The US Navy released new slides about the upcoming Battleship and Frigate
>>64763751>Huntington-Ingalls already had initial designs for a navalized NSC with VLS back in 2012A decade old animation of an NSC with VLS isn't a ship that will be built in 2-3 years.
>>64763334>get the euros to build something trump is using the threaten european sovereignty
>>64763615hell just do more insane shit before he gets the bucket
>>64766365>Just skates over the fact that the US is scrapping more tonnage each year than it's buildingNB4 Muh Mothballed Fleet is good boy!
>>64766404Building the boats would take more than 3 years and he'll be out long before that
>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.
>>64746808That's not very practical
>>64758923I'm surprised there aren't any out there but he does seem like a relatively private guy desu
>>64751260>no news in 30 yearsIt's fucking dead, Jim. Yeah it's cool to imagine there's plasma cannons stashed away somewhere but nothing about it was so paradigm-shifting as to warrant turning it into a real black project (which might explain the radio silence) and capacitor and battery technology hasn't advanced far enough to make the thing feasible for anything other than a giant fixed installation (which would be totally pointless).
I would like to know why this guy's name keeps popping up in glownigger speculative capabilities threads. He appeared in the sub-diffraction limit ISR thread a few days ago. What does this nigger REALLY do for Raytheon, besides Vice President-ing? It's not a coincidence that everytime some speculative black project is mentioned, this dude's name pops up somewhere in a related research paper.
A lot of "sci fi weapons" are in use and have been in use for a while, they're just in forms that people don't recognize as "a sci fi weapon" because they're normalized.Like heat rays. We have heat rays. They're called "flamethrowers".>um but that's not a laser or a beam of light orExactly my point. The whole purpose of a heat ray is "it sets things on fire at a distance", and if you try to use light by itself then you're just wasting energy because light ironically isn't a good transporter of heat unless it is at scale. But do you know what is a good transporter of heat at small scales? A stream of burning chemicals that have been partially vaporized. There's your heat ray, you're welcome.
Post your most interesting, cool or weird uniforms and kits. Pic related isBengal troops uniforms during colonial period.
>>64740927Seems restrictive
>>64760517That's Queen Tay-Tay you son of a bitch.
>>64748800People forget Bolshevik>soviet>socialist>communist was the plan.
>>64760673Random regiments changing their uniform to look more hussar-like and stylish has a long precedent, everyone knows hussars get bitches, and that became self-reinforcing in the 18th and 19th centuries
>>64765265The Hungarians wore really tight pants for some reason
Back in june italy was pondering about the possibility of developing a nuclear carrier. Back then it was still considered too ambitious of a an endeavour and quite hefty on the navy budget, but with the current increase in tensions between europe and the usa i believe it will be accomplished. Now, what i wonder is: will the nuclear rearmament of italy influence other nations as well?https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/italy-evaluates-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier-under-long-term-naval-modernization-strategy
>>64760219so far italy has like, 8 subs? an incredibly anemic number compared to america or even its european neighbours
>>64765081>an incredibly anemic number compared to americano shit>or even its european neighboursNo. only the UK and France have more, with 10 and 9 respectively. Greece also has 8, Germany has 6, Scandinavia as a whole has 10, Spain only 2
>>64763420That would only be a problem if Fincantieri was bad at their job, which they aren't
This type of self starting was all the US wanted to see this whole time. You'll only raise your defense spending in a gay fantasy war against the US, meanwhile you have a monkey in your backyard you seem to have lost ALL concern over.
>>64766520You're trying too hard
There's no real need to rehash why mechs don't work but what is the ideal jungle support vehicle then?
>>64766351By cutting the jungle down first.
>>64766329>keep in mind there's several moments in both videos where it's guided through very tight spacesI can see that>Even with my X2 on reduced terrain avoidance I can literally just hold forward on the controller until it gets near thick groups of trees and it will slowly work its way through all the different branches, only really having issues if the branches are moving substantially from windthe issue I have is that your understanding of "thick" might not match with my idea of "thick"how far do you think a drone can force its way through this, before eventually snagging?consider both if the drone stays on-trail, flying down this cleared path; and if the drone ventures off-trail into the thick undergrowth you can see on either sidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDSpvIOpiHsI'll tell you that 1 reason why even armoured vehicles in jungles don't usually use slat armour is because the undergrowth rips them offI don't have a drone so I don't know how resistant drone rotors are to that sort of thingand, going back to the original post? a drone is not going to be flying through this at 100 knots
>>64766376>how far do you think a drone can force its way through this, before eventually snagging?People are walking through it fine without being snagged so, effortlessly? People are bigger than SUAS quadcopters. Again, if people went off the trail they're be extremely slow due to rapid density buildup of the vegetation, even a "mule" mech wouldn't be able to trample through it effortlessly, it would make a fuckton of noise, and they're literally be destroying the only thing that could potentially interrupt the rotors. Again, drone food.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz2in2eFATE>a drone is not going to be flying through this at 100 knotsWhy not? AI controlled drones do stupid shit when properly trained, and the training is only going to get more effective with time.
>>64766308Yeah, I knew they were primarily used in the open areas of Vietnam and on the roads, but I had some vague recollection of them being useful for jungle busting. I must have made that up.
>>64766217Look man, if you never gone dirt-biking just say so. Hell, this doesn't even look like something a unfit human couldn't handle. And there's all sorts of ways to modify a vehicle to go up sloped and unstable terrain better, they just haven't been done because there's no need to do so.>He thinks his mech is going to be fastlmao
6,500,000,000€largest sale in israel's history
>>64762417Australia also has tons of Uranium and it's pretty easy to store decades worth of the stuff. It doesn't take a lot of space.
all the russian ICBM launches in ukraine are the best ad israel could ask for
>>64761267I serously doubt israel gave drone kill codes, maybe russians from 2008 were more competent, did not some indian israeli drones were captured by china?Maybe you need a competent armed forces to avoid such scenarios and you are giving too much credit to israeli vatnik alliance yes they do back door deals but i think destroying it's arms industry reputation is a no deal for israel in any scenario, they really do not have economies of scale to keep military autarky going on without exports hence why they export to anyone.>>64746852btw i just noticed from the photo that the german arrow battery has 4 missiles while the israeli version has 6.Why do i get the feeling this was some german autism thing about regulations of truck sizes and weight
>>64764672>some german autism thing about regulations of truck sizes and weightProbably a change added to make it easier for it to drive on more roads in Germany.
>>64748588thanks for the summary, rabbi
>nearly 80 years>barely any changesHow did they get it so right?
>>64766303>62mm>AK103 was "5.45x39mm"Whoever typed up the text is too niggery.https://en.kalashnikovgroup.ru/catalog/boevoe-strelkovoe-oruzhie/avtomaty/avtomat-kalashnikova-ak103
>>64766303It is really still cheaper to do sheet metal over cast in this day and age? They should be on par given the prices right?
>>64766303As my 8th grade science teacher put it, evolution is very lazy, it will never craft the perfect animal but just something that will survive in the current environment
>>64766303The AK74 was a giant fuck up. By the 70s it was pretty clear that firearms design needs were changing and things like having a loose top cover would be prohibitive to future proofing your firearms for optics and the like. The side rail was a fine cope in the 50s and 60s, but by the 70s everyone knew the writing was on the wall. After that it was just muddling along. Kalashnikov was a mechanical genius, undoubtedly, but his AK74 was unambitious and the USSR decided to save a dime today when it would cost themselves a dollar in the future and fucked themselves for 50 years on a gun that couldn't be modernized properly.
>>64766347It is cheaper when you have a factory the size of a city to make the guns. It took the Soviets over a decade to get it right, and once they did, they kept the system going forever.
Wish people talked about late-war allied ''wunderwaffe" more often, and not only about muh ''gaymun weapons''.>ASM-N-2 Bat>VT fuze>M3 Carbine>Sikorsky R-4>T26E4>Ryan FR Fireball>Centurion I>Comet I (A34)>F8F Bearcat>P80 Shooting star>Gloster meteorGet it through your fucking head Weheraboo niggers. Germans never stood a fucking chance.
>>64766248>(I ignored your theramin comment, it's not how the VT worked)Lmao even. The only detail is how you change f, the rest is identical, even the frequency range of the output.
>>64766266I wouldn't say the VT fuze was "irrelevant", but >>64763430 has a point: if the Germans had no counter at all to night-time strategic bombing, as was the case when the bongs invented thousand-bomber streams and chaff, the war ends in 12 months from obliterated factories, D-day or no D-daythat said,>>64766280>Even in if you include the Pacificthe Japs were too spread out and amphib invasions were necessary to roll up their Empire; without VT fuzes Allied carriers would have been too vulnerable to mass kamikaze attacks on every invasion operation
>>64763669jejbtfo that other dude
>>64766248>It then went on to fucking annhialate entire German battalions>>64765633
>>64763532Go back to pol.
How hard would it be for a handgonner to hit a man sized target at 60m?
>>64746410>I gifted my entire share>I continued to collaboratewhat a cuck
>>64760985I'm not impressed by alcoholics with shotguns that have a non original butt pad
>>64763841Dont forget that my secondhand smoke is gonna come through your interbuttz and kill your mother in her sleep!
>>64751453>THIS is why you don't let people enjoy things.Have you considered that that is the point?>weirdos with no self control, self respect or self awareness naturally self destruct>everybody else just continues on like normal
>>64764272I smoke as well. The booze and guns combo is reprehensible, enjoy the future hole in your ceiling
Writefag here, I’m looking for real “out there” firearms that are advanced looking but not too impractical for my sci-fi setting.
>>64754501G11 but smells like waffles
>>64761839>There’s no reason the action/upper receiver has to be any longer than that.The bolt needs room to move you retard.
>>64764725Open your fucking eyes and look at the picture the other guy posted. Consider where the rim of the chambered cartridge is. There is ample room behind that for a 5.7 action to cycle.
>>64754501Which nations colonized outer space? Look into some of the old Soviet bullpups, or some Chinese designs if they have a presence in space, Mongolian space cowboys would be kind of neat. If the US or Western Europe does, there are a lot of options. Boberg/Bond arms bullpup semi auto pistols. Also maybe implement revolvers because they do not eject casings unless manually made to do so for low gravity environments, because shell casings getting lodged inside of components on vessels. That actually makes caseless stuff like the G11 make sense, could look into Metalstorm.
>>64765102from earlier itt sounds like some gay future option instead of "cold war became awesome" unfortunately.
Which btw is there to try to block the American one
>>64766386>Aircraft carrier>To attack insurgents on your own contiguous territory
>>64766372Literally nothing but an attempt to flex>Big boy countries have aircraft carriers>We are also a big boy country and need an aircraft carrier>It costs HOW MUCH??>uhhhhh what about this? It's basically the same thing
>>64766323"Aircraft Carrier"
>>64766477It DOES carry "aircraft" doesn't it
>>64766536Even the text in the screenshot calls it a Drone Carrier instead
Will we ever see a point defense system using a m2 maybe with slightly better cartdriges using doppler radars, thermal to find snd track incoming ordnance?
Yes but it will take awhile, the M2 will still be in service in another 50 years when cheap airburst fuses can fit in a 50bmg bullet.
>>64765180No. M240s and 30x113mm are the unofficial CUAS guns.
>>64765182Anon the M3
>>64765180Honestly I'm surprised like this hasn't been tested and publicized years ago, just as a cheap and ubiquitous counter for cheap drones.
>>64766486I can talk to you as to why in detail, but the tldr is that we don't have the Machine Vision AI tech to make it happen and the computer for it is fairly intense.I am sure someone has it behind the scenes, but there is no public dataset of drones OR people in camouflage to train models on for cheap.
>>64762688desert tech rifles are made out of pot metal and happy meal toys.1 degree removed from keltec. only buy from the GOOD military contractors.
>>64763878Fucking based. I think we'll probably see a .277 Fury WLVRN at some point seeing as they're producing that caliber.
>>64762688The buffer tube is where the recoil spring and the buffer tube go. Just remember that trying to go 14.5 P&W will result in an SBR overall length if you don't extend the length of pull somewhat, and you're never, ever, going to be able to fire that thing from your left shoulder. What you really get in exchange for that is the ability to use an 80% lower. >>64764514It'd like to see that, if only to see if someone can or can't prove the M7 was the wrong approach for achieving NGSW goals.
>>64764514I’ve asked a couple times in person deserttech reps and they’ve said universally there’s too much bolt thrust, but they’ve considered it for their bolt guns I think this reflects their public presentations as well, for instance they just had a video reflecting that 6.5CM out of a 20” barrel gives you extremely similar ballistics to the m7
>>64763878>There’s a guy that’s been posting for AGES that the mdr then mdrx then wlvrn NEEEEEEDS to come in 11.5 inch in 300 blackoutlol that's me>well they just announced that todayFUCK YEAH. It's been hinted at for awhile but gratifying to see it happen at last. That it won't cost an extra $200 anymore is nice too and also eliminates any reason to think about one of those extender shroud things or an integral barrel.Might give it a little time to see if they add any colors other than black (green would be nice) but can always not be lazy and paint it myself I guess. Thanks for the news though anon.
>this is all that remains of the cubans that tried to defend madurodamn, what kind of weapon could cause so much damage?
The Venezuelan forces are ten times the men the am*rican terrorists are. No ass, no air, no sigint, fighting the world's largest power. Honour, that's why they did it. For honour and for Venezuela.
>>64759627Island dwarfism. Those are full size cas kets.
>>64760336>did I say she was 23yo?>twice?
>>64760408>too much like ammo cansBingo here.
>>64759688Maybe their Russian friends taught them the secrets of human cubification.
When trying to destroy a stationary enemy surface drome, is level bombing like its 1943 really the most effective way to engage them, or is Russia utilizing suboptimal methods here?
>>64762780I mean it's not like they'll ever get another opportunity to use this shit. It's like if you have a stockpile of old socks you're never going to wear again and tear them up to make cleaning rags every once in a while. They used to keep your feet from getting blisters but now they have holes in them and you have no other use for them.
>>64762780Welcome back commander!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DodSvKVDzmg&t=2247s
>>64766236forgot my ass-backwards webm. Note how it is "ass-backwards" because this may be ~70 year old tech and unguided rocket spam is terribly inefficient it was still created to do exactly this. Also it is just fun to yeeet rockets away from no matter how basic your rocket is.but Depth Charges for drones is a Through-the-Ass approach because it is goes against nature of the bomb. Just like homosex is against nature of man. Hence, inflicted through his ass. Not even saying "no homo" is enough here.
>>64763921when the fucking imaginary MIG-29 in DCS is more accurate bombing than the puccian bilitary
>>64763884>diminishing bomb stockstwo more weeks
