Is there a branch that is sort of functional and elitist in the russian military? >vdvNigga pleaseIn India, the Navy is the most elitist branch, they are professionals about it>Black sea fleet is now the submarine forceYeah, I know they were pathetic in this war
>>64767683>>64767862Man from Acapulco (original title Le Magnifique, 1973), starring J. P. Belmondo as a meek writer of trashy espionage novels who self-inserts into his favorite main character.It's a 70's French crazy comedy about a loser trying to stand up for himself so if that's not your thing, feel free to skip to the delightfully over-the-top action scenes. There are some good catchphrases, too, but not sure how they work in English - I only know the Czech dubbed version of the film.
>>64766673>Is there a branch that is sort of functional and elitist in the russian military?Russian Space Forceswhich is part of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) nowwhich I guess is at least in some parts "elitist"like a third of all (russian) graduates from moscow state university in any aerospace related program go to the VKS (adjacent institution)which is (at least was before '22) a top university (like worlds top 10) in that fieldso it's not like they don't get talentand if you ask what the Space Forces do>GLONASS>Persona and other reconnaissance satellite>A-135 or Peresvet anti missile systemsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64767930>both at about 50% strengthsure lmao
>>64766673>>vdv>Nigga pleaseIt legit was, look at the POW's ukies captured, the only ones not looking like mystery meat FAS babies were from the VDV
>>64766673OMON there is no other organization in the world who can rape and mutilate your anus with a baton like those guys.
Anybody here have experience with service in the Swiss army?I've gotta do my mandatory military service with the Swiss army at some point and I'd rather go with the actual army for 9months than wiping old people's shit for a whole year or paying 50k .I've been thinking about trying to do pharmaceutical production for the army during my service after my bachelor since I'm studying pharmaceutical sciences and drug development Link to Swiss army site about it -> https://functionfinder.armee.ch/functions/60479Has anyone worked similar roles or have any thoughts in general about Swiss army service?
>>64771008>One guy's dad told him the equipment was the same as in the 70sObligatory notswiss but this is bullshit. Taz90 camo is at least 1990s gear, same for Stgw90. 70s gear would have VERY obvious differences. 70s was still canvas/leather webbing era, alpenflage and STGW57. Not nylon, SCHV rifles etc.I would assume maybe facilities would still be 70s era but not equipment.
Always a legit tdy for Swiss troops. Heh.
>>64773779Some of the shit is 70s era for non combat arms. We had steel helmets, while the infantry got kevlar.
>>64773757>No one is gonna hire you for your army experience anymoreYeah. This is utter bullshit. Depends entirely on what your job was in service. I came out as combat medic and could get good work literally anywhere in the world, for good pay. My wife was a flight nurse. She started making six figs 10 minutes after she deros'd.There are intel jobs, electronics, heavy equipment operation and security positions that won't hire anyone EXCEPT those with actual military experience. Being a ground-pounder, or a cannon-cocker was never a great resume line-item. Ever. Pick the right specialty and it absolutely translates to enhanced hireability in the real world.
>>64773818Perfect gear for storming 80s hotel lobbies
>go to https://catalog.archives.gov/search?availableOnline=true&endDate=1949&page=1&q=German%20aircraft&startDate=1940>search some relevant term to your interests>make sure to set filters to "available to access online" and filter for the year range>bring back something cool
>>64768592>Second from left is the most British looking person everSee >>64765232>>64768428>Blackadder, the lost season>>64766748>His rank insignia says he's a captain, so he was probably one of Monty's aides.So he's just some random junior officer who's father and grandfather went to Sandhurst and now he's summoned to fill out a historical photo op so that his boss Monty isn't surrounded by Russians like Peri Piper on a couch.Then Zhukov opens his mouth and is probably telling stories about war crimes in Russian that you have to pretend to understand and find funny.And history records you as a literal who, undeserving even of a footnote about who you are in the historical photograph you're filling out.
>>64773667>random junior officerYou know nothingCaptain rank especially in the various intelligence branches would have covered a wide variety of important positions and job scopes. Any line division intel head would have been a Captain. Section heads in any intel posting from Army HQ to the various branches' intel units to Bletchley Park to even MI5 or MI6 would usually have been Captains.Besides intel, liaison work also often involved Captains. The deputy military attache to any major country would be a Major, and he would be assisted by a Captain as his chief of staff if not section head.And then there's ops, planning, supply, etc
>>64772509i feel like ive seen pieces of this in dozens of history channel documentaries over the years, neat to see the full thing.
>>64765232captain from the engineers doubling as an interpreter is as far as we got last time someone askedprobably the nearest bong they could find who spoke russian
>>64773808>>64773708Would he have staff tabs on his collar if he was an aide to Monty or other high-ranking officers? I also note he and the Brit behind Zhukov are armed, whereas it doesn't seem anyone else is carrying (at least openly).
This is an extremely kino sighting arrangement. not necessarily a lyman made peep, but a peep with a ramped bead is pretty based. peep and post is probably way more accurate but this is top level comfy
>>64773196it's quicker to center in the peep, but less accurate. >>64773195yeah blades are only better for target shooting
>>64773196I'm trying to use that type of question more to distill the substance from the theoretical.I don't use it in an accusatory way
your argument is invalid
>>64773309air rifle?
>>64773389You can get crosshair posts for ARs if need bePersonally if I had another upper I'd stick one on there for the lulz
Polivian operatives may have been involved in the capture of Maduro. Previous: >>64756162>image limit reachedhttps://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>allows you to pick up radio chatter when you click on pictures of anime girls
>>64770663is that a
Skirts and Guns...
>>64773568Don't tell me, it can't be...A boobie?
>>64773568>is that a fish in a hatYes.
>hundreds of thousands of military-aged whites in the military, reserves, police etc.>tens of thousands of whites in militias>Zulus open to the prospect of their own state>various tribal homeland leaders had an incentive to balkanise and become kings of their own republics (e.g. boputhatswana)Why did SA not descend into civil war? Was it simply that boomers were too comfortable to take up arms and decided to live out the slow decline of their country and pass on the costs to their children and grandchildren?
>>64764282Saffa here, because the majority of whites were against apartheid by that stage. And it wasn't even close. 68% voted against it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_South_African_apartheid_referendum
>>64773692NTA but they were kinda both. They had the ability to make trouble and look frightening, but on their big military outing they got rekt by Bophuthatswana of all places. Also Eugene Terre'Blanche had a habit of falling off his horse while leading marches, whcich didn't help.So at first yeah they were feared, but then as they failed to have an effect they became a joke. I remember my parents taking me to a Christmas pantomime that was essentially just the AWB being mocked,
>>64764282the tragedy of SA is that while jot wanting to live with blacks (as their equals). they did want to exploit them for cheap labour everywhere.
>>64773750>on their big military outing they got rekt by Bophuthatswana of all places.It's kind of a wild story too. >Bop president announces they won't participate in SA elections because they're nominally independant>Huge protests in Bop>Police and army refuse to suppress them>Mangope, pesident of Bop cuts a deal with the Afrikaner Volksfront, a supposedly moderate afrikaner militia to protect key places and (possibly) suppress the protests. >But they absolutely cannot under any circumstances bring their friends the AWB>Problem is, lol, that without the AWB dual membership guys the AV is like 30 guys>AWB comes in force anyway, including their leader Terre'Blanche>The BDF (Bop Defense Force) does their raving 'nana when they see this>BDF demands AV and AWB GTFO immediately, surrounds the airbase they're staging on and promises to massacre all of them if they don't fuck off>AV and AWB fuck off in a huge convoy of civilian vehicles>They are drunk and pissed off and some of the meatheads decide it's a good idea to shoot at civilians as they pass, killing some people>Bop police and military shoot back, stopping one car by wounding the driverComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64766402Rhodesia was an honest shot at a country and legally mandated black participation. Even charted a path to not existing as soon as it was founded.ZERO colonialism was great but stop calling Rhodesia Klanistan.
It's the Monday of SHOT SHOW 2026, the world's largest gunshow. Last year's thread was a marathon in six parts. Let's have a comfier thread this year.
>>64773542Predicting a new rimfire release: the 23lr
>>64773668Has IWS "failed" as a milgun yet? Haven't checked in a while. Only way we'll ever see it.OP heading out til later.
>>64773676I hope all of the people who use the term 'flyover' get colon cancer.
>>64773542Oh boy, it's What Are PSA and Kel Tec Finally Releasing 2026! Been waiting all year for this!
>>64773743Most of the country is empty land. Even if you own a ranch out in the boonies, you still own approximately 0% of the empty land. You gotta fly over it to get from point A to point B. It's a very reasonable expression.
Korean War EditionPost wood (furniture)Big RiflesBig BulletsAs always; No commiesPreviously thread: >>>>64655249
>>64772390Yeah that's what I'd probably do. I'll just have to rezero when it's done and hopefully have reinstalled it well. Thing was kind of tricky to get accurate.
>>64771912Someone who knows more than me, feel free to call me retarded, but here is what I understand: It's a SCAR clone that is apparently better than the SCAR because FN is retarded. It's also very reasonably priced when you consider it's a SCAR clone. That said, for the price, you could buy a PTR and a SA58. I guess it depends if you want a gun designed this century or two guns designed last century.
>>64772401>I'll just have to rezero when it's done and hopefully have reinstalled it wellWould it be worth bedding the action in the stock?
Anyone got experience with Aussie L1A1 (Lithgow FAL) ?There is very little information about the Australian L1A1 production and their quality and differences from standard L1A1. They come with wood furniture in stock configuration which is nice.I've got a chance to buy one for like 1000USD in my cuntry but am not decided. Original FN Fal or british L1A1 are double the price which I am not really willing to spend.
>>64766197
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.
>>64771279Yes, it's a very pro-gun country. You can own full auto
>>64771354I can post the address to my local cemetery.Where's your local mage's guild located?Gotcha
>>64758081I can’t believe the Roman’s slaughtered 100,000 defenseless Jews.
>>64758075A nuclear warhead wouldn't spread trioxin. Trioxin 3-4-5 in the movies was shown to have been decultured and destroyed by a nuclear blast; the second movie established that, as does common sense. At any rate, the safest way to go about it if nukes are off the table would be establishing a quarantine both above and below. Seal off the sewer system and then engage in a mass bombing raid to turn the whole place into a crater. Afterwards send in specialized extermination units comprised of two rifleman equipped with under-barrel grenade launchers, one SAW gunner, two soldiers equipped with flamethrowers, and the unit commander equipped with a submachinegun and a specialized fire extinguisher. All field solders would be equipped with hazmat gear to prevent exposure to Trioxin; the trioxin gas only turned into acid rain in the first movie because the fumes were shot straight into stormclouds in the sky. Burning them at ground level with the right precautions should be harmless. The idea is for the riflemen and SAW gunner to immobilize zombies through concentrated firepower so that napalm could be safely applied to dispose of the body before it gets back up. The CO of the unit uses the extinguisher to control the fire and tallies the number of burned zombies. All soldiers are also equipped with bodycams to allow technical officers in rear support to pour over the footage and confirm that the reports of the field units matches the identified kills on the bodycams; this would give an idea of how close the military force is to moving to the next phase of the operation. Once the total number of confirmed zombie kills has reached the number of known zombies in the area, a second sweep is done by scouting teams to identify any potentially unknown zombies. If any are found, the same tactics as before are used to destroy them. Once everyone is as sure as possible that all of the zombies are dead, a decontamination operation is held to cleanse the zone of Trioxin.
>>64771675But no one does that, in fact, we're the ones who eagerly call it magic, you just get your panties in a twist because you think "magic" is a criticism.
Wish people talked about late-war allied ''wunderwaffe" more often, and not only about muh ''gaymun weapons''.>ASM-N-2 Bat>VT fuze>M3 Carbine>Sikorsky R-4>T26E4>Ryan FR Fireball>Centurion I>Comet I (A34)>F8F Bearcat>P80 Shooting star>Gloster meteorGet it through your fucking head Weheraboo niggers. Germans never stood a fucking chance.
>>64773496>Germans being Germans however decided to use a high-altitude interceptor as a low-altitude strike aircraftand then the bongs and pastas went and did the opposite, picrelcredit where credit is due; shit on the US for its mistakes, and also on Europeans for their mistakes
>>64767826>M1/M2 wasn't event used in a pure PDW role,The Carbine was developed as a replacement for the pistol for non-infantry troops such as radio operators, engineers, etc. It was literally in fact a "personal defense weapon">paratroopers and even glider troops all had M1sNo.
>>64769332>40-60%Why do Nazis lie?
>>64773496>high-altitude interceptor as a low-altitude strike aircraft.The F-104G was created by Lockheed for that role and they were selling it to multiple countries, Germans had nothing to do with that monstrosity.
>>64763404Well, the difference between OG Nazi wunderwaffle and these is the fact Allied game-changers actually worked and returned tangible results.>>64763432>>64763462The V2 basically killed as more Germans and their slaves than enemies. All in all, it was an over-complicated terror weapon with little effect on the actual war.
What tools for self defense would you recommend for someone in Europe to have when shit goes down. There are black powder revolvers shotguns and rifles, but you can't buy them everywhere in Europe. There are crossbows and bows but what is really their capacity to defend, and of course air rifles, in some countries they are unrestricted in some countries they are cucked and they are a hassle to have around in the case of an emergency. Better yet what should everybody own, not just weapons, in case they want to survive more than 72 hours.
Acquiring firearms in accordance with the law in most Western European states is not too difficult or expensive; It will take some effort and possibly require you to join and attend some form of social function in the form of a shooting association or pass some sort of exam related to hunting, but beyond that it really isn't such a Herculean effort even if I would prefer to be able to go and buy a squad automatic weapon at a whim no questions asked. Regardless, if you truly believe you need a firearm to protect yourself now or in the future, wouldn't procuring one through legal channels be the safest path of least resistance to your goal of having one?
>>64770079Not necessarily. I'm sure anons have sources of authorities doing a gun grab as soon as SHTF but I just honestly can't be bothered because it's way too plausible. Now the authorities around here sure seem nice enough but I've seen people turn really quick and know myself enough that desperate times really do calll for desperate measures. In that case being on a list of juicy morsels puts a target on your back in more ways then one. Either for getting robbed or gently invited to help whatever group got your name.
>>64746392>Preppingunless you live innawoods owning more than can fit on your person/ in a bugout bag is worthless.your suburban home or apartment isnt a long term defendable position.pick 1 long gun and 1 pistolthe rest would have to be left behindpick up a couple handfuls of ammunition, leave the rest behind.that pic would be maybe justifiable for a family of 5but 1 person?its mostly worthless.
>>64746613I have literally never had a police officer enter my home and I have owned guns in the EU for the last 13 years
>>64746392Bow or crossbowModel rocket RPGLots of boom boom material
> see pic related with my kids> expect whimsical adventure movie about sky pirates with plane autism> it’s a meditation on surivor’s guilt and ptsd from the perspective of a WW1 pilotThat shit had no business hitting so hard. Felt gutted all day. Absolute S tier film. Ghibli’s best imo
>>64773656It's an interesting story, these days you'd call it open-source intel but at the time we didn't really have a name for it.I don't think the USAF had considered just how much they'd released in bits and pieces for someone determined enough to actually associate them all, probably better they found out this way than the USSR getting to break it to them with something more important later.
>>64773685>>64773656Reminder that they also asked Tom Clancy despite knowing that he was completely wrong about the "F-19" being curved in order to deflect radar waves, all the while knowing that the real F-117 was actually angular as hell
>>64766841Fucking loved the big pirate boss
>>64773682That looks like it should be the full thing. The abridged version was published with the title Revolt in the Desert.
>>64773442>>64769310Totally unrelated anon popping in but jist wanted to say this has been a wonderful discussion on a book I read last year and had no one to discuss it with. Loaned it to a coworker who'd lent me The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (which got me started on Le Carre. Had watched the Oldman movie years ago but was too young to properly enjoy it). Unfortunately I moved away and my coworker gave the book back without having read it, so it's been nice seeing some of my own thoughts shared by others. Still need to get around to Smiley's People, though I did pick up Silverview at a train station and was underwhelmed. I think he lost a bit of his edge after the Cold War.
Do standard fortification and entrenching method counter onky artillery or also air strikes?
>>64768870How do the airstrikes and artillery sim work in israel?
Not entirely, but it does significantly reduce their effective radius
>>64769203Alas, I am from binland. I had the sim system on. and heard a jet in the air. I hugged the ditch. The jet dropped a virtual bomb. The sim system told me an explosion had happened within 100m (it can't go any lower) But I was alive. For artillery it's much the same. I think the virtual bombs obliterate anything within their line of sight, so if you are in a ditch you are obscured/ lower in elevation, and only die from a direct hit. Didn't really matter since a few minutes later the enemy assaulted and I got my head blown off by a machine gun. But I delayed an entire enemy company for like 5 minutes all alone. In conclusion it's all laser tag basically and explosions are simulated/calculated in the simulation.
>>64768136No. Today you need machine dug trenches at speed, or they won't exist long enough to provide you the short term solution they are. They mitigate but no they don't counter anymore. It's more like the aircraft in revetment theory really.
>>64773726sorry about your head finanonif it's any consolation, i'd like to go out to a JDAM to the forehead
Post gear. Discuss gear. Late night edition. Level IV+ and 4Chan Gold required.Old: >>64732103
I woke up from a nap and was dreaming I was being accousted by small chinese men chanting Jinwudun Jinwudun Jinwudun in my living room.
I just wanted to share that if y’all don’t want to drop lam prices, a visible laser is fantastic. Especially on pistols. Got me looking at combo units now. Go birds.
>>64773029I have a knockoff DBAL-PL on a palmeddo that holds zero well. $75 when I got it. 4-in-1.Still hard to argue against an HFXC for long guns unless it's imperative to have full weatherproofing.
>>64773034I got a deal on an armalaser and so far I’m having a blast with it. Don’t mind the grips. I have to file down my Aimtech for it to fit but it’s a good time. I think they have some standalone units too, though the hxfc is hard to pass up too.this one uses a touch pad so it’s maybe a little too easy to activate but for 9mm I can’t complain. Added bonus is that it takes thr same battery as the cmore. Even my cat loves it.
>>64772799Technically, I was thinking of the Lancer Viper brake, but close enough to be similar.
What causes slavabooitis and how can it be cured?
>>64771965Tell me one difference between the US and Canada that isn't just Canada being worse.
>>64766422ngl, some Soviet stuff looked cool
>>64766422It is cool and effective (If you actually try) ((they don't nor will)) and you are just a salty faggot.
>>64766422>NOOOO you're not allowed to like the bad guys stuff!!!!Eglin working hard tonight.
>>64770136Old /k/ like the rest of old 4chan was full of 16 to 24yo kids that were broke as shit, now we are in our 30s and 40s.
