would a starship-based gunship or dragon-based gunship work?
>>64670128No, because neither of those two things works anyway.
>>64670128ChOADE devolved into laserstars which simply outranged everything including shooting down drone and missile swarms.I suppose an antilaser coating might work, but you're going to end up mirror fighting laserstar v laserstar with some missiles thrown in
>>64685622i never understood that idea just shoot ballistic missiles that go up higher
>>64674059Doesn't matter, he also fucked up his trajectory with the recoil, so the fragments are going to miss :^)
>>64687728If they're already in space they'll be on target sooner. Assuming you have a massive fucking constelation of rod carriers.At that point I prefer the funny concept the Germans came up with in WW2.>multiple sqare kilometer wide mirror that can focus on a single point on earth, buring it out of existance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6MfjV2vsdgPresented without comment.
>>64683634>Rheinmetal alone outputs almost twice that of the entire US at this point.If Europe aligned with China to kick the US out of Eurasia (middle eastern wars exist to stop this ever happening) and Africa they would be an unstoppable dominant worldwide force with no rival what the fuck why is this not real.
>>64685317>Map still includes the lakeWhoever the mapper is is clearly a retard btw.
>>64686147>why is this not realbecause china's fundamental values are at odds with the west, not just with america
>>64682196Holy hell if you harnessed the europoor seethe this produced they could reach finally reach their asinine net zero commitments.
>>64681884> Anything that doesn't reaffirm MY worldview by saying my enemies are WEAK and will easily be defeated is EVIL DEMORALIZATION PROPAGANDA what a sad life you must live>>64682074if you don't have anything to contribute other than posting AI sludge please do the human race a favor and don't waste global bandwidth
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
Finally got out and shot my M96 FSR that I got almost 2 months ago, as well as a couple other guns that I had acquired this fall and not shot yet. A combination of busy weekends or shit weather has led to me not going to the range for almost 3 months. I enjoy the sights, but I believe this rifle has seen many more rounds through it than my regular M96. The trigger on my M96 is much smoother, and it might be more accurate. I’ll have to pit them against each other sometime.
>>64686571Congratulations. I’ve been wanting one off Simpson. And you are aware it fires 7.5x53.5mm gp90, not 7.5x55mm gp11, right?
>>64685217My phone is too shit for pictures but I'll give a thread question.Any New Year resolutions regarding your surp?
>>64686975>Any New Year resolutions regarding your surp?Actually go shooting, desu~
>>64686975not really a resolution, but more of a general goal is to finish work on the range shelter out at the property.
i unbullpuped it for u <3
>>64687758Fuck yamudda
I used to intern with a Class II FFL precision rifle builder who also manufactured some NFA items and no joke, you can literally make a good quality (albeit rough finished) suppressor for under $100 provided you have a lathe. You can make even cheaper wipe suppressors for close to $50 out of pipe tubing you find on amazon. I remember watching this video by an American volunteer in the Ukrainian International Legion who talk about a company in the Czech Republic that sold suppressors for the Bren 2 that cost $125 so clearly it doesn't cost that much to make them yet I'm having a hard time finding anyone selling even shitty .22lr whip suppressors for under $500. Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?
>>64680711Eur*s are also cucked faggots thoughbeit
>>64676719John and Barry have 7 other employees, 500 grand of machine tool loans, and $35,000 in monthly business bills.They only sell 300 silencers a month.Do the math on wyat those silencers need to be priced at.
>>64686704Yeah well I do have a few semi autos myself. The point is even with a limited pool of buyers and taxes out the ass they don't cost more than a few hundred. Non-FA rated less than that
>>64676719Until literally the last couple years, NFA ownership has been purposefully made difficult.Traditionally, you'd be physically mailing fingerprints and forms, maybe being denied a CLEO signature because fuck you, perhaps forming a corporation to get around that, and then after all that the ATF would sit on your paperwork for a year specifically to discourage you.While wipes are *suppressor components*, only to be replaced by the factory.If you are enough of an enthusiast to navigate and push through all that, that shit better be heirloom grade.If it had been a 4473 and $200 at the register the whole time, January would be only be moderately interesting.3d printed titanium is likely to remain expensive."Oil filter adapters", "freeze plugs in a tube", and "solvent trap" type suppressors are likely to be quite affordable.Personally, I'm hoping SHOT '26 is absolutely bonkers.
>>64684773kek
imagine a zombie apocalypse scenario and you have to clear out this structure
I don't see the undead remaining a threat for long. Dehydration, asphyxiation. Bacterial infection yeast infection, a billion, trillion flies. Rats. Frankly, my biggest fear would be that s trillion rats multiplied eating corpses until they started turning on any living thing they could find. And hiding from a billion rats is far harder then hiding from a billion undead.
>>64687475Hot sauce.
>>64687520>And hiding from a billion ratsJust breed a billion snakes to eat the rats.
>>64686811Why?
>>64687571Anon this escalates...
Why did US GI's love to smoke cigarettes so much?
>>64684593I just read Low Level Hell and the author detects and slaughters the offending VC/NVA troops a few times based on their cooking fires, so you can ask the same of them.
>>64684593because you can make bullets and cigarettes in the same factory
>>64684623This is still how it is in the Navy. If you smoked, you could get at least an hour's worth of breaks a day just from timing your smokes appropriately. There was no incentive not to take up smoking since you were expected to cover for people out smoking but got no benefit for not smoking. It's a huge, shitty problem that was made even worse during Pedonald's first term. Not that people were more stressed, but because they decided the ships Exchanges should be run "like a business" instead of as a service like they had been since the start, almost as if the people doing so in the past knew what the fuck they were doing. Used to be, nonsmokers could at least make a little cash selling cartons they'd save up in port, then sell them late into a cruise as the ships store dried up. What's so bad about that, you ask? Well, running it like a "business" means obeying markets, not needs. We'd get enough cartons to last until doomsday, but that meant no room for things like clothing and toiletries. So by the end of my time, you'd have people reeking like shit, JP5, and Camel's halfway through a cruise, which made people even more stressed, leading to more smoking, increasing demand for more cigarettes and less essentials, in a filthy spiral of late stage capitalism in microcosm.
>>64687752Sounds more like your ship was full of full of niggers and no command change would fix it
>>64685065It reeked like garbage. Go huff a cold ashtray, that's what everywhere smelled like.
i wanna turn this cheap PA15 my coworker sold me into a commando style build from black ops 1 like picrel. has anyone here done this before?
>>64680137Yeah, just double-checked the ruling. The supreme court held that kits that can be converted between rifle and pistol can be done as long as a title 2 is never made. It puts the lie to the "once a rifle, always a rifle", at least for firearms that are user,configurable, but would probably require a test case.
>>64685923Post source of this ruling
>>64686007https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/504/505.html Scalia also shits on constructive possession in his opinion, still cucking out on MGs though, he must have had an investment collection.
>>64686100Thanks, I'll give that a read. I'm probably going off outdated knowledge because the "once a rifle, always a rifle" concept was drilled into my head all the way back in ~2008 which is before this case was heard.
>>64686129"Once a rifle, always a rifle" is an atf determination, not a law (chevron removed the weight of that even more). SC ruling is that you actually have to construct an SBR for it to be one (constructive possession only applies if you have no other use for the parts than making a title 2 firearm, Scalia says that constructive posssession is irrelevant except for suppressors because congress passed an amendment relating to suppressor kits, and MGs because they're special or something), part of constructing the SBR is making it in such a way that it is intended to be fired from the shoulder. Like that other anon said, probably needs a test case, but assuming that you don't use the firearm in a crime the atf will probably decline prosecution is you surrender the firearm. I really think the ATF doesn't want anything that challenges the status quo going to trial unless there's other crimes attached to it. I've had unregistered title 2 firearms seized from me in two different states and ATF declined prosecution both times as long as I consented to the destruction of the firearms. They were SBRs, SBSs, and suppressors, maybe they would be harsher with MGs or DDs.
what if we vibe-coded the next NGAD?
>>64687737You'd cut the cost for a few hundred engineers and then need a few hundred engineers to fix all the dumb shit the AI halocinated into the design.
>>64687737Bot threadSage
>mogs your puny weak little capitalist bolt locking lugs
>>64687474The Whetherbys are outliers. If you look at all the Stoner-derived bolts most of them have 6-7 lugs.
>>64687485>outliersCommon does not mean better.
>>64685997Great film.
>>64685674That's not even the correct geometry
>>64687365Is there any benefit to plungers over fixed? Fixed is simpler so why does anyone make a plunger?
Pistol related but last question thread died a while ago. Are all 1911 .45 barrels interchangeable with all other 1911 models? I've got a Kimber and want a threaded barrel for it and I'm wondering if I should just get a Kimber barrel for it.
>>64686230I don't know if it's entirely up to the Swiss, I suspect that the importer is only getting a small amount of these pistols and trying to make a huge profit on each one to make it worthwhile. Taking the stocks off and claiming they are pistols is also a bit of a stretch. That's after somebody in Switzerland would have had to rebuild them on new semi auto only receivers as well since I think the original ones would have been full auto with a blocked selector which wouldn't be legal to import.
Is a Burris full field 2.5-10 x42 illuminated scope a decently reasonable choice for a heavy recoiling rifle (above 30-40 ft-lbs) that isn’t expecting to be making shots out past about 350 yards?Working on a heavy wildcat, if it works out gonna make a second for my brother in Ohio. He’s nuts enough to deer hunt with it…. I don’t hunt though and don’t have a ton of rifle experience. For 200$ ish with their warranty it seems like it shouldn’t be half bad…. Since it’s going on a .50 caliber round the no questions warranty seems particularly good as far as features go. If this isn’t a good choice what would you recommend with the restrictions that it’s under 350$ max with tax, doesn’t have to worry about shooting farther than 400 yards… has to deal with stupid recoil, and has to be new/current production because I want to get 2 identical scopes and set them up on identical rifles, so what I test on mine is as close to valid as I can get it for his… so that rules out a good deal on a used scope unfortunately…https://www.burrisoptics.com/riflescopes/fullfield-25-10x42mmIf not familiar, deer hunting in Ohio is straight wall round only. He had a 500 mag encore he got a deer with that he had to sell due to tough times. This would fit somewhere between 500 mag and 500 bushwacker. So better range than a shotgun, and with enough energy transfer at range that anything outside of a zoo that you can shoot in Ohio is gonna drop.
Looking to SBR my 5.56 rifle after the new year, 12in barrels play nice with M193 right?
>>64686206>>64686217I dont know sig rifles well. How is this any different from a sig556? Those are way cheaper
What's mec gar's quality like? Picked up a few 229 magazines yesterday at a store for $20 each. Online, sig brand ones are like $50
Post M1911s
>>64685158
>>64685184Hey bud why does your 1911 look so weird?
>>64686664He said 'post' M1911
Have Russia fixed theirs AK12 or its still sucks? Do Russians soldiers still prefers the oldies AK74Ms?
>>64687648>year of our Lord 2025>cancerous growths on both trunions>insta-SEAL tier height over bore & eye relief distance, unusable irons>can't figure out a stable dust cover mount solution or a proper folder trunion>atrocious snag hazard of a handguardEvery partition of Poland is deserved, and the next one will be as well. Giving out AK production tech packages to europoors was a terrible mistake.
>>64687603what is up with the cross bolt safety looking thing behind the trigger?
>>64680434>Yes, by changing it towards the original proto rejected by boomer generals in the peacetime.LOL, LMAO.Original AK-12 prototype is dead and not coming back.Newest variants of AK-12 are same AK-74M modernised, only thing that is changed is more reliable parts and removal of retarded stuff like 2 round burst, that was used by nobody but complicated fire selector and some ergonomis so gun is more comfortable to use.>>64680347According to ukrainian who have combat expirience since 2015 or se, who had used capture AK-12 gun is good, not western ergonomics but it works as intended.
>>64686325Gen 2 is king
>>64687603>AK12 but shortOr> short AK 12 but 1/2" shorterWhy?
I need a safe for muh gunz. It needs to be able to be wall stabilized or not a tipping hazard. Needs to be able to fix six rifles, and around a dozen pistols. Other room for bullshit like mags and ammo, and bullion would be ideal. It doesn't need to be high end, it's quite literally only being purchased so small children cannot access it with ease. I am not worried about burglars.
>>64686199>They're my sister's in law>They're terrified of something insane happening>I get it.They would probably have a different opinion of you if you had sex with them. I suggest fucking them.
>>64686760>A sheet metal gun cabinet>sheet metalYou mean a security cabinet. Honestly, high-school locker tier security.
>>64686838>so if that alarm goes off I’m calling the cops then opening the garage door>safe is open>call cops who put you on hold>open garage door for easy escapeShrewd plan.
>>64686760Still have the one I bought when I was 16, back in '73.
>>64685985>far more expensive than sheet metal cabinets and if made poorly they can still be popped open in 2 seconds with a crowbar.But aren't they harder to pry open if they cannot be laid flat on their backs, by bolting them to the structure?
Fucking things been in the fleet for nigh 500 years, and kept getting obliterated by Vanduul ships at Vega, and the Javelin destroyers weren't much better. I guess the chin mounted railgun and hanger are nice, but what does that really get you when Vanduul Maulers can shred them to pieces in an instant. Not to mention the hanger only carries 2 fighters.I guess it does fine as a patrol frigate, but I really don't get why the Navy hasn't replaced this decrepit geezer of a ship in the main battle fleets.
>>64685711nah they had a really good 2025 breaking the previous funding record by 35mil~ the most recent patch adding official VR support seems to have also done some good for them.
>>64685711They collected enough money to buy an actual irl naval corvette.
>>64685444>Why the fuck won't the UEE Navy replace the Idris class?>Fucking things been in the fleet for nigh 500 yearsAnd they've been trying to design a replacement for about 450 years but the admirals in the Ship Characteristics Board keep adding capability until the proposal costs as much as a large cruiser so they cancel it only to try again. Maybe this time they'll get it right.
>>64685840>nah they had a really good 2025 breaking the previous funding record by 35milthe money laundering continues
>>64686783UEE Navy is US Navy confirmed.Actually now that I think about it, they also have issues with all their shipyards being decommissioned and outdated and unable to produce new ships because of lack of investment.>>64685475Scam?No. Mismanaged clusterfuck that is only turning around now that a few suits are finally involved? Yes.The head of it (Chris Roberts) has been down this road before. It's basically what happened with Privateer (to a degree as he had bosses in origin) and then with freelancer (he left origin over funding and founded Digital Anvil, went bankrupt and sold to microsoft who forced him out and to wrap the project up).>Get idea>Pitch it>Keep adding whatevever sounds coolComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
