Basically, a kind of floating armored, exohull for tankers, one that's hardened enough to withstand Shahed Kamikaze strikes (or more), that floats on pontoons, and is pulled by a tug.Ballistic missiles would be much more difficult to protect against--but hitting a moving target with the cheap ones Iran uses is next to impossible.Mines would be another issue. You could have some mine clearance device in front?Traffic through the strait would be much slower, but at least it would increase.
>>65261241>Qatar does it so Iran doesn’tI’d say “shalom” to you too, but you’re clearly brown so I’ll stick to something else:>THANK YOU SAAAAAAAR EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE
>>65261116>Kamala>convinceIf she could convince anyone of anything she'd be president right now instead of Trump. Not a single person on this planet likes or listens to that cunt.
>>65259364>Israel can do it with American I'm not even pro-Iranian, but Israel couldnt even if they wanted to. The fact is Iran is quite the tough cookie. They have the population, geography, and political will to stomach whatever Western countries are willing to throw at them.
Need armored ships with plenty of CIWS, more like ww2 cruisersSo they can sit there in the strait, and defend ships passing throughEveryone knew this was going to be an issue for 40 years nowbut oh well, Trumps fault for letting the jews control his foreign policy, who cares if Iran nukes tel aviv, does he think there are ANY JEWS anywhere in the world who wouldn't spit on his grave?
>>65259311>and is pulled by a tug.I would just sink the unprotected tug then.
Ukraine is recruiting nazi elves to attack Crimea on the solstice?
>>65263776Maybe it's not such a loss when it's brown elves...
>>65263340Killing Putin's ass probably would've triggered a war, as well, and in 2012 that was absolutely not one Ukraine could survive.
>>65266293For some strange reason, Russia considers it much better if there's gay sex between people that don't want it and everyone's miserable about it than if there's gay sex between people that wanted to and they're happy about it.
>>65266500Kek, in Russia it always boils down to people wanting others to be miserable.
>>65266745>in Russia it always boils down to people wanting others to be miserableThere's a strong element of that in China too.Mainlanders (the "loyal" ones) were kind of angry that Honkie studends wouldn't just shut up and bend over for the party/government/oligarchs.
We still haven't figured out how to breach fuckyuge, multi-layered minefields yet without losing everyone involved. Is there a viable solution beyond "don't let them get built up to that point?" Line charges and plows only get the surface-level ones; not the charges buried deep intended to hit the mine removal vehicles.
>>65262950>here's why wasting taxpayers money is a good thing
>>65261203or have drones fly around the clock dropping explosive charges to detonate the mines, the downside is that the enemy is absolutely going to know you want to attack
>>65262279I thought they breeched but couldn't exploit it because the Russians constantly counter attacked, to the point that they were exchanging pretty equal casualties. They weren't able to move past the breech points and were bottled up.
>>65262152Congratulations, you just reinvented the MICLIC with more steps.
It is difficult to transfer the energy of an explosion on the ground into objects buried underground. Furthermore, there have long been fuses that do not react to the instantaneous pressure caused by explosions.
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
>>65224650Germans subs were doomed the very moment the british decoded enigma, after that the british claimed they were detecting ships with radar as a cover story to them factually knowing the position of every german sub in real time.
>>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.
You are part of a 4 man security team traveling deep into the Amazon with a 6 man research team. You will travel by boat deep into the jungle while stopping along the way to disembark to accompany the research team as they move on foot a couple of miles inland to study nerd stuff you don’t care about before making it back to the boat. The team plans around a dozen of these stops but they could get distracted along the way. The boat carries all the supplies you will need but when you’re on foot you’re going to be carrying what you need on your person. There is always the potential for dangerous Amazonian wildlife and there is a decent chance you’ll come into contact with hostile isolated tribes. The team doesn’t expect to come into contact with any sort of paramilitary/narcoterrorist/bad guys armed with modern weapons but you’ll never know. Assuming the basics are covered via storage on the ship (lights, radios, batteries, food, water, ammunition assuming it’s a common enough cartridge, etc), what would your loadout be? Would the rest of the security team have the same loadout or would each of the four of you be specialized? None of your team has night vision. You have enough of a budget to acquire basic typical equipment you could realistically source (more or less up to maybe the late 1990s/early 2000s tech wise, nothing crazy modern due to the remoteness of where you’re having to source your gear). You are able to adequately test your equipment and can depend on it to function properly so no need to worry about buying a dud.
>>65262057>You are part of a 4 man security team traveling deep into the Amazon with a 6 manI say we're fucked. Basically only ONE man is on duty at any given moment.
In the jungle you can't really prevent anyone ambushing you, and if you're on the water you can't prevent and RPG ambush. So you send two RHIB type craft or local torpedo canoes forward to try to draw fire and flush out ambush, they want break contact weapons so think 40mm. Smoke grenades work particularly well to conceal swimmers. Because if you break contact you will have to then halt the convoy, establish a perimeter on the shore where you're also likely to get ambushed, then slip away at night. Think I must have floated a mile downriver under a fuel barrel, then kicked the barrel on and breathed through a refueling tube in the hope someone would chase the barrel not realizing I wasnt under it any more. breathing in petrol fumes without blowingbubbles is a skill.Taking loose fire from narcos is common, casual attempts to kill you are their way of telling you not to try to land. Either because they have facilities or crops or supply lines or caches in the area. You can shoot back, it's advisable to return fire if it's narcos, it's just the natives you don't shoot at.Locking the researchers in the boat, handcuffing them to things, or each other, totally going to happen. It's your boat, their organization is paying but the civies are cargo. Very atlantis, but that's how it is. They will get you all killed if you leave them to monkey around.>>65263277no no, your men take hypnotic sedatives, stimulants, boat pilots, aircraft pilots, transit security are always juiced and it might take you two weeks to recover when you get back just from the sleep deprivation.You have to use the researchers to pose as security, so spies can't tell how many of you are posted, use physical decoys, tricks like lighting two cigarettes, putting three flashlights on wires. light a kerosene lantern inside a poncho with a lit cigarette. wear a disguise every day.
>>65262057Stick to what survives in the third world with zero maintenance:>Kalashnikov or G3
>>65263232>>65263260>actual useful real world info>pic related, the actual chadThread's over, archive this shit and give this man an internet.
>>65263260thanks for the infodid you ever take distraction items with you?
A Hisar-class offshore patrol vessel was delivered to the Romanian Navy today, marking the first time Turkey has exported a naval ship to a NATO member. Two other vessels for the Portuguese are being constructed. Previously, Turkey has built corvettes for Ukraine, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia and numerous other countries.
>>65261062>I don't know what we need a corvette for. In this specific case, dem bribes. Theoretically, Romania needs about 6 corvettes to patrol the oil&gas patch against zigger saboteurs. But this overgrown OPV ain't it.
This vessel has been exported to 7 countries by now. It's a successful platform.
>>65263060Pure sex
>>65258386>ShrinkageI WAS IN THE BLACK SEA
>>65257900
you know what to do
>>65257685>strap me to a bomb and send me to tel aviv
>>65257681Battlecruiser Operational
>>65257681
Big kitty!
>a true warrior needs no weapon>t. annoying japanese guy from BO1seriously though, I had a ninja phase when I was a pup (as you do) and managed to get my 3rd degree black before I actually got in a fight, and ended getting my ass fed to me. the only thing from karate class I ended up actually using successfully later on was the stance. share your thoughts on the various forms of kung fu /k/, and convince me it isn't all fake (good luck). Your body is a weapon but not if you use unrealistic 80s dance moves.....
>>65256217>ended getting my ass fed to me.Its the person, their ability to fight, their character to win. Watch the vid of the black karate guy who walked into a Colorado dojo and challenged a black belt to a fight (white gi). Black was fast, knew all the moves, looked like bruce lee.White gi tried the standard crap and quickly abandoned it for just all out punches and kicks. White gi was starting to win, black guy says 'I am not a fighter' trying to stop the fight, white gi goes for the kill and beats the guy unconscious and stomps on this head. (black guy was snorting, probably died). It all comes down to instinct to win when it really matters. If you are not going to train to fight to win, just walk or run away.
>>65258155>I use reverse punching sometimesso you punch yourself in the face?
>>65256567>uppercut my other sensei so hard he'd honestly get air timeTo hit someone on the jaw so hard that it would launch them into the air would rip their fucking jaw off.
>>65258171>It was all about that fuckin aqua netThe 3dp community is keeping that brand alive
>>65257487before that 8th grade...I didn't do bad though, managed to grow up. cant believe this is still smelling and running, gunna read all.>in the modern world>a mental fist fucks all asses and asshats
Why are sci-fi aerial units always such pieces of shit?
>>65236810THERMOTRVKLEAR BOMB
>>65247125W40K loves putting skulls fucking everywhere, but in this case, it might not be an exaggerationiirc in lore, refueling a starship requires the sacrifice of like 4 or 5 poor bastards, as they must carry the new HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE AND CORROSIVE new battery into the ship, the thing melts their hazard suits as they carry it
>>65262445In grimdark your power level is determined by how much of your outfit is skull. That is why Maugan Ra is the strongest living character in the setting.
>>65237190Yeah, that's why it flies lmao
>>65262257>Your ancestors bestrode the universe, and what are you? A witch doctor, mumbling cantrips and casting scented oils at mighty works you have no conception of. You are an ignoramus, a nothing. You are no longer worthy of the name “man”. You look at the science and artistry of your forebears, and you fear it as primitives fear the night.They understand certain things, but they are completely oblivious to how much of the tech really works and many of the rituals are just complete nonsense even with warp make believe. They can put part a and b together to make it do x and in some cases even create a different copy, but they don't really know why it is doing it. Not sure why you think that's a meme when it is a common theme in the actual fluff and black library books.
Why was the Flying Circus even allowed? Why did German High Command allow von Richthofen's theatrics instead of just forcing him to paint his plane in camouflage like everyone else?
>>65249936>Prussia was a noble warrior culture,More like a technocratic bureaucracy, there's a reason why the General Staff was invented by Prussians and why they were famous for focusing on shit like train schedules and timetables while France was going "allons mecs, elan et merde je sais pas ouais on chargé!"
>>65261560So it's a racist purity spiral in action?
>>65251041Everyone agrees any form of chemical warfare is bad. The French were the first to use it in the form of what is basically tear gas. The Germans were the first to use mustard gas, the kind that makes you cough up your own lungs. One is very different than the other, both are bad and terrible.That said, as horrific as chemical weapons are, the fact is that the vast majority of folk killed during the Great War was due to artillery, either directly, or through injury, infection and then death.
>>65262237>They won't all die offIrrelevant, they won't rule, they wont have military power, and they'll be easily displaced.>even if they do they'll cause massive damage to white European society in the process.There is no scenario where that doesn't happen. There is no scenario where the world's population isn't cut in half, bare minimum, this century, you can at least take solace in the fact that it will be mostly your enemies dead and mostly your genetic relatives ruling the ashes.>You're basically saying "It's fineWrong. I said it's a fact. >>65262833He just wishes I said things I didn't so that he could be angry at that imagined version of my post. It's a common sickness.
>>65263181>He just wishes I said things I didn't so that he could be angry at that imagined version of my post. It's a common sicknessMany such cases. It's also basically the purity spiral mechanism too.If you don't have an actual impurity, they can always find, misinterpret, or manufacture one.
why is AF1 still a 747?
>>65261228>the 747 doesn't feel old to meThey were still using a 707 until the nineties.
>>65260843You have another four engine superheavy passenger plane built in America on standby?
>>652627392 engined faggotry.
>>65260892yeah the VC-25 is probably unironically a better aircraft than the 747-8not the least because things like composite wings are meant to improve fuel economy one way or another (mostly weight savings) which literally doesn't matter with a presidential jet.and of course, the fact that they were manufactured before the merger with McDonald-Douglas means they weren't put together by complete retards
>>65262838Also before the invasion into WA.
why hasnt china or russia made a man portable missile big enough a man can still carry it that can punch down from the sky planes flying 10km>that way you can infiltrate a few guys behind enemy lines and have them shoot down the enemy transport planes en route to the front
Your post is difficult for a native English speaker to understand, but I think this might be what you're attempting to describe.
>punch down on planes from >10kmPeople have weight handling limits and you can only fit so much propulsion in a limited size.
>>65262776>reddit frog
>nuclear ramjet MANPAD
Is there any reason why it shouldn't (unupgraded) see service into 2050 and beyond?
>>65260516>Despite being a joke post, 1900 to 2000 was a massive power gap and 2000 to 2020 accelerated even more. I really do wonder sometimes.The actual tech was a joke but my point was serious, which was that it's impossible to predict what technological advances will occur in even a handful of years, let alone 24 years plus.
reminder that this is what cope cages were originally built to stop
>>65260461Javelin can't kill barn tank at all. It would be just hitting air over an over again.
>>65259845Mass profiliaration of FPV drones changes tactics and need for weapons systems. Squad self defense anti tank weapons become mostly redundant. AFVs can't hide from drone and get destroyed mostly before they enter close combat . And even if tsnks aproach positions most effective and force conserving tactics become hiding in the ground holes and waiting when drones from rear echelons (that tanks can't see and fight) finish these tanks. Instead of popping out of cover and trying to engage tanks themselves, risking exposure and drawing tanks fire at yourself. Over last 3 years you see like zero attempts to engage AFVs with RPGs, when it was stapple action of all wars since RPG was invented.
>>65259778Botbrained slopposter
Hello frens, I am trying to figure out a shtf gun. I am not exactly a weapon enthusiast, in fact apart from my dad's Glocks and a few experiences at shooting ranges with rental AR15s and AKs I have no experience at all. Right now I have narrowed it down to either a zastava m90 or m70. They're cheap, reliable, and easy to clean. Im not interested in the bullshit about specs and a weight difference of 1-2 pounds. I've shot both 762 and 556 AKs and although I like the the 762 version better and think 762 is better in every way apart from weight/recoil (which I wouldn't think I would be a problem as I would need less bullets for hunting deer as well as self defense). I am leaning towards an AK in 556 just because of the fact that America imports the vast majority of its 762 ammunition and if shit hits the fan whatever I have stocked up is likely what I will get and I will not be able to scavenge 762 like I will be able to take 556 from other people and shops/homes. I liked the AKs because I was basically able to figure out how to use it at the range just from my experience playing video games and the range supervisor was even nice enough to show me how to take it apart to clean it, it was basically like putting together legos to me. It was really easy to handle and I was able to hit every bullet I shot square in the head or chest on the target from the maximum range they had which was about 50 meters. Im planning on getting one in 556 but does anyone have any other ideas that are just as reliable/easy to maintain before I do? The only other gun that I was considering is a ruger mini14 but I have yet to shoot one. Im not really concerned about fancy specs or optics as I just want something that's reliable and does what it needs to if shtf. My plan if society collapses is to drive from the midwest down to the south and set up camp in Appalachia and live off of deer and rabbits and avoid other people as much as possible.
>>65258927>7.62 mininugget>not famous for ice picking
>>65252889get AR15, like S&W or PSA
>>65252889literally any rifle that takes cartirdges so long as it works, you have ammo, and know how to use it
>>65253104Fellow Michigander here, the WASR is the best 7.62x39 rifle you can get for the price. I love Aks and they are my main rifle of choice. But for actual SHTF in the USA I would suggest an AR15 URGI upper with whatever lower you want and a ta31 acog.As for being out in nature you will find none in Florida and little in the Appalachians. Florida is a concrete hell and sprawl has made the Appalachian mountains feel crowded even when the population is not actually that high. Northern Michigan has far better nature than most other eastern states.
>>65258927>poke tiny holes in enemies without slowing them down or causing grievous wounds (same problem with the Krag rifle during the Moro Wars in the Philippines nearly a century earlier).>220 grain round nose 30 cal at 2000 fpsKrag slander will not be tolerated. Especially blatant falsehoods.That was never an issue with the Krag. You're thinking of the M1892 service revolver which was in 38 long colt. The Krag, and 30 army by extension are fine weapons, just outclassed in a military context by the contemporary mauser rifle and cartridge designs.The Krag is a beautiful smooth capsule mag that however doesn't lend itself well to stripper clip loading, and it's an expensive design to produce.The cartridge had plenty of stopping power, it just had a rainbow trajectory from the heavy round nose bullet, and was rimmed instead of rimless.A 150gr fmj boat tail wouldve upped muzzle velocities to 2500-2600 fps would've made it much flatter shooting. The 30-40 is incredibly similar to the 303 British ballistacaly, which has been well regarded for terminal performance through its extensive service life, which began also as a lower velocity heavy bullet and then got lighter and pointier as people learned new shit and is literally the same energy as 308 out of a 16-18" barrel which is the new hot shit heavy hitter.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>all 1918 Gotha bomber raids on Paris caused approximately 241 civilian deaths in total>shells by the 'Paris Gun' killed about 250 civilians in Paris between March and August 1918Why did the Germans even try to bombard the city with their flying soapboxes when they had a literal stratosphere gun available that did the job much better? The construction of WWI-era bombers and zeppelins seems like a total waste of resources and time when they could have just invested all that into u-boats and artillery.
>>65256860that mission towards german east africa by a zeppelin was epic. I will do an AI movie about that when the technology is ready.
>>65259632Flight duty was horribly dangerous in WW1, and the fact that they lost more planes on landing than to enemy fire should tell you why.Hint: It has nothing to do with suicide missions.
>>65258748This is the actual answer, giant guns have barrel lifes measured in the high 10s to low 100s of rounds, and they're extremely expensive to make and not that hard to destroy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLwsl_BH1Gs
>>65258748Even crazier is the fact that the first few shells missed the targets by a literal mile because the Germans had forgotten to account for the coriolis forces, i.e. different parts of the surface of the earth rotate at different speeds depending on their latitude.
>>65256860Now compare the impacts of the Paris Guns (they were 3) with the bomber hits.It's also interesting to note that the guns were commanded by a vice-admiral and manned by navy gunners, because the German command thought that they navy would be better at shooting giant calibers.
