How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
>>64680543No. Both were very realistic. Basically documentaries.
>>64677161That's where your chickens sleep.
>>64687465facial features look too different
>>64639246>Eh sorta wrong, the Spanish raised huge native armies b/c the Aztecs were so fuckin horrible.Nonsense. While Cortez mentions the fat cazique comlaining about Aztec spies, the vast majority of Aztec vassals remain neutral until Tenochtitlan fell or in one instance, Cortez engineered a coup of the local ruler to swing them to their side. Cortez' ally was the Tlaxcalans (emphatically not Aztec subjects, but an independent state), and that was it.The Aztecs were exceptionally belligerent, resembling Rome in this regard, but they were also fine with letting people be after defeating them. As long as they paid their tribute and maybe provided soldiers, they could keep their rulers, gods and so on. No resettlement, no forced labour. Again mirroring Rome.And domestically, the Aztecs also had fairly remarkably social mobility through military service. Which, hey, once again mirrors Rome!The Inca by contrast, had fuckall social mobility and were exceptionally happy to engage in forced resettlements and mass conscript labour. >>64668662Cocolitzli was a direct consequence of the collapse of living conditions through forced labour and the Spanish neglecting sanitary infrastructure. If the Spanish lose, the 1/3 drop to smallpox remains, but Cocolitzli basically never happens to a notable extent.
>>64687468Not at all, I'll do a detailed response later
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
>>64688283Lmao, learn to love yourself anon
>>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
AK General /akg/Kot edition>Thread #2084Old thread here >>64573822
>>64687994This one?
>>64687632Fab Defense has a railed upper, although it's kinda janky. Seems like most "railed" upper handguards only have a top rail.
>>64688030Nah if I remember correctly it was super high def
>>64687986>implore you to research KochevnikBelieve me, that was my first option but the reproductions aren't made anymore and I can't find any used. I spoke to a Chinese retailer about the model TWI used to make. TWI sold off the rights to another company, FCW, that has repeatedly pushed the preorder delivery date back over the course of a year. They're now expecting a summer 2026 delivery date. AFAIK there aren't any US distributors planning on importing them so you have to do it yourself if they ever deliver.
>>64687914I see the vision, add a pic rail to the rear sight and then add a riser for the optic clearance, or just get a dust cover that come with a pic rail already. Not sure on the LAM, but you can always get some hose clamps and attach to the carry handle? Not up to date on AK suppressors, but is there one that comes with a built-in pic rail for a LAM?
- 1x Type 003- 1x Type 076- 1x Type 055- 7x Type 052D- 4x Type 054A- 2x Type 054B
>>646886582 angry bugsthe chinkspammer that obsesses over chinese naval and aerial inferiority and spams the same images from his folder over and over again is also seething right now.
>Here, we must finally make a very basic critique of the entire national security establishment in America, and particularly of the people intending to bring about reform. No thinker, no policy wonk or international relations buff inside the Beltway, would have any problem whatsoever with the suggestion that the military apparatus inside a rival country like Russia, China, or Iran was in fact not a “pure” kinetic instrument but also a tool of ideology. Indeed, the suggestion that modern-day Russia possesses a “pure” military, completely shorn of any function as a tool of regime legitimacy and regime ideology, would typically be dismissed inside the Beltway. Of course the Russian military faces a steady flow of demands on its behavior conditioned by the Kremlin’s desire to appear credible and tough; of course this happens even in cases where this competes with the practical demands of warfighting. This dual nature of the Russian or Chinese militaries—both tools of kinetic warfare and tools of ideology—is simply accepted without argument in D.C., just as everyone willingly accepts, without the need for any particular evidence, that the tension between these two functions often results in a meaningful degradation of capability and readiness for these militaries. Yet for all this casual acceptance of the very real nature of this dangerous and destructive institutional dynamic abroad, America’s most serious thinkers generally display a shocking naïveté and lack of awareness about how this same sort of dynamic plays out inside America itself.
>>64688683rather, it's rapechink in this thread >>64666880and the chinkspammer going crazy in this thread we're in now.
>The purpose of an institution is what that institution actually does. The Army and Navy today both prepare for war, and also sacrifice their own resources and cannibalize their own readiness in order to maintain a Potemkin village of capability for public and congressional consumption. In the case where these two demands intersect, narrative maintenance tends to win over practical warfighting concerns. The Army unit commander who sends a suicidal soldier to Poland or Romania for thirty-eight hours in order to juke the stats is only punished if the media get ahold of the story; the commander who refuses to do so and voluntarily files poor readiness reports to his superiors is punished by default. America’s military brass regularly respond to impractical or nonsensical demands from the political leadership through lying or juking the stats. Army unit commanders and Navy ship captains, faced with similarly impossible requirements, lie to their superiors. Their subordinates, in turn, lie to their commanders, and so on it goes all the way down through the ranks. In this context, reform is impossible without first addressing why this entire sprawling network of institutionalized lying has come into being in the first place.
>>64688686>angry chinkshill wordlessly copes, thinking his images will save him from being seen as a sore loserlol, you're mad whether you type or not, angry chinkshill.
Long time no see /k/. Think I could get some info on this revolver I picked up today? I ain't finding much online.
Some numbers in the cylinder
Looks like a Top-Break Automatic Ejecting Model 1, second variation.I'm not sure what you'd like to know that's not covered in the Wikipedia article on Harrigton & Richardson. It's not a rare, special, or collector-desirable model, they were very common back in the day and many still exist today. It's not worth much.
>>64688577that star looks hashed, how is the lockup?
>>64688648I really just want to know what's okay to shoot out of this. I'm hearing that smokeless rounds are fine even though it's a model made for black powder rounds
>>64688674i don't see why not assuming the pressures are the same
Pistol related but last question thread died a while ago. Are all 1911 .45 barrels interchangeable with all other 1911 models? I've got a Kimber and want a threaded barrel for it and I'm wondering if I should just get a Kimber barrel for it.
>>646884731. Bufferless AR = cool factor2. No, buy an AUG
I bought a stripped 1911 slide with novak sights off Sarco for $150 to put on my tisas. I'm planning on reusing my tisas slide guts. How likely is it I'm going to have to handfit the barrel hood and possibly even the drop link?I believe Sarco's stripped parts are all RIA/Armscor. I might just return it and buy the tisas analog "tactical slide" for $260
>>64688478I already have an AUG. I'm looking for guns that I can't find at the local Fuddstore. Yes, I have disposable income and no longer know what I'm doing with my life so I guess it's collecting guns now.
are these kind of warnings common in pistols?"if there's an impact, then our gun will fire, thank you"
How easy would a UMP or G36 be to put together? Are they easy like ARs, or should I get a gunsmith to assemble parts for me?
>>64678822What are you even talking about?
>>64686793
>>64674700my fav
>>64686796dual shielding
>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.
>>64686744>I feel like I have PTSD from watching so many ziggers getting drone'edhow weak and homosexual of you
>>64686629American Ww2 vets generally saw way less combat than nam/oif vets, but more intense when it did happen
>>64686629Yeah the military is a giant grift which is why everyone should enlist as long as you can make it past MEPS. Spend four years with your thumb up your ass and reap the gibs and bennies for the rest of your life. Don’t make the same mistake as me and wait until you’re in your 30’s trying to get in shape to survive boot camp. The military isn’t like the movies where they’ll just take anyone. Your body is going to naturally break down as you get older, so it’s better to enlist while you’re young and then get paid VA disability for the aging you’re going to experience anyway by claiming it’s “service related.”
I only have 90% disability and only get $2,900 a month tax free instead of $4,500 a month if I was 100%.
>>64687271Gnarly. But a pretty good way to die, all things considered. Vaporized before you can even feel anything happen
Previous: >>64578544Stamboulieh Law makes weekly videos on all the latest lawfare:https://youtube.com/@2alawYou've heard of FRTs, but what's a "super safety"?>uses the safety to force the reset of the trigger>allows for way more trigger options (you just have to trim two places)>invented by Tim Hoffman (https://hoffmantactical.com)>gifted to the world to freely 3D print>enterprising people now selling super safeties made of steel (recommend at least 4140)>cheaper than an FRT ($90-$150)>originally a 3-position cross-bolt safety>left is safe, right is semi, middle is super>3-position 90° super safety selectors are now availableComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64686577I would buy thier product just because they made the effort to make this gif.
>>64685190I just paid 1700 for a braced AP5-SD. Very fun, can recommend. The can for it shows up tomorrow. Money is *largely* no object for this build. I'm just copying the Brandon Herrera video, except I'm not doing the actual ported barrel because that sounds tedious. It'll be my first can :)Blogpost over, happy holidays
yeah
>>64688141I accept this post as a yeah.
>>64687504if money is no object, why not get an hk sp5 instead of a clone?
Why were the huge Qing Dynasty armies so ineffective in the Opium Wars? They have to be the most one-sided wars in history.
>interesting thread about the failures of the Qing empire to adapt and modernize>assblasted chinksect has a meltie for days-1000 social credit, attempting to make imperial pigs look good discredits the CCP and the glory of the workers.
>>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
>mogs your puny weak little capitalist bolt locking lugs
>>64688099>underground stew channelsSomeone pitch this to congress, this is a gap we absolutely need to close.
HEY FATTYYOU ARE FAT
>>64686788south korea still exists tho
>>64687124>>64687179An AK bolt can run 50,000+ rounds, AR style bolts suck for longevity. They’re not a generational weapon like older two and three lug weapons.
the trilug bolt and beefy extractor of the barrett make it an excellent contender.the only way it could be improved is with a fixed ejector.
I used to intern with a Class II FFL precision rifle builder who also manufactured some NFA items and no joke, you can literally make a good quality (albeit rough finished) suppressor for under $100 provided you have a lathe. You can make even cheaper wipe suppressors for close to $50 out of pipe tubing you find on amazon. I remember watching this video by an American volunteer in the Ukrainian International Legion who talk about a company in the Czech Republic that sold suppressors for the Bren 2 that cost $125 so clearly it doesn't cost that much to make them yet I'm having a hard time finding anyone selling even shitty .22lr whip suppressors for under $500. Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?
>>64688454>googled itah, honey traps
>>64688316You should NEVER have to go down to oil filter level. We don't, why should you?
>>64681097>>64684264Jesus Mary and Joseph, who would want to stick their dick in these? Abject fucking horror.
>>64688572Have you ever opened a human and looked inside? Equally horrifying.
>>64688606The last time I checked real pussies don't have micro tongues that lick your dick as you fuck it.
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
>>64688430Pretty meh, we've kicked them back to the 2008 border so we don't border Puntland as much but its best for rn Some assholes online claim Adwal has fallen but that dispute was fixed in a day
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>>64688424cute, somaliland is my favourite african country.
>>64688426>>64688424>Flagship looks really familiar>Looks closely>Opens torpedo boat folderIs their flagship some sort of P-6 copy?Because if it is that's kinda based, or at least more based than they already are which is alot.
>>64688630P-6s did serve in the somali navy but this is likely a copy
what if we vibe-coded the next NGAD?
>>64687737It probably just downloaded an f35 model from grabcad. Trying to vibe code a workable CAD model would take ages.
>>64687769It takes a lot more work to fix shit code than to write it decently in the first place, so replace the second 'few hundred' with 'few thousand'
>that name
>>64687769Boeing got rid of all of the White Americans from multigenerational families who knew how to build airplanes. They were replaced with moron diversity hires. Now the moron diversity hires are going to get replaced with a server farm running code created by moron Indians.
>>64687737>post an actual screenshot of siemens nx>says AI hallucinated the software and the .prtOkay.The worst thing is, millions are stupid enough to believe what he says. Vibe-coding isn't a thing as you imagine it. AI can't write software. It's just a shortcut for software "engineers" who previously relied on npm to implement leftpad for them.
For those that don't think .45 ACP is better than 9mm, consider the 5.56mm NATO velocity is approx 300ft/s greater than 7.62 NATO (same case of 9mm being 300 ft/s greater than .45) but the 7.62 is bigger caliber and 2.5x the mass and makes the world of difference
Also if handguns rely on permanent cavity alone, then logically a bigger diameter wound is ideal. A .45 jhp can expand to be the size of a 12 gauge slugClearly .45 is the superior pistol round
Psycho Ball
>>64687309ok
They will never accept 45 Auto superiority, it is proof we truly do live in a world of hylics, NPCs, goyim if you will.
>>64687309Which is why I moved to 5.7mm NATO.
