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.
>>64751283Tonight they dropped 20 ballistic missiles, with almost no drones.Only Patriot missiles can shoot down ballistic missiles. But most likely we no longer have any Patriot missiles left.
Most drones are intercepted by simpler systems.
>>64749631>Doesn't work.Only if your aim is to go for strategic indiscriminate bombing.But if the enemy does in fact concentrate all its AA in a single small area, it is giving you a target-rich environment for SEAD.Not as ideal as spreading them when you have such a lopsided advantage in air power that you can afford to take them one by one without them supporting each other.But since Russia doesn't have many capable strike aircrafts and AWACS to track AA in real time, better have the enemy concentrate their AA, fly your aircrafts near that area, target whichever AA fire at your drones then go back to Russia.Here, what they do is really slow to bear fruits because, as the amount of interceptors isn't going down, the rate of interceptions stays the same.Hence wasting hundreds of drones as decoy/bait just do a few dozens can hit something that might not even be among the main targets.
>>64749866They did try SEAD.But then something led to :>the lack of AWACSAnd it was glorious.
>>64749579> not achieving anythingThey're affecting energy infrastructure and causing evacuations. -15°C without power or heating is no joke. I assume it's supposed to affect the economy and make the population war-weary, whether that'll actually win them anything remains to be seen.I hope ukraine will return the favor when moskow is covered by some -30° weather.
The ATF fears creativity.
>>64747940All of the $100 PPS 43 Parts Kits on Apex were bought up.Suddenly there are $500 PPS parts kits on gunbroker.
>An 80-year-old engineer from Hämeenlinna turned a hand drill into an automatic weapon capable of firing 420 rounds per minute. The gun uses 22 caliber bullets.
>>64747938>the floor decoration>the picture on the top leftmore cursed than the guns
>>64749768>leftI mean right
Listen Here You Little Shit EditionPost wood (furniture)Big RiflesBig BulletsFroppy Frens InsideThread theme ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HUtwku8R9Q&list=RD1HUtwku8R9Q&start_radio=1As always; No Jannies, No TranniesPreviously, on X-men: >>64608347
>>64749287SOLD! @ $15k. So much more Val and Earl, than Burt.
>>64749127Stoner's DI is a failed system that somehow saw wide adoption and ruined multiple generations of guns. The M110 is no different.
>>64750319>Stoner's DI is a failed systemThe third leg of the free world? I never heard that called a failed system. But I never heard it called that before, I just made it up. It starts to make sense to call the M16 the Third Leg of the Free World now that you think about it, doesn't it? Did you think about it? Of course you did. Also, Donna Summer was a very good singer, but disco still sucks. Am I right?
What do you guys think about the POF Rogue? Smallish frame like the SFAR
>>64750319>seething foreigner who couldn't into making a thin gauge tube ree-ing at needing to use a piston
Are the marines losing their magic? Seems less and less appealing to join the marines compared to every other branch nowadays. Was it ever good?
>>64749867The MEU is dope AF. As a peaf is them with both envy and frustration because its a construct Canada *should* be capable of fielding. Won't happen though, and I'm way too old for a border run..
>>64749867And it's completely useless for anything other than securing an embassy in country that's just collapsed.
* as a leaf I see themJesus forgive me for being an abhorrent phone poster
>>64749251Funny thing to say when our last operation and the one looking after are littoral.
>>64749562Didn't it have less to do with the amount of rounds, and the fact that they were shooting Charge 5?
I am about to import 80,500 of these indian hesbee 22 short single shot handguns. They are currently in transit being shipped from India.They have sat in storage as they were built in 1959 as gunlaws became more restricted in India. If you were in my shoes, how do I make this business venture successful. I purchased each pistol at 2160 rupees (around 24$) and they cost me ($1500 for import and $5000 in shipping) so i am in for abit under $2mil. Do you think people will actually buy these or should I put my house for sale ASAP?
The fuck is that shit lmao, my fingers wouldnt fit in it
>>64742593market them as weaponized paper weight
posting in epic thread
So now what
I wish you had imported those Indian police Webleyshttps://youtube.com/shorts/7ZWr2jmfTxY?si=fGrT5quex9ntrVkk
why havent we seen jet troopers yet?
>>64751181Malnurished brown with the brain of a 12 year old, or actually twelve?
>>64751181>Not how an ambush works.Let's think through this scenario together anon, shall we?>helo flies to ship/platform/etc.>enemy opens fire with small arms in an ambush>helo fucks off quickly while firing to suppress the enemy>couple of casualties but mitigated by fuselage paneling and armorvs.>jet-tards fly towards ship/platform/etc.>enemy opens fire with small arms in an ambush>jet-tards cannot return fire, flies away much slower than a heli could>everyone is completely exposed, with only body armor to protect them, tons of casualties, anybody wounded probably can't even fly themselves backwhich do you think is the better scenario>muh surprise RPG / MANPADSyeah they'd have to have one to begin with, IRCM are a thing for the latter, and jet-tards are vulnerable to jamal, muhammad, and the rest of the gang with a rusty AKs, RPGs not requiredComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64751185You need to be 18 or older to post here, Anon, and preferably not brown.>>64751204>helo fucks off quickly while firing to suppress the enemyDo you think the guys that got shot down by RPGs in Vietnam thought about doing that? Or the guys in Somalia? What about Iraq? Afghanistan in 2003? What about the shoot down in Afghanistan in 2005? Afghanistan one more time in 20011, you think they thought about doing that before being shot down?It's almost as if an ambush is purposely planned to prevent people from "fucking off quickly" or reacting effectively. >which do you think is the better scenarioJet troopers supported by traditional rotary craft lingering and providing aerial support during/after seizure (fire support, casevac, crew/hostage extraction, etc.).
>>64749608>>64749622>We determined your various leg cancers are not service related
>>64751284>You need to be 18 or older to post here, Anon, and preferably not brown.And yet, you're still here trying to argue for usecases that don't exist because you think jet troopers are radical. I suppose being functionally retarded and functionally illiterate could also explain why you've yet to come with a time where someone would be conducting a boarding operation against a hostile vessel yet somehow able to safely get a RHIB/chopper to it safely but going up/down the rope is a major sticking point.
How would you defeat this?
>>64751003>*crunches numbers*You know what, I take that back. The Everest is putting out about 10 times the muzzle velocity, but the MAC is doing three extra digits worth of muzzle energy. Is that a super MAC or are we talking Pillar of Autumn? What's the sustained rate of fire? Limited muzzle velocity is going to restrict effective range quite a bit, and UNSC ships aren't shielded, but you might be onto something.Missiles are still pussy shit, tho.
>>64750992>>64751052And those eventually get replaced with these monsters.https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Thanix
>>64750992>There are like 50 dreadnoughts in all of Mass Effect>Each one weaker than a UNSC Frigate, of which there are many thousands>Dreadnoughts are noted as being exponentially more powerful than the sub-dreadnought classes, being worth more than their weight in cruisers>Anon thinks one nuke is better than 200 nukes
With my peanus weenus of course.
>>64751265>There are like 50 dreadnoughts in all of Mass EffectIn council space. The Reapers make a minimum of one new one every 50,000 years, and have been doing this for at least 37 million years.
I was reading about this guy and he had over 350+ kills. Why does this make me jealous?
The short version is that compared to other national super-aces Hartmann didnt rack up kills very fast at all, he just flew very consistently. He spent the entire war on the Eastern Front, and not only did that mean that he was fighting pilots with considerably less training that British or American aviators, he was also flying much shorter missions much closer to the action. A Luftwaffe fighter airbase may be only a handful of kilometers behind the front and anticipated to conduct combat operations every single day, whereas a P-47 or P-38 jockey might only have the opportunity to see a German once every few days, during a lengthy bomber escort. Its even worse for the Navy, where a Wild/Hellcat pilot might only see Jap aircraft a couple times during his entire deployment. >>64751123>americans pulled aces off the front to go teach new guys, the germans just kept them flying till they diedGermany and Japan get a lot of flak for this, but the reality was that the Americans were spoiled in comparison with a much more robust training pipeline that allowed them to rotate pilots. Keeping your aces in combat wasnt so much a deliberate choice as it was a necessity to keep the rapidly thinning number of expericenced frontline pilots from utterly collapsing.
>>64751027how many are those are 100 kill aces nightfighter aces or like hartmann attacking IL2s? shooting down soviet pilots with 20 flying hours or heavy bombers who can't even see you is not great feat. German nightfighter aces would dip out if a bomber even fired its guns and certainly didn't tangle with P38s or mosquitosI think a good example that sums up the situation is that John Braham was a British nightfighter ace with only 19 kills as a nightfigter.12 of those night kills were maneuverable fast bombers and recon aircraft. 7 were enemy nightfighters on night intruder sorties over enemy territory including smoking 3 enemy aces (one with 15 victories 2 others with over 50)
>>64751009It's Soviets were extraordinary bad.Hartman was down in his second fight against Mustang lighters escorts, and after pulled out back to clubbing Russians.
>>64751009Sortie rate. They really don't have a kills-per-sortie number that much higher than western aces, but their airfields were close to the combat area and they could fly multiple sorties a day. Western pilots had to fly a long way and would only be able to fly once a day at most. Flying over friendly territory also meant they would be able to go back into the fight if they were shot down. Many of these Eastern Front super aces would end up performing much, much worse the minute they moved to an area where they faced western allied air forces. Hartmann, in your picture, actually flew against Americans a couple of times over Romania and that ended with him getting shot down.Other people have also mentioned the kill feeding where these propaganda aces would have entire squadrons ordered to do whatever possible to protect them and feed them kills.
>>64751196>>64751160>that the Americans were spoiled in comparison with 20 times more oil production Fixed for ya.>let's enlist 100000 pilots and give them 250 hours of training before sending them into combat >Great plan! Where do we get so much avgas for training?>*crickets*Allies could afford throw numbers at Germany.
What happens if you shoot at ICE with a Mondragon Rifle.
>>64750994>ynbawThank god!I’m a twink that likes being a twink and don’t do troonoid things.
Bags of milky salt
>>64750857You miss and become a neo rage comic MS paint edit on /r/pol
>>64750857They deport your ass to hell.
Think we'll ever get full body armor?
>>64718719Looks like an Ali Express airsoft helmet
>>64717812>will the state ever value pleb life that highlyNo.
>>64748881They would if the armor can be made cheaply. Gambesons weren't the best protection but they covered most of the body. A padded coif and simple skull cap would protect the head and tough boots would protect the lower legs. Even the lowest footman was given this much simply because it was cheaper to armor him than replace him.
>>64746676yeah that's what I'm saying. The japs didn't adapt check-aimed firearms because it was good or conducive to their tactics, they just didn't develop at all for almost 200 years from when they were first introduced by westerners.
>>64726110>Still falling for the 'Syria used chemical weapons' meme in the big 2026The US claimed to bomb ISIS in the region and yet they only got more and more powerful, getting equipment out of their ass seemingly, in reality getting airdropped weapons and equipment by the CIA. Then when Russia started bombing ISIS the news threw a shitfit for weeks, and only then did ISIS holdings in Syria start reducing in territory. The CIA continued arming "moderate rebels" in an effort to displace Assad because Assad didn't have a high opinion of Israel, despite not really taking many actions against them. A modernized country on Israel's border, or so close to them, was a threat, and so they were taken out. Not because of 'muh chemical weapons'. If you're winning a civil war, and you have the backing of Russia's airforce, and you have your own air force, why the fuck would you start putting nerve gas or improvised explosives into barrels and dropping them out of airplanes like donkey kong. It's logistically, tactically, strategically, politically, retarded. The White Helmet organization has been caught several times staging fake attacks and filming 'aid operations' in response to them, which is what the media used when showing clips of supposed chemical weapons use, and this was before deepfake even existed, a good 3-5 years before.tl;dr dont be a fag
Did the army corps really help straighten out your life?
Idk I just bullshitted with a recruiter for 15 min to get a free pen
not really
>>64751020The Corps has a lot of bumbling retards that really drank the Kool Aid, many of them in leadership positions. I don't have any student loans, but I've got several bulging discs now.
>*shits up gun culture forever*
>>64745202>EfT playersNever shitters when I've met them. Tacticool slavshitters are fine. CODkiddies/Battlefags too. Vidya has been a boon for gun rights. If you want to REALLY see who's ruining the "culture", try:>Boomer scummaxxing permacollectors>Punisher skull Grunt Style bro-vet dickheads>InRangeTV watching leftytroons>terminally online stat sheet readersWanna know the common denominator between these? THEY DON'T SHOOT. Want a better "culture"? GO SHOOT. THEN you can make proper, informed media about it. THEN you can complain. Till then, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SHOOT FAG.
>>64745202Every one of my friends who plays this game won't stop screeching about their grips like a possessed demon.
>>64745350cute fantasy
>>64745231>orange dotskek
>>64750609NV and Clint Eastwood made me buy a revolver if that counts.
Post gear. Discuss gear. Chico's got an M1 Garand in the Streetz Edition. Level IV required.Old: >>64713312
>>64751048>Vietnam>Talibanjust wait 20 years bro
Mark my words. When the bangers get some of these >>64744486 shit's gonna be nasty. Stendo mags like a yardstick standard issue no cap
jpc 2 status in 2017+9?
>>64751211People like it, you could probably find one used too. Other options exist that are newer like lv120 or arc 3, if you want something really light similar to jpc you could check out esstac daedon. I ended up choosing defense mechanisms mepc, I have to wait another month before they finish it but they have a huge choice of camo and cummerbund, structured, laminate, elastic, hybrid, Velcro tubes roc etc. I chose the most expensive cummerbund tubes hybrid structural 5" plan to run side plates. It was $370 using a coupon code after adding plate bags so I'd recommend it on price, features, camo, quality etc. Most these brands want you to pay premium and nickel and dime you on everything, I also don't need a zip on back panel that I can't get into. Decide what you want and see who makes the closest to that without paying for shit you don't that you have to pay more to get what you actually wanted
Protech 2230s came in. Was going to use them to replace the ones in my PC, but decided to consoooom and buy another one since I got a good deal on it.
>7.62x54r, 7.62x39, 7.62x25>6.5 creedmoor, 6.5 grendel, 6.5 cbjExplain why we dont standardize diameters across the board to appease my personal autism
it's because you're a gay nigger, OPhope this helps
>>64751200There are simply too many cartridges that would end up with similar names if we did that.
>>64751200Fuck yamudda
>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?
>>64748142I'd say the general population would not associate these bags with guns or you being armed desu. Unless it is too "tactical" looking.Those of us who carry or spend time around guns and know these purses - we know there is probably 50/50 chance there is either a gun or drugs... Or both.IMO just get a small bag like that but ideally less tactical looking if you dont want to stand out too much. As I said, the general population does not seem to care or know based on my experience.
>>64748142I keep a knife, two pens, notepad, and flashlight in my kuromi water bottle edc bag.
>>64750036>Is it too obvious ?If you dress like a tourist or only see very few men wearing those purses, then first guess is either gun or meds.
>>64749464
>>64748142I'm more of a fanny pack carry kinda guyPic rel, my pack of choice.
