Previous: >>64643273Stamboulieh Law makes weekly videos on all the latest lawfare:https://youtube.com/@2alawYou've heard of FRTs, but what's a "super safety"?>uses the safety to force the reset of the trigger>allows for way more trigger options (you just have to trim two places)>invented by Tim Hoffman (https://hoffmantactical.com)>gifted to the world to freely 3D print>enterprising people now selling super safeties made of steel (recommend at least 4140)>cheaper than an FRT ($90-$150)>originally a 3-position cross-bolt safety>left is safe, right is semi, middle is super>3-position 90° super safety selectors are now availableComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64703204>>64703204Hoodrat OOB is still an OOB.The direct blowback FRT space is either converting to delayed blowback (CZ Evo to Nexus upper) or introducing rate reducers to lessen the risk (Vz61 and planned for Mac 10/11 Mac n cheese)
>>64701585pretty sure I saw a video of a 3 round burst SS, cant remember where. who's working on that?
>>64705742joe from deskpop had it.
>>64705632You're getting into legal argument territory. Even a true statement can be something you would have to fight. Removing the cuck block doesn't even give you an MG if you don't have f/a parts, so modifying it to put in a completely legal device doesn't give you an MG either. That being said, feds are more than happy to give you bullshit charges and make you defend yourself, the process is the punishment.
>>64705742stuff n thingshttps://x.com/tryhard_joe/status/2004224747035660670#m
Let me guess, you think your airforce needs more expensive higher performance aircraft.You could get 5 of these fucks and arm them for the price of an empty KR-67.
>>64704028Not really, the reason why big shots use fakeshit now is corporate culture of "we need all our own designs to be copyrightable and owned by us, so we could sue anybody else for copying them if they copied our shit". Only thing copyrightable about the planes (and guns i guess) are producer names. Not even designations since shit like" F-15" is gubmint mandated and therefore can't be commercialised. Project Wingman used real planes from all around the world witch changed names (also cowardice) and no one cared. The copyright laws did not change between times where almost everyone used real stuff and today - only thing changed is current corporate mentality of "we need to 100% OWN everything we use, oc donut steel"
>>64705662Funny thing about COD specifically, Activision got dragged into a 3 year lawsuit over their depiction of Humvees in COD. Yes, they eventually won, but the "fun" thing about getting hit by a lawsuit is that there is no winning, just degrees of losing. It makes more sense to avoid a suit in the first place.
>>64705733EA got dragged over Bell choppers in BF3 and 4 too, don't forget that one.
>>64704010It uses them in no small part because that way you don't get autistic fucking DCS players who think they're real pilots bitching about every little divergence from reality done in the name of gameplay, balance or fun. You have a lot more flexibility for filling in blanks, doing unusual things and generally prioritising the overall experience over the autistic detail this way.Ace Combat gets away with it because it's so far removed from reality that anyone complaining it's unrealistic is obviously missing the point. Here they'd be much more insufferable.Tiny Combat Arena might be a little closer to what you want though, even if official support from the dev is pretty slow.
Nuke option is a based game. I usually stick to ww2 but its scratching my itch until i get combat pilot
Why is there so little media about this conflict? Americans fighting actual reds with WW2 tech is badass even if it wasn’t a total victory but I guess frostbite and getting swarmed by human waves doesn’t make for good recruitment propaganda.
>>64705508Oh I find it interesting for that definitely. Doesn't detract that it is mainly ignored for a bunch of social and political factors.
>>64705528mash was about vietnam
>>64705543The boomers were 5 years old in 1950, it arguably was the last war in boomers were not involved...
>>64705157>ended up as WW2.5more like dlc
Mao Anying died in the Korean war.
>Ivan, hohols spot our drones with their IR cameras!>Njet problem, Sasha. We just put IR searchlights on our drones to blind their IR cameras, хopoшo.>You're so smart, Igor!
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Why do people repost their twitter feed to 4chan?
The bus driver in chief has threatened that if another oil tanker is seized he'll send Venezuelan special forces to infiltrate and commandeer a US aircraft carrier and steal it. What are the odds of this succeeding?
>>64705612Fucking shit flinging retard. Damn your 10mil extra voters will show up this time right? Right?
>>64705905What did Chad do?
>>64705962Let us steal their flag.
>>64705905>I kneel, gypsie-sama.......
>>64705822As a moderate I think everyone to the left or right of me needs to hang.Which is of course reasonable.
does chaff still work against modern radar?
Was Flak useless or just a bad choose against bombers? The window to shoot them was tiny and the fragmentation radius was too small, it need almost a direct hit with time or proximity fuse.It only make sense when you don't have fuel and aluminium for your interceptor planes.
>>64706048>No functional guidance systemDouble World War losers say what Fritz?
>>64705287Looks really cool.
>>64706068the one i posted used mclos though
>>64705283>useless or bad choice?What an incredibly stupid question. German flak was effective as fuck. It not only blasted literally thousands of planes out of the sky (approx 5,000), it forced British Bomber Command to operate nearly exclusively at night. Which made their accuracy shit.It also hammered American daylight bomber formations so badly they had to alter their tactics. High altitude bombing fucked their accuracy too. If whatever dimwitted bug up your ass compelled you to ask that stupid question is a sign of your general intellect, you should seek help immediately by placing your head in a gas oven.
>>64705283It worked.And also what's your alternative? Planes use a completely different set of resources. If you want more air defense you can use both. Planes are obviously better simply because of range and mobility but it's not like as if flak is taking many resources away from planes.
Pick up the phone, /k/
>>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
>>64692977Just you wait, once we actually build the F/A-259 Striker, then Europe will finally rule the skies.
>>64705124>European-Centric geopoliticsIgnoring for a second immigration, there is still a lot of discontent among policyheads in the EU that France is still holding onto its African possessions.
Thoughts about Baofeng radios?
>>64705778yeah, because they're counting dead calls. The hobby is on its last legs. Bands will be sold to ELON or somebody else and we'll all be based freebanders.
>>64705715>>64705797>>64705820>dead calls are getting new licensesCope.
>>64705805>You'll need to do better than thatI'm not that anon or arguing his general point for him, but anyone with 20 bucks to burn can get a HAM handset delivered to them in 1-2 business days whether they have a license or not. I don't know where the hell you'd find the numbers for this or if it's even possible to count, but with such a large delta between the effort required to acquire a radio and start broadcasting and the effort required to get a license to legally broadcast it seems incredibly likely to me that most people operating amateur radios are unlicensed.
>>64706116>if it's even possible to counMonthly reported Amazon account sales clearly indicate a 50:1 radio sale to license ratio. This doesn't include Temu, Ebay or Etsy.
>>64706133Also add aliexpress / alibaba for CCRs. Actual number is 65:1 with those probably.
Was the Yugoslav military the 4th strongest military in the 80s-90s before it fell apart?
>>64704847Even better, just proves my point that they should have been in charge instead of other neanderthals>>64704848>There is no 'han' equivalent in Yugoslavia for fucks sake, retard.Look for "yugoslavism" and "Illyrian movement" jackass. They have been trying to make "Yugoslav" a thing in one shape or form for about a century. I specifically said they were in the process of nationality building, not ethnicity. Just like there is no American ethnicity but there is a nationality. Now try to adapt Chink indoctrination to the above mentioned>more forceYes:>muh medieval orthodox emipre, straight to camp>muh thousand-year-old-yu-gi-oh statehood, straight to camp>muh indigenos populations that willingly took islam, straight to camp>>64704932Serbs are retards because they equate "Serb" with "South Slav", more precisely with "Yugoslav" and that is a recent phenomenon (at least after WWI). To be honest, just like any other propaganda there is a kernel of truth in there (like conversions to islam or catholicism) but is perverted to suit nationalistic needs. Same goes for Croats, Bosnians etc. In fact the only ones that don't embelish their history as much are Slovenians which is why I have respect for them
>>64705267You're sidestepping the point you tried making earlier. Han are an established ethnic group in China, there was no 'Yugoslav' group. Additionally the Han always contstituted a majority of the population into which other groups could assimilate. Despite this, China still harsp about the cultural and ethnic diverstiy of the the Chinese people.>Look for "yugoslavism" and "Illyrian movement" jackass. They have been trying to make "Yugoslav" a thing in one shape or form for about a century. You're confusing pan-slavic movements with ethnic identity>I specifically said they were in the process of nationality building, not ethnicity.Those are the same thing in Europe.>To be honest, just like any other propaganda there is a kernel of truth in there (like conversions to islam or catholicism)Conversion to catholicism was far less likely than conversion to orthodoxy since the orthodx church was far better positioned in the Ottoman empire than the Catholic one.>>more force>Yes:Because that worked in the 1920's and 1930's, right? Wait, no, it fucked everything up and only increased tensions.
>>64705285Im not sidestepping anything, I said if you want to go the route of unified South Slavic country (at that point in time), you need to erase individual nationalities and replace it with one overarching nationality and a WAY to do it is like Chinks are dealing with their ethnic problem. I mean comparason is pretty easy if you replace ethnicity with nationality:>Han=Yugoslav (nation)>Uygur=Serb, Croat, Bosniak, whatever (nation)The point was, heavy handed prolonged approach to the issue>You're confusing pan-slavic movements with ethnic identityIm literally not because...>Those are the same thing in Europe....they are not in the Balkans. States were (are) not ethnostates because populations were split between major empires. That is why you had Turk expulsions in 1910s, Serb genocide in NDH, ethnic cleansings during Yugo wars. So either you redraw maps to have ethnostates, which defeats the point of Yugoslavia or you make a fictional nationality that is going to encompass everyone in it>conversionsCroat catho-to-ortho happened in Military Frontier when being a Serb gave exemptions from taxes (to Austrian, Serbs and Croats are the same, only difference is whether they cross themselves with three or five fingers, that is why population census was done with ortho/catho/other options) and when free gibs stopped they went back to catho (origin of you have an icon in the attic, because Serbs are as smart as an average Austrian clerk)>force disnt work......because you need will, peace, economic prosperity, 40 years and performance legitimacy to do it (all of it, at the same time)...which was in pretty low supply in Balkans during XX century
>>64705534>a WAY to do it is like Chinks are dealing with their ethnic problem.You keep sidestepping the fact that Chinks can do that because Han are a vast majority of the population that subsumes the rest. There is no analogy with Yugoslavia here. Even Serbs make barely some 35% of the population.>heavy handed prolonged approach to the issueThat's what you're arguing for though. >Im literally not because...>...they are not in the Balkans. States were (are) not ethnostates because populations were split between major empires. Explain why Serbs and Bulgars are different people Croats and Slovenes are different people. Why Albanians are both Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox.>That is why you had Turk expulsions in 1910s, Serb genocide in NDH, ethnic cleansings during Yugo wars. There are still Turks in the balkans and Serbs in Croatia (esp. till 1995).>So either you redraw maps to have ethnostates, which defeats the point of Yugoslavia or you make a fictional nationality that is going to encompass everyone in itStates were not really re-drawn. They're mostly the same they were. The chimpout of Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia was the result of the fact they were not a part of Serbia.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64705678>Chinks can do that because Han are a vast majority of the populationChinks can do it because they can successfully sell the story: "you see, you are actually [insert desired whatever here], come accept and enjoy the riches and economic prosperity. In 40 years your grandkids wont even know you were [whatever you wanted to root out]". I mean it fucking worked with Bosnians and islam: convert get free gibs and in 100 years your offspring will be telling the story they were muslim from the dawn of time from their gilded mansions. Its gonna work for 80% of population, and for the rest 20%...>That's what you're arguing for though....heavy handed handling of dissidents, while majority ignores enjoying prosperity>Serbs, Bulgars, Croats, cats, mice and orangutansWho the fuck said they were the same people...the entire conversation is a hypothetical around how to herd cats into the bag when they dont want to be herded>various chimpouts from Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia......happened precisely because national (state) lines didnt overlap with ethnic lines which brings us back to one of two options: either chimpout and make ethnically clean state (a la Croatia) or offer prosperity in exchage for nationality (like failed Yu attempts)>church hoppingOrthodox under Ottomans were privileged in the beginning (XV, early XVI), later when conquests stalled, repression started, which is why you had westward migrations. As for others you also had catho-to-islam, ortho-to-islam, ortho-to-catho and vice versa depending on gibs or pressures, example I listed was just an exampe of documented conversion being misused for nationalistic rethoric>proof of conceptWell you can argue you have proof in America: melting pot of ethicities with manufactured nationality made possible by century of piece and prosperity, literally "American dream". AH was hierarchical society at its core and you always knew who was above others, thus you had divisions
Now that the Chink chimpout over the $11B Taiwan weapons deal and most recent numbers print from their imploding economy has wrapped up, I want to tally some numbers for the 'explicitly presented as the largest-ever military exercise around Taiwan'. This exercise was also explicitly stated as a blockade exercise vs the strike exercises of 2024.Taiwanese sources have reported that >6:00 a.m. Dec 29 - 6:00 a.m. Dec 30, 130 PLA aircraft detected. 14 PLAN warships + 14 CCG vessels.>6:00 a.m. Dec 30 – 6:00 a.m. Dec 31 Aircraft: 77 PLA aircraft detected. 17 PLAN warships + 8 CCG vessels.What's so damming to me is that the area of operations for the exercises were 2x larger than that of the 2024, and 3x that of the 2022 Pelosi chimpout. Yet there were less aircraft than in 2024, 130 in a single day vs 150 in a single day. The sorties also started slow, taking till the mid afternoon to get to peak detection rates as per Taiwan MOD. So this is where I really get to the main bit. A blockade requires substantially more sorties, I'm talking 48 sorties just to get 8 planes on CAP for 24h. Yet the PLA did only 130 in a day, barely enough for a dozen planes to be on 24h CAP. There's just no excuse. You NEED to have CAP or else US and Jap planes can just sneak in and rape you. The second day is so pathetically bad with 77 aircraft so I don't even wanna talk about it, just assume it's 2x worse.So you've got what is >supposed to be the biggest exercise ever>covering an area 2x bigger than previous ones>supposedly have 1600 aircraft stationed east of Beijing>yet can only muster up 130 sorties 6 hours laterImplessive. My theory is that the PLA airforce not only has a low readiness, but the logistics are so fucked that they actually can't turn around airplanes fast enough with things as basic as fuel.picrel is taiwan missilehttps://news.usni.org/2025/12/31/china-wraps-justice-mission-taiwan-blockade-drillsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64705154>germanLmao
>>64706010If that is true then why isn't it showing? They have massive economies of scale behind them and with stolen technology they should be at least a close competitor.
>>64706094This. German economy is kind of in the shitter right now, because they have fallen so fucking behind the rest of the western world in digitization and computerization its not even funny. Those people still can't grasp the concept of payment by card, for fuck's sake. German strength has allways lied in machinery, not computers.>But muh ZuseIrrelevant. His computer was effectively developed in a bubble and was irrelevant to the advancements of modern computing, and American ENIAC became operational 4 months after the end of WW2.Krauts need to understand that this isn't 1940's anymore. Nobody is impressed by car engines anymore. This is the age of literal humanoid robots and AI.
>>64706097Haven’t you see their new spam about how they’re going to make better equipment than Nvidia? The fact that the actual Chinese don’t even want them means nothing, gwaillo.
>>64703061>they used to say exactly the same thing before WWI.>Germany was UK's second largest trade partner.I'm not a big history buff. was Germany able to afford it?
You wouldn't shoot this lil guy right?
>>64700878>police cruiser looks like "ICE" with the front door openThey need to fix that, since Trump turned ICE into yet another kremlin front
>>64701889>supposedly a deer>with pawswtf, have people never saw a deer
>>64704413Venison is a bit too lean for a burger unless you mix in some fattier meatsIts great as roast or chilly or anything else slow cooked with spices
>>64705254They don't have fat fucking tits either, but don't bother, you're not going to change the furfags.
>>64705684>Its great as roast or chilly or anything else slow cooked with spices"It's great cooked in any way where you can't tell what meat it was" -venison lovers
Post gear, discuss gear.Maximalist edition. Let's go all out, just this once.Old: >>64671717
Check it, Buffman tested the VPAM-12+ Turtle Extreme plate.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_TtPM2N3B4
>>64705781>Anyone hear anything about the Hesco 4403 test he was supposed to do seven months ago?ask and ye shall receive
>>64705935video isnt out yet so cant draw too many conclusions, but either drop test reduced strike face efficacy, or they are built extremely close to the nij4 minimum, IMO 80 fps isn't an unreasonable ask. the third shot stopping leads me to the latter. though for a budget plate, it must have an acceptable strike face binder, as most of the smaller threats were stopped. spacing/placement is unknown ofc. probably a fine budget plate.
>>64705935>>64705956Great. I agree with that assessment. Purpose of the 4403 was to provide a plate that provided dead nuts reliable Level IV performance, did it with better lesser-threat multi-hit than the LTC 26605, and didn't have the nominal sizing chicanery of the Highcom 4S17M, which is 8.6lb SAPI M vs the 4403 at 7.9lb. The 4403 also measures an honest 10x12, so good on Hesco, while the 4S17M in an alleged 10x12 is often more a 9.25x11. Ditto for the new RMA 1155. The 4403 meets all those marks.The conclusion seems to be, since the 4403 is actively certified and passed the full 0101.06 battery, conditioning included, with many more plates than Buff tested, what you said. It doesn't have a lot of headroom over base NIJ Level IV spec and the "M2AP out of a .300 winmag" trick will work perfectly. Multi-hit is good. Buff's drop test seems to be harder than 0101.06.Used Protech 2230 seems to be the dominant $450 Level IV deal assuming Safariland wasn't blowing smoke when they said they had no penetrations, across 15 plates, even with M2AP over 3,510ft/s.
There are still ten Protech 2230s on Gunbroker if anyone wants budget Level IV and finds the Hesco 4403's lack of headroom disturbing. Lighter, stronger, double the multi hit vs 7.62x51mm M80 @ 2" spacing. Built in trauma pad, but pretty thick at 1.2". These were NIJ certified when new, but are older, formerly more expensive, discontinued, and expired plates. Backer is aramid vs the 4403's fiberglass and the ceramic is beefier, hence the performance advantage. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1139132598https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1139003171
I love 7mm-08 and I’m tired of pretending I don’t.
>>64703922The maximum point blank range is like idk 50% longer on .243 compared to .308
>>64703476What this (>>64703922) anon said is correct. If zeroed on MPBR, you can just pretend gravity doesn’t exist within that range. However let’s say you’re zeroed for MPBR on a 7” target and your MPBR is 300 yards, meaning you can allow +-3.5’ in any direction and still make a hit, wind drift can easily exceed this amount and cause a miss. 5.56 for example drifts IIRC something like a foot by the end of its MPBR. Wind is a real bitch and the only counter to it is short flight time and high BC.>>64705572Can’t be +50% or you’d need at least 1.5x the velocity (same flight time but with a 1.5x increase in average velocity). .243 would have to be pushing ~4000fps for this to be true.
>>64696693Based. I don't own one, couldn't see myself buying one, but I always hope to win one at a gun raffle.
>>64703928>case to bore ratioCan you think of a more imaginary statistic?
>>64705856>doesn't understand overboreAdmittedly, I should have stated case volume for just (you).
Is deep penetration ballistic missile a new of deterrence strategy?
>>64705722Probably not since no one can be sure if it's nuclear armed or not and the sir might have to turn the key anyway.
