Today the Somaliland coast guard showed off its entire coast guard to celebrate Israeli Recognition I'm sharing every boat showed off. Seems to be 1 warship, a few patrol boats and 2 other boats
>>64688630P-6s did serve in the somali navy but this is likely a copy
>>64688653If it is fiberglass or metal it is a copy or later model, the original was wood. They are so basic and easy to build that there are around a dozen nations that made them, Somaliland could easily copy one or acquire it. It might also just be a random boat that looks like a P-6.
>>64688768Problem is theres no heavy documentation about the somaliland coast guardIts effective against pirates but thats all we know
>>64688778What do the people in Somaliland think about what the recognition would do, if anything at all?
>>64688799It paves the way for the rest of Israel's vassals (the entire west) to recognize them in turn. It's a good move in geopolitical terms regardless to establish another western foothold in the gulf when China and Iran are trying to take control of it.
Ruger has a shotgun now.
>>64685366yeah
>>64685366>>only 20gagood for small birds>$1k turkish gunit's made in America instead of the third world country of yurop
>>64680941If by target demographic you mean whether the person is an idiot, then I guess I'm not.
>>64686660>no someone's an idiot if they buy an American made gun over yuropean scrap metal
>>64685366>20ga onlyHigh end sporting guns are often offered in 16ga, 20ga, or even 28ga.The super-rich fucks who guy these things rarely care about factors like ammo cost and availability of ammo.All they care about is if the guns are potent enough to take down game birds, and if they're svelte, light, and handy to point around.As far as they care, small bore guns are good enough for shooting pheasants, pigeons, and quails, and they're much lighter and handier to carry around than some 10GA agricultural tool chambered for shoulder destroying 4½" Über-Magnum shell with 3oz of shot in them.
38 spl is the best example. It can be shortened to the length of 380 acp but it's not. And after all the changes in service rifle cartridges, I refuse to believe 9 mm is still the best pistol round. Nobody is interested in inmaxed calibers like 5.7 or 30 super carry because they cost more money because nobody is interested in them because they cost more. Like a perpetual motion machine.
>>64685460Feel like the north sky marshal should get a mention. No I don’t own one. Wouldn’t turn one down if I came across it and had the cash though..
>>64686366I would assume so. there shouldn't be any more difference between 9mm and .380 on moonclips in a 9mm cylinder than you'd run into with .38s in a .357 cylinder, which is none at all.
>>64685299>I hate how handgun calibers are low effort 100 years old status quo Technologies hit plateaus sometimes.>38 spl is the best example. It can be shortened to the length of 380 acp but it's not.To what end? .38 Special is practically a legacy cartridge, yeah, it's longer than it needs to be, but that's because it's a cartridge from 1898 and was first loaded with blackpowder, where it needed that extra volume. This later allowed for the .357 Magnum cartridge's development.You're looking at a whole bunch of economic and cultural inertia, there's no good reason to make a shorter .38 Special because all of the guns and tooling already exist, and nobody is going to spend more money on getting in on a hypothetically slightly better variant when it's cheaper and more practical to either stick with the older type guns and ammo, or go for something more modern than a revolver anyway.>Nobody is interested in inmaxed calibers like 5.7 or 30 super carry Probably because 5.7mm is dubious as a pistol cartridge, and even less viable from shorter barrels, meaning you can't do subcompacts akin to a 9mm Glock 26 or M&P Shield..30SC is too much of a sidegrade from 9mm Luger to most people to be worth bothering with, particularly when 9mm Luger is going to perform better and be less loud.>>64685339>.38 SuperComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64688033>I see no reason(as discussed a thosand times on prior threads, and already noted in post (You) relied to) 10 mm is for game hunters and long range target shooters who custom load. A 5-inch or longer barrel is requured for 10 mm, otherwise the gases and pressure/energy are wasted flamewise out the muzzle. It is a blaster round
>>64685299>Let's just throw out a good track record because it's long.
imagine a zombie apocalypse scenario and you have to clear out this structure
>>64687475Hot sauce.
>>64687520>And hiding from a billion ratsJust breed a billion snakes to eat the rats.
>>64686811Why?
>>64687571Anon this escalates...
>>64687475they worked there and one got infected, turned while down there and infected the rest of them
Hard mode: No derailing the trainLegendary mode: No killing anyone
>>64680354fentanyl in the air vents
>>64686730>Spicy coalWelsh coal?
>>64686769Black explosive chunk for sabotage
>>64686779Ah, the old coal torpedo, how could I forget about that.
>>64680354Why would I rob a bunch of kids?
>Belligerents: Spanish Empire | Wokou pirates (Japanese)>Commanders and leaders: Juan Pablo de Carrión | Tay Fusa>Strength: ~40–60 soldiers (including arquebusiers) 1 galley + several smaller vessels (~6–7 boats total) | ~600 to 1000 warriors in the main land assault 18 sampans + 1 junk + makeshift fort>Casualties and losses: 3 killed | Heavy hundreds killed; many routed or drowned fleeing
>Just a few years later after the Spanish fought actual formally trained Japanese forces and not some Tsushima pirates completely independent from the mainland.
>>64688390Fuck, pic rel
>>64682739Spanish Conquistador sources are often bullshit. Remember Jared Diamond fabricated a battle to help his thesis.
>nip seethed so hard he forgot his cope picI'd just delete desu
>be you >Arima clan >Try to take black ship and it's cargo, what a gaijin gonna do I have 3000 men to their 40 lol >Block harbor >Try to board ship several times over the course of a week >Lose 1000 men >Don't even take the ship, they detonate the powder main because fuck you after losing their rigging to fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nossa_Senhora_da_Gra%C3%A7a_incident
Black Nitride edition Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikPrevious: >>64674842
Experiences with the Taurus G3, especially the TORO model?
>>64688734Which ones? There's more than 3 good guns in 380, but whichever they are, get to be what they are specifically because of how pathetically weak 380 is. For instance, it's not a trivial task to make PPK shoot 9mm.
Went from a VZ61 to a more carry-able cz75.If possible, would like to stick to a Czech holster.Dasta any good?
>>64688385>>64687892name
>>64688829Beretta PX4 Compact in "Inox" (stainless steel) with LTT optic cut, gray guns flat trigger, and custom bubba stippleNighthawk Custom Predator with Double Stack upgrade, IOS cut, in Black Nitride
Why were the huge Qing Dynasty armies so ineffective in the Opium Wars? They have to be the most one-sided wars in history.
>>64688583hey, see it on the positive side, we can now use it as a poetry thread!
>>64666991They invented gunpowder but could not make it into serviceable weapons until the Europeans showed them how
The Qing had a clusterfuck military system that was ill prepared for fighting internal unrest by the 19th century let alone a professional foreign military.prior to the mid 19th century the Qing military could be divided into two parts. The firist part which was supposed to be the "real" professional standing army were the Banners. They functioned similar to the samurai as a hereditary warrior class that was supposed to be dominated by ethnic Manchus (even if in practice ethnic Han and other ethnicities seeped in) and ironically enough had similar issues that the samurai faced in Japan. hereditary titles and stagnant wages meant that you had a leadership filled with incompetent brats who only got the job through their bloodline while the masses of regular warriors were either poor or forced to take up civilian occupations part time to make ends meet. corruption was fairly endemic and training middling at best. It's a system that given it's major issues wouldn't have survived if not for the ethnic question, the banners were supposed to be the Manchu dominated warrior shock troops who in the worst case scenario could protect the Manchu elite.The Green standard army is a weird quasi armed force that originally came about as a secondary army to employ defecting han chinese soldiers from the Ming dynasty. they were used as a police force but the incompetence the banners showed even quite early on in the Qing's history in suppressing rebellions meant they also took on rebellion suppression as a job. So they functioned as a sort of police/interior security hybrid force. in addition to quite explicitly evolving into a force who weren't really designed to fight except in the face of rebellions the army struggled from familiar issues of poor pay leading to corruption and a general decline in efficiency.So the dynasty was woefully prepared to handle the million rebellions of the 19th century, let alone a modern army
>>64669415>Proto-commies in Yunnan going: Kill landlords. Behead landlords. Roundhouse kick a landlordsinto the concrete. Slam dunk a landlords' baby into the trashcan. (Yunnan-Miao Rebellion).honestly that doesn't even do the Miao rebellions justiceit was like 20 years of an absolute clusterfuck of multiple revolts devastating both Yunnan and Guizhou, you had muslim hui losing this shit in Yunnan while Guizhou was a shitfest of ethnic rebels, Taiping rebels, and other malcontents. A conservative estimate is 1/3 of Guizhou's population died during the course of it all, up to 2/3 if you take more liberal estimates at face value. and something like a million people in Yunnan
>>64666991They had guns that were hundreds of years out of date and the ones that they did invent were so primitive that arabs and Europeans improved on them the second they got their hands on the technology.
Around elves, relax yourselves.Previous thread: >>64677931>image limit reachedhttps://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>with this handy script installed you'll occasionally hear what sounds like elves singing, but it's actually just Finnish
>>64688305No, and stop being a faggot.
>>64688305Yall clanker niggas gay af fr.
>>64688604>Wears basically a tissue over her chest>expects you not to look at her chestI will never understand this logic
>>64688701Every woman knows exactly what they're doing when they wear things like that.
Are you prepared for Nuclear War? How do you even deal with widespread radiation? Apart from going south to Argentina
>>64683800The radiological fallout is vastly overstated. Cold War total atmospheric detonations did fuck-all to total radiation levels except in the fucking craters they made.The danger is large scale fires, overwhelming emergency services etc. If your city suffers a strike and you are not in acute need of assistance, just stay inside, conserve heat, battery, water etc. Help your neighbours, organize as much as possible.Hiroshima was not flattened by the nuke, the nuke started a large fire which consumed it due to being built out of wood and paper.
>>64683826>out of a desire to LARP as the traffic warden with a FAL from Threads.99% sure you do not live in Sheffield.
>>64686610>get nuked for funArgentina and Austrailia are the greatest threats to mankind, they should be nuked first. I'm gonna live with the polar bears at the south pole.
>>64687303>fucking Fallout reaction imageSo you really DID get your entire understanding of nukes from a videogame.
>>64684970In a scenario where Europe is rendered completely or nearly uninhabitable, like in those declassified wargames from the late 80s, Switzerland is fucked as well. Almost all towns are on the Swiss plateau in frontof the actual alps, not IN the mountains. And all the talk about bunkers for the civilian population is a meme. A higher percentage might survive the initial exchange and might survive for longer after, but they'd be just as fucked as everyone around them. There's also scenarios in which the major Swiss cities get nuked, because they're obviously entangled with western elites financially and possible logistical hubs for finance, communication, evacuation etc.
>WWII American vets>get drafted>go overseas for 3 years straight, no body armor, any shot is basically fatal >fighting conventional warfare against organized armies backed by economies engaged in total war>leave behind a wife and 6 kids, can only communicate via snail mail >experiences almost 20x the average combat action as modern day vets>war ends, immediately return to work with no special passes>work until 75 years old, get $6 a month from VA for minor chronic onset shellshockVs>enter military voluntarily >get to pick your job, and get a big bonus >maybe you might - possibly- get deployed overseas for 9 months>a mortar lands 60km from FOB mall>get back home>ETSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64686629The average WW2 veteran saw 4x less combat than a Vietnam veteran, 6x less combat than a GWOT veteran, and spent less than 5% of the time of a GWOT veteran in range of the enemy.Let that sink in. Average actual-combat experience has increased slightly in every war since the 1700s and average time in and around war has increased more.
>>64688432Conflating GEN X with millennials, a common mistake
>>64688266>>64688290Veterans served their country not their government, thieves did it souley for the GI bill and anything they could squeeze out of their country. They might as well be Somali.
>>64686718nice try Bang Ding Ow, from Beijing (wassup). But we're still decoupling.
>>64688432>increasingly desperate Gen Xer takes from the post cold war pre gwot periodI saw these a lot as a kid. They're distinctive. There's a very rare kind of military vet and/or militia larper who used to be more common that fits this template. It's making a brief old-age reprise in the 2017-2027 period. I call them Tom Clancy enjoyers. They love conventional war, but they don't know anything about modern conventional war, so they stick to throwing insults at COIN lads. Zero combat experience there either ofc.
>heavy? just lift some weights bro
>>64687185A guy on one of the precision shooting youtubes was saying that "pushups are free" regarding lumping an AR-10 out for mountain elk. Twelve pounds of rifle gets real heavy after some miles.
>>64688113And that might be fine for a guy hunting in the woods with about 30 pounds worth of gear, but the modern soldier is carrying close to 100 pounds of gear. I wonder if that same guy has tried hunting elk in full combat kit with a three days pack worth of supplies while huffing an AR-15 and still thinks that push-ups are free.
>>64687185>sig makes an ar10 pattern rifle in 277 fury >military must smoke cock and waste money >13ish lb wack as fuck rifle >optics needing updates?idk man niggers tounge the tax payers anus.
>>64688087>>64688079IMO, the NGSW should be something that every squad gets one or two of. Sticking in for the DMR role, as opposed to the service rifle for everyone. The AR platform still could use an overhaul WRT the ammo. The Army's caseless program was going extremely well until this retarded shit went down. A partially caseless (this seemed to be the most reliable and economical solution), updated AR-15 would have solved a shitload of problems on its own. Still use 5.56 but the extra performance you get from the round, and the lighter weight is a win-win for everyone. And, on top of that, Sig gets their pole polished by giving some guy a new rifle in each squad without it being absolutely retarded.
>>64687185Troops have always bitched about the weight of their gear. The real issue is that the M5 is an unreliable piece of shit with the service life of a mayfly, tiny mags, and a combat load of ammo that'll run out a third of the way through a modern gunfight.It also has shit-tier accuracy, wandering zero, is fragile as fuck, and offers few or no advantages over regular 7.62mm rifles in the same size and weight class.It's a DMR without the accuracy.An SBR without the short OAL, because it can't be used without a can.And a suppressed rifle without a suppressor because it still produces a fuckload of noise, muzzle blast, and flash with the can installed.It's a product of an Israeli company disguised as a Euopean one, engineered by nameless/stateless contractors, assembled with Indian parts, and the only logical explanation for why it was even adopted is extreme corruption or Epstein-level blackmail.That's not even mentioning the shear retardation that is SIG-Israel's pointless proprietary ammo. The only reason it exists (beside increasing profit margins) is to allow high velocities from short barrels, which is a moot point, since it's useless without a can which increases the effective "barrel" length beyond at least 16-17".An actual FN FAL from the late 1950s is a better rifle. That thing can fire regular standard ammo, it's lighter, and it won't catastrophically break after 1,500 rounds.
Long time no see /k/. Think I could get some info on this revolver I picked up today? I ain't finding much online.
>>64688558How in the absolute fuck are you not finding much online? Did you even look?
>>64688779>incorrect and very dangeous nasty way to fuck your handCite your sources or stop parroting fuddlore, idiot.>Muh bulldogsWhat does that have to do with OP's H&R?
>>64688792I did. But I just figured that here would be the best place to narrow answers down. Plus I haven't been here in years so thought it would be a little fun to make a thread again.
>>64688794kys
>>64688785>Pressure curve would be relevant if we were talking about a semiauto, but we aren't so it doesn't matter.wrong you have no idea what you are talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6MfjV2vsdgPresented without comment.
>>64686255>europoor How does it feel knowing that you live paycheck per paycheck and the slightest drawback could make you homeless, despite earning twice the average euro salary? Do you enjoy having like 3 days of unpaid vacation and being in crippling debt already at 19? And they call us europoors lmao, you're a country of slaves.
>>64686147>why is this not realBecause we know better.
>>64683536>One president isn't going to set America back that farHe already did. Every other week we have shit which would make watergate crap just a joke and there's no responsibility or accountability for any of that.
>>64683751>no mention of donkeys>no mention of horses
>>64688080That’s a lot of unharnessed seethe. Now if only you’d cared as much about actually committing to NATO defense spending over the past two decades as you ddid huffing yuropoor copium, ukraine wouldn’t be in the position it’s in right now.
>If a known conman hadn't made up a fairy tale branch of Christianity we wouldn't have the most elegant and innovative small arms designs known to manI think about this a lot
>>64688566Except for gnostics and catharists, fuck them both and their retarded "erm actually old testament god is a separate entity that's both below God but somehow outside of the real God's control". Stop being a pussy, accept the old testament is part of the Lord's word and that maybe he had some character development and became a better heavenly father. I'd sooner accept calvanists and anglicans
>>64688566Nigga, it claims Native Americans are Israelites that came to North America, something we can (and have) objectively prove as being complete bullshit through simple generic testing.Mormonism is on a level of retardation that makes fucking JW's look reasonable by comparison
>>64688784What an absolutely retarded statement. Do you define "overpopulation" as "more people than I'd prefer" or some other retarded nonsense?
>>64688806Are you gonna tell me the world will be okay with another billion jeets?
>>64688255Mormons are not Christians though, joseph smith founded a cult not a protestant sect, the ;ppney stuff he made up is appened to the bible, including Christ being in America. They are not considered Christians by anyone.Are you karl from inrange?
