What was the worst military you worked with?
>>64659795I'm a GCI (Weapons Director/Controller), so they were our surveillance technicians. Their job was to build airspaces on our displays, post information about SAMs or TIC taskings, plus building ROZs. A good surveillance tech is a godsend when you're busy af controlling.>>64659824I've had others tell me that as well, although at this point, you'd be getting the sloppy seconds.
>>64659408>canucksoverly bureaucratic or unable to go fuck it we'll do it live due to higher ups. >mexican armyoof. soup sandwich corruption of the third world variety. some try their best>royal marinesgood blokes . heard my first stories about "holiday" in thailand and having a "proper" fuck from a lady boy. All of them smoke and they have no "uniform" standards at least when they were in the were here. short sleeve, long sleeve, various hats, non uniform boots and even shoes. locked on ladyboi lovers. >royal navynot me but friend had anecdotes of them doing things to make Americans uncomfortable like having some female blow one of them while they were in the hallway going "oi m8 you cant just come blasting through" and they have 30 years enlistments or something. >norwaythey had HK pistols and sounded like vikings from a movie when talking. They ate all the sack lunches in kuwait for the air guard or somethign and made some SNCO mammy very mad at the mess they left>ugandansnice guys. older. british security bosses hated them and always yelled at them>japaneselook like national guard reservist age. old men. no issues. just tankers they drank up all the beer when they came here to train. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64659778>looked prepubescentOh the horror, of age women being hit on.What is this prudery.
>>64660400>they had HK pistols and sounded like vikings from a movie when talking. They ate all the sack lunches in kuwait for the air guard or somethign and made some SNCO mammy very mad at the mess they leftYou mean they looted your lunch sacks.... Did they yell "Till Valhall!" before eating them?
>>64659408Honestly the yanks are pretty fucking bad. There's a big exercise in Darwin called Talisman Sabre and they're the only other military I've ever worked with but their individual infantry skills just aren't there. They can't patrol, they don't know fieldcraft, they're really loud and honestly they're just too much of an urbanised people to even do the task of soldiering. If you play rap music on a bluetooth speaker while you're digging fighting positions you're not actually training. If you react to contact and just immediately shoot all of your rounds so you have less to carry and hoot and whoop at how funny it is to shoot a 100 round belt from the hip, you're just taking the piss instead of actually doing drills. When they go to the field they essentially build a city and live out of it whereas we train to work within our environment. Americans are absolutely the worst military in the developed world.
Independence class continues to be the goto testbed for the USN when it comes to fielding experimental autonomous/unmanned or high-trade systems.>The Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) achieved the historic milestone in the Arabian Gulf while launching a Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS).https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4363707/us-navy-in-middle-east-employs-attack-drone-at-sea-for-first-time/The way I see it, this provides even more asymmetric ability to the ship in the littorals and a long-range ground strike ability which some people have pointed out is missing without the inclusion of VLS cells or NLOS. What say you?I'm sure the thread will also become a shahed-style drone discussion so that's welcome as well, particularly in the context of launching from or targetting naval platforms.
>>64660444>>64660435So it's primary anti ship system requires it's helicopter to either get within MANPAD range of a small surface vessel/land target OR it has two torpedoes and nothing else? It is a carrier with only one aircraft? Hopefully the enemy doesn't use advanced tactics like sending two aggressors at it at once but that shouldn't be a issue because we will just counter by sending more of these cheap and plentiful vessels right?
>>64660442>>64660460>>64660462https://www.surfpac.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/2872102/naval-strike-missile-system-now-aboard-uss-oakland-lcs-24/
>>64660444>>64660468All I'm saying is that it has a Seahawk that is capable of ASW. Do not read further into my statement than that. I am merely stating this fact. Now continue your 'tism slapfight.
>>64660468>So it's primary anti ship system requires it's helicopter to either get within MANPAD range of a small surface vessel/land targetWhere did you get that idea?>Hopefully the enemy doesn't use advanced tactics like sending two aggressors at it at once Why are you offended that a corvette isn't designed to take on the entire PLAN at once?>but that shouldn't be a issue because we will just counter by sending more of these cheap and plentiful vessels right?They are fairly cheap for what they can do at only $500m apiece fully equipped with all government-furnished equipment and their mission module. They should be more plentiful than they are.
>>64660557>Where did you get that idea?He's never heard of sensor-sharing.
Look at the condition in which the equipment is being transferred to Ukraine.>M548
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>>64660532>never look a gift horse in the mouth >looks a gift horse in the mouth
>>64660521You faggots just can't do anything on your own, can you?
>>64660521buy your own shit then.
>>64660066As if anyone wants to send a blatantly corrupt meme country that is clearly losing brand new equipment anymore. We've had nearly 4 years to see what that gets us.
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>>64660399Kill yourself, attention seeking faggot.
>>64660452There's no need to get upset
>>64660404I just picked up another for tomorrow lmao, amazing things can be accomplished when you have time to invest into yourself and not being swamped being a wage slave goyim
>>64660026well a store wont do it, it has to be between two goyims because canada post wont bother checking
>>64660441>>64660441>How many dicks did you suck?Zero but, I did see some seriously gay shit during my time in.
How strong were late middle age knights compared to roman legionaire
>>64659973yeah
>>64659973Kinda looks fruity.
>>64660001>He doesnt know
>>64659973big dick energy
>>64659973Is that even a fucking question? Legionaries were just grunts. Their advantage came from being professional soldiers in a world where most armies were, at best, reservists. Their gear was good, for their time, but they wouldn't last a minute against a real late-era knight. Knights spent their entire lives preparing for battle, and their gear was custom-built and expensive as hell. Plus, they usually had horses, and Romans usually didn't do great against cavalry during their own time, let alone against bigger, stronger, and more heavily armoured medieval horses.
>Ukraine lost 87% of its Abrams tanks in under two years. Australia's 49 replacement tanks arrive as the 68-ton breakthrough weapon has been forced into a different role>It is now used not as a spearpoint but a "shielded hammer" — only surviving in a symphony of sensors, jammers, and screens.Tanks are now truly obsolete:https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/australia-completes-delivery-of-49-abrams-tanks-now-they-must-survive-the-drones/
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>>64660255If a war is taking a long time, it means the invader is losing.
>>64659150Because they're a bunch of sissies.
>>64657570>Tanks are now truly obsolete:Tanks are obsolete because the small post-soviet army fought the big post-soviet army into a standstill?
>>64657570>>Ukraine lost 87% of its Abrams tanks in under two yearsTo be expected when you have zero fucking idea on how to use them. They use tanks as static artillery over there
just look how battlefield looks like nowadays
>>64655956Predators everywhere.
>>64656435>crikey its starting to look like an ordinary Melbourne suburb on average Tuesday over thereIt does remind ya of a bush road, doesn't it.
>>64655913Well, obviously the Mordor has Shelob with them, if we needed any further confirmation.
>>64660088It's Ukrainian humor magazine: https://ia600806.us.archive.org/4/items/perec/Perec_1981_12.pdfIn 1982 Ukraine was still in USSR so all the propaganda was made by communist party (including this magazine). So I guess zigurs now think that that sort of gotcha for them? who knows
>>64660088>>64660527yeah... look at page 11... classic communist bs about US
If you can't carry hollow points, does 45 make sense or it's an obsolete bulky shit regardless?
>>64660027Is it? It was so bad that in the third film he had to upgrade to 9mm Major and then switch to a shotgun when the 9mm Major failed too.
>>64659515because I've shot people with them and they don't. Hollow points dump energy as opposed to zipping through.
>>64658865It's still shit.
>>64660208Skill issue
>>6465886545 Super is close enough to non-boutique 10mm ballistics. Worth consideration in low capacity states.
Who do y’all think got it?https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/next-generation-rifle-contract-awarded-to-pof-usa-for-asian-client-44824762
>>64657190Poor little anon discovers flip to center mounts lol.
>>64657562RETARD ALERT
>>64657345Fuck man that's rough. Good on you for setting up a trust for the daughter though, that's more than most would do.>titanium sidecharging ARsIf you hadn't made the agreement to not pursue FFL in the future, I'd have been interested in one of these for sure, I'm a big fan of working with Ti despite a lot of the issues involved and that has honestly been an idea I've had kicking around in my head for a decade or two.
>>64659235Upper and lower were a magnesium alloy, nearly everything else was Ti. My engineer owned the patents and metalworking is outside of my scope of expertise so I couldn't say exactly what alloys were used, but they were light and ran like a top. My only big contribution was creating a binary trigger out of a modified m16 FCG, we filed no patent though and hadn't submitted to atf either.
POF sucks now, Shitty QC, Shitty customer service. Ever since the OG founder died, I am supersized they haven't gone under.
Post gear, discuss gear.Nylon fabric and fiber support group. Old: >>64628292
>>64659869>About the door, are the hinges exposed? Does it open in or out? How many bolts? How durable is the frame? Is it lagged to the floor?I did not inspect, but def desirable. I only went over so he could give me his father's rifle, a gorgeous vintage Mossberg US.
>>64659886nice
Cheap Level IV plates from hudsongunner. Policesurp Protech 2014Gs, $225 a set. Just over 7lb, 0.69" thick.https://hudsongunner.com/protech-2014g-level-iv-stand-alone-rifle-plate-set-of-2/These were NIJ certified new. Single curve's a bitch and they aren't special threat tested beyond the base NIJ 1x M2AP requirement. Much more robust option than the $100 Botach 4400s.
>>64660286Single curve at that thickness is going to be shit.Also, 0.69" thickness means that it's not drop safe worth a damn. But I agree that they're better than the Botach 4400s, as that entire batch of plates might be fucked, and you'd have to be crazy to trust Botach
>>64660470>single curveSame as the 4400 really.>0.69" thickness and drop safetyThe 0.7" rule is a general guideline. Fiberglass-backed IVs are generally thinner than aramid or PE counterparts. The 2014G was NIJ certified under .06 and therefore passes the conditioned ballistic tests, drop included. It has no multi hit apparently per Protech's documentation so there isn't a crack arrestor.>4400sI'd like a statement from Hesco on this. This is super shitty if they sent these to Botach and they really are recalled plates.
Bernadette just posted a new leg armor video. Wunderwaffe BTFO!https://youtu.be/hLWTDhKltJk?si=3EJF1gDXYOmAjMDX
>>64660210Paranoia is a form of fear. Perhaps he is afraid he will be profiles for wearing embroidered undergarments?>my pearled bodkin
>>64651691Those are good legs. She's correct, armor has a FEEL to wearing it, and it changes how you interact with the environment.Smashing directly through brush to catch unarmored people is fun.
>>64660198they already know what you're watching, because it's their website you're watching it on; this is more for tracking what other websites you use and what other communities/people you interact with
>>64658957She's in the UK, anon. I don't think there's any hope of turning her into a /k/ommando.
>>64657796You can tell just how unbelievably expensive this shit must have been.
IMO the plates right now have reached their maximum usability and something needs to be invented/manufactured to replace them.One article suggests bone-like armor with lots of micro/nano gaps but with modern materials and will we see personal use electronic warfare gadgets to counter drones?
>>64659174That hot garbage is the "more interesting things"?
>>64659284More interesting than a shitty novel I find totally uninteresting, yes. It's still just an artfag's concept sketch. I once came up with an RPG system for shield fighting, but the planned group split up for work reasons and I abandoned it. The concept of shield fighting is more interesting that the novel.
>80s dune>scifi duneKINO>modern dennis duneSLOP
>>64654132In Ukraine, they're already widely deploying drones controlled via miles-long fiber optic cables that render them immune to signal jammers. And beyond that, there's nothing preventing people from building fully automated hunter-killer bots that just attack any human they see in a geo-fenced target area.Electronic warfare is a technological dead end when it comes to protecting against drones.
Germany is ordering 200 more Puma IFV's.
>>64659552I think both China and EU knows that 90% of any funds they'd invest will be turned into dacha's and yachts
>>64659552>surprised that China and the EU never made a serious effort to invest in a standard-gauge rail link through Russia or the Stans.mostly because rail freight over these long distances is a worse optionthere is very little advantage over sea freighteven more so as chinese economic centers are mostly at the coast anywayand the EU is well connected to it's ports internallyjust for referencerail is about 50% faster for twice the pricebut sea freight has higher seasonal fluctuation (both in price and duration), higher administrative effort (customs, handling) and is significantly less reliablethe Belt & Road Initiative, well the Eurasian Land Corridor (New Silk Road), actually expanded the railways quite a bitand with the Iron Silk Road there's a link avoiding Russiabut there's still a gauge switch
>>64659552>>64659568You could technically go the orient express route and skip russia entirely going through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan but you'd need the norks to fix their shit to be on board and a worst Korea - Jeju island - Japan tunnel I suspect there's also another problem with the Stans adopting standard gauge, namely the countries opposing it themselves. If we look a Mongolia for example, they vehemently oppose the adoption of it, for fear of China using it for a Special Mongol Operation in the future, only recently allowing a dual gauge segment for coal transport
>>64659618is it derived from the TB-2 btw? kinda looks like it desu
>>64646550Just as long as you march east, and allow us to play with you, I think we got nothing to worry about T. Yank that Married a bundeswehr frau
Now that the dust has settled... Its time to apologize. Join me in an apology for a pistol was betrayed by its country despite its years of service.. A perfect embodiment of the GWOT era. Dear Beretta, we regret replacing you with cheap malfunctioning trash. Dear Beretta, we apologize for feeding you with substandard magazines which caused failure to feed issues. Dear Beretta, we regret mocking your lack of modularity despite 99% of troops never actually putting modular crap on their service pistol. Dear Beretta, we apologize for saying you were too big for womens hands, we realize now that women should never have been in the military or even the workplace. Dear Beretta, the weight of our transgressions stays our /k/ feet. We do not wish to be left behind. Amen.To all men listening now, this week, head to your local sports and outdoor and purchase a Beretta M92 variant. Clean it, train with it, learn its functions and maintenance as your own, it will take care of you as well. But do not apologize, as we have all apologized in solidarity here today. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64656793lose some weight /hg/ /arg/ Fatso, cut out the donuts
>>64657454That's what I thought.
>>64657567stay mad copelard.
>>64658247>'h-herp derp' diabetic 11-year-old nogunz tranny
>>64658406>try to say someone is coping>cope at the same time>get called a coper>melty brainlol
https://youtu.be/9OXFnVCJHBc?si=89rM-PqH-jI60d6y
>>64660319saar by that time trump will be either jailed by the next president for his pedophile past or he will be shot like in 2024
>>64660353>he will be shot like in 2024>I'll show you what that ither ear is for!
>>64660261Probably loving the best bbq south of Kansas City (and west of Memphis)!
>>64660261Probably scared of dying in some backwater ICE detention facility
>>64660304they were ordered in 2021, its been 4 years, and they wont touch finiish soil untill 2026 at bestlmao, and thats after how every many survive the US breaking your wife in for you loljust ask belgium!
