/k/ fits.I don't mean armorI don't mean anything that improves capacity, with a fag tier amount of pocketsI mean clothing that enhances a /k/unt's ability to /k/unt it up. Pic related. Shoe coverings, tread removal, hair coverings, gloves, face coverings, cheap & disposable, etc.
Have you have you have you ever had a dream where you where you get the drip super drip and president trump president trump!!! gives you the congressional drip medal of drip freedom and you you and you just buy a cheap pair of sweatpants and a shirt but then the pants have a have a hole in them so you so you take them back but you forgot the receipt?that is that is how /k/ does fits. go to go to /fa/.
Consider the pervasiveness of data collection on firearms enthusiasts through government/corporate surveillance; any purchased component of something that is weaponizable is an automatic leak/red flag to the system.Your precious hydraulic tubes are all being watched and recorded as to who is buying them.This begs the question; are you a bad enough dude to forge your own barrels? How about homemade metallurgy and casting? Treatment of existing shapes to make them strong enough to withstand pistol pressure, let alone rifle pressure? If you can't source your own barrels in a way that doesn't arouse suspicion, then attempting avoiding surveillance through manufacturing your own weapons is impossible.Until this major hurdle is addressed, those championing 3d printing of weapons as a meaningful tool of political resistance are totally unserious and are shilling you gadgets.Also unaddressed is mass production and raw materials sourcing, enough to arm and supply a squad, let alone a platoon or battalion.The real force is not merely the gun, but the logistics behind it that deliver and supply more ammunition to enable it to keep shooting.
>>65047113>I call bullshit. why would you even be drilling bolts on a lathe? the most common need to drill bolts is removing stuck ones.In a thread about making barrels, the non-machinist sticks out like a sore thumb...I have drilled many bolts on the lathe, usually for grease passages when using them as pins for oddball projects.
>>65048570>non-machinistidk the only time I ever drilled a bolt on my lathe was to make some non-marring screws because I didn't want to pay extra to buy them and they were cheap ones not grade 8
>>65046062>they need a process that compresses the material in some way, like autofrettage or forgingForging doesn't compress the material. That's a myth.When you machine a metallic part the features cut into it can crate spots where stresses are concentrated, and allow shear stresses to propagate along the grain. Forging aligns the grain flow with the shape of the part, which optimizes its strength. But it does not change density.
You can spin scenarios any way you want but in a collapse of society there will be a lot more materials for barrels than for 3d printers
>>65048649Is that a faceplate extension or an inside jaw chuck? I’m guessing those are imperial ~1/16 UNC threads to adjust it? They have a deep root.
>this isn't some early post war early 1950s design>it entered service in 1984
>>65047371In my part of Burgerstan, it really exploded in the 1980s and 1990s population wise. Phoenix has a huge volume of expats from the Balkans. I have had a semi interest in learning about the conflict there and it is not wholly dissimilar in some ways if you compare the various ethnic militia forces to the UDF/IRA/etc with the UK forces being equivalent to the Serbian military (which is to say, everyone is to blame to some degree for partisan actions, but only 1 faction had explicit state backing and government military forces occupying other places). Anyways, we have Serbs, Croatians, Bosnians, Slovenes, etc. And when they came over here from what I can tell, they all largely agreed to let the past be the past and build new lives here. I've been to friends houses in grade school and seen tattoos that years later doing research make it pretty clear a lot of these families have tons of connections to organized crime groups back over there. I worked security post-college briefly and did a birthday party for a Serbian (Or Croatian I forget) older man, it was straight up Godfather levels of suits with guns in holsters underneath. They flew out a famous female singer. It felt like a powder keg could go off just from all the people there but I believe even other ethnicities/rival people were all there at the club, drunk off their asses, and singing songs together. For all the still ongoing stuff over there and the ways the internet encourages bantz, it is legitimately beautiful that a lot who came over here to escape the violence have been able to put the past behind them. You can be on the right side politically/morally but still be in the wrong as far as your actions I believe. But that is a whole other can of worms as far as ethics and morality and what ends are justified with what means. Off topic but War by U2 is a 10/10 album that to me gets the closest to an 'it just sucks' message without glorifying either side.
>>65040187That ass better be functional because it is fugly.
>>65045317Their enemy got more?
>>65048582I dont know if concrete == brutalism inherently but I like the sort of split level stuff, foliage looks cool. Brutalism works to me when it isn't apartment blocks but more like big important durable buildings but then am I calling these brutalist just because it is steel reinforced concrete? The French Communist Party HQ back in the day had a really cool looking building, same for the Kyoto International Conference Center but I'm not sure what you'd call places like those.
something that never entered service
Just spent the last day finally finger fucking one of these. From an engineering perspective it is cracked.>creative, unique striker system due to space limitations. For instance, the disconnector is actuated by a cut in the slide>Managed to make it locked breech and have all of the standard safeties you'd expect from a striker fired gun>The size cannot be articulated until able you hold it in hand. It makes micro-9's like the 43x and shield plus feel like full sized steel frame wonder-9s when held side by side. It's smaller than a Glock 42 for fucks sake>full firing grip which still doesn't make any sense to my brain. They cut the slide height down so much that overall height is that of a two-finger gun, but you can build a full grip on it. Bore axis is as low as those $5k meme guns tier>these are honorable mentions but good sights, good slide serrations, good grip texture, adequate trigger and $350 new goes a long way.Big props to the design team. A pocket gun that simultaneously has 13 rounds of .380 and a full-sized grip is literally the most retardedly insane thing I can't emphasize that enough. If they could make one in .32 with like 13 rounds flush it would probably be the greatest firearm made this century.Unfortunately, it has Smith & Wesson levels of QC.
>>65044817Can you not go to youtube and search?>lucky gunner P32Kek come on man. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cQBM6QC-kIt’s worth a watch. In my opinion most of his stuff is pretty good.
>>65048475That's (You)r job not mine
>>65048552Jokes on (you) I just wanted more (you)s
I feel like you could have used better slang to share the same sentence as “engineering perspective,” but yes, it’s impressive.
>>65048583that's ok anon, I've posted a few of LG/Chris' helpful videos on here and nobody pays attention(best one he did recently was the one on FBI+10 mm)
Thoughts on USAF pilots survival gear?
>>65047465jesus fucking christ dude
>>65040569>Thoughts on USAF pilots survival gear?immediate first thought was, "I'm just glad it's not ((SIG)) garbage"
>>65048174It becomes shorter when the barrel is removable.
>>65041285>US govt made something in houseThey've been doing this for decades, Crane built the mk12 and mk18 using commercial off the shelf parts and old M16A1's.
>>65049090giving the third world access to the internet should be met with a nuremburg-style trial desu
Why was WWII the most aesthetic modern era war by far?
>>65045728>Not posting US bomber jackets and aviators, or pic relatedBaka.
>>65045728>Why was WWII the most aesthetic modern era war by far?It had the coolest webgear.
>>65045736Vietnam was super gay.
>>65049001This>nylon and plastic instead of steel wool and leatherEvery era has its charm but its hard to top the mix of the industrial and old world aesthetic of ww2
>>65045728no
Pictures taken at/over Edwards or the nearby dry lakebeds.
>>65026037I went to the airshow every year from about 1990 until they stopped having it after 9/11. I got to see the first public showing of the B-2 and at least one SR-71 flight, I think including the final one. Wish I'd been older so my memories of that stuff weren't so hazy.
ITT: aircraft nobody likes or cares about
>>65046055>>65046458>>65047685>>65047688clean design, for its time
>>65049073Whirlwind was too small for Merlins IRL, to do that required a re-design to something a bit larger.
>>65049096right as said above, it'd maybe have been neat if ? the Peregrine could've worked or been upgraded, but unfortunately for the Whirlwind was doomed by its powerplant
should have been adopted (Allison-powered) by USAAF two years earliercould have replaced all P-39s and P-40s from the beginning of 1942
Fi 156 Storch doesn't get enough attention
How the fuck do you stop the Houthi? I'm sick of them camping out in the mountains and periodically crashing my portfolio. What weapons does it take?
>>65019315Solving the problem politically.
>>65019437>Its a price worth paying.I don't think you understand the cost of 150 dollar oil
>>65019315>All discussion of politics and current events goes on /pol/.>not this one, though
>>65019605>I still don't understand why we invaded Iraq insteadbecause it's much more difficult
>>65049015>>65049215If we stopped bombing them they wouldn't attack ships. We are the aggressors here on behalf of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Do you need special munitions to take out power plants in a similar way to runway cratering and taking out hardened bridges?It seems like Russia and Ukraine just take the route of trying to hit critical components and grid connectors but we've seen that so long as you have access to components then you can quickly return to business after a strike.
>>65048294this whole situation is ridiculous because the people who are threatening each other don't give a fuck about what is being threatened by the other sideiranian government doesn't care about iranianstrump doesn't care about anythingthe game of chicken doesn't work if both sides don't care if you run into each other
>>65049053The Iranians are just able to read the fucking room. They've tried talking it out with Trump and Bibi twice now, and gotten a knife to the back each time because it just resulted in them being perceived as weak. They have to make this into a defeat for the US, because any negotiated outcome below that means they'll just get bombed again in a year because someone needs a political distraction.Trump and Bibi effectively tied down the gas pedal and removed the steering wheel in Iran's car before starting this game of chicken, and now they're wondering why these crazy Iranians aren't slowing down or evading.
>>65048347Not a real concept
>>65048983I wish a game was made in the style of those old cgi cutscenes.
>>65048929I guess we’re closer to 40 year old boomers now…
I was thinking that the main issue for the A10 is that it puts pilots into far too much danger in the current SAM and Manpad enviroment CAS is no longer a viable tactic against anyone with any amount of modern air defenses.The platform however does still have an useful role even if it will likely suffer far higher combat losses than modern planes. So the logical solution would be to remove the cockpit and the expensive controls, replace it with a computer and a starlink / satellite connection so that the pilot can control it from an AC office. Without risking his life every time to some random dude with a strela or igla manpad.
>>65047182Why? The only reason to convert an A-10 into a drone would be to keep the GAU, everything else that it can do (i.e. carrying bombs and missiles) is done more effectively by smaller, cheaper, more flexible, and less retarded drones. The GAU isn't a tank killer OP, it's basically just a (vaguely) targeted cluster bomb/warcrimes dispenser. You'd get much better effects and return on your money by building a drone designed to carry Mavericks/JDAMs/APKWS as needed - maybe carrying pair of M2s for anti-drone use.
>>65047182The main issue for the A-10 is that it was a one trick pony and the GAU didn't really cut the mustard anymore. The only way to fix it imo is to cut out the big ass cannon and extra armor that weighs half of the plane, replace it with a big ass radar, and put more hard points and rocket pods on it. It can be a loitering drone hunter.
Wasn't there a mission in COD ghosts where you pilot drone A-10s?
>>65048076Tbh, it never really cut the mustard in the first place. The amount of vehicles that can be breached by 30x173 but not by a 20mm is pretty narrow. Which would be okay if they hadn't built the plane around this massive gun.As an a2g weapon, I think it was fundamentally flawed based on anecdotes of the Ju-87G. A revolver cannon or two would have been better for the A-10 imo.
>>65048076>replace it with a big ass radarThe A-10 is already underpowered in the engine department, a radar needs to pull energy from a generator connected to the turbine shaft.The APU is not gonna cut it.
How feasible would it be to use a nuke on Iran's underground missile silos, and uranium enrichment sites? This idea has been proposed in the past for targeting the underground sites buried more than 1,000 ft deep.
>>65049108t.Holden Bloodfeast
>>65049108Dimitri Medvedev is that you ?
>>65049108>1,000 ft deepWould a nuke even do anything to that?And aren't there so many you'd need to use a whole bunch?I just dont see it happening, iran isnt enough of a direct threat anymore to warrant that.
What was the worst military you worked with?
>>65046977Nope, just have done exercises in the German winter, which is enough for me. Anything arctic related looks miserable.
>>65036222I'm Danish, so I would love to hear what your opinions were on us. Personally I did 8 months of conscription back december 2023 - july 2024, but I choose uni instead of staying in the army. Never got the chance to work with militaries of other nations.
>>65036222>>Ukrainians (pre-2022)>>Ukrainians (post Feb 2022, helped train them on Bradleys, Abrams, and dismount tactics)Tell us more?.t diaspora
>>65036494>When it comes to actually maneuvering, up until recently they had only one (1) radio for the entire tank platoon, which was in the platoon leaders tankThe t-55 doctrine
>>65039821>"well regulated militia" part of the second amendment explicitly REQUIRES military service to be allowed to partake in the second amendmentIt doesn't though?
Iranian air defenses have successfully intercepted the second AGM-158 JASSM Cruise Missile in as many days, the first one was either intercepted yesterday or that's when the photos were released.
>>65046598>That's-a some distraction Are you Italian?
>>65045694The sad part is many idiots are sincerely believing this is real, Disney and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
>>65048110On a related note: Why do thirdies take such pride in treating their people's lives as disposable but place such value in replaceable equipment?
>>65048805looks like a xitter post, probably from a turdoid who been furiously copeposting on /pol/ lo these many moons
>>65048254your tax money well spent (for israel), eh magacuck?
How do you think it's going to go down? I imagine there won't be an infantry presence until it's practically leveled.
>>65046455>How do you think it's going to go down?I don't think there will be any conquering of this Island, just total destruction of it.>>65046510This island is not in Israel’s interest. Israel cares about the missiles, nuclear capabilities, and the uranium, so as I said, this island will be destroyed.For America, this island is good whether it is occupied or destroyed, in both cases, they benefit from it.
>>65048798>>65048801oh no the turdies are seething again. what embarrassed them this time?
>>65048961>I only behave like a fucking zigger because I like pretending to be retarded>I-I'm t-totally a-american guiz!!yeah
>>65048791>Previous presidents made their cases to the public and Congress. They got authorization (even if Congress didn't use """war""" as a word per se, an "authorization for the use of military force" is effectively the same thing), and they got a majority of the public onboard.This was done in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam and KoreaThis was absolutely not done in Syria and Libya and Panama and Grenada and Yugoslavia and Venezuela and
>>65049007nta but you should probably explain why he's retarded, otherwise you just look like a seething thirdie since he provided specific reasoning points and you aren't willing (or able?) to respond to those points.
