>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.
>>64748802>AFV tier weaponryInfantry has used 20mm guns for a hundred years, despite the average height then being much less than 6 feet. An exoskeleton would surely make them more viable again, and in bigger calibres. Bigger guns, more ammo, more power to dig trenches, faster reaction times for heavy weapons in a harder to hit package, less busted knees, more resistance to explosives and fragments that still cause most infantry casualties. If it can fit some wheels or tracks, it'd also serve as a motor transport. It's just a matter of cost and how to best employ such units. Putting them in a frontline trench to get destroyed by a few HEAT FPVs is obviously not it.
>>64751260I mean, there were serious technical limitations for it. Like requiring power from the entire Shiva Star capacitor bank to function. Now what I do bet is that some of what they learned went along to other projects (cough...Dugway Zapper). Kirtland AFB is the home of the Directed Energy Directorate of the USAF, after all. God knows what else they were doing at KAFB/Phillips Lab or Sandia. Speaking of "what ever happened with that", we should add hafnium isomers to that list. https://www.afrl.af.mil/RD/
>>64751363And why is this bad/good/other? It's no different than human cops. Maybe then you schizo fucks will stop hating the cops and start holding DAs accountable.
>>64751514>Infantry has used 20mm guns for a hundred yearsLoaded terminology. 20mm could refer to a 20mm grenade which is actually pretty small as far as grenade launchers are concerned. Blackpowder is also a lot weaker than smokeless and modern triple base propellants so the .75 caliber muskets don't really count as AFV tier. Saying "20mm guns" rather than "AFV tier weapons" is just trying to be sneaky. >Bigger guns, more ammo,More weight but not bigger feet. >more power to dig trenches,More like get caught in trenches. You want something small and maneuverable, not a walking tank. > less busted kneesMore busted knees. You've added excessive weight and added rotational inertia from the motor. This plays hell with the wearer's balance and causes them to fall more often. You can't reinforce the legs because you're limited by human proportions. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64746609Real =/= viableWhy limit laser turrets to 20 years when turrets have existed for centuries and lasers for 66 years?
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
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.
>>64749205Yeah, but it oozes Millennium era futurist design.Same with the OG FN2000.
>>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.
Post gear. Discuss gear. Chico's got an M1 Garand in the Streetz Edition. Level IV required.Old: >>64713312
>>64752096but i got it all with $25 amazon gift card
>>64752096Harsh but true.>>64752213$20 towards 1 mid LED light would have been preferable. It's unfortunate that any decent LED light will still be over $50.
What is the cheapest LED lamp or headlight worth buying (that isn't body armor)?
>>64752276I like my Nicron N72
>>64751780>>64751860>Tubes are pretty shit to begin with>ROC buckles are worseIve used ROC buckles and have never had any issues over using it for many years. I don't know why people keep acting like they suck fuck velcro
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.
Scopes and reddots are for boomers with glaucoma.
>>64746367How is the industry going to sell shit if people are happy with what they have?
>>64745210I grew up shooting with nothing but irons, but red dots are definitely better, not even sure what kind of argument you’re trying to make, you just hold the gun up and put the red dot on the target and it hits the target, it’s really quite amazing, don’t even have to get your eye lined up before taking the shot, not to mention the fact I can passive aim with duals on when using a decent dot like a t2 or exps3 both of which I own (I prefer the t2, set and forget, lighter, more durable, no delamination, better battery life, don’t have to manually turn it on or off)
>>64748488Anyone with a stream light on their rifle doesn’t have money, one of the shittiest cheapest lights you can get, Chinese trash
>>64747821Is that a mid-length? Looks good
>>64745210That's an aperture sight which is as good as iron sights get. Most of the time you've got to deal with Notch and Post which SUCK BEYOND MEASURE!
Old thread: >>64739370>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!https://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player
>>64752321>Commie house of cards implodes if they do thatThey know this which is why they're trying everything to increase consumer spending. Unfortunately chinks have hundreds if not thousands of years of generational trauma that instruct them to save money instead of spend it. Its very interesting to look into how Gen z is doing in China because they are facing some of the same issues that we are. In a lot of ways its worse for them. Americans like to bitch about housing, dating and work culture but its way, WAY worse over there from what I understand.
>>64751282The commercial for this shit is awkward as fuck, the actual human actors somehow sound more robotic and soulless than the grok slop generic ai avatars
>>64752364Chinks have it bad, but pretty much no one has it worse than Koreans, you want an example of what a country minutes away from a total collapse looks like, just look at them.
>>64752373>Sou K likelier to collapse than Nor KBig if true
>>64752373>>64752416be quiet, you are going to summon the namefag
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.
>Pakistan Wants India To Enter Into War With Bangladesh: India's Chief of Defence Staffhttps://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-bangladesh-defence-deal-nuclear-what-it-means-for-india-2840610-2025-12-23
>>64681020What if I support India over Pakistan and Bangladesh, but support China over India?
>>64749036This has to do with the Jeets to buy Miggers 29 instead. Not to mention, India had to face F-16 from 2 fronts, and back then the Indian market just had opened for the US so, they had to keep jeet requests.
>>64748429>CETC handles electronic parts and systems for radars, missiles, key components for satellites in the BeiDou network, semiconductors, antennas for wireless infrastructure as well as equipment for autonomous-driving technology.Holyshit.
>>64680898>>64681020We can only hope they all lose internet, if any western country still had balls we would false flag hits on their cables and end our suffering.
>>64731789That one always makes me laugh>hate Russia for stealing land>hate Israel for stealing land
Whats the realistic largest object you can camo from Air surveilance?
>>64752420How many nets you got?
>>64752431how much do you need?
If you're the dictator of a shithole how do you prevent the hollowing out/paper tigerization of your military over time? All of these had strong capable militaries until one day they didn't and got their cheeks busted and wig split
>>64750715SA and Rhodesia had a lot of Israeli help
>>64750477The #1 step is don't be a dictatorTheir armies are intentionally shit, because the thing all dictators fear the most is a military coup
>>64750477Prevent brain drain and stop killing your own people.
>>64750477You have a nation that isnt a poor corrupt shithole
>how do I fuck this toaster without burning my dickWhatever solutions you employ, none wil work as well as simply not fucking the toaster.
When the Geran/Shahed drones first appeared, I figured Russia would use them smartly in a classic SEAD/DEAD role: send waves of them to force Ukrainian IADS to light up radars and reveal positions, then follow up with VKS aircraft, with anti-radiation missiles to systematically dismantle those defenses. Russia instead has chosen the most brain-dead and wasteful approach, by treating the Geran/Shaheds s as nothing more than slow, low-cost cruise missiles hurled directly at static infrastructure targets, while leaving the overwhelming majority of Ukraine's air defenses intact and free to keep operating. They're banking entirely on brute-force volume and saturation to get a few through, completely abandoning any effort at SEAD/DEAD. But the thing is that they're not even achieving any kind of saturation effect since, the launches are scattered haphazardly across random cities, regions, and targets all over Ukraine that changes every night (some they they go after energy infrastructure, some other go after some depots, some others they try to hit some cities...), instead of making up their minds and concentrate them single high-value area, frontline sector, or even one major city at a time, and keep hitting them until achieving disruption or collapse. This is also precisely why so few targets are actually hit despite hundreds being launched every night, and so many of them are intercepted.By contrast, even in the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela, the LUCAS drones (the American Shahed clones) were properly integrated into a coordinated SEAD/DEAD package.
>>64751610>Pokzukha. You have to appear to do something.That's not the only thing. Every time they terrorize civilians in ukraine the retards in russia are happy and cheer for the army and their country.
>>64751659>having your own boiler running on a diesel tank>in a commieblock>on the 16th floor
>>64749431>They're banking entirely on brute-force volume and saturation to get a few through, completely abandoning any effort at SEAD/DEAD. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, they weren't actually even trying in the first place, and just you wait until the gloves come off.
They were banking on depleting the air defense.>>64751724Ukies are already using generators for electricity.>>64752194We use per flat heating in Turkey. They're called kombi. They're not diesel but gas or electric. Many new apartments have diesel generators and central boilers. Diesel heating per apartment should be doable. At worst, just electric generator with electric heater is less efficient but will work.
>>64751334>not the impression you'd get from Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rihfixed pidorstanian spelling mistakes, no need to thank me
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
>>64752144>OH SHIT, IT'S A SKINWALKER!>*BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*
>>64749091pretty sure deep down russians feel the same way
>>64749073The cuckshed army marches on
>>64752308ziggers aren't being shown these in the mainstreamand if you're a zigger who frequents /k/ or some shit and show it to anyone, they'll prolly say it's the ukrainian psyop and not believe you
>>64752233>MANPADs only work when the enemy is flying low and they are only flying low because of the S-300 / S-400 threat if they go high.Man, there's still so much to learn.How you guys got into this? It seems there's an endless amount of stuff to learn to comprehend this.
