Figured I'd post it here for the fags more likely to appreciate itDo any of you have any /k/ related artpieces you're working on? Finished? Just military artists you like?Plan on painting over this at some point once I become more skilled
>>65267293I was not even aware /ic/ was a board.
>>65267293I used to enjoy it. Not bad at all. Only critique is that the far foot and pistol seem too small.
>>65267307I think it's a combo of me oversizing the hands and slightly undersizing the Glock, something to work on for next time I guessAlso yeah something's throwing me off about the left leg. Maybe if I had curved the knee more and lifted it up a little more it would both look proportionate and like it's properly facing forward
Beretta developed a 6.5 Grendel version for the NARP for the GIGN, which will replace the CZ Bren 2.
>>65263808>retarded shit in retarded calibersThey're a special police unit, not a military unit.Their typical missions and the firefights they get into aren't anywhere close to "normal" military scenarios.They aren't bound to military logistics or the laws of war, and they've got a fat enough budget to buy whatever they want.If the GIGN feels they have a need for some kind of compact weapon that does the maximum amount of damage to unarmored targets within 25m, they may buy something like a 10g semi-auto shotgun with a rifled 12" barrel and load it with slugs, or commission a company to build them an SMG chambered for .50AE and load it with no-bullshit high explosive projectiles.These weapons would be absurd and make zero fucking sense in a military context, but the GIGN may have legitimate reasons to believe these weapons are ideal for their own extremely specific circumstances.
>>65266573Well, they're fr*nch
>>65266611Get this safe edgy shit out of here faggot
>>65261356yeah
>>65266955Spotted the frog
Looks like FRTs in handguns might not be safe. Was this an OOB or a squib?>https://x.com/DocStrangelove2/status/2069177030478893300
>>65266448the little cool heckin 0perat0r hand movements and racking really completes this
>>65266515yeah
>>65266448More like don’t fucking shoot sketchy shitty ammo. Stick to .45 ball like God intended
>>65266552Nice
>>65266552>FRT in an M&Pneat>Incendiary pistol ammoneat>No eye proretard
There's already a contract in place for 32 F-35s, Poland is now planning to extend it to 64.https://defence24.pl/polityka-obronna/wiecej-f-35-dla-polski-jest-potwierdzenie
>>65242713>ammo, rockets, drones, vehicles AA systemsAll thirdie tier """""manufacturing""""
>>65250431
>>65263729buying hardware doesn't make the military competentour senior command is devastated by long years of political tamperingeveryone competent and with a spine was kicked long ago and replaced with people who instead of a year of schooling had only TWO weeks of "special course"this is mirroring the pre ww2 setup
>>65244062>Too poor to develop industry that would give us planes worth a damn before 20 years into the future>EU initiatives are basically, give us money for development but you can't produce anything (same with tanks, hence SK instead of Leopard)>Also just buying planes, but you don't waste money paying into EU initiatives just for France to pocket the money and scrap the programIt's kind of a no brainer. Develop the industry you can and buy whatever else for as cheap as possible. A lot of industry failed the same way East German industry failed after cold war and the growth has been hampered by incumbents so this is the best that can be done.
>>65242783kill thirdies with impunity.
Implications of being forced to build shelters for your strategic bombers?
>>65264129It's a car wash for planes. Those guys are the plane wash attendants. The pilot has to pay out of his pocket.
>>65264110>filenameHangArYou put your shirt on a hanger. A plane lives in a hangar.
>>65264684>bubble bath yayyy
>strategic bomber>I parked it out front
>>65264017every plane deserves a home.
Anyone here ever gone to Project Appleseed? Are the appleseed classes good firearms training or just some political tupperware party gimmick?
>>65257997kek
>>65263042To qualify, you need to get 210 out of 250 possible points. If you get every shot in the 4-zone, that's a score of 200.Using a .22 with a red dot will make it easier. But some people are using their subcompact carry pistol with iron sights, which makes it more difficult.
>>65254088Emancipation what? We freed who?
>>65250754kek
I would do filthy, unforgivable things for the Zorg ZF-1 pod gun.
>>65266439It would be cool, but the Hillary button is a turn off. I wonder if anyone makes a nice looking delete kit
>>65266439You can do whatever you'd like to it, just don't press the red button.
>>65266801It's there for a reason.
Just two seconds ago, you were having a great time with your family at the zoo. Two seconds later, your child was thrown into the crocodile pit. What caliber handgun would you pull out to make sure you could shoot the crocodile—or crocodiles—that are devouring your child alive ?>bonus, if you save your kid, your wife will swallow you forever, and you get to shoot the perp without any repercussion I feel my 9mil may be worthless against armored dinosaures.
>>65255193hardcast 9mm werkshardcast 10mm is better because you can larp as sonny crockett
>>65260807I wish judges could enact a poetic justice punishment. Aka throwing the tard and wranglers into the gator pit.
>>65255193>English zooAnyone want to guess the race of the little boy and the "man" who pushed him?
>>65255883>Bicycle wheelThat's racialist you could hurt your ethnic replacement with one of those!
>>65255198this.
You can clog any shipping lane of note with long range missiles with drones and the like being added to the threat list the ''closer'' the target zone is despite it being hundreds or maybe a thousand kms away from your cheapskate launch platform
>>65256960Not what I'm referring to at all.
>>65256949>UUVs which are quieterNo they are not>stay underwater longerThere's not a single shred of evidence that UUVs ever have a better submerged endurance than manned submarine
>>65223724The plot of Down Periscope was if a diesel sub could still be a legitimate threat.
>>65224676No.
>>65259825You're wrong. Seagliders can patrol for years. They require no oxygen and only die from running out of battery power.
It looks cool and when (not if) they figure out the railguns and lasers it'll be by far the deadliest surface combatant in the maritime history.
>>65262358>The design has been continuously changing over the last six months. NAVSEA doesn't even plan to start preliminary design until September.Point in case, yeah.>Raytheon can't even build enough missiles to keep VLS filled during peace time.Pointing to underlying structural problems as a reason to make bad decisions is really not smart.>Obsessing over cell count is retarded. Pointing out the lack of VLS cellsl in the future fleet mix is not not 'obsessing over VLS count'.If they plan to have USV arsenal frigates, fucking well say it.But going 'nuh-uh it'll be fiiiiiine' is the actual retarded move.
>>65259730that's a hideous eyebrow
>>65259730Dear god, tell me that he's doing some kind of Gomer Addams cosplay
>>65262161>Number of VLS cells vs tonnageWhy does VLS vs tonnage matter? If it has enough VLS cells to do its job, why is it important that it be smaller?>placement of various weapon systems (side-by-side 5", laser placement is even woroe)The picture in the OP is purely notional and doesn't represent even a preliminary design. The numbers have already changed and the arrangement is the work of a concept artist and not a naval architect. The point here is to get money from Congress to fund the actual design work.>but the USN has an abslutely abysmal record when it comes to feature creeping and 'fixing' their designs to cancellation.Yes and no. They've done an abysmal job of selling their designs to the public. You likely don't believe that the Zumwalt's stealth features are necessary, but when you look at modern ship designs like the FDI, Mogami, or Type 055, you'll see that they all incorporate the same concepts but to a more limited extent because those countries don't have the engineering knowhow to make the tumblehome hullform work.And now, a decade after the cancelation of the Zumwalt class, we find ourselves in a situation where our warships are parked at standoff range off the Gulf of Oman rather than intervening directly in the Persian Gulf due to the threat of Cold War era AShMs that likely couldn't even lock onto a Zumwalt given that it has the RCS of a 30 foot speedboat.>What they need to do is get the specs nailed down, freeze the design early with room and tonnage to spare, build a prototype, unfuck the teething problems, and then start actually building.This is more or less what they plan on doing, except in a more efficient order. Doing everything fully sequential is a problem because it greatly increases the amount of rework necessary when problems inevitably arise in the prototype phase and causes workforce problems when there's years-long gaps between the initial design and revision, and between production of the lead ship and follow ons.
>>65262528Actually it was the paint, specifically the darker color which more easily absorbs light, heating the water and making the algae bloom happen. The water used in the pool wouldn't have changed, so that only further proves it was the paint.Also, they're now killing wildlife trying to 'clean' it up since the hydrogen peroxide is now a high enough level to kill ducklings that were using the pool, and also cause the paint to peel faster, 'sabotage' is just the cope story for the good goys to swallow, hook, line and sinker.>>65261842>'Somehow'Makes you wonder if they could do it, but just drag their feet to scam more money from tax payers.
How the hell did this thing hold 60 rounds!? You'd be lucky to even fit 20 in that thing
>>65266447Thank you, this is an answer I will accept.
>>65266105It's not well shown in the model but the CE shotgun has two tubes to fit all it's ammo in. Even still, it's a fucking massive shotgun. I think it's something like 1.2 meters long.
>>65266457Microsoft demanded an additional Halo games when 2 was in development. Bungie was more than ready to retire the setting, and that’s when they started looking about going independent. When they were forced to both cut a lot of content from 2 (namely two entire missions set on Earth instead of the cliffhanger), they were outright forced to make it a trilogy. 3 sealed that idea, going independent, it also brought in most of the people who founded 343 later including the guy who snuck in the Terminals stuff that the OG Halo team didn’t actually know about because they were busy trying to get the game ready for launch. But forerunner was always just a name for a precursor, human civilization that nuked the galaxy back to 0 to stop the Flood, which was an outer-galactic threat that showed up with no warning or explanation. Gravemind: lChild of my enemy” to chief. 343 in 1 telling chief “you’re back quick we have to activate the Ring” and when chief doesn’t do that asks “why would you hesitate to do what you have already done?” As in the previous human who activated the ring tens of thousands of years ago but he’s an insane robot who’s lost track of time. Also when in the pillar of autumn he comments “oh what a treasure trove of our lost information! Human, history, is it? Oh ho ho how curious.” Which is him literally outright saying that he is a human construct and “our” history refers to all the stuff humanity got up to after the rings went off. Humans also weren’t called humans when they were the intergalactic forerunner. 343 in 3:“You are forerunner.”Literally all Forerunner tech working flawlessly and effortlessly if a human uses it but refusing to work for any other species. Also in reach when you defend Halsey, she tells you that the ancient forerunner stuff is a “gift” from parent to child by an ancient civilization. 343 massively retconned all of this and their lore is ass.
I had a look at 343 lore for Gaylo. It unironically is the Finno-Korean hyperwar but played straight.
>>65266527The Prophet of Truth says the quiet part out loud in Halo 3 when speaking to Sgt. Johnson>I admit, I need your help.>But that secret dies with all the rest.>Your forefathers wisely set aside their compassion, steeled themselves for what needed to be done.>I see now why they left you behind. You were weak, and gods must be strong.Truth is literally admitting that Humans and Forerunners are the same, but rationalizes his religion with the belief that current day Humans were the "unworthy" Forerunners who were left behind. 343 Industries did not actually fuckin play any of the games before making Halo 4. They played just enough to understand the gameplay but genuinely just didn't pay attention to anything else.
Looks like Binging with Babbish is on our side. Have any other pop youtubers turned out to be pro-gun?
>>65259953To be fair that would require pretty insane levels of activity. You would have to walk ~16 miles every day.
>>65261074not reallyit's really just a matter of portion sizingfor example, today was a no-workout no-commute sedentary leftovers dayfor breakfast I had 3 pancakes, 1 chicken leg, half a potato, and a small piece of leftover birthday cakefor lunch I had 1 cup of cooked rice, half a lb of kale, and about 1/4 lb of grilled chickenfor dinner I had another cup of cooked rice, another half lb of kale, and about 1/4 lb of grilled salmonfor dessert I had yoghurt, watermelon and apples, and 3 cups of coffee with milk and sugarthis is a bit shy of 2,000 calories according to AiI don't drink, and I don't snack much on a day like this, and I know this is just enough to maintain my body weightwhen I lose weight is when SHTF at work and I live on late nights, Coke, biscuits, Macca's and Domino's>but doesn't fast food = weight gain?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65261141That’s a fairly normal amount of food for an average person.
>>65203427fuck bro
>>65258288>Quit drinking so it should be a permanent change.Good lad, just watch the sugar/food cravings because your body misses that sweet sweet ethanol.But also remember a little treat here and there is always preferable to falling back off the wagon
Post cannons and artillery, anything 20mm and up welcome
Were there any 20mm+ non-exploding machine-guns used after WW1?
>>65198486Lel. If they beat the Japs so hard, why didn't Stall-in at least declare war on Japan and allow American planes to refuel in Eastern Russia? Surely those weak Japs are no match for Russia. Yet at the same time Stall-in was crying and bleating for the West to invade France while accusing the West of dragging their feet on purpose to bleed Russia dry. Every accusation is a confession.
>>65193996noice
Anyone have a rare gun that probably no one else on /k/ has?>pic relatedI haven't seen anyone with a Blaser.
Me McRuger numero uno in 280 AI, innit.
>>65263828>>65263861>>65263866give us reports.
>>65203646I've yet to see another anon who owns a Robinson XCR
>>65264697Oh I know where to get deacs, I just morally oppose them exactly because guns that would now be obsolete calibre have been deactivated for no good reason. I sort of know a guy who is selling one of the belt fed versions.Importing any gun into the UK is PITA but I don't know if machine guns are extra hard if they're Section 58 anyway, supposedly the BBC just declared their Section 58 pistol at the border and that was it (back in 2016 when they lied about Sec58 guns on Panorama calling it a "loophole"). When I was looking at importing Danish Krags in I don't remember seeing anything specifically about what type of gun it was but I'll admit I only looked for a few hours to research before deciding it wasn't worth the effort.
>>65266114SR1 : incredibly fun to shoot. The gun has ZERO recoil, it's like clicking in a videogame. Accuracy is a little better than standard AKs (around 2 MOA). Heavy as fuck (over 4kg without mag and optic). I like it at the range but I wouldn't bring it to combat. The balanced action mechanism is less reliable and makes disassembly and cleaning a pain.MK-103 : nothing much to say. Apart from the furniture and markings it's a regular AK.AK15 : an improvement to the platform but nothing groundbreaking. Ergonomics are certainly better with the adjustable stock, new grip and selector. The top cover does hold zero pretty well (there may be some slight shift but I never noticed anything, the gun is not that accurate anyway). The only thing I don't like is iron sight, the rear aperture is bulky and blocks a large portion of your view when looking through it, and the sight picture is terrible. I'm planning on replacing it with the newer diopter sight from the gen 2.
What BladeShow 26 knife does everyone have their eye on atm?Previous thread: >>65213871
>>65265518lol
>>65265517> tight like a Les Baer if that makes sense to anyonePerfectly, never owned a Baer, but sure fondled a ton of them over the years. Do own a ‘benza.
>>65265537Eventually, I don't know about the flag though. This country has been utter shit lately...
>>65265518I really like DCA and Knifecenter’s service. Is he leaving?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_OsGS8IcY
>>65266136>Knifecenter’s serviceALWAYS preferred. Fuck Atlantic. How many bad experiences does it take to lose a cusomer for LIFE? 1 (one).
