>WWII American vets>get drafted>go overseas for 3 years straight, no body armor, any shot is basically fatal >fighting conventional warfare against organized armies backed by economies engaged in total war>leave behind a wife and 6 kids, can only communicate via snail mail >experiences almost 20x the average combat action as modern day vets>war ends, immediately return to work with no special passes>work until 75 years old, get $6 a month from VA for minor chronic onset shellshockVs>enter military voluntarily >get to pick your job, and get a big bonus >maybe you might - possibly- get deployed overseas for 9 months>a mortar lands 60km from FOB mall>get back home>ETSComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64686629Fuck where the other 9 World wars?
>>64686747Part of the hyperwar period
>>64686744you are an honorary janny. you did it for free anon.
>>64686629>any shot is basically fatalI'm rewatching BoB rn and people get smoked big time all the time and rarely die
>>64686718I enjoyed my deployments, it was big money, good times with mates and I never shot at anyone that didn't absolutely deserve it.Only fuckups I have are dreams about being late for something or running out of water. I'm also not real keen on garbage on the roadside but that's passed now and I'll still do the once-around a car to make sure its good to go before we leave.
Previous: >>64578544Stamboulieh 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.
>>64685231>prices have increased, they just aren't 999 any more.Nigga the full size were under $1k just 5 weeks ago. I do not believe the Ks are 50% more these days. Just be patient. They go on sale like every 4 to 6 weeks.
>>64685678oh
>>64685265>that bullet tip poking out
>>64685433this is how it works, it seem to push down on the trigger itself to reset it
Giving an update to the bssquirts drop in, I put it in my ar15 lower and it worked when dry firing my 556 DD upper. It also worked when dry firing my 9mm upper on the same lower, the lower initially had some issues with the 9mm upper because I had an extended kak bolt extension with the law tactical folder. I took out the extended extension and put the standard one back in and the upper worked just fine. I sacrifice some mass but oh well, hopefully I have enough mass that I dont get an oob from bolt bounce. I dont have to cut any weight on the bcg btw because I took the weight out entirely to use a law folder.From my understanding glock lowers etc.. need the ar9 lever, but if the lower is an ar15 lower and you use a conversion, the normal lever works fineI'm assuming the ar9 lever you dont have to cut your bolt weight either?I'm going to the range to actually test this soon
How were these used? As a big axe with pointy bits or as a spear with a bit more versatility?
>>64685011I have no doubt that European weapons could get through Mesoamerican armor, and as I said, I think it's even particularly likely that the Anonymous Conquerer in that line is exaggerating things.However, if it was entirely ineffective against Spanish weapons, then Spanish sources wouldn't bother to praise it at all, nor would they have adopted it as much as they did.Consider also that the Conquistadors were not always particularly well equipped, most may not have had armor at all and had simple non-protective clothing (which is part of why they adopted Mesoamerican armor): They had to supply their own equipment, mostly, or at least this was the case in the Cortes expedition (apparently some later ones down in Peru such as Pizarro's were better outfitted), so it's possible that the swords they had access to weren't the highest quality or what was best suited to the situation.
>>64674403cant belive they had FDE uniforms in 1600s
>>64674265They were used similar to a pogo stick.
>>64674265Depends. In a formation you use it like a spear that can make quick, short cuts and fence with it if you're in the front and facing other poles. If the lines get a little closer, weapons start tangling, you're up against shorter weapons, OR you're not the front line, you can and should lift it up and bring that axe head down on people, as it'll let you clear a section of line or a gate very quickly. Helmets tend to impair upward vision a little, and people desperately trying to not get stabbed aren't going to notice in time, or be able to respond quickly enough (or with enough structure) to stop you. One on one, no idea. I'm not particularly skilled with them and here never actually trained at it, clubbing retards in a press or spear fencing is honestly way less complex than properly fighting with something like a halberd or glaive one on one. >>64674362Pretty sure you're getting them confused with the knightly pollaxe, which is shorter, and generally used very, very differently, as it's a weapon explicitly meant for a well armored man to kill well armored men. Keeping the axe back and butt forward is something a man at arms can afford, because he's already well protected and wants that head back so he can deliver heavy hits to other men at arms.Your average halberdier absolutely NEEDS the head forward, or he's pretty liable to get stabbed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_hEX6PRgW4
We have nuclear powered subs.Why dont we have nuclear powered surface ships besides carriers? Also, how much supplies are flown in for carriers out at sea? Is it a constant stream of helis just carrying supplies? Where does the supplies come from? The pacific is pretty fucking far from America.
>>64686808Whats that for
>>64686854they keep stuff on it
>>64686859Cant they just fly them in? Its a floating airfield.
>>64686866>Its a floating airfield.the advantage is the floating part, cheaper and easier to just float stuff to it
>>64686611>>64686691>>64686725>>64686746>E=MC2>muh squared velocitySame reason why things like Aurora would need ridiculous amounts of thrust (the SR-71 had it but wasn't designed to graze up to the near-hypersonic regime obviously) and Mach 4-5 cartridges are super necked down from their parent cartridge.
Why don't modern rifles have a cleaning rod along the barrel anymore with a cleaning kit in the stock/grip?Seems like a pretty inelegant solution to give the soldier these separate maintenance packages when it all could be mounted on the gun, easily and quickly accessed when needed, and never misplaced/lost.
>>64685571Most people wear the cleaning kit on their belt. In the past the rod was single part and couldn't be collapsed
>>64685571The victorious modern soldier is far better supplied and equipped - there is no need for the extra weight when an entire spare rifle can be retrieved from their transport vehicle, brought up from a supply cache by courier, delivered by drone or any other myriad solution. And I say this having had the joy of presenting my Mauser's cleaning rod to a fellow at the range faced with a stuck case from shooting 50yo 30-06 ammo recently inherited from his granddad. It's a feature useful in the bygone times of adventurous military expeditions and serendipitous circumstances, not present general issue.
>>64686208>because that weight is in your ruck not your hands, and you arent wearing your ruck in a firefightNo, the cleaning kit goes in your vest so you can use it at any time necessary.>it pushes the centre of gravity to the front of the gun and makes it heavier which fatigues the arms and makes it more tiresome to hold a sight pictureMore weight at the front controls muzzle movement incredibly well making the gun more stable under recoil. Besides, a soldier isn't going to be standing up holding a sight picture all day long, rather, he will go prone and brace the rifle on anything he can find so that he actually hits the target.
>>64686512If your get a stuck case or a barrel obstruction in the middle of a firefight you can't just ask the enemy to stop shooting so you can clear the jam.
>>64686662>>mortar clearing>rim shears off
Why did US GI's love to smoke cigarettes so much?
>>64684593There was this crazy guy who coached throwing at my highschool who claimed to have been in Vietnam that said hairspray had a smell the gooks could track.
>>64684593Counterpoint. Our Malaysian soldiers frequently tracked Communist insurgents by their reeking pee smell. You see, the Malaysian Communists were 99% Chinese, and chinks don't wash their penor after peeing. So they stain their pants with pee.
>>64685233>>64685609There's a difference between people smoking in cities or officers doing it in their command post and troops out in the field. The North Vietnamese didn't hand out cigs in their rations.
>>64686003Malaysia had the toughest commando and special force unit in South East Asia. They happen to be the best jungle fighters in the world. Malaysian troops are the only forces in the world to have defeated a communist insurgency. In the decades in the fight against the Communists, there is no record of a Malaysian soldier taken alive. I might mention here that, for their expertise in jungle warfare, Malaysians are known in the business as "whispering death." Elite fores all over the world are trained by them. The jungle warfare school in Fort Benning, Georgia was set up by a Malaysian team. The UK, NZ and Australian forces have joint training in Malaysia to learn jungle warfare from Malaysian forces on an annual basis, especially after the Vietnam war. Just learn about Col Charles Beckwith ... he had been part of British Special Air Services (SAS) in Malaya and used the knowledge to further develop US Special Force programmes including Vietnam and Delta Forces. Malaysian Special Force are rooted from SAS the same way and time during his tour there too. Some additional jungle skills from the native were also included, specially in tracking and hiding. U.S. Navy SEALs conduct training in Malaysia twice a year. The U.S. Army does field exercises with the Malaysian army. American Marine always come to Malaysia training at Special Warfare School to learn survival lesson. One of the trainer has shared his experience with Marines in his FB. He said this Marines are too arrogant and too proud. When he and team mates leave this Marines in the jungle, on the next day they found this Marines not practice what they has learned. The area they were been are near a small river and many foods around it but they never search or hunt the animal. The hut they suppose to build, not like a hut at all. They looked like a shit. When asked why they don't eat, they said they always eat mre foods and when the foods almost out they will radio to send foods.
>>64684593I just read Low Level Hell and the author detects and slaughters the offending VC/NVA troops a few times based on their cooking fires, so you can ask the same of them.
Unexploded Tomahawk warheads found in Niger after last night's strikes by the US Navy:https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cjrjwq59x49o
>>64685644>The entire bible is written by jews about jews, a middle eastern ethnicity, and every event in the bible is located in the middle eastif you ignore the other 99% of things about christianity then yeah, it's jewish
>>64685615>So a 25% failure rate...the tomahawk is supposed to be the most tried-and-true thing that they have, holy shitwhat are they doing
Where are all the people who laughed at Russian missile failures in Ukraine now?
You can stop your butthurt samefagging now
>>64684052130 students and 12 teachers from a catholic school who had been held captive for a month were released on Christmas Eve, faggot
Is this really what passed for bottlenecked back in the day?
>>64685536I'M GONNA IMPROOOOOVE
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>>64686092Ack
>>64685536Love me some 44-40!Love reloading 44-40!Love shooting 44-40! (with blackpowder)Love sleeping with my 44-40 gun!
How would you arm and operate a small squadron of rebel troopers in 3 ABY?
>>64677901Astromechs with Proton Torpedo warheads concealed inside.
>>64680771All of the Rebels' ground vehicles were so derpy. No wonder they never got featured in the movies.>>64682864A Legion player out in the wild I see.
>>64677901Captured E-11s are light, high capacity, compact and free. Assuming we have loot from dead stormies then we also have captured body gloves which are going over civilian clothing or camoflage. We actually want our guys to die if shot so they cant be interrogated, but we'll strip out the NV and atmospheric filtering gear from the helmets and keep that. Seperate comms gear though. Then we give out thermal detonators or mines, and a squad level e-web. I would also throw in some manacles and vibroblades because they're cheap as shit, and maybe some bacta packs (not to save anyone, just for appearances to keep morale up)
>>64677901sticks and stones (Jedi can throw them at stormtroopers at fatal speeds)
>>64677901Just use basic guerilla warfare.Scout the QRF locations beforehand, find main routes of advance, ambush early, pull back often.Not sure why the rebels wouldn't have packed more MG's explosives and shoulder fired AT but I'd give them a shit load of options. Mines, claymores, airburst mortars to turn the trees into shrapnel
>in war your aim should be to defeat your enemies Huh... I guess people back then weren't so stupid after all?
>>64684727once you understand that Sun Tzu was trying to teach at best the last guy in a squad whose superiors all died in some evil ass rape conflict who wants to learn to lead his men and at worst insulated rulers who never left the border of their palace who had literally no understanding that "yes an army needs to be able to feed itself after they leave the walls of the kingdom" you understand why almost all of it is egregiously dumbed down fluff.
>>64686093if mcnamara was capable of anything except huffing his own farts he wouldn't be mcnamara
>>64684727If he's so great why does General Tso have his own dish but there's no Tzu's Chicken?
>>64684727A very significant chunk of the Art of War is spent defining "victory" and "defeat". That very sentence is setting up "Defeating your enemies doesn't just come from wandering around trying to kill their troops", which is the entire point of the rest of the chapter.
>>64684727I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it.
imagine a zombie apocalypse scenario and you have to clear out this structure
>>64686811>fig2-forsmark-finland-ohttps://www.neimagazine.com/analysis/forsmark-vaults-make-advances/?cf-view
>>64686811isnt that even simpler that a Forrest ? Linear tunnels, no chance to get ambushed from Clara areas, or at least easy to guard a straight tunnel oncs cleared.also how big is the elevator / tunnel. my choice is the 30m recoilless wiesel because fuck the hearing
>>64686811this is some resident evil hive shit
>>64686811>I flood it and collapse the entrancesYour move zombie.>>64686845>the tunnel WieselI retract my answer, this sounds way more fun.
Lets settle this once and for all /k/.Using the charging handle to reload is better than using the bolt release on the AR-15, to always ensure a properly seated round, correct? Using the charging handle doesnt take that much more time either.
shut up FAGGOT
Why were the huge Qing Dynasty armies so ineffective in the Opium Wars? They have to be the most one-sided wars in history.
>Rapechink still seething for the third day in the rowIs this entirely some form of a humiliation fetish for yourself here buddy? Or did your mind finally break itself from everyone here not paying you any form of positive attention on whatever nonsense you keep on spewing everytime you manage to get back from getting banned or what have you.
>>64686768Also the 700,000 Nanjinger refugees in Sichuan came back to Nanjing after the war ended in 1945Not one of them was raped. The modern Nanjing population descends from them.Chinese in Luoyang in east Henan and Changsha in east Hunan amd Guilin in east Guangxi also fled to the western parts of their provinces during the war.
>>64686770He'd got some sort of untreated personal trauma related to rape, that's why he can never stop. Apparently he posts the same stuff on /his/ too.
>>64686778On 99% of the threads, you mentioned rape first and then cried when your entire history of getting raped was exposed.
>>64686801kys rapechink insect
Thoughts about Baofeng radios?
>>64680976They are shit radios. Still better than no radio, though.
>>64686416Funny. I'm more aware of all that than you'll ever know.Every day for 4 years straight an adversary (or rather, the adversary) has been aggressively trying to find a weakness to exploit but they won't find any here. Not in cyberspace, not by trying to break into municipal water towers, not by cutting undersea cables, not by exploiting open borders, not by any of their hybrid measures. My small part is secure. And I can trust my countrymen and goverment to know how to do their part.
>>64680976Good starting vid for dudes trying to get into comms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hybS5YTDu4&t=1s
>>64685211midn blown. I didnt know there was such a thing as software defined radio. I tried ham but I'm a retard with it, if it's on a computer ill figure it out no matter how complex. is there power requirements if I go out into the boonies with a Toughbook and throw an antenna into a tree?
>>64684744Local PD and brown people cant interfere or intercept your AES256 DMR channels so just know the what and why of what you're doing on comms. Don't ever fuck with feds you are not and will never be him. If the feds want you they will have you no matter what radios or software. Back doors or EW stuff should not apply to you, I wouldn't worry about it.
Are they an effective, cheaper alternative to heavy aircraft like the AC130 for air support?>Pic-related is an AC235 by KADDB and Orbital ATK
Why don't they export the AC-130 anyway?They export the C-130 to all countries, heck even if vatnikstan wanted C-130s they'd be approved by Congress.It's still a C-130 in the end, just with cannons, guns and bombs.
>>64686557There's not much point anymore, if you have access to reliable drone comms plus APKWS2. I wouldn't be shocked if the current AC-130s weren't the last ones.
>>64686641Because no one probably wants them. It's a niche aircraft for actually fighting a near peer, so it's something that you'd only really want if you're (a) doing a lot of expeditionary fighting against dirt farmers and (b) have a large enough air force that you can get away with the highly specialized birds. Basically, the USAF and the pre-2022 RuAF would be the only real customers.
>>64686658>>64686641Indians should get them though, they're Western allies against China and should be armed with superior western aerospace tech
>>64686829gr8 b8 m8
