>** Audio: > https://xcancel.com/RVG_sieve/status/1901102688223588757#m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OeKEHCuiccompare>** upshot-knothole.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn7PeI2UyEMcompare>As the cloud lifted toward the stratosphere, I heard a sharp "crack" and, I don't know how else to describe it, but it absolutely was not the loud and rolling "BAADDOOM" that is often suggested by movie descriptions of such explosions. I remember being unimpressed by the sound given what I had just witnessed. Even one of the guys standing next to me remarked: "I don't know about you, but that sounded just like a big firecracker to me!", which meant to me he was similarly unimpressed by the sound. And that was it! - except that the memory of the power that resides in one of these weapons has never left me; notwithstanding the fact that the sound emitted seemed to be not much (but remember, we were a long distance away.)>There aren't many of us guys left that have this experience to tell and, in one way, that's too bad. In reliving this experience over the years - and a few others that were similar - , I have often thought that everybody should know, firsthand, and really feel the power in these damn things. In fact, the best thing for preventing
/k/onfess my sons
I confess to reporting unprompted mentions of "/pol/" or "schizos." I confess to suggest others follow suit.
>>64635090Let him have his happiness, but try to guide him on the right path
>>64626503dunno if it makes you feel any better my mom has turned into a schizoid hoarder. she was convinced my gf (now fiancee) was stealing food and trashing the house, plus going through her hoard. she tried to help her clean up, and the first thing she grabs is a cat piss-and-shit soaked bathmat my sister had left behind when she got kicked out the second time. that was a week-long spazzout.just told her shes going to be a grandmother a couple weeks ago. no reaction.i miss my mom :(
I work in tank development and procurement and sometimes you people frustrate the shit out of me
>>64632747based
Why do you keep buying plastic striker slop?
>>64636166Anon, when someone shows you a picture of their hand, why is the first thing that comes to your mind your own penis?
>>64636220thats a really good analogy, even if unintended kekzippos suck and only larpers carry them
>buy this overpriced 1911 typeOr>but this polymer not a glockThe one telling me it isnt overpriced has my attention, OP.
>>64637079Not even him but fuck your reddit tier faggot response kys fgt
>>64636220>Fixed
Hypothetically, if the Iron Age came sooner and the Bronze Age was dramatically shorter (or didn't happen at all), would swords be more prominent on the battlefield? Or were polearms just inevitable?
>>64634354>>64634219Swords were literally always popular as battlefield arms.Spearfags rope.
>>64635208Neat, but the major distinction material technology of the Iron Age wasn't wrought iron, but some weird iron alloy.
>>64634219>would swords be more prominent on the battlefield?Swords were ubiquitous on every battlefield.
>>64634219>They're hitting us quicker than we hit them!>curve the sword forward more! The we will win the war!
>>64637409It's not a sword. It's an axe made entirely out of bronze.
even skynet is tired
>>64631233>Cardboard boxes for stealth >MGS predicted the future...againKojimbo I kneel
>>64631241But it is AI?
>>64632056>where they can interpret MRI scans better than most, if not all, human doctorsMost "human" doctors these days are indian so that's not a high bar.
>>64631532Kek
>>64637369No, I mean real doctors. Computers can "see" things that are pretty much invisible to human eyeThe thing will see three black pixels around [x = 935, y = 96], two black pixels around [x = 112, y = 655], and a tiny 10px wide splotch halfway between them that's two values darker than its immediate neighborhood, and surmise that there's about a 90% chance there's a stage 0 cancerous growth there. Because on 90% of images it's been trained on, these same signs were there before the diagnosis was made
West Papua National Liberation Army EditionOld: >>64627759
>>6463711211.5 with dot + can and 2 NLAWS
>>64637112URGI and tactical nukes
>>64637112Relaxing in my house
>>64637429
>>64637439Yeah
What do we think of this image /k/
>>64635284This shit is confirmed to cause early onset dementia/alzheimers google it
>>64635307>t. this guy
>>64636747RIP King Faggot, we knew him well...
>>64635307When I see people "lose control" under the influence of whatever I'm always wondering if they are just acting. Every drug I've taken, when I was conscious, I was in control. The only chem that actually messed with me was anesthesia, that stuff is like truth serum when you're awake on it.
>>64637326>The only chem that actually messed with me was anesthesia, that stuff is like truth serum when you're awake on it.Pfft I'm pretty sure I was talking about fucking dogs the last time I came off anesthesia in the hospital
Could plastic garbage from the ocean be used for 3D printers for printing guns like FGC-9?
>>64636288Checked. Apparently all Chinese and SEA monkey pollution is due to evil American and Japanese corporations voltroning up to make them set their jungles on fire, because...reasons I guess? Also this insectiod seems to think I'm Japanese and would be triggered by him posting wood blocks of BDC. And Jacob Vouza is based, a knight, and an honorary USMC Sergeant Major, so I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be mad at him either. At any point the pinoys could stop wrecking their environment for easy cash, exterminate their uppity militias, and apply themselves, but they don't. Because its easier to collect a check than having a nationwide Come-to-Jesus talk. Fuck me for expecting some agency out of the greatest hospitality workers on God's green earth.What's wild about this crashout is that it was triggered by pointing out that the nips fucked up their environment, suffered badly for it, and managed to not only claw back that damage through policy changes, but continued to grow and develop their economy despite not being allowed to freely dump F-schedule wastes into the watershed anymore. The ideas that people refused to put up with environmental damage for industry, and could force a change that was good for everyone involved is deeply antithetical to the Chinese mind. It's like expecting an asiatic or african to understand why corruption is bad and is to be avoided where possible: it's inefficient for everyone including the guy getting a bribe. It incinerates wealth. But the idea of not getting to be the guy who gets the bribes one day is too hard to accept.
>>64624726not all plastics are recyclable and the quality of random trash plastics is going to be poorwe should 3d print clothes for third worlders
>>64636150Not anymore. Western nations stopped this once the media caught wind. It's actually Flips doing the dumping now because they get everything wrapped in plastic from China and they don't care about the environment. The people there don't give a fuck and just throws shit anywhere. No joke, there was a Philippine exchange student in my uni class back in the day. This guy would just toss any wrapping or trash on the ground even if there was a trashcan close by. When he got called out on it he said they just do that back home and that the city pays people to clean up. Dude was a chain smoking asshole who eventually got deported for overstaying his student visa.
chinkshill can you dump your Taiwan folder?I want to poke fun of a Dutch co worker about them getting chinked
>>64625738>the garbage patch needs to be dealt with, somehow. it's all basically carbon and a little bit of other shit, so we know it can hypothetically be metabolized by organisms. just gotta make it happen and make huge-ass Algae Tankers to eat it up to make biodieselthats too much workdesu trump said he was getting back into nuclear testing, we should just detonate an H-bomb on that bitch as call it good
We're still using the A-10 in 2070?
>>64627821Then we shall fight in the shade
>>64628598>>64628608>20kmThe Tarantula is already cheated enough despite being hard to aim. At 20km you are making a mockery of most defense system.If it's realistic maybe, but I'm not imagining that without guided-shells.
>>64627822Don't need China, the Far Left and Far Right will tear the country apart themselves.
>>64627800all of these pop-sci larpers designing a stealth aircraft, then leaving on pylon and adding props? lmao, seriously its so funny how little people understand about very simple concepts
>>64637414It's a trope at this point.
how would it change WWII if we adopted a closed bolt colt monitor with a flash hider instead of the garand and BAR?it's only a few pounds heavier than a garand.
>>64633665>SCHV-schizo being schizo and hyperbolic as usual
>>64635820The Prussians still won using outdated needle rifles against the new superior French Chassepot.
>>64635702as it stands nobody really cares about the garand, BAR, or monitor.the only attention they get are from boomers who want to bonnie & clyde larp with the monitor.cmp wouldn't be a thing because monitors are full auto.
>>64633566>we were getting outgunned in vietnamSo outgunned they ended up with a 10:1 k/d ratio.
>>64633298the only thing small arms wise that woulda made a difference is polymers. If airborne troops coulda landed with more fire-power it would have made all of the invasions smoother.I guess maybe adopting something like the mini-14 coulda been leverage for urban warfare, or better SMGs with dual stack magazines instead of the m3 or the thompson. Like the allies definitely considered the mg42 to be its own force mutliplyer, gave the germans superior suppressive fire. But basically once the americans joined the war allied strategy became more about planning and logi like everyone said.maybe better guns would saved the Dieppe Raid
This is a literal combat ship.
>>64632982How the fuck are they struggling to design a fucking frigate?America was literally shitting out world-class warship designs every fucking year in WW2 and into the cold war they designed half a dozen NUCLEAR CRUISERS from scratch.But a frigate breaks their minds? Did they replace all the draftsmen with jeets?
>>64637272>in ww2In WW2 Pennslyvannia alone rivaled Germany in steel manufacturing. Today China dominates global steel production and America is barely in the picture. In WW2 America was close to 50% of world GDP today its ~25%, its 14% if you prefer PPP as a measurement.>China overwhelmingly leads global manufacturing with nearly 28-29% of the world's output, followed by the United States (around 17-18%). Another thing that gets glossed over is that American Industry in WW2 gets a massove boost from investments made in WW1 to scale up even further and the lesson learnt from WW1. That shit isnt happening today America's best bet is its allies, but good luck beating protectionist instincts (looking at you Maine and Wisconsin)
>>64637266Technically only one, since the first impact was a failure to detonate.
>>64637152Okay the NZ one isn't even a warship, to be fair. It was a civilian research ship built in 2003 that the RNZN owned for a year before managing to run aground on a coral reef, because I think the entire NZ defence establishment exists entirely to make the ADF look better.Give them all the shit for that they deserve but it's not really in scope here.
>>64632802>GorePoint at this retard and laugh.
Is this a normal behaviour for a military An-22?
>>64634195https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iva_RuMiiDo
>>64635624>yum>delicious>I cannot determine speed and bearing>>64635632That's not even a slampig yet.
>>64634262You know.I meme on /pol/ and /biz/ all thr time about jews this and fake and gay economy that.But then thinking about plane maintenance really gets me thinking.Why don't they just print more money and buy newer shit?They print infinite money anyway. Why is anything in the military so old it fails and falls out of the sky?I swear if the answer is "because governments aren't evil, merely incompetent." And plane maintenance makes me a normal reasonable not insane /pol/ster...
>>64634443I think her hips look best in the middle dress
>>64637396Just embezzle all that maintainence money bro, it's not like the plane will actually be used right? YOU aren't flying it anyway. Just blame sabotage if it fails!
Can /k/ identify what gun is this Cambodian soldier is using?
>>64637227QLZ 87
Not until you learn English
>>64637227It's definitely a FAMA...>Gee, I miss old/k/
>>64637227damn cuh they got better equipment than russia and ukraine. can't believe SEA has a real modern peer to peer war before the west did
>>64637231Looks like it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QLZ-87
>uberti 1873>ruger vaquero>taurus deputy>uberti 1875Which of these would be the best bang for buck to larp as a cowboy with a companion 1873 winchester in .45 colt? Im not looking for period accuracy or anything like that, obviously since im getting .45 colt and not .44-40 but whichever is the "best" out of them
>>64635096>uberti 1873I have this gun unlike the others; it emulates an original SAA quite nicely save for the firing pin retraction safety they put on it (I had it replaced with a regular hammer and trigger later on due to personal taste). Shoots well, looks good, takes about 50 (44/40) blackpowder cartridges before I need to cleanse it from the fouling. Be sure to keep an eye on the screws or apply some blue Loctite, because just like the originals, they'll back out in due time.>ruger vaqueroA beefed-up SAA which allows you to shoot hotter loads out of it, though instead of putting the hammer at half-cocked to free the cylinder, you instead open up the loading gate to free it (the cylinder makes no clicks and can be a little weird to reload due to it being more "slick"), and then there's the transfer bar. They have a great reputation and since you do not care for authenticity would make for a great choice.>taurus deputyDon't know much about it other than that it has a transfer bar like the Vaquero and Taurus has been doing better in recent years so perhaps give it a proper look later.>uberti 1875A similar story to the 1873, but with a different body I take it; it's a beauty.I would also recommend looking into Pietta's line since from what I've heard, they have better internals than a Uberti at the cost of not looking as good.
I see a lot of load out threads, but not many 'worst case best case' onesSay your country had a serious break down of law and order, society hasn't quite collaped yet, things might get better, but in the meantime things are pretty lawless and if you had to defend yourself the police won't be asking any questions afterwards.What's the minimum level of weaponry you'd accept in order to defend yourself, family and property?What's a mid tier, and what's the best possible case? Keeping in with what you could realistically own prior to the current unrest.I'm in the UK so worst case>I have a double barrel shotgun and some bird shot, still more than a lot of people would have>mid tier I have a decent pump/semi auto shotgun with buck shot or slugs, or a .22 semi auto or both>I have a bolt action rifle in a powerful caliber with enough ammo, plus some sort of cap and ball revolver/ semi auto .22 or shotgun. The main thing being I can shoot both at range and close quarters effectively
>>64636061I know, that's why it's the worst case>>64636483I'm asking what is the minimum level of arming that would give you a chance if the worst was to happen, what is reasonable and you either have already or can easily acquire. And what your ideal would be, you might not have it or it would be difficult to get under your countries laws. It's probably harder for Americans since you can just say 'AR and a Glock' to all three.The Bondi beach shooting got me thinking about it, since they were using manual operation firearms and still caused a lot of deaths.
>>64636523Nothing yet, it's just a thought tht came to me after watching in Australia carrying out a mass shooting with bolt action rifles and shotguns.
>>64635939My trusty single shot shotgun and SAA clone will suffice!
>>64637313Well there are lots of good Muslims in the UK and I hate the rise of the far right targeting them, hopefully they defend themselves and learn to fight back
>>64637386No such thing as a good muslim. They'll pick their people over yours. Idiot. They're only "good ones" because we still have our own rule of law even if barely
