So I was digging through some old gun parts boxes looking for something and I found these spikeybois.WTF are they? I couldn't figure out what they possibly mount to or what they could be used for.
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>>64745417>something you need to do every day to survive>can't do it
>>64745420Welcome to CostCo. I love you.
>boomers were so much smarter Ah yes, the generation that huffed lead, ate paint chips and drove cars directly at each other for fun. Throughout history every generation thought they were the first and they will be the last. Surely, THIS TIME the young people will end the human race. >t. 1987 gen y millennial
>>64745457Subtle.
Word on the street is that the US bagged another 2 shadow fleet tankers today. With one of the tankers being captured using these little guys. Have we begun breaching into the Tom Clancy timeline, or have we always been in the timeline without us knowing?Also, a general thread on these little guys and what can be done to improve on their airframes and tactical usage.
>>64741435I can see Trump do it and then put the goldcasting on his desk or use it as mantle piece in the oval office
>>64732861>So is the left simping for russia now or what?Only the hard-left, just like the hard-right.Whether organically forming, radicalised by propaganda, or just desperate for allies no matter from where; the extremes of a political spectrum are extremely vulnerable to outside manipulation.The USSR practised this essentially from its beginnings, Russia never stopped the practice.There are knowing, unknowing, willing and unwilling agents of Russia in most of the more radical or extreme groups in the west.Greens, Nazis and a whole lot that are closer to the centre.Even the purely business oriented groups are infiltrated and in their case, it's arguably even easier to subvert them.>>64741428>Word on d' street be datWouldn't you love to live on that street?>you go out and sit on your stoop to drink a cup of coffee in the sunComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64731552>>64731683>/k/fags crying about seal team chads againRent free.
>>64741435I completely agree in principle, but the reason we got into this mess is because the west prefers the rule of law and peace of tranquility. When ideaological opponents start playing the proverbial "I'm not touching you" game, you ignore them. When they start taking that as license to disregard the established norms and start risking that peace, you punch them in their stupid fucking mouths
>>64729244>nooooooooo you have to use exactly the same slang I do or else my safe space collapsesweak
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It's that time of year /K/ommandos! Were we reminisce the years that have past and look forward to the new one that is now unfolding! And that includes thinking up of goals for ourselves to achieve this year! You have been thinking of how to become a better /K/ommando right anon?Anyway, I haven't seen one of these threads in a few years, so lets get one going. How do you rank against your fellow /k/omrades?Bonus points if you can add stories about your achievements. Also maybe its time to update the board? Add a few more,
>>64745359Not gonna put up your own?
>>64745359Rusty Shackleford was my idea when this was being created years ago.I think the the whole thing is kinda cringe now, though.
Alright anons show your favourite wheeled IFVs. Just know you will always have to live in the shadow of the bad boy that is called the Boxer. Your inferior dingy shitshacks will have to do for you guys i guess.
Thinking about it the US really only fields mid tier armor.
>>64741609>>64745147Cease your infighting
>>64745317Sehr gut.
>>64745279it's good enough. US air power is unparalleled and paves the way for the armor anyway.
>>64745317instant 1 billion deutsche marks invest from germany
what classic weapons could be brought back to modern warfare given modern materials/manufacturing/tech?
>>64744265> given modern materials/manufacturing/tech?definitionally, doesn't this exclude historical weapons? if you have new technology why would you use it to reinvent the old anyway, i do think using slings to launch hand grenades would be extremely cool and masculine
>>64744265Wood needed.
So this is Trump's wall? Impressive.
Post gear. Discuss gear. Chico's got an M1 Garand in the Streetz Edition. Level IV required.Old: >>64713312
>>64744578Incredibly informative, thank you. The esapis I traded were only 3 years younger so both were old dogs, they both pass tap and torque no, x-ray available. I wear them over balcs panels as well
>>64742870>we're already in the specialty territory that caliber is made for.True as well. On that note, it would be even more interesting to see if there's any development in 9*39 or 12.7*55 AP ammo, but that's classified to the gills and we probably won't know for the next 20 years unless someone very high-speed royally fucks up. Low-velocity ultra-heavy penetrators are a captivating engineering challenge. Maybe I should've listened to my dad and went to military college with a firearms development program...>>64743574>Some of the old SARVIP plates are rumored to be similar, but might need a standoffNew Br5+ Granits were tested against 12.7*108 B-32 at simulated standoff of ~800m, IIRC. The plate was rekt, BFD was borderline unsurvivable, but the overall result for ICW solution was "no pen". And that's a GI plate mass produced out of (probably doped) alumina+PE. Stopping .50 shots with body armor hinges more on energy distribution and BFD mitigation rather than exotic strike face solutions needed to stop exotic high-velocity penetrators.>>64743638>against a REV. A ESAPI, what penetrates better?At this point, when you're putting the entire energy of a .50 projectile into the target the size of SAPI plate, no-pen can be about as bad as partial penetration. There's a reason anti-materiel weapons are a class of their own.>Russia actually has 3-shot 12.7x108 B-32 API @ 50m standardized as BR6, but no plates!The GOST in question covers both body armor and civilian-grade armored cars, and Br6 is about the upper limit of what you can put on a commercial SUV chassis without it folding like a lawn chair. 3 hits of AP-incendiary PER BODY PANEL out of 1m barrel at point blank is a pretty high bar to clear even if you're hanging it on a twin-turbo G-Wagen or an LC200. Here's an illustration of an average mil-spec vehicle armored to Br6: VPK-Ural, mostly used by Russian SOF and formerly Wagner. That's basically just a MRAP.
>>64744486That looks collectible as fuck.>>64744578>$1,570 a plate in 2013. Adjusted for inflation, that's $4,370 a setAnd here I thought our inflation was bad...
>>64745064Definitely collectible as a high end Ceradyne. As for others, the MH3 CQBs would be over $5k a set. 96034s about $4,892 a set (and that's what Delta paid for them in a bulk ~<160 plate order, not civ price because those were never sold to civs). Ceradyne's best plates got really expensive back in the day. They were one of the few ceramic plate manufacturers that made their own strike faces from scratch, not like Hesco / Highcom / LTC / RMA, who just get their ceramics from Bitossi or Coors or St. Gobain. This meant Ceradynes had a performance edge because they could dope and add additives to their ceramics freely. Now that they're defunct, some of their stuff like boron-enriched boron carbide is essentially lost technology.
>>64744639Glad to help, those are some nice plates. Make sure to run IIIA soft armor behind them. Also maybe foam pads, but in front of the plates to make up for lost drop protection. I would double down on having them x-rayed. I'm sure there's a lab nearby.>>64745062>12.7x55 and 9x39I remember there was an STS-120UPU, a 1,219gr tungsten penetrator which tried to replace 12.7x55 VPS, at some point. There was also an ammo collectors' website that said Russians with OSV-96s and other 12.7x108 guns were reloading both 1,179 grain VPS and UPU into 12.7x108 as a supersonic, extremely armor-blind penetrator. They would be absolutely brutal vs ceramics if pushed to the 700m/s range. Similar to the 12.7x108 loads from Winchester-Olin sent to the Mujahadeen to punch through Hinds.>BR5+If it's true the new Granits are only doped Alumina, maybe ZTA, then get the mfg in contact with Shandong Yasai in China immediately, upgrade to TiB2-SiC. You'd save pounds.>.50 cal BABTThat's the one area where, per the L. Cannon paper, behind armor blunt trauma can be extremely serious. .50 cal plates need to be massively built up. Part of the reason why they aren't a regular thing is that they need to be about 1.5" thick or more, which won't fit in many normal PCs.>BR6Yep, it's like VPAM. Thing is though, both Atlas and I think FORT advertised BR6 plates at one point. The Atlas was a piece of shit, not sure about the FORT, and I'm not talking ACP-G or ACP-M.
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>>64740725>1.85 Million layoffs since Oct 2025.Military is a lot of things but it does pay.
>>64743925>watch Professor Messers seriesI took A+ 4 years ago for a job I never got and the advice was the exact same.
Shall be PCS to JBLM in a few months.Recs?
>>64744110Tell us more about your military service and provide some tangible evidence that you served.
>>64745401>a neverserved trying to call out stolen valor
Does he deserve his shit reputation for the Battles of the Isonzo? After all what else could he realistically have done? He had a very narrow mountainous front with no room for any sweeping manoeuvres or flanking. And he won most of the battles.
>>64741338Yes, he was genuinely a terrible general and it's telling that when he was replaced, his replacement immediately defeated the Austrians.
>>64742153Courting death. Don't blame this general for being ruthless.
>>64741346>Hold that front with minimal manpowerImpossible without getting entirely sweeped by the austro-hungarian army
Genuinely terrible nepo baby that was well aware aware of the limits of the italian army yet pressed forward with retard outdated tactics and almost lost the warHis replacement was everything that he wasn't: charismatic, caring of its soldier, open to suggestions by low ranking soldiers and open to change of tactics, and so in the span of one year he rebuilt an army from scratch and won the war
>>64741509>ArmandoJust FIY Armando is the first name, like Luigi in Luigi Cadorna. Diaz is the last name.
how do you defend yourself from homemade flame throwers and other rudimentary incendiaries?
>>64745214There's also the fact that Khomeini is simply the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire multi-layered regime with lots of power structures involved. Unlike 1979 removing the top dog won't change anything. The entire system needs to fall.
>>64745221Yes. Iran government structure is somewhat like Papal state. They have Pope (Khomeini), Cardinal and Bishop that support him. Who also was supported by Conservative and rural peoples. Because if you don't support them you are going to hell btw.
>>64744044Hello Ian, how's Canada?
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>*shits up gun culture forever*
>>64745288>Not to mention how overtuned all the armor is to the point the shittiest plates and helmets can somehow tank mag dumps unless you run sabotted DUAP rounds in every mag.Got to love how that was due to streamers with their best gear losing to naked hobos with Mosins.
>>64745313>>64745288basically the same thing that would happen in real life in this settingthe gear queers that post their knights armament on instagram, but never shoot it , would get clapped by /k/ommandos with mosins.
>>64745265>us faggots can't help themselves as to fap to degenerate "russia stronk" shit, even when it's fake
>>64745231>average /pol/ poster
>>64745265>goes to prison>becomes a bisexual roided out shut-in pothead sad desuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSAXn4-mbkhttps://youtu.be/7bpXLTOicM0?si=FCFQIJ52mYDwwdFU&t=125
How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
>>64634465with all that weight, you could use butter knives for teeth and be very lethal
>>64744319you first, clown. there's a reason this planting method was dropped in favor of animal agriculture the moment Europeans arrived and showed how it's done.
>>64644972The Incas managed it, but like hell are they sharing.
>>64742362the retardedly huge helmet fan, probably
>>64745076>you first, clown.>Götz, Christopher M., and Kitty F. Emery, eds. The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals. Lockwood Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvvnd8m.tl;dr: They had domesticated peccaries, turkeys, and dogs which they all ate, as well as various kinds of wild-game, mostly white-tailed deer.
can you even call yourself a /k/ommando?
>>64743117UMP unironically fixed all those issues, but >doesn't feel as nice to shoot trumped everything else.
>>64742760>>64742951how uncomfortable are those telescoping stocks and chin weld optics?
>>64744992Chin weld is actually really comfy on the mp5 because theres almost no recoil.
>>64745242Super safe MP5K rips so fucking hard. Pretty sure it has a faster rate of fire than a FA.
Scopes and reddots are for boomers with glaucoma.
Why do you think so?
>>64745210Aperture sights are for women and homosexuals.
>>64745237I put picrel on my 1911 which is similar to that rear sight, and somehow I can get a sense of the aim alignment much quicker (as I'm bringing the gun up to my eye level). I tried a red dot on another handgun but this setup is actually better for me personally.
>>64745210>reddotsare not accuracy and have batteries and are worthless unlessits an IR dot for NV which is the ONLY reason militaries use then>>64745210>Scopesscopes and irons are accuracy woithout batteries
>>64745237>he doesn't know how to use aperture sightsoh nononono
The dragon is the size of the ones in GOT, use GOT as the point of reference for most everything to be honest. If you want to be a furry abut this you can do a version where the dragon(s) are smart cookies that can talk and junk.
>>64727248GoT isn't even consistent with its dragons. Pick a better franchise.
>>64740980>Historical armor constantly gained weight the more firearms got introducedthis is true, see 16th century German plate armour suits>steel breastplate with a thickness around 2-3mm that is proof against arrows at point blank rangearrows could still cut through that thickness of armour, if the plate was flatwhat the last plate armour suit designers of history grasped empirically but didn't quite understand was that the curved bulbous shapes in which they made their armour meant that both arrows and bullets went through a greater thickness of armour, for the same reason that tanks have sloped armour. they thought that the projectiles were skipping off the curvesultimately however,>muskets do deliver 10-20 times the force then the best crossbownomuskets can't penetrate 10mm let alone 20mm of steel plate>>64744703>Arrows achieve literally nothing against full grown dragons, not even scratching them. Their hides would be several inches thickanon, please bear in mind you're talking about a fictional animalhow is anyone supposed to know this?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64745136For a real world comparison crocodiles' hides eventually become thick enough arrows can't do squat against anything short of a lucky shot to the eye. Dragons having similarly tough skin to support their weight seems hardly unreasonable.
>>64745156preciselyyet nobody is saying that crocodile hide is bulletproof or that it is several inches thickit is an unwarranted leap of logic to assume so for dragons as much as it is for crocodiles
>>64745136> 2-3mm>arrows could still cut through that thickness of armour, if the plate was flatIm not so sure about that, even lower quality steel at that thickness should be pretty hard to pierce, in the arrow vs armor test 3 where they shoot at a brigadine using 1.2mm mild steel plates with one side being hardened. The arrows they are using have bladed hard steel tips and they dont show that impressive performance. Only two arrows showed undeniable killing power, one launched at 40 meters hitting the neck plate that was about 1.5mm thick and the other at 20 meters hitting the eye slit ignoring the helmet armor. Every other arrow did not have the same clear killing power when striking the brigandine or arm protectionhttps://youtu.be/SFFgcTzCvMo?t=446They also did test against just flat 1.5mm mild steel plate and the penetration depth was not as dramatic as the textile or chainmail armorhttps://youtu.be/UBbVWqA45fI?t=962>arrow vs 1.5mm mild steel penetration depth 7cm-2.3cm>arrow vs chainmail penetration depth 25-24cm>arrow vs fabric armor penetration depth 25-17.5Pic related from ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - Best metal for armour video all the test plates are 1.5mm thickBut back to dragons.https://youtu.be/xXfEsEYeTKc?t=870>Season 5 of games of thrones dragons have grown quite alot and are large enough to be ridden but are still vulnerable to hand thrown spearsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
