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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.
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>>64633665
>SCHV-schizo being schizo and hyperbolic as usual
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>>64635820
The Prussians still won using outdated needle rifles against the new superior French Chassepot.
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>>64635702
as 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.
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>>64633566
>we were getting outgunned in vietnam
So outgunned they ended up with a 10:1 k/d ratio.
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>>64633298
the 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

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Eyup... all in a day's work *burp*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoPvtG7L2rE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIt56ezNiVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_7kkNS-m3s
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>>64634896
Well, I'm not giving my retina, fingerprint, DNA, 5 years of emails exchanges, 5 years of phone calls, 5 years of work email exchange, 5 years of social media posts that I don't use anyway, and I'm certainly not giving 5 years of 4chan posts where I called Trumpedo an orange nigger either.
So yeah, he can shove the world cup in his large asshole. I'll make another trip to Japan instead. My skis always wanted to taste Hokkaido's delicious snow.
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>>64634297
I'm gonna ask the important question, which if the two countries is better to visit if I want a pair of tiny 19 year olds to fuck me until I go into cardiac arrest, and is it still safe to do so?
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>>64634891
BITCH WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THOSE WEAPONS ARE FOR
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>>64637391
You couldn't do that anyway nigger.
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>>64635194
>It's just as likely, if not more, that that landmine was a leftover from the Vietnamese invasion.
This has already been deboonked, Thais even showed international observers the mines and Reuters confirmed they were newly laid, then Thais tried to push for an independent investigation and Cambodians flat out rejected the idea. The Khmers don't even allow foreigners to report from their side of the border because they know it would fuck with their propaganda machine. They always do this, amass forces along the border, provoke a Thai response, then immediately call for third-party mediation. Actual goblin behavior.

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This is a literal combat ship.
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>>64632982
How 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?
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>>64637272
>in ww2
In 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)
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>>64637266
Technically only one, since the first impact was a failure to detonate.
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>>64637152
Okay 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.
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>>64632802
>Gore
Point at this retard and laugh.

Is this a normal behaviour for a military An-22?
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>>64634195
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iva_RuMiiDo
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>>64635624
>yum
>delicious
>I cannot determine speed and bearing
>>64635632
That's not even a slampig yet.
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>>64634262
You 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...
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>>64634443
I think her hips look best in the middle dress
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>>64637396
Just 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!

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Can /k/ identify what gun is this Cambodian soldier is using?
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>>64637227
QLZ 87
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Not until you learn English
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>>64637227
It's definitely a FAMA...

>Gee, I miss old/k/
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>>64637227
damn 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
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>>64637231
Looks like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QLZ-87

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>uberti 1873
>ruger vaquero
>taurus deputy
>uberti 1875
Which 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
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>>64635096
>uberti 1873
I 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 vaquero
A 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 deputy
Don'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 1875
A 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' ones
Say 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
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>>64636061
I know, that's why it's the worst case
>>64636483
I'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.
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>>64636523
Nothing 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.
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>>64635939
My trusty single shot shotgun and SAA clone will suffice!
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>>64637313
Well 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
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>>64637386
No 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

>had a little girl pull a gun on me today
What is this world coming to? Recommend something non lethal that doesnt leave marks
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>>64634614
Its the best
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4duxCXkgwM

>>64632730
Take into your home
Beatings and corrections
Adopt her as your own
Leave the biggest mark (in her heart)
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Brown raccoons can be scared away by just stomping your feet and angrily grumbling at them.
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>>64634614
Instant stage 4 pancreatic cancer unfortunately
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>>64632730
Headpat.

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>>64634771
>milled receiver
This is basically a Guccied Mini Uzi
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>>64636984
>>inb4 state secrets
>They're 40-50yr old guns.
What is this schizo babble. It has nothing to do with some kind of protectionism. It's because Howa built AR-180s became the posterchild of smoking British soldiers in the 80s, so they left the semi-auto market.
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>>64634657
But they won't do anything if the US doesn't got their back. Zion don doesn't seem like the guy to help out kineticly unless it's for God's chosen people.
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>>64635127
>you couldn't handle a japanese firearm
>posts a non-japanese firearm
what did he mean by this?
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>>64633899
I don't know but they should buy anything that help them make the bomb in a month top. And anything ITAR free.

That's approximate number of nuclear warheads NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and their friends possessed at the peak of the Cold War in 1985.

Here's my question, if things had actually had actually come to a head, how many of these could actually have been fired off in an exchange. Say, it's all-out mutually assured destruction where the goal is the total extermination of the opposing side, could you have actually seen 60,000+ warheads being fired off or would both sides have had command and control collapse after the first few hundred and the rest being left unable to be used?
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>>64637388
Not if the goal is "total extermination" as per op. That heavily implies countervalue, not counterforce. And if both are aware of the other at the moment of firing, at least for the time period, i don't think counterforce would hit in time.
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>>64637392
If you defeat their capability to fight back you can exterminate them with impunity.
The soviets (and russians still do) have liquid fueled ICBMs that are basically only useful for first strikes.
Both sides has significant quantities of stockpiled warheads, neither at any point could empty their entire magazines in one volley.
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>>64637374
>Globohomo Eradication.webm
If the ziggers are getting hit, they're all dead, with likely few casualties in NATO outside of a couple of strikes in Europe.
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>>64637374
>jeetslop bait
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A couple of weeks I used GPT for something like a "Choose your own adventure" kinda game.

The premise was: I am the US president, it's 1983 early in the morning, I'm sleeping. The door pops open and the guy with the football and my chief of staff enter the room "Sir our early warning satellites have detected what seems to be an overwhelming first strike"

Then GPT gave me several chapters for the developing story. Each of them with several possible answers I could choose - the next chapter depending on my previous answer.

It was really funny but also kinda gut-wrenching because GPT wrote it rather immersive. At the end I nuked the everloving shit outta the entire eastern block and since they fired first I sent a second volley of pure counter-value annihilation to make sure they will never start shit again.


Promt was something like

Please give me a "Choose your own adventure game" with mulitple possible answers. Scenario: I am the US president...."

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>Imagine being a chinese soldier freshly parachuted into appalachia and meeting one of these specimens for the first time
What do?
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>>64630828
Where's Mothman?
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>>64629440
I was surprised when I finally visited Appalachia that most people were actually short and really fat. Not sure why that surprised me.
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>>64630659
Those are Pennsylvania plainsmen
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>>64633828
King of sniper!

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Why do you keep buying plastic striker slop?
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>>64635569
Ggg
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>>64636166
Anon, when someone shows you a picture of their hand, why is the first thing that comes to your mind your own penis?
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>>64636220
thats a really good analogy, even if unintended kek
zippos suck and only larpers carry them
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>buy this overpriced 1911 type
Or
>but this polymer not a glock
The one telling me it isnt overpriced has my attention, OP.
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>>64637079
Not even him but fuck your reddit tier faggot response kys fgt

The M551 Sheridan and M60A2 Starship .... would have been the premiere anti-tank hunter-killer armored cav combat team of the Central European battlefield of the 1970s. They would have decimated thousands of T-62s and T-64s with their Shillelagh missiles, and vindicated the hopes placed in them by the Army and NATO
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>>64635091
It was fundamentally cool as fuck. Anything to the contrary is quitter talk.
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>>64635071
If it's any consolation, they dumped the majority of Sheridans into the ocean.
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>>64635071
You sure it's smoothbore?
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why not just airdrop bradleys for firesupport?
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>>64637390
Considering their experience with the Sheridan all they'd achieve is carpet bombing the enemy with vehicles?

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How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
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>>64634465
so effective they thought cortes with a few hundred spaniards were angry gods sent to punish them
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>>64634465

Replicas have been made and tested, and the results are that it kills real good actually but is also very brittle (as the cutting edge is literally made of glass). It is significantly sharper than any steel sword you can create due to the properties of volcanic glass.
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>>64634900
>not because they were superior to steel, bronze, iron or even copper
Wait wait wait.
Someone unironically thinks that clubs with glass in them beat metals? Seriously? How fucking retarded are people? It likely shatters on contact with bone, pretty trash tier as far as weapons go.
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>>64637322
>>64634900
No one fucking thinks it's BETTER than steel. It's SHARPER than steel. Those two words are not synonyms.
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>>64634475
Ma-kwa-wilth

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What kind of /k/ommando are you?
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>>64637180
Oh, I thought you meant a BAR
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The furry one
Working in the military industry and losing grip on normie reality, because I have colleagues around me who are similarly tism-affected. And our regular over-the-coffee conversations contain homosexual innuendo, stories from Afghanistan, erotic fantasies about guns and ammunition. It's common to come across a situation where someone is practicing the jet-li maneuver in the office. Or one of our colleagues is trying to guess how many rounds have our Glock 18 through by licking the barrel.
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>>64637190
A BAR in my bar sure would be nice.
But I got a door bell outside made from some smol WW2 howitzer shell. When you pull a string you activate a little hammer with a bearing ball on its tip that smashes against the shell. Actually sounds pretty nice like a purpose-built bell
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>>64630749
A no-guns medieval enthusiast who likes to read about all the funny war and gun stories.
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>>64630749
I'm not the laser schizo, but I am a laser schizo.


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