What is your favourite star wars gun and why is it the DLT-19?
Is it ever explained why laser weapons need magazines? I'm asking legitimately.
>>62900741Star Wars "Blaster" Weapons aren't lasers despite being called that by some characters. They're super heated plasma bolts. Some weapons like the spider droid gun and the death star's superlaser are actual lasers, those have a core that must recharge after use.
>>62900741They're batteries, and blasters work by exciting a special gas with a laser which is then what comes out of the barrel in a plasma state. The gas also needs to be refilled, though depending on the blaster model the gas and power pack are combined into a single cartridge.Most military-grade blasters will have between 200-500 shots which is typically enough to last a single firefight without having to reload, with fancier ones like the DC-15 having variable power settings which lets you chose how much oomph you want your shots to have at the cost of using up more gas/power.
>>62900858So are lasers stronger than blasters in Star Wars?
>>62900886Yeah much stronger, they're used to take out deflector shields and heavily armored targets. They take a huge amount of power and run dry quick though.
What would the best knife for a serial killer be? Consider blade length and material, blade shape, intimidation factor, etc. No knife that I can think of has the features I'd want in my ideal serial killer blade, but a Bowie makes sense, around eight inches long, D2 or CPM-3V, matte black PVD coating, clip point... maybe put a cool glass breaker on the pommel.
>>62900821>he doesn't know about the Walker Texas Ranger ice knife episode
>>62900830... No I don't. Elaborate.
>>62900736Buck 120, duh.
>>62900838Nah, Scream fucked up. It's too small. Have you noticed that Ghostface has to stab a victim a million butt-fucking times before they die? You need a long, girthy blade.
I'd use something distinctive and impractical, that the coroner would notice. Like a sickle. I'd be the sickle killer.
it makes me really really mad that there are so many gay import laws on guns.
I bet you're getting tired of seeing this gun editionGuide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNikPrevious >>62891778
>>62900443Suffer as we have
>>62900768grip looks like some sweatlord's mouse
>>62900443>>62900668Kek, maybe if we gave her (you)s on /arg/ she will stop coming here? Let them deal with it?
bought a romeo x compact enclosed for my first handgun, a p365 xmacrohow do you guys pick your holsters anyways? I don't really want to buy 10 holsters and return them all.or worse, have 10 holsters lying around because I'm a lazy fuck
They actually like the J-35A "Fit Amy": https://youtu.be/677lMJWVza4Specially because It has two engines for carrier ops
>>62897394In all fairness, thats the hottest fat bitch i ever did see
>>62898085China has the J-20 for longer range needs and their B-21 clone.
She's hot!
>>62898276You just aren't looking hard enough.The best girls are shaped like the F-35.Big bulging bellies and huge tits.
>>62897166hehbig hed
The UNSC really spent billions per Spartan to equip them with augmentations, advanced power armor, energy shields, and then handed them the same 308 guns they give to every grunt. Why didn't they give them their own assault rifles?
>>62900148But he isn't a chosen one either?
>>62900165yeah a guy created zillions of years in the past through alien DNA tampering isnt a chosen one at all
>>62899876Gonna consider that the origin of halo 4's storm rifle.
>>62887943>Of course the UNSC was trying to reverse Covenant tech, but its a long way from "We understand how this plasma pistol works" to creating something that's both practical and useful to war effort.And all things considered they never really hit the "we understand how this works" part. And it's not really hard to understand why, the plasma rifle for example is basically three different cultural design fused together since it's built off of elites reverse engineering forerunner tech and then prophets adding on their own additions to the design once the covenant was formed.
>>62900237We already know they were tampering with people way back in Halo 3's side material.
Tactical advantage of using an RS-26 ICBM to strike you neighbor with conventional warheads? https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1859519312924471448
>>62900923lol that must be friendly fire, unless the GUR really did manage to get some drones in the area.
>>62900930Its what twitter said. Ahtubinks is town in Asstrahan oblast, probably.
>>62900916My guess is MIRVs/MaRVs with conventional payloads instead of nukes
>>62900950I wonder if it was a Satan II
>>62900913What am I looking at here?
Underwater battles are so rare in history, despite the huge numbers of submarines deployed and many nation developing attack subs specifically designed to engage other subs. Why is that?
>>62896432Because, given the limitations on building sophisticated attach subs, if two attack subs are fighting each other we're probably at the end of history, or at least what people will refer to as "The time before the great burning".
>>62896566my dream job is captaining one of these things with a ragtag crew of coked out south americans just knife fighting and singing our way to america and freedom in a smoky tube
>>62897674Second explosion was entire combat load of torpedoes going off at once, with total power of about 5 tons of TNT equivalent
>>62899302Still ishttps://youtu.be/cFSyKHOz8gQ
>>62896432>Why is that?Boomers, there hasn't been a war between powers that both have boomers but if there is it'll likely start with attack subs sinking boomers they were tracking before the orders came though.
When do weapons become too expencive? These are like 900k a pop and all you get is a big crater 300 km from launch.
>>62889781These are made to hit priority targets not saturate an area. If you get the coordinates to a commander or strategic target its worth the cost.
>>62889805I have to admit it came to my mind a smoothbore does the same thing as a rifle (as long as you fix the accuracy) for a fraction of the price
>>62900358I have to admit it came to my mind a sling does the same thing as a smoothbore for a fraction of the price.
>>62895418Russia is almost entirely dependent upon Western and Asian CNC equipment for aircraft and missile production. If companies like Siemens ever get forced to turn off their server support, the RuAF loses most of its production.
>Israel is our strategic allyIs this what AIPAC-funded politician told you?
I didn't know the B-2 was so small
We do it everytime but how would a B1-r with numerous pgms do in any modern conflict. >good loitering? >cool missle spam like in anime
>>62900598Only plane to ever fly a functioning nuclear reactor as well.
>blows up your A-10Ceh, nothing personal kid
>>62900596More kills were attributed to F111 than A10. A10 was basically along for the ride.More blue on blue was caused by A10 than anything else.iirc there was one tank blue on blue and that was someone in a Challenger shooting his buddy in the ass.
>>62900627>During the forty-day conflict, the A-10 force was credited with destroying 987 tanks, 926 artillery pieces, 1,355 combat vehicles, and a range of other targets-including ten fighters on the ground and two helicopters shot down in air-to-air engagements.Bringing up frendly fire incidents, as if they're unique to the A-10 or warfare in particular, just outs you for the mouthbreathing retard that you are.tl;dr: you're retarded
>>62900596I meant that, in a straight fight, the AC-130 would lose to an armed An-2. The sacrifices it makes to arm itself for ground pounding are severe.
>>62900719The AC-130 is not meant to engage An2's, neither can it do the fraction of what the AC-130 can, this entire comparison is fucking retarded. There can only really be two reasons as to why someone would make it; they are either retarded or a troll.
>>62897588People are use to the tiny losses experienced during the GWOT and forget that in a Fulda Gap scenario the Apache and Warthog were expected to be lost in huge numbers but not before taking out several times their cost in enemy armour.Sure the A-10 would die but if it fired 6 Maverick missiles at 6 MBTs it was a good trade.
Made by Russians. They say it's a fallout shelter. ...it's a fucking cargo container. I don't think it's even meant to be buried in the ground. It's just a cargo container they drop on the parking lot and say it will protect you from nuclear war."KUB-M" holds 54 people. Literal meat cube. Jesus chirst even those single-occupant coin-operated fallout booths from Fallout 3 made more sense.
>>62888695>cargo container support blocksWon't need to if they use the side blocks to hold up the top but this is russia so I'm expecting a catastrophe in one way or another.
>>62897933You'd die anyways when the blastwave hits the container. Fallout shelter, not bomb shelter.
>>62898219nahhh there are nuclear capable tanks with thinner armor.you don't know shit. Get outta here kid
>>62889303Soviets have been lying and cheating and jewing since the year 800
>>62888604>15 beds >54 "people" farting it up
Space Force has an expanded range of weapon designations and a new approach to naming things. They will take ideas on how to nickname new stuff until November 30 and decide after that. https://airandspaceforces.com/space-force-satellites-weapons-names-and-it-wants-guardians-help
>>62850223I wonder if we'll ever see a mission to stop/intercept the launch of a rocket. Outside of AC4 that is.
>>62893251There are materials science limitations, or so you would think.
>>62893251What would be the point though?Historically space exploration beyond earth’s vicinity was just a demonstration of power with no practical value. This doesn’t even exist if you make it secret.
>>62896880Because if you can feasibly explore other star systems and establish bases on them the entire galaxy is now your oyster. You have an entire galaxy's worth of resources at your disposal, if interstellar travel is really possible. >Why keep it secret?Because you want to monopolise the tech and get a head start on it if or when somebody else discovers it. And besides,>We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
>>62897963>Because if you can feasibly explore other star systems and establish bases on them the entire galaxy is now your oyster. You have an entire galaxy's worth of resources at your disposal, if interstellar travel is really possible.A market requires a buyer and a seller. Without one, you can have the easiest resource extraction opportunity ever seen by the species lying at your feet, but it hardly matters. You lack profit motive in a fundamental way.
You are in command of Cardassian Union during Border Wars. How do you win?
>>62878630>>Step 1>Impregnate my Bajoran mistressBased and Dukat-pilled
>>62891786>>62891551Based and Dukatpilled
>>62894925The DS9 writers have said they intentionally muddled the waters regarding the Cardassians by take from a lot of different authoritarian cultures.>>62887891Competent small group tactics and ship design. >Starfleet: Lets make every ship a cruiser! And every single other possible role a ship could be! At the same time!>Klingons: Disruptors! Photon torpedoes! Cloaking device! Engine! Honor! Glory!>Romulans: Lets spec our ships entirely around an overwhelming strike from cloak to targets directly in front of us.>Cardassians: We'll use 3 or 4 ships in tight formation so that their dorsal, ventral, and stern-mounted phasers provide overlapping fields of fire for defense while also capable of being used in conjunction with bow-mounted heavy disruptors to bring overwhelming firepower to bear in a forward arc.
>>62900250>Competent small group tactics and ship design.Doesn't matter when you're putting ironclads up against Iowas.
>>62900250>The Dominion: Fuck it, Ramming Speed! Founder Ackbar!
Northrop has delivered the first terribly named Stand-in Attack Weapon test missile to the US Air Force.SiAW is an air-to-surface missile for relocatable targets, including but not limited to: theater ballistic missile launchers, cruise and anti-ship missile launchers, GPS jamming platforms and anti-satellite systems. It will have a shorter range than standoff weapons, being fired by an aircraft after penetrating enemy airspace. SiAW will fit inside the F-35's internal weapon bays. The design leverages prior art in terrible acronyms, most notably AARGM-ER.
>>62899426fuck yah, were in the siaw era now>hypersonicsnahhhhh cuck missile for the f35 bay tho?>we eatin gooooooooooood!
>>62899438>cuckabsolutely broken
>>62899395>>62899395AARGM-ER has a greater range than the baseline HARM configuration, since it's an upgraded motor with increased diameter while still being the same length. The F-35 bay could fit the regular HARM if it wasn't for the wings and a few inches of length. That few inches is gained with a new compact warhead, it's all detailed here:>>62899438
>>62895947So isa it actually just a pork project for NG welfare? Because this really makes it seem like that’s what it is, ie let’s pretend to evolve a capability for future threats etc with “agile” software engineering (jeets, jeets everywhere).
>>62896324>Why does budget authority more than double in FY27 and FY28 when procurement drops? It almost looks like a sports contract where the out years are just for show, and the team plans to re-negotiate the contract or cut the player before those bills come due. Is the "50" just a placeholder, and they're actually planning to increase production at that point?I have heard multiple people who follow missile procurement much more closely than I do suggest that the final AUR inventory could easily double from the current program numbers. The increase for FY27-28 could be guarding the program funds for the time being, like you've mentioned.Another complication: ground launched AARM-ER is seemingly still forging on ahead, as Advanced Reactive Strike (AReS). That was still a USN program, last I checked, but development costs could be reflected in the SiAW accounting that we're looking at.
