Deep modernization of the Ukrainian ZSU-23-4 Shilka to -4M-A1 variant made by the Ukrainian charity foundation
>>64667678Tell us more anon. Without getting too specific what did you work on? Navigation stuff, UI, power consumption, etc?
I didn't realize it took around 20 seconds to lock on. Considering that its effective range is around one mile, it's a bit surprising that it was able to play an active role in the low-altitude air defense complex during the Yom Kippur War.
>>64668770I was involved in 3.5 different projects by this time:1. control software for fiber optic based FPV drones (picrel is censored screenshot of the alpha version, cross-platform due to the use of GTK framework);2. guidance system for a tube launched fixed wing drones;3. "AI based" (lmao) automatic target acquisition and tracking;This is me doing this stuff after my day job kek, which honestly probably why I'm so fucked up right now at the end of the year.There's a ton of companies and projects being done in Ukrainian small scale private MIC, you'd be surprised just how much stuff is being worked on and how much demand there is for guys who can help.
>>64665390>Deep modernizationThey just repainted them a deeper shade of green?
>>64672076they basically threw out all of the internals and replaced them with modern shit
What was the worst military you worked with?
>>64659547Don't they USE water to clean up?
>>64659611The only Australian I've ever worked with was an officer who came over for our company movie night in Afghanistan and said The Princess Bride sucked and was shit. So, it's been overwhelmingly negative for me.Other people seem to like them.
>>64671148hes righttrash movie
>>64668398I shot myself in the l. calf doing that very thing in '81. Not training just fucking around. Nobody saw me told the ER was walking around on a junkpile.
>>64668716>we won but actually we didnt win and china became almost as powerful as us because of our fuck up oh and 30 years later we're actually going to start helping russia again btwyeah thanks retard
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.
>>64672996this is my first shotgun, I'm assuming you're referring to barrel length. what's the full size? I'm a tall guy so I think that makes sense.
>>64673008He means the 7 rnd tube , that's the 5rnd. The 7 runs the full barrel length and looks like sex
>>64672996>>64673018the 7+1 is the gun for morons.the 5+1 is better and is cheaper to get barrels for
>>64672990>>64672996>>64673018get one with a longer barrel. that anon is an underaged mall ninja tranny and is trying to tell you to get the 7 round 20 inch mav 88 which is retarded mall ninja shit because you can't put a longer barrel on it. you want the 28 inch barrel for clay shooting and hunting
Benelli M3 my beloved.
/arg/ we argue about rifles and stuff editionPreviously>>64659178
>>64673255I don't care if it's ugly I just want to make sure it's not going to make the plastic brittle or some shit>brake cleaned my glockgot before or after? I want to spray my glock next
Bros what scope should I put on my 18" upper
>>64673248sand paper and alcohol (to drink)
>>64673138Always liked this rifle, but what's up with the unpainted RMR? Looks out of place here.
>>64673273Shut up faggot
Realistically speaking what are the mechs even contributing to this military force that you couldn't get by just swapping out the APCs for IFVs instead?
>>64668884>hey what if the robot turned into a jet = sells 1 billion toys>erm why aren't the mechs just grey blocks = sells 100 toys, executed by upper management ninjas
>>64668884Because when they try to make the mechs more realistic, they compensate with something dumb like making the protagonist physically unkillable.
>>64668884i thought Eureka 7 was a good anime overall. but I do agree the surfboard thing was dumb. oddly enough, what really bothered me was that half the time, pilots were not wearing seat harnesses. doing all those high-g maneuvers with no retention is ridiculous. also the way the controls are depicted sucked, and weirdly, they almost never show the mechs being recovered by their flying ship.
Why am I playing MWO again?
>>64673109Same.Started last week after 3 years of not touching it. Still got 500M C-bills I have no idea how to spend.
Would you join the military right now if you had nothing going on? I'm at a crossroads as I've been laid off now for 8 months.
Yes. Go in, do dumb bullshit for ~10yrs unless you genuinely want to make a life and career out of it, get VA disability and enjoy my free $4k+/month for life.
>>64672652air force
>>64673180Men are at all time lows, arguably at no fault of their own. They realize the world is fake and gay so they'd rather get some camaraderie and a paycheck than deal with whatever civilian life is pretending to be.
>>64673221You can do that by joining a local motorcycle gang or activity club without having to throw yourself to daddy government.
>>64673225The thing is Daddy Gubment has the jobs whereas Small Town USA doesn't and Big City USA isn't worth having 3 part time jobs to afford the 300 Sq ft tenement you'd live in.Pretty grim all around
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How hard is it to find a sks that doesn't have pitting in the barrel around the gas block?
>>64673168Suck a dick faggot
>>64673187There's a lot of barely-fired ones floating around right now
>>64673240I paid 800$ for a russian one that was used with corrosive and never cleaned and has pitting around the gas port not sure if I should keep it or sell it and try to get a better one.
>>64673267Just stop being such a faggot and shoot it enough that you get good with it.
mogged
>>64673100My brother had one of the 10-masters. Beautiful design, the pic doesn't get the scale across at all.
>>64673244Delusion is still easy to get. I got back into the game this year after forgetting bout it decades ago.
>>64672792it was that big because it was made out of flimsy paper mache
>>64673237It is a bit strange how 1 zhang went from being 1.5~1.6 meters (the average height of a chinese man) to 3.2 meters, twice the height of the original 1 zhang measurment.Is there any western measurement that was based on the average lenght of a human body part that for some reason over time got doubled? I myself cant really think of a example of that happening.
are the chinese really so weak they would come to an american site to brag about a boat from 600 years ago that may or may not have even been real?jesus christ how starved for you(s) are you? pathetic
>The Special 2TL Type (特2TL型, Toku 2TL gata) was a class of auxiliary escort carriers built for the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. They were converted from Type 2TL tankers. It is also called the Yamashio Maru (山汐丸) class in some western sources.>Only the name ship was completed during the war and she was sunk by American aircraft before she could be used.>In 1944, the Japanese Army, which had already converted two passenger liners into combined assault ship and aircraft carriers, decided to acquire its own escort carriers to provide aerial anti-submarine cover for troop convoys. It therefore chartered two partly built Type 2TL Tankers, Yamashio Maru and Chigusa Maru, for conversion to auxiliary escort carriers.[1]>The conversion was extremely simple, with a 107-metre (351 ft 1 in)-long flush flight deck added. There was no hangar, the ship's eight Ki-76s being stored on deck. Defensive armament consisted of sixteen 25 mm anti-aircraft guns, with a depth charge projector forward.[2]>Yamashio Maru commissioned on 27 January 1945 and was sunk at Yokohama harbor by US aircraft on 17 February.[2][3] Plans were drawn up for conversion to a coal-burning freighter,[1] but she was never used as a carrier. Her sister ships, Chigusa Maru and Zuiun Maru, were incomplete when Japan surrendered and served after the war as tankers:[2]>Chigusa Maru was sunk in 1945. The ship was repaired as tanker in 1945 and scrapped in Sasebo in June 1963. Zuiun Maru was scrapped in Oskata on 15 June 1964.The IJA also previously built the Type A and Type C Aircraft Carriers, the latter seems to be the first amphibious assault ship made since its aircraft complement included autogyro rotorcraft
>>64673282>attempt at building an aircraft carriers in WW2Attempt at building aircraft carriers*Changed the sentence without proper proofreading
Let's say the US military decided to adopt a bullpup rifle. Do you think they could improve it to a point that it could surpass the AR15 platform? I get the impression that it's just a few innovations away from achieving that status. If they could make the triggers match the AR platform it would be difficult argue that it isn't superior.>inb4 slow reloads, etc.
>>64671700>full retard cartridge that was a mistake from the very beginningFudds that run logistics will do literally anything before they allow a bullpup in their sight.
>>64671999>Israel just won the Gaza War.Cool story, shame nobody told Hamas they've been defeated.
>>64672464>I hate the new captcha so fucking muchUnironically an IQ issue
>>64672455I'm pretty sure you could use an akb23 lower with a dissent, just none of the sa80 copy parts for the upper, generic rail cover for a cheek rest.
>>64662991>No war will be decided by a rifle configuration.Third Anglo-Ashanti war. The inability of the Akan soldiers to mount bayonets on their guns doomed them.
Why was fighting after the discovery of metals primarly Melee focused instead of ranged despite humans evolving with atlatls and bows to kill the enemy?
>>64672671>If your cavalry can catch up to their source of foodHow were you planning to do this since you have zero idea where on the steppe the herd is distributed and it's moving at a rapid pace?
>>64672678The nomad army has to some extent be within logistically viable distance to the herds, which is not going to be that far, considering the methods of supply involve horses, cattle and carts, so maybe a day's march at worst. Thus the nomad armies are restricted to fighting only where their herds are capable of grazing. If the armies scatter, the simple act of sending out cavalry detachments will 100% come across the nomads' herds and camps. The nomads have to protect their livestock the same way agricultural forces have to defend their farmland and granaries. If they abandon them, it's just game over.
>>64672671I couched everything in 'very x', 'not too y' because of course everyone has something worth closing in on and can't live on air, but there are different extremes.The history of annoying frontier nomads from Parthians to the Mongols is less than fully explained by always being a day's march away from easily smashing the enemy's local supply and every ancient general just giving up after <24 hours like the average gambler.
>>64672288Silence Tao
>>64672288>Why was fighting after the discovery of metals primarly Melee focused instead of rangedBecause armor and shields largely negate any attempt at ranged combat. Some of the main exceptions are javelins, which easily penetrate shields and many types of armor, but can only be used barely beyond melee distance. Guns upended this dynamic.>>64672734The problem is you are by any metric overextending in order to do this, as you will have to leave behind your own baggage train to pursue the steppe nomads. Good way to get your supplies looted and then picked off. I do not believe your method ever once worked historically.
I've been thinking about the Trump class since the announcement and what I've come up with is more political/strategic than tactical. First I'll get its mission out of the way, I bet it'll skirt around the chink dongfeng range like a carrier, and deliver externally cued concentrated effects on target especially with hypersonics that are currently only available on SSNs whose production lines are maxed out and Zumwalts which we stopped making. Its self defense batteries can allow it to do this in both littorals and blue water.Now about politics, the real kicker is that its tonnage and dimensions require it to be built in a Carrier/Amphibious drydock, which means it will need more space that is currently occupied by CVNs and Amphibs. What better way to get around that than to reopen all the old, big drydocks? Hanwha Philly is a given with the $150B Korean money. Newport News can expand. Hunters Point and Sparrows Point are good candidates for next. Hell, maybe even Mare island. The Navy has been dragging its heels to increase industrial capacity because of the Columbia being a fucking budget black hole and also NAVSEA is just incurably retarded, but now Trump is giving everyone a golden ticket to add this capacity to a budget sheet, but politically it's for his super duper battleship instead of a boring concrete box. Looks good for Congress and local voters.Best case we get 4-5 ships for $5-6B each, spend $8-10b on R&D as an inefficiency politics tax, cancel the program because it's retarded to have 20 of them, and get a ton of shipyards that can service carriers and LPD/LHD/LHAs and bring the Amphibs to double 40% FMC rate.Absolute worst nightmare case the battleships eat into Carrier drydock space, we get 1-2 ships instead of a Carrier on schedule.What does everyone think?
>>64671476imo the railguns should be a defensive weapon instead of offensive
>>64671442That's what I love so much about him. People said burgerland was over when he announced the tariffs. Now GDP data just came in today with +4.3% for Q3 with CY25 projections revised to +3.1%.
>>64672440>believes Q3 bullshittery>pretends the shutdown didn't prevent gov't from actually compiling these statsMidwit trash
>>64672529whatever you say luddie
>>64670314Didn't some historical Swedish King similarly ordered a fuck hueg sailing warship which then promptly sank on its first voyage. Would history repeat itself?
Post gear, discuss gear.Innawoods with doxycycline edition. (Dreaming of Spring.) Old: >>64643979
What's the best budget IR illuminator/laser combo? I have a single PVS-14 toob on my helmet. I will likely never ever have to opportunity for night shooting with it, but a girl can dream.
>>64673171SMS Trinity
>>64671851Any recommendations on plates that are slightly better than budget quality? I want something lightweight.
Bros I want a split front rig/lbe. Should I go with spiritussy or someone else
>>64673253What's your desired protection level and budget?
https://youtu.be/9OXFnVCJHBc?si=89rM-PqH-jI60d6y
>>64663726Eho do you think created progressives? Why do you think TZD is not rhetorical.
>>64663623>Moves the goalpost>Is wrong again2026 dumb retard
>>64664347Wrong.
>>64660244"We are Das Sound Machine."
What the fuck is going on, they filmed everything, one SU-27 and one SU-30, 100 million in damages, did russia lost that many soldiers that they can't even muster a few guys to secure their air bases? Anyway, what's going on these past few days, they're getting a lot of shit destroyed, mig 31, S-400, bunch of fighters and even a fucking submarine
>>64664911Do you think real life sabotage is carried out by highly qualified technicians and not local retards or something? Do you think hacking a jet to fire on friendly forces is easy on a turned off jet that has its cockpit locked, and all its electronics underneath screwed panels that would be easy to spot damage too and take like 5 hours on the enemy airfield?It's like your understanding of reality comes from cartoons or vidya?
>>64672952Assuming the crews do their pre-flight check : yes
>>64666371they saw the story about the pilots getting launched into the ceiling of a hanger
Serious question: what kind of damage would pouring a bunch of sugar into the fuel tank of a fighter jet do?
The filter alone appears to be able to block the sugars, and would be even less effective in non-piston engines such as turbojets.
