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?
>>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.
>>64697995>They don't have speed to chase helicopters in the air, there's like 1 case of a hit.I think there's 2-3 but that's a distinction without a difference.Modern purpose-built interceptor drones can reach 450kmh now, easily enough to catch a helo.They're just used for shaheeds and recon drones rather than helos and probably don't have the range to penetrate enemy controlled airspace but I'm certain they'd do the job if given the chance.
>>64696315https://x.com/i/status/2006233140663075254You fucking lying chink eye dog eating piece of shit.
>>64698095I think it's just more likely that they aren't kept near to the frontline, in the sense that spreading them out makes them far more effective at doing their actual job; intercepting drones.It goes without saying that the EW situation on the front is far different from deeper in country.
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?
>>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?
>>64698023>What if the sole purpose of your converted cargo ship is to maximize damage onto enemy commerce?Basically a one-and-done attack because every vessel that's even remotely suspicious will start getting blown out of the water without foreplay to try to take the sting out of global trade cratering in the background. A pack of dune coons with hand-me-downs taking potshots at specific vessels caused a significant chunk of global shipping to detour all the way around Africa like it was the 1850s; what do you think freezing the entire Pacific would do?>what if you had the means to sink a huge number of Chinese ships in the Pacific, like 10% or more of global trade?That already exists and it's called a carrier strike group. Merchant vessels are not warships, full stop.
IT'S UP!: https://youtu.be/qvUbx9TvOwk?
>>64698085>why are the only people defending this stupid?The same could be asked of any of the other dumb shit that has happened this year, and the answer is the same: only retards resonate with retards.
>>64698063>build one ship that can carry 120 missiles>over three ships that can carry 270>die to three chink ships with 300 missiles because they can overwhelm you while you need to spread your fire and have fewer missilesthe DDG(X) was gonna carry the same long range hypersonics anyway. You get fewer missiles, less survivability and less flexibility for a far higher price and opportunity costTrump has effectively given up the pacific to the chinks now. The meta in naval warfare is carrying lots of missiles and spreading them out not carrying few missiles and putting them all on a single vessel.>>64698075An arsenal ship is less stupid than this because it at least doesn't rely on vaporware and commits to the arsenal bit, so it is in a slightly less disadvantaged position against chink DDGs
>>64698085>why are the only people defending this stupid?because the orange retard (now confirmed chinese agent) put his name and personal stamp of approval on this shit
>>64697864>noo you must bury your head in the sand and pretend everything will be fine forever even if we do nothingyou are brown, white people don't think like this. probably a slav. if the enemy does something right you pay attention and counter it, you don't go "russia stronk analogov net" and ignore it
>>64698091What vaporware does this rely on? Be warned, if you say railguns, I'm going to laugh at you.
How would you arm and operate a small squadron of rebel troopers in 3 ABY?
>>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
>>64698034>DroidsWar machines manufactured at scale by the proto-Empire>Mandalorian bounty huntersClone War surplus equipment given to pro-Empire contractorsWhen the Republic and CIS formed the Empire, they controlled the vast majority of rocket manufacturing and stockpiles.
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
>>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
>>64697620Rifle No.3.
Pistol related but last question thread died a while ago. Are all 1911 .45 barrels interchangeable with all other 1911 models? I've got a Kimber and want a threaded barrel for it and I'm wondering if I should just get a Kimber barrel for it.
>>64697346You're going to have to wiggle it fore and aft a bit while turning and lifting upward.Eventually the tail of the bolt will drop and you'll be able to lift it out.
Im looking to get a few mid tier red dots to throw onto my less used guns that I still want dots on. I currently have a sig romeo 5 that was bouncing around for a while but I got it back before their QC went completely to shit and ive heard their red dots have been suffering as well. I know a few guys whove gotten newer ones that have gotten bricked in a few hundred rounds and mines lasted a while. Regardless, Whats a decent budget red dot thats still usable and priced reasonably/regularly on sale around $150-200. Ive been mostly out of the budget red dot game so i dont know a ton of the models, I just have some fancier stuff on harder used guns.
>>64697060Post source. I am willing to change my mind but am skeptical. The lower has the serial number. Unless you are talking about 80%s but in that case it's adding a twist not in the original conversation.
>>64697632It's anecdotal, but a few years ago I bought a cheapo AR bundled with a vortex SPARC AR, put 1000+ rds through it before I sold it to a buddy.Fast forward to now and he's easily put 2k+ rounds through it and that vortex still works great. Seems like a quality product.
>>64697763It was a few years ago, no decision so unless you want to go to court the lower is still the actual firearm.Look this up to find the actual article I'm not dealing with this fucking spam filter. "He sold illegal AR-15s. Feds agreed to let him go free to avoid hurting gun control efforts"
We were born to soon travel to exotic planets and teach alien women to shoot guns. Feels bad man.
>>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
>>64697162>Any way you frame it in any other context eywa is a cosmic entity you'd root against on cue when startrek told you to.Consider how tyrannical our brain might look to one of our cells.>oh, we're just supposed to accept that we're going to be culled from the face once we grow too long?>freedom for hair follicles now!>join us skinbros, reject being discarded and dying once you reach seven days of age!>fight for equality with heart muscle cells, they get to live for ages
A dragon has claimed your city and is snatching up citizens to be part of its treasure hordeHow would you, an ordinary citizen, take it out with only the weapons available to you? It has tough scales, can fly, spew fire, and is large enough to swallow a person whole. What can you do with the weapons and ordinance of a single civilian to kill it?
>>64676766A civilian can buy a lot of fertilizer, if you know what I mean
>>64692055That movie was much better than I thought it would be. The whole starwars seen was worth the whole film.
>>64676766Make a multi barrel rocket launcher out of model rockets and large bore PVC pipes. Otherwise just bomb the shit out of it with dumb rockets, guided rockets, and drones. All of which are easy to make. Rifles ain't shit kid get on my level, start making real toys.
>>64676870Sounds more dignified and has more purpose than my current job of doing meaningless back end maintenance for a software that only exists to transfer faceless research data from one table into another. Plus I wanna fuck the dragon and that sounds really hot.
My trusty spear!
Last one dead. These threads need to be more common.Between a Mossberg 590 and a Remington 870, which should I keep? Recently was given an 870 and I don't really care to have two shotguns.
you have to be 18 in order to post here.
anyone else have an izh-81? i like mine even though the form factor is kind of weird
>>64668914Short 410 Suppressors WHEN??>ksg 410 ownerRemington Ultimate Defense 000 buck is NASTY out of this thing btw, I genuinely think running it suppressed would be a Goldilocks setup
>>64697329I got old 1960s wood furniture for the look but wish I had just kept my hogue short LoP set, it was so handy I felt like a baton twirler at band practice and it was grippier than cailee spaeny's plump little simp. Which I have fucked and will continue to fuck
>>64697960Did.. Did you think rifle rounds magically stopped working inside 20 yards? Of course it works at bad breath range. So does anything if you disrupt the right organs or organ systems with it
Why isn't the 5.56 RDB more popular? I shot one at the range today as it was extremely pleasant to shoot. Nice trigger and adjustable gas system
>>64694215>the ejection system isn't finnicky. it's an AR-18. It just goes down.>Saying it's "finnicky" just means you've never looked inside one.Ejecting behind the magazines is a finicky solution. It requires the bolt to travel all the way back. If it doesn't quite go all the way back the case wont be ejected but a new one will still be stripped from the magazine.
>>64692845>The downwards ejection likes to shove hot brass down your shirt or pockets.I would have to assume they make something like picrel for the RDB, this was the best accessory money I spent on my KSG
>>64692773anyone know were i could get a RDB lower? the upper is the serialized part and i want a 20 inch so im kinda stuck slamming a RDB C into a standard one
Just get one of these
>>64694215>it's called the RFBI don't want the more complex forward ejecting system or FAL mags. What a dumb choice that was, FALs were the most here today gone tomorrow cheap battle rifle. If it took G3 mags maybe but they need to make an updated .308 bullpup that takes common mags of this quarter-century.
>$344 million per plane>So we can gift them to IsraelLiterally how the fuck are these F-15s so expensive what the heck
>>64697301>BMWWhat‘s next? Are you going to claim that a Rolex is a luxury watch?
>>64696099Israelis have been hanging bombs on Eagles since before the mudhen was a thing, anon...
>>64693289Greatest parasites forever leeching off us. We finance their Greater Israel jewhad and in return we get infinity unwanted aliens from the wars that benefit the jews.
>>64698028Go back to /pol/.
>>64698028Ah yes the countless Palestinian and Syrian immigrants in the US kek
Why did they killed it?
>>64697248apology for bad englishwhere were u wen scar diei was at house drinking ballistol when phone ring"scar is kil""no"
>>64697388really though, from comparing rails in the past I've found that mlok seems to save shockingly little weightpicaninny rails are structural so when you replace them with slots you have to make the faces of the handguard thicker or else you lose rigiditythe main benefit is less machining, which is why every manufacturer seems to be switching to them now. unfortunately, the cost savings are not passed on to the consumer and they still want to charge you $400 for a little piece of aluminum
>>64697392i was breaking poop clog with shit brush when sergei break in and say "scar is die"i say bozhe moy
>>64697378Rails are superior, especially since that is where all of the heat is generated and they act as a heatsink.
>>64698036M-lok offers superior ventilation
is there a way to make it work?
>>64697617fak, i guess im a Russian motorized conscript
>>64692724ACCATRANor Lucius
>>64697356You're trying extremely hard to put words in my mouth and then argue against them. Are these strawmen in the room with you right now? The tabletop rules are what's canon, because they're not subject to powerwankery (primarily from space marine authors) with varying levels of individual autist-narcissism, because the armies HAVE to be mechanically balanced against all the other factions. There is a natural regulator in the rules development that prevents one autist on the dev team from declaring his faction as the coolest and is better than everything else. 3rd edition rules are the peak and best, but whatever the rules are currently, that's the actual power level everything is, relative to each other. Space Marines aren't walking tanks. Dreadnoughts are. Terminators have the armor that everyone *thinks* standard marines have, and even then they're still not walking tanks. And all the insane bullshit that people apply to marines, like Jedi levels of perception and whatever, only Primarchs could possibly possess that amount of ability. And even then, nah. The fuckin God Emperor couldn't do half the bullshit that are attributed to standard marines in some of the books.
>>64692724>>64697623accatran is OP you just level it at head height and sweep across the enemy horde
>>64690590>>64692047Guardsmen have krak grenades, vehicles with heavy bolters and multi lasers in mechanized units, and may or may not have mortars, heavy weapons teams with heavy stubbers (M2 machine guns, apparently) and rocket launchersThe tabletop rules are there to make shit simple but in the lore they have at least WW2 levels of integral combined arms. The main exception is that you don't see a SAW equivalent in guardsman squads, but 10 guardsmen with lasguns probably mog the firepower of a modern day rifle squad quite substantially.
A few photos I took at the Museo Storica Aeronautica Militare when I visited back in November (thanks to a case of the Japanese cold back in July leaving me with a spare vacation week).
>>64696645it has always bothered me how the Tornado isn't a true multirole aircraft and you had to order a model specifically for the role in need
Amazing thread OP thanks
>>64695544Not true at all, there were many contemporary gliders during the Wright Brothers time, they were mainly large kites. The brotheres were actually in contact with one of the more successful designers. It was powered flight that the Wright brothers pioneered, as before them no one had an engine light enough to put on a glider of the time. They also invented the controls that made the aircraft steerable, rather than just a kite in the wind.
very cool anon, thank you.
>>64696204>>64696235Is it true that this was supposedly an excellent fighter on par with other fighters at the time
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.
