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Now that Trump is forcing a confrontation with the EU on all fronts, how and where will the inevitable war be fought? What equipment will see action? Personally I hope to see those AI controlled Gripens Helsing showed off in action.
>>64762644wtf I love gun grabbing liberals now!
>>64762648Americans seething about European cheese (and their free trade) is cringe and funny.
>>64762601>Shame the assassination attempts failedAre you sure we want to martyr this guy?
>>64762488>>64762493this>>64762482you're a commie
>>64762659Like MIGA is going to survive after the orange tard dies. It's a cult that likes to eat the Pedo's shit, not a movement that has any substance.
>go to https://catalog.archives.gov/search?availableOnline=true&endDate=1949&page=1&q=German%20aircraft&startDate=1940>search some relevant term to your interests>make sure to set filters to "available to access online" and filter for the year range>bring back something cool
>>64760624You could include a link to the original
>>64760820>hat managed to get on the national archives.anon...
I am shamelessly bumping this thread
>>64743196Coast Guard cavalry squadron during WW2
>>64762656The 1942 Louisiana Maneuvers
>Working powered exoskeletons have been real for nearly 20 years>Working laser turrets have been real for nearly 20 years>Working railguns have been real for nearly 20 years>Working plasma cannons have been real for over 30 years>Autonomous robots that understand simple commands have been around for over ten years>People act like drones are the most advanced weapon around when we've been using them since WWIIWhat gives? Why is everyone still pretending that we're living the 20th century? People are so tired of waiting for these weapons that they're building the things themselves in their garages.
>>64762271Hence me saying civil unrest. Piggies would never be ready for that. In a military conflict it's pretty much useless.
>>64762284The moment cops start getting blinded is when police robots will be mass adopted. I expect fpv drones with less than lethal options as well to be adopted. Eventually it will be very very hard to riot in person.
>>64747202>MARAUDERTotal meme. Get new material other than the same >10 year old shitpost material from /k/.
>>64749256Depends on what you want to shoot down, how fast and at which distance.If you want to swat missile spam out of the air then several lasers summing to a few megawatts might be needed. Even more for a ballistic missile shield.
>>64751363Policing is the least of it too, IMO. I've been saying for a while that I think the real endgame for AI is military, and it's fucking terrifying. Sci-Fi authors don't even make enemies as OP as AI-based drone/bot armies could be in a few more decades, we're talking about hivemind levels of strategic awareness and coordination combined with individual capabilities far beyond human soldiers, and with the nice side benefit of zero conscience, perfect adherence to orders, and the ability to send them overseas to crush your enemies without the public giving much of a fuck because nobody's getting drafted or sent into harm's way. (And the people who do opposite it will be treated like hysterical kooks or foreign shills.)The worst part is that we can't even choose not to do it, because if we don't our enemies will.
Say you re an intelligence agency and you need to track a guy of a previous regime, and he just picked a remote third world location you dont know, crossed them border got a bit of surgery and integrated in some rural village there, without having contacts with anyone of his previous life.How do you track them down?
>>64761513If he's on your radar then knowing the basics of the time, date and destination of his departure really helps track him. During GWOT, spooks were tracking people through sparse cell phone contacts in remote tribal regions in the middle of nowhere.>in some rural village there, without having contacts with anyone of his previous life.Nearly impossible if he wants to maintain a lifestyle above poverty. It's unbelievably hard for people to break habits, traditions and lifestyle. He would have to have no previous hobbies, no children, no parents, no girlfriends, no vices, no business, no bank account, no online browsing habits and no contact with anyone in the outside world. And the kicker? He would have to maintain this for the rest of his natural life. In essence he would be placing himself in self imposed exile and maximum security incarceration levels of isolation just to maintain opsec. People are REALLY fucking hard to disappear if a government is looking for them, double if they were someone important.
>>64761850And yes, before someone adds:"What if the host nation is friendly and keeping him comfortable?" Even worse. Previous relationships are the first thing a targeter establishes when someone goes on the lam. Every email, every text, every piece of SIGINT that they cam get their hands on is analyzed and kept for future reference. It's not just your database you're searching either, it's allied nations and friendly actors in hostile nations that you're working with, How much money would the guy pay to the third world general to stay hidden? I guarantee the amount can be dwarfed by any western intelligence agency motivated enough to find him, the only thing he can do is die uncomfortably or violently
>>64761850Most critical of all, can you change your gooning habits? The second your old gooning fingerprint shows up in Utah, it's over.
>>64761513Follow the money.
>>64761531>and strangers are usually not well received in poor, isolated communities.This is a very good point. The inbred residents of whatever backwater town OP picks are going to be immediately gossiping about the strange new guy.
Lockheed Martin's latest promotional video about their LRASM antiship missile engaging a Chinese Type 055 Cruiser launched from a F-35
>>64762119Now the C carrying LRASM.
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>>64762107integrated =/= integratingLockheed's AI hype video shows it hitting a ship, as if the process is done, ready to deploy. Who knows how many years, test firings, data this and that are required. After the US Navy does the most of the work, then the USAF will probably need to roll it out on their A models.You lose, but there are no winners in the retard game.
>>64762547NTA but I honestly can't imagine what else there could really be to do for the A other than test fire and push a patch for the stores management computer once the USN and USMC have it validated for the B and C.
>>64759637> latestIsn't this video from fucking ten years ago?
>>64762138>They gave up on it because they listened to demands of dumb consumers who didn't see the benefitAnon, I own an FE MDRX. The first one I got from them broke after a single shot and had to be sent back to DT for repair. Which to their credit they had gold standard perfect warranty support on, they paid shipping both days, they did it in a couple of weeks despite it being xmas/new years holiday season, but still that stung. And even afterwards it choked and had cartridges jam in it pretty easily. Yes, it wasn't a big deal to pop the plate and free it but it was still irritating vs the SE which always works. It was significant weight too.From talking with other owners FE problems affected a big percentage of customers. Not everyone, plenty had it work perfectly, but lots didn't. Nobody had any problem with the concept and benefits anon, the problem was just that DT was never ever able to manufacture them with enough consistency. And MDRX was already v2, and then got tons of iteration afterwards. They had SEVEN YEARS to get it worked out anon, and they never seemed to quite be able to get it.So I don't agree with you on "appease a dumb market", people like cool stuff and stuck with the MDR through a long period of refinement, but at some point you want your $2500 rifle to like, actually run through more than 10 rounds reliably?
>>64762183Didn't they create a new generation and call it the WLRVN now? I don't know what the major differences are but usually a company sticking with a concept bodes well for its reliability.
>>64761591is it a normal AR bolt or some proprietary shit?if it's proprietary, design it to be reversible.
>>64762258Yeah, that's essentially MDRv3 (MDRX was v2). They made a lot of changes during each version though as well, mostly improvements though in some cases like the ejection system (though smaller) it was more "giving up on a cool feature because it's too hard for us to do consistently" like the wing charging handles, they swapped that to a much simpler fixed set that was also sturdier. WLVRN has some of its own changes too but to some extent also just finally iterated the major version to put a line under all the MDRX stuff because it was getting to the point of being hard to figure out what you were buying unless it was brand new.And the concept itself isn't bad, it's definitely comfortable and ergonomic with some niceties. But there were a bunch of stupid choices too as well as struggles with manufacturing, and yeah in fairness tons of military rifles have gone through massive teething troubles over the decades and taken quite a few revisions to get fully solid but of course those were backed by military budgets too not a small private niche.
What’s the best top rail for an A3M1?Looking at Corvus (not the extended) for the sling attachments & acog mount. Arid seems to still have theirs a while away from release.
/k/bros, we fucking won.
>QTE executionyawn. Game looks good though
>>64762634>aim>wait 2 seconds before doing le maximum damage
>>64762654That kick hit animation just looks like shit
Post gear. Discuss gear. Late night edition. Level IV+ and 4Chan Gold required.Old: >>64732103
>>64762170The problem with the ceramic models is you cant rivet them and had to use epoxy instead which was their undoing.
>>64753842>>64755078idk these look kinda cool, a step up from LEOs wearing multicam at least
>>64762179Undoing for a time, at least. You can split Dragonskin into two lineages since there were two dudes behind it. The original inventor, Bain, headed AT Corp until about 2000, then Neal - the other guy - founded Pinnacle Armor and made him sign a non-compete until about 2006.Neal's Dragonskin is the version that had the infamous Army failures and a 60% failure rate against .30-06 M2AP when conditioned by dousing it in gasoline. Major adhesive failure. NIJ realized the stuff had problems and retroactively suspended it because they realized their lack of a conditioning protocol was allowing SOV-2000 and previously stuff like Zylon to get through and get certified. This was all pre-0101.06.Bain's Skaalar, from 2006-2016, and now his current Dragonskin allegedly use better adhesive. I say allegedly because the guy has been pulling an Adept and hasn't gotten any Dragonskin certified. He has some soft armor (one of which is a white-label he doesn't make) and some Hexar on the list (which might be inactive) but no DS. IMO, that's telling.Also Bain allegedly owes a Chinese firm about 20k for ceramic materials, so Dragonskin is apparently Chinese now.
Armor anon, Whats your take on gign using 7.62x39 citing enhanced armor pen needs? They cited 5.56 ss not having adequate stopping power but this works against my understanding.
>>64762231Yeah I know about Stealth his newer company. I think it's been long enough thats it's worth revisiting titanium. 1997 was nearly 30 years ago. Metal in general has a bad rep due to snake oil companies like AR500/Armored Republic. But we have existing armor schemes that provide full torso coverage that were invented centuries if not millenia ago. Ceramic just isn't really compatible with them and I think rather than focussing making small plates that can stop any rifle round with limited coverage it's far more useful to solve decent rifle protection for the full torso.
/arg/ cold weather larping editionPreviously>>64754330
>>64762583Sorry, I don't have any negro shoes
>>64762594>mars lt1000Sheeit I just might now. I wrote it off originally because it wouldn't function as a clip on but now I'm thinking it was the right move.
>>64762603Not an argument.
>>64762621Sig raped you and your heroes
>>64762617Offset dot and thermal dedicated upper is a good combo. The oneleaf qd mount is actually solid too, way better than the adm shit most thermals use
Previous: >>64643273Stamboulieh Law makes weekly videos on all the latest lawfare:https://youtube.com/@2alawYou've heard of FRTs, but what's a "super safety"?>uses the safety to force the reset of the trigger>allows for way more trigger options (you just have to trim two places)>invented by Tim Hoffman (https://hoffmantactical.com)>gifted to the world to freely 3D print>enterprising people now selling super safeties made of steel (recommend at least 4140)>cheaper than an FRT ($90-$150)>originally a 3-position cross-bolt safety>left is safe, right is semi, middle is super>3-position 90° super safety selectors are now availableComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64761263Any word on how a totally normal 4140 SS performs if you gorilla the trigger? In my limited experience with one, I just applied totally normal trigger pressure like I always would.
>>64761230>just as a pistol?100%. The recoil is high if you freehand it, but doable. I would use a 30 round mag as extra grip area to two hand it without a brace.
>>64761915sweet, one more question, apologies if it's a dumb one. In the clip you're using a strike industries chassis. Is it fair to say that the frt would work in the flux raider as well?
>>64761972>Is it fair to say that the frt would work in the flux raider as well?yes. i dont have a flux to check for possible small clearance issues but i dont see why it wouldnt fit.
>>64762080thanks for answering my questions! very excited for the release
This is all I could find, quite a lot in 4 years. What do you anons think?SpaceAlready delivered>Synthetic-aperture radar satellites 1 unit>Nanosatellite imaging (PIAST), 3 units >EagleEye , 1 unit>Access to French Pleiades Neo optoelectronic data.In progress>Optoelectronic satellites 2 units (Ground station ready; satellites for 2027).>Small-sat EO/ISR constellation 4 unitsLandAlready delivered>M1A1 FEP main battle tanks, 116 unitsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>64762322>Poland needs at least +100 F-35 or some other gen 5 fightersthis is not how NATO works. Each nation specializes in something it has a comparative advantage in. Estonia does cyber warfare, UK and France do nukes and expeditionary shit, other western european states do air forces. Poland, Turkey and Greece do massive ground forces. If Poland bought 100 F-35s it wouldn't be able to afford 400+ blinged up tanks, attack helicopters and rocket artilleryalso >some other 5th genlol, lmao
>>64761934>he believes a meme>>64762280>his entire knowledge about a subject comes from 4chang
>>64762130Hadrian and Antonious, 151 AD, colorized.
>>64762614Do you think he killed himself before he expired? I've always wondered that.
I am about to import 80,500 of these indian hesbee 22 short single shot handguns. They are currently in transit being shipped from India.They have sat in storage as they were built in 1959 as gunlaws became more restricted in India. If you were in my shoes, how do I make this business venture successful. I purchased each pistol at 2160 rupees (around 24$) and they cost me ($1500 for import and $5000 in shipping) so i am in for abit under $2mil. Do you think people will actually buy these or should I put my house for sale ASAP?
>>64742984>It'd be funny as fuck, but I assume OP doesn't have unlimited money. Sell it in bulk to Herrera or some other guntuber idk and let them clog some buyback. Jokes write themselves.>We clogged the buyback with SHITTY indian guns!
>>64742736>He's a retard, can we meme him a success so he does something next level stupid with his artificial confidence? He won't quit after one... think of the melty.
>>64759476>sheltered city fagso you? ive killed so many fucking hogs and pigs to know that isnt pig skin.
If you sell them for like $30 they might move, especially if you could get them on PSA. Not sure how much that would leave you after their cut but you need to get it in front of impulsive buyers. .22 short is probably a dealbreaker for most but if you sold them dirt cheap I could see a cottage industry forming of people rebarreling these. The people saying $100 are sabotaging you, no one wants a single shot jeet blaster in .22 short for $100 when they could get an autoloading .32 acp for $200.
>>64762588Or a .22LR revolver for $100
Edition edition.Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNik>>64745514
>>64762534I'll never buy another one with aluminum baffles that's for sure, especially 6000 series
>>64762561Cheapo cans have their place if it's genuinely all you can afford or if you're going to pin and weld or put a can on a shit ton of guns or buy a suppressor for training to abuse (on rifles). Other than that, I think it's best to try and buy the "latest" in suppressor tech. Titanium is vastly superior on pistols due to its weight, and 9mm doesn't make them spark as much as 5.56. Flow through makes it shart less out of the slide. They even have similar sound suppression performance or sometimes superior performance. If you're just going to swap it to whatever gun you're using, you might as well just get a good one.One other thing to consider is that some manufacturers will recore their cans for you, possibly for a fee. That will alleviate the issue of you eventually shooting out a can, if that ever happens. Which most people probably won't, but it's still worth considering. A 5.56 Ti can on a short barrel will be considerably more raped than inconel.
Are dedicated CCW belts (Kore, Nexbelt) actually worth the money? What do other anons use?
>>64762599Phlster enigma. Kore is good though.
>>64762599I got a couple of kores, both "western" leather, they are very stiff. Would recommend. They even moved some production to USA based on feedback, originally China only. However, there are many leather belts with plastic cores, sometimes steel cores, that are just as stiff and if you already have one of those, will last many years.Nylon belts are a tactical meme for mall ninja sheepdog operators, they look ugly, nobody wears one for any reason other than to hold a gun, avoid those.
