Kosovo will start producing military vehicles for the first time. In cooperation with Albania, the armored vehicles "Shota" currently produced there, will now also be produced in Kosovo, the Defense Ministry confirmed.
>>64746658To finally witness a screencap worthy thread...
>>64757590>did she grope you and say "hora hora"?No. I was eating with my parents so even more of a reason that wouldn’t happen
>>64746658Thank you Albania
>>64746658Put me in the screenshot
>>64751646go to albaniayour car is already there
North Grumman posted this video:>https://youtu.be/xumHWugbvkY?si=EYhc0xu96sy9Ye8pDoes this mean that the XM1182 HEAB-T is finally in use? Also a few follow-up questions:>could this setup be used as an "ad-hoc" C-RAM platform?>so now in theory every platform with an M230LF could become an C-UAS platform? (+a MHR radar)>could this ammo be used with the AH-64s? Israelis have recently used them as drone hunters.
>>64758875>>64758886They also need a powered unspooler since the fiber will break if it gets tugged, and a transceiver at each end capable of transmitting over many kilometers without a repeater. The transceiver alone costs more than $200-300.
>>64758886Really, exactly how much bigger? how does that effect the price of the drone? I'll give you a hint, they don't need to be much bigger and they're actually cheaper because economy of scale is currently the biggest factor in the diy drone building market as opposed to the pennies in material cost difference. You'd know this if you actually price checked components instead of just flapping your gums>>64762330>Uhhh uhhh I'll just make up some shit Many such cases
>>64762330>powered unspooler -t. blithering moron fuddThis is a weapons board dummy. Invent a better brand of bullshit next time.
>>64758292If you need to ask you cannot afford it.
>>64762392>economy of scale ((A))ffects [thing I like] and not [alternative I dislike] because IT JUST DOES MMKAY>You'd know this if you actually price checked components instead of just flapping your gumsIdiot.
If you're the dictator of a shithole how do you prevent the hollowing out/paper tigerization of your military over time? All of these had strong capable militaries until one day they didn't and got their cheeks busted and wig split
>>64750591USSR didn't have a functioning economy.
>>64750477>If you're the dictator of a shithole how do you prevent the hollowing out/paper tigerization of your military over time?You don't. The military is by far the greatest risk to your life in the long run.You keep them loyal but incompetent and fragmented so nobody can use them against you in a coup.
>>64757400North Korea, I bet
>>64761304You have to be >16 to post on 4chan.
>>64750477just steadily improve the economy and QoL while also being tough on any agitating factors behind closed doors. The public will always take what they believe is the path of least resistance of optimum comfort so, it's your job to make sure they're complacent while stopping anyone from showing them alternative routes
AK General /akg/Chocolate Chip Chinese Chestrig Edition>Thread #2086Old thread here >>64704982
>>64762340>>64762357whoops I'm wrong. Please forgive me
>>64762357Parashooter changed their name to "Wetwrx", and they've still got their AK rigs
>>64761429Only buy, never sell
>>64762428Not them. But fuck off.
>>64762428This. The guy seething above me is a perfect example of why you should never sell. They want to take advantage of your temporary weakness for their own profit. They think they’re entitled to your secondhand gun and the depreciation you endured.
Post gear. Discuss gear. Late night edition. Level IV+ and 4Chan Gold required.Old: >>64732103
>>64762179Undoing for a time, at least. You can split Dragonskin into two lineages since there were two dudes behind it. The original inventor, Bain, headed AT Corp until about 2000, then Neal - the other guy - founded Pinnacle Armor and made him sign a non-compete until about 2006.Neal's Dragonskin is the version that had the infamous Army failures and a 60% failure rate against .30-06 M2AP when conditioned by dousing it in gasoline. Major adhesive failure. NIJ realized the stuff had problems and retroactively suspended it because they realized their lack of a conditioning protocol was allowing SOV-2000 and previously stuff like Zylon to get through and get certified. This was all pre-0101.06.Bain's Skaalar, from 2006-2016, and now his current Dragonskin allegedly use better adhesive. I say allegedly because the guy has been pulling an Adept and hasn't gotten any Dragonskin certified. He has some soft armor (one of which is a white-label he doesn't make) and some Hexar on the list (which might be inactive) but no DS. IMO, that's telling.Also Bain allegedly owes a Chinese firm about 20k for ceramic materials, so Dragonskin is apparently Chinese now.
Armor anon, Whats your take on gign using 7.62x39 citing enhanced armor pen needs? They cited 5.56 ss not having adequate stopping power but this works against my understanding.
>>64762231Yeah I know about Stealth his newer company. I think it's been long enough thats it's worth revisiting titanium. 1997 was nearly 30 years ago. Metal in general has a bad rep due to snake oil companies like AR500/Armored Republic. But we have existing armor schemes that provide full torso coverage that were invented centuries if not millenia ago. Ceramic just isn't really compatible with them and I think rather than focussing making small plates that can stop any rifle round with limited coverage it's far more useful to solve decent rifle protection for the full torso.
>>64762638Not entirely unprecedented. If you're concerned about busting ceramics, you need more than just velocity - which is the advantage 5.56 has and is why rounds like M193 / M855A1 (but not M855 for other reasons) give modern steel plates a hard time. You need a beefier, larger penetrator than the plate's ceramic strike face can defeat. If you can get something through the strike face, then you only have to deal with fiberglass, aramid, or PE fibers that all have a very hard time with hardened threats.Allegedly the Russians picked up a 7.62x39mm "7N38" several years ago for similar reasons. 5.45x39 7N39 has too small of a core mass, perhaps akin to 5.56 APs like PROPASS or AP4. We know 7N39 badly underperforms expectations since there are various 7.62x54R B-32 API (sub-Level IV) plates that beat it. You need a larger penetrator, and that's where 7.62x39mm 7N38 comes in. It was quoted somewhere as being roughly 40% more effective than 7N39, bridging the gap between that round and 7.62x54R 7N37, a veritable XSAPI-killer. Also, AP rounds generally suck at terminal ballistics so if you're concerned about a permanent wound cavity post-plate you'll need a larger-diameter round anyway.If GIGN's new 7.62x39 is anything like PROPASS it should be able to defeat boron carbide Level IVs and basic alumina-fiberglass layups pretty easily. Odds are also good against meh SiC-PE plates like the Hesco 4601. GOST-BR5 plates won't be a problem. Probably runs out of gas against an XSAPI or above (Adept Colossus / Gillie 8002). The new 7N37-rated Granits are too strong. Overall not a bad move if they have data indicating the "armor situation" is bad enough to warrant the extra bulk and costs, IMO. Do you have a link by chance?>>64762640I agree, the issue is that titanium weighs more than equivalent ceramic scales. Bain is using boron carbide in his latest DS 3.0 layups and there is no matching that with metallic armor. Lighter, stronger, but more brittle and more $$$.
>>64762699Interesting and perhaps I’ve been listening to the 5.56 crowd a bit too much of late or they’ve merely been ignoring 7.62x39 selections snd strictly been speaking fmj. This was a few years back but here is one of many links.https://www.gign-historique.com/blog/2017/04/06/le-gign-sequipe-dun-nouveau-fusil-dassaut-bren-2-tcheque/
With modern lasers, capacitors, and power plants how many 500 lb JDAMs could be shot down if all were targeting the laser?Let's assume 2 kilometers altitude, 1000 km/h speed.Could they even do 1?
>>64761476Are you an LLM?
>>64761382HELbros... how do we respond to this humiliation?
I bet the Nightvark/Aardhawk will be a PALA canon aircraft AND be carrying capable just to rub salt in the Boscali wound
>>64762233>Carrying capableDid you mean carrier capable or are you speculating on a cargo hook
>>64760952>you're heating the HE until it goes popthats not how modern explosives work at alllearn about squash heads
Realistically, what firearm would you need to take down a rampaging Na'vi from the Avatar films? Nine feet of solid muscle and bone (reinforced with natural carbon fibre), extremely fast-moving and agile, fighting on their own turf with very short engagement distances? There's no way 5.56 mm would cut it, would 7.62mm be enough?
>>64761898>He even shouts mask on before he kicks open the door to warn everyone.He also did it earlier while riding in the sealed cockpit of a gunship without warning, much to the annoyance of the pilot (forcing her to use supplemental oxygen). And her casual reaction gives the impression that this is not the first time he's done it.
>>64761975>but humanity still needs itNo, the RDA needs it.>now very limited fuel resourcesLmao, are you under the impression that space rockets are fueled by oil?>TerraI thought i could smell a 40kfag >of course they can afford it. Duh.Do you know what a corporation is? Why would they deliberately do things the hard and expensive way?
>>64761993>thinks terra is only 40kOh boy.
>>64761528Find her. For closure.
>>64761687>>blu-Quaritch is noticeably less prone to violence.He has a very different job as a recom. Much narrower scope and only responsible for a small team of dudes that are crack troops. He gets to be a different kind of guy.More of a Staff Sgt rather than a Col.
"Fackin' cunts" edition>Image limit hitOld thread: >>64746248>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!https://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player
>>64756469>>64756915Unless these girls are supposed to be like 6'5", the scale is completely fucked in these drawings.
>>64761859first one is not that bad?I find it really funny when artists draw really small guns, it's endearing in a way.
>>64760935You're not wrong. Add carne asada/carnitas chinese style fried rice too.
>>64761625Kek
>>64761859Size accurate anime girls with guns is hard to design
>$999>aluminum>twisty knobs>shakeweighkSo what’s the koncensus?
>>64762424The reason Eotech has a shorter battery life is because it needs a higher powered laser to work
>>64761441>>64761490The magic trick is that the point of aim is extremely tiny, but it looks bigger than it truthfully is at 1x magnification because our eyes have trouble perceiving very small points of light. Everything gets magnified under the magnifier, but our perception of the point of aim's size doesn't change much at all because we were perceiving it at too large of a size when at 1x.
>>64761595You've obviously never used an eotech with a magnifier. It enlarges under magnification, but it doesn't appear to enlarge because the dot's size at 1x is an illusion and it's actually smaller than it looks.
>>64762424>Is there a reason they have never dabbled in solar assistance?Laziness and lack of incentive.All the legacy optic companies (aimpoint, eotech, trijicon) have not had any decent, original, or cool ideas for like 15 years now.They just repackage the same basic legacy dot/holo/prism they've been making for 20+ years in a new model with more battery life and still charge you $700+.The Changs make a bunch of gimmicky air-soft quality shit, but to their credit at least they try to be original. Optic market has been mind numbingly boring for a decade now.
>>64761393Even with contacts most dots are more like raspberry for me (without contacts i usually see 7 dots)
>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
I am shamelessly bumping this thread
>>64743196Coast Guard cavalry squadron during WW2
>>64762656The 1942 Louisiana Maneuvers
>>64762661Horse-drawn guns in 1941.
>>64762674Horse-drawn AA battery, 1927
>>64762183Didn't they create a new generation and call it the WLRVN now? I don't know what the major differences are but usually a company sticking with a concept bodes well for its reliability.
>>64761591is it a normal AR bolt or some proprietary shit?if it's proprietary, design it to be reversible.
>>64762258Yeah, that's essentially MDRv3 (MDRX was v2). They made a lot of changes during each version though as well, mostly improvements though in some cases like the ejection system (though smaller) it was more "giving up on a cool feature because it's too hard for us to do consistently" like the wing charging handles, they swapped that to a much simpler fixed set that was also sturdier. WLVRN has some of its own changes too but to some extent also just finally iterated the major version to put a line under all the MDRX stuff because it was getting to the point of being hard to figure out what you were buying unless it was brand new.And the concept itself isn't bad, it's definitely comfortable and ergonomic with some niceties. But there were a bunch of stupid choices too as well as struggles with manufacturing, and yeah in fairness tons of military rifles have gone through massive teething troubles over the decades and taken quite a few revisions to get fully solid but of course those were backed by military budgets too not a small private niche.
What’s the best top rail for an A3M1?Looking at Corvus (not the extended) for the sling attachments & acog mount. Arid seems to still have theirs a while away from release.
>>64762523Still, I've always been interested in bullpups, and DesertTech seems like they're the best at it. The only other thing I was considering was getting a bufferless AR (I still don't know what the buffer tube even does) and putting it in a Triad chassis.
Would you a pink gun?
>>64757573People underestimate it yet S&W made an entire gun about catering to griplets that by all reports sells quite well.
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>>64753376>chastity cageOne of the dumbest forced memes in faggotry just like those retarded dog masks
>>64754078>>64754208>>64757531Women are too stupid to operate handgun controls and clear malfunctions. It's best to give them a revolver and tell them to point and click.
>>64753365Yes, though probably not that bright. Perhaps just a metallic pink.
Previous: >>64643273Stamboulieh Law makes weekly videos on all the latest lawfare:https://youtube.com/@2alawYou've heard of FRTs, but what's a "super safety"?>uses the safety to force the reset of the trigger>allows for way more trigger options (you just have to trim two places)>invented by Tim Hoffman (https://hoffmantactical.com)>gifted to the world to freely 3D print>enterprising people now selling super safeties made of steel (recommend at least 4140)>cheaper than an FRT ($90-$150)>originally a 3-position cross-bolt safety>left is safe, right is semi, middle is super>3-position 90° super safety selectors are now availableComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64761263Any word on how a totally normal 4140 SS performs if you gorilla the trigger? In my limited experience with one, I just applied totally normal trigger pressure like I always would.
>>64761230>just as a pistol?100%. The recoil is high if you freehand it, but doable. I would use a 30 round mag as extra grip area to two hand it without a brace.
>>64761915sweet, one more question, apologies if it's a dumb one. In the clip you're using a strike industries chassis. Is it fair to say that the frt would work in the flux raider as well?
>>64761972>Is it fair to say that the frt would work in the flux raider as well?yes. i dont have a flux to check for possible small clearance issues but i dont see why it wouldnt fit.
>>64762080thanks for answering my questions! very excited for the release
This is all I could find, quite a lot in 4 years. What do you anons think?SpaceAlready delivered>Synthetic-aperture radar satellites 1 unit>Nanosatellite imaging (PIAST), 3 units >EagleEye , 1 unit>Access to French Pleiades Neo optoelectronic data.In progress>Optoelectronic satellites 2 units (Ground station ready; satellites for 2027).>Small-sat EO/ISR constellation 4 unitsLandAlready delivered>M1A1 FEP main battle tanks, 116 unitsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>64762322>Poland needs at least +100 F-35 or some other gen 5 fightersthis is not how NATO works. Each nation specializes in something it has a comparative advantage in. Estonia does cyber warfare, UK and France do nukes and expeditionary shit, other western european states do air forces. Poland, Turkey and Greece do massive ground forces. If Poland bought 100 F-35s it wouldn't be able to afford 400+ blinged up tanks, attack helicopters and rocket artilleryalso >some other 5th genlol, lmao
>>64761934>he believes a meme>>64762280>his entire knowledge about a subject comes from 4chang
>>64762130Hadrian and Antonious, 151 AD, colorized.
>>64762614Do you think he killed himself before he expired? I've always wondered that.
I am about to import 80,500 of these indian hesbee 22 short single shot handguns. They are currently in transit being shipped from India.They have sat in storage as they were built in 1959 as gunlaws became more restricted in India. If you were in my shoes, how do I make this business venture successful. I purchased each pistol at 2160 rupees (around 24$) and they cost me ($1500 for import and $5000 in shipping) so i am in for abit under $2mil. Do you think people will actually buy these or should I put my house for sale ASAP?
>>64742984>It'd be funny as fuck, but I assume OP doesn't have unlimited money. Sell it in bulk to Herrera or some other guntuber idk and let them clog some buyback. Jokes write themselves.>We clogged the buyback with SHITTY indian guns!
>>64742736>He's a retard, can we meme him a success so he does something next level stupid with his artificial confidence? He won't quit after one... think of the melty.
>>64759476>sheltered city fagso you? ive killed so many fucking hogs and pigs to know that isnt pig skin.
If you sell them for like $30 they might move, especially if you could get them on PSA. Not sure how much that would leave you after their cut but you need to get it in front of impulsive buyers. .22 short is probably a dealbreaker for most but if you sold them dirt cheap I could see a cottage industry forming of people rebarreling these. The people saying $100 are sabotaging you, no one wants a single shot jeet blaster in .22 short for $100 when they could get an autoloading .32 acp for $200.
>>64762588Or a .22LR revolver for $100
