USAF is just aura farming at this point
>>65031544Every single day I hate Americans just a tiny bit more.
>>65033222>aircraftsGood evening saaar.
>>65032522>China has nothing to do with IranCan't run a military on solar panels and wind turbines.>so they had to act nowWhy not before? They had since 1979 to get this done. Why now?
>>65032387wowie trump had a secret genius 10D chess plan the whole time and actually wasn't just dragged into this by bibi wowie wowie wooooow
Would energy weapons actually be better than bullets and missiles?
>>65028797Solid state energy delivery is going to advance much faster than materials science. Unless unknown mixes of elements that create alloys with the strength 10x higher than what is known are possible, energy weapons will outpace projectiles within the next 20 years.Maybe you can find me some exotic material that's a 5 dimensional multi lattice when under extreme magnetic field, 10 degrees kelvin, and pressures higher than the core of the earth. Maybe it is both strong and flexible enough to handle 10 terpascal forces. Maybe it's theoretically possible.Advancements in battery and solid state lasers alone will allow for viable laser weaponry within 20 years that would make a 20mm ciws look like a joke compared to the man portable rifle that is possible.
>>65027923in star wars they're just worse than bullets in every way. the only upside I could see is that they have a power source that doesn't require reloading as often as a traditional gun.
>>65027923First off, lets narrow down "energy weapons"Kinetic energy? We have those. They're called "Guns"Plasma throwers? Maybe 20 feet of range. Could be useful in confined spaces if you don't mind getting toasty.Magnetic flux? Inverse Square.Gravity? How?Lasers? Now we're in business. Lasers would be both better and worse than solid projectiles. Better in terms of accuracy and logistics. Worse in terms of damage and penetration. Lasers don't cut so much as precision vaporize which, while very useful, also means that any material that can withstand high temperatures is going to resist lasers. Materials like the ceramics we use in modern body armor, for example. Damage is also a lot less. Pulse lasers would do the most damage, causing some of the body to flash boil and explode. However, water takes a lot of energy to boil so something equivalent to an AR-15 would be like a firecracker in contact with the skin. Simple clothes could block a laser...kinda. Instead of having some of your skin flash-boil you'd instead have your clothes set on fire. Not sure which one is worse. tl;dr probably good for home defense and target plinking but not really military weapons.
>>65032062I could see that mayyyyybbeeeee a 3kw weapon system could fit into 20 pounds of kit in 2045 but how the fuck do you recharge it.
>>65032312NTA but you might need to plug into municipal power. Probably one of those 220W outlets too.
>memes are officially state sanctioned weapons i want off this fuck fuck circus
>>65013935They’re a purely performative culture and can’t understand liking something because of aesthetics, even funny aesthetics.The Great Satan and The Great Satan’s Boyfriend bombing someone is awesome.
>>65015239Did you see the Soleimani funeral, anon? Total clown show.
>>650334962 more weeks and US declines to make ZOG fall and return their throne to the global south
>>65013863>Southpark characters That gave me a chuckle, thanks
>>65033511Yeah, america lost more international prestige these last 30 days than I could have ever imagined.Two weeks is perhaps an exaggerationBut the petrodollar is toast, once that goes, the ZOG is done.
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>>65031779Do women like that really exist in the United States?I mean the tomboyish, patriotic, gun-shooting, BBQ-making, fun-having, raised-in-a-farm-or-small-town type Where can you find them in the US? Do they make for good girlfriends?
>>65033522I drove through Appalachia last summer, Western VA, WV, Kentucky, Alabama and North Carolina have plenty of women like that. Now, they're not going to be like Kay because Kay is an exaggeration and women in Appalachia tend to be quieter and not so hyper-extroverted, but in spirit, yes
>>65033580fuck forgot my trip that time
Feels like a tremendous weight has been lifted having buried the hatchet with al-Bukhari>>65033500To spite you and every other Uma poster, duh
>>65033500Taiki boobies...
Would P90s and MP5s really melt through armor like it does in my kinos?
>>65032256the color of the tip doesn't equate to armor penetration, most 7.62x51 SLAP rounds are black tipped
>>65033551I suspect a lot of it was written before they'd nailed down the show bible and lore. And it's an easy enough fix, you just give Apophis some super rare emergency redial device meant as a safety for the risk of finding out that a gate doesn't have a DHD, but it burnt out from the use and you never run into them again shush.
>>65033701they've dialed out without DHDs and with improvised power sources before so it doesn't end up being that much of an asspull in the grand scheme of things
>>65033515>they retconned the armor actually doing anything against bullets almost immediately>>65033551>Based on established in-universe lore/science, Apophis should have been killed/captured literally in the first 15 minutes of the series kekThey changed a lot of things by about three episodes in.Some of the lore developed as the writers needed an arse-pull for one reason or another (gate timelimit, being able to dial buried gates if there is *just* enough gap, freaking time travel, all sorts of things).It only took a few episodes before everyone spoke English everywhere.
>>65033710>they've dialed out without DHDs and with improvised power sources before so it doesn't end up being that much of an asspull in the grand scheme of thingsIt would be quite reasonable for goa'uld to know how to do that too and clearly their technology has its own power sources so the hand device can probably power a gate and he can have the serpent guards spin the wheel.
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I'm suddenly recollecting the Arm&Gun video about the Garand rechambered in .308 Winchester. He was using clips loaded with three inert cartridges for CA compliance but is the integral magazine modified at all to prevent the insertion of clips loaded to capacity or is it an honour system like with belt feds? Kek>>65033493Heard about it 11 years ago when emails were sent to Utah State University referencing Polytechnique instead of Virginia Tech so it was obvious Anita Sarkeesian or one of her fin cucks sent them to sustain her victimhood narrative
>>65033608If by CA you mean Canada, Canada has specifically exempted the M1 Garand from the 5 round magazine capacity. All M1 Grant's have their full 8 round capacity.
>>65033629I wonder why they did that but chose to gimp other guns like the SKS with a welded pin.
>>65033604>you can go to Latvia once your OFP.You can also work at McDonalds and go to Latvia for the world's shittiest beach vacation without having to take an oath to Charles the Wife-Killing Orphan-Raper.>If you want people to join the militia you need to stop treating vets like shit. Or else they will all move to Alberta and form their own country (have fun fighting them btw, you will learn first hand why professionals tried to stop the watering down of training standards).
>>65033669>welded>he hasn't had his weakly riveted SKS mag turn into a prohib on him
I’ve looked at this closely, and one of the clearest, most tangible objectives of any ground move would be the small islands Iran took by force from Gulf states in the 1970s, especially Siri and Abu Musa.They’re strategic, symbolic, and relatively low risk. The U.S. could realistically help return them to the UAE if Iran refuses to cooperate, instantly creating real leverage in negotiations.Unlike places like Kharg or Qeshm, these islands sit far enough from the Iranian mainland to be harder targets for drones and short range missiles. That makes them much easier to hold and defend, rather than turning into constant strike zones.Let me know if you think I’m wrong here.Personally, I don’t see much value in targeting Kharg. If the goal is to disrupt Iran’s oil exports, the U.S. could achieve that at sea just out of the strait by intercepting shipments, without committing troops to a fixed, exposed position. Seizing the island would deliver similar disruption but at a much higher cost, with limited upside in terms of actual oil gained and a significant risk of infrastructure being destroyed.On top of that, Kharg sits well within range of even basic unguided rockets and the newest optic fiber drone systems, making it a constant liability to defend. By contrast, the smaller islands are far, already have airstrips and could support defensive systems, including short range interceptors useful to protect Dubai. Overall being far more manageable positions.
>>65029506hormuz is iran doing the only thing they can given their extremely degraded resources.pic related was on the 18th, which marks the last time iranian boats actually harassed tankers in the strait. everything else has been dronesthey do not have this capability any more but the threat has been enough. The threat, unfortunately has been enough to stop most (not all) ships from transiting.
So, with this address to the nation tonight and the recent movements, is it really happening? I would have no doubts it the announcement was tomorrow instead, stocks market nicely closed for 3 days and all, but it's not tomorrow so this make me doubt.
>>65033685What if the administration is about to pull off the funniest April Fool's in history?
>>65028124>demand Trump invades Iran with 5000000 troopsAmerica doesn't have that kind of ground force or the logistics to remotely support that kind of a force.
>>65029469Silence, MIGAtard.
/arg/ high altitude ELCAN editionPrevious>>65022772
>>65033538I like it picasso
>>65033538slop build
>>65033560dark tan and greenish tan respectively>>65033578thanks the 50 shades of FDE was inspired by your diareha tales >>65033606it's purebred blemula
>>65033615>diareha talesI have many which is... concerning. I think I'm going to die
>>65033470>As a naive newgunz>my GlockPasty didn't you just get that thing?
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>>65031510>the whole family lives at home because the economy is shit>I need to do this to support them, and to give myself the kick I need to get my damn life startedIt's a good mark of character that you aren't blaming your family for being lazy and it's pretty cool that you're stepping up for them.>>65031510The average age in the military is 22-29. Bound to be some stragglers out there.
>>65032965My elder sister has her family with us. Munchgins and all. Only thing I'd wish she would do is clean up and stop wasting her paycheck on starbucks and take out. But that's all. We did have one dude there that was older than me. Thirty eight. Reenlisting for the third time I think. Dude looked like a Tolkein Dwarf, buff and short. Coolest fella there.
>>65032292My brother in christ, if you were not charged with anything then nobody cares and there's no proof.
bros, Ramstein is such an awesome base, I'm so glad I got to spend a few years there and experience the beautiful country and culture of Germany. I highly recommend putting it at the top of your dream sheet, you won't regret it. ...okay let me clarify that this is an April Fools' Day joke. I was going to follow up with that tomorrow, but then I thought what if I forget to and end up ruining someone's life?
I wonder.If I make it through Basic, and AIT, am I able to pick a location in the Baltic for my service station?
ITT: aircraft nobody likes or cares about
>>65032876they tried (not with a mossie but you get the point)
>>65033501>F/A-18Ethat's the Super Hornet which is a different airplane entirely.The only valid timeline of comparison (and even the F/A-18A-B-C-D is a different step beyond, after Northrop handed off the Navy fighter project to McDonnell Douglas) is the F-5 through F/A-18My post you replied to was about the relative difference betweent Northrop's initial twin-engine P-530 proposals, and the resulting Lightweight Fighter competition entry YF-17<--between which there was little size or weight difference.Once the YF-17 was shunted into a Navy fighter (_and_ Attack aircraft) program, it became a different airplaneNorthrop (during the 1975-77 period) had a "YF-18" navy fighter proposal but this, like the few-years-later resulting F/A-18A had different landing gear, wings, fuselage configuration and weight increases over the original Air Force YF-17 prototype. The Air Force's 1973 YF-17 was supposed to be a Light Weight Fighter (and look today decades later at the Block 50+ F-16s), bloat is inevitable
Whats the most stupid thing you know someone has done whit a weapon?(dont mind the photo, I dont have anything else)
>>65033402Yeah seems fair
>>65033143Leave it under the seat of their car for like 5 years, pull it out and try to shoot it and obviously it doesnt work because all the internals are filled with ungodly amounts of gunks and its rusted to hell and back
>>65033661was it loaded/chambered the whole time? that's wild.
>>65033143one time i saw an obese person with a firearmi can hardly imagine how stupid someone would have to be in order to be obese but they are surely too stupid and also physically incapable of using a firearm
>>65033665Magazine was loaded but bullet wasnt chambered
What was the worst military you worked with?
>>65023713I'm not a /pol/tard nor a brownoid, but I can confirm this.
>>65031102To expand on this, every shit thing that's happened to me was done by or caused by someone wearing the same uniform as me. It wasn't a French corporal that "forgot" to relieve me on stag, causing me to get hypothermia in Wales. It wasn't a Danish MP that kicked the shit out of me when I was caught pissing in public. It wasn't a German officer who sentenced me to three weeks ROPs for racing down aldershot high street in shopping trolleys. It wasn't an American major who barred me entry to the cookhouse after weeks in the field because I was "dirty". In fact the americans made us welcome in their D-Fac after that.
>>65026870like the other anon said, this thread is a staple of /k/, but only an idiot would believe anything said ITT as factual. It's all made up stuff from neverserved virgins.
>>65024229Mossad hands typed this post
>>65032010Grenadier guards?
AK General /akg/Laser Aimed Edition>Thread #2093Old thread here >>64966725
>>65031099You're definitely in the right place.Your mom must've been mainlining Extra strength Tylenol.
>>65024600>>65029594>niggerthat esteemed gentleman has a stock on his draco
>>65030136You'll have to bear with me, it's my first AK coming from mostly AR's where mags are good, cheap & plentiful. Kinda funny whiplash seeing that. By "functional" I just mean the followers travel freely and the mags seat well. I need to get out to the range today to see if they actually work. If they do I could care less how they look. My problem with the other yugo mags is it seems like the rear lug is slightly too high, so the mags sit slightly titled down at the front. >meant to be hand fit that makes more sense. I mean it's just a cylinder with a claw so it did drop in but the extractor just has a slightly "unfinished" look. It let me confirm my original extractor isn't broken or missing any bits at least. I was more disappointed with the new spring which had way less tension than the original.
>>65032345All the good AK mags were cheap until about 10 years ago when the end of the Cold War surp market dump finally dried up, they've been bought already. I have a receipt from Apex that shows I bought 10 "good" condition Romanian surp steel mags in 2017 for $7 each. Inflation puts that amount to $9.33 each, so the rest of the price is just in supply/demand.When it comes to "new" ones, there's little reason to make them for the countries that field AKs because they have so many fucking mags in warehouses and armories that work, or it's just cheaper to buy them new from Russia/China, and you can't buy those new mags from Russia/China because of import bans.AR mags were also shit and pricey until the gen 2 pmag and ARs started becoming cheaper in the 2010s.>rear lug is slightly too highThat's usually a "file on the mag catch" situation, but you have other mags that work fine so don't mess with it. I'd sell them to someone else, price around what you paid, maybe -10-20%.
You always hear about this crazy military tech, secret projects, alien weapons, DARPA, and so on and so forth, and then the US gets bogged down fighting some butt-naked sand people with RPGs and shitty aliexpress drones and has to beg Europe and anglo countries to save them. How come? Where's all the cool shit? Where are the wunderwaffen?
>>65031775>state of the art F-15Esdawg look at my MIC dawg
>>65031755Ayatollah and his wife and children got killed btw
Discombobulatorbros... were we frauds?
>>65031791>Alien shitwhat about the B 2 spirit? it's pretty Alien looking
>>65031791The US military is mostly led by faggots and wimps, so they cancel out the advantage of superior tech by their faggotry.
This is the chief technical officer of Fire Point, the company that designs multiple different weapon systems from mid-range strike drones to cruise missiles capable of strategic strikes. Say something nice about her.
>>65033192>you must believe the bullshit the coke addict says otherwise you are a vatnik
>>65032854The Ukies have kinda adopted the florks.
>>65031852>Russian Cossackso Ukrainian?
>>65033279You are a vatnik, yes. And as such, you deserve to be knelt over a ditch.
>>65032586It's not even creative, that's literally the torture scene before Bond meets up with the son of a Nork general in the Die Another Day movie.
