I was watching Ken Burns's Vietnam War doc, and there's this story where a guy takes a chest wound and seems to be left to die for hours because no one thinks he's got a chance, and he pulls through.Why do some people manage to survive severe injuries, whereas others die? Like how 50 Cent got shot 9 times, and somehow survived, whereas some other guy can get shot once and dies in minutes.
>>64704006thats kinda just medical questions in generallook at industrial accidents & car crashes, super fucked up shit happens, yet somehow, people survive, markedly sohumans are much tougher than we want to accept & some things are more deadly than we realize, this creates extraordinary instances
The deformation and change in trajectory of a bullet due to impact is an extremely random factor.
>>64704006>seems to beHe faked it like John McCain to sit out the war in comfort.
>>64704048I thought he zunied his carrier deck
>>64704006https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/this-marine-survived-a-shot-from-a-50-cal-at-point-blank-range/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alvin_Beckwith
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
A rainy start to '26. Nice, actually.
Good Night frens
tard question: can I run 7.62 nato through a 308 bolt action?
>>64704911Yes
Pick up the phone, /k/
>>64695109>they're all tuvanbah god...
that would be a decent plane 30 years ago.
>>64704551>>64704470
>>64692889>Still imports anti-french niggers into the countryI'm all for France stepping up for more European-Centric geopolitics, but France needs to clean house before it can even begin talking about "saving europe">>64703004They've must have ran out of Buryats
>>64704897that is disgustingI love it
I'm going to shoot my 14.5" AUG this weekend
How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
>>64703435Wouldn't really make any sense. This weapon is what it is because of what they had available to them and what they knew how to make, and it's extremely clever, but ONLY within that context.If you had access to the resources, tools, and knowhow, to make steel, then you could just make a conventional sword instead, which is just plain better.>>64703447I'd say that they're good for what they are, it's impressive that they developed a workable sword substitute without any good metal or metalworking. But ultimately, it's just refined caveman technology, and it has too many drawbacks.I'd love to own a good replica just because I think it's an interesting historical weapon, but if I was forced into a sword fight and got to pick my weapon, I would pick some cutlass, saber, or dao of some sort.
>>64703435>>64703814A steel macuahuitl would pretty much just be a normal sword, as people have pointed out, most Macuahuitl didn't have big gaps between the blades or anything, apparently
>>64703301>civilized>sacrificed and ate humans, monkeys, and dogsMe so-american civilization is all imaginary. You were all in huts.
>>64704676Objectively they had complex written language, monumental architecture, astronomy and mathetmatics, metalsmithing up to copper, large resorvoirs, complex agricultural praxis and fine arts like sculpting, painting and pottery.They missed out completely on bronze and iron development, mechanical principles (no siege engines or similar machines) and medicine.It's a different trajectory, but their world view was shattered by the existence of the Spanish, since they didnt need to sacrifice anyone and were still fine, had greater technology, and horses. This destroyed the authority of the Aztec elites and made their fall inevitable.
>>64634475It's easy to pronounce and remember. For Aztecs and Mayas.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60767/60767-h/60767-h.htm
>>64698506Did you want to talk about this at all or what
pearls before swine thread
This is good especially for naming conventions and nomenclature but...Bringing back full metal jousting.Dudes got FUCKED.
>>64698506Guy getting fired on the left.
>>64698506Many repro armors are bad, because they're "all-or-nothing"-style uniformly thick pieces. Proper period armor has varying thickness across a piece (thicker in the middle, thinner at the edges).
Post gear, discuss gear.Maximalist edition. Let's go all out, just this once.Old: >>64671717
>>64703337Just for reference's sake, pic rel is a Ceradyne 96034 (bottom) and an LTC 28595 (top). I think these belong to that Ravenna guy. There's about ~150 96034s out there. It's a very, very rare plate made for Delta in 2009-2011. The /bag/ old guard had at least four. Assuming a 50% attrition rate, which is extremely high, that's still just over seventy plates for the rest of us to try and find.
>>64703546Pic rel is another set of "ITSA" plates I found on desuarchive. The cover is different, and looks more worn, so I'm inclined to think these are not 96034s, but maybe a predecessor model.
>>64699509>Tank fires main gun round into the wall next to you>multiple belt-fed machineguns start ripping into the building you're in from multiple directions>grenades getting thrown through the now broken windows and huge hole in the wall>enemy soldier appears around the corner and shoots you immediately>in your dying breath you cry out"You momentarily activated your IR laser for the 0.1 seconds you spent aiming at me, my friends are going to see your laser and accurately pinpoint your exact location and kill you ha ha ha guess who has the last laugh."
>>64704305I'd like to see the gangsters in chiraq with jammers and niggt vision
>>64697575There's a big milsurp firearms & ammo dealer in Czechia that also sells honey through the same eshop... Used to offer bulk carraway seed there, too.
Why were the huge Qing Dynasty armies so ineffective in the Opium Wars? They have to be the most one-sided wars in history.
>>64704994He's actually NOT allowed to circlejerk this hard inside the firewall.
>>64705011>>64704994I wonder how the han circlejerk merges with the CCP worshipping a dead german kike with chinese characteristics
>>64705026Soviet Empire with (Imperial) Chinese characteristic.Compared to other countries, Qing China got off lightly from European colonization but a lot of Han nationalists are still butthurt about the Century of Humiliation because it's a humiliation of China as a superpower. China spent most of its history as the center of the universe that the rest of lesser nations kowtow to and then suddenly Europe turned it into a mere backwater regional power.China's problem with the Eurocentric unipolar world is that it should be a Sinocentric one. With communism, they can rename their imperialism "socialist internationalism" or "Third World solidarity" with them being the "preeminent vanguard against the imperialist West" other nations should listen to.
>>64705101>China spent most of its history as the center of the universe that the rest of lesser nations kowtow to and then suddenly Europe turned it into a mere backwater regional power.
>>64705101It's kind of funny reading about chink cognitive dissonanse when encountering Euclidan geometry demonstrated by Christian missionaries.>uhhh surely ancient Chinese must've come up with this and forgotten about it, and those barbarians just stumbled upon it
What modern day tech could be deployed for supporting a large scale amphibious invasion that the allies didn't have back in WW2?
>>64704953beholdliterally one bomb
>>64705004China has problems that even pampered gibsniggers in michigan can't comprehend. Half of their arable land is polluted to shit, so despite being the largest agricultural producer in Asia, their cropa and meat are bad quality. So everyone who can imports food like crazy, beijing stockpiles food like gypsies to make sure everyone can get foreign food. We don't know how good the PLA branches are, because the whole aemy was never tested. Corruption inside of the army is bad. So bad, even state approved cocksucking tv series have offhand jokes about corrupt PLA officers.Xi is a crazy ideologue who publishes several articles in commie journos each year. He got rid of everyone who was remotely a threat by doing a Stalin:>Wang Ping Dung is competent in party.>Xi does not like that, makes deals with enemy of wang, Ling Ping Ding.>Wang gets purged, Xi is happy.>SUDDENLY Ling is a danger, same game happens on repeat.China has the same problem Russia has with strstified leadership going nuts. The difference is, chinks are not drunk rejects like russians and work some hours of the day.
>>64705015The bridges between the boats would fail in an open state, which is no problem if they're in position but a real issue if you want to move them again
>>64705028I think I've figured out where the disconnect is.The past 15 years have been so godawful for americans that a number of them have just chosen to selectively erase their own memory.For americans, everything in the world is still as-is from 2010. The president isn't a pedophile even if his wife has a footlong, the biggest problem facing america is gay marriage and coming back from a recession, europe is a hippie tourist spot that doesn't have potable water in half its countries, britain has the same living standards as the us but they have an accent that make them sound smart, puccia is still the 2nd greatest military on earth, india doesn't have internet, and china makes cheap plastic crap.This is the marketable nostalgia that the chinese are selling you. This is what china uncensored and inside china with <chingchong name here> is selling you.The best part? it's the chinese trying to sell you on this version of America.
>>64705102Probably? Americans are very insular by nature, most don't even know where rhode Island is or how fucking small it is.China trying "china stronk" and peddling horseshit ia nothing new. An lmao at xjina uncensored. They point to some fucked up stufd but oversell china's problem and undersell that there are people in the country that know what they're doing. It is our luck and their misfortune that chink bigwiga are giga retards, even compared to Israel first congress Xirs in the US. I dread the day China figures out checks and balances and has a free election with good institutions to boot.
Post attack jet pics
Always nice to have a reason to Dragonflypost
I thought we weren't allowed to post porn here?
>>64703782>99.9% Misses
Hidden and Dangerous 1&2 were amazing
>>647050791 is pure jank which I didn't realize when I was 8, but the map looking like a wargame table is still SOVL
>>64703807>>64703812>>64703815Xcom '94 is far superior to Xcom: ZoomSlop-edition
Why isn't this gun more popular? The magazine makes it easier to carry in my opinion
Even vatniks replaced it with classic design.
>>64705096Helical mags suck. The closest thing to a reliable Helical mag is on the Lewis gun, and that thing is MORE bulky than traditional mags.
>>647050969mm AKs have never been a successful export for Russia, and thats without the added dimension of a proprietary mag thats turbo frontheavy and doesnt fit in conventional pouches.
>MFW every time you buy a handgun, AR or box of ammo you're directly funding muh durr hunting via taxesThanks!
>>64702753>Average furry struggling to type coherent sentences, as per usualAlso, catch ass cancer, thanks.
>>64702753Not terrible, the only real complaint I've heard more than a couple of times was that they could sometimes fail to extract which might mean a fairly long stoppage or barrel change. Apart from that, it had a big advantage in that the US made a fucking lot of them, so while you might end up waiting years for your FN-MAG order to come through, the US could dump hundreds of them all over your military for not huge money.Sometimes, having an ok machinegun is enough and better than no machinegun, having a LOT of ok machineguns is even better
>>64702753They were ultimately a fragile gun with a short service life due to the reciever design. They worked in Vietnam well because they were new in box - but also a lot of the guns never saw Vietnam service, instead being deployed CONUS or in forces in Europe.By the 80's M60's were frigging clapped from mostly non-combat/training use. On top of the other flaws mentioned here, they had soft stamped recievers that would flex or bend, or could get dented, so occasssionally the entire reciever had to be put into a mandrel and hammered - reliability greatly suffered after this had to be done regardless and it was very taxing on armorers and logistics. These issued were compounded in small 80's wars like Grenada and Panama where the issues became glaring.In comparison the M249 - which gets alot of shit, saw 20+ years of heavy service and multiple conflicts, seeing some early service alongside the M60, before finally getting clapped in GWOT and yet it is STILL in some limited service despite its issuesIf you compare it to the stamped PKM - which is also stamped - the reciever on the PKM is just thicker and better reinforced.The M240 is simply a better gun, in every concievable way, and the M240L has finally gotten the weight down
>>64705076We had the FN Minimi, which is essentially the 249 in US service with some variations on the theme.Moon dust ingress was a problem on them to some extent and it was pretty important to teach your gunner how to clean and maintain them properly in the field, but otherwise they performed really well and at least as good as the FN-MAG. Like no one ever came in crying that their gun busted or shit itself in combat, needed a new one or there was some kind of overall lack of confidence in the guns.Considering how old they were, I think any criticism of them is pretty mean. I mean most people piss and whine about having a phone older than 5 years or a car older than 10 and a lot of ours were at least 2-3 times that and lived pretty hard lives. I mean shit, my pistol was older than I was first sent into Afghanistan and I drove a truck from the late 70's that was 'modernised' in the 80's without any armour and we just fucking dealt with it because that was all there was.
>>64702753US small arms development in the 1950s was just taking WW2 guns and somehow making them worse
And artillery.Jeep willys vs vw kubblewagon.
the k wagon was a staff car pushed into the combat role, they're not really comparable as combat vehicles. Its was probably nicer to drive than the jeep because of its shocks and seats, but the loss of 4wd and about half its horsepower would not be worthwhile.
>>64704068The kubo wagon was more fuel efficient and 4wd was not an issue because it was transaxle. The sheer mechanical simplicity hives it the edge over the jeep the fact that an engine swap can be sone in minutes is practical.
>>64704106Fuel efficiency matters to poverty stricken armies like the Wehrmacht, the jeep was the more practical, useful and adaptable vehicle.
>>64704998no, it wasnt.i drove both.while its really a hard job to keep the jeep straight on the road beyond 25-30 miles, the kuebel drives much easier. take that and the simpler maintenance and fuel supply, the kuebel is the clear winnerdat balloon tires, damn
647,920 built vs 50,000
