Whats the realistic largest object you can camo from Air surveilance?
>>64753379OP clearly said the largest, not the smallest, anon.
>>64753044Yeah the story behind it is interesting. An American was working in Slovakia and found a hobo sleeping inside the statue at a junkyard. He liked it because the artist actually made it slightly out of spec by including guns and bayonets on it (see bottom right). Lenin was supposed to be presented in art as an intellectual, not a warmonger. He bought it and had it shipped home so he could use it as a curio in front of a restaurant he was going to open. Sadly he died soon after this and Lenin never got to promote a diner. The family tried to sell it to a foundry but they declined and so it went up in the hopes that somebody would buy it. It's still for sale, so if anyone really hates Lenin, just buy it and turn it into Funko pops or something. It's not even that expensive, like $250k.
>>64754031>purchase home on decently-large tract of land>purchase Lenin statute>place Lenin statute in front yard>make a little park around it, with several flag poles in a semi-circle behind it>make sure the central and tallest pole is flying the Stars and Stripes>make sure one of the other poles is flying the Confederate battle flag>leave all future visitors and deliverymen forever mystified by your political leanings
>>64754031His business plan was conceptually flawed. People go to restaurants in order to actually eat.
>>64755102People goes to restaurants to show how they are a tourist faggot.
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.
>>64754723what other dragons *have* there been in recent visual media?
>>64749339Alright!>Slavery/SerfdomCommon, accepted, and a sign of status. Those with low/mid IQ will happily sell themselves into servitude if it means they can eat and are under protection.In terms of societies, most will resemble ancient Sparta in social demographics with an elite (5%-10% of the population), a core of skilled people (25%), and the rest are basically serfs, slaves, or expendable labor. Being born with dragon blood can instantly catapult you into nobility, even if you were born destitute. Naturally, infertile women may find servitude preferable to being a social outcast, so sex slaves would be common (and also improve the chance of random fertility "miracles"). In fact, culturally/religiously it would be seen as a divine blessing for a prostitute to get pregnant after being deemed infertile. Kind of like ancient Sumerian Ishtar cults (holy prostitution). Even with our advanced medical tech, 1 in 7 women are infertile. This means that roughly 7-13% of women would be socially pressured into such niches. This would be a cultural touchstone, regardless of geographic location.Societies that can organize their slaves/serfs thrive, those that brutalize/misappropriate them will suffer routine revolts. This doesn't mean that all women are destined to be mattress warmers though, as high-IQ is also prized in this setting. Smart women (alchemists, mid-wives, doctors, scribes for example) would be valuable in their own right.>DrugsOpiates/Drugs would be needed in such a setting, what with the constant fear of death and all that, as well as for medicinal purposes. It would be seen as a way to placate slaves and keep revolts to a minimum when you need vast amounts of slaves for mega-structures. A delicate balance between legally doping your population but not so much that they become useless.
>>64727248Really depends on the size of the dragon and scale of it's breath. IIRC there was a book series about dragons being a thing in the 1700s or 1800s and being used for military use. Wasn't exactly amazing or anything but the concept of some dragons being massive as hell and having the ability to just straight up torch a a chunk of a city or half a harbor in a couple of seconds by belching out a shit ton of napalm breath was a thing. something like that would be relevant a lot longer than a big lizard thing that flies and spits out a shitty flamethrower.
>>64727248I believe Temeraire made a reasonably good argument for the answer being "somewhere vaguely in the early industrial age".By my own theory crafting, I have them being uniquely useful combat assets in at least some capacity right up until the first really effective purpose-built fighter planes come on to the scene, think late WWI/early interbellum-period, at minimum, possibly still being useful as primitive gunship-analogues until actual helicopter gunships are developed. This is for just your bog-standard fire-breathing big lizard, tamable and trainable but just a (very implessive) animal. Actually WWI fighters were admittedly kind of ass but an interbellum-era fighter would be a credible threat to that kind of dragon, not to mention you can build fighters a LOT faster than you can breed and raise dragons, so from that point forward dragons will inevitably be in decline. There are still some niche roles they could potentially fill, especially non-combat, which other anons have already covered.It gets more complicated of course if you introduce things like magic usage, supernatural strength/durability/speed (especially if this gives your dragons really high max payload, because now you may be able to armour them way more than planes and/or carry more weapons), non-standard breath weapons, etc. In those cases, they could potentially remain combat-relevant even into the modern day, depending on the fine print.Also, I'm using this thread as an excuse to post my favourite dragon. Post yours.
>>64755365>just a (very implessive) animalImpressive.With this most recent achievement, fate has in a single stroke, marked the decline of the land army and spelled a new era of wondrous prosperity and peaceful global dominance for the dragon, which promises to firmly stand in sharp contrast to the historically bloody ascent of land-based powers and the cruel subjugation it brought to the humbler nations of the world. With the blessings of draconic sustainable bio-fuelled fire-breathing, draconic air travel and draconic scales and talons will be the instruments with which dragons affirm their noble stewardship of 20th century world politics and offers the non-terrestrial world a different option; an draconic alternative to the depredations of ground-bound leadership and the opportunity for a more equitable and dignified multidimensionalism.
>Working powered exoskeletons have been real for nearly 20 years>Working laser turrets have been real for nearly 20 years>Working railguns have been real for nearly 20 years>Working plasma cannons have been real for over 30 years>Autonomous robots that understand simple commands have been around for over ten years>People act like drones are the most advanced weapon around when we've been using them since WWIIWhat gives? Why is everyone still pretending that we're living the 20th century? People are so tired of waiting for these weapons that they're building the things themselves in their garages.
>>64752618Probably. Hypersonics are under a lot of aerodynamic stress so just a little heat imbalance can throw the entire thing into a tumble.
Why is this thread still up, but the sub-diffraction ISR thread isn't? /k/ has worst jannies by far.
>>64747188moar liek>everythingbattery issues
>>64752618Yes. A single megawatt laser would be capable of defending from several such warheads at a time and doesn't run out of ammo so can only be overwhelmed by tightly managed spam. If you have a battery of MW lasers the region around them is completely secured against the traditional nuclear triad.The US would be utterly impenetrable with sufficient investment (probably not even that much either, maybe a few hundred billion to protect the whole continent) and careful placement.
>>64752517I bet he has a huge cock
>99% intercept rate Lel
Those office building frontages were very, very wicked!
this doesn't impress me. light the strait of hormuz on fire if you are serious this time.
>>64755085Shit no. The White-NotWhite dichotomy is an invention of the Europeans and their American descendants. The Jews were historically considered NotWhite and only became White in American eyes when convenient.
>>64754984>>meanwhile Israel only bomb military target or assasinate command officersGaza
Awesome another brownoid seethe thread
Each had at least 100+ killshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces#Table
If victories against Russians don't count, does that mean Japanese were the best pilots in the world?
>>64754844Redskins bravely fought against the anglo menace and the mediterranean subhumans and are therefore honorary aryans.
>>64755281It's not that "your government" (and military) was much more competent. The outcome of retards' fight is unpredictable; best to avoid altogether.
>>647552733. Kill stealing and sacrificed wingmates4. Embellishment and lack of confirmation
>>64754533Germans literally organized their air force around the creation of aces. In every squadron, there was one pilot everyone else supported. They flew to funnel kills to their designated ace. Also, no one else really dealt with the full force of American strategic bombing. Japan absolutely did, but by the time America was bombing the mainland, they essentially had no air force left. Also, the German obsession with aces backfired as well. If that one hyper-competent pilot got shot down or killed, no one else was really able to fill his position.
Do you guys think actual dogfighting will ever come back? What technology/weapon developments would be necessary for this to happen?
>>64755135Is that how Teddy got to be so manly when he grew up?
>>64755174You're insisting on detection but it's sufficient to prevent targeting or hitting.If your countermeasures, whatever they are, prevent you being acquired, tracked or hit then shooting you in the face is about the only way to engage you before you complete your mission.If both sides do this, dogfights are the only way to get through to your target or stop them from getting through to theirs.
>>64755108Bigger problem in laser dogfighting would be blinding. With normal cockpit canopies it will be permanent blinding of the pilot. The canopy could be made to darken or filter the laser but the pilot will still be blind in that direction and a powerful enough laser will still damage it. Next step would be to ditch the canopy and go with cameras with automatic shutters all over the airframe so blinding one doesn't leave the pilot or drone system completely blind in the attacker's direction.
>>64755276Unfortunately, if this camera array is able to track a target (or at least the direct of the dazzler) well enough to provide a usable firing solution for guns, then it is also good enough to guide a missile, which means we're back at over-the-shoulder missile instakills instead of circle turn fights.There's no margin where a human can see something but a sensor can't guide a missile into that something. Even if fighters end up lobbing massive armoured missiles at each other from 5km away because stealth, hardkill and softkill are so completely dominant that you literally cannot acquire an aircraft beyond that distance or engage it without having your missile hardkilled/softkilled, that still leaves guns as a tertiary weapon at best because missiles end up performing like guns except they can be launched in every direction and have a far less limited payload or velocity.
>>64755334True and if true enough we could see Macross style micromissile spam become viable if there's no point in carrying bvr missiles.
Gook subhuman conscript here. There is german general touring our military base and inspecting our tanks and spgs whats going on?
>>64751519Korean tech was initially US inspired but they long ago went on and developed their own autistic tech tree. I think they tried to copy German engines after enjoying the V8 engine in the K1 but the K2 V12 is nothing like German cognates. The 120mm gun is just NATO standard. Armor and electronics are not alike at all. The K21 has a gun similar to the Bofors 40mm, nothing German. I can't really think of much Korean arms tech lifted from the Germans desu.
>>64750904>Gook subhuman conscript here.Why are you like this?
>>64750904>whats going on?He's trying to learn what a functional military looks like.If they were neighbouring each other, worst Korea could roll over Germany in a day or two.
>>64750904You know what you have to do
>>64755353Holy shit, it's the Korean Pvt Pyle.
Old thread: >>64739370>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!https://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player
are the irish really like this?
>>64754883I'd plant my spuds in one, if they were.
oh god oh fuck oh shit please don't die please please please
>>64754883no, they are among the most cucked peoples in existence.
>see grown masc man with one of those not-a-purse things>immediately assume that that is where his piece isIs this a common thought process or am I being paranoid? Is this a valid form for CC?
>>64751761It's not always practical to wear a jacket. It is however almost always practical to wear a belt and a shirt, with the possible exception of going to the gym. >>64754539it's a trannyism. refers to the imaginary concept of "gender expression". >>64754953The difference between a sling and a fanny pack is how you wear it.
Commies don't like cars. Therefore, they can't keep stuff in their cars. They have to wear purses.
>>64751762That's a messenger bag also known as a haversack
>>64755253Yeah that's what his point was, that's a messenger bag and >>64748142 isn't.
>>64755208>It's a trannyismNah they hate that shit because a chick being a tomboy or a dude being effeminate is transphobic or something and they need to join them in their self-mutilation marxist death cult
The ziggers have come up with another brilliant plan to counter drones, walking tents! Guessing mostly for night ops to reduce thermal signature? Because these are definitely not good for day time at least. Though it'd be hilarious to see them try assaulting with these fucking things on. What will the ziggers dream up next to deal with thermal cams?with audio: https://xcancel.com/Archer83Able/status/2010753972177711261
>>64751923to spot the jew
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>>64754342Will the addition of Jeet genes lift Russians up or push them deeper into the genetic gutter?
>>64755256Think we're going to need a deeper gutter, the sub-gutter and maybe a new classification Jeetus Sovieticus
>>64755256The question is will the jeets overcome their fear of toilets in the russian winter or will they develop a resistance to the cold to continue being street shitters.
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?
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>>64752707https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-class_submarine
>>64744617>we are entering the arms race as foretold by the honorverse novels
>>64755293we've been talking about the navy missile drone concepts going around for months nowmissile pod faggotry is real
>>64749574wasn't a traffic accident.the u.s. navy fires commanding officers that cause traffic accidents, not promote them to admiralty.
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.
>>64754388Bcms are reasonably priced. Fuck kac.
>>64752357>HKBest handguns on Earth.
>>64752464Wrong.
>>64749943
>>64754708You will never shoot or own one, and that makes me smile, same with this other overrated meme machine
how do you defend yourself from homemade flame throwers and other rudimentary incendiaries?
>>64752230>failed regime change operationAH yes, it's an 'operation' Who is it? Mossad and the djinni? The Great Satan's CIA?
>>64753666>The Great Satan's CIA?Man, I wish the CIA were half as competent as turdies make it out to be in their retarded propaganda.
>>64753666THE NUMBERS HAVE SPOKEN
>>64753666Trips confirm this is the devils work!
>>64754976>>64755329A mere coincidence, nothing at all to worry about.Also, please ignore the mass sacrific- I mean, tragic shootings of protesting Iranians.
I get to fly the T-6B in a few weeks any tips to score high enough to qualify for Jets?
>>64750663Do a barrel roll
>>64750709This but inverted
>>64754384It took sixteen (16) replies. How far we've fallen
>>64754405You need to let go of the past bro, just enjoy the memories
>>64750663>score high enough to qualify for Jets?Gorilla mask, smoking a stogie, wearing a bowler is tradition. If you haven't heard that story.
How would you defeat this?
>>64755282If you fired a 0.2c bullet at a nimitz class carrier YOU would explode violently because it's going to hit the atmosphere and vaporize basically instantly, creating a fusion explosion right in your face.
>>64754818Copied the mans1ay3r Mass Effect plot.
>>64755292>firing a bullet into a piece of paper will cause the paper to asplode, just look at the energy-mass figures!>>64755297Fair enoughSo what would really happen with the zigger-rigged relativistic EFP here >>64752791 is just the whole thing explodes pointlessly?
>>64755318A bullet doesn't go fast enough to make matter basically turn to fluids (or rather in this case, gasses).The zigger-rigged EFP might work by sheer virtue of velocity basically throwing a giant plasma-plume of copper right through the atmosphere. It's powered by 100 megatons after all.
>>64754797>>64754807All of this requires you to have foreknowledge of the existence of an enemy you have no way of knowing of. Even Shepard had to bumblefuck his way into a series of coincidences that only lined up for him because of plot armor. If he had showed up at Virmire even a little later and Vigil had shut down like it is noted to have done between 1 and 2 he would not have even half the information he did.
