There's no real need to rehash why mechs don't work but what is the ideal jungle support vehicle then?
>>64759969>Basically mech on traxxthen a tank is more optimised.
Hot take. I don't like the direction the RDA Uniforms went in after the first film.Starting off Avatar 1 uniform, It's obvious it took heavy inspiration from the GWOT. (both uniforms are products of their time). The surge was happening at the same time they were making the movie so, I suspect the media pics of Army regs is where they got their source material from.The Film has that bulky vest with a neck protector and lots of big pouches on the front which is reminiscent of an OTV. He's wearing sperate knee pads which was the height of tacticool back then and he's even got eye pro.That being said there's a lot of stuff which made the look more futuristic, at the time at least. The bullpup rifle (which supposedly fired caseless ammo) and GL combo gave a more distinct look than modern troops. IK at the time everybody thought that bullpups would be the future and turned out to be wrong but, I think that just serves to reinforce the point. That, despite looking dated now. The Avatar 2009 soldiers looked far more futuristic at the time the film came out.In contrast the Avatar 2/3 troops look way too contemporary. I know that /k/ommandos are generally in favor of realism but, this hits way too like you could just go outside and buy the same gear now.The camouflage pattern is Kino (even if they got it because digicam went out of vogue and Multicam is in) but, the actual uniform is a bit too vanilla. It's just generic Operator Crye combat shirt and pants. The carrier is way to basic, it's even got Molle webbing on it. The helmet is literally just a MICH 2001 with peltors and a generic looking NVG mount (they actually replaced the abstract ones from 2009 with generic modern ones). And last of all they replaced the Bullpup rifle with some XM8 clone - it even fires cased ammo.I just feel like when updating the uniforms and gear in Avatar 2 and 3 they got way too lazy and slopified it
>>64760277Agreed. I liked the more exotic look of the first film's outfits.
>>64760277The Avatar 1 uniforms looked better in their time and have more sovl imo. Also I'm aware that the sequel uniform in picrel is from the Ubisoft game but, it's the only pic I could find and it's accurate to the movies
>>64760277If anything, you'd think the RDA's outfits would be even more exotic having designed with the environment fully in mind. Full conquest/colonization look.
/arg/ cold weather larping editionPreviously>>64754330
>>64760195>you only run into issues with the quiet useful configurationYeah that was indeed the original implication>>64760198>griffin is copyingYeah, water is wet
what should i do with this? its a sig516.i assume that the trinity bridging the rail on the barrel and the rail on the handguard is no bueno?not to mention the heat from the barrel i guess.
Bros...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXnKtjVMO20
>>64760249move it back a littleor buy a new upper
>>64760249Get rid of that massive tape switch.
Post swords of religious leader, famous military guys, or famous politiciansThese are the swords of Prophet Muhammad PBUH, he also owned armour and bows
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>>64760222Bow of Muhammad
>>64760222are you going to make this thread every week, abdul?
>>64760285Akhi, I made it once and that was last year. Post some cool swords
USA spent on average 250 000 bullets per kill in Afghanistan & Iraq.
>>64760119Amazing how hard someone deflects to not admit that a certain organization is neglecting a certain new area and will pretend that it's irrelevant because that organization is incompetent right now in that area.
>>64760124Let me guess in the next LSCO that's going to happen in two more weeks The AmeriKKKan military will be defeated by a gorillian drone swarms using Chinese hypersonic technology
>>64760178Sorry, I don't speak acephalic.I could give another analogy to have a "discussion" but you would better kys.
>>64760183>"STOP DEFLECTING">Doesn't elaborate on how anyone is actually deflecting
>>64758647Suppressive fire is a bullshit concept. Shoot a bunch to distract the enemy while we move in closer, because our guns have too low of a caliber to hit them at range? So fucking stupid, you end up carrying more ammo because you spend 2-3+ mags just getting close enough to kill with those silly little bitch rounds.
Any anons here ever been to ShootSmart? Its pretty much the only range I hear about in DFW, but they seem extremely expensive: Their prices put me off but their also the closest range to my neighborhood so their convenient...Would you say if I shoot at the minimum 2-3 times a month that a membership would be worth it? How much money would I realistically save? If you get their most expensive membership you get to shoot at the lanes for free and get a free FFL, which is tempting but I'm not sure if its worth it bros...their normal prices are as follows>Public Shooting Lane: $17>Private Shooting Lane: $32>FFL: $45And that's not even counting everything else. Like I've seen Holosun Sights easily going for $400+ there. I think that they upcharge everything to get you to buy a membership, which is pretty scummy, but I am tempted I'm ngl.
>>64757503So, I have done this math before. If you are able to get either free or discounted FFL transfer fees, some amount of low cost or free range usage and discounts on some ammo at the range I think it would be worth it. That means you can easily just drop in any time of the day or week, work in about 10-20 magazines if you pre load them and then be on your merry way. That would for me be worth roughly 150-200 a month just in time savings. Now ymmv with whatever ranges are around you but that would be what makes the range reasonable for me.
>>64757503Hi fellow DFWanon. Have you considered RangeUSA at all? There’s a few in the metroplex. I pay 50 a month for a membership there. Free rentals, discounts on everything, free range time, and a free guest. Range Jannies like my patches. That being said there’s the Elm Fork shooting sports area if you’re willing to drive to something actually decent
>>64759937>Rifle range doesn't accept FMJ ammo.I was pretty excited reading about Elm Fork until I saw that.
>>64760026nta but yeah huh, that's quite an odd set of range rules, not that I'm any range expert but while steel core or API I can understand a little if they're worried about sparks why on earth would you ban FMJ unless you were running lead free entirely, but in that case it'd include TMJ/TSJ/bonded etc too not just FMJ. And only on the 100yd range, not on the 50yd? And also they want you to have at least 3x mag, does that mean a variable optic is ok if the range jannie sees you dialed it up enough but not at base or does it require you to run an HPVO or something? Usually when you see something strange you can at least theorycraft as to why but I don't get some of those at all.
>>64760026I shot FMJ there though not the 100 yard
can you even call yourself a /k/ommando?
>>64759612Yeah yeah, post your MP5.
>>64759473big talkyou guys fold every time you get pulled over
>>64756958you have a riser because you didn't like the cheek weld
>>64760131Yes thats true? Regardless I prettymuch alternate becuase its fun to slap unobstructed.
>>64760131Or did you think i meant cheek weld when i said "chin weld", idk if thats an actualy term but its funny.
>ruled to permit one thread par boards to talk about the board.Petition to change the board name from k/ - Weapons to /mg/ Military Geographic since that's basically what this board has become now
are you really that pissy about a few more tankers
>>64760247Except all those threads are staffed by bots and very, very poor chinese and indian people.The threads with people that matter in them are ranged and melee weapons threads. So no, the boards name will continue to be /k/
>>64760273He must be, look at the kind of threads he's spamming at the same time >>64760271
Wait, so .380 is quite literally all you need?
>>64757664Yes. Love my Bersa
>>64757664yup9mm fags will cite stats they don't understand or make up scenarios to justify their cope
In short yes, but only because all handgun rounds are equally useless. Some might say anything that goes bang is quite literally all you need
>>64759230But statistically .380 has one of the highest one shot drop percentages of all handgun cartridges
>>64757664took me a minute or two to figure out what I was looking at to be honestcause all I was seeing was this
Can you image the insane shit military planes could do if they ran on liquid hydrogen ?>mach 5+ speeds possible for turbine engines due to cryogenic inlet cooling>insane turbine inlet temperatures due to cryogenic turbine blade cooling by injection>the dumped coolant becomes fuel for the afterburner>compressor stators act as intercoolers to increase compressor efficiency>the heated hydrogen from the stators enters the diffusers as hot gas making fuel combustion trivial>superconducting generators can now extract megawatts of power>radars can now be cooled to cryogenic temperatures allowing them to be more sensitive and radiate insane amounts of powerBasically imagine a tomcat travelling at mach FUCK throwing aim54s from space that are guided by an AESA AWG9 that radiates 2 (TWO) megawatts at your general direction
>>64760141>imagine what we could do with magic!wow
>>64760199You need to minimize dry mass, by getting rid of unnecessary things like landing gear and taking the largest fuel tanks and clipping them into each other 50 times.T. ksp player who makes hydrolox spaceplanes
>>64760141Cryogenic fuels are an absolute pain to work with.
>>64760141Would liquid methane allow for similar performance?
>>64760141Why don't you make a hobby plane run on liquid hydrogen if you know so much? Seriously, if you can make an advancement do so.
You have a moderately sized military force and you have to deal with several hundred of these things. Here’s what you gotta remember about them:>Nearly immortal, body can be damaged but the only thing that can kill them is fire>sever a limb and it will keep coming after you >burning them isn’t advised because the gasses inside will reanimate any corpses around them, including animals >They do feel pain, from injury and their rotting bodies>eating brains relieves said pain>they’re very smart, able to fake calls for backup and set up ambushes>speed depends on the state of decay, fresher corpses run like a human>nuking them would kill them, but it would spread the trioxin gas further and make a bigger outbreak in the endWell, /k/? You gotta get creative with this one.
>>64759916>collides with star>billions of years later it explodes>GRB infected with trioxinDear god
>>64759916Do you want Dead Space?This is how we get Super Dead Space.
>>64758081this totally happened
>>64758075See, I've seen enough videos of people being hit by small FPV drones and 12.7mm to know that they'll take off body parts, and in the end that's all you really need. Spam drones until the horde is just body parts and torsos stumbling around looking like partially peeled bananas, then move in with mounted .50's. Turn them into writhing chunks, then tarp the entire fucking town and tear it down to its foundations to find all the bits and pieces. Then, barrel them and build a decomissioning pyramid in the flattest, widest, most uninhabited desert you have, and incinerate the pieces in pressure vessels for long-term storage until you can figure out a way to break it all down to component atoms.
>>64758081>"Did I evah tell you about how that Roman soldjah GASSSSSED 10,000 of my people on dah Temple Mount?"lmao.
2 Horse: (1, captured) (2, captured)
>>64759748Probably, it just took them a while before agreeing to do both
>>64759247soon...
>>64759913That war was marysue japs making not just the roman-styled fantasy soldiers but all the modern sf soldiers from the rest of the world look like jobbers too, because the author is some otaku jsdf that like so many manga creators is still butthurt about losing WW2.
>>64759924When they import more Indian serfs who bring their own vehicles to military service.
>>64759247>don't let this technology fall into the hands of the western allies Ivan
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>>64760148>you own or have shot recentlywhere do you think you are?
>>64759925>>64759929>>64759939>heavy set man shoots someone in Lloyd and escapes>power goes out a few days laterCould it be...?
>>64760165>medium complexion
>>64760135>ai slop
>>64760135>>64760135>Use a real CanGen pic instead of the Hortler trash
You're tasked with building a kit to help Iranian resistance against the Ayatollah regime, the kits you build will be airdropped into Iranian territory in large dufflebags and then picked up by chosen operatives. You have $3k per kit to try to arm an light resistance guerrilla fighter, you can only source items from the US civilian market. At minimum you should provide a rifle, a pistol, body armor, essential accessories and ammunition for both, as well as any survival or tactical implement you see necessary.What kind of stuff do you pick?
>>64758364>all teh Iranian people have to do is let their fellow Iranians in the police and army know that they will not be harmed and that everyone wants a change. At this point violence is counterproductive.When this is what you get for asking nicely it's not so much that you're choosing violence as it is that there's just no other option left on the table.
>>64760107And apparently their own civilians too, apparently anything goes as long as it's not being used against an oppressive islamic theocracy or other dictatorship. But you showed me a video of someone saying exactly what the government told them to say while not getting shot so clearly the ayatollah is based and it's all the kikes and americans who are in bodybags, right?
>>64757950>At minimum you should provide a rifle, a pistol, body armor, essential accessories and ammunition for both, as well as any survival or tactical implement you see necessary.You'd do either a pistol or a rifle but not both. You'd also probably omit body armor since no one there would be conditioned for operating in it, access to traume care for shots outside the plates is minimal, and no one has drilled for plates-forward movement or shooting or the aggression necessary for armor to tactically pay off. Plus there's no artillery etc to justify non-tactical usage as passive protection.So basically it's 3k for a weapon, magazines and load carriage. A cheap SA AR15 carbine from PSA is about $600. Throw on a chinesium red dot or LPVO for another $200. Another $100 for mounts, batteries, screwdriver. PSA does a deal with 7 magpull mags and a rifle bag for $100. Call it 70 CPR for 1000 rounds of old fashioned M855.That leaves $1300 for load carriage, water bottles, whatever. Easily done. Throw a few packs of gum in every kit and wish them luck.
>>64760136>conveniently cropped out sourcehmm...
>>64760239Also posted in every single iran thread. Totally organic posts.
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.
>>64759781>i am aggressive for no reason other than its how i always act
>>64759145Ok. That doesn’t change the fact it was a small hog and it could have been killed with a .22 LR or .22 Mag.I see you still haven’t posted YOUR 5.7 and are relying on others.
>>64759935>I still haven't posted my 5.7
>>64759781>tiny and pathetically weakThat's every handgun cartridge, though
>>6475978122 hornet is a great revolver round. I personally prefer 22 rem jet though. The 53 is really versatile.>>64760021>could have been killed with a .22 LR or .22 Mag.Absolutely. Now imagine having a gun that could be both in one gun yet with drastically better projectiles. Hence the Five-seveN. Worth pointing out that what wasn't a legal cartridge for that WMA was .357, 9mm, or any of the big bore revolver rounds. Also note he wasn't attacked by bears but if he would have been a 5.7 would've been the only option that wouldn't have resulted in a felony trespassing charge. I guess I can concede that a 9mm/big bore revolver would definitely be more effective at stopping bear attacks in this location since you'll never be able to access the property with one lmao.
How would you defeat this?
>>64757772Mass effect 3 was unbelievably bad and ironically the ending being so much worse than the rest of the game actually created this incredibly gay narrative that the rest of the game was ok besides the ending.
>>64759819https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=28485Go back to the beginning article for the besdt experience but the Seamus Young (RIP) series on Mass Effect and what it did so well and where it went wrong is well worth the read.IMO the only part that ever really gets the feel right in the 3rd game is the Palaven Moon part where you tell the random Colonel or 1-star General equivalent "hey guess what, literally everyone in the military or government above you is dead. You are now in charge of your entire race." And he just quietly turns and stares at his homeworld under siege and has to reflect on everything. Every decision he makes now has the weight of an entire race resting on it. Instead of fighting donut steel oc Nightwing and going on archaeological expeditions the entire game needed to really carry a certain weight to it. A noose slowly tightening around the galaxy. Do you risk a diversionary battle and sacrifice some Turian Dreadnoughts to allow the Salarian R&D planet enough time to evacuate or let the potential information be lost but keep the military assets intact?DAI sucks balls in other ways but the decisions and time-gated quests in ME3 might have been a really good implementation. Reapers are at sector XYZ and there are 2 different systems there. Pick a race or planet to evacuate, the other gets destroyed. Sitting around with the Turian general, Admiral Hackett, whatever remains of the council in a literal war room and making difficult pragmatic decisions. Walking through the Citadel as the war progresses with protesters scream at you for allowing the rest of their species to be wiped out. Watching a map of the relays slowly go dark one by one. Blackmail, extortion, the most underhanded shit you can think of. Oh a species wants to destroy all space technology and go dark? Threaten to park a capital ship in orbit unless they keep supplying you with a rare element needed for Reaper-capable cannons. There is so much potential.
>>64755445>and still overpenetratescompletely impossiblepenetration requires some atoms to get out of the way so that other atoms can travel through a space. at relativistic velocities, this isn't something which can occur. instead, the atoms smash into each other and fuse. the whole idea behind fusion power is that you crush matter down until it has no choice but to fuse together. relativistic projectiles achieve that crush just by touching something
>>64760067NTA, but ME3 is incredibly frustrating for containing both some of the best and the worst of the entire franchise at once.Palaven is basically perfect like you said, the ship finally actually feels alive with people moving about and chatting on the intercom, at times it channels some of the best of the BSG reboot in the utter despair of watching an apocalypse with no choice but leave people to their fate and how you handle that after, but then so much of it is so fucking stupid.We did not need the fucking cereal killer in the mix.But I also find it a bit easier to forgive 3 in retrospect because I don't think there could've ever been a satisfying Reaper invasion. Them arriving is an end-state and 2 spent any time it could've been trying to set up an out just fucking around putting together some kind of suicide squad.I still, much to my surprise, actually found myself enjoying 3 a lot more than 2 when I replayed the trilogy for the first time in a decade or so with the LEs. 2's 'it's just like one of my HBO dramas' teen's idea of dramatic writing and dark content really hasn't aged well and its status as an unhelpful sidequest really stands out when played as the middle act. Mechanically, 3 is a genuinely brilliant third person shooter and 1's improved LE mechanics are kind of charming, but 2 still just feels like sub-par Gears of War.
>>64757406I would look forward to seeing the Orks slamming Roks into the Reapers.
