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>>64752486
I'm saying the trend is that asymmetric smaller guerilla forces can hold ground or cause issues but are not able to have real victories. FARC is a famous example of holding out for a long time then getting tricked and losing. Something like the American revolution, civil war, and the Yugoslavian war is meaningfully transformative and required a level of symmetric warfare. Taking large urban centers and holding things like capitals is where victory is derived even if there are meaningful skirmishes in the woods on your way to occupy or do other things at the urban centers. My main point is smaller poorer guerilla forces are not able to win I used in the woods as a pejorative since they don't have real bases and infrastructure.

>>64750108
Maybe. I know the GOST-5A / 6A and then BR4 / BR5 Granits are Alumina. The solution to tackling substantial tungsten penetrators like 7N37 just being a thicker alumina strike face is just, IMHO, inefficient. They're leaving serious performance on the table by not using a better ceramic. The concern with the BR5+ Granit is that it's very heavy, well, that's a way to fix that.
There is the possibility the Alumina is something like ZTA - zirconia-toughened - but that isn't in common use because it jacks up price and doesn't get you anything truly noteworthy over mainstream SiC.
As for the backers, I remember a few papers about Russian advanced aramids. Odd to me they wouldn't at least be licensed here if they're competitive with good Dyneema or Spectra. High end PE is stronger pound for pound as a backer, but aramid backed plates exhibit very good v0s on account of how aramid fibers function.

As it stands, the Chinese could probably reproduce the Alumina+PE BR5+ plates if they aren't using anything exotic. Throws a real wrench at the M7's XM1184.

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>>64752561
>>64752561
>Taking large urban centers and holding things like capitals is where victory is derived
Not at all, this is the extremely rare outcome. The majority of the time the forces are victorious and result in a withdrawal of troops from tenable held positions.
French indo china war, algeria, rhodesia, tigray liberation front, eriterean peoples liberation front, taliban (2020), FARC, IRA, etc etc.

All of these forces committed to a long violent rural struggle resulting in eventual withdrawal of their opponents and/or political settlements that effectively transferred them into power regardless. Historically gorillas have used these rural areas to build ranks, train forces, transit supplies and maintain a general presence in a larger area of footprint. It always will be important if not from a strategic or human capital standpoint but rather from an operational standpoint.
>FARC
>Lost
Dawg the president of columbia is a former M19 member and is giving FARC anything they want

Lack of external sponsorship is a much greater determination than the area the conflict is fought in or where the decisive battle occurs.
>Mao something something water, something something fish something something

>>64750789
d'aww, babby's first survival kit.
Use these things, use them good and hard. By the time you replace each of them with a better version and\or completely different solution, you will have gained much wisdom.

>>64752605
As I've said a few threads back, Russian MIC is often purposefully opaque to a counterproductive extent. Some of it is soviet "iron curtain" mindset, some is covering for incompetence and graft, but mostly it's just lack of "gun culture" - engineers see themselves apart from the wider population, who are unworthy of discussion about special and cool things they aren't supposed to be allowed to have anyway (but somehow are). And then there's the leadership that answers to military brass, not stakeholders or wider market, and acts more like govt. functionaries than the management of a commercial entity. This is all a generational problem that solves itself as these people age out, but still, it's so frustrating sometimes.
tl;dr boomers are why we can't have nice things

anons what's good threadlocker that actually works? Loctite blue keeps melting if it's in the same zip code as a hot barrel and I'm apparently getting fake rocksett

>>64751604
Everyone hates /b/ and /pol/

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>>64751608
You have to go back

>>64751604
>>64751608
>>64751615
fuck ya
mudda

>>64749181
lowkirkenuinely, a great way for infantry to cross minefields

>>64751295
>argue for usecases that don't exist
Did you miss the point where the entire thread is literally about creating a use for new technology, retard?
Sorry that hypothetical questions and scenarios are so overwhelming for your niggardly brain.
>irreverent reply, no understanding of topic
Again, must be 18 years older, not brown, and preferably owning guns to post here.
Door is over there, kthxbai.

>>64749181
>look morty, i turned myself into a 50 USD drone

>>64752613
this.
what's your dumbass jet man gonna do when i put the same cost of drones in the air to counter him? it'll be 1 against 10,000

it'll be fun to watch them get exploded by drones after taking off, lookin forward to those videos.

>>64749199
They were suggested to take naval vessels quickly and to get into rough terrain quicker than foot troops. Indians and Chinese could do with them to go up mountains and stuff. As far as I am aware the only place that actually uses these are mountain rescue medics in Bongland.

>>64747845
looks pretty modern. Is this another german fake weapon made up in some 50s sci fi book?

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>>64748562
Man,i just went to take a piss in the shop, not even 5 minutes, wtf?!

>>64748512
I do

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>>64749026
>>64748489
How'd you guys mess this up? Fuckfuckfuck, Anon is going to be back any minute.

They didn't have any hortens at the store, but I found this. Just act cool and maybe he won't notice.

>>64747909
ah hell nah my nigga just nutted from simply looking at some bitched :skullemoji:

>>64751799
Cambrian ended, devonian starts.

>>64752090
I guess you could call the red guard drones.

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*Hits the crack pipe*
Ok get this shit hear me out
Tanks
On
Mars

Bitchin'

>>64751843
>>64751848
Because the zoomers are right.
From an asymmetric warfare perspective shitty hobby drones would be a hell of a Fuck You from whoever is using them. We didn't have to deal with the Taliban or the Iraqi militias using hobby drones with explosives duct taped to them dive bombing convoys with explosives. We had to deal with suicide bombers and IEDs, sure, or niggers dropping grenades from overpasses, but those you can somewhat mitigate with shaped hulls or by shooting the grenade dropper. An MATV can survive an IED because the whole damn thing is designed to survive a blast from below. Plus, those IEDs were stationary. It's a mine - you have to be the one to get close to it, not the other way around.
Meanwhile you can see the fate of the MRAPs that went to Ukraine. Some nigger rigged drone with a duct taped RPG warhead crashes into the windshield. gg no re.
>But muh vehicle mounted jammers on my MATV!
That assumes they're only attacking the MATV and not the foot patrol. Maybe they fly their hobby drone over Kandahar AFB and drop a few mortars on the motor pool, only way more accurately this time.
The "War" on Terror was such baby tier shit it can hardly even be called a war on our end. It was a failed occupation/nation building experiment. It's easy to beat the shit out of the local browns when all they had as a major ally was Iran or Pakistan and black market Khyber Pass reproductions.

You tell me. What did we gain from going into Iraq? We didn't gain shit. Halliburton and KBR and all the other private contractors we paid to supply our bases made a fortune, but the average American shouldered the taxpayer burden of toppling Saddam. And we didn't even win in Afghanistan. I could understand revenge for 9/11, we did do that. We killed one of Mullah Omar's sons in an airstrike and killed a shitton of Taliban. Then we waste 20 years in a middle eastern shithole for no fucking reason and have to beg the same Taliban to not attack us as we leave.

>>64752692
Only works against third worlders/Russians. Everyone else just jams you or is watching you from the skies.

>>64752526
Doesnt matter where they lock him up, Trump showed us the blueprint to bust him out.

Velos k for a 16” spr? If not what?

>>64752526
Who is that faggot?

>>64752566
good luck landing the black hawk in a swap, they got him at alligator alcatraz

>>64752664
Fishy? Great guy. Model citizen. Proud white man.

>>64748081
Realistically speaking so long as you have nuclear weapons or even something more devastating, the eternal argument ends with sword>shield. Consequentially being a fuckoff huge target would simply end poorly for you as missiles, typical artillery, or even nuclear landmines would mean more agile and attritable, not to mention pre-existant forces would remove you from the equation. Unless you address many or all of these factors its not really feasible enough people give the OK to dedicate the necessary engineering expertise to design this and then filter resources away from the front to arm and protect this thing.

I don't understand why Hitler, Dr. Porsche, and others continued to downplay the importance of the ability to recover, repair, and re-equip stranded AFVs. The only trailers I know of in Germany capable of carrying heavy tanks were a few examples used at test sites.

>>64739562
Ah shit one of the seven people who played Haze escaped the museum again

>>64739401
>10 billion nuclear megatank
>cannot cross bridges
I'd buy one.

>deploy tank
>there's basically no where on earth where it won't sink into the ground
>tank sinks into ground and is stuck forever
byeah i'll take ten

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>>64749609
At least you got it from a gun. I got tinnitus from going to a smokey pool hall, catching a mild cold, and getting a middle ear infection.
Sometimes when I get sick with a sinus infection though, the ringing stops and it's the weirdest feeling.

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>>64750128
It could have easily been above 140, and
>yeah noises below 140 dB won't cause pain, but they still can cause hearing damage
yeah 140 isn't some conservative estimate it's an industry cheapskate-as-fuck number of "yeah this is the absolute least number our lawyers can arguably claim on some humans won't cause instantaneous permanent damage and thus we can't get sued for" if you actually give a shit about your ears you should be more conservative then that. NIOSH (who never had any regulatory power unlike OSHA and thus weren't lobbied as hard) image related.

>>64750128
no it fucking isn't, I've looked this up now so I know you're full of shit
detonation is NOT dieseling and there isn't a fireball or immensely loud explosion with dieseling

>>64750128
you are out of your mind if you think a .177 single shot spring airgun is loud enough to cause hearing damage under any normal circumstances
my nerf gun with fly wheels is louder than the damn thing

>>64750142
I got tinnitus from going to anime con raves without earplugs

You retards are so useless, when I asked if I should go to a different recruiter last thread, none of you mentioned that I would have to start the paperwork bullshit (SF86, references, history) over again.
Unfortunately went back to my recruiter who took two and a half months of leave, only to hear from him that he's waiting for the recruiting station commander to come back from leave in two weeks before I can proceed getting my waiver shit sorted.
I feel like a dick trying to cheat on my recruiter now but also fuck me this is taking so god damn long, I haven't even signed a contract yet.

Anons I'm 27 years old, civilian, been working out hard for the past 4,5 years with decent results, not fat, masters degree, fluent in two languages, I love guns, I own a couple and have been shooting them regularly for years. I even worked full time as an instructor at a commercial range, and thats when I realized I want to work with guns for the rest of my life. I have had a couple of corporate desk jobs, but I don't think that's my calling. I have a strong military history in my family, my great grandfathers have fought in literally every theatre of WWII, my house is decorated with their medals. Despite that I have never even considered a military creer. That is untill past year or a year and a half or so as shit around the world continued to escalate, I realized that I eventually will serve anyway, so might as well serve now on my terms. Is going to a military school beforehand a good idea? I also would like to attempt joining special forces instead of regular military, do you think its possible? How out of touch am I?

>>64751787
>career
You should think about enlisting 4 years to see how you like it first.
18X and 11X are good but only if you are in peak physical shape before coming in.
Otherwise if you are dead set on serving, consider Officer roles because you have a masters and that sets you a cut above the other Officer candidates.
Speak with a recruiter, they will most likely try to funnel you through the Officer route though.

>>64751787
You're probably going to be pushed to go down the Officer route due to your academic background. Saying that, your best chances of being "Special Forces" are through the Navy (SEAL/EOD Officer) or whatever bullshit the army can scrounge up

>>64749576
>I wanna push myself to my physical and mental limits
Look up 18X and 11X

>>64743991
Also a good option if you're too poorfag for a five seven. Well done anon.

>>64751990
Okay I know you are bullshitting. 5.7 absolutely does not penetrate better than normal pistol rounds and 5.7 is loud af. 5.7 is a good round, but I sure as hell would never use it as a woods gun unless the biggest thing you may run into is a stray shitbull.

>>64751990
> it's quieter than anything else out there in cf except a 4.6
Doubt. It’s a higher pressure bottleneck round.
>penetrates better than basically all commercial pistol rounds aside from meme shit
Against hard targets like mild steel, aluminum, or kevlar vests. Not against flesh. It’s too light and it’s wounding mechanism is upsetting and tumbling in flesh. That’s not conducive to penetration.

Post your 5.7. I doubt you own one.

>>64747440
This. Cans are not half as useful or cool as people make them out to be.
They don't really add much to shooting after the hype wears off somewhere between a few range trips to a year. Even with subs you're loud enough anyone immediately nearby is going to identify a gunshot, or at least investigate, and any range or facility is still going to require you wear earpro, poa/poi shift on and off, etc.

If your typical range trip is holster work, the can becomes a novelty almost immediately.

>>64752352
in light of this information I say we let another 5 million men named Poopreet Singh into the country

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>>64752677
fucking BURN. Lmao PP wins

>>64752677
Colonization is fine when it's Denmark over Greenland I guess

>>64733518
my 9mm suomi has taken several oob's with no damage to anything, i doubt .45 generates enough pressure to blow out a mag

>>64752516
Suomis have a big heavy bolt and a long recoil spring, still I worry about OOB on a direct blowback a lot less than I do on a locking bolt.

>>64751804
it's good enough, people have reported thousands of rounds on them, obviously harder materials are better

Probably a dumb question,
What's the difference between ARC-fire and Super Safety?

>>64752671
Super safety is a push button cross bolt safety, you push it in to change the positions. The super safety is an open source design made and sold by a lot of people.

ARC is a traditional AR style lever that people are normally are comfortable with. This is made by ASDesigns.

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>>64751549
>and not increasing hit probability more than just issuing an optic. this was all learned during the ACR program,
How long boomers would continue to parrot their fairy tales abou ACR program?
Because ACR trials report was finally declassified and results were absolutely nothing like boomer guns related authors speculated for two decades

>>64750972
What's not to understand?
>is it an interesting, fun platform that performs well and could serve a fULl AutO duty role
Sure
>would it survive duty use?
Not for long around Crayon-eaters. As soon as you mortar it, buttstroke someone, run it over with a vehicle, drop it from a helicopter, etc. the folding stock hinge on the upper will probably break
>would it be my first choice for a serious use situation?
Probably not. Somewhere behind my SS MK18 Mod 0 and Benelli M4 and before a handgun but variety is the spice of life

>>64751708
>You forget we are lowly civilians who can not own grenades. That other anon is right. The niche use case for SMGs is close up, against unarmored targets (sectional energy irrelevant), and where compact size and full auto are desired.
What subset of people can't own grenades and can own a full auto kriss vector?

>>64751461
The same system that allowed the two-round burst to function made the full-auto unreliable. Russian Spetsnaz preferred the AEK, so the AEK's features were made into the A-545/6P67 KORD rifle.

>>64751750
Heavier than all the polymer rifles, it's also more expensive to produce than the G36, so they'd have to charge more per rifle, and governments are cheap.

No.

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>>64752573
Actually, law enforcement was sent after Maduro
Delta was just there to assist in case things got hot

>>64752573
you morons are watching your country turning into a parriah state, while US citizens turn into live targets abroad and all you do is clap
nation of retards, and in the end you will wonder why everyone hates you

>>64752649
Hey man, I didn't vote for that demented pedophile with a cheap spray tan, nor do I support all those fat DUI hire feds harassing American citizens. Don't lump me in with those retards.

>>64752649
>>64752661
>muh global norms
yikes, just get over it already

>>64752269
Nylon is significantly stronger than cotton, more comparable to silk. Are you saying that Cotton armor is in any way comparable to Kevlar?

>>64751642
How could you be so retarded and wrong in such a short post

>>64752473
I am saying nylon armor is possible and obtainable for thirdies to manufacture.

>>64752636
But Cotton is cheaper and we've seen quality products being swapped out by dogshit look-alikes before. Specifically by Russia.

>>64752445
Nah, the issue is performance with no illum. I got a digital NV goggle like 4 years back and the thing is definitely usable with IR. Not justasgood as analog but fine for ground movement and even shooting. Digital NV has improved by a shit ton in the last few years. Only in the last year though have I seen digital NV coming out with no illum performance that wasn't completely and utterly unusable trash. It's still bad, but it's leaps and bounds better than "useless". The latency issues will be non existent by the time no illum performance is good enough for them to be a reasonable competitor to analog.