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Especially carrying EFPs?
>>65339217https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2077604385975042474>The defensive system consists of modular, heavy-duty, galvanized and corrosion-proof metal ‘netting’ that uses bolting (not welding) to assemble, special load-bearing columns, supports and grid pattern to ‘catch’ enemy drones and prevent them from reaching their target>It’s designed to take on heavy strike drones weighing up to 200 kg>Its protection can be applied to sites as much as 25M+ tall and of virtually any horizontal dimensions, making it ideally suited for defense of sites like oil storage and refinery facilities and electrical substations
I want to drip some thermite here.
>>65339217>they're "pilot testing" chicken wireoh it's ovyir now
What's your third favorite class of ship? For me its Kanimbla class LPAs, Newport class LSTs modded into mini LPDs.
>>65338754did your friend have anything to say about the Adelaides?despite their problems, the end result was certainly the most capable Perry-class frigate in the world
>>65338754They were just busy ships, the navy ran them hot and wet, put them away cold and woke up the next day to keep doing that over and over for about a decade. The poor old Balikpapan's even got rode into the ground, fixed up, repeated over and over until they finally gave them away to the Philippines and PNG I think about a decade ago.>I did not enjoy being on the Balikpapan!The Kanimbla probably would have lasted another 10-15yr in service if they'd actually looked after them properly and managed their demand for landing ships better with more units, instead they got run like a teenager with a AU Falcon>Can't park there mate>get fucked, watch this!
>>65338821>did your friend have anything to say about the Adelaides?He was only on the old Melbourne (he said she was haunted) and the old DDG Hobart which was his favorite ship.People generally liked the Adelaides, apart from the sea keeping in heavy weather IIRC, and lack of a proper gun.
>>65338925>with more unitsEspecially after Bougainville and INTERFET. Our jackassery with the LPAs also prevented replacing the Perths with the Kidd class.
>>65338956>old DDG HobartThe C.F.A.s were probably the prettiest cold war destroyers, after maybe the long hull later T42s.
Post tanks. Self propelled guns tolerated
>>65336711I still remember when they bombed an airfield with them in Panama.
>>65302006They make a lot of sense when you consider designing for NBC battlefields but I agree, their aesthetic the tits even if they suck in practice.
>>65336711>light tank is made lighti dunno scoob, let's get the gang together to solve this mystery.>>65336714the tech was there. the armor was lighter than the equivalent amount of steel armor protection. therefore it was the lightest way to get the level of protection they wanted (proof against small arms). that's why they did it.the whole idea was that it would be so mobile that it wouldn't be in a place where something heavier would be there. it's soviet equivalent, the PT-76, would get shredded by 50 BMG and 7.62 AP btw.
>>65339142>light tank is made light>i dunno scoob, let's get the gang together to solve this mystery.The m60 is also a light tank but its crew didn't get liquefied into goo by small arms fire, because it's not made out of fuckin' tin cans!
While the structural collapse of aluminum due to heat posed a problem for naval vessels, armored vehicles would likely be deemed total losses before their chassis actually melted.
What was oldfag /k/ culture like?
>>65338552>I wonder what Galaxy is up to.Now there’s a blast from the past. I’d forgotten all about her. I came to /k/ just after JFN passed, but everyone was still pretty raw about it.
The closest analog to deer wife posting that exists these days is the bearfuckers that show up in the weekly 'hey guys is [caliber] powerful enough to take out a grizzly' threads and I'm not sure how to think about that
>>65339049discords that don't enforce rules like that tend to be even worse quality wise than a lot of 4chan in my experience
>>65337710Before it was gay it was subject-focused and even useful. People used to discuss loadings how long since I've seen a single loading post here (not a thread) - a very long time. Part of the problem was newfags trying to be quirky but 4chan internationalized means less firearms.
>>65339049oldfags are all uncs now. no one has the time or patience to deal with underage edgelords ruining the vibes.
In hindsight, it wasn't that bad. I'd rather be in the first wave and take my chances against couple of machineguns and mausers instead of going against modern drones. I say the media has blown it completely out of proportions
>>65338082>In hindsight, it wasn't that badit was such a slaughter the first two, maybe three waves I forget, were wiped out. The captain of a destroyer was watching and knew it was going to fail if they did not take out the pill boxes on the cliffs, so he ordered his ship to sail danger close to the shore and open up with all guns to destroy the pill boxes, which gave the soldiers who landed after a chance to get up the cliffs/beach to make the landing successful. If you were in the first two waves you dieded.
>>65338082By US standards it was bad as not even the ACW had US troops just straight shoved into a meat grinder the way they were in Normandy.
>>65338082It varied wildly. There was one company on the right flank of Omaha that landed, got halfway across the beach, and then got wiped out. Over half the men were killed in seconds. Meanwhile, at Utah, there were relatively few casualties, even when part of the first wave got dumped onto the wrong beach.
>>65338504Utah, in general, WAS the wrong beach. All waves ended up landing off target, iirc. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was in the first wave at Utah (the only general officer in the first wave at all, who was hobbling around the beach in the first wave of D-day with a fucking cane), which proved quite fortunate, since he recognized almost immediately that the unintended landing site was superior to the planned one. He started making calls and coordinated the entire landing force to shift over, rather than splitting it between two locations.
In hindsight, it wasn't that bad. I'd rather be in the first wave and take my chances against couple of bows and trebuchets instead of going against modern drones. I say history books have blown it completely out of proportion.
Has history vindicated the Eurofighter as being the fighter in the world, cost-efficiency wise?
if you were to put just a regular F-35A with a normal loadout into a 'joist' with a Tranche 4, the F-35 is going to win 999 times out of 1000, and I think the Meteor is a much better missile than the AMRAAM
>>65336621huh so the eurofighter is a completely inferior plane to the f-35 and it costs way more?how the fuck does that happen, even with the scale of manufacturing the f-35 is far more advanced with much more expensive equipment in ithow does something so much worse cost so much more?
>>65339204>how does something so much worse cost so much moreHave you considered how Amazon can sell you fresh items cheaper than your local store, it's because they can sell them cheaper at a loss until your local store closes.
>>65339207The cheap goods amazon sells aren't the best fighter in the world with more advanced equipment than anything competing with it thobeit.
>>65336784>136m going to European workers and countriesMore like to Muhammad and his 24 children
AK General /akg/Rock And Roll All Over Yugoslavia Edition>Thread #2098Old thread here >>65229280
Wtf is going on with Draco prices? They were like 800 bucks last year and now they're like 1200 all of a sudden
>>65338531>imports are choppy because both Romarm and Century are being jews about it>Virginia AWB passed so demand is currently far higher than normalAmong other reasons, these are the big ones
What's a better way to mount a flashlight on this thing? I don't want to change out the handguards.
>>65338682RS Regulate BM-12 might be an option, since you're not wanting to change handguards.
>>65334206>This isn't even the really bad one mind you. Theres a couple where he warped the shit out of one and took and angle grinder and flux core or stick welder to it. People just post that image to bug him because he was super proud of it. Usually, he'll just pretend he wasn't the one that built it because he's ashamed but every now and then you can make him crash out over it.lmao post it
My extrajudicial killing wife and her death squad have returned.Masamune Shirow, the greatest fictional weapons designer alive, returns with 攻殻機動隊 THE GHOST IN THE SHELL.
>>65337807I came to post this kek
>>65337853Because looking old makes people think you know your shit since you've been alive for a long time. Perception and prejudice will always play a factor. Are you more likely to consider the advice of a a brain in the robot body of a 70 year old man, or the same brain in a 10 year old girls?Also this >>65338095And most importantly, pic related
>>65338644There is something hilarious about the idea of this guy kicking the shit out of every real world major heavyweight MMA champion one after the other with contemptuous ease because under his wrinkled artificial skin is like a 400lbs steel frame wrapped in artificial muscles.
>>65337853>>65337913If any, the whole situation would end like pic related
>>65337913>>65337940 it's clearly a deliberate choice to look oldI think there might be also the individuality factor, if everyone can easily change appearances than your original look becomes something more special because everyone can be generic supermodel nr128739, i can even see there being a trend to preserve the OG look to the point of keeping stuff we can easily fix today like moles for example.I wouldn't be surprised if the generic supermodel body would actually be several times cheaper than a custom version that is just a slightly improved/ idealized version of yourself If it's possible but still rarely used than there might be other explanations, like that using a body that differs too much from you fucks with your mental state if you do it long term, loosing yourself in augmentations is a classic cyberpunk topic after all
neon genesis evangelion aside it looks pretty bad ass
>>65338980No there is only one correct way and that is with you fingers not your thumb. Found the moron who needs the worse gun because he is a retard.The P30 yes the Hk45 is a bag of ass.
>>65335085>357 Nig-destroyer>USP>daily carryB-based
>>65338984You're fucking stupid. Zero monopoly on that in firearms ownership
>>65338947I have no idea. It must be a different process over the years. My Tactical is a 2022. Expert is a 2024. The regular USP is a 2006. Join the H&K forums. Those autists probably have a few threads with 500+ posts talking about the nuances of this.
>>65335085I’m still after a .357, Match 9 & 45, P10, P12, and Custom Sport.
Could a 1-5Mt be carried by a drone?
>>65338197Was she hot? What was she like sexually compared to non-Russians?
>>65338560That's probably true The hardliners did attempt a coup after all. It's interesting because Russian boomers will tell you in the 1980s they had nothing like Red Dawn tier paranoia. So even while they were shitting out nukes, the average Soviet citizen wasn't really being WW3 propaganda.
>>65339032Didn't they also have little to no Civil Defense?
>>65339046>Didn't they also have little to no Civil Defense?Depends on what aspect of it you're thinking of and when. Russia during WWII had a shitload of militia-ish structures for obvious reasons (like training factory workers on AA guns as opposed to having properly trained soldiers do it) but during the 60s it took a hard turn towards being focused on surviving nukes and then dealing with the aftermath - putting out fires, getting power back on again, etc.If you're thinking of "Civic Defense" as something more like "a well-regulated militia" in the Anglo tradition then yeah they had pretty much none of that. Part of being a big continental empire is putting a lot of money and effort into making sure that the centralized military is well-armed and that everyone else has nothing more dangerous than their dick in their hand; when you're banking on yourself to produce most of what you need you're much more vulnerable to shortages of commodities and the domestic unrest that that produces but it also prevents dissidents and separatists from becoming insurgents just by looting a local depot.
>>65326299>what is meat warfare
Growing up is realising South Korea would destroy North Korea.
>>65332731SK's military is just as incompetent as NK's in completely different ways. Both are absolute extreme hellscapes that ironically are built exactly the same way. One just has a shit ton of capitalism and American innovation behind it, the other, China.In a 1v1 fight, having worked with the Sorks, I genuinely have no idea who'd win because I've never met Soldiers who were less inclined to do their job or follow orders. Moreover, I fully expect fraggings of Officers to be more common than actual Nork kills of Officers because the Sork NCOs are utterly incompetent, Officers are utter, absolute asshole pieces of shit, and the draftees hate both while getting paid like shit and getting treated even worse.>>65332758This metric is as worthless as it is retarded. And no, Sork tech isn't that high tech. Norks aren't better but they are fucking weird Warhammer Ork goblin bug people who have been drinking the Koolaide for decades, and manage to every now and then, do something batshit out of pure luck.>>65332858Sorks might start the conflict themselves due to their rapid population collapse, because they want to integrate the Norks to restore their population. Actual Sork government policy believe it or not. Will they? Fuck if I know. But Sorkea has like 20 years left, if that.
>>65332731I call this turning 13.
>>65338377sea buckthorn will turn rocky mountain soil into arable soil over time. It makes sense to just spam vertical farms, but these don't make any money in the west. They do make great produce. in reusable soil mediums, with a very small number of workers per output ton. The other problem is recycling water.
>>65332754Is there pride in being a borderline midget due to malnutrition caused by a psychopathic family of dictators who you must worship if you don't want to end up in a gulag? I just don't see it, man.At least if you're South Korean you can feel proud of your economic success as a nation.
>>653369541.9 vs 0.6
But why?with sound:https://files.catbox.moe/hfnenc.mp4
>>65338169I'm not understanding the question here, you DONT want to be cool?
>>65339141>Wins war through a bunch of weedy scientists
>>65339138>korea>didn't commit forces to take over the whole country>vietnam>intentionally didn't attack the north>iraq>literally just won LMAO, terrorist cells were a pain in the ass but it's mostly solved now>afghanistan>would have worked if the training camps over the border in pakistan were eradicated, not politically tenable so they chose not to do thisi am seeing a pattern here, the pattern is that you're a fucking retard lmao.
>>65336873he buzzed the lifeguard tower
>>65336873Where was this?
if U235 fission explosives are better than RDX/TNT explosives why not fully switch to U235 for all military explosives?wouldnt economies of scale kick in once you're making tens of millions of bombs like this? imagine how much more effective for example all the tomahawk strines on iran would be with U235 explosive instead of RDX explosive
>>65336426They were supposed to deliver them to Israel but realized it was too obvious
>>65336426What book
>>65333455Do you fags not even bother googling your question before posting anymore?
>>65333455Because Uraninum is horribly poisonous and expensive
>>65333455Its much more efficient and with a little effort a country could use U235 to blow the living shit out of the entire world. Thermonuclear is even more efficient and such arsenals are built. Blowing the shit out of everything - you've heard boomer Anons here talking about "glassing" a country, Iran for instance? That means doing what you said - using nuclear weapons. Its culturally frowned upon in certain circles.
