This changes everything.https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/indonesia-rafale-fighter-jets-depart-france-airpower-shift-southeast-asia/
>>64751633Shut up faggot
>>64751633What's the average iq of indonesia?
>>64749304Is Indonesia trying to be the first real world Ace Combat tier air force?
>>64751892Anon they are the same person, they Malayschizo never posts in Indonesian threads and IndoAnon never posts in Malaysian threads. And both never say anything bad about Indonesia nor Malaysia (usually only shit about Australia or Singapore)
>>64749304>redefining airpower balance>airpower transformation>reshapes security balanceIs this written by a woman? It's very dramatic over nothing.
I've been reading up on these fascinating weapons and couldn't help developing a curiosity about them.1, Are incendiary weapons actually useful or it's just fuck you collateral damage? We no longer use highly flammable wood for anything important anymore.2, Do they work like in my tacticool games of Counter Strike or are they different? I mean, I'm sure they are not supposed to fizzle out after 7 seconds...3, What's the better fuel for Molotovs, alcohol, ethanol, gasoline, diesel or a mix of them? All of these are treated equal but I'm sure each has their own characteristics like flash point, so I'm wondering if there is a best overall recipe.4, What situations can you imagine incendiary weapons being useful in a modern battlefield? Burning down entire forests I can understand, but why risk using them in CQC?
>>64746870>nigger molotov
>>64750244How would aluminium even work here?Unless we're supposed to *wink* *wink* use a steel cheese grater.
>>64752965Fuck that. Turn it and put the shavings in a tumbler.Also just just discovered that aluminum and lye released hydrogen when combined.
>>64741190Anti-mechanical: use them on tanks, vehicles, artillery, trains, grounded airplanes, ships, power stations, substations, water pumps.Anti-material: use them on wooden structures, ammo dumps, fuel depots, ...Combined with drones they are great. You can tell no actual Nazis were involved in the Palestinian attack on Israel because no one attacked material or mechanical with these using drones. Those retards could've crippled Israels war machine or torched hundreds of thousands of buildings with drone + incendiary, but no they instead did a mass drive by & spree shooting helped on by the Israeli air force. Muslims confirmed subhuman.Also why Trump is right to mass deport, like a dozen of these on long range drones could cut central valley California off from water via pump stations, or destroy 1% of Americans oil refining ability.Or Muslims could do an arson mass casualty attack easily netting them 500 bodies by targeting a 6 story wooden apartment block.Or destroy food or ammo processing plants. Or tractor factories.No nation with a hostile subpopulation that has an IQ in the 100s is safe. This is why Iran is being dismantled by hostile minorities right now.
>>64753321You know it is a bit weird how few drone based terrorist attacks there have been
So just in case you've ever wondered how dragonfire holds up in the concrete jungle. Some dude unloaded 6-8 shells at close range into a police vehicle. Cop is ok. Shooter, not so much. https://x.com/policelawnews/status/2011050270739087492
>>64753480I assume you're talking about dragon's breath and just mixed up the name. Anyways, yeah unsurprising given it's really just shards of magnesium. It's a light weight shot, meant more for spectacle than practical use.
>>64753480If the shooter killed himself, was it the cops that said that the incendiary rounds were “designed to inflict maximum damage” or are they parroting the marketing for them? Because they clearly did less damage than regular slugs.
>>64753501That I did. Still it is interesting that it still made almost perfectly spherical entry into the side of the car. The two gashes make a bit more sense if the heat was enough to melt the paneling but those holes don't seem to be created by heat. Just velocity and mass.
>>64753512>those holes don't seem to be created by heatyes because they don't burn through steel anon, there's not enough thermal mass there, and steel is a good conductor, it's quite inefficient to try to melt your way through. it's literally just velocity and mass>>64753507anon what do you think? tbf it would be very unpleasant to be shot by this, imagine having a burning shard of magnesium in your gut, definitely quite lethal from an anti-personnel perspective, but it's not that practical.
>>64753524Still I'd expect to see no hole or a hell of a lot more. Upon review I think he might have sprung for the buckshot version. Looks like about 6 shells were fired. One must have been the 00 buckshot version. They have about 6 balls and still produce a flame. Maybe he was hoping the buck would penetrate and the rest were fire for effect or possible to ignite the vehicle.
>the FBI didnt just switch to 9mm because its cheaper and let more people(women) qualify! The bullets are just better than .40 or .45!>sure we compared it to watered down .40 and .45 with bad bullet design that we used because it let women and manlets qualify...but but its better it is!Idk why the FBI is the basis for peoples choice in personal defensive weapons when their criteria is letting female detectives not limp wrist jam glawks in the incredibly rare shootouts they have, but be my guest i suppose
>>64748201>manlets qualifythe average height of a SEAL is like 5'9" you fucking bozo
>>64752141so what
>>64752141Are you implying 5'9" isn't a manlet?
>>64748201I'll never cease to be amused about fuddyfive autismo's endless seethe over 9mm superiority and dominance. It's simply the best general handgun cartridge ever made. Nothing wrong with min/maxing for specific things you care about or your specific niche needs, nor with "I just like the feel of that other one more", but 9mm is the standard for good reason. The free market has spoken.
yes, but have you considered the wound vectors ?
Presumably they're not going to use an homme with a good throwing arm for the production version.This provides the exact same benefits as for air-launched cruise missiles, right?
>>64752051pfffttt
>>64751963>Children will try to remove the explosives and use them as toys thoughusually first world countries design these to self-destruct when they run out of power.>>64753196>lands in bad orientation>gets caked in mud>there's a building or something blocking the panel for most of the day and it can't get enough poweretc.
>>64752928Imagine this but with the capacity to hot-swap live operator control.Go from autonomous to FPV controlled one at a time and just pick targets to hit.
>>64752015Anon, French Airbus is a massive manufacturer worldwide, what crackpipe are you smoking. They don't need to copy shit they produced and designed in competition with British and American aircraft.If you're looking for the origins of aircraft of this type look up post war planes like the British Blackburn B-101 BeverleyAlso what the utter fuck is this captcha
>>64752959Iirc the testing is for various systems to drop these, this is just a test which is why they have a shit ton of stabilized camera's looking at it.Cheaper to throw them out and worry about the system to drop them after the drone design is finalized.Pic unrelated
Post gear. Discuss gear. Chico's got an M1 Garand in the Streetz Edition. Level IV required.Old: >>64713312
>>64753652>spend $50 more to save $12shShrewd.
>>64753358Are you retarded? There are lots of other pics of the scene, and those pics have been published by Getty/AP/CNN and others.The weird multi-color carriers show up in some of them, like picrel.
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how do chest rigs, plate carriers, and placards all connect to eachtother? and why would someone wear a full chest right when you can just velcro attach a mag pouch to a placard. is that just a poor person thing?
>>64743978Thanks I bought them
IT'S UP!: https://youtu.be/HqeGZNBaWPU?
>>64752872better off reading a book
>>64753269i'm all 6
For me, it's Sheeta
>>64753269that's a relief, I'm safe from the label
>>64753345Why do you do it.
>>64753269Faye is 77yo.
Hard mode: No derailing the trainLegendary mode: No killing anyone
>>64706322>within sight>apply the brakes in timeThose two things are very often mutualy exclusive when it comes to a thousand tons of steel, moving very fast on tracks.
>>64749612My apologies, 9/10 it's a pajeet so I just assumed
>>64744136Shoudln't they run towards the train?And why is no one taking selfies?Fucking AI bullshit.
>>64749392Is she okay?
>>64747886>She someone take massive trauma to the back of the head>Immediately start throwing them around .
>>64744644The best proof that this isn't some FSB psyop is that every actual Canadian talks and behaves like thisOddly enough ESPECIALLY the ones who are into that whole Trudeau "countries shouldn't even exist" thing they somehow turn into nationalists when the conversation goes this directionYou ever read Blindsight? The guy that wrote that has gone full schizo. He's on his blog actually wargaming how Canada will conduct guerilla warfare until the US collapses. And it's so absurd that it seems tongue in cheek until he keeps going and going and citing sources about how the clathrate gun climate shift will enrich Canada and destroy America etc.
>>64749626the tariffs aren't as bad as you'd think,the EU got the lowest tariffs bracket while the EU's international competitors on the US market didn't. this gives them a competitive advantage over them.at the same time the blanket nature of the tariffs also drive up domestic manufacturing cost absorbing a decent chunk of the advantage a smart tariffs policy would give them.there's also the fact that the EU exports a lot of luxury goods, those aren't nearly as sensitive to price hikes.
>>64752286There's definitely a lot of nuance, the tariffs we got aren't as bad as what the rest of the world got but they're still bad and can get worse. China's dumping also got worse as they redirected their exports here to make up for lost revenue in the US.That said, you could argue that the tariffs are counterproductive for on-shoring manufacturing. The fact that even raw materials and components are getting tariffed means that it's often cheaper to only pay the tariff once by exporting finished goods instead of constantly re-importing and re-exporting components between multiple countries before assembling them in the US.>>64752235>You ever read Blindsight? The guy that wrote that has gone full schizo. He's on his blog actually wargaming how Canada will conduct guerilla warfare until the US collapses. And it's so absurd that it seems tongue in cheek until he keeps going and going and citing sources about how the clathrate gun climate shift will enrich Canada and destroy America etc.Holy basedAlso loved Blindsight, I should read Echopraxia next
>>64743535He's not wrong though, which is the whitest thing you can be.
>>64744000>EDSThere's nothing deranged about hating on a jeet lover.
The premise is simple:Could the DPRK launch a offensive war with the goal of seizing Russia's Pacific holdings and win?
>>64752887I wish more IRL female villains had her aura, instead of just being fat and annoying.
Are they willing to hire me ?
>>64751599>The question of this thread is could Russia stop the DPRK from taking the Russian Pacific Coast in a situation of open warfare? Does Russia have the means to stop the DPRK in conventional combat?Truth be told... no. But there's no incentive for NK to do that.
Oh look, he’s being a massive faggot while deluding himself that he is an important part of the board or that anyone likes him…again
>when I’m in an insufferable avatarfag competition and my opponents are Norktard and Pregnant Anne Frank spammer
>going in RAWWhat are some of the most batshit attachments ever considered for use?
>>64740711>just stick 10lbs on your gun forward of the center of gravity What were they thinking?
>>64740711>>64750364Should we fax them?
>>64739364Looks like a Combine weapon, makes me think of the plasma orb things you can fire from the AR2
>>64750555Needs an oil lamp. Checked.
>>64750364>What were they thinking?"haha this is awesome I love my job" probably. what i would be thinking anyway
Target shooting generalA thread that dies because anon in it actually shoot.I'm wanting a target rifle for 20 and 50 metre smallbore. I'm thinking that I'll just get a BSA International but what other rifles are an option for around 1k in Australia?
>>64750017>Tikka T1xDoesn't look like it has a front sight dovetail.Did some googling and if I get one with a threaded end I'd be able to screw on a dovetail to the muzzle.
>>64749995>BestFeinwerkbau or Anschutz
For all the "y-you don't even own gunz" posts seen on /k/ this 5-reply topic is an accurate reflection of those big-talking board users making those posts
>>64753235I bought a sportsmans, it's no target rifle, took it to the range to double check that it shoots where you point it.
>>64753235I mean, yeah, though in fairness it might get more traction if it lasts until the weekend, and in summer. At least where I am it gets dark by 5pm and I'm not setup for night precision target shooting right now though that'd be fun. I can't usually get to a range in the middle of the work week.
>Battle of marathon>Greek charge losely without formation across 1.5 km of open field in heavy armor under shower of persian projectiles>Reform ranks at the end>Slaughter the cowardly persian archers in glorious melee combat
what's the point in hiring mercs who aren't at all familiar with your language, culture, or geography/climate?
>>64745607>No magazinesGrim
>>64745750Actually, most mercenary groups were quite skilled and moderately disciplined. The issue was that they weren't motivated. You can't spend money if you're dead so mercenaries would spend a lot of time posturing and harassing but never committing to a decisive battle. In some cases, this was actually preferable since it let generals stall in one place while they won somewhere else. However, modern mercenaries can't possibly afford the air, artillery, and armor modern militaries can so they're mostly just extremely competent security guards.
>>64745750It wavers back and fourth through time. Egyptians derided theirs's so much they they cut them out of all narratives, possibly where the disagreement which let to Exodus originated due to them not paying their tribal mercs. Greek mercs in Persian wars of succession were the gold standard. Hannibal's collection of mercs, some of the best ever. Roman auxiliaries century later, highly variable. 5th century everybody is mercs. Mercs in the 6th-8th century , brigands as likely to rob you as fight for you. 9th century mercs are chumps used by poor city states. 12th century mercs used by the same city states are elite skull-fuckers who can stymie formations of 20k Mongols with a few hundred men and a fort. 15th century mercs are so awesome that they get banned and slandered for 300 years. Hessians are peasants who get abducted and sent to fight in America then half desert. Mercs are then seen as scum until they start fighting commies in the late 50s at which point they are romantic patriots and red-blooded white men fighting against marxist bullshit and libtard anti-racist faggotry which have turned the former colonial holdings into utter shitpits Then it was just a way for a retired SOF man to make cash.
>>64745627Russians are albino niggers.
>>64753187There could be a niche for mercs who are basically combat engineers. They could charge a fortune, the equipment isn't that expensive and can be replaced by the employer at cost, and it does require experience and knowledge most nations cannot afford to institutionalize. They take risks but get paid the big bucks.
