why are soviet ifv so mediocre when compared to their western counterparts?
>>65049180>here's why being retarded is a good thingwe're at this point now
>>65048424BMP-1 was about as janky as you'd expect from basically the first large-scale adaption IFV in the world, and then hampered a bit more by political BS. Unfortunately for the Russians, it also locked in a number of doctrinal and construction practices that proceeded to age poorly, and couldn't be corrected for lack of politicla will and avaiable resources.
>>65049192All they had to do was make it a little bigger.
>>65048698>check the source>a fucking videogame dev blog with zero sourceswew lmao my dudehttps://armoredwarfare.com/en/news/general/painful-birth-bmp-2-part-1
>>65048541Do btr-3's use mixed belts or something? It always looked to me like some of those were HE shells detonating on the armor, but some shots you see nothing but the camera shake
Do you need special munitions to take out power plants in a similar way to runway cratering and taking out hardened bridges?It seems like Russia and Ukraine just take the route of trying to hit critical components and grid connectors but we've seen that so long as you have access to components then you can quickly return to business after a strike.
>>65048294this whole situation is ridiculous because the people who are threatening each other don't give a fuck about what is being threatened by the other sideiranian government doesn't care about iranianstrump doesn't care about anythingthe game of chicken doesn't work if both sides don't care if you run into each other
>>65049053The Iranians are just able to read the fucking room. They've tried talking it out with Trump and Bibi twice now, and gotten a knife to the back each time because it just resulted in them being perceived as weak. They have to make this into a defeat for the US, because any negotiated outcome below that means they'll just get bombed again in a year because someone needs a political distraction.Trump and Bibi effectively tied down the gas pedal and removed the steering wheel in Iran's car before starting this game of chicken, and now they're wondering why these crazy Iranians aren't slowing down or evading.
>>65048347Not a real concept
>>65048983I wish a game was made in the style of those old cgi cutscenes.
>>65048929I guess we’re closer to 40 year old boomers now…
He is risen - happy EasterPrevious: >>65037498>Image limit reachedhttps://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>I can hear the call of the Lord when I use the 4chan sound player
>>65048913>hey guys what if genre X but with twist Y?!idea guy moment
>>65048937It sounds pretty romantic, doesnt it?
Is a dork, a dork, even in bed?
Would it be stupid to buy a really cheap ultrasonic toothbrush to clean your guns?
I was thinking that the main issue for the A10 is that it puts pilots into far too much danger in the current SAM and Manpad enviroment CAS is no longer a viable tactic against anyone with any amount of modern air defenses.The platform however does still have an useful role even if it will likely suffer far higher combat losses than modern planes. So the logical solution would be to remove the cockpit and the expensive controls, replace it with a computer and a starlink / satellite connection so that the pilot can control it from an AC office. Without risking his life every time to some random dude with a strela or igla manpad.
>>65047182Why? The only reason to convert an A-10 into a drone would be to keep the GAU, everything else that it can do (i.e. carrying bombs and missiles) is done more effectively by smaller, cheaper, more flexible, and less retarded drones. The GAU isn't a tank killer OP, it's basically just a (vaguely) targeted cluster bomb/warcrimes dispenser. You'd get much better effects and return on your money by building a drone designed to carry Mavericks/JDAMs/APKWS as needed - maybe carrying pair of M2s for anti-drone use.
>>65047182The main issue for the A-10 is that it was a one trick pony and the GAU didn't really cut the mustard anymore. The only way to fix it imo is to cut out the big ass cannon and extra armor that weighs half of the plane, replace it with a big ass radar, and put more hard points and rocket pods on it. It can be a loitering drone hunter.
Wasn't there a mission in COD ghosts where you pilot drone A-10s?
>>65048076Tbh, it never really cut the mustard in the first place. The amount of vehicles that can be breached by 30x173 but not by a 20mm is pretty narrow. Which would be okay if they hadn't built the plane around this massive gun.As an a2g weapon, I think it was fundamentally flawed based on anecdotes of the Ju-87G. A revolver cannon or two would have been better for the A-10 imo.
>>65048076>replace it with a big ass radarThe A-10 is already underpowered in the engine department, a radar needs to pull energy from a generator connected to the turbine shaft.The APU is not gonna cut it.
How feasible would it be to use a nuke on Iran's underground missile silos, and uranium enrichment sites? This idea has been proposed in the past for targeting the underground sites buried more than 1,000 ft deep.
>>65049108t.Holden Bloodfeast
>>65049108Dimitri Medvedev is that you ?
>>65049108>1,000 ft deepWould a nuke even do anything to that?And aren't there so many you'd need to use a whole bunch?I just dont see it happening, iran isnt enough of a direct threat anymore to warrant that.
Post gear, discuss gear.Cutting Edge / New Shit EditionOld: >>65023454
>>65049202I run a 1998 Bushnell Holosight (eotech) on my shotty. 509T seems small.>>65049204
>>65049207Sorry anon I’ll commit sudoku after I get an answer.
>>65049224There are people who run pistol sights on their shotguns. It should be fine.
>>65049224but you got an answer. Maybe a 503?
The fucking Chinese... they made a JPC 3.0. It's over...
What was the worst military you worked with?
>>65046977Nope, just have done exercises in the German winter, which is enough for me. Anything arctic related looks miserable.
>>65036222I'm Danish, so I would love to hear what your opinions were on us. Personally I did 8 months of conscription back december 2023 - july 2024, but I choose uni instead of staying in the army. Never got the chance to work with militaries of other nations.
>>65036222>>Ukrainians (pre-2022)>>Ukrainians (post Feb 2022, helped train them on Bradleys, Abrams, and dismount tactics)Tell us more?.t diaspora
>>65036494>When it comes to actually maneuvering, up until recently they had only one (1) radio for the entire tank platoon, which was in the platoon leaders tankThe t-55 doctrine
>>65039821>"well regulated militia" part of the second amendment explicitly REQUIRES military service to be allowed to partake in the second amendmentIt doesn't though?
Iranian air defenses have successfully intercepted the second AGM-158 JASSM Cruise Missile in as many days, the first one was either intercepted yesterday or that's when the photos were released.
>>65046598>That's-a some distraction Are you Italian?
>>65045694The sad part is many idiots are sincerely believing this is real, Disney and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>>65048110On a related note: Why do thirdies take such pride in treating their people's lives as disposable but place such value in replaceable equipment?
>>65048805looks like a xitter post, probably from a turdoid who been furiously copeposting on /pol/ lo these many moons
>>65048254your tax money well spent (for israel), eh magacuck?
How do you think it's going to go down? I imagine there won't be an infantry presence until it's practically leveled.
>>65046455>How do you think it's going to go down?I don't think there will be any conquering of this Island, just total destruction of it.>>65046510This island is not in Israel’s interest. Israel cares about the missiles, nuclear capabilities, and the uranium, so as I said, this island will be destroyed.For America, this island is good whether it is occupied or destroyed, in both cases, they benefit from it.
>>65048798>>65048801oh no the turdies are seething again. what embarrassed them this time?
>>65048961>I only behave like a fucking zigger because I like pretending to be retarded>I-I'm t-totally a-american guiz!!yeah
>>65048791>Previous presidents made their cases to the public and Congress. They got authorization (even if Congress didn't use """war""" as a word per se, an "authorization for the use of military force" is effectively the same thing), and they got a majority of the public onboard.This was done in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam and KoreaThis was absolutely not done in Syria and Libya and Panama and Grenada and Yugoslavia and Venezuela and
>>65049007nta but you should probably explain why he's retarded, otherwise you just look like a seething thirdie since he provided specific reasoning points and you aren't willing (or able?) to respond to those points.
An absolute world record - a pilot took down a Shahed with interceptor STING at a distance of 500 kmUsing Hornet Vision Ctrl technology, Roman “Hulk” from the BULAVA unit downed two Shaheds located 500 km away
>>65048417this
>>65048285yeah no those small drones are not being launched by anything other than humans on the ground for obvious reasons
>>65048574>for obvious reasonsWe've been releasing drones from drones or other aircraft for over a decade, Anon.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndFKUKHfuM0
>>65049046oh god youtube the specific drone and come back
>>65048276Image sensors are currently manufactured on 16 and 12nm nodes at the smallest. Chink cameras are shit for other reasons.
How is infecting someone with Anthrax or spraying Agent Orange around a forest worse than using regular bombs and nukes?
>>65047293>>65047284>Vietnam>Japan>civilizedEvery day I wake up and praise God that I wasn't born brown
>>65048471>chink government has every reason to undercount any contribution the coofening had to deaths, despite the initial outbreak seeing Chinks drop dead in the street, likely due to preexisting asthma from their smog.>libtards and functionaries in the US government desperately trying to compel Americans to take the shot due to a combination of hysteria, ideological hatred for those who don't like government boots, and a disgust reaction against those who don't socially signal their compliance with "norms" have every reason to overcount and attribute every death by pneumonia to the coof.I can't help but feel way more chinks "died" to corona-chan than Americans, regardless of the criteria by which we are defining "died" so long as those criteria are applied to both populations.
>>65049089>"died"I would assume it would mean people who got sick and are no longer living. Does death mean something different to you?
>>65045876Becuase everybody agreed that they were too much trouble to be worth it. Simple as.
>>65046176The inbred birth defects are different from the agent orange birth defects. They're not mutually exclusive.
any excuse to post sharp objects is a good one.here's the finnish puukko. comes in many varieties, often with regional variations depending on very local craftsmen from small villages. this example is probably from härmä desu.
>>65047400many such cases with the nazis
>>65047400Well the Schweizerdolch was very common in southern Germany and Switzerland. But the nazis misinterpreted the swiss Reisläufer as an exclusive german phenomenon and thus used it. This led to a quite funny circumstance: the Swiss in the late 1940s were weary of the rise of Nazi Germany and revised the old shape of the Schweizerdolch too with the intention of emphasising the swiss readyness for the defense of the land. But by that point in time this shape was already heavily associated with the Nazis and the swiss thus changed the design by increasing the size and shape of the crossguard.Pic rel is a SS-Honor Dagger
And here a swiss M43 Officer Dagger.
>>65049177What's with the cloth around the guard?
>>65049183A Portepee. Originally it was a simple loop fixed to a sword and slung around the wrist that helped with retaining a sword. But it evolved into a military rank insignia by the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Great Debate.
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>cram some electronic earmuff components into it>swap the snaps with a NVG mount>improve the ventilation while not compromising much of the paddingAside from material, weight, and paint, why shouldn't something like this work?
>>65043344High cut for ear pro and nvg mount. I wouldn’t die for Israel so I would never be anywhere near explosions going off.
>>65048615
I’d assume that they’d want something with some reach like a spear or halberd so that they can block any strikes towards their tail
>>65048383참빼미 Sparrowl@isb9898■Patreon : http://patreon.com/sparrowl19■pixiv : SPARROWL http://pixiv.net/users/17311392
>>65037656
>>65037640That's just because legs are stronger than arms. Give them a belted hook to push on the stirrup against.
>>65046950Ty sir
>>65048613https://www.youtube.com/shorts/boY9oEjl6GA
Still looking for info/advice about making synthetic stocks at home. Fiberglass, carbon fiber, resin, foam, that kind of thing, not nylon.Previous: >>64933822
>>65046832>Shotgun>3 MOA dot???
>>65049061As opposed to? A circle that has no relation to your spread at all and no discrete point of aim?
>>650490926 or 8.
>>65030580Is 7.92×57mm Mauser (8mm) a dead round?
>>65049127It's dead for current military use, but like .30-06 there's a bunch of surp on the market and it's still popular for civilian hunting. It's far from a rare cartridge, the ammo is easy to find.
