Earlier this month I went on a quick trip over to the UK. The main purpose was for me to visit RIAT 2025... which got cancelled due to the current geopolitical situation in general and the middle east in particular. Luckily London and thereabout had enough museums to keep me entertained anyway, so I'm not too bothered by it. I'm still able to form proximately coherent sentences if nothing else.Anyway, the first batch of photos have now been processed, and so we're off to the tank museum at Bovington, about three hours by train and foot from Waterloo station (those brits really are obsessed with ABBA...)Starting off at the very beginning, here's Little Willie, the very first prototype tank ever.
>>65380214Yeah the WW1 section is cool. It's amazing to see how far they were developed, with even a kind of proto-mechanised infantry being tested with some of the huge late war tanks.It does suck that you cant get really hands on with some of the tanks, but amongst other things, there are alot of kids around. It would be amazing if they had a few out that you could actually get inside to help appreciate them better.
>>65377131>Earlier this month I went on a quick trip over to the UK. The main purpose was for me to visit RIAT 2025>2025Huh?
>>65377713Reminder that Bovington thought the TOG II was equipped with a 17pdr but it was actually a 20pdr and they only admitted the mistake like last year or something.
>>65385472>It would be amazing if they had a few out that you could actually get inside to help appreciate them better.You do get to go on a hunchback trip through the Mark V** (up to the driver's position along the path seen in >>65377224 (You) and then back down the other side), but more wouldn't have hurt. Something more modern perhaps, letting people actually get into a turret. Oh well, there's a Leopard you get to climb into the turret of in Munster, and a full access MT-LB in the playground at Parola.>>653854822026, I've gotten old enough that it usually takes to about October for my mental calendar to update the year properly.>>65385486Well, given how long they went with the bright blue Caunter scheme... Overall they seemed to play along with commonly held notions a lot instead of going for the Mythbusting like the Germans in Munster.
>>65377265Doesnt really look like sniper armor. Looks like more stormtrooper (Sturmtruppen) armor. German snipers really didnt really wear armor outside of the same “stirmpanzer” helmet plates used by their machine gunners.
I am looking for this particular brand, not any other similar danglers.
>>65382708yes?
>>65382459No! I AM the dangler!
>>65382708>>65382616
>>65382616Exquisite.
>>65382616
If you had a legally owned machine gun, is it legal in any State to CC it? Are there extra considerations?Set aside practicality and retardedness, is it something you could legally do? Would it matter if it's a transferrable or post-sample?
>>65383731This is why I advocate Taurus Gc models as the ultimate carry guns. If you have to draw on someone in SD it is going to be so close that any pistol that functions reliably and shoots under 100 MOA will be fine.
>>65384158Thankfully I'm not that poor, but hey, there's a niche for Taurus above Hi-point and below the usual suspects.
>>65384109Yeah and the ATF field agent is going to ask why they are holding onto an item when the responsible person and paperwork shows its supposed to be somewhere else.>>65384155There have been a number of posts about it before over the years. The ATF gets really nervous about NFA items not being either with the owner or an FFL who has the ability to take possession of them. The ATF will literally send a field agent to collect it and then deposit it back where it is supposed to go (or to an FFL if it needs be by court order) rather than leave it in a police evidence locker where it can get lost. NFA Registered items get them very nervous.
>>65384535>>65383847it's like a soulbound item to them, lmao
>>65383362It just makes no sense. Full auto means collateral damage in almost any case you'll ever have to use it bar carrying it in the woods. If you have to mag dump a perp the prosecution will introduce you to the jury as "mag dump Jefferson"
The Navy SALs
>>65386170>ywn eject from your F-16 with an M-16OP is ngmi
>>65386238Its a HALO rig
>>65386246HALO is a weaponAlso HALO is gay now
Is this shell holder removable? I thought they were allen screws but they look like pins that have been pressed in. Do people actually use these? I find it gets in the way more than it is useful.
what if you take your pants off?
benelli or turknelli? show the other side of the gun.
>>65385929the esstac velcro cards are way more practical
<<I bet you do too, buddy.>>
>>65384336>two person cockpitthis buddy is an imposter and probably belkan as well
>>65385076To be fair he has the Morgan when he says that line, so it shouldn't even be an Eagle.
>>65385122tell me why havent we financed a superplane like the morgan or the falken? even the f-22 raptor pales to those.
>>65385993We don't have the Ulysses asteroid heading for us.
>>65385056>SEAD>one job is to destroyWrong, idiot. Its one job is to Suppress.You're thinking of DEAD
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f-35-fighter-jet-crash-san-diego-miramar-marine-corps/
>IRGC claims an F35 was destroyed in Jordan>CENTCOM says nothing>F35 crashes 24 hours laterMY ALMONDS ARE ACTIVATING ON THEIR OWN!
>>65384400they also claim the ayatollah is alive
>>65383915kek>>65383819they've made over 1,000 of them by nowat this point it's just a statistics inevitability
>>65383704skill issue
The self-propelled arty gun, the infantry fighting vehicle, or the tank?
>>65385701all three
>>65385772fpbp, kill everything god
>>65385701the ifv typically has a pack of horny jar heads to rape and pillage your forward operating base
>which is best, the screwdriver, the hammer, or the handsaw?Table saw is best.
>>65385701Give me a German Wiesel tank with two 23 round APKWS II racks and a telescoping VAMPIRE radar on top. The guy in the driver's seat can handle the anti-drone targeting and reloading.
Will the advances in drone technology fundamentally change the nature of naval warfare beyond what standoff ranged missiles have? Will this be the death of Aircraft Carrier that we know and love today, the same as how the Battleship was made suboptimal in the face of dive and torpedo bombers? Will the seas be patrolled not by gigantic carrier fleets but by smaller and more modular flotillas and vessels? I am thinking more cost effective (inexpensive) drone carriers.Am I just fucking retarded though? I have a sneaking suspicion that I am too retarded and should just kms immediately and have been contemplating on that too so don't hesitate to let me know.
>>65384392Kys now. World will be a better place with you dead. Fucking loser
>>65384392no, drones will simply return us to 1940's era AAWThe biggest change will be the CIWS will get the CRAM ammunition. All these crazy expensive interceptor missiles exist because of other crazy expensive supersonic/ballistic missiles that travel too fast for bullets to intercept. But CIWS and 5 inch guns are more than adequate for the speeds drones are able to achieve. And a point for ww2 kamikaze planes over drones is that the planes were much more robust and NEEDED to be blown to smithereens or they'd just crash into the ship on inertia. Drones are not so robust. A 20mm CIWS with proximity fuse is more than enough. The Ford class carriers have a much larger amount of CIWS that previous carriers btw. It's the undersea threat we really need to think about.
The proliferation of ecm and impovements of conventional countermeasures will result in the total redundamcy of autonomous systems. Radars will be jammed, optics will be dazzled, computing chips fried by overcurrent. We will need to go back to aquire targets with our eyes, direct our aim by purely physical energy and rely on dumb munitions to bridge the gap between us and our enemies.AND YOU WILL LIKE IT
>>65385708This sounds like a good idea for China or Russia but US will not politically abide pilot deaths and airframe attrition. The Reapers that every liberal loathed anyway as a symbol of American imperialism are getting blown up on the ground causing a lot of embarrassment and political scrambling all the same. Also I think you're overestimating jamming abilities and underestimating the ability of AI to operate in EW denied airspace. I think the biggest unknown, which will stay secret for as long as possible, is how Space Force will deliver telemetry and strike authorization capabilities to swarm commanders.
>>65384392How many times do you intend to make this thread?
Oh come one that's just sad
scan for swag
>>65382939>swag zone
>>65382762I'll come two, faggot.
>>65385624Haha cum In my ass :)
>>65382939>Davis will come to your house
For lack of better terminology, I am trying to figure out how to better understand the "supersoldier" phenomena better and disect it.The super soldier phenomena is just a placeholder umbrella term for that one phenomena of the stranger from some rich people area out of the country or out of town enters some small rural village in a fancy suit, he's all well kempt and super alert and aware.He outperforms everyone in the small rural village in everything, especially shooting, and then begins wreaking havoc on the local population of the small town.Kinda like the super soldiers from Onslaught or Universal Soldier or Killing Floor or Resident Evil or Trepang, or Fear, or Killzone, etc...What's that phenomena called, like that one quiet kid type sleeper agent no pussy no girlfriend no socialization guy who's just super calculated and alert at all times like he's on a constant no-tolerance building supply of intravenous caffeine.What's that called, has anyone personally experienced such a phenomena?
>>65385219>If you are at the bottom of the social hierarchy the world is a dangerous place for you.In monkey packs, they form a ball formation at night.The alphas sleep in the middle, safe, and the outcasts at the edges where predators stalk and kill them and their offspring. If the outcasts try to come closer inside, they are fucked up by better pack members.
>>65385683that wouldn't work in modern warfare. anti ship missiles can identify the flagship and ignore the pickets.
>>65385696Think of it as expendable meat-recon that will alert the inner circle so they can escape or at least stay alert.Much like russian tactic "send in meat, see where the weapons that kill them fire from" but in monkey universe.
>>65382944please stop watching reacher
>>65385728>Much like russian tactic>but in monkeywhy repeat yourself?
Is it the GOAT fighter?
>>65380467F-18 doesn't have the best performance but it's ergonomic for the pilot and easy on the maintenance crew. Think Corolla Hilux vs Ferrari/Lambo.
>>65366313Are you trying to imply Russians are more capable than Arabs
>>65384331Hornets are awesome. I don't understand the slander. Is it because they haven't really been tested in air-to-air combat much? Not their fault they don't have many challengers!
Why the single-engine F-35C?!? I thought the USNavy likes to have aircraft with more than one engine? The french did it with the Rafale-M(arine).Navalize the F-22, ya dumb seamen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce9H5xCSH8w
Rafale-M twin engine sea launchhttps://x.com/RealAirPower1/status/2082383465387790413#m
It doesn't matter what kind of planes the french build, the Charles de Gaulle barely counts as an aircraft carrier these days.
>>65384269Because America is not France. We can develop better aircraft, cheaper, with better capabilities and range.
F35 cheap/Thread
Fifth and Final Friday of July Edition Anon's guide for beginners, text and figureshttps://rentry.org/sa6c4mVicious' TL;DR V3.1 with annotations [A2Grip]https://files.catbox.moe/91lvkc.jpgSoundtrackhttps://youtu.be/fn5mc-M1zmgPrevious>>65374362To the anons it was all for and a reserved place for anyone who might have been forgotten.
My BRN-4 upper gets here Monday
>>65384793bodied that freak
/arg/ is seeing more and more 416s wtf is going on ?
>>65385671>>65384925>>65386393>>65386393>>65386393>>65386393>>65386393
>>65380562>no canzbut y doe
Do tranquilizers really work like this?
>>65378281That's the prologue, he gets the bandana at the end of it.
>>65371730this is afaik.real SF kill sentries. there's no reason to leave sentries alive, except to get information out of them until they're no longer useful. there's a bunch of manuals you can look up from the ww2 era which show takedown ehm neutralizing techniques used in the real world. tranquailizers exist in the game as a way to keep the NPCs coming back the same way as alerts go down after a while. the closest thing to a tranquilizer in real life is something like an airgun loaded with a nerve poison. which... also kill, and wouldn't be fast enough to quietly take down sentries. in real life once an alert is raised it won't be going away for a very long time and the amount of soldiers trying to ambush you would be far greater than in the game, most of the time resulting in a game over. but the game is realistic in the sense that you've got to deal with the bodies on the field as to not get discovered, and again not realistic in the sense that there would be blood and guts, and they would look for missing sentries until they're found. if people at checkpoints go missing consistently they're going to notice and do something about it. in real life once they realize there's guerillas in the area, they're going to actively start hunting them with K9 teams. so it's not like you can live, shit and do all that. this is why guerillas go in and out asap.
>>65371952>>65372115>>65374223>>65374639Tranquilizer with AI solves this
>>65372464The induction sequence is the kick starter, and all the info needs to be correct and a person needs to watch for problems, im not downplaying any of that, but isn't most sustained anesthetic dosing computer metered now?I recently had a surgery and my vitals timeline the whole way through being KO'd was a (near) perfectly flat 60bpm, 100/60 bp, 14 respiratory
>>65371745This.>>65371952Meh, it's not, not real, cause of that so much as how it's depicted working. You could use ketamine in the darts and use a dose that would guaranteed knock out any of the heaviest servicemen. The issue is that it would take 3-4 minutes to kick in, there's no way they wouldn't know that they'd just been shot with it, and finally, a dose that guarantees you knock how the HEAVIEST servicemen you may encounter means a few of the smaller dudes are most definitely going to be put into a coma they aren't guaranteed to come out of.
