What is the difference between a phaser and a disruptor, and why is the Federation the only one to use the former?
>>64885759>She’s green irl>phantasy box checked
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>>64883063Michael Okuda's control interface designs (became known as "Okudagrams") are fantastic in general. I like a program where he was talking about teaching the actors how to use it, and he told them all to not worry about what the buttons do, because the buttons can do anything you need them to do for the context of their use.Also the Enterprise Main Computer is basically an AI (and I recall a few episodes it may go beyond that in sapience), and most of their queries and computer reference interactions are similar to AI prompts nowadays.
>>64888653>most of their queries and computer reference interactions are similar to AI prompts nowadays.It's literally the plot of "Elementary, Dear Data."
>>64888653Doesn't the computer get hijacked by some woman planet on TOS and suddenly starts being cheeky with the captain?
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Imagine not fuckin dudes, at every single opportunity presented to you.Shits fucking gay.
>>64888729Man sized target at 15 yards, misses paper entirely at 20. That was using 9mm fmj.Lead 38spl might have been a bit better, but i didnt have enough on hand for accuracy testing.
>>64889187>>64889194>>64889202Show us your model train collection.
>>64885904>Carneys heroes
>>64888725I love that.A challenger appears to the Snider anon.
Friendly reminder that the Miami Dade shootout was solved by 6 shots of .357 magnum, really only 2 shots as 3 missed completely, and 1 struck non fatally but was immediately followed by a fatal shot. The chad magnum wielder even used the final shot in the cylinder to 1 tap the second shooter. Instead of having all .38 special revolvers and ammo replaced with dedicated .357 magnum as well as filtering out incompetent shooters, they decided to cope and lower standards while running through the fiasco of watering down other chad calibers like 10mm and .40 s&w
>>64885655>>64885658there's a vid on youtube from the armorer of that film. he was talking about what guns they used and where they got them and how he doesn't think a tommy gun was actually used in he ambush but included it anyway because the producers asked for it. I think he said he was pretty sure there was a colt monitor but most of the guns used were like model 8s and then the cops would have dropped those and picked up shotguns
>>64882360You are a jew
>>64882454.38 Special +P 158-gr LSWCHP (“FBI load”)Lead semi-wadcutter hollow point, not jacketed, and not Magnum pressure.THAT was the FBI load.
>>64888425lmao no, most obvious falseflag of the 20th century.>>64888434Judging by his Twitter, he's been relapsing pretty hard, and he's not in a creative headspace anymore, like he used to be, the drug use is probably taking a heavy toll on his brain by this point.Not that everything he ever wrote was always gold, but even when he did something that was kinda crap, it'd still be FUN crap, like Maximum Overdrive.>"I wanted to get a director who would finally do Stephen King right.">Stephen King said that and then writes and directs THIS bullshit
.40 S&W remains a highly effective handgun round.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIB58HYc3F0
What do you include in your 3 day pack? I'm putting together a new pack and just wanted to see what people are rocking with. Bigger packs are welcome too, but let's try to talk about packs that you can survive atleast 3 days with.
>>64888900>>64888934Oh damn you guys were looking at this from a grunt perspective. In that case it really depends on METT-TC and what systems other guys are using. I know people that were deployed in Afghanistan usually brought 15 mags for an 1 day patrol.
>>648888352-3k calories worth of food per day, three liters of water per day, water purification tablets in case of emergency, utensils depending on the food you brought, sleeping supplies based on your climate and preference, first aid kit, way to contact emergency services - ideally a satphone, one or two changes of clothes, multiple pairs of clean socks, toilet paper because you're not a fucking savage, a solid fixed blade knife, navigation toolsAnything /k/ related, guns and ammo in particular, are just personal preference
>>64888835Water bottle and sleeping bag. I've gone three days without food before and it wasn't that bad.
>>64888845gonna need salt to live 3 days on water alone.
Drones
the sharpest thread on /k/chris reeve edition because everyone is buying sebenzaslast thread recap>anon pulls a knife from the ocean >>64815356>size doesnt matter >>64815450>microtech anons unemployment hobby >>64818204>nobody can decide if we like the livewire >>64822024>anon is very, very poor >>64834690
>>64888929The same reason other small-production and custom makers use it, it's much easier to work with and finish than the really exotic supersteels while still being a very good steel. Acting like it's somehow not a carry-worthy knife because of RWL35 is wild considering it's a better steel than what you get with 99.9% of knives that actually get carried and used in the real world, and in some ways it could actually be considered a better choice since it's tougher and much easier to maintain and sharpen than the more exotic options.
>>64888929What's wrong with s30v tier steel? That's really good steel. I bet most steel snobs would daily carry 420hc with a proper heat treat and not know the difference between it and their precious magnacut... geometry and heat treat are most important.
>>64888985>>64889003It's different with a huge knife company like Benchmade vs. a small semi-custom maker like Grimsmo, though. Benchmade has a lot of economy of scale so expectations for pricing are totally different. Ease of manufacturing and finishing also matters a lot more to a company like Grimsmo than one of the big mass producers, Benchmade or Spyderco or whoever can basically laser a chunk of steel out, run it through a surface grinder and a tumbler, and call it a day, and people will just be happy they've got Magnacut or whatever, but the expectations for finish quality on a Grimsmo are much higher and it means they have to consider aesthetics in their steel choice as much as performance. Grimsmo in particular also have the extra handicap of wrapping their whole brand image up in the fact that their knives are totally CNC machined so they have to choose steels that suit that process too.
>>64889006i didnt say its not carry worthy but for a grimsmo knife ($700? $1000?) i would want super steel. thats a super price. theyre supposed to be the greatest craftsman, why am i accepting a steel that's 'easier to work with' than one thats superior to carry.>>64889008again, s30v is fine, but theres a price point at which its sub optimal. when decent memenacut is $120, and benchmade is still selling s30 knives for $300+, there's an imbalance. i literally own a benchmade s30v knife, i like it a lot, but it is not a value proposition.>magnacut... geometry and heat treatyou can have all of these things actually. and above $300 or so dollarydoos i pretty much expect all three.
>>64889023It's really funny how fast knife steels change relatively speaking. I remember about a decade ago now the generalish tier list was 440<1080<154cm<S30 where 1080 was like BCM, 154cm was equivalent to DD, and S30V+ was into the "high end" bracket for knives. Like for benchmade 154cm was most common with S30/35V being on a few models. I had one of the OG Infidels in D2 steel and got a replacement with the S30v blade and that was like "wow"Even the meme Venomtech I got was Elmax and that was the top of the top of the top of the end back then. Now even the bespoke super steels have a year or 2 of rarity before they filter down and if your $50 knife doesn't have Magnacut, you got ripped off. Not even complaining or anything, just like AR15s, we are living in a relative golden age of absurdly good price-to-performance wrt steels and I wonder what if improvements are going to start slowing down?
what historical military leader had the most rizz?
>>64888727https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytA-0xTYRUo
>>64888966only two things i know of zhukov. that he liked coca cola and killed russians by the tens of millions. by these two standards alone he oughta be labeled the greatest american that ever lived.
>>64888727Adrian Carton de Wiart fucked
>>64889114I just don't believe thisbunch of hooeygets shot in the head and ankle but is back fighting a couple months later where he gets shot in the hip, then a week later is shot in the leg, then 3 weeks later is shot in the head again
>>64889072Russians all secretly wish to be American.
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>>64889201I was just trolling. Im Army. Space Force is cool though.
>>64888841>Space Force already has a base in GreenlandWe're already there?I thought we needed to annex Greenland tho.
>>64889242Wait until you hear about how Russia is fighting in Ukraine to keep NATO away from its borders yet Finland, Estonia, and Latvia are already a part of NATO.
>>64889185>former SFCYou are so fucking retarded, Robert. Except for Cyber and Aviation, you cant become a WO without hitting Sergeant.In that case every WO was a "former SFC" but you really believed SFCs could just become WOs.
>>64889279Shit im drunk but in my mind that was A slam dunk.I legit thought you said PFC not SFC.Still, you dont need to be an SFC to be WO
Plum Supremacy edition. Old thread: >>64863600
>>64889115Read my entire post, you just restated what I said.
>>64889127i was just curious why you think we don't know what you said. It's like going into the handguns general and saying Taurus is shite haha
>>64889137>why you think we don't know what you saidI explained where I found the information ("the product listings on their own site"), and you then tell me where that information is in different words. Yea, I know where it is, that's how I was able to say where the information I found and provided was from.That's why I think you didn't read the whole thing, because you don't need to tell me where the information is, which is proved by the content of the post, but you did anyway.
>>64889174and you thought people who look at the AK market obsessively don't know this
>>64889260Both parties in the conversation on barrels before me apparently are either unaware of the fact WBP uses both types of barrel, or was simply cherrypicking examples to support their point, so it's a 50/50 on if that specific anon and tripfag do or do not know this.
Post firearms that are respectable imitations of their original designs. It is mandatory to post yours if you have one.
>>64880944How's the Chinese Winchester clone?You hear about the pardner all the time but it and the Chinese Ithaca clones almost never come up
>>64888870Never shot one myself but I heard they're gtg. They fall in the same category as pardners of "the pawn shop didn't have a maverick 88" pump shotguns
>>64866169Early ones had issues with heat treat on internals. Im old enough to have dealt with the first runs of them, and while major parts were fine, things like searing surfaces on the trigger and hammer, (and infrenquently the bolt) were improperly heat treated, and would cause the piece to go full auto after shooting 5~20 rounds.They also did odd things like using a grub screw/set screw to retain the barrel. The barrel and receiver were made just like the actual M-14, but Polytech/Norinco decided to add a set screw through the side of the receiver and into the barrel threads.The stocks were sometimes "punky" like the bad SKS stocks one would sometimes find. What was nice was they usually came as a ready to go product, complete with sling, a decent copy of the USGI M-14 in stock cleaning kit, and a decent manual.I've seen some very nice rifles made up using one of the Polytech/Norinco M-14's as a base.
>>64889261You're going to need to show pics. Never seen that.
>>64888870Its trash the only chinesehotgun worth a damn is the 870 knockoff since china actually uses them and they tooled up for it. All the otherones were for export only shipped out in a barely functional gunshaped object that will work if some body actually finishes it shape. Oh we should clone this, does it matter if it works? No who gives a shit buyers on the other side of the planet fuck em.
lets talk about the peak of swag that was the early to mid 1600s
>>64885797Peak aesthetics
Due to Anglocentric historiography the Habsburg-Ottoman wars are totally unknown to most outside of SE Europe. Thus you get retards like >>64885864
>>64886918You're right, I should've just said armorEven though some armors of that time were really close to what late medieval knights and soldiers wore
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>>64887956>the engines didn't work and caught fire all the timeU-792, a XVIIA was rigorously trialed. Pic related is the trials log. By 10 October 44, they had already achieved relatively stable 20 knots for 265 minutes, per the logs. That's close enough to an acceptance testThe only fire incident was a dust collector from 12th August 44, where the trial likely didnt even involve walter engine, since it's a surface trial.Source is Vom Original zum Modell, Uboottyp XVII: (Walter-Uboote), p. 29Also, the hazards of HTP combustion were overblown. While it surely required safety measure, A catastrophic loss was hardly going to occur just because engine room mechanic Otto from Dummersdorf started farting uncontrollably after a higher-than-usual protein diet earlier in the day>Der T-Stoff (H2O2 in 80% Konzentration) wurde eingehenden Erprobungen hinsichtlich Beschußsicherheit und seinem Verhalten gegenüber Stoßwellen unterworfen. Das verwendete Produkt zeigte sich hierbei unempfindlich. Es gelang lediglich durch Einsatz starker Sprengkörper in großer Menge und bei starker Verdünnung den Stoff bei einer Konzentration über 86,5 % zu einer Beteiligung an der Reaktion zu bringen. (Hierbei wurde nicht direkt gemessen, sondern die Wirkung der Zerlegung des für den Versuch benutzten Eisenrohres beobachtet, so daß ein eindeutiges Maß für die Explosionswirkung bisher nicht festliegt).Source: Die schnellen Unterseeboote von Hellmuth Walter, p. 21The main problem always was the HTP shortage. Had OKM recognized the potential of this design earlier, whether that would actually have led to accelerated HTP production capacity is debatable, then sure, that's a big assumption. But the Walter engine itself was functional, and HTP storage wasn't nearly as hazardous as many claimed
>>64880029This thread again? Really?No it wouldn't have helped, resources were to tight, equally in men, fuel and metal, and it's not like they could have simply summoned production capabilities out of the aether.Stug maxxing is as retarded as pz4 maxxing.
>>64888457>Stug maxxing is as retarded as pz4 maxxingNot it's not, in fact it is far more practical and strategically wise. As anon mentioned upthread though, by 1942 Germany's problems were of far greater scope than solely what their armored force structure on the ground consisted of. As another anon said, not invading the USSR in 1941 would also have been a good idea.>Reallyback to plebbit
>>64880079Wrong.>>64889259(just to add to what I posted here) Premise of the OP screencap "less heavy tanks"<--whatever that even means, is wrong. (I suspect it's the standard "durrr dey shouldn't have bilt TYYYYYgERS")Again, Germany was giga-fucked and shot both its feet off by the end of 1942. But, after that time the only major armored vehicles in mas production should have been Panther(+Jagdpanther) and Stug IIIs. As I've posted on past threads, all Pz IV chassis and component production should have been relegated to SPGs and SPAAGs. Pz IV had a shitty suspension.
>>64880075>>there was still much room for victory.>losing ground in the East>barely holding on in Italy>Africa is gone>manpower and supply issues fucking everywhere>navy is fucked so starvation is back on the menu>Allies are preparing to land in either France OR the Balkans >Japan, who you can barely call an ally, is stuck in China and getting fucked in the Pacific
>Giant tires to soak up IEDs and crush obstacles>High profile for observation and firing over buildings>Locals will think it's cool.No MRAP could survive half a ton of explosives. A armored monster truck on the other hand?
>>64885659yeah
>>64885760>I'VE GOT A BRAND NEW MUSLIM HARVESTER
>>64885662yeah
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How many commoner soldiers was a single knight worth?
>>64883966That's pretty much what your common soldier looked like in most cases
>>64884058When you see how much blood someone has and you hear Livy's "yeah dude they drowned in blood at cannae it was wild" you start to realize that might not be an exaggeration. I mean just imagine some naturally small defilade with a herd of ~50 guys huddled together in terror fighting for their lives while slowly getting whittled away. Bloods gotta go somewhere.
>>64887631Catholics have had multiple popes and put their own power before god so many times
>>64888694People have less blood in them that can leak out than a proportion of their body. I'd doubt very much an amount of people can be in an area and bleed quicker than it can drain away to the point you can drown in it
>>64880901>How many commoner soldiers was a single knight worth?Somewhere between three or four.
old >>64847929There is literally not enough space on my kit to carry both 22 40mm grenades and a basic rifle load w/e frags, water, and medical. Help a poor PFC out.
>>64887591Rawdogging against the Tsar Bomba. Armor autists eternally btfo by pimp gang
Okay going forward we need AI magazine pics for ops. This thread is like posting on rec.guns.
Anyone ever tried to build a plate carrier from spare parts? Was it worth it?
>>64888898I mean my TT vest uses various Protech and milsurp pieces for deltoid and neck protection, plus an italian neck protector and velcro pads so it can use CAPs for BFD reduction. Works well
>>64888898Because you posted side #1, I am obligated to post side #2. Plan is to add a side #3 which addresses the following topics:1. Drip.2. Drip.3. More plates.4. Drip.
Post tanks and other armored vehicles.
>>64864709>Germans having problems with transmissions? Say it ain't so!This is a meme and overblown.Yes, German engineers were seething constantly about their tranny problems because the tanks kept getting heavier and heavier.Meanwhile, the Soviets were seething about how good those German transmission boxes were, being much more reliable than their own.
>>64888609Using "It was better than what Russia could make!" isn't exactly the glowing endorsement of quality you seem to think it is
>>64864866>>64869383Boy and Tankhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Q1vubN4w8
>>64884533Holy mother of fuck, what the hell am I looking at here?
