>Soldiers and officers familiar with the tank’s operation report that the VT-4 has suffered from frequent malfunctions during both training and operational deployments. These complaints focus on failures observed under sustained use rather than isolated incidents, with crews describing problems that directly affected operational readiness.Of course, we cannot forget the two tanks that blew up. Not because they shot 200 rounds, it was far less and that number was made up by chinks to try and do damage control.https://defence-blog.com/thai-soldiers-criticize-chinese-made-vt-4-tank/Any alternative highly credible sources reporting this?
>>64727576It's a T72 platform using a cloned British engine and transmission with poor mans laminate. Of course it's underwhelming
>>64727688This man engineered the Toyota V35
>>64731692LMAO
>>64727847that's ladyboy to you, faggot. Asian traps best traps
>>64727808Post your lady boy penis with timestamp
New Russian camouflage.
>>64730272
>>64730627Thanks, 500 more and I'll have a camo cloak!
>>64727385>>64727347she looked better as a young lady id say solid 6/10>>64728445for a politician shes a 8/10
>>64731277winona 30 years ago
>>64726363New Russian communications node. Already operational and revolutionizing cavalry tactics.https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2009164789340078226
Word on the street is that the US bagged another 2 shadow fleet tankers today. With one of the tankers being captured using these little guys. Have we begun breaching into the Tom Clancy timeline, or have we always been in the timeline without us knowing?Also, a general thread on these little guys and what can be done to improve on their airframes and tactical usage.
>>64732014I'm pretty sure this is the main reason their shitposters have been extra active lately
>>64729643So is the left simping for russia now or what?
The Blackwater videos reminded me of this old video from the same era that used to get posted on /k/ all the time, it's a bunch of contractors shooting from s roof at insurgents behind a wall, the "main" dude says something along the lines of "it's a hot area". His face was a meme for a while. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
>>64732866>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDoX8UnQ4D0This one?
>>64732886No, although this is a classic too. The one I'm remembering is a lot shakier and has a lot more "colorful language", the main dude looks like a total douchebag with sunglasses if that helps at all
/arg/ charms and the rifles they are attached to>ngmi if you don't have an admin light on your rifle editionPreviously>>64722243
you may not like it but this is peak AR
>>64732566Not peak but very sexy
>>64732549>different guyFigured but there's lots of anons with Mk12's so there's definitely lore of which I'm not aware>>64732544I imagine a truck gun would complicate a traffic stop if anything
>>64732475>He grows on you, keep watching.You fags are seriously spending $1k on a lower because of a parasocial relationship with some obese marketer in Vegas? Grim
>>64728155dude weed lmao
With the collapse of Venezuela and what looks to be soon Iran, Will we see an influx of new AK parts kits hitting the market? Both contries also have facotries that make licensed copies of AKs so are we in for fresh stuff or are those days never to return
>>64732816Bartocci did a video of the Colt Knock offs that were garage made from 80% recievers and laser engraved with knock off markings. They were for the FARC rebels in Columbia but its probably all over central america too. Its almost like the Kyber pass or the chinese war lords of the 30s with the bullshit markings / info because colts are in high demand and ppl will pay more for the prancing pony mark over a generaic AR brand AR https://youtu.be/yivaUP8eAGc?si=ZUZRClq69QqhoJoz
>>64732838>tfw have their red dot (BelOMO PK-A Venezuela)>on a russian AKyou have some explaining to do annon
>>64732838>dim as fuck>all frame near zero imageyuck, world rather shoot with irons
>>64728091How wet behind the ears are you still? Our 'allies' dont even send us their surplus.
>>64732881meh, wishfull thinking. Better than yet another optics or AR thread
Hood loadouts
>>64731292Yes I love people who attack churches ritually while dressed as sailors
>>64729181In blue states? No, the local cops will but the state-level judiciary will drop charges on account of they din no bettah and theys a goob boi
>>64731500I just watched one eat a child in new york really recently.
>>64731707Im sure making those controlled items really put a dent in the problems that are there
>>64732873Jesus, are pitbull attacks on kids so common that everybody has a personal anecdote? My only interaction with them has been hanging out with my friend’s 2 pitbulls for a day. They were extraordinarily strong and aggressive animals and I’m honestly surprised they were so cool with me.
So what will the generals buy with the proposed 50% increase on defense budget?
>>64731900The Epstein class BB
>>64731900>the proposed 50% increase on defense budgetQue?
>>64732867Trump said he wants 1.5 trillion for the military budget and that he’s pocketing the Venezuela oil money into an offshore account.
>>64732876...okay? How's he gonna afford that? How's he gonna get Congress to agree to spending all that shit?>and that he’s pocketing the Venezuela oil money into an offshore accountLMAO, called it.
>>64732882Trump says that the big beautiful tariffs are enough to cover the costs (lmao).
>Pakistan Wants India To Enter Into War With Bangladesh: India's Chief of Defence Staffhttps://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-bangladesh-defence-deal-nuclear-what-it-means-for-india-2840610-2025-12-23
>>64680906>being this illiterateIndia was a former british colony so therefore the use of "c" instead of "s" is acceptable.British English: defenceUS English: defense
>>64681020>/k/ ends up being pigeonholed into being the pro-india faction of 4chan/pol/e smokers already convinced themselves that /k/ is pro-jew because of the anti-russian sentiment. /k/ikes they call us.
>>64729896could be just a deal closer for bangladesh to park aircraft somewhere relatively safe if shit hits the fan
>>64731759could be because the j-10s are expansive to them so they will just buy 1 squadron worth of planes to deal with indian rafales. it's also because Jeff makes Pajeet seethe much more than j-10 does and also makes them feel isolated.
>>64729896Brings Pakistan and Bangladesh closer and allows a joint platform where they can share experience/munitions etc. Plus JF-17s are massively cheaper than J10/Typhoons to operate for more mundane roles.Plus China wants another retard nation under it's thumb.
.50 BMG thread; I know a few anons out there own one....Anyways Barrett is giving away a free $3000 silencer if you buy a brand new M107A1.I sort of want to buy a M107A1 now.Anyone have a Barrett .50? Do you recommend it?
Simpler times, funner times
>>64727802my old man couldn't even legally buy guns he was a burn out cokehead and always tried to manipulate me. I didn't even realize it until I was in my 20s
>>64732761Same they were fun to shoot in that the recoil felt nice and the cycling of the bolt and the sounds it made was cool But they were t very good guns I think most people suffer from too much nolstagia , cod mw2 on x360 was t a very good game either replay it without the hype
>>64732196Trump said he was thinking about maybe potentially kicking Putin in the balls!
>>64732499NTA, and I’m not saying “be kind to Russia”, but maybe stop being so damn obsessed with them? It gets tiring to see the same damn threads over and over and over again with no interesting information to offer.
>>64732778only a fatty like Sieg would be this miserable
Why wouldn't something like pic related work fine as a "do everything" gun for a person living in the densely forested hills of Appalachia, where the power and ballistic advantage of a rifle simply isn't necessary?>plinking will be good fun with the naturally subsonic .45>definitely suitable for home defense>easy enough to fit in a backpack, or take the can off and carry it on your person>get some .45 Super for killing deer or hogs, or mess around with round ball loadings for taking small game or for pest controlYes, it's true that rifles can be had for dirt cheap these days. And it's also true that there is no real reason to limit yourself to just one gun, especially a handgun. But in an autistic min-max fantasy where you literally can only own one gun and it has to be able to be carried 24/7/365, does a suppressed .45 automatic make sense? The only real downside I see here is that this is not the best option for summertime concealed carry in hot climates.
>>64732714Beeg boolet
>>64732836The Klobb even has a holster
>>64732849Meant to tag >>64732833
>>64732849Every time I see one I have to wonder how many total retards have shot their hand trying to use the stock as a foregrip. I know the answer is at least one.
>>64731902Congrats anon, you brought back the Offensive Handgun Weapon Systems idea.
How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
posting again in forever thread
>>64722920There's also no evidence they weren't
>>64639439>Also they got what they deserved for being weakAdvances in technology can be luck based. They were arguably strong enough locally, Europeans arriving is like alien tech coming over the pond, no amount of strength or foresight can protect you from the new paradigm that appeared from nowhere to you.Might maybe right, but that doesn't mean they are weak, it just means they may have missed fundamental adaptions due to isolation making them weak in comparison to the wider world, connecting to a civilisation that has advances you missed by chance is a dangerous thing. Imagine if Europe never learnt about gunpowder.If the aztecs had access to firearms and modern statehood earlier they may well have been a threat and we'd have to collectively bargain with cannibal nations instead of dominating them.I find it funny when people discuss old western leadership crimes the same way, when they fail to understand is how difficult it is to control people when you don't fundamentally understand how people work. They had to go by vibes so much more than the modern man for even basic functions.Civilisation leadership was also vibes for generations, a lot of British leadership failures in india for instance were tests or inexperience that then lead to sucesses later down the road. We can look back at our ancestors and consider them ignorant, but those ancestors rose from ignorance and built the modern world off of the backs of generations of testing and trial and error.
>>64717905>Incorrectcorrect. worthless clay toys with no utility don't count.>chinampa farming was literally more effective than modern industrial farmingdelusional>>64732765so until you find evidence for it we can safely conclude that they had none.
>>64705502Or maybe modern research just overblows their estimated population by the order of 5x and tries drawing such conclusions from that without any reliable evidence.>food security which did in fact exceed contemporary EuropeansComparing a temperate European climate to evergreen American tropics is quite disingenous, don't you think? Especially with the little ice age going and all.
>PDWWhose retarded idea was this? Why not just give everyone M4's?And if that's not small enough, cut the barrel down to 10''
>>64731531yeah except one slip and that ass heavy fucker is going to be pointing straight up at your faCE
>>64731701liberty defense?
>>64732755that's the beauty of it
>>64729424I am still in disbelief that the madman who made that gun managed to get the gas system to work. Dude I can see the fucking bullet, how the hell does that thing cycle?
>>64731782> 25 rounds in 10mm though37 rounds for the same mag length. 10.8mm case head diameter vs 8mm
Why is <current year> the era of the lawnmower drone?To be clear, this isn't a bait or rhetorical question. I was reading today that the US apparently used massed lawnmower drones as a component of the assault on Venezuela, and it's rattling around in my head that of course the whole concept is not very advanced or sophisticated, they could easily have been mass produced by anybody decades agoSo why is the 2020s their moment? What's changed to make them so desirable on every battlefield, right now?
>>64732731>I was reading today that the US apparently
>>64732731Anon, the US invented drone warfare decades ago, and now invented spammable lawnmower drones. LUCAS costs $35,000 per unit retail, and that's for proper fire and forget drones with swarming and autonomous targeting capability. Russia's Geran drones come in FPV and preset GPS flavors, and they cost $50,000 apiece just to make.
>>64732813What the fuck did I say to provoke this?There's nothing miraculous or groundbreaking about the Shaheds, if anything it underlines my point about their simplicity since fucking Iranians can make them
>>64732827>What the fuck did I say to provoke this?You could have said anything.Zigger suspicion trigger has a variable sensitivity depending on the reader's ideological commitment and IQ.The amount vatnik/chink/jeet bait threads in the last 24 hours can also be a factor.Anyway, yeah : if you don't care that much about the success of your strike, cheap drones are the way to go.Tomahawks are for when you really really want the target gone, only the target and in the correct time window with no second chance.Drones are for when you can still try again and failure wouldn't affect the operation's outcome that much.
>>64732751>but getting a decent nav package into something that small while still having room for a worthwhile warhead is what made it properly feasibleSmartphones and related SoCs basically. A good chunk of the tech in there is also useful for the brain in drones.GPS, inertial sensors, miniaturized cameras, data link, energy efficiency, good batteries, ...And of course the compute part if you want them to do things autonomously.The mass-production for civilian use made them COTS instead of bespoke, small-production products.
If your ground troops dont hold the line.How much can your Aircraft actualy affect the war?
>>64731880> When was the last time a force with meaningful air supremacy lost significant ground they didn't almost immediately recover?Germany in 1942 eastern front?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbKiz4efUtQAFAIK the germans still kicked soviet ass in the sky in 1942 but still could not reverse the ground lost. The frontline was so bad that a soviet tank corps managed to do a 200km+ raid deep into german lines to attack a german airfield which sealed 6th army fate in stalingrad.
CAS is king.
>>64728731In WWII, aircraft were most effective in the interdiction role, going after troops and supplies moving down the roads.Today, we have smartbombs and cluster bombs, so it's theoretically possible for aircraft--well, specifically the USAF--to inflict enough damage to an advance that the ground troops can form a new defensive line.
>>64728731ive played enough hoi to know you can simply bomb their army into dust from the airarmy only has to right click on victory pointsim sorry i dont make the rules that's just how modern war works
>>64732767That works against the AI. Against someone who actually puts AA into their divs you're gonna lose stupid amounts of CAS doing that.
