>KONNICHIWA DUDE!!! I don't care about specific models, I dig all Japanese planes. They're so fragile and flammable! Can you hook me up?
>>64765344Old guy was a night shift jet airliner mechanic wih my Dad and he was a wrench on Guadacanal (Cactus Air Force) and said they would send out P-39s and half would come back, they would send out p-40s and get six out of ten back "BUT MAN WHEN WE GOT P-38S THEY A L L COME BACK WITH THE PAINT BURNT OFF THE GUN BAY (he meant nose), OUT OF AMMO AN GRINNIN' FROM EAR TO FUCKIN' EAR !!!"
>>64765396Righteous. The motherfuckers pictured here killed a couple jap infantry WITH THEIR PROPELLERS - THAT'S SOME SERIOUS BIG BALLS HATRED.
>>64757949I hate the Japanese I don't know why ppl like them they're as bad as the Chinese and jews
>>64765705>testing Bell P-59 Airacometno, he was a Lockheed test pilot after returning stateside from active duty, it was an acceptance flight for one of the earliest production P-80s; fuel pump failure at low altitudesame day as Hiroshima
>>64757949>suitable for aromaticsso... it smells good?
>Winter Olympics are approaching >get a renewed hankering to try my hand at some biathlon, again>remember that I live in the desert and no one does biathlon within like 600 milesaw.Any snowanons here do some biathlon?
RETVRN
found it https://youtu.be/oRTMW0oghoU?t=49
another angle of Sven https://youtu.be/DW1AhuZqB0g?t=33
>>64768647>>64768655I wonder why no one uses them
>>64768702they only made like 150 in total in the GDR for a few yearsit got that dude Gold, but 99% of the other golds are Fortner anniesI wouldn't mind one, but not for $5000 & with unobtainable mags and parts
Post your Greenland defence drip
>>64768565>EU funded NGO's and Navies go into the med to "rescue" africans then bring them back to europeTruly america made us do this....
These threads always end up as /pol/bait.
>>64768182>muh freebiesFuck off, you spend more on migrants. >>64768242No. You had 4 years.
>>64768245>when a 0% White nation complains about America It's all so tiresome.
>>64768565>refugees >military age malesAt least be honest about your propaganda. >the us>not islam Lol, lamo.
Post books and useful /k/-related pages.
>>64764145"Cheeki breeki" is a forbidden phrase here now OP. You could get a 3-day site ban for "trolling" by posting anything that is even remotely favorable to or associated with Russia.
Nothing from Roy Dunlap? You disappoint me, /k/.
>>64764145Other books I'd include ranging from generalist knowledge to narratives are:-The Art of Warfare on Land by Chandler-Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell (easier access than Chandler's Campaigns of Napoleon, genuinely great job of breaking down who did what and how the units are effective against other units)-The Galleys at Lepanto-Anything Hornfischer wrote but I'm partial to Neptune's Inferno and Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors-Richard Dellar's British Cavalry Swords 1788-1912-Robson's book on British sabres-Delbruck's entire series on Warfare-Douglas Porch's The French Foreign Legion is absurdly expansive, it is the Chandler of the post Napoleonic French military history books-Mine Were of Trouble by Peter KempI really need to stop fucking around and get a better job for a better place so I can not cram all my books everywhere.
- Iranian Navy corvette Naghdi (82) - Expeditionary sea base Makran (441) - IRGC-N sea base Shahid Mahdavi
>>64766292honestly this. Iran continuing to waste its limited resources on these pos is probably more damaging to the regime than actually sinking them
>>64766271"Navy"
>>64766271What do you mean "spotted by"?South Africa is hosting a navy exercise you monke.
>>64768676Same vibe
Venezuela? Cuba?
That are reliable and don't cost $2000?
>>64767735M1 garand
>>64767735M1A, PTR, Ruger SFAR.
>>64767892NTA, but reliable and less than $2k.>PSA PA 10 (you can replace this pick with many different AR-10 variants like the S&W M&P 10 or the Ruger SFAR for example).>Springfield Armory M1A.>Zastava Arms PAP M77.>PTR-91 (or the Century Arms CA-3).>Kel Tec RFB.>DSA SA-58.There we go, 6 different designs in .308 that work well and cost less than $2,000.
>>64767735HI POINT 308 by special request of yourself because youre so dam amazing
>>64767735I got my NM M1A made with gi parts for $1700. Its a fantastic rifle. YMMV with them though. PTRs are good options too. There once was a time you could get a solid FAL build for a grand but those days are long over.
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.
>>64768579>What's wrong with the B-47?To put it short: if you replace the American names of people and companies with Soviets then it would appear in a video of Paper Skies...>the proliferation of jets mean propeller bombers were essentially dead, specially with the failure of turboprops and the obstinate rejection of RR engines>Absurd requirements of speed and range that US companies couldn't fulfill before the 1950s, forced to use the mediocre J35 of GE (a NACA compressor paired with a J31 turbine and with less engine life than a Jumo 004)>still approved for mass production because it was considered as essential as nuclear bomber>none of its problems were fixed because it was a dead end and and despite that its production was started as soon as possible by multiple companies>the design was more retarded than a bastard child of the Amerika Bomber and a Tupolev. It sacrificed more than Stalin in 1942 (abhorrent cockpit, suicidal flight condition to partially achieve the claimed range, designed for high speed but the flutter forced it to fly 'slow')>Nearly killed the B-52 program due to its (bad) influence, only the J52 engine saved the B-52 after its 2nd (or 3rd) cancellation.BTW a lot of 1940-1950s monstrosities remained in use for 30-40 years because the Cold War mentality, you just have to see the CS.Also, the HELLMUTT monster, the Me163, was mass produced and Germans were planing a successor even more retarded and explosive.Between 1945-1955 Bongs were the only people designing good bombers.
>>64768649Also, I forgot to mention that it was a hodgepodge of German research that Boeing didn't understand when they presented the prototype. The airframe life was unknown (think in the Comet but with nukes...).
>>64763430>this level of dogshit opinions Holy fuck how did you survive childhood.
>>64767889Nazis stole so little art Allied command was issuing guidelines on what to do when units would uncover caches of them
>>64768527>cosmic bomb>>the USAAF originally called cruise missiles "drones" before briefly switching to "pilotless bombers"that's new to me>robot bomboo yes I've heard that one
In todays conflict is it more important to have camo or be able to lower your heat signature?
>>64768446It's either that or a drone that kills youA mylar poncho might be a little better though I suppose but everyone will laugh at you for looking silly
waves like light and sound are weird n shit and can be bent around and maybe even destructively interferenced with itself
>>64767512It's more important to just have PGMs that outrange the competition for cheaper than the competition.
>>64767512Camouflaging is and always will be the most important thing, and reducing IR signature is just one part of that.This applies to everything, not just personnel.
>>64767512Use nets
Guns competing to replace the L85, the "Project Greyburn". Thoughts?
>>64766439>4 AR-15s>2 AR-18sI get that these are peak assault rifle, but man that's grim.
>>64766439KNEEL.
>>64767812imo its gonna be a long time until we evolve past AR15 based designsits gonna be like with bolt actions - mauser 98 became the gold standard and it took a whole new generation of semi auto rifles to actually progress with something newmaybe telescoped case ammo will finnalt catch on and we will see brand new designs>>64768121yeah i know its boring but i genuinely gotta ask what do you think is the alternative? i suppose a modernized roller delayed blowback could still be viable but it would still strugle with things like getting very dirty because its literally a blowback actionwe could also have a kriss vector style action but i got no idea how strong the springs and other components would have to be
>>64768278>what do you think is the alternative?There won't be an alternative until we get a fundamental change in infantry weapon technology. That doesn't mean I can't pine for the cold war days when a competition for a new service rifle with six competitors would have had six different rifles.
Bullpup fans are getting BTFO once again.>>64766476>>64766878Most of the guns in that list have been used by their SOF at one point or another (I'm not sure about the Beretta NARP or the CZ Bren 3).
What causes slavabooitis and how can it be cured?
>>64766422>What causes slavabooitisWanting and desiring alternatives to the norm. Having EVERYTHING be westshit is boring. The designs are boring. The doctrines are boring. Everything is same-y and then sometimes a delta wing. Why is this hard to understand?No, I don't see the beauty in the Leopard and Abrams being just two boxes. I want variety, I want spices. I want a weird boat shaped hull or tiny round turret. Idc what the K:D is. Logistics is king of battle and artillery is its queen anyway. I want weird shit popping up from Indonesia, Or Korea or Russia or somehow Turkey.It's fucking neat.
>>64766422>What causes slavabooitis- Exposure to russian propaganda- Lack of exposure to real russiaIt largely manifests only in individuals a continent away from russia and/or uneducated, reality-challenged shut-ins.
>>64768486the catch is it still takes you longer to get anywhere than any European city and you get ripped off for it at every opportunitymuch like beijing implessive transportation propaganda.
>>64768496cringe superficial contrarial shit-eater
>1) Disinformation, Ignorance & PropagandaOtherwise well meaning people who unfortunately, have consumed far too much hyped-up news about Russian stuff.>2) Pseuds & Contrarians.You know the type; The sorts of people whose entire sense of worth comes from the belief that they're members of a small, rarefied elite that is defined by its avoidance of commonly held beliefs. These retards will go to superhuman lengths to find and attach themselves to all things obscure, alternative and different (slavtech in this case) just so they can feel special about something, without any regard for objective quality and real world performance. It's like that faggot who uses the word "normie" unironically to malign anything too popular for his tastes. Despite being failures or at best, unremarkable midwits IRL, such people tend to consider themselves superior to the majority of society.>3) Worst of all, being an actual Vatfrican/third worlderYou can't fault them for being patriotic, but holy shit are they delusional.>4) Benign slavaboosThey know that much of the stuff is subpar, but they're still fond of slav equipment for all its quirks and novelties. Historical value is another aspect of slavtech that they find appealing
> 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
>>64766785More hints throughout would have definitely been helpful in selling the idea of being trapped in one's mind in one moment. An existence between life and death, it's the Twilight Zone and there were so many episodes of that series they could have used for inspiration. Sprinkle more hints throughout to establish that things are off. Instead they just give some very shallow imagery and a silly reveal at the end. Wasted potential, indeed.
>>64755931you should have realized, having read thousands of books, that Le Carre does that intentionallythe idea is you're hearing the story from Smiley, or someone like him, basically
I want to throw in an odd one.>A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)At its core it is a romance and detective film set directly after WW1. So if some of you fucks are looking for a movie to watch with your girl, this might be your chance. Because it is also a hidden war drama.And for all the loner war autists on here - the WW1 scenes are abso-fucking-lutely great.All that aside, it is really just a great movie overall. And Audrey Tautou is just as cute as always.
>>64749583The greatest revenge flick
>>64762963that's my brother's favourite of the lotmy mum likes Tonight etc>>64767656>Le Carre does that intentionallylots of tyro writers do it "intentionally" in the sense that they think it makes the story sound authentic. the very common "I'm gonna write like the way people actually speak" mistake.the reality however is that nobody writes dialogue the way people actually speak. a tiny smattering of irrelevancies or conversational tics might be added, yes, but good writers don't write that much of it.for example, there's hardly any point in spending the amount of time Le Carre does in the opening chapters of TTSS fumbling with his bloody umbrella, or trying to duck lunch with a disliked ex-colleague, and all the tiresomely fussy mono/dialogue that goes on throughout.and Frederick Forsyth is of an age with Le Carre, but his writing is miles more polished, so don't attribute it to "that's just the way people wrote books back then".Smiley's People is quite well written though.
>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
>>64765232Blackadder, the lost season
>>64765157Second from left is the most British looking person ever. On a side note, thank God for Kodachrome.
>>64766803That's fucking awesome.
>>64767551goddamn i can't get over how large format photography looks
>April 1945>Sailors prepare a target drone for anti-aircraft target practice near Iwo Jima.
What is the highest military honor your nation can award a citizen of a foreign country?
All kommandos should go to Richmond, VA on the 19th for the vcdl lobby day to protest anti gun legislation
>>64768523But I’m just getting off night shift that morning;_;
>>64768523I'm not driving four states away on a Monday. This is why liberals protest, they don't have jobs.
If you could infuse any animal/insect with humans to create the perfect super soldier, which animal would you choose?
>>64768542M A U S
>>64768542gorilla
>>64768631>humans with just a little more muscle massCmon, you can do better
>>64768635>humans with just a little more muscle massgorillas with the brain power of a human
>>64768542possibly an axolotl, it can breathe both in and out of water, and it can also regenerate... basically, you’d have an amphibious Deadpool.
how to beat mongols/horse nomads?Fortifications?focus on range?heavy cav?hold out until the current khan dies?
>>64765773Majority of horse nomads are easy. Heavy cavalry wrecks them. Disciplined heavy infantry wrecks them. Fortifications wreck them. Mostly, horse nomads just raid for food and flee when your heavies show up. They're really good at fleeing.Mongols are, unfortunately, not the majority of horse nomads. Mongols have discipline on par with 18th century European armies, unlike... well, any other pre-gunpowder army. Mongols are weird because they have half a dozen generals each on the level of Caear or Pompeius and all of them arw loyal to Genghis or Ogedai. That kinda thing is shockingly rare. Mongols have absolutely no qualms about integrating conquered peoples' infantry into their armies in a matter of years. Actually not uncommon amongst sedentary peoples, but rare amongst nomads. Mongols back the raiding capabilities inherent to horse archers with a logistical base not seen amongst any of their contemporaries, and indeed not since Rome, which enables them to campaign foe multiple years, even decades, and take fortresses, something horse nomads usually lack the ability to do.What I'm saying is, Mongols were exceptionally unusual. Mongols were horse nomads, but most horse nomads were not Mongols.Genghis' ability to inspire loyalty amongst people who would otherwise be busy carving out their own microempires and backstabbing each other, his and his immediate successors' ability to integrate conquered societies' soldiers basically on the spot, his and his officers' ability to actually discipline an army of horsemen was a literal once in history event. No horse nomad society before or after accomplished what he did. In the end, they were stopped only when their logistics gave out, similar to the Spanish in the Americas or Rome in central Europe.Stopping horse archers has been accomplished by a plethora of sedentary peoples. It's not rocket science.Stopping the Mongols, assuming you aren't sitting 5000 km from their homeland?Good luck.
>>64766767https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bạch_Đằng_(1288)
>>64768312Meant for >>64767105
>>64767120Except Mongol composite recurve bows were just as powerful as the largest English longbows.
>>64768299>Heavy cavalry wrecks them. Disciplined heavy infantry wrecks themNot really to both. Heavy infantry has to catch them, and gets whittled down until they do. Same goes for heavy cavalry. Forces containing both were able to win, but it's not like everyone with heavy infantry cleared steppe nomads all the time-or even most of the time. It required combined arms, and often incorporating or hiring horse archers for your own side as well.There's also the problem that many steppe nomads brought their own heavy cavalry along. The Scythians invented the concept of heavy cavalry in the first place.
