Think we'll ever get full body armor?
>>64720550>if those fragsuits were just quilted cottonVietnam flak jackets were nylon. You can make thick nylon body armor that will have okay protections. Add in a few layers of Kevlar and they become quite good.
>>64752249It's one thing to play VR, quite another to replace your eyes with a pass-through and operate under challenging conditions in the real world, with a real body. That's the huge reason everybody prefers analog over digital NVG. There are drawbacks, but they're not as disabling.
>>64752263Weight. Modern soldiers have to carry way more equipment in terms of mass that ISN'T weapons and armour than any kind of soldier or warrior in all of human history, a big chunk of which being ammunition which you absolutely want to carry as much as you can of in all circumstances, and on top of that modern ballistic armour is also heavier relative to its coverage than any armour type in all of human history, too.Carrying ALL THAT SHIT plus a front plate, a back plate, and maybe a couple of side plates is pretty okay. Adding shoulder pads and a crotch plate is maybe pushing it, but tolerable, and if you're enough of a unit you might even be able to swing it without reducing the rest of your load anywhere. Full ballistic plate would be unthinkable in most environments.The only way this will happen is if powered exoskeletons become viable (MANY secondary technology advancements required, and in large magnitude), gene-modded super-soldiers become a thing (the technology to do this technically exists right now), or someone invents some new type of ballistic armour that is ridiculously light relative to its protection factor. All three feel like kind of a stretch to me for various reasons, but it's TECHNICALLY possible, I suppose.
>>64752294>That's the huge reason everybody prefers analog over digital NVGAnalog NVG have phosphor decay time. Also both digital and analog FPV drones have very low latency and can have high refresh rates.Digital NVG will replace analog what is holding them back is custom NVG OLED screens with the appropriate pixel density and brightness settings.
>>64752269Nylon is significantly stronger than cotton, more comparable to silk. Are you saying that Cotton armor is in any way comparable to Kevlar?
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>>64752322>>64752352LOL jeet stolen valor is a new low
>>64752179You put the internals of the rifle in a different chasis... if its reversible its not a true bubba. Talk to me when you've made it into an obrez
>>64752352Funny thing is that jeet got laid off from two automotive manufacturers which is why he can't get PR, while this week Carney is going to China to potentially ask them to flood us with cheap electric cars which will wipe out half a million car manufacturing jobs in Ontario alone.
>>64752396ontario getting what they voted for
>>64752396God please let this happen it would be so funny. Imagine seeing this but happen thousands of times across the country. Pic related happened in Toronto and fried 4 liberal voters
can you even call yourself a /k/ommando?
>>64744274This is sweet
>>64742760>not full fun.You don’t own an MP5 though. You own cope.
>>64752314and you don't own anything so why listen to anything you say?
>>64752316I guess that makes you the.... owner of a lonely heart
>>64752334Much better than a owner of a broken heart, honestly.
Starting with this piece of shit. Any gun that gets a cracked frame within 20,000 rounds is an irredeemable hunk of absolute dogshit. That isn’t even a high round count for 9mm. Glock runs circles around beretta.
>>64748928>ignorant retard parroting bullshitThe frames cracked at 20k rounds with ammunition that Winchester had mistakenly loaded to proof load pressures. Cracking at 20k rounds with such abuse is actually really good. Beretta built a fix into the M9 to make it even safer anyway.>overrated weaponsAnything HK. If you can’t accept this then you need to ask yourself why their “new” service rifle is a copy of the AR-15.
>>64752293They're both ugly as sin and exceptionally fishy.
>>64749246>>64748928>he uses a locking blockblowback master race
> implying anyone who posts in this thread can afford to shoot 20k rounds of 9mm.
>>64751154Your meme British rifle is shit and you will never shoot one
Tanks are not obsolete they just haven't been updated.Abrams introduced- 45 years agoThe first ironclad to the first dreadnought was about 45 years in comparison.Roughly 45 years between the wright brothers plane and the introduction of combat jet aircraft.>fights in an area of eastern europe over the course of 5 years that was covered sometimes in a day in ww2>tanks are obsolete
>:^^)
>>64751799They just need a drone to guard it and lasers to destroy anti-tank missiles
>>64751799Cambrian ended, devonian starts.
>>64752090I guess you could call the red guard drones.
*Hits the crack pipe* Ok get this shit hear me out Tanks On Mars Bitchin'
All things precision shooting, no experience necessary. Discuss rifles, barrels, action, glass, loads, groups, competitions, and anything else related to the pursuit of tighter groups and longer shots.
>>64750352Meant for>>64749492
>>64750352Thanks, SK is really fantastic stuff, see image
>>64727375Has anybody else even noticed the Fletner effect causing the slugs to drift in the opposite direction of slug rotation beginning at about 750 yards? If I understand correctly past a certain distance with high powered rifles the slug's axis of rotation is locked at the high angle necessary to lob it that far. It's trajectory is roughly a parabola and as it descends from it's high point the relative airflow means it is traveling "belly-on" to the wind. Say it's right hand twist rifling = the right hand side of the slug is causing air to pile up there - and the rotation is causing the left hand side to "pull in" a similar amount of air.So like a baseball spun up to be a curve ball - the bullet's path curves, too. When I shoot 1000 yards it is obvious that all the projectiles hit the target in a nose-up attitude. At 1100 yards some of them "have laid over on their side" veered off center. At 1200 yds they are all pointing at random directions and accuracy has gone all to fuck. I don't have a left hand twist rifle to check it against. Also it stands to reason that if you fitted the gun with a custom left hand twist barrel - it would unscrew from the breech eventually. I ain't buying another different rifle to test this - just hoping million to one somebody has a left hand rifled rifle and they noticed this going the opposite way.
need help from anonslooking for a 2-10x or something similar for a first rifle in .223 shooting paper (no outdoor ranges beyond 300m)having a hard time finding options that aren't a LPVO with 1x. Budget is <500. Any ideas?
>>647514673-9x are a dime a dozen and would be great for .223. SWFA has some ultralights in the 2.5-10x range and they're good beginner scopes. alternatively you can look for a fixed power, although not many manufacturers make one anymore. I think leupold and swarovski still make a 6x
Why is French firearm design so strange?
>>64751965dieselpunk aesthetic
>>64751965but they made the shadow moses gun
>>64746595Oh god, you're having a stroke, I'm sorry.
>>64723278Nothing says "we're not serious about going to war" like a battle rifle in the 70's.
>>64752422https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_France#French_Fifth_Republic_(1958%E2%80%93present)
I just ordered a .308 CZ600 range for 1100 yurobucks (they usually go for 1300), did I fuck up
>>64752083I suppose I have forgotton the Lap and Sami caribou herds. The musknox are gone. The Siagas are near extinct. The mouflon are threatened, but also reintroduced or imported as exogenous.
>>64751317are those the ones that they recalled because they blow up and they like glued the barrel in or something when the main "upgrade" from the old discontinued model was that they had quick swap barrels?
>>64751603>we dont have game big enough to warrant it>game>ordering the bench rest range modelwhat?
>>64751833>your group opens up from 0.25 to 0.5 MOA Oh no!
>>64752245That and Turkish deer that were supposedly here tens of thousands of years ago.
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.
>>64745829>>64747787Kek
>>64745602Soča. Thanks to Cadorna.
am i ugly
>>64748418To be fair shitting the bed at Caporetto was magnitude bigger than any small victories he had accumulated beforehand.
>>64741338just to give you an idea what mindset he and most of the italian generals had:when the war started northern slovenia was battlefield.Austrians evacuated the slovenes on their side of the frontline, build new town quarters for them in nearby safe locations. The imperial guards even helped em catch chickens and other livestock when evacuating.The italians on the other hand rounded the (non austrian, non german speaking) slovenes up, deported them to concentration camps in Ligiuria where half of them died. these were just farmers who had no clue what was going on.same post war, when the slavic and german soldiers of austria retreated from italy. the italians made em give up their weapons and promised them a safe return. a false promise, they were stripped, beaten, paraded thru towns and a quarter of a million men died in italian concentration camps afterwards.many italians didnt want to die for the imperialistic dreams of some politicians in rome. after the enormous losses, whole units deserted in such numbers that the italian generals used decimation to keep discipline and executed every tenth man.bravo, cadorna (and for repeating a little verdun fuckup at least 10 times).
Staccato EditionGuide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikThread prompt: Shotshow 2026 handgun predictions/hopes?Previous: >>64734006
>try estate sales, bro>you'll find absolute bargainsHorseshit. I spent all morning and everything was grossly overpriced
>>64750432Dang that's the one I actually wanted (in da/sa though) but got this as a cope because it was like 400 at my lgs
>>64751491I have a weird gun in my collection that I sure as shit would never fire again. It's basically a very old Smith j frame in 38special but it is stupid lightweight. It feels like a toy. It literally weighs as much as a 43C. The cylinder is not magnetic and it was made well before scandium and titanium cylinders were a thing. I can only assume that it is a grenade with an aluminum cylinder. I've shot it before and it kicked like a motherfucker with standard pressure low recoil hydrashoks.
>>64751440The LTT NP3 kit can go below 6 pounds for DA. My LTT’d PX4 with a weak hammer spring was 4.5 pounds DA but occasional light strikes I couldn’t tell if it was the ammo or the gun at the time (it was the gun).
There's a 45 star megastar for 400 bones on gunsinternational. It's probably already been bought but thought I'd mention it here.
/rg/ Revolver general IIpreviously on /rg/ >>64648104
>>64748441got mine for $500 back in 2022
Coexist
>>64745787My .454 Alaskan had to go back to the factory recently unfortunately. Hope they fix that piece of shit because I love it.
>>64750184Kino
>>64747453>cartridge conversionThose are brass frames, a cartridge conversion even with cowboy loads will destroy the frame
The sharpest thread on /k/.Underrated Knives Edition
Should I get a mushroom knife or spoon knife? I don't forage mushrooms or carve spoons, but that is only because I don't have a mushroom knife or spoon carving knife. Do I really need these?
>>64751872Ah a new fetish pic! Kys.
>>64751921Have you considered a 3.2?
>>64752048I really don't want to go overboard with excessive consumption. Socrates guides us>moderation in all thingsHe was a great philosopher from history.
>>64751939imo mushroom knives are kinda pointless, they're just a small blade with a little brush. when I go picking mushrooms i take my Spyderco Byrd CaraCara2.they're soft little things, any knife will do. and if you find something like a big Sparassis crispa ("Cauliflower Mushroom", pic related) as I have before, you're gonna need plenty of blade length to even reach under there.a curved spoon carving knife makes sense if you make use of it, it at least offers a function a normal straight blade doesn't have.
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
>>64749147>anyone have a ww1 grail gun they wanna get?All Mauser infantry rifles. Belgian M1889, Serbian M1899, 99/07 or 1910, and Ottoman M1890, 1893, or 1903.
>>64749147ive been meaning to get a mauser gewehr and a mosin nagant for a while now, ill probably get em someday though
>>64750182>>64750199>>64750285>>64750374Thanks lads, so around $500-$600 should net me a nice No4 Lee-Enfield then. Are they only numbered on the receiver, bolt, and stock or are there any other parts that they numbered as well?
>>64748853Kino>>64749147My non-unobtanium pick would be a genuine 1897 trench shotgun.
>>64749147Ive said it before but my grail would be an RSC 1917. But i'd settle for a nice Gew98
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_kbHF4iF0Kc2 more weeks
Did the army corps really help straighten out your life?
>>64751020>armed services>straight Lol. Lmao even.
>>64751088Based and penpilled
>>64751088>free penYou did good. I stole one from a bank and went to the pen.
It's really what you make of it. I found a purpose even if it's retarded most of the time. At 26, I was a NEET and really had no path forward. Parents were enablers but also at the same time, grew tired of me sitting around at home. Wouldn't say I was suicidal, but I was definitely a sad person before. I now do something instead of fantasizing of doing something. Recruiters will sell you a bad bill of goods if you're not careful though. Get whatever you want to do in your contract.
>>64752401Also don't go high speed beyond airborne (only if you want it). I know this is a hot take but cancer rates are absurdly high, as are injuries later in life. Once you get out and health issues crop up years down the line, your discharge papers will say nothing of it, and the VA will tell you to get fucked. It's so not worth it. This is a job program unless a war kicks off. Make it easy on yourself. Knowing how to blow shit up with C4 won't do you any good after the fact. Get a good duty station to appreciate nature and shit. TS Clearance and using your tuition assistance to get a degree while in will set you up for easy mode government jobs once out.
