The Leopard 2A8 is a rather attractive vehicle
>>64661864Looks like a cute mouse
>>64661746Looks like k2
>>64661864It looks fucking retarded in a cute way. Like a weird small dog.
An assembly plant for the production of up to 41 Leopard 2A8s is to be built in Kaunas, Lithuania
>>64669097Yeah KNDS is pushing hard for local assembly to reduce the pressure on their Allach plant. The Tatra welding deal was also a natural progression, breaking the Greek monopoly
/arg/ we argue about rifles and stuff editionPreviously>>64659178
>>64667309I just wish it wouldn't shit gas in my face using a can
r*ddit sure does love chode cans
wish me luck
>>64669110ayo can i run this on tha arp?
>>64669114Yea cuh send ts here nigga they drill that bih on the low cuh310 1st St SW, Roanoke, VA 24011
Tell me /k/ what makes a good soldier?
>>64665161Now that's soldiering!
>>64663896Infiltrated by reds (redditers) and stripped for parts
>>64645479The ability to operate independently of their command's awful orders.
>Obadiah boast he is immortal They execute him>Survives and boast of immortality They send him to India >Survives and boast of immortalityThey send him to battle>Survives and boast of immortalityThey execute him again>Survives and boast of immortalityDuncan Macloud cuts off his head and absorbs his immortal power>Survives and boast of immortalitymfw
>>64656035TYPE. BAIT. SHIT.CAPTCHA. POST.
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
>>64666363>all those skeleton crewed barracks and bases next to Finnish borderWhat a time to be a "lost" hiker.
>>64667773Yeah it was funny how much we overestimated the Russians capability in the 70s and 80s. The idea of a modern version of this film would be hilarious. I too watched this movie as a child thinking it was pretty cool until the backwards firing missiles.
>>64664830>Some fire on the ground>Some fire in the engine intake (AKA a solid piece of metal)Between the sponge and bottle of dish soap that will be needed to remove the soot, and the 4 or so hours that some vatnik conscript will spend scrubbing it off, this attack may have dealt up to dozens of dollars of damage. Russia is finished
>>64668690Go soak a rag in gasoline, place it in your car's air filter box, light the end of the rag, and slam the hood down. On a scale of 1-10, where 1 is minor cosmetic damage and 10 is car destroyed / garage destroyed / house destroyed, what would you expect the extent of the damage to be if this small rag fire is allowed to continue until it burns itself out?You have a car right? I guess I just assume that about people.
>>64669108In this case a more accurate analogy would be a burning rag on a truck bed that's made of metal (so no plastic surface). So yeah, I expect that it's basically about as damaged as my grill is after cooking some particularly fatty steak.
Ready. Aim. FIRE!Shock troops of the SS, rollout. Post tantalizing pics of your payloads and kristmas gear.Shipping deadline is passed! Quick, get it out so you still make the raffle! Make sure to send the tracking numbers to myself at wendigohunter at protonmail dot comthread theme: https://youtu.be/7pS3nx9zREE?si=ozZcmbvGApkzW3LJold thread>>64557036
>>64664150It is on route, but definitely only arriving post Xmas barring a miracle. Oh well, I wrote about that in the enclosed Xmas card.
Ausfag here. Probs gonna get arrested soon so opening and posting early. Thanks LT anon and French anon. Merry christmasn.Bulgarian anon- parcel was apparently delivered to u.
>>64669002>Probs gonna get arrested soonWhat did you do anon
>>64668927It’s the best board on this site
>>64669078The anons that post in this specific thread each year are the true heart and soul of /k/ and always have been. /k/omfy tidings and a Merry Christmas to all of you.
Kinda surprised, this is actually pretty decent. Is Glock too big to fall? They seem to have stagnated.
>>64661007>They seem to have stagnated.People just repeat what gun-tubers say. What exactly are Glocks missing?
>>64662335Yes.
>>64666057>did you remember it?Only because I just saw it mentioned on Wikipedia.
>>64668399Glock isn’t giving the people what they want and what they want is slop. “Don’t tread on me” laser etched on the slide. Anime girls printed into the polymer frame. Football team logos on cover plates.
>>64668889Ugh those digits are so close.
Does anyone know why the 36/300 yard zero is the only zero where the far number isn't actually the far zero? if you do a 36 yard zero with a 14.5/16 inch AR the far zero is at like 270 or 280 yards (or 250 meters) and you're like 3 inches low at 300 yards which is still fine for it being in point blank range but 300 yards is right about when the bullet starts dropping significantly as opposed to when the round crosses the sights for the second time. Where as with a 25/300 meter zero and a 50/200 meter yard zero (both of which aren't actually correct, 25 meters isn't the near zero for 300 meters and 50 yards isn't the near zero for 200 yards) the farther number is the point where the round crosses the front sight again. also, yeah I agree if you have an unmagnified optic/irons the zero literally does not matter at all. your ARs zero only matters if you need to match it up to your BDC because the variation between different zeros is pretty negligible within whatever range you're going to shoot in self defense
yeah
Depends on velocity. That 270 yard zero becomes a 300 yard zero with a mere ~200-300fps incease. Perhaps it’s 36/300 with a certain kind of ammo like m193, or it’s from a 20” barrel?Here’s a useful resource for MPBR. Near and far zero are both included in the outputs.https://shooterscalculator.com/point-blank-range.php
>>64668969there's a US army doc about different zeroes used by different units in the GWoT and if you take their numbers for m855 out of a 14.5 inch barrel and put it in with a 36 yard zero you get that like 270/280ish yard far zero with 300 yards being like 3.5 inches low and the peak of the arc being 3.5 inches high
>>64669009 I also use a 7” MPBR so +- 3.5”. I figure that’s about the size of a man’s head, so it’s the smallest you’d ever aim with a fighting rifle (I am a larper, I don’t actually shoot people). A roughly 300 yard MPBR sounds right for m855 from a 14.5. It gets like 2850fps or so. You’d be surprised how much drop there is between 270 and 300 yards. Far zero is always really close to MPBR. Fucking physics. Just an extra ~200fps will extend the zero to ~300 and MPBR to ~330yds
I have an idea for a gun. It's BAR but it shoots shotgun shells-I don't know what would fit, it might have to be 410
>>64649815underrated comment.
>>64647400So a Browning Automatic Shotgun?
>>64647846A .22LR will cycle a Browning machine gun if the designer knows what he's doing.>everybody knows about david williams and the m1 carbine, but everyone forgets what got him hired to design it in the first place
>>64648914"Just get this uglier piece of shit gun that jams every 2 shots"
>>64647400That's just the fallout 4 combat shotgunCongrats, anon, you have the same design ideas as Todd Howard
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-koreas-kcna-japans-ambition-for-nuclear-weapons-should-be-curbedWhat options does North Korea have to prevent Japan from acquiring nuclear weapons?
>>64667092>The Japs hate Koreans so much they need to nuke at least some KoreansLove 2 c it
Ukraine and by extension Russia has shown that only nukes are the primary security guarantee of any state.If Ukraine had nukes Russia would not invade them and since Russia has nukes, both America and the EU had to tiptoe around and de-escalate even if Russia doesn't want to.If every country on Earth had nukes there will be no wars and terrorism would be stamped out because nuclear countries don't want loose nukes in their region.
>>64669016I wonder if there's ever been a head of state in modern history that would have actually let nooks fly if given the opportunityI suppose Saddam or Gaddafi might have since they were in that "literally nothing to lose" zone
>>64667352I should have specified that their aircraft don't have the range and that missiles were their only choice
>>64667092So when's a second sun happening over Pyongyang?
Why were the huge Qing Dynasty armies so ineffective in the Opium Wars? They have to be the most one-sided wars in history.
>>64666880Most of the army used literal medieval weapons like swords, bows and halberds, the few nepo manchu units had garbage muskets with 1/3 of the reliable range and even worse reloading time compared to bong weapons.Raw numbers had never won anyone a single war
>>64667268This anon knows.Related to Japan realizing that it was "modernize or die" at this point in time: another problem with the Chinese forces were that the various armies they commanded were made up of different ethnic blocks and had different priorities for material and support. They also tended to hate each other and refuse to support each other, even when the empire was on the line. The emperor wasn't interested in running military affairs closely enough to notice this, and preferred to execute officers for 'failure to win' instead of the more helpful 'handing my enemy a freebie'.The best troops in terms of equipment and professionalism were the 'home guard' Manchu army, and even by the first Sino-Japanese war things were dire. Sources from the era claim that only a small fraction of that force had either breach loading or bolt action rifles, and that they had little in terms of artillery. The bulk of the force was using a something akin to a hand-cannon that you fired from a second guy's shoulder.
>>64667320Ethiopia had a small, well equipped and (relatively) well trained army.
>>64667037same vibe
>>64667532>>64667540>>64669023https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War
the Russian Army has deployed the use of horses
>>64666246So is that shit pronounced key-yov or key-eve
>>64665900Stay moderate, friend.
>>64668711i miss kermitpostongand the British MoD decodes
>People I know irl who aren’t zigger supporters are claiming the use of horses is actually a great tactical choice because “then you aren’t losing an expensive vehicle”. And that Russia has been winning ever since Putin purged his generals to make reforms.How does one combat this level of stupidity?
>>64669065You can't, because delusional people aren't that easy to pull out of those delusions
>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/
>>64661950Non-Westerners say Westerners say that.
>>64668180TSMC succeeds because Taiwan built a labor and institutional system that reliably feeds large numbers of competent engineers into long-horizon, low-status, high-discipline roles at fabs and keeps them there.The US system aggressively selects against that outcome, everyone is siphoned off into FAANG, finance, and startups. That kind of job makes no sense for someone in the US market.The US will never replicate TSMC unless the labour market changes completely.
>>64661950If the US were losing hundreds or thousands of tanks against Mexico there would be national riots
>>64661950This might be incomprehensible for a Russian mind to comprehend, but the US has never lost even 100 tanks in a single day even across multiple theatres
>>64668175Apparently, your job now is to surrender in a war you are not even fighting.
>inb4 stolen onesOkay, I get that. But if I were to search some gypsy hovel, what stolen guns am I most likely to find? Are they fond of any particular models?
>>64664792Whoops, forgot picture.
>>64664792How many dead?
>>64667365Amazingly none, IIRC they mainly hit bystanders but one of the shooters took a bullet in the back and is now partly paralyzed. Very tragic.
>>64667546Yes, very tragic there aren't any dead gyppos
>>64667546Wasn't it in the leg? The Tokarev shooter layed on the floor and even managed to do a mag change mid combat. His not-aimed shots hit my work mate and he was the worst wounded I think. Spleen, guts, lungs, leg, 7 bullet holes, 3 surgeries and 6 months of recovery later that fucker was back to riding his bike around the town and chasing women.
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?
>>64639906Based and same
Why are jap anime mechs so dumb?The stories are usually good, but the design and implementation of mechs is garbage.Take Eureka 7 for example. Mechs flying on fucking surf boards. Why? Also, thee mechs need to transform into a car, apparently. God damn, Bandai.
>>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.
They are getting their 1st artillery ammo factory thanks to serbian rocket technology.Does your country help others reindustrialise by selling them its elite tech?https://thedanishdream.com/news/denmark-to-build-rockets-in-cold-war-bunkers/According to SkyPro, their rockets are compatible with both Denmark’s new PULS launch system, recently purchased from Israel, and the American HIMARS systems used in Ukraine. The rockets will be produced using Serbian EdePro technology, giving each unit a range of approximately 40 kilometers.Danish will preform assembly and granate body making while Serbia will supply rocket fuels, warhead and high added value part of the chain. Probably until our danish colleges start making their rocket fuel by our help
>>64664815How much Russian cum will be purchased in the process,?
>>64665932The Serbian government seems to have moved on to the Chinese
>>64665932If they're getting any Danish cum in that deal they've made out like bandits.That's some real top shelf stuff.
>>64664815No hard feelings about NORDBAT I see
