I'm a brainlet when it comes to acoustics, but are there reasons other than price/difficulty as to why a monolithic suppressor made of sintered titanium or stainless steel wouldn't work ? Think of acoustic foam with insane weight to structural strength.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq2AM9x80nA&t=63s
>>64697605>Some cans are close to what you are talking about, they are filled with nothing but scrap metal shavings. For a long time, one of the best .22 Ruger cans on the market was filled with what looked like shoe grommets. Just a ported barrel, an outer tube that matched the profile of the original heavy barrel, then a bunch of brass grommets.
Acoustic foam works by scattering the sound waves in all directions, thereby diffusing it. Suppressors work by redirecting and sequestering the noise into little compartments. Metal foam topology would likely impede this redirection, I think, and I don't think the bonus of diffusing the sound would make up for it.
>>64697430Sounds kind of like a glasspack muffler for motorcycles
>>64697430Use this as a wipe, it might work for flash instead of sound. The mesh will catch unburnt powder and act as a heat sink
>>64697612>Acoustic foam works by scattering the sound waves in all directions, thereby diffusing itUsually this type of treatment is used for absorption. The sound enters the material and gets turned into vibration and heat. You'll also get diffusion for the waves that don't get absorbed, but that's a secondary effect.
Chile sending Marders to Ukraine, possibly Leopards.Chile has sent an initial batch of 30 Marders to Europe as part of an extended ringtauche scheme. They will be refitted and sent to the Ukrainian frontline. Chile will recieve Skyranger equipped vehicles in return.It is likely that aging Leopard 1s in Chilean service will be sent along with more Marders.Chile planned to refit it's Leopard 1 fleet as missile destroyers and smart mortar carriers as Chilean Leopard 2s and Marders are upgraded by FAMAE and Turkish partners to totally replace all Leopard 1 tanks and M113 remaining in service. Now it seems that the Leopard 1 and YPR76 vehicle pools may be done away with entirely at a rapid pace, sent abroad, as the Leopard 2A4CHL and Marders become the reserve units at an accelerated pace.A staunch NATO ally, Chile has flirted with purchasing new build Leopards over the years as well as Puma and Lynx infantry fighting vehicles with German arms makers even proposing domestic production. The time for that may come soon. With the sometimes hostile neighbor Peru set to soon induct the K2 MBT and an 8x8 IFV variant of the K808 into service and rival Brazil likely to acquire the CV90MKIV and a new yet announced MBT soon, it is likely that Chile, now with a new pro-military cabinet elect will choose to acquire new build modern armor.
>>64695998Didn’t the west near Romania and Moldova have some vineyards?
>>64695790>ringtauche scheme>(German for "ring swap")I like it, the crafty bastards!
>>64695831>Russia has bled 90% of its stockpiles outside of strategic assets, relaxExactly, 5D going on here to back a "Peace Deal" thatvwill never be accepted, meanwhile Russians die in Godless Damnation! How sweet it is! Let the Peruviand step up for new German gear, let the Germans get a new customer, let the Ukies use commie crap they can already drive. Win, win, win, Russia loses. Perfect!
>>64697732Eternal cistern death, r.right?
>>64697474Should I visit Chile over Peru?
How would you arm and operate a small squadron of rebel troopers in 3 ABY?
>>64680771>Cockpit on tankDriving the fucker backwards would unironically improve it.
>>64695052I hate how emboldened the EUfags and Prequelfags became because "something else in the universe was bad, that makes my sewer better by default".
>>64680764We got saved by teddies.call my a conspirationist but i KNOW for a fact we have to bide our time and go into hiding while and get support from what is left of the senate representative, that there was a spy inside the deathstar helping them.cant say much or th
>>64677901>>64687573Droids had rockets, Mandalorian bounty hunters had rockets, why didn't the rebels use more rockets. Why volume fire ineffectual plasma weapons when you can shoot the Star Wars equivalent of Rocket-propelled grenades?
>>64677901I just watched the 3 new movies because I had not seen them, i kinda hate star wars now
What's the minimum standard to train to if you are going to carry? I am not talking SOF, I am not talking some mercenary company standards. Just something that a person can't do after 50 rounds, but 100% of people can do after 3-6 months. Think 2 plate bench / 3 plate deadlift.I am guessing it's 2 rounds on target from rest or holster in x time. What's that x?What's the best way to train for it?
>>64697540>>64697534Thanks anon, I am really looking for something super retarded to use as a standard.Like 2 shots in 2 seconds from low ready within a 3 inch group at 15 yards, or something SUPER basic. I don't know what that standard should be.Also, I find target transitions on the same target to be useless. Better than nothing, sure, but much nicer to have a couple targets outside or a steel tree. Though I likely won't have time to go to an outdoor range anymore.And also need a good timer recommendation, like the glock/honda civic of shot timers with a random start beep component.
>>64697471I have nothing to base this on other than feels, but I think a 2 second draw and 3 accurate hits in 3 seconds at 7 yards is a pretty achievable standard for carry without expecting too much. A two second draw means you have at least gotten consistent with your grip and know how to draw without snagging on everything, and one shot every .5 seconds shows that you have acceptable trigger control and probably won't be pulling shots into the dirt if you get attacked. Realistically, even that's probably beyond the point of diminishing returns for carry, but if a person is going to carry a gun, they should at least put some goddamn effort into it.
>>64697471Get a mantis or similar dry fire system. Everyday before you got to work practice drawing, dry firing, and holstering your gun 5 times. As you get faster and smother, reduce the size of the target. If you have to shoot someone for real, you'll be doing a bill drill or similar. You'll have to shoot outside every once in a while to validate your dry firing.You should also carry a dagger on your non dominant side so you can create space to draw your pistol. You need to practice drawing your knife, creating space, then transitioning to your pistol. Go into the eye if you can. Congratulations, you're better trained than 99% of people you will encounter. It will cost you about 15 mins a day.
>>64697471Take a concealed carry course, goddamn you kids really don't have a hundred bucks? Courses are very cheap and you can learn from people with more experience, not retards on the internet or trying to figure it out your retarded self. Sorry you decided to be a gay faggy unsworn so you only have access to civilian training, you'll just have to figure out what training schools are good.
Fist size group at 25, time doesn't matter. Practice draws until you can do it with eyes closed while wearing different pants and jackets/no jacket.Run
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
>>64688317Pretty limited collection of surp you got there.
>>64696212one.....COULD have a respectable surp pile in just .308 stuff.
Kommandostore couldn't help so maybe one of you can. I'm needing the inner lining of this in a 60. No luck on ebay. I lost the lining I guess after one of my 3 moves in the past 10 years.
>>64697614>try.Never. Here I picked a volume at random, Trips decides which article I post.
>>64697620rollin for type 4 carbine article
AK General /akg/Kot edition>Thread #2084Old thread here >>64573822
>>64696853Do you have an ALG in it? Are they not recommended?
>what AK should I buy?WASRASRLiterally just buy a WASR. It's the Honda Civic of AKs. Oh you think Civics are lame? Well I think broken bolt lugs are lame. Oh it sucks because there's no dimples? Dang, guess RPKs are trash too.
>>64697026Whoever did this is gay
>>64696877None of that has literally ever happened on my machine.
>>64697980Get a zastava, its only a little bit extra
I am very curious to know what /k/ would use in the zombiepocalypse. What would actually be best? I always thought that the writers for the show had a lot of missed opportunities for /k/ino guns, gear, armor and weapon concepts both from history and modern times they could have applied to the show. A lot of stuff just felt like it was missing. Every time there was an actually big faction it seemed like they didn't equip their grunts with the most effective choices. Keep in mind, it would still have to be things that you can continue to use well into the future. There is no military supply chain in the zombie apocalypse unless you are with an utterly gigantic group of survivors.
>>64693730>TWDTotal Walker Death?
>>64697757Bayonets would work in a pinch but they are not nearly as useful against zombies as they are against people amd horses because they lack reachA full on pike phalanx is simply untouchable because the zombies can't get through the pikes to reach the delicious humans beyond whereas a bayonet leaves you practically within biting distance
>>64695319You have to consider the skills and materials available in such a scenarioFull plate is bespoke and cannot be produced by anything less than a specialised expert in the field (simpler armour designs like curiasses and chain mail are more doable) and require large amounts of high quality steel. A new model style army on the other hand has the bulk of its metal in gun barrels and pike tips, which are both easier to make and less material intensive.Remember that we are fighting an enemy whose primary tactic is mass, and we are doing it without the benefit of a modern defence industrial base behind us so our best tactic is likewise to mass as many soldiers as we can and have them fight as efficiently as possible
Two full sized handguns that have commercially available 30rd magazines and can accept lasers. Get good at eyeballing when your laser is on a shambler's head and pop them, 60~ rounds at disposal, suppressible, subsonic an option, can have one hand free and other completely capable of combat. 9mm or 5.7 if you're swanky.For 'armor' motorcycle gear can cover full body and offer flexibly, light enough certainty against bite or scratch. But thick denim also is probably fine.For a base, prefer a wooded area, something at the top of a steep slope maybe that leads down to a creak. Even if it's not drinkable water all the time just having water has a lot of other applications. Construct a 'maze' of sorts by using fence wire around tree trunks with only one actual zig-zag way in that you know, and otherwise hinders zombie movement without being obvious. Have an implement that brains them when they get tangled/tripped.
>>64693794Why did you post that picture
>The oil tanker Bella 1 is fleeing U.S. forces after the U.S. Coast Guard tried to intercept it in the Caribbean. >During the pursuit, the crew painted a Russian flag on the ship and now claim Russian status.>The tanker is under U.S. sanctions for carrying Iranian oil and was heading toward Venezuela. Its tracking signal went dark on Dec. 17, and it has since changed course.>The Bella 1 tanker is still being pursued by U.S. forces after refusing to comply. Where are all the LCS haters right now?: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/us/politics/oil-tanker-venezuela-us-russia-bella-1.html
>Evade US naval blockade with this simple trick:
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>>64698002>just one race, the human race
Is a tanker faster than a helicopter?
>>64697969Not so simple under international maritime laws.
Pre ban editionGuide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNik Previously >>64687892
>>64697984>bore gets a buffet caliberBig bore caliber I meanSpecialization gets superior outcomes. Mouse guns are mouse guns (leaving space for a da/SA fire control needed with an EDC) and man stoppers are man stoppers instead of a Luger trying to do both.Just as JMB intended
Buy RXM now or wait til Shot Show in case of Talo/Lipseyes special edition?
>>64698001S&W?It looks like my neoMauser
>>64696829A bimodal distribution is two bellcurves on the same graph. >>64696843Statistics is a Jewish maths. Don’t attempt to justify with handwaving what is a coin flip.
>You could fit every Tomahawk the US has produced since 2016 into the number of VLS cells the PLAN added to its fleet in 2025Is this true?:https://x.com/i/status/2006080291098816551
>>64697919The US has 4,000 TLAM and many thousands of jassm and lrasm.>built since 2016Irelevant.
>>64697961Iran's chimpout was the best proof that conventional IRBMs are a dogshit technology. Years upon years of stockpiles expended in one chimpout to basically zero effect against a tiny country. You'd have to build a truly ridiculous number of them and get them all to hit Beijing in order for China to even notice. It would also be a deterrence nightmare, any kind of first launch would and should be treated as nuclear... So you might as well put nukes on them in the first place. Maybe even put them on a more survivable platform, like, I don't know, a boat that can submerge?
>>64697971Well, no not really. A war between China and the United States will be decided within a month long before anyone floats any significant tonnage. Either they stand off the United States airforce and navy in which case they've basically already won, or they fail to do that and all of their shipyards cease to exist.
The US buys enough tomahawks to replace the ones it used up
>>64697919A better metric would be to look at what they have available to use. There's a reason the abrams tank production is pretty low. No reason to make a fuck ton of them if all they're gonna do is sit around eating up maintenance funds. Or worse, end up like Russia's stockpile of tanks that were so run down because they had the bright idea to make a ton but never maintain them.
I wonder if Iran has also smuggled Shahed drones onto Venezuela, since they could hide the launch containers in the jungle for ambushing US warships
We were born to soon travel to exotic planets and teach alien women to shoot guns. Feels bad man.
>>64697655>This seems retardedIt is, I think they were going for a 'member WITNESS ME?' moment.
>>64691503>150 years in the future>still using brass cased ammunitionQuite possibly the worst timeline.
>>64697586>I think the reason they want the "unobtanium" from Pandora is they can use it for better spacecraft.Yeah it's a room temp superconductor and somewhere in one of the screenplays or notes or something it says it's used to build superconducting magnets that contain antimatter for the ship engines. The first ones they sent out had to use liquid helium cooled magnets and were much bigger and bulkier. It's also mentioned somewhere that the company owns and operates a planetwide maglev transit network on Earth that makes use of it. I don't know why they don't just drop a few lines of dialogue outlining this stuff for viewers instead of leaving it scribbled in the margins of a script or notebook somewhere.
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>>64697638Avatar 3: Fury Road
The brits did It with during WW2 to fight off German subs and Luftwaffe raiding their merchant ships, called CAM (Catapult Assisted Merchantmen, ship) and MAC (Merchant Aircraft Carriers): https://youtu.be/i6BqpInpZ2wSo nowadays with Steam and Electromagnetic catapults and CAA/UCAVs wouldn't that be much easier?
>>64696476Harrier was not safe or cheapAlas I hope Spain flys them for a long time for the memes
>>64695522>>64696699>>64695479>billions in aircraft and ordinancePic related with modest modifications and a ramp or very basic catapult would work just fine. If the US is slinging 200km+ anti ship missiles from helicopters then a biplane can do the same thing, better even due to vastly superior range.
>>64695522>The oil tanker Bella 1 is fleeing U.S. forces after the U.S. Coast Guard tried to intercept it in the Caribbean. >During the pursuit, the crew painted a Russian flag on the ship and now claim Russian status.>The tanker is under U.S. sanctions for carrying Iranian oil and was heading toward Venezuela. Its tracking signal went dark on Dec. 17, and it has since changed course.They seem fast enough: https://x.com/i/status/2006083791706525874
>>64697950A carrier's air wing can catch up to it easily, the issue is that a fighter can't board the vessel. Helicopters meanwhile are much slower and shorter rangedIf the mission was to sink it, this wouldn't be a problem
>>64697950>>64698015What if the sole purpose of your converted cargo ship is to maximize damage onto enemy commerce? As i pointed out in previous threads, what if you had the means to sink a huge number of Chinese ships in the Pacific, like 10% or more of global trade?
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>>64697570are you the guy that had the photo of the sporterized mauser you got for cheap? do you still have that picture? i want one
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>>64697920That was another guy, but I also have a nice Stiga M96. Be careful with what you buy, there's a huge variety of Mausers. Even Intersurplus is guilty of selling some pretty sketchy ones, namely small rings rechambered for high pressure cartridges.
>>64697973>pretty sketchy ones, namely small rings rechambered for high pressure cartridgesI once saw a WW1 Lee-Enfield for sale (not by them) rechambered in 300WinMag
>>64697973thanks, I've been looking at some Carl G's as well...i purchased a CG3000 a few years back and its the smoothest bolt I've ever come across on any rifle.
The MOD of Taiwan released a chart detailing each threat from PLA's long range strikes and how to deal with them. How accurate and effective is this chart? Could Ukraine take one notes that could help them against Russian Strikes?
>>64697989Why can't anyone put two and two together and just strap a fucking stinger on a RWS system and have anti air capabilities embedded in tank batallions from the fucking start?P
>>64697990Because of transparent battlefield and mosaic warfare enabled by cheap quadcopter drones
>>64697989>FPV drones (used for anti-air)They don't have speed to chase helicopters in the air, there's like 1 case of a hit.
>>64697991Because boomers still think that we live in 1991: >>64697990
>>64697997Show me something in that webm that couldn't be used today? Air power is still king, more modern stealth bombers and jets exist to compete with development in air defense, the most effective weapon system russia has is their jdam equivalent and air launched cruise missiles.Nothing of substance has changed.
