I'm sure, so as not to conceal the serial permanently
>>65101578>Would this not work?Yes that would work fine.>You'd have to make it removable I'm sure, so as not to conceal the serial permanentlyYou'd almost certainly want to do so anyway in case you ever had a baffle strike or something and needed warranty repair. Another approach would be to do a sort of shroud thing, attach your tube to a bit of pick rail and some extension and then just have it hang off the front of your handguard encapsulating the can. There are some companies making products like that, basically as an alternative to the traditional suppressor wrap. Usually they're carbon fiber or poly in the case though with venting on the bottom, part of the point is to prevent heat mirage once the can gets hot while still giving it better cooling then a wrap would.But if OP wants the look of an "exposed, featureless" can for cool/nostalgia reasons nothing wrong with that. He's probably better just getting a can like that, but what you describe would work if he couldn't find one with other features he wanted.
What were the Soviets hoping to accomplish by building these instead of just spamming more Sovremenny class DDGs?Are large missile cruisers like these or the hypothetical Trump class a dead end of putting too many eggs on one, non-submarine basket?
>>65100137>staff facilitieswhat makes you think the Trump / Defiant won't have flag facilities?>the Tico carried nearly the same loadand they were so stupidly overstuffed that they couldn't even find a proper place to put the Harpoons>So that's 25000+ tons for the additional 5", the CPS silo, railgun and the powerplant. That is more than two Ticos combined. Insane numbersand the SLCM-N silo, don't forgetand I think you're greatly underestimating the size of the CPS siloeach tube is 87" diameter, and a 4-cell CPS silo is about 350" by 180" going by the Zumwalt photos, picrel; 12 cells might therefore be about 350" by 540", give or take a bityou can fit 200 to 300 Mk41 VLS cells in that areanow that's insane numbersComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65100353>and the SLCM-N silo, don't forgetSLCM-N will be launched from standard Mk.41 cells.>and I think you're greatly underestimating the size of the CPS silo>each tube is 87" diameter, and a 4-cell CPS silo is about 350" by 180" going by the Zumwalt photos, picrel; 12 cells might therefore be about 350" by 540", give or take a bitThe Trump class will use GVLS, not the advanced payload tubes. They're denser since they use square cells rather than partitioned Trident tubes. Also, the Trump class's 12 GVLS cells will carry the same number of missiles as the Zumwalt class's APM, since the APM packs missiles three to a tube.
>>65100137>I'm not sure why the 5" is on there unless they're hedging against the railgun being vaporware that will never be fielded. Haven't heard how they will fix the rail wear issues in that regard but I digressIncreased rate of fire when you don't need the full range or velocity of the railgun. As someone pointed out earlier in the thread, rail wear is a function of velocity rather than energy, which is why the 60 MJ EMALS doesn't need its rails replaced daily. The same materials science advances that make Japan's 40mm mach 7 railgun viable also make a 140mm mach 7 railgun viable. The reason the Navy shelved their railgun program several years ago was because their goal was to develop a 64 MJ railgun that could launch projectiles at upwards of mach 9, and they decided that it was a goal that might never be possible to achieve.
>>65100261The data center could require more space, but it's unclear what size that would be and you'd probably go with a rack system so upgrades would not increase in size over time. >F-22 Oh I'm with you. The Navy is 1000% more useful and more important than anything air force that isn't bombers. I'd have no problem with taking all the F-47 money and putting it into F/A-XX. I just really really don't care for shore bombardment capability from 5-6 inch guns. There isn't a single incident were the Navy was in a situation where it would have been a gamechanger. The trend clearly goes toward actual long range fires and the ability to survive them.>naval assetsAssuming you mean stationary things like ports, you're right. But I see zero utility in this 115 mile range when you're putting yourself firmly in range of third world tiers of AShMs, BMs or drones or even USVs. >tomahawkIt exist to generate long range fires at low altitudes. From an oblique position. That is actually useful flexibility because of the long range of the tomahawk and it not being required to fly in a straight line. It would not be useful if it's range was 115NM. >>65100353Yes CPS is big and I don't think I'd bring up size at 20k tons or 25k tons displacement. It's still just fucking huge. I'd at least go with a mk57 distributed vls to get the length down. The +800ft length alone limits it to being assembled at Ingalls or Newport and I guess it technically fits NASSCO. If I close my eyes I can just see congress cancelling this thing after 2 ships because of it's size and cost.
>>65101144>The data center could require more space, but it's unclear what size that would be and you'd probably go with a rack system so upgrades would not increase in size over time.My guess is 12-24 DGX nodes (so 96-192 GPUs) and a substantial amount of tiered storage on top of that. Don't forget to consider cooling requirements, probably also with redundancy. And DDG-1001 is getting a battery bank that takes up the below-deck volume of one of its AGSes, called LOC-NESS. I would expect something similar or larger for the BBG considering the kind of power draws it will need to buffer.>I just really really don't care for shore bombardment capability from 5-6 inch guns.You mean any guns. The AGS is the longest range gun system ever built, apart from the three Project HARP spaceguns.>Assuming you mean stationary things like ports, you're right.No, I mean naval assets. Even if they're mobile, you're not going to carry them 120 miles inland, and even if you do, they're now useless. Take apart all of your ships and shipyards and naval bases and store them in a secret underground mountain lair for all I care, the effect is the same as if they were destroyed.>It exist to generate long range fires at low altitudes. From an oblique position. That is actually useful flexibility because of the long range of the tomahawk and it not being required to fly in a straight line.Yes, but you can do that with air launched munitions, too. You claim that the AGS is useless because a JDAM can do the same thing. So why is Tomahawk useful when JASSM or JSM can do the same thing?>The +800ft length alone limits it to being assembled at Ingalls or Newport and I guess it technically fits NASSCO.Philly, too. It would be fitting for the same shipyard that built the Iowas to build the new battleships as well.
Stay Together For The Kids EditionPost Wood (furniture)ReproduceTech them kidsLove Battle RiflesNot Just Frens, Family.thread theme~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQuc7wfO16QAs always; no trips, no traps, no airsoftPreviously on /brg/: >>65018415
>>65099385>because it feels wrongI can see you are actually quite sensitive.
>>65099385This is an unnatural interpretationThere are grey area merchants out there, the tone and writing style they use is completely different
>>65101419I shot off a message to Atlantic asking them to clarify their meaning in the item description (Can I legally make this a full auto rifle as the time description says?) And they sidestepped this in the response by saying to contact the ATF. Rather than just openly saying no, because no is the correct answer, they handed off responsibility back to the customer to contact the ATF. They are being extremely weird about the kit, IMO.
>>65099385This is low iq drivel lol>>65099385
>>65101562This has to be someone the co sequence pf being raised on youtube and not talking to boomer fudds on forums because this is every kit description since FAL build parties were a thimf in the 90s. Methinks ypure autisming a little too close to the sun there kiddo.
Modern weapons are brutal
All weapons are brutal, I'll take a rifle round to the head over dying of infection 2 weeks after taking an arrow to the gut.
In terms of their destructive power against the human body, the large-caliber ammunition used in later muskets and early rifles was also considered problematic.
what sight is on the rifle? jewgle isn't helping like it used to
>>65096389No it's not. It does weigh more (extra material) but it isn't "cuck shit", it's a more rigid design and that's pretty much the entire point. It isn't very useful for anything other than precision shooting though, and pistol grip + stock is an easier combo to manufacture and repair.>>65096393It isn't supposed to be. The reinforcement is in an area that your fingers shouldn't cover with proper technique. It doesn't appreciably differ from a normal stock in any way that would make it significantly worse for an infantry rifle, you're fucking retarded. It's just unnecessary.
>>65096361Why did they remove the bolt hold/release?
>>65096389>is it much of a downgradeModifications are almost never straight upgrades or downgrades. They're changes which are better for some things or worse for others. That kind of stock is very popular for target rifles for benchrest competition. They're heavier and you get more contact with the stock when you're shooting off the bench. That's good for accuracy. They have terrible ergos for shooting in field positions though, so if you wanted a fighting rifle you have to shoot quickly and from odd positions this would be more awkward than normal.
>>65096767>you're fucking retarded. >It's just unnecessary.bi polar bitch
>>65096361>>65096362You see this Bethesda? THIS is how you design guns.
The Shahed has RETVRNED to its rightful inventors.
>>65101282Apex seals are literally not a problem. The 13B-MSP in the RX-8 had problems with the side and corner seals due to the location of the exhaust ports. The 13B-RE in the JC Cosmo and 13B-REW in the FD RX-7 mostly just had turbo and vacuum system problems, but where they had engine seal problems, it was mainly with the oil seals. The 13B-DEI in the FC RX-7 and HB Cosmo had problems with the coolant seals. None of these are apex seals. Apex seals were a solved problem by the late 70s, and the only time anyone runs into issues with them is when they try to run thousands of RPM beyond their engine's stock redline and they're too cheap to buy ceramic seals. It's like complaining that the Chevy LS engine is defective because you get valve float when you try to spin a stock motor to 8000 RPM.
>>65088670What is this guys name?
holy shit that nigga is like 4 feet tall smdh
>>65101371Freuding
>>65078079Is that zelensky? Lmao what a fuckin midget. I'd body that faggot so hard
Which post-war superprop was the best?
>>65095976they look neat in an XP-72 kind of way but must have had major torque issues(idk anything about how they were air raced)
>>65089960I believe so, pilot's handbook has the time limit at 5 minutes.
>>65097759That's the F4U-4 variant which didn't see combat service until the last few months of World War II.It had the R-2800-18W (water injection) engine; later post-war production -4s, that became famous in Korea, had the R-2800-42W.World War II Corsairs were mostly F4U-1, -1A, and -1D variants.pic related is a factory fresh F4U-4 in flight July 1945 just prior to war's end
>>65073309italy made a jet in ww2 and it was slower than a biplane
>>65073309>Tempest doesn't come close to touching a MeteorWrong, not the World War II Meteors: >>65084884Also the Tempest Mk VI >>65072420 was GOATMk II >>65074003 wasn't too shabby either
>control F>no patch threadWe can’t let this part of /k/ culture die Trade, create, and sell your patches!Post good design ideas and maybe a patch store will make them.>Where can I buy that sweet patch/ find patches?https://patchfeed.com/patch-seller-list/>Classic Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/cXZTGafD (2016)>other listsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65082498I'm working on a new list of vendors at the moment.
>>65100868Add Koz to the blacklist/MIA.
>>65100897Done. Also open to new vendors we may not have heard of here.
>>65099059>i'd love to buy patches from them if they have a market like we doThey've got some vendors doing that on their Etsy equivalent:https://booth.pm/en/items?tags%5B%5D=%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%83%81
Why is MiG-29/35 a commercial failure?
>>65098890I actually don't. It's mostly just been reading random web pages or clicking videos that come up YouTube. So if anyone knows any books, I'd like to know as well. Also been fortunate enough to run into some Anons who had experiences and posted info/corrections in threads.
>>65094905Russian arms exports model is literally Ponzi Scheming vaporware, to fund almost near peer gear in inadequate numbers and capability anyways.
>>65098200They do, but the amount and the level of training required by the maintenance personnel is much lower.Doesn't stop the Indians from endlessly bitching about how hard it is, but they do that for literally everything.Our closest equivalent is the Grippen, which is designed to be maintaned on roads, by conscipts. They even have this really cute tool truck that has all the tools and machines they need to refuel and rearm it.I saw some very rough equivalent for the F35, for operating off of austere runways, but the sortie rate in that situation is, let's say severely questionable.
