>You’re in command of Cuban military. >US Carrier group parked outside your island >Trump seems determined for a regime change How do you defend the island?
>>64770630>When service members families start getting whacked by the Sinoloa, it will become unsustainable.Yeah I'm sure that response would be america running home with their tails between their legs, and definitely not interning every single person every remotely maybe affiliated with the cartel stateside combined with a lot of war crimes in mexico properWe invaded half a dozen countries and destabilized an entire fucking region because a few planes knocked a couple buildings down, what the fuck do you think will happen when cartel members murder a US serviceman's family?
>>64770884How does the average Cuban citizen feel about the US vs their government?
>>64771340Some Japanese soldiers did that for decades.
>>64770518You kill the current communist regime like every other South American patriot.
>>64773543Ask again once the pallets of rice krispies treats show up.
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.
>>64773474Nigga hasn't read any theoryFigures that the low IQ docility runs in the family though, thanks for telling me that.
>>64765776>Panther>a better "all rounder" gunThe British 76mm L/55 and German 75mm L/70 were roughly on par for armor penetration but due to their high velocity, were equally useless for HE fire support.The U.S. 90mm L/53 on the other hand, had similar armor penetration while throwing a large and very effective HE round.
>>64773496>Germans being Germans however decided to use a high-altitude interceptor as a low-altitude strike aircraftand then the bongs and pastas went and did the opposite, picrelcredit where credit is due; shit on the US for its mistakes, and also on Europeans for their mistakes
>>64767826>M1/M2 wasn't event used in a pure PDW role,The Carbine was developed as a replacement for the pistol for non-infantry troops such as radio operators, engineers, etc. It was literally in fact a "personal defense weapon">paratroopers and even glider troops all had M1sNo.
>>64769332>40-60%Why do Nazis lie?
Polivian operatives may have been involved in the capture of Maduro. Previous: >>64756162>image limit reachedhttps://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>allows you to pick up radio chatter when you click on pictures of anime girls
>>64773373The nearest Bass Pro Shop is the same distance as the swap meet where the guy was at. Maybe I'll try going there sometime in the coming week.>I don't know why you're driving far and wide to meet other men unless you'd like to fuck themw-what I do in my personal life is none of your business
>>64773388You can still get shit shipped to you unless you live in actual fucking LA. Most major sellers like Midway, Brownells, and even fucking Optics Planet will take a scan of your driver's license as CA age proof.
>>64773422>live in actual fucking LAGod forbid, don't talk like that>scan of your driver's license as CA age proof.I don't really like uploading shid like that to anything online in general because there is a small chance that they get all their shit hacked and now some Albanian who didn't get his paycheck from whoever he was ransoming has my shit.Also I prefer to buy things in person with cash, just so there isn't a record of me buying whatever the hell
>>64770663is that a
>There's people around that really believe chinese hypersonic memes can hit american ships sailing at 30 knots in the middle of the ocean LOL
>>64773482That’s a little disingenuous. It’s not public support vs public support. It’s >American public support/outrage for merchandise price surges (particularly electronics), dead sailors and maybe dead marines?vs>Chinese public dealing with constant bombing of their own country (b-2’s and b-21’s), food shortages as China is severely reliant on food importation still, and the very real scenario of decapitated leadership or leadership that is in hiding/secure locationThe US is aggressively destabilizing chink/vatnig allies and has only gotten more brazen with it. They’ve been doing that kind of nasty shit for more than a century and they are objectively good at it, ethics aside. It’s easy to say the west is soft twisted but the ghouls in charge know how to pull the strings better than anyone else.
Bad day to live in a village near the launch sites.
>>64773509Fuel importation will be the worst problem. They will be xhimping out over no oil or gas supply long before they need to start eating each other.
>>64773515You have to get in before you 'need' to begin eating people, the smart chinaman will start eating his neighbours now so he'll be strong later on in the hard times
>>64773509For all the practically magical capabilities that the b2/21 have, the one thing they're absolutely garbage at is volume.Even assuming a 0 loss rate (the equation quickly turns against the US even if the loss rate is at 1%, especially if Kadena is unreliable in any way), which granted is realistic, b2s may simply lack the volume of fire to have the spare capacity to target dual use infrastructure like railways.The stealth bomber fleet having 0% loss rate would probably also have implications regarding what US air defense can realistically do against Chinese stealth bombers/fighters.How it will likely play out is that the bomber fleet, advanced as they are, will need to operate with specific limitations, likely dictated by a combination of environmental factors and enemy AD capabilities (so not much has changed), still be worth their weight in gold, but b2s will critically be unlikely to enable b52s to level Chinese cities and railways with impunity.Oh, and this is all made with the assumption that PLAAF is completely annihilated with no interception capabilities left.Intercepting food and oil shipping lanes over the Indian ocean, as well as stopping the inevitable smuggling network, will be much more worthwhile in terms of pulling strings. The problem being, of course, that there's one less string to pull.
How good of a sword was the katana, actually? I know that spears were the best melee weapon back in the day, but compared to other swords.
>>64773426How do you define good?
>>64773426You get a +20 damage increase and 15% greater critical hit chance when you wear a Fedora and black trench coat when wielding it
All things have a specific purpose OP.The katana is the best sword able to do what a katana can do.No more, no less.
>>64773426Not very. They're short, they're heavy for their length, their handguards are small, they aren't very flexible, and they're fragile, their blade materials are not usually elastic and will take a permanent set easily. They are good at cutting. But there were contemporary European swords that would have been better in basically every way.
I feel like I have restless .22lr syndrome more than I have restless AR syndrome. I haven't really change my AR in years
>>64773385please don't call them people
>>64773399HK must be a 'tranny' company then for their ambi mag releases?do you even HAVE A FUCKING BRAIN?
>>6476806822lr is the best because you get to use it the most. Unironically can kill anything including DG, however that's not advised.My main 22 at the moment is a 77/22. I got it recrowned and it's now accurate
>>64771740You'll love the suppressor, be sure to buy a bolt buffer too, it drops volume noticably when firing subsonic suppressed
>>64773541DG?
Is the swiss army knife a meme? How essential is it really?
>>64770478>They really do look great, and they are very compact, so combined with the satisfactory utility I think it's obvious why they've remained popular.They do have a nice boy scout aesthetic but I think they really benefited from branding and basically being the first mass-marketed consumer multitool.
>>64766445>Out of scale women are one fetish I'll never really get. I need my waifu to have appropriately-sized holes.I find smoll woman very cute.I agree that not being practically fuckable detracts from the appeal somewhat.
actual small women: ouch you're too big you're gonna have to keep about 1/3rd outfantasy small women: holy ahegao I can feel every vein pick me up and fuck me against the wallthat's the appeal
>>64764315I've carried this same knife since the early 90's. I've worn out 2 of them. I think they call it the "Tinker". I had a Leatherman multitool given to me but I ended up giving it away. Too big, too bulky, little useage.
>>64761388I carry a huntsman daily, and while I don't use it daily I've had to use it enough times to where I'm satisfied with getting it, takes up very little space in my pocket, feels weird to not carry it now.The scissors I've used at weddings to trim loose threads, the tweezers I've been able to use for bee stings. So the little extras have been useful. I prefer the can opener to other kinds, so at home I'll just grab that for opening cans.
Shitehawk edition Insert that one handed challenge here Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikBottom text: >>64757035
>>64772817I just came back from shooting at my indoor rangeI shot my:>SIG M17>SIG P365>Walther PPK
>>64773321pics or it didn't happen
>>64772198>>64772055In the decaying western world, especially popular culture and media men are increasingly just one of these three one dimensional archetypes: Simps, Wimps and MACHOSThe last isn’t good as it just means being a one dimensional, ambitionless prat supporting a mary sue Return to tradition: take the Byronic pill and never have to worry about being a numale NPC. Since you’re already combat capable (and hopefully fit), you’ve already got one leg of the three legged Byronic hero stool down.
Speaking on the magnum semi-auto rounds earlier, I feel like the ideal round is 7.5FK considering it's even faster than .40 super and .460 rowland and almost has as much muzzle energy as either, in a smaller format bullet that's also geometrically designed to not have issues with penetration that you'd normally get with a smaller bullet.Of course, since it's obscure and Czech you need money to burn, though.
>>64772991I don't care for glocks generally, but they make love excellent subcompacts.
> see pic related with my kids> expect whimsical adventure movie about sky pirates with plane autism> it’s a meditation on surivor’s guilt and ptsd from the perspective of a WW1 pilotThat shit had no business hitting so hard. Felt gutted all day. Absolute S tier film. Ghibli’s best imo
>>64769348Idiot.
>>64752819almost fell asleep during thatblink and its possible to miss the plot
>118 replies and no Dr. StrangeloveBetter fix that with the 119th.
>>64769321>a meditation on growing oldhuhmust reconsider it from that angle>>64769310>you just, and please don't take it the wrong way, like a little more handholding than I doin my mindless entertainment media? absolutelyI think it's more appropriate for a mass-market spy thriller pop novel(and even most nonfiction textbooks, articles and papers, but that's another subject)yes, some call it "handholding". don't worry, I'm not offended by that appellation.unreliable narrators and odd narrative voices have their place; Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains Of The Day is my go-to example for bothbut it wasn't executed with enough clarity in TTSS>irlnovel narratives are not real lifeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
It’s a great movie and the almost 4 hours simply fly by.I‘m currently reading 7 pillars of wisdom. Roughly 2/3 still ahead of me.
how to beat mongols/horse nomads?Fortifications?focus on range?heavy cav?hold out until the current khan dies?
>>64772846>This is likely because solid plate armor interferes heavily with archery, while flexible maille does not.It's because solid plate needs a large industrial base of skilled workers to make and a degree of standartization even for munitions armor with different sizing and such all the way to being custom made to fit a specific person for the higher end stuff. Meanwhile mail is much more forgiving in terms of fit and can be made is a basic workshop with zero mechanization or scale, even if the process is exceedingly laborious and time consuming. Plates in mail and plate armor might even have appeared as a cost saving measure to supplant rings with small plates and drive the cost down a little, rather than improve protection.As for archery-accomodating plate see breatplates and armguards worn without pauldrons, which provide pretty much all mobility you need on the ground. Idk about horse archery but i guess if there was a need and something interfered with it you could make plate armor with sufficient mobility without issue.
>>64771418Holy shit you pissed him off, the fact that someone THIS mentally ill is allowed on the internet without a handler is nuts.
>>64773394>It's because solid plate needs a large industrial base of skilled workers to makeYes, which was readily available in the Ottoman Empire, and yet they did not favor plate armor. They even had plenty of money to purchase it, but did not, by and large. Meanwhile in Andalusia, where horse archery was not particularly favored, they did make use of plate armor. So it's not "the browns can't make plate.">As for archery-accomodating plate see breatplates and armguards worn without pauldronsPauldrons are rather important for plate armor to be effective, especially against arrows. Cause it's not just that they're using bows, the people they fought against much of the time did as well.
>>64773430Hopefully he enjoyed screaming into the void, I'd kinda miss the little guy if he stopped posting. It's that kind of free range schizo that makes this place entertaining.
>>64773500>Yes, which was readily available in the Ottoman EmpireIt wasn't to the point that plate armor wasn't feasible for ottomans. Neither was mail armor really, most of their troops went into battle without it. But plate armor in particular requires you to have a large centralized manufacturing centers with highly skilled specialized labour and trade networks with enough demand and spread to sustain it. In Europe plate armor really blew up after wider introduction of water powered trip hammers that streamlined the process.>So it's not "the browns can't make plate."It is and always will be. Even basic breastplates were basically artisanal armor fit for a king outside of Europe and was made to imitate European gear like that.>Pauldrons are rather important for plate armor to be effectiveThey're absolutely not. Your torso gets completely covered and your shoulders still have mail protectio which is more than virtually any mail and plate shirt can provide, notwithstanding potential issues of mail against arrows that arise.>Cause it's not just that they're using bows, the people they fought against much of the time did as well.And in their typical fashion warfare was largely constant, small scale raiding and skirmishes between poorly equipped light cavalry that didn't bother with armor, rather than large scale pitched battles
Guns competing to replace the L85, the "Project Greyburn". Thoughts?
>>64766439There is one weapon that is more than likely to win :^)
>>64769484>ribbed>for his pleasureEuros at it again.
>>64768042Gooks having more of a rifle doesn't make the SCAR unsuccessful. Europeans armies are tiny AF now. Actual front line grunts are an even smaller portion. An "army" of 25k probably only has 2500 actual soldiers/sof needing rifles. 70k, considering who's the customer base, is a really successful product.
>>64769423Soulless. Doesn't roll off the tongue.Project codenames, backronyms, and intentionally pronounceable acronyms are /k/ino.Anyways the 416 will probably get picked, but the KAC is best gun on the docket.>All these entries>Every single one of them is AR-like, at the very least in terms of controls and ergos>Most or all are also derived from either the AR-15 or AR-18 directlyMILLENNIUM OF STONER
>>64766843Spurdos are getting the first batch of Sako rifles, probably
How are Norden submarines so stealthy?
>>64759225>Unlike the preceding P-3, most versions of the P-8 lack a magnetic anomaly detector (MAD).Hmm, is non-magnetic steel that common in modern subs that P-8 has to forfeit the MAD ?
>>64759465>I-IT WAS ONLY AN EXERCISE!love that cope
>>64759662>sitting idle in shallow littoral waters is a totally real modus operandi for carrier groupLol, lmao even
>>64761678Literally the UK and France and neither of them really in a decade
>>64759302 You can’t stack all of those on a tiny SSK.
Hey fuckers, clean your guns. Grab one and shitpost with me. ATF optional.Starting with my Moist Nugget.
I guess I should have taken more pictures but it was just the same thing wet lol
>>64773150What camera?
>>64773293Canon 7D
>>64773238Burt, Millions must clean!
>>64773032I spaghetti'd everywhere, ended up ranting about about the jesuits for an hour. A1 is goin to have to wait, too hammered to clean anything
I posted about this a long time ago, the day I found these magazines. A shitload of old hunting mags going back to 1980 (ignore the CDs and games). I'd love to scan and share them, but all my research comes up at the possibility of copyright rape. Is there some way to do this that I'm missing? I don't want these to slowly turn to dust in my entertainment center
>>64772282Came in a huge box of random CDs and DVDs my parents gave me
Do it anonymously. Don't post your name.
>>64772493YOU CALL ANONYMOUSLY
>>64771618Probably just archive.org upload that shit and if it's an issue then it gets flagged. Your ISP? Maybe they'd bitch, who knows. Which reminds me, I have a 1976 Weaver optic catalog to scan. Fiber optic glowing shotgun rib dots and red dots in 1976 (no, not OEGs). Wild as fuck. Wish I knew how to turn it into a .PDF but zip full of pics is fine I guess.
>>64771618Neat. Just do it, nobody's copyright striking 30-40yo magazine articles m8.I'm in the process (sitting on my ass not actually doing shit) of digitizing a few books that I own that are no longer in print/limited runs.>I actually have a super poorfag version of this, i just need to motivate myself to set it up and scan some shit
Canadian firearms General >Newfag? Read this:https://pastebin.com/Ndb2jSAuhttps://howtogetagun.ca/>Want to hunt? CFG Hunting license info:https://pastebin.com/nC8RpYb3>Want to spend your shekels?https://almostprohibited.ca/>Recommended /cangen/ vendors list (patched 04.25.2024):https://pastebin.com/SwhJDpkc>Want to help firearm rights?https://firearmrights.caComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64772976everyone here's retarded, alberta and sask banned participating in the buyback to get money for your prohibs, you'll still be a criminal when the amnesty ends.Door to door will never happen, but your one speeding ticket away from arrest, search, and 10 years for the registered AR you didn't melt cause based alberta cucked you from getting at least a timmies giftcard.
>>64773124If Alberta separated from Canada, there would be no point in them building a 'not an AR' AR anymore.They could just build real AR's, for the advantage of full compatibility.There is no advantage to the atrs' proprietary upper/lower, outside of the legal considerations here, in canada. It is purely a disadvantage to lack that compatibility.Though, you have had this explained to you a dozen times now, so i doubt it will work this time either.
>>64773313>mfw I bought 2 for less than $350 total in 2016I doubt prices are ever going to dip below $450 per rifle, even if the conservatives reserve everything. SKS rifles aren't being imported in the same numbers as they once were, and what supply left on the market is exponentially more valuable now due to all the panick buying since OIC of 2020. Tenda occasionally has deals, but the price currently hovers around $650 for your basic bitch chink SKS
>>64773462Not worth getting kicked out while in school.Also, the government doesn't have a list of who owns what guns, so their buy back is on a voluntary basis and therefore toothless.
>>64773438That's probably what I'll end up doing if I can find one for 600-700 CAD.
