Why aren't ballistic submarines the backbone of world navies? Why haven't surface ships been relegated to carrier protection and amphibious operations? Why not make SLBMs out of RIM-66s and Standard missiles and Tomahawks and ASROCs? If you want force projection why wouldn't the ambiguity of the presence of submarines be enough to scare your enemies?
I assume we're going to see a lot more surface ships with fewer than 150 men in board in the future and perhaps more emphasis on subs and light carriers. This is the age of quantity, big things are rarely worth the price.
>>64756578And falling prey to ELINT or failure to recognize a target.
>>64756527>they have limited utility as sensor platforms (e.g. radar)*sad SSRN noises*
>>64756527>Nobody wants to work on them>they're fucking expensive to buildyes>they have limited utility as sensor platforms (e.g. radar)dead wrongthe 2nd best use of a submarine other than killing anything in the water is ISR>they're expensive to runyes>they can't do the vast majority of peacetime naval duties (e.g. disaster relief, interdiction)very yes>they're slowonly if they're diesel>they're dangerouswell, mainly to snownigs and turdiesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64741566They are and they have. All surface primary navies (e.g. anyone not the US) are larping. US surface fleet conducts policing actions against non threats and screens carriers. Like, holy shit dude, they were picking the new boats based on shore bombardment for a while. The SSGN is the battleship of the missile age, all that shit already happened, you're so behind we're talking about what's next dude.
North Grumman posted this video:>https://youtu.be/xumHWugbvkY?si=EYhc0xu96sy9Ye8pDoes this mean that the XM1182 HEAB-T is finally in use? Also a few follow-up questions:>could this setup be used as an "ad-hoc" C-RAM platform?>so now in theory every platform with an M230LF could become an C-UAS platform? (+a MHR radar)>could this ammo be used with the AH-64s? Israelis have recently used them as drone hunters.
>>64758350>PFHEPre-Fragmented High-Explosive>HEP was squash head (High Explosive, Plastic)?Yeah. M1 tier misnomer.
Whats special about this? I thought we already had air burst munitions?
>>64758333man I miss seeing these graphicsthis was what we had instead of wikipedia or blogs, once upon a timeI wonder who made them
>>64758370Not for the now ubiquitous M230LF rws.
>>64758383Know that feel bro.I remember seeing such a graphic in some newspaper or some tehnical magazine and making my day. Simpler times.
https://www.aeronewsjournal.com/2025/12/uk-open-to-germany-joining-gcap-future.html?m=1Frenchbros...c'est fini
>>64738160>using a nuke>against the first and second largest nuclear powersWEW LAD
>>64738333>mutt>looks at EurapeWEW LAD
>>64742850>believes thisYou'll die as you watch your female relatives give birth to mixed race babies you fucking dickless incel.
>>64758317>vs the 5th gen Europeon aircraft Oh wait you don't have one.
>>64745963>No arguments it's not far fetched at all, they would struggle to industrialize on their own funds but as far as R&D its absolutely possible, the US make it look like its fucking Alien spaceship technology because of they can't build a pencil without sinking in trillions of dollars but it's just a fucking plane at the end of the day.
which weapons would a modern day vampire hunter use? no wooden stakes, no crossbows, silver blades, no holy water flasks or garlic necklaces allowed, just modern cutting edge tech.
>>64756477>Joss Whedon's writing style metastasized into the rest of pop cultureThen the rest of pop culture needs to lift their game.Whedon set a bar, everyone else just copies it instead of trying to exceed it.
>>64754989Drift has been cached
>>64756943>STDs haven't evolved to survive in a room temperature walking corpse for extended periods of timeNot only that, she can easily take a bath in something horrendous that would kill off anything living on her skin.Douche herself with lye and regenerate the skin afterward.>>64757071>see >>>/wsg/6072755I was fully expecting that to be posted.
>>64758337>everyone else just copies itVery poorlyComparing e.g. Endgame with Avengers is just bleargh
>>64755996rape
Had Shoigu and Gerasimov been captured as it seems the goal and then Wagner had actually went all the way to Moscow, could they have succeeded in overthrowing Putin? Or was it a lost cause from the beginning?
>>64757608That video will never not be funny and the fact hes doing the soijak pointing face and it turned into such a good meme template is just icing on the cake
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>>64757608History repeats itself. If you look at the collapse of the Russian state in 1917 or 1991 you will understand what will happen next. As 1917 is a better fit to current events first we will get a moderrate coup, then an extremist authortarian coup, then a civil war. The Rusisan civil war killed about four to five times the number of Russian casualties in WW1 so it will kill about 4-5 million. After that purges and massacres by the new authoritarian state will kill another ten million. Then that state will attempt an invasion of Poland (history allows minor variations, so maybe the baltics or Ukraine. They will be defated resulting in several hundred thousnad more casualties.At that stae the Rusisan population will be down to about 120 million andfamine and mass poverty and gulags will be the norm.It may well be that Russia will just break up at that point and revert to ethic regional goverance with a faux cargo cult for a powerless Moscow 'government' that only exists on paper.Putin fucked Russia to death, Trump seems to be following his example..
>>64757608sure, with political backuphe was promised things that didn't materialize
>>64758344>History repeats itself. If you look at the collapse of the Russian state in 1917 or 1991 you will understand what will happen next.yes, and I'm not enthused about it>1914/2024 great war begins>1918/2028 stalemate leads to peace; richest nation dethroned, 2nd largest economy rises to the top>1933/2043 former largest economy's weakness leads to return of former enemy>1936/2046 war now regarded as inevitable; former enemy has been rearming in secret for years>1939/2049 surprise attack plunges world into most destructive war ever with record loss of life and downfall of nations>1945/2055 largest economy achieves global dominance as every other nation rebuildscan you guess which nations I'm referring to here?
new tank for russia
>>64756045>laser>thermalsyeah nah
>>64756045Nah, the BTs were such maintenance hogs they didn't even last until the end of WW2
>>64756045No second gun? How is it gonna fire AP?
>>64756045Unironically based, I would love to see these racing around the place and throwing turrets.
>>64756045The Rusisans have been getting exterminated for 48 hours now in a massive way14.01.2026Tanks — 11550 (+6)Armored fighting vehicle — 23902 (+3)Artillery systems — 36098 (+74)MLRS — 1603 (+3)Anti-aircraft warfare — 1275 (+5)Planes — 434Helicopters — 347UAV — 106428 (+1074)Cruise missiles — 4163 (+8)Ships (boats) — 28Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
You have a moderately sized military force and you have to deal with several hundred of these things. Here’s what you gotta remember about them:>Nearly immortal, body can be damaged but the only thing that can kill them is fire>sever a limb and it will keep coming after you >burning them isn’t advised because the gasses inside will reanimate any corpses around them, including animals >They do feel pain, from injury and their rotting bodies>eating brains relieves said pain>they’re very smart, able to fake calls for backup and set up ambushes>speed depends on the state of decay, fresher corpses run like a human>nuking them would kill them, but it would spread the trioxin gas further and make a bigger outbreak in the endWell, /k/? You gotta get creative with this one.
>>64758075Use that sticky fast setting glue foam sprayer they worked on in the 80s. Don't need to kill them just immobilise them and recan them. Then bury them in concrete or something.
>>64758075You'd need to lure them, to an underground nuclear waste storage facility to contain them. Brains would be good bait.
It seems that trioxin can restart a brain that has decayed and lost its shape, but I wonder if destroying the brain or decapitating it would work.
>>64758075Lure them all into one of the many lava factories in LA.
>>64758081It always involves gas doesn't it?
You're tasked with building a kit to help Iranian resistance against the Ayatollah regime, the kits you build will be airdropped into Iranian territory in large dufflebags and then picked up by chosen operatives. You have $3k per kit to try to arm an light resistance guerrilla fighter, you can only source items from the US civilian market. At minimum you should provide a rifle, a pistol, body armor, essential accessories and ammunition for both, as well as any survival or tactical implement you see necessary.What kind of stuff do you pick?
>>64757950Plastic explosives and detonators270 win rifles with 8x 40 scopes and brass bulletsLarge calibre 44 mag handgunsDrones and controllersTranslated improvised munitions handbooksManuals for the provided equipment.
Design a gun around standard Iranian plumbing fixtures and drop ammunition and key components that would need work like barrels or other parts so the whole thing lego kits together, include translated documentattion.The single most important weapons to insurgents are large calibre scoped rifles and plastic explosive and detonators. Fibre optic drones would be a nice addition. Simple basic manuals with the fundementals of sniping, countersniping, booby trapping, improvised weapons and explosives, drone use, organisation and counter inntelligence would be good.
To win a revolutionn all teh Iranian people have to do is let their fellow Iranians in the police and army know that they will not be harmed and that everyone wants a change. At this point violence is counterproductive.It's following the same pattern as the Syrian revolution so far. The mullahs have already lost. They will never get the people back after this.
>>64757965Ah yes, the Iranian population MUST be conntrolled by le Jews. Anyone who does not want to be ruled by batshit crazy mullahs must be le Jews. Brown/10
>>64757950The cheapest guns and ammo available, they're all effective. They don't have to be the same gun. Literally just buy everything off the used market keeping the budget for rifles around 300 and handguns around 100, even old deer rifles for sniping would be greatly effective. 200 rounds or so of ammo and a few mags. Pipe bombs. Model rockets with explosives attached that fire from a PVC pipe with a barbecue lighter. Toy drones that drop pipe bombs with an impact fuse. Majority of kits would be rifleman kits, a good amount of drone kits, and some RPG kits. They don't need provisions or armor, but give them a big star of David dildo so they know what they're getting into once their government is gone cuz the USA is gonna come fuck their country in the ass.
can you even call yourself a /k/ommando?
>all the power of 9mm, but now you have to lug around a long gunbut why though?
>>64758289Roughly equivalent to 357mag energy, 30 rounds, no recoil, supersafety or a lack of understanding consequences means 30 rounds of 357 energy VERY FAST with no recoil. You just point and burst and move on. It's wonderful. Also you significantly overstated the size, A3's are very compact guns.
>>64742760>If you don’t own a Snidercan you even call yourself a /k/ommando?
>>64749416Hard Boiled, of course.
>KONNICHIWA DUDE!!! I don't care about specific models, I dig all Japanese planes. They're so fragile and flammable! Can you hook me up?
>>64757949>100 octaneJaps could only dream of such luxury.
>>64757960Pine needle gasoline works fine desu. All rumors of it fouling up engines are Western piggu lies.
>>64757949Sure thing bromodachi
>>64757949KONICIHWA DUDE!!!! I LOVE JAPANESE WOMEN
>>64757966>Pine needle gasoline works fine desuSame can be said for the liquor
why cant we havethis?
>>64758190why would we want that?
>>64758219It's cool
Russia has ran out of shaheds now that Iran collapsed into a civil war. The latest strike was only made up of 10 drones
>>64758150>didn't capitalize Godyou are a pedophile groyper who deserves to be stomped on by elephants
>>64757866That's because this is a right leaning board on a generally right leaning website. Horses for courses.Go somewhere fucking gay and you'll see the leftist counterpart
Back to business as usualOP's premise was retarded imho
>>64757814I don't think they want to be. They've simply been leveraging openly available realtime GIS software from Google. All your people can instantly access from a webpage on their phone. It would really be better if the Russians couldn't do the same. The truth is usually good in war for effectiveness since people tend to try to hide things.
>>64757829If you don't care, you shouldn't care about 2 /k/ threads in a whole catalog about it. If you don't care, you shouldn't care enough to be in a said thread. You are fragile and only pretend not to care.
Hard mode: No derailing the trainLegendary mode: No killing anyone
>>64749392Is she okay?
>>64747886>She someone take massive trauma to the back of the head>Immediately start throwing them around .
>>64749392Woman moment
>>64680354I have train robbers in my ancestry so my genetic predilection is to to TNT the tracks, derail the train causing massive human casualties and then just take what I want as I shoot anyone still alive...
>>64680354>robbing it?Best robbary sir
>>64757453Good thing then that the bolt is ahead of the trigger when closed making it not a bullpup. Good bye.
>>64757968because you moved the goalposts i win automatically
>>64757974I moved nothing. Your dumbass thinks semiautomatic handguns are bullpups because the magazine is behind the trigger. What a retard lol.
>>64757992They are dummy, they bullpupped the original handguns.
>>64704630can't get it out of my head that bullpup sounds like gay slang for something
How well did it perform in combat?
>>64757612It was on-par with the T-34...Which was pretty bad in the 50s when the Soviets were using T-54s in the same role.
>>64757808M41 is a light tank, you obnoxious asslicking vatnigger troglodyte.
>>64757612It was flawed and because it was flawed it wasn't really used much. >>64757827It was too big to be used in the reconnaissance role it was intended for and too poorly equipped to do much else. It did see combat against T-54s when they were used in Vietnam/Laos with mixed results.
Thin armor. Good mobility. Decent firepower.
>>64757612Pretty well actually. The South Veitnamese loved their M41's and achieved a positive k:d ratio against T-54's and PT76's.
