>nearly 80 years>barely any changesHow did they get it so right?
>>64773037>What happens now?Nothing, because artillery and airpower decides the battle and 'good enough' is good enough for a rifle.
>>64773129>he says, head blown apart from outside of enemy range, his artillery destroyed and airpower grounded because no military that skimps on service rifles can afford the others
>>64770206>drove a massive influx of fucking mongoloidsTheyre glowies
>>64766303>Mosin>AKYou can count on Russians to build the most weapons of all time.
>>64770282Its a PPSH-2
/k/bros, we fucking won.
>>64765076I dunno, a major theme of RE4 was that the parasite in their brains made all their heads explode easily.
>>64769835RE4 and RE6 gameplay have no commonality. The only people that disagree are retards who won't admit that they were age 12-14 when they played one of the older RE games. They just hate that RE4 is an incredible game that doesn't give a shit about the older games.
>>64772952Well then real life looks like shit
>>64772997It's more determined by your approach than an "x is superior" kind of thing. Hitting with the shin is more powerful and more usable at closer ranges (which is why muay thai/full contact karate style guys favor it more), while instep has more reach like you said (which is why it's more popular among TKD/points karate styles). Leon is kicking the zombie close to a wall in that webm, so him hitting with the shin makes sense.
>>64772952i doubt he's talking about the form but more how the zombie snaps into place and just sorta stays pressed there.
What is the best in class for each category? >HMG>MMG>LMG>GPMG>SAWyou can choose the same gun for multiple or all categories.I'd stick with>M2>M240>HK21kinda hard to choose a SAW I like all around more than aforementioned choices
>HMG/MMGOhio Ordnance REAPR (338 Norma)>GPMG/LMGKAC AMG (308 but it would mog in 6.8x51)>SAWArmWest MG10 (5.56)
>>64769537>HK 421 is not a 'SAW'Debatable; while the fact that it's in .308 means it leans toward the GPMG role, the first guns to be used as SAWs (in the West) were shortened and lightened GPMGs, like the Stoner M69W (replaced by the Stoner 63) and the MK 48 (replaced by the M249). A case could be made that it is both a GPMG and a SAW depending on how it's used by the unit (I suppose this only highlights how useless the SAW designation/term was).
>>64770703(as other anons posted upthread) SAW is a debatable category to begin with, it's a U.S. designation for the M249whatever it is/means, it refers to the squad's dedicated full-auto fire support weapon chambered in the infantry rifle's caliber.(back in the 1959-1964 era when the U.S. Army's infantry rifle was the M14, you could ? have gotten away with—if they'd existed back then—calling a Mk 48 or HK 421 a 'SAW')this "new class" of MGs, like the Mk 48 (just an up-calibered Minimi with relatively few other changes) or HK 421 yes do have the ability to also be tripod-mounted as a 'GPMG' would be, but for that task a unit's procurement would select an actual GPMG such as FN MAG or HK MG5 (<--of which there exists a kurz variant, pictured upthread)They're light machine guns, deliberately lighter in weight (for portability) and construction, reduced OAL dimension than the GPMGs they may have taken components, design elements fromhence the neologism 'assault machine gun' /similar
>>64773169>SAW is a debatable category to begin with>whatever it is/means, it refers to the squad's dedicated full-auto fire support weapon chambered in the infantry rifle's caliber.>(back in the 1959-1964 era when the U.S. Army's infantry rifle was the M14, you could ? have gotten away with—if they'd existed back then—calling a Mk 48 or HK 421 a 'SAW')So you're agreeing with me.>They're light machine guns, deliberately lighter in weight (for portability) and construction, reduced OAL dimension than the GPMGs they may have taken components, design elements fromNow hold on, all GPMG are LMG. The whole point of a GPMG is to do the job of an MMG (like the Maxim gun, Colt M1895, Breda 38, etc.) and an LMG (like the BAR, BREN, Chauchat, Hotchkiss M1909, Madsen 1902, Lewis gun, etc.). You can't exclude GPMG from the LMG category, as there is a big difference between something like the M60 or FN MAG and older MMGs like the Vickers gun.Every day I can talk about the Colt M1895 (potato digger) is a good day. Thank you, my friend.
>>64773169>soFirst words in my post you replied to:*(as other anons posted upthread)* <----->walloftextThe Mk 48, HK 421 are light machine guns. (I really dgaf about the GPMG moniker which in many ways is as nebulous as SAW)
I'm a fed leo, should I join ice? They make a shitload of money for not that much work. I just don't have faith the next administration won't slash the budget by 90%, it's a cool gig but is it really a career. Asking more for people that are currently in
>>64773294Once its all done, ice will be rounded up and have a nuremberg trial for all the shit they did and are about to do>but i didn't do anything badDoesn't matter, you will be tried as a group
>>64773227Russia can only afford to pay sweatshop workers to shitpost on the internet.
>>64773261Not to mention his region is on the Canada side so he doesn't even give a shit enough about Mexicans to work the southern border.
>>64773312It will very much more likely happen to you libshits (libertarianshits included) because you're a very small yet very vocal group. The vast majority doesn't think like you, is highly annoyed by you, and realizes your way of thinking is stupid and a danger to everyone.
>>64773368Uhhh anon >>64772660I don't think you understand how much the other side hates you now because of the shit you have pulledYou are going to be like germany where right wing parties will be banned
Why join the coast guard over other branches?
>>64771988Unironcally a LHA or similar helicopter carrier would help their job a ton, especially if they can launch longer range fixed wing drones from it. Really even a shitty converted freighter would do the trick, it's not supposed to be getting in fights
>>64770189I wanted to serve my fellow Americans, not people across the globe who don't share my values. The USCG nominally does this. Back when I joined, even the overseas stations served to guard American bases or commerce.I don't recommend it, though. Unless it's changed a lot since 2017, the USCG is criminally undefunded and the officer corps is staffed with losers with no oversight. While in basic I got bronchitis and they just put me in reg hold and prescribed me a bag of salt to gargle. About a month later they finally sent me to the hospital. After I got out, a VA doctor gave me a service connection for breathing issues.... because they hadn't treated my BRONCHITIS. in TRAINING. It's embarrassing.At the same time, I saw a woman graduate from basic in crutches. Limited duty the whole time. Found out she was the neice or granddaughter of an admiral when he visited base for the graduation.In short, if you want to do cool shit with good equipment become a Ranger. If you just want to serve your country go to college and then join the USGS or NOAA or something actually helpful to real Americans. I have friends who've done either and they're the coolest people I know. Good luck.
>>64772211the sick tiktok edits of them flooding narco subs with the stuff will boost recruitment numbers immensely.
>>64772342>NOAAWould advise against it.NOAA has an officer corps. Smallest uniformed branch I think. It's tiny.>coworker was a NOAA officer>he said his job was to drive race tracks in the pacific off the Baja peninsula while researchers counted whales>but he did this after being a division 1 athlete>and getting an engineering degree from Notre Dame>good guy, but questionable choice
>>64773347Nah, USPHS has the smallest. Their Commissioned Corps are all doctors and nurses, mostly stationed at the CDC or Indian reservations.
Thoughts about ultrasonic/vibro blades?
>>64769192It's a zoomer or maybe genA brainrot content thing.Funny, though, that PVPers used to talk the same way in Ultima Online back in 1990s.Time is a flat circle.
>>64772524Amazon, on sale a year and a half ago. For some reason the 8" chef's knife was $50 and the 7.5" was $15.
>$400You could buy 19 cheap chef knives, a cheap "sharpener" rod (edge honing is not sharpening), and have decent cutting for ten times as long as this piece of shit is going to last.
>>64773343My kitchen knives are so old, I bought them with a currency that doesn't even exist anymore (FIM). I don't remember what they cost but they were a cheap local brand. And they still do the job.
>>64773350Yeah, yep,So long as one understands how to sharpen even low quality metal will cut just fine for most people's basic needs. Beyond that you get into the realm of actual work purposes and balancing cost versus performance/edge retention.
>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.
>>64746748No, it's efficiency. They also have heating problems. Both of those problems are related. Current research into Solid State Laser hopefully will bring improvements.>>64746626That's not true though. The navy is already running around with 60kw and 100kw lasers. The army is working on theirs. Pic related is a bit out of date but you can look up the current state of the navy's and other branches lasers by searching USNI's website and other OSINT sources.https://news.usni.org/2024/12/24/report-to-congress-on-navy-shipboard-lasers-9https://interestingengineering.com/military/us-navy-400kw-songbow-laserhttps://www.defensedaily.com/helios-testing-at-full-power-for-months-but-navy-leaning-towards-containerized-lasers-lockheed-martin-executive-says/navy-usmc/https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/08/will-2026-be-military-lasers-breakthrough-year/407339/Pic is from Atomic Rockets.
>DEW threadToday I will remind them.
>>64746748The limiting factor to all modern scientific endeavors is materials. Energy is physically stored, and the amount of energy necessary is governed by the conduit used
>>64772935>Catalog>400 J/cm2 Exposed flesh flashes into steam, flaying exposed body areas to the bone
>>64769939There is a thin metal wire along that axis, anon. It is not a "gun", it's a hilariously oversized taser.
Post some gun ideas you've had. Bonus for KelTec levels of madness.>modern SA/DA cartridge revolver w/swing-out cylinder but designed on Colt 1860 lines.
>>64772101NTA but they have different form factors. I suppose anon wants a variable optic with the ACOG form than whatever the VCOG is.
>>6475760425 ACP rifle. Doesn't exist. =(
>>64773341Well, Ed de la Garrigue DID build several scaled-down Thompsons, mostly non-firing replicas but some WERE registered pre-86 MGs, chambered in .25 ACP. Fucking rare as hen's teeth but they exist.>ywn pull out a 1911-sized Thompson and braaap off a full drum of .25 ACP
>>64761252>POI shifts upwards as the magazine runs out due to weight change in magImagine...
>>64773363>25 ACP MG thompsonFucking WHAT? I knew of a forum where one random guy said he converted a 22 or something but never anything else!
Iran is blocking Starlink satelliteshttps://www.reuters.com/world/musks-starlink-faces-high-profile-security-test-iran-crackdown-2026-01-16/>satellite jammers>The GPS spoofing wreaks havoc on a Starlink terminal's connection and slows internet speeds1. I don't understand how spoofing GPS "wreaks havoc". Can't terminals just say "ok, I'm stationary at these GPS coordinates" at the first sign of fuckery in GPS signals? Or are they spoofing the satellites' own GPS somehow? What are these "satellite jammers"?2. Why can't ziggers use the same technique in ukraine? As far as I understand, Starlink is one of the crucial things that enables Ukraine frontline to hold. This question makes current post weapons btw
>>64773069>I'm not gonna bother reading russian propaganda.>It either corroborates the facts I wrote or it lies.hilarioushttps://www.unian.net/weapons/bpla-bm-35-rossiyane-vpervye-upravlyali-dronom-cherez-starlink-13256637.htmlhttps://sntdpni.livejournal.com/1280265.html>active cell map on spacex websiteit just doesn't exist because GPS spoofing never works, especially in iranit's good that us military is not as indoctrinated as the most retarded of nafo cultists and are actually choosing to supply russians with internet because it serves the purpose of weakening the ukraine
>>64773065>on our website.>>64773069>on spacex website.I see what you did there.
>>64773069>Most of the currently operational starlink satellites have thermal management issues and have to shut down frequently????????????????????wtf drugs are you smoking manthere is no such issue.
The amount of inane absurdity in this thread is baffling.Russia has been able to use Starlink connections >> inside Ukrainian border << , yes. The problem lies with real time monitoring of exact location and link. Starlink can and does have the ability to selectively disable comms with any active receiver. It's a cat and mouse game - russian forces can have an active unit, it can be discovered and disabled.All the rest of the talk here is nonsense and russian cocksuckery.
>>64773300As always, /k/ goes full retard whenever the topic is even tangentially related to space.>starlink is disabled in russia>*link about starlink being used in ukraine*>yeah that just proves what i said>*more links about starlink being used in ukraine*It's a miracle such morons even survive daily life.
>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
>>64772312if a chink falls in the street and no cctv is there to record it (and fellow chink to upload it), does he get run over?
>>64772277Waterlogged supply chain time. All the scummy, scammy behavior you see in consumer products but with the belief of "well the world will end when the ICBMs fly so why bother, pocket the money now.">A wrist full of Rolexes and a basement full of gold bullion (plated tungsten).
>>64772011They probably could if they got an overwhelming salvo off against a high-quality real-time track. I think the USN taking a CBG into missile range with out a HEAVY sea & and screening force is a mistake they will only make once. Regardless, mainland missiles are of little use on the Indian Ocean supply lines which I believe is where the war will actually be decided.
>>64772437Yes
>>64772011why not?
If you could infuse any animal/insect with humans to create the perfect super soldier, which animal would you choose?
>>64768744I can't imagine that's comfortable for the ant. There's no way the extreme force on the mandible joint doesn't result in some kind of pain.
>>64769026Beluga whales are too pure of heart to do anything military, they’re nature’s toddlers
>>64773057most ant species' workers only survive for 6-8 months regardless of their potential natural lifespan being 1-3 yearsif people only survived into their mid 20s we'd have a behavior that absolutely wrecks our joints and bones too
>>64773057They're tiny. The Square-Cube Law is fucking magic at that scale. If you scaled an ant up to weigh as much as a human, they'd collapse like a soggy paper bag.
Monke
> 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
>>64765203The Beast is underrated /k/ino.Great film but it kinda fails to stick the landing imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tjdswqGGVg&list=RD9tjdswqGGVg&start_radio=1
>>64769348Idiot.
>>64752819almost fell asleep during thatblink and its possible to miss the plot
>118 replies and no Dr. StrangeloveBetter fix that with the 119th.
Hey /k/, third-worlder noguns gamedev here, I'm prototyping an FPS game where your only weapon is a pump-action shotgun. You have to manually cycle the action after each shot. In the current state of the game, the reload button inserts a shell through the ejection port when the foreend is pulled all the way back, so you can load the chamber directly with whatever ammunition you want. I'm allowing this to be done even with a shell sitting on the elevator, which makes me wonder how plausible it is, since I (virtually) push the shell in the elevator back into the magazine tube as the foreend closes the action. So, my questions are: how plausible is this behavior? and which shotguns facilitate this?
>>64772124Got it, thanks. I'll just teach the player to load the magazine and cycle the action if he wants to "quickly" feed a specific ammo type then.>>64772131Yeah, I want to implement ghost loading at some point, it should definitely take some time to perform.After doing some research, perhaps something like a Benelli M4 would be better suited for the interaction I described in the OP. The player would have to pull the bolt back, ejecting an unspent shell, the magazine tube does not put a shell in the carrier/elevator, now the chamber has enough space to be fed directly with a shell (plus an optional ghost load) and put into battery when the action closes. With an open bolt, if the player closes the action without loading anything into the chamber, I assume he only wanted to eject and keep feeding the gun from the magazine, so the character will automatically press the shell release lever right before closing the bolt.Am I on the right track here?
>>64772937A solution would be to have the shotgun feature a magazine cutoff. Off the top of my head Auto5 has one i think.Would let players swap to a seperate ammo type for a single shot and would also give them another mechanic to play with, e.g. did I remember to turn the cutoff off?I am interested as a big fan of the Receiver series.
>>64772084>You have to manually cycle the action after each shot.what does this accomplish for the gameplay? unless it's a horror game i don't see this adding much in terms of skill expression or strategy
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>>64772984That could work, yeah, the magazine cutoff mechanism seems like it easily translates as a 'firemode switch' seen in most games.>>64773125Honestly, I don't really have an answer for that, maybe the idea is terrible and it plays like shit once I finish the prototype phase, but I'm sticking with it. I just want to make a game where reloading is more complex and involves more inputs than just pressing R and waiting for animations to finish. Games like Road To Vostok and Beyond Citadel feature shotguns with somewhat complex reloading and cycling mechanics.One of my plans is to have multiple shotguns to choose from, you could go for a semi-auto if you don't feel like manually cycling the action or if it gets tiresome.
>go to https://catalog.archives.gov/search?availableOnline=true&endDate=1949&page=1&q=German%20aircraft&startDate=1940>search some relevant term to your interests>make sure to set filters to "available to access online" and filter for the year range>bring back something cool
>>64772320The ripcord of the parachute could be attached to the aircraft to automatically deploy, so there were some miraculous cases of survival, but most would have been nothing more than bodies thrown out of the destroyed aircraft.
>>64772320>people still shooting at the plane missing a entire wing and the entire rear half while it is in a near vertical flat spin
>Close up video of Kamikaze hitting a carrier.
>>64743196Pretty neat
> April 14, 1945>USS Sigsbee is under tow after a kamikaze struck aft of her number 5 gun. The port engine was knocked out of commission, the starboard engine could only be run at five knots, steering control was lost, and the ship began to take on water. Commander Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon continued to run his ship and direct anti-aircraft fire, while at the same time directing damage control parties that saved his ship. Twenty-three sailors were killed in the attack.
What's /k/'s opinion on Project Sundial?Should it have been built?
>>64772821Do you have a single fact to back that up?
>>64771649Teller bombs are pointless unless most of a state's population and economy isn't on earth. I'd guess these things are built around ~2200 AD
>>64773268It came to me in a dream
>>64772731>>64772821>>64773273They made a movie about this in the 60's you Philistines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmCKJi3CKGE
>>64771649No point. For the same reason the Sovs didn't make the yield of the "Tsar Bomba" 100MT. The fireball would have hit the top of the atmosphere and been a waste resources.
