what's the point in hiring mercs who aren't at all familiar with your language, culture, or geography/climate?
>>64745607meat>>64737979
>>64745607funny how the current pop culture image of the mercenary is that of a seasoned veteran who's more competent than regular conscripted militia, when most of the times it was the exact opposite. mercs were hired simply because the lord didn't have to pay for their food, training or equipment, they were a ragtag bunch of misfits but ready to go. and best of all, their officers were not part of the cadre of scheming backstabbing nobles looking for any opportunity to usurp him, so having a general not close to court affairs was useful. the con was that you obviously had no control on it besides the pay.
>>64745627Not one of them looks drunk. So what do you think?
It's like hiring any good help - it is hard and you learn to settle. Sometimes that best you can get is quite bad.
>>64745607Why not? You just give them a rifle and point in enemy's general direction>they capture something congrats great success>they die nobody cares
Considering now tankers have become a valid target for boarding and maybe sinking.Do you have under war laws to mark it if you put missiles on it or can you just hide it until the enemy is in range if they try something?
>>64746878Yes I get you.But you're asking a non-question. You don't understand where the question stems so you ask a question which doesn't make sense considering the starting point. To make you understand this better I'm going to present a question which would present the absurdity of your question:>Would I get diabetes from eating McDonalds if i ate it too much?It starts with the fallacy which answers the very question you're asking. Okay. I'm going to make it really simple: WW3 soon in theaters. Probably 2030 or so.
>>64746878I'm autistic and want to absorb enough alcohol to perish right here right now (alcohol is a weapon, jannies)
stupid frog poster
>>64746671Full Clive CusslerTorpedoes anti air... Whatevs.
>>64746745If the weapons were openly displayed, sure, it's legal. It does however have serious ramifications regarding docking and transit rights. Turkey for instance would be able to take the stance that armed merchant vessels cannot transit the Bosporous and if one tried to force passage could sink it without ramifications. It would also cause any insurer to charge exorbitant rates (if one could be found), assuming any of these vessels are even carrying insurance. People have been openly arming merchantmen since the dawn of seafaring. It's doing it secretly that's considered illegal under Maritime law because that's shit that pirates do.
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Is it hype wanderwuffe? How come they don’t keep it hidden if it suppose to replace the f-22?
>>64743677I'd rather we break up Boeing and Lockheed Martin and divest the industry into smaller more maneuverable companies instead of 1-2 mega companies like we did back in the 90s
>>64743522it'll finish prototyping just in time for a democrat controlled house to cut defense spending and reduce the orders to double digits
>>64743522Do we have the specs? Any eye witness that is credible that saw this thing fly? What about the budget? How much will these things cost? Why are we not getting anything besides some shitty AI renders?
It's not really going to have canards, is it?
>>64743522On a more important matter, WTF happened to F/A-XX? I remember there was supposed to be a reveal one week after F-47 reveal, and then... there wasn't.
Pic related inside the wreckage of the glorious ORESHNIK missile
>>64745328monkemind shit happening here>send hypersaniks>IT"S AN MESSAGE!!!!>deliver intelW T FTF
>>64746965mental illness worms
>>64746948>>64746965penis worms> your welcome
>>64747011Anything can be a dildo if you're brave enough.
>>64746965audio garloids
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>>64740733I was referring to the awful gear in Alien: Earth. Aliens at least did a good job obscuring what the origin of the USCM gear was. The helmets in the movie were actually based on Vietnam-era M1 steel pots.
>>64744046Bullshit no one alive has seen alien earth.
>>64744046The tactical gear in that show felt odd for a reason. It's meant to look like future gear from the perspective of the past, which is why Weyland Commandos are dressed in black instead of multicam. It's meant to be an impression of 'futuristic' police like forces in an age of 'futuristic CRT monitors'. Much like how the USCM has awkward, clunky, (and frankly ugly) sci fi soldier gear with random shoulder pads and "in the pipe, five by five" lingo
>>64743994beautiful weapon
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>>64746536Vss is legally here as an sks vairent unfortunately the particular model is new and we're not trading with Russia no more
>>64746786The MP5 would be cheaper to shoot, I have shot a clone of one and it was really pleasant to shoot but the DPM is a lot cooler.
>>64746765>that videopardon my ignorance but how are they allowed full capacity mags? or was that a LEO
How come gun ranges are allowed to own prohibited guns and even rent them out to people but they aren't allowed uncapped magazines?
>>64746932Because we are not Americans
How hard would it be for a handgonner to hit a man sized target at 60m?
>>64743971Because smoothbore flintlocks simply aren't as chaotically inaccurate as you think they are.Modern made ones with modernly manufactured projectiles are probably better, sure, but a reasonably round ball from a smooth and reasonably round bore should in fact be able to MOSTLY hit a man sized target at 75yds. Maybe not always, and you're never getting laser precision out of this kind of weapon, also flintlocks have pretty long lock time, but grunts of yore DID in fact take aim, fire, and score hits, and it wasn't just a gamble.You learn how to shoot the gun, learn how to follow through with the lock time, and learn how your individual gun patterns, and you should be able to do it.The fact that these guns had ok accuracy at enough range (up to 100yds at its very farthest), is why militaries around the world continued to stick with smoothbore guns over rifled guns. Rifled bores offered supreme precision and extended range, but this wasn't seen as worth it for the much longer and tougher loading time, and thus much lower rate of fire.Thus, rifled guns were civilian life hunting and sporting weapons, and limited specialist weapons.It's with breech-loading muskets and projectiles like the Minié Ball where you can have a rifled gun with its long range and good precision, but also the fast and easy loading (and high rate of fire), of the smoothbore.
>>64746683I haven't watched inrange in years unless he's talking about black powder guns
>>64731447>and that dynamic shooting skill is being enthusiastically given to the worst people in the country.Those people hardly own guns, and definitely don't train or buy ammo. My extremely liberal gun bought his first gun when Trump got re-elected because he literally thinks Trump is going to round up democrats and kill them, and hasn't even taken his Springfield 1911 out of the box since he bought it a year ago. You should not be worried about these people.
>>64729552Not hard. I practice at 50m, and can hit a 9 inch target 8/10 times. .65 ball with a linen patch, with about 70~ish grains of ff black powder.
>>64729552>ITT: trannies and ziggers
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
>milsurp thread>not a singleSKSSad!
>>64745488as a millennial. I was told by boomers I was 10 years too late, 10 years ago. Its not worth dwelling on too much
>>64746907I get it. Just hard not to get a little jealous every time I hear how cheap 7.62x39 used to be lol
There’s an Eddystone 1917 with an original sling on Gunboards for $700+ ship. Good price IMO.
>>64746947except they sanded off the grip apparently
Taiwan might be alright.
>>64742937it's like explaining spin in quantum mechanics to a normie audience, they think the closest approximation to the meaning in common vernacular english being used means that it's literally that thing.
>>64727985how much money do you have tied up in the bubble?
>>64730045>hallucinationsThey call it that because the alternatives would reduce AI hype. The alternatives are lies or errors. Lies implies that the agent has, to use the technical term, an alignment problem (which it fucking does, but that's a topic for another day) which is Bad News. Error implies that you're just dealing with an algorithm that doesn't work properly (which you fucking are, but that's been done to death) which pours water on muh transformative tech hyoe.
Theoretically what’s the smallest ranged weapon that could be equipped by someone that could still reasonably incapacitate a regular sized person?
>>64746219>Imagine the possibilities.I don't want to be picking my GF out from my buttcrack when I sit down to watch a movie
>>64746561>picking my GF outJust shove in deeper and ask for a hands-on colonoscopy
>>64746687This is why the minigirls don't want to date you anon
>>64746692You know they aren't real r.right?
>>64746706You don't get to define my reality, only my schizophrenia does.
Why is French firearm design so strange?
Is the VHS what a modenized Famas would have look like?
>>64723255Spbp - easily the ugliest SMG of the pre-Cold War Era. Up there with the Chauchat variant in U.S. .30-06 for shitty angles and wonky craftsmanship (except the MAS 38 had a good reputation for reliability)
>>64746935>Is AK-but-Bullpup what a modernized G3-but-Bullpup would have looked like?
>>64746958Well yes or no?
>>64746935We already have a modernized famas. I think make it able to use stanag mags is the only upgrade you could do before having to redesign a brand new rifle.
Delta = no lost helicopterNavy Seal = lost 1 helicopter
>>64746469SEALS are AAA while Delta is major league.
>>64746499>DEVGRU took the Bin Laden op because Red Squadron was already deployed in AfghanistanNo they weren't. They prepared for months in America before the raid.
>>64746703they did three rounds of rock paper scissors
>>64746452Delta got Maduro aliveSeals got Bin Laden dead
>>64746773>he thinks that mook they killed was bin ladenmay we see the body?
IIRC 50 cent was shot nine times but survived because it was pissant caliber like .25 ACP
>>64746780>LCP IIbigger and fatter than 1 and looks worse.>>64746790exactly
>>64744276I have one of those. Bought it as a project. It's semi-reliable but has failure to ejects/feeds every now in then. I've polished basically every single internal part, still no dice. >>64741877How do you like it? I'm juggling between this and a Tomcat.
>>64741733Kek how about an Indian .22 short one shot, I hear some anon has LOTS kek.
>>64746821>bigger and fatterBarely>looks worseTrue
>>64742217Is this exclusively for in production pistols?
Are Zerg weapons realistically comparable to Protoss and Terran weapons? It seems like both should have the weapons to wipe out the Zerg without that much difficulty.
>>64745216Most authors who get published, want to get published, and aren't busy doing real material work are libtards. Libtards are fundamentally interested in social signaling not only due to their personal inclination but because it is how the survive, they are paid and socially supported by pushing a libtard/jew line. And almost everybody with the interest and ability to understand and write around the narrative limitations imposed by hard scifi are more interested in reading or writing books about military history.You could and I have written settings which are basically The 30 Years War IN SPACE with zero truly speculative technology. But there are a number of issues about getting this shit published. Spergs who want to write that shit generally don't care about it being published. It often lacks wide appeal and thus is not fiscally viable, and though plenty of libtard propaganda narratives are not fiscally viable on its own merits it can be supported as a political cause by those with money. A sperg interested in writing a diamond hard story or setting for a game is unlikley to give a shit about politics beyond the "in setting" context, so nobody of any political stripe is likely to front cash for it.And even being 100% hard doesn't mean it will be a good scifi story about war and shit. It could be a political diatribe like 1984, which features no technology which we didn't already have in the 80s and therefore in terms of technology was completely predictive.Your best bet would be game like Sins of a Solar Empire but based entirely in one solar system featuring weapons extrapolated from known technology. Which would be kind of like a simulation as the war would likely be prosecuted by machines directed by humans(the player).
>>64745658Every character from other games has their best skins trapped in HoTS, Zarya from Overwatch being the best example.
>>64745216Hard sci Fi is just a label autists use to mean "my toy is betterer den yurz" and that's all it's ever meant and that's all it will ever mean.
>>64745815goofy mantis
>>64745141Same but for co-op too. But I guess Starcraft just wasn't bringing home the big bucks compared to WoW or Hearthstone.
