can't intercept enemy missiles? just don't report them! russia shocked ukraine ROCKED
>>65415753because ukraine is the shield of europe. you do not parry blows that will land on your shield. no, you let your shield bear the brunt of the blow, even if it eventually splinters and cracks under the strain, because that is what the shield is for.
>>65415753>Why don’t Europeans pipe up and give them more interceptorsNo more left in the cupboardA legacy of the US military industry being centered around profit instead of churning out low-cost weapons (i.e. NATO countries got jewed)
>>65415819>its your fault we killed our domestic arms industries
>>65415819we were literally constantly bitching at all of you to do your goddamn part and you said >no, history has ended, gibs time.and didn't do it. now you blame us again but also beg us for help every time you need it. embarrasing.
>>65415849>now you blame us againI'm not European but American, just observing the truth that Eurosissies got jewed by Raytheon et al just like the American taxpayer has been for decades.The US military industry is just a bunch of pathetic parasites like Wallstreet and its CEOs should all be arrested and replaced with patriots and they should be run at 3-4% profit like Rostec is instead of overcharging 10,000% for everything. They still fucking build patriot interceptors 1 by 1 by hand instead of having an assembly line in a factory.That's a major reason why the USA just suffered the largest strategic + military defeats in its entire history, if not the single greatest one ever.
How would you use your knowledge of military history, survivalism, and weaponry to survive if you were a member of a Jewish family hiding in the Netherlands in the summer of 1944?You permitted one firearm of pre-1945 American or Western European manufacture and 100 rounds of ammo as a starting arsenal.
>>65408300>so true and Austria really didn’t want the Anschluss eitheri mean it wasn't horrifically unpopular but it's not like it didn't take effort from hitler to get it through.
>>65408422AI slop, most likely
>>65396414C96 with broomhandle stock and extended magazine
>>65408392>>65408410I wasted so many years thinking women were actually noble creatures
>>65396414M1903A4
Should I seek out a Stryder ? Is the Trifecta still a thing? (I refuse to call it the Holy Trinity) Jesus is kingI love my Sebenza and Eklipse, but I want a Herman over a Stryder...
>>65415153the black burlap micarta
>>65415472Yeah, for a shitty chinesium knife I like it. Pretty slicey, and I like the deep clipped point it has. I tend to use the Byrd and the Morakniv more for sharpening practice, though.
>>65415520I lost my Mora ;-; it's somewhere in my backyard. With my luck, I will probably step on it, and it will put a hole in my foot. I think I want to buy picel to replace it... I need to buy something tonight or else the $10 + free shipping coupon will go away.
Saw this the other day and can't think of a better thread to post it in
>>65415388John Nicholson, John Jacobs, Hodson, and Skinner are the most famous of the "Indian" officers but there were many already veterans of other conflicts who performed well. Picrel is Hodson after Delhi proper was stable. Whether he did this as a response to the crowd and was using them as hostages or always planned on doing this is unclear but he had precisely 0 fucks left to give. >Another fun anecdote is John Nicholson finding his Indian cooks were planning on poisoning his officers. He had them all hanged, then walked into the mess and told the officers "I am sorry, gentlemen, to have kept you waiting for your dinner, but I have been hanging your cooks."
1974 Pietta .44 (brass) 1860 Army.I have slavshit rifles. I've owned 40-something rifles over my life, I've kept 6 consistently.I got this because I wanted *something*. I wanted a new different gun.QRD on this thing as a range toy, 4th or july noise maker, and can killer?Is there any hope of a kind of target shooting with this?Is it fun or will I shoot it half a dozen times and make a nice display instead?
>>65415226Is that your picture? I can tell it's not .44 because the cylinder isn't rebated.
>>65415321yes you will need a handful of accessories and tools although revolvers require less than other muzzleloaders. youll want-felt wads-bore butter, tallow, or crisco-nipple wrench-small piece of wire or pin that fits through nipple hole-proper sized screwdrivers for the different size screws-balls, caps and powder-sturdy dowel or cleaning rod in case you squib-mineral oil or ballistol and anti-seize copper paste for nipples-extra trigger and bolt spring, extra bolt, extra mainspring, extra set of nipplesfavorite primers are whatever you can find and whatever fits your nipples best. for pietta using stock nipples thats probably remington 10. get yourself a slixshot set of nipples and the slixshot wrench. all the other cheap wrenches on the market youll find easily are made of weak soft steel that bends and breaks when nipples get frozen stuck. which is probably going to happen at some point as a noob who will forget to clean properly and it will rust.. ive been shooting blakpowder for maybe 20 years. its not rocket science but there are some quirks and best practices to learn. in a lot of ways maintenance and use is simpler than modern guns. literally just need water and sometimes soap for cleaning. what state are you in?
if you don't clean it after shooting, it will foul up, and you will have a paperweight. This shit leaves rusty gunk in your bore that's really easy to get rid of but will cake on there. scrub the jesus out of it with a wire brush and some ballistol. Pull that cylinder pin out, pull the cylinder, and spray everything out.
>>65415789treat it like a mosin firing corrosive ammo. use swiss or hodgdon 777 and clean it with hot water.
Black powder is fun. Part of the fun comes from being able to instantly dial up various charges and then try them instantly. Its like reloading and shooting put together.
does pregnancy affect aim or reaction time?
>>65410968I haven't seen them since so idk. They seemed like a genuinely nice couple to me though. They were college students who were working normal jobs, quite modest and easygoing . He didn't at all strike me as a stereotypical stoner who was spending his whole day rolling joints (I've dealt with terminal stoners before and once he had sobered up, he did not at all exhibit any of the signs of someone frying their own brain with repeated drug use). I really think he just had the misfortune of having a break-in on the one day he was indulging in a relatively harmless vice.>>65410966>Do Americans really??I mean, my own mom was back on the job within a week of when I was born because she ran her own business and no one else could do fill that role for her.
>>65410299>she gave birth to a baby boy in the very room she had nearly killed someone in
>>65411157Yeah, and you shouldn't be a fucking junkie
>>65404483Lol
>>65403319Fern's water broke didn't it?
Post artwork of guns where the artist got shit blatantly wrong.I'll start with this hidden gem, look at the Confederate soldier in the foreground's rifle very closely...No AI allowed, it has to be a mistake made by human hands.
>>65407278The AMX-13 too once the drums dry up
>>65369665kino
>>65375120Remember the A.I.lamo
>>65410971>Get your stinking paws off my carbine you damn dirty apes!
>>65373522>>65375120based
How would the Civil War have played out if the scenario General Longstreet lays out in this video had taken place?https://youtu.be/xycJuqOF0cc?is=sfdA3twrtwzjDBxi
>>65390567nah
>>65293930Confederates win, everyone is happyThe End
>>65402602/thread
>>65293932heh
>>65329832This
They would have been much better UMPK FAB trucks than Su-34's
>>65414393>using paper specsTu-16 would be able to carry 3 glide bombs: 2 under wing pylons, one in the bomb bay. Multiply bombs pylons in a bomb bay cant carry glide bombs because of the wing kit size.
>>65414690>>65414745>tfw that map screen in Quake 4
>>65414393Not really, Su-34's are much more maneuverable, and that counts more than bomb payload when operating near the front.
>>65414393The Chinese upgraded and heavily modified their Badgers. I just don't think the Russians have the ability to do that
>>65415783>I just don’t like upgrading no more
Post reloads, data, questions
>>65415338No, but' I'm interested, proper boolit lube is Fuckin expensive.One time I got drunk and tried to make a dummy 7.62x54r out of Hobby clay and wax from a bottle of makers mark. It didn't work
>>65415733Drunk experiments are the most inspired.
>>65413143Not dirty.
>>65379839More bullets
>>65415748Cheers, The more I watch BranimalCook. The more It encourages my deviant reloader COOKING. anyhow If you buy a Gas check cutter from Ebay Don't buy from this Faggot, the Whole stem of the cutter Broke off on Hobby copper because they Drilled the back bore too deep
Previous:>>65290950What are FRTs:Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) are firearm modifications that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly by automatically resetting the trigger after each shot, while still requiring a trigger pull for each round. They increase the rate of fire without converting the firearm into a fully automatic weapon.List of platforms that offer FRT/Super Safety support or are currently in development, footage and recommended distributed sellers.https://kg2g.github.io/FRTINFO/webpage/FRTINFO.htmlRecent News:- Rarebreed releases FRT for the B&T SPC9/GHM9/GHM45- B&T USA partners with Rarebreed to offer factory FRT options for select firearms.- Tippman Arms partners with Rarebreed for factory FRT options for AR22s - Duality Arms Co releases files for Sig P320 FRT- ARC V2 "screw-less" selectors teased by s3igu2- USAS trip in development for Atrius usageComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65414547saw this yesterday looking for a magwell. basically no information on how it performs.
>>65413351Adding onto this. He's selling his prototype M249S w/FRT on Gunbroker.>This is my M249s Para that I was using to develop a FRT for. I was close but just could not get it 100% right. The winning bid will get all of my prototypes, all of my cad models so they can continue this if they want. >This 249s is in excellent condition. It has seen about 500 rounds through it. >Comes with Original BOX and docs, Links and extra links. >Please email me with questions. >Footage of the FRT can be found on Instagram under CustomSmithMFG account. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1196792551
>>65414801seems like a good deal
>>65414801>8.5k for a 249sEh not bad. What happened with the FRT? Was it just not working reliably?
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1196255978
Wtf is wrong with Americans
>>65415576I personally don't consider this particular thread anti US, but there's plenty of commentary. Point still stands.>>65415573It also helps it's so recognizable too, it's clean, classy, and incredibly American. Perfect choice
>>65415573The M1 isnt graceful or slim either though11 pounds loaded and fat as fuck in the magazine and forend area
>>65415633They'll just have to drill harder and exclude the women.
>>65415102And the moment a Democrat gets into the Oval Office again you'll completely drop this "opinion" and aggressively deny you ever held it the moment the president starts talking about "respecting traditions" or some horseshit.
>>65415658Dude. Spoiler tag that shit, bitch.
Is the pen mightier than the sword?
>>65407917No, that was bullshit
>>65410814Initially, yes, but Soviets eventually switched to NASA style pens. You can only have so many cabin fires before taking fire safety seriously.
>>65401570Is the pen White?
>>65401570Violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.
>>65414255The exact words of the text.
Russia is 3 generations ahead in HMG design, deployment and tactics.BTW, the older gen of Soviet HMG, deployed as snipers, is what real USGI credit for the loss in Afghanistan. All it took was a couple of long range harassing fire to shut down any "hearts and minds" efforts by USA.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAws1_NdLe4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14mUexRqRfk
>>65415344That's what you get with most Middle Eastern countries, some of the heaviest inbreeding in the world, and an extremely throwback culture that keeps them as retarded and degenerate nomads.
What do machine guns have to do with fucking boy ass?
>>65415156could you be more specific?
>>65415600For the Russian military? Everything.
>>65414979Too bad having "better" machine guns means dick in an offensive war, where Russian HMGs being heavier in size and calibre only means they're slower to maneuver and have a lower rate of fire versus drones. It's telling that the Maxim can effectively do their job in the current conflict.
See title.The logic is simple, we take something like M203 and create a new type of ammo for it - a fixed range airburst anti-drone shrapnel round. It flies let's say 50 metres and fragments. Over an ordinary shotgun shell it has a very simple advantage - range, shotguns are effective against drones at range too short for a soldier to spot the drone aim and fire at it. By using this simple air-burst solution we're extending it to a range that is actually realistic.The disadvantage of it is that all these lauchers are single shot, so there will be no follow ups. However as a part of larger system that's a limitation that we can just accept.The biggest advantage is that essentially the only thing we're doing is introducing a new ammo type and maybe sights. The grenade launchers exist and are widely issued, the rifles they're attached to exist, the technology to create this kind of ammunition exists. Cheap and simple addition.However both the Ukrainians and the Russians have under barrel grenade launchers and they haven't introduced such ammo type. We could've said oh the US military isn't doing it because they don't need it right now and maybe it's better to sit the situation out and see what others come up with than to get stuck with gen 1 solution, but here we have two countries that do need solution right now but they don't do it.Can you guys figure out where's the catch?Pic is just sort of illustration of what I want to do, you can figure it out.
>>65414552Just make a continuous rod 40mm round that triggers with proximity sensor. Frag is too unreliable. Stuff them into an M32 for follow up shots.
>>65414552Calculate frags density of that cone.
>>65414552What if we took those guided bullets the army was developing for snipers and put five of them inside a 40mm cartridge?
I saw a 40mm drone in a shell. Just make a counter drone drone and put it into the shell
>>65414749US MIC loves that idea but what I'm proposing is much simpler and can be done kinda on the fly.>>65414607I mean it depends on the shape of that pattern and the kind of shrapnel we'd use, that's the part that would need some testing.
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>>65415258You have it better than most. Just think about whether 5 years in the military would do more for your professional growth as opposed to making moves in your industry as a civilian. Your motivations are insufficient to warrant my approval.
>>65415258Uh, how much of a deadend we talking? How long do you plan to stay in?You’ll probably be making less money as an O-1. You’ll be making more as an O-2. If you get out before O-3, it’s just 4 years getting paid basically the same as what you’re making now. Maybe some new career opportunities on your way out.What exactly do you plan to get out of this? Is there absolutely no way to move up in the industry you’re in?
>>65415367No. Absolutely zero chance of moving up in any meaningful way. I mean, there are moves that are technically upward which with a lot of effort and giving up the low stress aspect I could probably swing but we’re talking topping out at like $110k-$140k after another 15 years. My job is a niche non-profit sector job, so it’s not highly recruited in industry. I could probably lateral to something tangentially related in industry with a lot of effort but my pay wouldn’t be much better and I would lose remote work, have a lot more stress, hate my life basically. It’s not a bad outcome, but not worth it except as a back up plan in my mind. I’m exploring the military to open up doors I don’t have open right now. I have political connections and I would like to be able to run for office some day, but I’m not sure service at this point would make me a compelling candidate like it does for younger guys that go off to elite law schools or whatever. So I figure if nothing else a 3 year stint would unlock better hiring opportunities in better paying jobs, mainly in government or finance. I would also be able to use the GI Bill for a graduate or b-school degree. My experience alone is insufficient for jobs like venture capital but add a graduate degree and it become a possibility. I also want to use the VA loan to buy more real estate. So politics, government, finance, whatever the GI Bill helps me get, in that order plus the VA loan. I don’t really care about my pay for the few years I’m in if it helps me after.
>>65415367I make more on VA disability.
>>65415258>I see officers getting jobs on Wall Street, in academia, starting businesses, like it seems like the career potential is sky high if you play your cards right.Its the person not the rank. Winners win, losers lose. Only question is the number of steps involved. Also, I can tell you that in the corporate world prior service carries zero prestige unless you climb well above cpt.
