The T-34 is the best tank of World War II. What about airplanes? According to /k/
>>64758335the true king doesn't need to say he is the king
>>64758343Corsair is cool for the same reason the Jug is, big engine and loads of power
>>64758343literal skill issue
>>64758224>>64758273To be clear, ergonomics is about more than just being cramped. It's logical layouts so things you're likely to need at the same time are placed together, it's reducing snag hazards so moving around, evacuating or helping a wounded crewman egress is easy, it's seeing if the commander and driver can reliably hear each other during operation, it's making sure you can tell the important gauges from the unimportant ones in the heat of battle, it's making sure the font and text size is legible it's a ton of little things.A well laid out but smaller fighting compartment will usually be better to fight in than a roomy but poorly thought out one, within reason. Cognitive load is a real thing, the more your brain has to compensate for the shortcomings of the design the less room it has to worry about all the other shit going on.Stalin literally considered engineering psychology to be counter-revolutionary and the Soviets didn't even begin formally studying it until the 60's, when in the west it emerged during WW2.
>>64758224>you'd think that they'd fix the whole being cramped thing if it was actually a problem>if it was a problem, the Russians would fix it; the Russians didn't fix it so it wasn't a problemzigger pls
>7.62x54r, 7.62x39, 7.62x25>6.5 creedmoor, 6.5 grendel, 6.5 cbjExplain why we dont standardize diameters across the board to appease my personal autism
>>64758079They laughed at the idea of using tungsten for the standard loading and knew it would languish in obscurity for decades before appearing on Forgotten Weapons and then being forgotten again.>>64758179Fun fact: the bullet of a 7.62x51 and a 7.62x54R do *not* have the same diameter.
>>64755594It's because they were stuck with US rifling machines from the Czar that were refurbished in WW2 until the 1970s.
>.38 fits in a .357>.380 doesn'tlmao
>>64758390.380 easily fits.
>>64758394
Edition edition.Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNik>>64745514
>>64758141Smith
>>64758142I have an FN, you scared me when you said that issue with the mag
>>64758147Sorry I wasn't clear, I thought it'd be apparent because I mentioned the tempo barrel and the other stuff. As far as I know fn and ruger's don't have any issues like that.This is what the magazine looks like, for comparison to yours. It is an actual piece of shit.
>>64757822I should clarify it hasn't been in stock for distributors I have access to, but thank you>>64757977Really can't beat the pricing of the holosuns. An enclosed optic with a forward facing sensor would be even better.
>>64758127I wouldn't leave it there. Cleaning and maintenance has access to your shit. If they feel ballsy, all they need to do is slap open the locks on your briefcase.
what's the point in hiring mercs who aren't at all familiar with your language, culture, or geography/climate?
>>64745607He said it himself, disposability
>>64757584Even africans aren't going to risk death for the promise of 5 bux a day, someone along the recruitment pipeline is getting at least a few hundred bux.
The problem we're learning the hard way in America is even if theyre morally trustworthy and righteous, you can't trust them because they are low IQ...They will fuck up its only a matter of time
>>64757289Are you Russian by chance?
Both sides make use of foreign soldiers. Most of them tricked through getting job offers in Ukraine/Russia that are actually getting force recruited into the war.
Post gear. Discuss gear. Late night edition. Level IV+ and 4Chan Gold required.Old: >>64732103
>>64756396The New Zealand Defence Force issues the Tyr Tactical PICO suite to their soldiers. Australia makes their own version in kangaroo camo.
>>64757953So do Denmark. So if if Greenland ever cooks off, its going to be a lot of Tyr as surplus and bringbacks.>Australia makes their own version in kangaroo camo.Which was downstream of their SOF issuing the Aus pico. Its possible Australia was Tyrs first major customer after they ditched Diamondback.
What sleeping pads are you guy using ?
>>64758270Exped Ultra 3RIt's alright but I'm a side sleeper and I'm not sure about the vertical baffles, I've had a couple of miserable nights where I've been unable to find a comfortable position or where I've repeatedly woken up with a cold spot on my hip because the pad's compressed enough to lose some of the R value. Maybe I'd be better off on a pad with horizontal baffles or dimples (e.g. Nemo Tensor All-Season), or just something a bit thicker.
>>64758270thermarest Z fold for the summer, add in a klymit static V in the winter.
>what are you playing right now?>what are your favourite /k/ certified video games? I'll start, I've been recently playhing Read Or Not and as someone who played SWAT 4 back when it came out, I've enjoyed it so far
>>64738144and people wonder why cops just shoot first and ask questions never nowadays
>>64757316Patricians play Pathways Into Darkness.
Sprocket is good fun to make your own tanks with
>>64738030it's a shame that after all this time you still have to play PZ with 100+ mods to even feel like you're playing a somewhat complete game. Vanilla is so fucking boring.I still love it though.
>>64757468Pick relative, the game was made with tank controls in mind and screen absolute was added later. There's a learning curve but it is better in the long run imo.
How effective are the Japanese Self Defense Forces? Could they be as bad ass as the Imperial Japanese Army? How do they stack up to the PLA, Russian or Western armies if Japanese is allowed to fully re-arm?
>>64758269That incest rapist Josef Fritzl is Austrian.Ottoman Turks, Golden Horde Mongols, Crimean Khanate Mongols all raped esst Austria.Huns and Avars raped Austria.Soviet Buryat Mongols and Moroccan Goumiers raped Austria.
>>64758371East Austria.Mongols raped Neustadt in Austria
>>64758209Chinese men like Sun Yatsen, Dai Jitao, Su Manshu's father, Cong Liangbi and Zheng Zhilong also all did sex tourism in Japan and left behind bastards fathered with Japanese girls, long before World War IISadaharu Oh was born to a Chinese father and Japanese mother in the middle of Tokyo in 1940.
>>64758269>>64758371Moroccan Goumiers fathered children with Austrian women in Vorarlberg like Pakistani groomers do in Britain sith English girls today.Japanese fathered all Koreans, Vietnamese, Filipinos and Indonesians
>>64758381>Moroccan Goumiers fathered children with Austrian women in VorarlbergThe French took like 99,9% of those kids back and made them french orphans, yes. They're as rare as a Republican Senator without a Grindr account.
Should Japan also get one of those drone mother ships Singapore is getting? I think the izumo could carry lots of kamikaze drones.
>>64758178>>64758225
>>64757511What drones do they carry?
At this stage of development, I'd much rather have on a big ship like this more VLS with missile capacity than future potential for USV or UAV swarms. This is like deciding in 1880 that the steam ram was the future of naval warfare and scrapping all guns for torpedo tubes
>>64758145Neither do Shaheds.
Idea: we put a rocket motor on a drone so it can go really fast and far maybe even compromise on performance a bit to put a bigger payload on it.
The dragon is the size of the ones in GOT, use GOT as the point of reference for most everything to be honest. If you want to be a furry abut this you can do a version where the dragon(s) are smart cookies that can talk and junk.
>>64746238We're assuming the dragon isn't a wizard and your dragon equivalent of a low-education voter: the kind of individual that would serve itself to an army instead of become a ruler.
>>64755410>in the world you are describing I think that assassination would be a very prominent part of both politics and warfare.I love it. It jives with the theme of smaller but more elite armies. Assassins, headhunters, saboteurs, scouts, and snipers would be the commandos of this setting. Adds the possibility of mercenary companies who specialize in such tactics, along with experienced detachments to augment a given army. >>64755471I'd be fine with animu but, I like the idea of an CRPG that meshes skirmish and field army battles. Keep it full of depth but simple and narrow, like the Homeworld series. I could see that really working because you could start by focusing on a single nation-state, and gradually building out until you have over a dozen different factions based on analogues of the Pike/Shot/Colonial era. Samurai and Musketeers, Landsknechts and Conquistadors, Knights and Dragoons, Cossacks and Mamelukes...But with Dragons. After a few years, you have an entire setting on a Risk-style map, with playable campaigns for each faction and a story to go with them. Damn...Yeah, I need to start working on this. I might take the notes from this thread to /tg/...
>>64758112>/tg/do adults even play boardgames?NGL I've spent decades of my youth (and too much money) on Battletech but now I feel so jaded and none of my friends play any boardgame anymore either
>>64758114>do adults even play boardgames?Yes.But then it depends.There's a whole spectrum but, for most of us, having small kids are the point where you suddenly lack enough free time to really pursue hobbies. If your friends have kids too, then finding time more than once a month become hard.
>>64758164we don't all have kids but we're at the age when we're about to and we're already feeling it
Why aren't ballistic submarines the backbone of world navies? Why haven't surface ships been relegated to carrier protection and amphibious operations? Why not make SLBMs out of RIM-66s and Standard missiles and Tomahawks and ASROCs? If you want force projection why wouldn't the ambiguity of the presence of submarines be enough to scare your enemies?
I assume we're going to see a lot more surface ships with fewer than 150 men in board in the future and perhaps more emphasis on subs and light carriers. This is the age of quantity, big things are rarely worth the price.
>>64756578And falling prey to ELINT or failure to recognize a target.
>>64756527>they have limited utility as sensor platforms (e.g. radar)*sad SSRN noises*
>>64756527>Nobody wants to work on them>they're fucking expensive to buildyes>they have limited utility as sensor platforms (e.g. radar)dead wrongthe 2nd best use of a submarine other than killing anything in the water is ISR>they're expensive to runyes>they can't do the vast majority of peacetime naval duties (e.g. disaster relief, interdiction)very yes>they're slowonly if they're diesel>they're dangerouswell, mainly to snownigs and turdiesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64741566They are and they have. All surface primary navies (e.g. anyone not the US) are larping. US surface fleet conducts policing actions against non threats and screens carriers. Like, holy shit dude, they were picking the new boats based on shore bombardment for a while. The SSGN is the battleship of the missile age, all that shit already happened, you're so behind we're talking about what's next dude.
North Grumman posted this video:>https://youtu.be/xumHWugbvkY?si=EYhc0xu96sy9Ye8pDoes this mean that the XM1182 HEAB-T is finally in use? Also a few follow-up questions:>could this setup be used as an "ad-hoc" C-RAM platform?>so now in theory every platform with an M230LF could become an C-UAS platform? (+a MHR radar)>could this ammo be used with the AH-64s? Israelis have recently used them as drone hunters.
>>64758350>PFHEPre-Fragmented High-Explosive>HEP was squash head (High Explosive, Plastic)?Yeah. M1 tier misnomer.
Whats special about this? I thought we already had air burst munitions?
>>64758333man I miss seeing these graphicsthis was what we had instead of wikipedia or blogs, once upon a timeI wonder who made them
>>64758370Not for the now ubiquitous M230LF rws.
>>64758383Know that feel bro.I remember seeing such a graphic in some newspaper or some tehnical magazine and making my day. Simpler times.
which weapons would a modern day vampire hunter use? no wooden stakes, no crossbows, silver blades, no holy water flasks or garlic necklaces allowed, just modern cutting edge tech.
>>64756477>Joss Whedon's writing style metastasized into the rest of pop cultureThen the rest of pop culture needs to lift their game.Whedon set a bar, everyone else just copies it instead of trying to exceed it.
>>64754989Drift has been cached
>>64756943>STDs haven't evolved to survive in a room temperature walking corpse for extended periods of timeNot only that, she can easily take a bath in something horrendous that would kill off anything living on her skin.Douche herself with lye and regenerate the skin afterward.>>64757071>see >>>/wsg/6072755I was fully expecting that to be posted.
>>64758337>everyone else just copies itVery poorlyComparing e.g. Endgame with Avengers is just bleargh
>>64755996rape
Had Shoigu and Gerasimov been captured as it seems the goal and then Wagner had actually went all the way to Moscow, could they have succeeded in overthrowing Putin? Or was it a lost cause from the beginning?
>>64757608That video will never not be funny and the fact hes doing the soijak pointing face and it turned into such a good meme template is just icing on the cake
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>>64757608History repeats itself. If you look at the collapse of the Russian state in 1917 or 1991 you will understand what will happen next. As 1917 is a better fit to current events first we will get a moderrate coup, then an extremist authortarian coup, then a civil war. The Rusisan civil war killed about four to five times the number of Russian casualties in WW1 so it will kill about 4-5 million. After that purges and massacres by the new authoritarian state will kill another ten million. Then that state will attempt an invasion of Poland (history allows minor variations, so maybe the baltics or Ukraine. They will be defated resulting in several hundred thousnad more casualties.At that stae the Rusisan population will be down to about 120 million andfamine and mass poverty and gulags will be the norm.It may well be that Russia will just break up at that point and revert to ethic regional goverance with a faux cargo cult for a powerless Moscow 'government' that only exists on paper.Putin fucked Russia to death, Trump seems to be following his example..
>>64757608sure, with political backuphe was promised things that didn't materialize
>>64758344>History repeats itself. If you look at the collapse of the Russian state in 1917 or 1991 you will understand what will happen next.yes, and I'm not enthused about it>1914/2024 great war begins>1918/2028 stalemate leads to peace; richest nation dethroned, 2nd largest economy rises to the top>1933/2043 former largest economy's weakness leads to return of former enemy>1936/2046 war now regarded as inevitable; former enemy has been rearming in secret for years>1939/2049 surprise attack plunges world into most destructive war ever with record loss of life and downfall of nations>1945/2055 largest economy achieves global dominance as every other nation rebuildscan you guess which nations I'm referring to here?
You have a moderately sized military force and you have to deal with several hundred of these things. Here’s what you gotta remember about them:>Nearly immortal, body can be damaged but the only thing that can kill them is fire>sever a limb and it will keep coming after you >burning them isn’t advised because the gasses inside will reanimate any corpses around them, including animals >They do feel pain, from injury and their rotting bodies>eating brains relieves said pain>they’re very smart, able to fake calls for backup and set up ambushes>speed depends on the state of decay, fresher corpses run like a human>nuking them would kill them, but it would spread the trioxin gas further and make a bigger outbreak in the endWell, /k/? You gotta get creative with this one.
>>64758075Use that sticky fast setting glue foam sprayer they worked on in the 80s. Don't need to kill them just immobilise them and recan them. Then bury them in concrete or something.
>>64758075You'd need to lure them, to an underground nuclear waste storage facility to contain them. Brains would be good bait.
It seems that trioxin can restart a brain that has decayed and lost its shape, but I wonder if destroying the brain or decapitating it would work.
>>64758075Lure them all into one of the many lava factories in LA.
>>64758081It always involves gas doesn't it?
You're tasked with building a kit to help Iranian resistance against the Ayatollah regime, the kits you build will be airdropped into Iranian territory in large dufflebags and then picked up by chosen operatives. You have $3k per kit to try to arm an light resistance guerrilla fighter, you can only source items from the US civilian market. At minimum you should provide a rifle, a pistol, body armor, essential accessories and ammunition for both, as well as any survival or tactical implement you see necessary.What kind of stuff do you pick?
>>64757950Plastic explosives and detonators270 win rifles with 8x 40 scopes and brass bulletsLarge calibre 44 mag handgunsDrones and controllersTranslated improvised munitions handbooksManuals for the provided equipment.
Design a gun around standard Iranian plumbing fixtures and drop ammunition and key components that would need work like barrels or other parts so the whole thing lego kits together, include translated documentattion.The single most important weapons to insurgents are large calibre scoped rifles and plastic explosive and detonators. Fibre optic drones would be a nice addition. Simple basic manuals with the fundementals of sniping, countersniping, booby trapping, improvised weapons and explosives, drone use, organisation and counter inntelligence would be good.
To win a revolutionn all teh Iranian people have to do is let their fellow Iranians in the police and army know that they will not be harmed and that everyone wants a change. At this point violence is counterproductive.It's following the same pattern as the Syrian revolution so far. The mullahs have already lost. They will never get the people back after this.
>>64757965Ah yes, the Iranian population MUST be conntrolled by le Jews. Anyone who does not want to be ruled by batshit crazy mullahs must be le Jews. Brown/10
>>64757950The cheapest guns and ammo available, they're all effective. They don't have to be the same gun. Literally just buy everything off the used market keeping the budget for rifles around 300 and handguns around 100, even old deer rifles for sniping would be greatly effective. 200 rounds or so of ammo and a few mags. Pipe bombs. Model rockets with explosives attached that fire from a PVC pipe with a barbecue lighter. Toy drones that drop pipe bombs with an impact fuse. Majority of kits would be rifleman kits, a good amount of drone kits, and some RPG kits. They don't need provisions or armor, but give them a big star of David dildo so they know what they're getting into once their government is gone cuz the USA is gonna come fuck their country in the ass.
