>A Merkava Mk4M-400 of the 53rd Sufa Battalion.you can see the backside of the countermeasure launcher on the top left and the new electrooptical+radar sensor on the top right.it also appears they ahve added a new (for redundancy?) camera over the commander's right
Why does Israel use tanks like Russia?
>>65031215it's not new it's called גל״ש galash short for גלאי שיגור launch detector it was added more than 6 years ago although on most vehicles it was mostly experimental until some point in the gaza war t. idf (reserve) trophy technician
>>65044256oh no they fucked up during training like a decade ago the horror
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>>65047978Give an 18 year old the controls of anything with an engine and you can expect he'll find some way to wreck it.
How the fuck do you stop the Houthi? I'm sick of them camping out in the mountains and periodically crashing my portfolio. What weapons does it take?
>>65047985>>65048297Here's a radical proposal: kill all the jews then kill all the muslims, everywhere.
>>65047985Both Persians and Arabs are wretched, ignorant, and brutish people, if anything it's good that Israel are there as they act as a sponge for the murderous anger that flows so easily in the Middle East.
>>65048389Exactly, the societal destabilization of the US, Europe, the disruption of the world economies and the massive flooding of Europe with arabs is in our best interest. I will do anything in my power so that Israel is victorious. Anyone who disagrees with this statement is brown.
>>65048530>massive flooding of Europe with arabsThe political parties most in favour of mass migration in Europe are also the parties most vociferously opposed to Israel. But at least we can agree that brown people are bad.
>>65048564>The political parties most in favour of mass migration in Europe are also the parties most vociferously opposed to IsraelBzzt, wrong. In most EU countries the parties that approve for the most migration are the right wing ones. Latest one is Meloni from Italy, made her campaign about no more migrants, and she just (a month ago) signed for 400-500k unskilled migrants to come in Italy each year. Hell, in the last 35 years the only political party that had pushed forth a legislature to limit the family reconciliation and tighten the criteria for legal refugee status was the PD, a center left party.
Pictures taken at/over Edwards or the nearby dry lakebeds.
Chuck’s
>>65046637touching down on its first flight May 30, 1972A-37 chase
>>65047030>nose wheel off-centerDidn't know that. But given the room the gun takes up, that makes sense.
Hand loading handguns edition!Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikhttps://hodgdonreloading.com/rldc/ -free load data for anyone who wants ammo independence! Previous >>65035332
>>65047336I carry p32. It is fantastic. I’m sure others can be done via pocket clip, though I’m looking for an iwb holster to free up my pockets.
Which Stoeger dryfire book should I buy?
>>65047336LCP Max. 12+1 and it just disappears into my pocket.
>>65047686Yes just shoot cop supplies like gold dots and hst
>>65048412The latest, he’s always evolving
Just spent the last day finally finger fucking one of these. From an engineering perspective it is cracked.>creative, unique striker system due to space limitations. For instance, the disconnector is actuated by a cut in the slide>Managed to make it locked breech and have all of the standard safeties you'd expect from a striker fired gun>The size cannot be articulated until able you hold it in hand. It makes micro-9's like the 43x and shield plus feel like full sized steel frame wonder-9s when held side by side. It's smaller than a Glock 42 for fucks sake>full firing grip which still doesn't make any sense to my brain. They cut the slide height down so much that overall height is that of a two-finger gun, but you can build a full grip on it. Bore axis is as low as those $5k meme guns tier>these are honorable mentions but good sights, good slide serrations, good grip texture, adequate trigger and $350 new goes a long way.Big props to the design team. A pocket gun that simultaneously has 13 rounds of .380 and a full-sized grip is literally the most retardedly insane thing I can't emphasize that enough. If they could make one in .32 with like 13 rounds flush it would probably be the greatest firearm made this century.Unfortunately, it has Smith & Wesson levels of QC.
I find it funny that lucky gunner just put out a video on the P32. And also shit in .30SC
>>65044764>video on the P32link pls
>>65044817Can you not go to youtube and search?>lucky gunner P32Kek come on man. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cQBM6QC-kIt’s worth a watch. In my opinion most of his stuff is pretty good.
>>65048475That's (You)r job not mine
>>65048552Jokes on (you) I just wanted more (you)s
>this isn't some early post war early 1950s design>it entered service in 1984
>>65046073It's nice to see a nuanced take about the troubles, especially from an American. Like you say the whole thing is fucked and the country is ran by people who are old enough to have deeply embedded past grudges or have familial ties to ex-gunmen. That being said it's slowly getting less shit. If you ever do get a chance to travel the Island, do try to give the north a visit, especially the north coast.
>>65039137Yeah British vehicles and their weapons as a whole are an acquired taste, same with their food desu
>>65037987I think the brits are very good at a sort of "we built this thing to fucking kill you we don't care if you laugh at it before you die" aesthetic. Although, given that I'm an american maybe I could be mistaken and a brutal architecture meant to grind lives to dust is just what they consider beautiful, which does kind of track.
>>65045564Eh, being part Welsh I might view it differently but I don't necessarily consider Sinn Fein support to = IRA support even if Sinn Fein did support the IRA. I also view it as somewhat understandable in the context of RUC violence against the Catholics pre-Troubles (which was part of the reason the Troubles started).A lot of people who vote Plaid Cymru don't necessarily want an independent Wales, certainly barely any supported that one Welsh knock off IRA (I forget its name), but they do want things like Welsh language, separation of powers, Welsh cultural focus etc.Agreed on the military tactics being moronic, this is why I am critical of all the groups involved in the Troubles, they did a fantastic job of killing random people who in many cases were either moderates or on their side. I think there is one example where the UVF gunned down a pub because they saw a glimpse of the Irish rugby(?) team on TV. Violent morons with heavy weapons was never a good thing for Ireland on any side.>>65045618Yeah, plus imagine the current Irish military trying to police the "loyalists". It'd be a complete shitshow and probably end up with IRA remnants re-arming and going at it (and inevitably British re-deployment to try and help the Irish who would fail).>>65046088Doesn't really matter, every European nation has dozens of different ethnic groups (no I don't mean recent arrivals), Poland has Kashubs for example, Romania has Hungarian minorities, the list could go on and on.>>65046630Gerald Bull built big guns for anyone with a wallet, he was working for the South Africans (big Israeli allies at the time) for years.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65046249>>65046642Pleasant acknowledgements for agreeing with my point.Learn to love the concrete and imposing geometry.Empty, foreboding surroundings are merely an opportunity for your mind the fill in the blanks with whatever you desire.Also, go camping occasionally to round everything out.Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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.
>>65048147Just so you know, OP is talking about thishttps://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116351998782539414BTW, why don't Americans celebrate Easter?
>>65048543>why don't Americans celebrate Easter?what makes you think they don't?
>>65048340It just blows the fuses - that's incredibly easy to fix and almost routine maintenance outside of the scale. Yugos managed to get their grid back up in 24 hours when they got hit by it so the mid-long effect is negligible outside of giving children asthma. >>65048353Spoken with the confidence of a redditor. We're talking about long-term knocking them out.
>>65048147Easter?
>>65048347its only a war crime if you lose the war
Why are turks so good at shooting guns without special equipment?
>>65038563roaches are great at survival
>>65038578>Also turks are whiteBwahahahaha. You're literally brown arabs
>>65038578AHMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
>>65038780>brown country of Italy (according to americans)>more medals than every other white country beside the US. How do timmies explain this?
>>65048559Italy is always a real blast on 4chan. Whenever someone from the US or other "conventional" white countries has to mention something positive about Italy, be it our history etc, OF COURSE they are white! Otherwise they can't claim their history as their own. But the moment it's an argument or something Italy does that pisses off said individual then we're back to being greasy wops and browns and us magically not being related in any way to Rome! Comrade Vasily from Buchuduculu oblast and Cleetus Diabeetus from Ohio said so!We're the Schrodinger's White, you don't know our race until you know what the argument is about.
How is infecting someone with Anthrax or spraying Agent Orange around a forest worse than using regular bombs and nukes?
>>65048348>Look at what happened when Trump had the CIA release COVID-19 in the Wuhan wet market. 50,000 Chinese died compared to 1.2 million Americans.
>>65048348>Very few conflicts in history have ended with the complete extermination of the losing populationas somebody pointed out already, you're retarded, but nobody has ever achieved this. note; CONFLICT. the closest were the bongs wiping out a ethnogroup in Tasmania through accidential smallpox, it wasn't planned or designed. It just happened. Which is why people campaign for muh reparations etc. In terms of a WAR the closest was the Paraguayan War where only a small % of the population was left. Very few people have ever wanted to wipe out the other side because you want to make them work as slaves so you don't have to.
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>>65045876Because a provocative race to the bottom dooms mankind.
>>65046400>Your family tree looking like a basket is why you have bone spurs?my dude, that's just the tip of the iceberg with the whole inbred shit, it can get so much worse, look at Charles II of spain for exemple.>The autopsy records his "heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."DU is the least of your worries when your entire lineage is nothing but cousins fucking each others, on top of that if it was real, you would have heard a shit load of stories about crew members having health issues just by using them during training.
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
>>65046958>Having a short ranged drone in the right place, at the right time, close enough to pursue an enemy drone, AND communicating with it is tricky.Oh golly gosh, it's "tricky", and how dare the Ukrainians learn to do all that in a mere four years of constant drone warfare?>Or the eastern European villagers that can't make their own fighter aircraft suddenly acquired the ability to make IR cameras cheaper, smaller, and better than the Chinese in the last two years. IR cameras aren't all that complex, Anon. Ukraine has access to TSMC's fabs (by paying them and not being blacklisted like China is), and China doesn't. China is forced to use its own fabs for the sensors, and China's fabs suck dogshit -- they only recently (literally last year) began using a shitty 7nm process for a single chip design (one of Bitmain's Bitcoin mining rig ASICs, lel). TSMC is four generations ahead, already doing 2nm in test batches. The actual sensor design is probably from a Taiwanese engineering team who had already done multiple previous generations of IR imaging sensors. So it's not really a wonder that Ukraine could get a higher resolution higher quality sensor made for them than China gets.https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/platform-automotive-tech-CISI mean, you literally have to be retarded to think that just because Ukraine didn't personally mine the silicon, they can't get IR imaging sensors made for them on the global market, unlike say those faggot-ass Russians who are sanctioned to fuck and gone.See, the thing is, everyone (except for assblasted "I hate Ukraine because how dare they show up Russia!!!" slavshit-loving types like yourself) hates Russia now. So it's not really a miracle that the sane people of the world are assisting Ukraine in their existential fight against le heckin' "hostis humani generis" Pidorussia.
>>65047426See >>650467891) launch long-range drone carrier and have it loiter near the location where Russia has been launching its Gerans from for the last few nights2) detect launch of Gerans (radar or actual video-link observation from the mothership)3) launch small ass drones and maneuver them toward Gerans4) blow up Gerans while operator is sitting in a comfy chair 500km away
>Everything you hate is RussianDamn right
>>65048417this
>>65048285yeah no those small drones are not being launched by anything other than humans on the ground for obvious reasons
Consider the pervasiveness of data collection on firearms enthusiasts through government/corporate surveillance; any purchased component of something that is weaponizable is an automatic leak/red flag to the system.Your precious hydraulic tubes are all being watched and recorded as to who is buying them.This begs the question; are you a bad enough dude to forge your own barrels? How about homemade metallurgy and casting? Treatment of existing shapes to make them strong enough to withstand pistol pressure, let alone rifle pressure? If you can't source your own barrels in a way that doesn't arouse suspicion, then attempting avoiding surveillance through manufacturing your own weapons is impossible.Until this major hurdle is addressed, those championing 3d printing of weapons as a meaningful tool of political resistance are totally unserious and are shilling you gadgets.Also unaddressed is mass production and raw materials sourcing, enough to arm and supply a squad, let alone a platoon or battalion.The real force is not merely the gun, but the logistics behind it that deliver and supply more ammunition to enable it to keep shooting.
>>65047071>easier than 316I call bullshit. why would you even be drilling bolts on a lathe? the most common need to drill bolts is removing stuck ones and you would do that on a mill or a drill press, or a sinker if you're lucky enough to have one around.
>>65047113Because I make nozzles and drippers. It's fucking easy on the lathe.Try drilling 316 some time. If you hesitate for a second it work hardens and welds to your drill bit. Now you need the carbides to drill you old bit out and continue.
>>65042952>>65043278>>65043383>>65044841>>65044825>>65046978An Asymetric resistance literally only needs to be able to fire one shot per man. This is such a mechanically and chemically simple task it's absolutely impossible to restrain, and thus every government on the planet obsesses over demoralizing men into not doing it, as they can't be prevented from doing it if they choose to. The idea of providing men with a life good enough that they choose not to is anathema to modern political and social philosophy. Shinzo Abe the former prime minister of Japan was killed in broad daylight by a ninety pound man with no experience or training with a weapon that amounted to two pipes stuffed with black powder and ball bearings set off by a hot copper wire. There is no practical defense against this kind of attack if perpetrated large scale. You cannot have everyone even vaguely important in full body armor under the guard of fifty men at all times they are in public. You cannot have your state forces moving in groups no smaller than a platoon at all times. The fact is that a determined force of ambush-assassins and infrastructure saboteurs consisting of even a single percent of a nation's populace would bring any modern nation to it's knees within a few months, even if their armaments were positively medieval. No nation could survive that many men springing out of dumpsters and taking close range shots at state personnel even if they were using matchlock handgonnes, to say nothing of the impossibility of defending power lines, power stations, water mains, and the roads themselves, even with an absurd level of military support. In an hour men with hand tools can render a highway impassible, with power tools, minutes, with even basic explosives, seconds. There are not enough soldiers in the world to secure the roads and power and water logistics of America, let alone anywhere else.
>>65047277The simple Muzzle Loading weapon is not something that can be taken out of the hands of modern men who earnestly attempt to recreate it. Black powder is not something that can be restricted, and indeed men have developed alternatives that don't even use the one slightly-more-restrictable component, sulfur. Moreover, simple Air pressure powered weapons are easily built anywhere in the developed world and cannot be restricted. Any mentally healthy man in the west could build with absolutely no indication he was doing so, an airgun capable of launching an arrow at over 400 feet per second, able to leave inch wide holes through two men at the chest with a broadhead, or penetrate Kevlar armor capable of stopping a 44 magnum. There is no scenario where every man in a regime is kitted out in full body hard plates like a video game boss every time they walk outside.Fire weapons are also impossible to restrict, not only are flamethrowers a painfully simple weapon mechanically, but when only a couple seconds of fuel are required they can be made extremely small. There's someone at this very moment legally selling an airgun that generates less muzzle energy than a thrown baseball (or say, the energy limits of airguns in Eurofag countries) capable of piercing the skull of a cow (or a 3a kevlar vest) with it's absurdly long metal projectiles. This isnt something that requires expertise or advanced engineering or equipment to produce.This all aside from the fact that there are enough privately owned bolt action rifles in even shithole weaponless countries like Britain to overthrow them twice over. Weapon restriction is a dream, it's not real.
>>65047113>I call bullshit. why would you even be drilling bolts on a lathe? the most common need to drill bolts is removing stuck ones.In a thread about making barrels, the non-machinist sticks out like a sore thumb...I have drilled many bolts on the lathe, usually for grease passages when using them as pins for oddball projects.
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.
>>65048506> Iran is no longer able to launch a massed surprise attack via drones, missiles, and militias acting on land, sea, and airYes they are wtf are you smoking? Shia militias have already forced the US out of everywhere in Iraq except for Iraqi Kurdistan.Masses drone and missiles attacks are being launched every day in coordinated groups, they just dont need to launch 200+ per day anymore because the US radar system in the region has been largely disabled already and they are conserving for the long haul of many more months
>>65048533>they just dont need to launch 200+ per day anymore becauseHOLY>C>O>P>E
>>65048468>>65048533>our nigger-gorillers with AKs and RPGs are a super weapon that have forced out US forces everywhere>we've conveniently let the US have some bases to kill our leaders and bomb our bridges because we're generous or somethingThe turd world coping is getting out of hand.
>>65048395>it's actually 5d chessI'm pretty sure it's ol' Dorito Donny and his cabinet of yes-men thinking they could do Maduro 2: Electric Boogaloo, but with strikes to cripple a country instead of Delta bagging an unpopular head of state.
>>65044914>The entire world is tired of Iran's shit that they have been pulling off for the past 50 years.Israel and some gulf countries are not the entire world, Goldstein. >6504497610-30k? It was at least 6 gorillion.
Post gear, discuss gear.Cutting Edge / New Shit EditionOld: >>65023454
>>65048329Don't you dare talk shit about the farmer, he's a gift.
I see news of the Ceradyne SAEC plates has reached reddit. The top answer is that they are made by Ceradyne.
>>65048364I always try to catch a good Bible movie. Alternates being Jesus Christ Superstar, The Passion, and Godspell. Anthony Quinn surprised me in Barabbas. And Harvey Kaitel had a very interesting portrayal of Judas in The Last Temptation of Christ. The Ten Commandments is a great movie, if you can sit for 3+hrs. A great sea battle. 2yrs ago I was at a service where the Bishop (yes, Bishop) said his more unsusual question ever was "How much do you love God?". His answer was, "Not as much as I should, and not as much as He loves me." Theme: https://youtu.be/yFsnptQEWvM?si=cm1wRGgbgBNc7fyq
>>65048418Here's the summary of what's "known" about the SAEC so far, for anyone curious. 1. It's a super-high-end Ceradyne made ostensibly for DEVGRU and 24th STS around 2009-2013.2. It weighs four pounds for a 10x12 swimmer (ergo 4.2lb SAPI M). It is standalone and does not require soft armor.3. It is concealable, so under 0.75" thick. Drop protection is probably sketchy. Also, because it's a late-period Ceradyne there is a possible delamination concern.4. The ebay seller decided to complete the transaction off-ebay with some dude for five thousand dollars (pair). Kinda shady IMO but ok I guess since these are hot as hell.5. The blurred part of the label is actually sanitized. "NSN" is XXXX-XX-XXX-XXXX. This is very alarming because even Ceradyne plates made for Delta (96034) and ordinary SOCOM plates have NSNs.6. The rating is hotly debated. Going off the capabilities of other high-end Ceradynes, the language on the back (enhanced concealable), and the existence of an Enhanced Concealable SAPI which provides ESAPI performance but in a concealable thickness (hint!) this is an extreme featherweight quasi-Level IV plate. at 4lb 10x12 Swimmer, it is the lightest Level IV of all time aside from experimental Boron Suboxide or Polycrystalline Diamond models.
>>65048098Do not redeem the $1,000 digital NV.
Impact photo of an Iranian missile with a 1-ton explosive load at Prince Sultan Air Base
>>65045743>YoutubeNah shit's real with the MTB scene, apparently moisture ingress is a thing.>BBCLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK bearings fucked mate hope you have a puller because your frame is press fit instead of threaded BSA.
>>65039240did you miss the new assistant attorney general? lmao cope
>>65035040The left can’t meme
>>65035204Losing to a non state actor that controls part of yemen?Creating a decent society for its citizens?
>>65035181>If we are not careful this could be our own British Suez crises momentThis is honestly way worse than the Suez Crisis, probably closer to Carrhae in terms of the stakes and sense that it's driven by one man's greed and lust for the one thing his money can never buy (glory).
Imagine it's the medieval times and you are going to war on horseback. Which mighty steed are you riding to battle on? And what weapon are you bringing? Which suit of armor are you wearing?
>>65048095>I AM 6 FOOT I AM 6 FOOT
>>65046794>Post more armored centaur girls.Do you like your centaurs armor modern or vintage?
>>65047948The mongol horses (shitty little runty steppe ponies) were good only because nobody else had figured out how to effectively ride them yet, and the mongols were the only dudes around with stirrups. It had nothing to do with breed quality.
Medieval destriers were 14-15 hands, btw. 14 is the cutoff for a pony.
>>65048370>14-15 handsCan you mutts stop inventing retarded measure units?
