How many Tsar bombas(100megaton ones), would you require to completely sterilize south asia?
you need around 70 thousand 50 megaton devices evenly distributed to glass south asia. this is using the fireball radius rather than the blast radius, since the former guarantees destruction.it works out to 3500 gigatons.
>>64703878russia has an unknown number of 50 and 100/200 megaton devices, which they're currently building.
>>64705148To be delivered by mothership? You know how heavy those fuckers are at that kind of yield? Much more efficient to have a MIRV type weapon where you can spread out multiple smaller warheads.
>>64703886There's no point, they are tremendously inefficient when compared to multiple smaller warheads spread over the same area
>>64705175the 50 megaton device is apparently a single warhead option for sarmat (when they finally get the missile working that is). the 200 megaton device is for poseidon, which is operational.poseidon will need to be such a yield since the detonation will be against the coastline. i'm guessing the 50 megaton warhead for sarmat is meant to be detonated at high altitude for emp effects over a vast area in a precursor attack, which is then followed by the mirvs.
Are you prepared for Nuclear War? How do you even deal with widespread radiation? Apart from going south to Argentina
>how do you deal with widespread radiationfirst it wouldn't be widespread, even in a mass exchange outside of major population centers that take direct hits not much to do. if you happen to be a mile or three from ground zero and get heavy fallout, go to the basement pile mass around any windows, duct tape windows and doors and don't go outside for a week or two. if you aren't a zoomie who got the temu special version of US education you know about exponential decay, 90% of the problem is gone in a few days. driving further away is probably better but might not be viable. The common sense of having some backup food, water, basic meds, and a gun is a super power in today's world.
>>64683800not as much as I ought to be. Live out in the boonies away from any military installation, and my house's structure should be sufficient to deal with the radiation. Don't have an air-filter though. Decent amount of supplies, but not sure if they're enough, plus i'm lacking in certain areas (no iodine pills, or dosimeter). Also need to figure out a system of safely growing edible mushrooms off of sterilized human waste, just to be on the safe side as far as food goes.
>>64702842>just taking out the US's retaliatory capabilities, also called the nuclear sponge would take most of both Russia and China's nukesNeither Russia nor China stand a chance at eliminating our second strike capability. Forget the missile fields out west, just our subs alone could glass every Russian or Chinese city worth a name. Unfortunately, while this makes any sort of nuclear strike less likely, it means that if they do decide to pull the trigger then they've got no choice but to launch a countervalue strike.
>>64683800I hope the russkies drop a nuke on "my" leftist shithole city. It would be the best thing. If I see the flash of light, then I would be happy knowing all of the lefty trash was about to be removed. I would not even care about myself dying.
>>64683828I hate women so much it's unreal. Stupidest thing any country or civilization could do is give these useless meritless fomoids a vote. Second stupidest thing would be having the useless meritless femoids in the military.
And artillery.Jeep willys vs vw kubblewagon.
For me, it's the Jeep because it spawned an entirely new type of car and tons of more or less licensed copies from all over the worldBut you have to hand to the Kübelwagen that it was on of the few cases were Wehrmacht procurement managed to fill a role with a simple and standardized vehicle instead of getting pushed around by the industry
>>64705097So by that logic the T-55 is the best tank and the AK is a better small arms platform platform than their competitors?
>>64704050The Jeep wasn't considered a good automotive design, I recall.
>>64704050The Kubelwagon didn't live up to German standards for offroad performance, just saying
If you put the Jeep top on, General Patton would have punched you, so the Kubelwagen would have been a better staff car with a cabin that could protect from the wind and rain.
Do the upper echelon military dudes continue to train with firearms throughout their careers, or would they be completely useless in a fight?
>>64691064uselesstoo busy arguing semantics and diddling kids
>>64691064>Do the upper echelon military dudes continue to train with firearms throughout their careers,They do.>would they be completely useless in a fight?They would be useless.t. knower
>>64691085>if they are running around shooting dudes on the ground instead of the rest of the soldiers seems like you've fucked upThey are the highest ranked and most expensive units, so usually you'd send them in with a medic and several less expensive units to avoid the elite one from getting focused down.
>>64691124Same reason they don't train the guys in the missile factory to hold the line in a firefight: if the enemy is that far into the backline then the war is already over.
>>64691064They just end up training with bigger and better firearms.
Now that the Chink chimpout over the $11B Taiwan weapons deal and most recent numbers print from their imploding economy has wrapped up, I want to tally some numbers for the 'explicitly presented as the largest-ever military exercise around Taiwan'. This exercise was also explicitly stated as a blockade exercise vs the strike exercises of 2024.Taiwanese sources have reported that >6:00 a.m. Dec 29 - 6:00 a.m. Dec 30, 130 PLA aircraft detected. 14 PLAN warships + 14 CCG vessels.>6:00 a.m. Dec 30 – 6:00 a.m. Dec 31 Aircraft: 77 PLA aircraft detected. 17 PLAN warships + 8 CCG vessels.What's so damming to me is that the area of operations for the exercises were 2x larger than that of the 2024, and 3x that of the 2022 Pelosi chimpout. Yet there were less aircraft than in 2024, 130 in a single day vs 150 in a single day. The sorties also started slow, taking till the mid afternoon to get to peak detection rates as per Taiwan MOD. So this is where I really get to the main bit. A blockade requires substantially more sorties, I'm talking 48 sorties just to get 8 planes on CAP for 24h. Yet the PLA did only 130 in a day, barely enough for a dozen planes to be on 24h CAP. There's just no excuse. You NEED to have CAP or else US and Jap planes can just sneak in and rape you. The second day is so pathetically bad with 77 aircraft so I don't even wanna talk about it, just assume it's 2x worse.So you've got what is >supposed to be the biggest exercise ever>covering an area 2x bigger than previous ones>supposedly have 1600 aircraft stationed east of Beijing>yet can only muster up 130 sorties 6 hours laterImplessive. My theory is that the PLA airforce not only has a low readiness, but the logistics are so fucked that they actually can't turn around airplanes fast enough with things as basic as fuel.picrel is taiwan missilehttps://news.usni.org/2025/12/31/china-wraps-justice-mission-taiwan-blockade-drillsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64705075The goal of the war was to restore the two state solution lol.
>>64705050PLAN is 100% unable to defend itself.
>>64705113Or the US managed to break half a continent of bug-people and get them to start thinking like modern humans. Which is amazing given what was started with.
>>647028111996 vs 2026
>>64705223implessive repost number 536 over the past 4 days
I was watching Ken Burns's Vietnam War doc, and there's this story where a guy takes a chest wound and seems to be left to die for hours because no one thinks he's got a chance, and he pulls through.Why do some people manage to survive severe injuries, whereas others die? Like how 50 Cent got shot 9 times, and somehow survived, whereas some other guy can get shot once and dies in minutes.
>>64704048I thought he zunied his carrier deck
>>64704006https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/this-marine-survived-a-shot-from-a-50-cal-at-point-blank-range/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alvin_Beckwith
If a bullet doesn't hit any major arteries or organs lethality drops way down for obvious reasons. If you peruse some of the scientific literature the most survivable gun related injuries are those to the extremities i.e. the arms and legs, injuries to the abdomen after that, then your thorax, and finally the worst place to receive a gunshot injury is to the head. Place with more important stuff = worse your chance of surviving when you get shot there.A lot of it is also just luck of course. One of the places 50 Cent got shot in was his face and it just punctured through his cheek and fragmented into his tongue without doing much significant damage.
Phineas Gage seems pretty hard to beat here, at least for single-injury affairs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
>>64704006Some guy survived a metal rod going through his head, but it changed his personality and turned him into an unhinged asshole kek. Sometimes blows to the head can give people abilities like becoming a genius over night, being much better at learning languages or in this case being a based mofo who gives no fucks whatsoever.
Based Canada
>>64669324Canadians are Eurotrash talk a lot, but always buy almost nothing. Canada does not even use its current subs. Canada also constantly lies, double deals, cancels programs, despite the same retards in office. In other words, doubtful Canada will ever buy anything. Just a tire kicker wondering around the car lots trying to get attention. German industries are probably used to it, because Germany and all of the other yuros do the same.
>>64669411We (the USA) do not want Canada. I'm sure the land is great, but the people are useless and retarded.
>>64704627>Implying your next coalburner president won't be larping a water war northward on the advice of his jeeta wifeSee you soon fuckass
>>64704583>UK shape You mean the tall figure-of-8 one? It's more efficient in terms of internal volume, since a perfect circle has a fair bit of dead space (because equipment can't always be packaged into a pizza slice cross-section). It's not as streamlined, but that's not a particular concern with SSKs, since they can't really hit (or sustain) very high speeds anyway.
>>64705130rumors are 212nfs AIP might allow sustaining 10-11 knots for extended period, 212cd should be even better, owing to its larger displacement.ofc, thats like creep speed for SSN, but modern SSK has come a long way from cold war diesel electric boats that can only submerged for a few days to a week at mostbelow is a blog about improved aip on 212nfs>https://svppbellum.blogspot.com/2020/05/u212-nfs-per-la-martina-militare-nuove.html
How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
>>64704676Objectively they had complex written language, monumental architecture, astronomy and mathetmatics, metalsmithing up to copper, large resorvoirs, complex agricultural praxis and fine arts like sculpting, painting and pottery.They missed out completely on bronze and iron development, mechanical principles (no siege engines or similar machines) and medicine.It's a different trajectory, but their world view was shattered by the existence of the Spanish, since they didnt need to sacrifice anyone and were still fine, had greater technology, and horses. This destroyed the authority of the Aztec elites and made their fall inevitable.
>>64634475It's easy to pronounce and remember. For Aztecs and Mayas.
>>64634465I haven't made a macuahuitl yet but I have knapped enough obsidian to know how sharp it is. One time I dropped a tiny obsidian flake which I doubt weight more than a couple grams on my foot and it cut deep enough to cause a few minutes of bleeding even though it fell under it's own weight. Descriptions of it cutting almost entirely through the body don't surprise me. The main issue that comes to mind with the macuahuitl is that obsidian is extremely fragile. The sharp edge wears down extremely rapidly especially on a flake or blade like those used in a macuahuitl. If I was trying to supply an army I might prefer to use weapons made from chert which are far more durable although I don't think chert is particularly abundant in Mesoamerica. It might have been more efficient to use obsidian due to it's low cost relative to more durable stones.
>>64705207>>64637164The thing is they had absolutely shitloads of obsidian. There's tons of Mesoamerican forts where they excavated stockpiles of obsidian for weapon production. Fragility of obsidian doesn't matter when it's trivial for them to replace the blades.
>>64705122you forgot>no wheels>no plough>no draft animals or animal powerSo they were basically inferior discount Sumers, 5000 years late to the party.
Which is better? Steam or Electromagnetic Catapults?
>>64701531Stop enshittifying the thread
>>64704951I wonder how the drones would land back on the ship. Also how many drones would fit and how would they load them onto the launcher.
Counting the ones on the dock and on the deck, there would be 6 CCA + 1 recon UAV for that container ship, which can still carry 24 VLS (the dedicated arsenal ship carried 60) launchers while only displacing 5000 tons. Larger container ships will be able to carry even more I bet, since they're larger than even supercarriers...
If china had truly solved all the bottlenecks of a survivable, high sortie DC launcher, we would see other derivative technologies in exports. We'd see chinese railguns, maglev hybrid launches ect. ect. I dont think either side has a fully mature system (like steam) because there hasn't been enough time. However if I were to make a choice, I would choose AC because of the corrosion issues. With DC one side is permanently anodic- meaning the metal atoms continuously oxidize .... pitting, erosion and contact burnthrough ect. You would have to constantly maintain the system. Maybe if they used an insulating fluid that could also work as cooling - but who knows, we might get to figure out whose is best in 2026! :D the US launched the x-47b off a carrier in 2013 from a traditional steam catapult so im gonna put my money on the americans for the most mature tech.
>>64705211About that: https://www.twz.com/news-features/is-this-chinas-truck-mounted-drone-launching-electromagnetic-catapult-systemhttps://www.twz.com/sea/chinese-cargo-ship-with-electromagnetic-catapult-to-launch-advanced-combat-drones-emerges
These beauties need to be shown a lot more love.
>>64703359>25 stacks of 12 round for a total of 300 roundsWould be amazing, if the heat buildup didn't cause them all to start cooking off
>>64702579>>64703359That's not detailed at all, go ahead and tell me how it feeds then. Or how the 'cassette' works.
>>64698883They did a really bad job at differentiating firearms in the original Black Ops. Especially the SMGs since a bunch of them had the max firerate of 937.5 RPM and a nearly identical damage model.
https://youtu.be/szz7PZPMYXg?si=ZmfDXyTRV0xYgYwNRussian guy made his own replica
>>64704024Not him, but its literally just a block of magazines stuck together. The rounds even have their feed order on them in that diagram.Each magazine presents a round to the top row, and the "feeding lever" pushes the entire top row along, loading the front-most round. It then cycles back far enough to let the last magazine push up a new round, and repeats. So it does the first row, then all of the rear-most magazine, and then the second rear-most, etc. until the entire casette is empty. You then swap the entire casette.Honestly its pointless and LSAT was right to just use polymer belt links for their CL spiral same as their CT spiral.
How effective were these things?
>>64705176Anon, it's *Egypt*. They don't have a fuckload of forests to just get nice strong wood from whenever they feel like.
>>64705182even on the fucking moon bronze castings are orders of magnitude more expensive than wood, idiot.
>>64705144https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywq-Gysw8Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8svNN8saeU
>>64705200That line of reasoning is obviously incorrect, given that we have proof of exactly that, namely a skeletonized all-metal war hatchet, rather than a hafted one (which would theoretically use less metal).
>>64705208we have both, since one evolved from the other and subsequently fell into obscurity again. as to why it appeared it could be many things from durability to a status symbol to whatever else but it's utterly retarded to assume it's because casting the thing out of bronze was easier than to find a wooden shaft.
What’s the best gun for hunting polar bears?
45-70, the only Govt you can trust, it’s also good for cape buffalo
>>64704076yeah, I love shooting "cape buffalo" when they're trying to cut the catalytic converter out of my Honda Odyssey. 45-70 really does a number on them.goddamn buffalos.
>>64700780what is it with austrian and handguns?first Luger, then Glock, and now Pfeiffer Zeliska is the biggest Revovler in the world?what are they compensatin´?
>>64678265is that the show about homosexuals crusting on a boat in the artic?
>>64705181It involves sailors yes?
How would you arm and operate a small squadron of rebel troopers in 3 ABY?
>>64698034Rockets in star wars are like rockets in the fucking revolutionary war most of the time.
>>64677901I wouldn't
>>64698034Stormtrooper armor was probably decent against bullets and shrapnel.
>>64677901Dramatically increase the number of anti-tank weapons available per company (preferably per platoon). That or train them in improvised ways of destroying AT-ATs that don't consist of CIRCLING THE FUCKING THING WITH A CABLE.Seriously, just about any one of those Rebs could have, with proper timing, replicated Luke Skywalker's stunt with a grappling gun, a plasma torch, and a thermal detonator. Even the fucking Ewoks were stacking AT-STs with logs.
>>64677901Defective equipment sold at premium prices. Cause fuck the Rebel scum.
What's the best cap and ball revolver? Are they suitable for home defence?
someone tell those guinea wops to start reproducing some webleys.
>>64702608,50 cal Walkers ! Pretty damn gnarly . . . if you ever find one for sale = buy it.
>>64703183Well Pietta made a mess out of reproducing Starr double action Civil War muzzle-revolvers, I hear.But Griswald and Gunnison made Remington 1858s with double action lockwork. There's a guy on the net HAD ONE THAT WORKED and he disassembled it and can't put it back together. So that would prolly be a super-abortion if the spaghetti-snappers made clones.Can't blame an ol' bassard for wishin' though...
Depends.The Colt Dragoon has the classic big dick aesthetic of the Colt Walker with 90% of the power and a better design.The Colt 1851 is most people's favorite of the classics and is pretty light if that's your thing.The Remington 1858 is probably the best historical black powder revolver with much better sights and a stronger frame.The Ruger Old Army is the most technically superior black powder revolver, but it was also designed in the 70s, so it's not really historical and at that point I don't know why you'd bother with it.As somebody who loves these guns, you shouldn't be using percussion revolvers for any kind of self-defense. Remove fun and style from the self-defense equation.
>>64704460Tbph original DA Starr revolvers were also crappy, the whole double trigger self cocking clusterfuck was a gimmick that didn't work in 50% of all cases, Pietta only recreated a historically accurate mess.
Why isn't this gun more popular? The magazine makes it easier to carry in my opinion
>>64705096Helical mags suck. The closest thing to a reliable Helical mag is on the Lewis gun, and that thing is MORE bulky than traditional mags.
>>647050969mm AKs have never been a successful export for Russia, and thats without the added dimension of a proprietary mag thats turbo frontheavy and doesnt fit in conventional pouches.
because no military cares about smgs anymore since they'd rather issue sbr rifles. sheriffs/swat are about the same unless they have a old stash of mp5's from the 80's sitting around in the armory as for the bizon, mags were shit and so was the caliber. vityaz was what they should have made the first go around, but again why use 9mm when ak104 or AS val exist. the ppk20 seems pretty based and modern for slavshit and it survied a 3k burndown without blowing up or jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlz6VMWLoiYthat being said I love my kusa kp9, but it wouldnt be the first gun I grab to head to the local habbening. its a fun gun to shoot .20 cpr at the range for hours and not have to eat ramen for 2 weeks to afford it
>>64705096it's my favorite gun in syphon filter
>>64705096it sucked in BF2
