I'm looking at picking up my first handgun pretty soon, and I've been eyeing police trade-ins as I'm on a budget. At present, the most affordable pistol to me is a certified pre-owned Sig Pro 2340 in 357 Sig. What are the advantages of 357 sig as opposed to 40 smith? Should I look elsewhere? Thanks for reading.
>>64294920The brain comes from somwhere, anon. Much like your mother, theirs shouldn't have been huffing jenkum.
>>64285844Yes, you should get something else. .357 Sig is rapidly falling into obscurity with fewer ammunition manufacturers making it year after year. It is becoming increasingly hard to find and expensive to purchase. It is also even less pleasant to shoot than .40, which is already nasty for beginners to learn on.Spend the extra buck on a trade in 9mm instead, the cost difference in ammunition will make up for it right away and the smoother learning curve will be an absolute godsend. I can see a full size .40 being at least viable for a beginner but a compact .357 Sig is just terrible.>>64285852That was true in 2020. I put a conversion barrel to use during that debacle. Not so true today. Nobody seems to have it and when they do it's around $1 per trigger pull. Cheaper online yes, but still around double the cost of 9mm.>>64285892Yes, I did it with my Glock 23. Other than the barrel nothing else is needed. The .40 magazines and ejector work fine.
>>64286360It’s probably police unions who protect them ban those and this shit head would be working at McDonalds
>>64294891>if you're born a schizoMost homeless schitzos were mildly or potentially schitzo but pushed themselves into "voices in my head telling me to kill" territory through chronic drug use. Claiming they have no agency for their condition is like blaming your prolapsed anus purely on a genetic predisposition to incontinence while ignoring the miles of cock you chose to take up your ass.
>>64294891>americans take pride in charging rent to their own sons or throwing them out the second they turn 18.And that's another reason why our country is superior to yours and always will be.Tough love is a real thing. Raising your son to be a manbaby is not in his interest. The exception I suppose is if he's physically or mentally disabled.
New PLA trench clearing weapon leaked
>>64297651I do. It just hits that part of you that makes you question everything about freewill and humanity being that pliable and honestly makes me afraid of just how weak we really are
>>64297526>"If there's no chance of dying during the process, it's not traditional.">-Bang Mi Mam
>>64296078aren't there far more practical way of popping pop corns than a literal pressure cooker bomb?
>>64297443Chinks lose social credit scores by showing weakness.
>>64296078her survived pretty much unscathed (and plans to continue) but damn, what an awfully dangerous (albeit spectacular and charmingly rustic too) way to make popcornhttps://imgur.com/oJTTjAqhttps://imgur.com/3DvZ4cO
AK General /akg/Honey I Funded A Coup Edition>Thread #2077Old thread here >>64206935
>you missed out on the timeline where you could get a czech version of the PKM in .308its not fair bros, i want one so fucking bad
>>64294374Feels good to be above the trash rather than included in it.
>>64297384You will never have a real shovel AK.You have no stamped spade head, you have no torch cut holes, you have no welded rails. This is a century arms WASR twisted by a half assed bubba job using stupid meme items into a mockery of nature's perfection.All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your AK's ghoulish appearance behind closed doors.
>>64297417How long have you been holding onto that one my friend?
>>64297384>>64297429This pile of shit gets worse every time I see it.
We are 2-3 years until a clanker half your weight will dominate your ass in melee or any physical activity that you can think of. We are also 3-5 years away until they start giving guns to them
>>64295796Flamethrowers always seemed the obvious choice to me since their only downside (war crimes aside) was the risk posed to operators
>>64295887Boston dynamics has been working on that, they have videos of thier robot sorting parts and stacking shelves when they arent dancing or performing backflips
>>64296091I fear not the robot that has been programmed with ten thousand kicks, I fear the robot that has been programmed with a single kick ten thousand times
>Weight: 35kg>dominate your ass
>>64296317>https://rerenderai.com/People wouldn't believe you if you told them that the selling point of such applications is that an architect's job is not creating impressive render visuals.Aka in this field it's a solution nobody needs for a part of the job nobody wants to do.
I have the impression they copy stuff, without knowing the reason behind it, and then do some shit that doesn't work.I wonder if their stealth airplanes are really stealth. Or do they only look like a stealth airplane?
>>64297511What does happen to plane falling into water from straight deck again?
>>64297522>whole pointESL, please go and stay go
>>64282624It appears that they designed it to conduct either launches or recoveries but not both at the same time. My understanding is that US carrier operations typically cycle launches and recoveries so that you don't have aircraft landing at the same time you have aircraft taking off, even though the deck may be designed to physically accommodate simultaneous launches and recoveries.Carrierfags would have a better idea than I would, but the Fujian's physical limitation would seem to be a problem only in situations where you have to unexpectedly recover aircraft while still in a launch cycle, e.g., aircraft damage/mission inoperability, or launch aircraft during a recovery cycle, e.g., addressing an unanticipated threat arising while sorties are concluding and landing aircraft lack the capacity to address the threat.
>>64297496>>64297522Shills should study english, but they wouldn't be worth half a penny an hour if they did.
>>64295257>le vague, one sentence, low effort "argument" that contains zero information on its ownBravo, you truly showed us how changes in missile warfare since 1990 somehow made terminal velocity meaningless with this one brilliant stroke of wit.
In the future, given the possibility of progress, will orbital bombardment become the new ultimate fuck you option?
>>64297482Never heard of that and never seen that webm but that looked pretty cool. I'll check it out
>>64297210Fuck you option, sure. Probably not ultimate one however, but more of a general way to deal some environmental damage in interplanetary conflicts.
>>64297458Kek. You play too much Stellaris. Stars are yuuuge. Nothing you throw at it barring another star or black hole will do anything.
>>64297234Theoretically, you can attach conventional rockets of 60s tech onto an asteroid or comet and nudge it towards the Earth. It will take years to decades for it to reach Earth but totally doable.
>>64297482This is a black hole version of the nova cannon. In it's most basic form it's a megastructure built around a star, used to open a force-field tunnel into the star until your reach it's fusion core. Then you open the tunnel and channel the pure fusion energy from the core of the star into a near-by planet, absolutely roasting it.The Black holve version (in the video) is the black hole/singularity version of the same tech. It's one concievable way to destroy a whole planet on one shot with reasonably low energy input, as you are mostly using the star's own energy. It's something that was described in Alastair Reynold's "Redemption Ark" (part of the Revelation Space series, if you are intrested, start with Revelation Space). Also, Kutrzgesagt made a video about this particular Black hole Cannon/bomb weapon seen in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY
Attention, /k/. I am Star Colonel Nikolai Malthus of the Jade Falcon Clan. A full Trinary stands ready to conquer your board. What forces dare oppose us?
>>64297586>dosen't knowThe faggot Devs said that modern military vehicles would be completely ineffective against mechs and then proceeded to pull bullshit out their asses to justify it. Every depiction of Mechs in video games would turn a M1 Abrams into a eldritch horror that could TAC with APFSDS (they literally forgot how to make these and use WW2 APHE) from 2+km away.
>>64297503You forgot MechWarrior living legends
>>64297658>pull bullshit out their asses to justify ityou weren't around for the "ship of the line vs modern frigate" thread eh
>>64297632>>64297658Right because it's magic where MGs are actually 120mm machineguns but somehow infantry units can sometimes resist them and despite Mechs at most weighing 100 tons they carry 100 rounds of 120mm MG rounds in a one ton ammo slot right?I played BT before the majority of the people in this thread were born, it's all bullshit. Everything BT related is just fantasy bullshit and has no place on /k/, it belongs on /tg/ and all BT threads on /k/ should result in a instant ban.
>>64297794>120mm machinegunswrong>Everything DPRK related is just fantasy bullshitftfy>it belongs on /tg/ and all BT threads on /k/ should result in a instant ban.true thoughever
Post /k/ino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXzxgeoH8s
>>64290403Idk how they made something so good on such a low budget
>>64287793shame, you missed out on Monica showing off her Belluccis
>>64297791meh I'll just watch Irreversible
>Boeing has started production of the first F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter for the U.S. Air Force. The goal now is for that jet to make its first flight sometime in 2028.>make its first flight sometime in 2028.But didn't it fly years ago before the chink Doritos? Or was It Lockheed's NGAD prototypes back then?:https://www.twz.com/air/first-f-47-6th-generation-fighter-now-being-built
Wait I thought it flew already?
>>64297557they did but the requirements for sixth generation is to have autonomous drones linked and flying around with it
>>64297539>6th genBullshit. Is it capable of suborbital flight and piloted by AI?
>>64297539Official timeline per DARPA is one flew in 2019 and the other in 2022. Boeing was apparently both the first to fly and had a more impressive offering. There was some reporting back in I believe 2023 saying the Air Force thought Boeing’s was a revolutionary design while LockMart’s was more evolutionary. Really I’d like to see the AII-X demonstrators once we get to see F-47 proper. If the first flight does happen in ‘28 I assume we’ll see it then at the latest, though it’s very possible we see it earlier if they reveal it like B-21. >>64297557Two demonstrator designs flew under DARPA’s AII-X program. We don’t know enough to say for sure how related these demonstrators are to the final design, or if it was a proper fly off in the vein of ATF or JSF, though precedent would suggest it was.
>>64297539When is the monkey model available?
Let me guess, you need more?
>>64296989>just two more weeks, bro
It doesn't burn as cleanly as other ammo, the brass comes oxidized, and its accuracy is subpar for the price. The only commendation I can give it is that it won't fucking explode my gun like other cheap garbage that I'm shocked is legal to sell and widespread on shelves. >>64296612Meh, that remains to be seen. My 2023 Czolt M4gery is almost as good as OG Colt but I've heard that other people have had ridiculously bad QC problems. Also I'm not convinced unless Colt starts bringing innovative or at least retro repro products to the market, all they make nowadays are the same slightly overpriced ARs, 1911s, and snake revolvers they've done for ages. Give me a new production 1903 Pocket Hammerless
>>64295987This is my EDC ammo. I have over 500 rounds of my carry ammo through my carry gun. I bet most concealed carriers can't say that. Your super duper hyper boutique ammo that costs $3 per round won't do you much good if you find out the hard way that your gun won't reliably cycle it.
>>64296017>>64296730Czechoslovak Group also bought the Remington ammunition brand and ammunition factory last year.Remington got looted by a venture capital firm and declared bankruptcy in 2020, and they split the assets into two companies.
>>64295987Yeah, I need a gun that shoots the ammo. What am I suppose to do, throw bullets at them? Huck the box at them? Make the enemy die from laughter?
What's the worst military you worked with?
>>64297771Japan hasn't had a military since 1945.How old are you?
>>64297776I know they are a “self defense force” or whatever cope they like to call themselves to appear as “peaceful” and “defensive”. But it’s not wrong to say that the JSDF is an absolute mess when it comes to modernization and morale. They were the worst aside from the ANA and maybe the poos
>>64297670Reporting is very low. If you try to report a rape, you become a pariah on Okinawa because nobody wants their cushy base jobs to be compromised.Talk to Japanese girls who live near bases. They ALL have stories, ranging from being groped while walking down the street to full on being raped.
>>64293729yeah and blue on blue, as in they have a reputation for it amongst their allies. They're the last ones who need to defend themselves against their allies. I don't blame anyone for wanting them to be disarmed whenever posible
>>64297670Wrong. There were 134 rapes and 27 murders since 1972 in Okinawa alone.
From the K-19 “Hiroshima” to my boy Sergei Preminin, discuss the Russian military’s history of reactors.Sequel to the first three threads. Feel free to also bring up their land based military reactors, Mayak is a bit of a doozy
I’ll get some stuff together on K-27 (nicknamed Nagasaki by her crew), at some point. Maybe tomorrow.
>>64293302>US plants have procedures for how to rip all the batteries out of the cars in the employee parking lot like a nuclear tweaker and wire them up to kick start system components in a full loss of off-site power scenario.Fuckin hell
>>64292979>>64295772>>64295525Ehhhh....I have my doubts.We know what reactors the North Koreans have. They have an old russian water research reactor from the 50s that we know they aren't running full scale as they haven't been sold the fuel for it since the USSR collapsed. They have a home grown light water design that's....being constructed, but it's not done yet.That just leaves pic related, a Magnox reactor they built from 79-83. From what we know they used the public 1954 Atoms for Peace design so this is a direct copy of Calder Hall/Chapelcross's reactor design. No proper containment. This is their plutonium workhorse and probably the single largest producer of their fissile inventory. Not a bad choice I guess, Norky can't do anything too fancy, the design isn't exactly hidden and I mean...out of the plutonium Gen 1 designs the Magnox is definitely the safest option, I don't trust them to handle water graphite and we know air graphite is a shite idea so whatever. Still I'd hardly call it fail safe, water leaks in it can surge, air leaks in it can catch fire. I'm sure someone here will tell me what running one of these things for 50 years with North Korea tier matinence will do and how badly they'd have to screw up for China or South Korea to sniff it, but it's not a failsafe design I know that. We also know from the fact they've been leaking pollutants into the rivers they're doing old school chemical seperation instead of centrifuges. Can't stuxnet 1940s tech I guess. For all I know there isn't a single goddamn transistor in that plant and the reason nobody stopped them is because they went so oldschool there wasn't any sabotage option that didn't involve blowing shit up. I respect the hustle, but also please for the love of god I hope there's no nitrate involved. If any villages vanish off maps we know what happened.
>>64291858Oddly enough, we have a few people on /k/ that legitimately work in the trade, and in different areas to boot. We're generally careful not to get too specific (particularly those of us with clearances), but you'll find that most of us don't mind talking about our work, mostly.>>64293241Interesting note on the chelation. As for the low limits on the Radiacodes, it makes sense for the most common use cases. I don't expect home gamers to be fucking around with the sorts of things that are out of scale for a Radiacode, and the ones that do are probably looking at other gear.>>64293302My understanding (I was not there) is that they disabled the passive cooling in #1 because they were concerned about cooling too fast and spiking reactivity. I don't want to take anything away from the operators in #1, they were rock stars for the most part, but second guessing automatic safeties defeats the point of having automatic safeties.>>64295132>most nuclear protective clothing is just to keep you cleanThis is something that folks not in the trade really don't understand. For routine work in contaminated areas where I'm at, it's yellow cotton. I've had a few jobs where some shit went really sideways and I was wearing a wetsuit, triple anti-C's, and a respirator. I've never worn Tyvek coveralls like the guy in the pic for nuc work, but I've absolutely worn them for asbestos remediation (required) and for a few other jobs that were absolutely shitty, but I'd honestly rather be in cotton. Tyveks suck, and they suck worse inside a reactor in the summer.>>64295541I won't speak for the private industry guys, but in the public sector, we fuck up. You won't hear about it if you're not at risk, and you've never been at risk so far. Even we're not at risk for the most part. That's why we don't tell you about it. You have enough to worry about. It would be irresponsible of us to worry you with more shit that has zero effect on you and little effect on us.
>doesn't TASTE radioactive
Is the t-55 the greatest tank in history? It's certainly up there
>>64296998*Laughs in T-62 variants*Please inform me, which Cold War Soviet tank is still in production and which one does Russia plan to be the core of it's post war armored force?
>>64289071M60s are Xbox hueg.
>>64289071They really are, not to mention i really like the idea of giving the Commander his own turret so he can go nuts while the rest of the crew gets on with the job.
>>64289320now if PACT didnt also have better air (only very recently did NATO get some buffs to air), AA, and IFVs (on average) compared to nato...
>>64295744>T-62 is objectively a better tanktwice as expensive for the sake of a useless gun obsoleted by new ammo(which soviets chose not to use) with an abysmally slow reload and an opportunity for the gunner to stare at the blue sky in the process>objectively better
Do volunteer fighters who show up in warzones get the same gear as regulars, or are they just given whatever's lying around?
The ones who showed up to ukraine got missiles. But there’s a catch…
Remember when tranny neckbeards volunteered, supplied with basically nothing and used as bait to give away enemy positions
>>64294497Did they pay you?
>>64295028Ukraine does I believe
It all depends what warzone you're in.The volunteers who showed up just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine all came unarmed and were given weapons by the Ukrainians after a background check, depending on whether they could be verified as having significant combat experience or not.Check out the interviews with Ryan O'Leary if you're interested in hearing about what the serious foreign legion guys did in Moschun.
Could any /k/bros point me towards good reading about the 2008 Georgia War? Amazon has been hopeless.
>>64297374I couldn't find any good pictures of the war on Wikimedia Commons.
Most of the good quality pictures are of some humanitarian convoy, most of which have zero military equipment in frame.
Best one.
>>64297380if you google "2008 georgia war", you get pages and pages of interesting photos. jackass
>>64297363This war and Crimea misled Putin into thinking Ukraine would fold the same way. Unfortunately for the Zig in Chief, the ukies saw what happened and made preparations.
