Why does Japan always have such a strong navy?
Im going to effortpost because i wasted years on a japanese history major. Japan being an island is definitely the most complete answer, and the navy was never one person, but the need for Japan to have a strong navy was about as fundamental to the formation of modern Japan as the need to not pay too many taxes was to the foundation of the United States of America. Japan’s government that it had during World War II was formed in the late 1800s as a response to the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate, when America showed up and bossed the Japanese government around for long enough that the Japanese people lost faith in it. There was a lot of debate back-and-forth about what Japan should do, since it was clear the old government couldn’t stay and they had to figure out how the new one would work. One of the most popular ideas was to close off Japan to all foreign contact again, which had been the policy for 300 years up to that point, and a lot of of the most prominent Japanese political figures were in favor of this. One of them was Sakamoto Ryoma, and he was going to assassinate this guy who was in favor of modernizing Japan with western technology. The guy’s last wish was to explain his political ideas to Ryoma before he was killed, and Ryoma agreed to listen to them. He had the fairly obvious-in-hindsight idea that Japan absolutely needed an extremely strong navy if it had any chance of not turning into China, which at the time was essentially being raped to death by England, and a couple of other European powers to a lesser degree. If Japan could put 100% of its effort into a ridiculously strong navy, then they could ensure political autonomy, and all else could follow. Of course, in order to achieve a navy like that, it would be completely necessary to cooperate with western powers to some degree until ships could be acquired. (1/3)Picture: a piece of the USS Constitution kept at Yokosuka in Japan on board the IJN Mikasa
>>64751018One of the very first ships to be bought that was very modern was the CSS Stonewall, which has an extremely stored history of its own I’d love to go into, but that was an ironclad that was meant to be used in the Civil War, but the south lost before it could be. So right as Japan was becoming a imperial state, one of their very first moves was to acquire a completely cutting edge, iron clad vessel, there was a little bit of time in the early 1900s that they were just gathering all of the most advanced possible ships the guy in the OP, Togo, commanded the Mikasa, which is actually the last remaining British-made battleship on earth at the moment, and I had the honor of visiting a little bit ago. Anyways, the imperial faction begins to rebuild Japan with thinkers like Ryoma pushing for an extremely strong navy, another factor arises that makes the navy an even bigger deal. There were two competing clans in pre-imperial Japan, who formed an alliance that ended up bringing about the imperial age. once they won that Civil War and it was now the 1890s, Japan needed to divvy up their responsibilities such that they wouldn’t immediately resume in fighting. The Chōshū clan was given the army, and the Satsuma clan was given the navy. The Satsuma clan was an extremely ambitious clan that was almost directly responsible for the Civil War that put the emperor in power, and now that they had their own little domain, they put an immense amount of effort into it. This is where the Japanese Navy as its own distinct political entity, almost separate from Tokyo and the army begins to come into formation. It was Japanese naval infantry that stormed Port Arthur in the Russia Japanese war. It was the Japanese Navy that defeated Russia off of Tsushima. It was the Japanese navy that racked up a lot of the early victories of Japan as a fledgling nation, and by comparison, the early actions of the Japanese army would be to start a unwinnable forever war in China.
>>64749237It's navy was actually kind of crappy pre-Meiji; their vessel of choice was the bune which was somewhere between a barge and a cog and could regularly be outfought by the western merchantmen at the time; even the ancient Spanish galleons, some of which that were literally over a hundred years old when they were finally retired in the early 19th century could take on a Japanese fleet all on their own. Commodore Perry's little trip was what spurned them into shaping up into a serious naval power, and it was the Scots who showed them the ropes of a modern naval manifest.
>>64751034So the Japanese navy quickly became the favorite child, and the place where ambitious families would send their men to be officers, in comparison into the army. Also, now it was the 1920s and Japan was realizing that they’d won every fight they’ve gotten themselves into, and they were surrounded by a bunch of kind of minimally-tapped markets, thanks to Europe being so far away. So they began to fancy themselves an empire. empires need logistics, empires need force projection, empires need massive navies. so yes, Japan is an island, but also basically every possible factor worked together to make sure that their navy received a ridiculous amount of attention. Their Civil War was won on the idea of making a strong navy, they gave the strongest faction that won that war control of the Navy, the Navy kicked russia’s ass in the first public display of Japan as a modern country to the delight of everyone the government, and then they wanted to be an empire.
>>64750289perfidious Albion strikes again
I'm hoping you guys can help me, a few years ago I was involuntarily held and now I can't pass a background check. I'm in a bad relationship situation right now and I'd really like a firearm.Is there anyway I can get it expunged from my record or any legal work around?
>>64750208Have you tried to pass a background check? Just getting emergency 302ed or whatever won't cause you to fail, you have to have been to mental health court and had a mental health judge commit you.
>>64750208Get another boyfriend with a gun. That could lead to its own issues though.
>>64750208
>>64750208I can smell the colour of your skin
>>64750208The 4473 goes through if you're able to answer that the last time you were instituted has passed the 5 year mark.
How would you defeat this?
>>64750985They ruined her in 3. Everything. Ruined.
>>64750974>160ton slugs of tungsten accelerated at some 500km/s and a rain of about 200 space tomahawks with 10~kt warheadsFuck off with that little baby shit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M
>>647508723 confirmed tactics work: red light, blue light or green lightso I'd chuck a gaming PC at it
>>6475099220 kilo slug? That's basically a 120mm cannon. Pretty embarassing for a capital ship.
>>64751003>*crunches numbers*You know what, I take that back. The Everest is putting out about 10 times the muzzle velocity, but the MAC is doing three extra digits worth of muzzle energy. Is that a super MAC or are we talking Pillar of Autumn? What's the sustained rate of fire? Limited muzzle velocity is going to restrict effective range quite a bit, and UNSC ships aren't shielded, but you might be onto something.Missiles are still pussy shit, tho.
Word on the street is that the US bagged another 2 shadow fleet tankers today. With one of the tankers being captured using these little guys. Have we begun breaching into the Tom Clancy timeline, or have we always been in the timeline without us knowing?Also, a general thread on these little guys and what can be done to improve on their airframes and tactical usage.
>>64748499>Australia and UK's commie parties have successfully self-fucked their countries into military irrelevanceThat's arguably the point, be militarily irrelevant so nobody bothers spending money on keeping up with your army and then everyone just gets prosperous and the world gets better and nobody needs to fight (much).Of course we know how The End Of History worked out but it was doing ok there for a while, all the army the 1st world needed was just enough to intervene in an ethnic cleansing somewhere or maybe extract a prime minister from a coup.
>>64747989Yeah that's why I made the point about 'remaining'. The UK was also famously pretty heavily infiltrated particularly in the early cold war.Whatever the specifics of how things shook out over the years are it's striking that those are two political cultures where appeasement and hand-wringing over Russia's current expansionism streak didn't even get a look-in.Interesting story about your unionist mate, glad to hear he came out of it with a more balanced view of the world rather than the intended more extreme one.>>64748499The UK's armed forces are in an absolute state, I'll give you that, but I'm not really sure what else you could ask Australia to be doing at the moment. Pretty cutting edge air force mix, Army just wrapped purchasing a bunch of next gen replacements for AFVs and their new choppers, Navy's scaling up and modernising their surface fleet and making the leap to nuclear subs, all three branches are investing a bunch in high end unmanned platforms and bringing as much manufacturing capacity to the continent as possible too.Like other than 'be a bigger country' I'm not sure what else they could be doing.>>64748607Everyone's so quick to forget about the peace dividend and what a great idea it looked like for a while.
>>64732861>now
>>64729244>Ive entered the timeline where the Navajo code talkers will be succeeded by jive ass brothas I cant be more ready for WW3.
>>64730948tangentially related, but a cool use for them nonethelesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDa2dJakmD4
It's that time of year /K/ommandos! Were we reminisce the years that have past and look forward to the new one that is now unfolding! And that includes thinking up of goals for ourselves to achieve this year! You have been thinking of how to become a better /K/ommando right anon?Anyway, I haven't seen one of these threads in a few years, so lets get one going. How do you rank against your fellow /k/omrades?Bonus points if you can add stories about your achievements. Also maybe its time to update the board? Add a few more,
Made it to /k/omrade. Was pog in the US Army, own a nugget, and done some hiking and camping. I spend too much money on /tg/ stuff to get into more serious gun hobbying too.
>>64745359fugg
>>64748015>Surprised "Own and wear body armor" is not on there.This is why I think it could use a bit of an update. Theres definitely other /k/ things you can achieve than what's on there.
>>64745359Neat thread OP. I racked up some more points than I thought I would. One of my notable achievements is the "and my ankles too", a few years ago, my battalion was going into the field for some training, well we started with what was supposed to be a 14 mile pack. With my med bag on top of everything else on the packing list my gear was approaching 90lbs. Well they also messed up the route so it actually ended up being closer to 22 miles. We stepped off shortly after midnight and didn't get to our rally point until like 9AM. By the morning we had so many heat casualties, good times. Also, while I was TAD with some reserve artillery unit they let me run the gauntlet and shoot a M777, it was pretty fun.
>>64745359Going to file my paperwork for a can tomorrow, so I'll be able to check two more off then.
We have just seen the US carry out Operation Absolute Resolve, a flawless raid in Venezuela but there's so much more than what meets the eye.The fact that the Nightstalkers could just infil and exfil on gunships guns blazing is insane in the era of gay drones and MANPADS. They didn't even have to worry about the overall IADS. IR dazzlers or just shooting back was very effective against any fuckers that tried to get a shot off. More than half of the air assets in theater being SIGINT and EW just shows the importance of spectral dominance in addition to SEAD and as SEAD itself. It's obvious Growlers used their brand spanking new mid-band Growler pods to jam fire control radars, F-35s used their Barracuda suites, but what the EC-130H's were doing could be anyone's guess. But the power went out and that says something.
>>64750888>I’m not the redditor writing wall of text fanfics that didn’t come to passYou're writing walls of rage-text.>I’m a Ron Paul aligned gun owner Ron Paul hasnt been in office since 2013. Post guns.
>>64750888Because I have a very dry sense of sarcasm that doesn't translate well into text unless I lay it on exceptionally thick. Even then, ESLs still seem to miss it a lot.
>>64724154Are you under the impression Russia owns Canadian Parliament?The reality it mass immigration is Liberal ideological doctrine, not a russian conspiracy
>>64750890My black text character count: 407Numale wanking in a single post: 1876 characters Also Paul won, anyone who becomes clintonesque is cursed with a sub40% approval and midterm shelackings.>gunsOkay. Unlike that fat onions boy I don’t need 10 pages to make a point.
>>64750849The /qa/ lost
What happens if you shoot at ICE with a Mondragon Rifle.
>>64750961ywnbaw
>>64750857They shoot back
>>64750994>ynbawThank god!I’m a twink that likes being a twink and don’t do troonoid things.
Bags of milky salt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b52tVlHc84Is that a fucking pistol real sight in the red dot cut out? Is PSA inventing a shotgun that can't be used as a shotgun because it has pistol sights for some reason? the receiver is objectively the worst place to mount a red dot on a shotgun. the best option would be if you could get it low profile on the barrel or as a qd on a side rail like an AK, though the barrel, especially if you can get the bottom of the red dot below the receiver would be great because then you could have a red dot mounted for HD or turkey or if you're in one of the like 3 states that still require slug guns for durr and then you can take off the barrel, the red dot remains zeroed and you can put on a different barrel for birds or clays I really don't understand this psa 570 thing. it looks like they just designed a gun to compete with turkshit and the mav 88 to be a ghetto blaster for blowing up trash on blm land
>>64748082Me, i would very much enjoy easily changing out my barrel from an 18 to 32 inch and not needing to adjust a whole bunch of shit.
>>64748678>>64748843>no I need to blast garbage at the dumpcome back when you aren't fat, poor and brown>>64750572mossbergs already have quick change barrels
>>64750611>mossbergs already have quick change barrelsSays the guy who invents a new boogeyman every time he sees a 7+1.
>>64750841>no I need to blast garbage at the dump I live in
>>64750572That's practically every single fucking pump shotgun on the market you dumb motherfucker.
>*shits up gun culture forever*
>MW2>New Vegas>TarkovAny other games that have had an inordinate effect on gun culture?
>>64745780yeah I know, the commandos that own mosins actually shoot them though.
>>64750517>>New VegasHow does NV have any effect on gun culture?
>>64745202>EfT playersNever shitters when I've met them. Tacticool slavshitters are fine. CODkiddies/Battlefags too. Vidya has been a boon for gun rights. If you want to REALLY see who's ruining the "culture", try:>Boomer scummaxxing permacollectors>Punisher skull Grunt Style bro-vet dickheads>InRangeTV watching leftytroons>terminally online stat sheet readersWanna know the common denominator between these? THEY DON'T SHOOT. Want a better "culture"? GO SHOOT. THEN you can make proper, informed media about it. THEN you can complain. Till then, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SHOOT FAG.
>>64745202Every one of my friends who plays this game won't stop screeching about their grips like a possessed demon.
When the Geran/Shahed drones first appeared, I figured Russia would use them smartly in a classic SEAD/DEAD role: send waves of them to force Ukrainian IADS to light up radars and reveal positions, then follow up with VKS aircraft, with anti-radiation missiles to systematically dismantle those defenses. Russia instead has chosen the most brain-dead and wasteful approach, by treating the Geran/Shaheds s as nothing more than slow, low-cost cruise missiles hurled directly at static infrastructure targets, while leaving the overwhelming majority of Ukraine's air defenses intact and free to keep operating. They're banking entirely on brute-force volume and saturation to get a few through, completely abandoning any effort at SEAD/DEAD. But the thing is that they're not even achieving any kind of saturation effect since, the launches are scattered haphazardly across random cities, regions, and targets all over Ukraine that changes every night (some they they go after energy infrastructure, some other go after some depots, some others they try to hit some cities...), instead of making up their minds and concentrate them single high-value area, frontline sector, or even one major city at a time, and keep hitting them until achieving disruption or collapse. This is also precisely why so few targets are actually hit despite hundreds being launched every night, and so many of them are intercepted.By contrast, even in the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela, the LUCAS drones (the American Shahed clones) were properly integrated into a coordinated SEAD/DEAD package.
>>64749431By and large the Ukrainians do not use their ground based SAMs and radars against drones for the precise reason you mentioned. They increasingly rely upon interceptor drones, helicopters, jets, EW, manpads, and even vehicle mounted AAA to deal with the low end threats. SAMs are mostly reserved for higher-end missiles and aircraft.The bigger issue is that Russia doesn't have a well developed SEAD/DEAD doctrine, which is also hampered by their lack of stealthy aircraft. Instead, they rely on difficult to intercept missiles. By all accounts the most devastating strikes are TBMs hitting Ukrainian energy and rail infrastructure. The Geran/Shahed strikes are designed to stress lower end Ukrainian AD, forcing those assets away from the front.
Weren't Shaheds based of Israeli Harpy drones which literally antiradiation warheads?
>>64749654Yet still the Russians never even tried to perform SEAD, most likely due to their inability to coordinate large amount of air assets due to the lack of AWACS planes, due to fear of FF. The fact that they couldn't deploy Flankers with Kh-31P's during the combined missile/Shahed drone strikes to hunt down Ukranian IADS tell you everything.This inability to either coordinate large amounts of air assets, and also ground assets is literally the main reason why the SMO failed so hard, and they haven't been able to fix It 4 years into the war.
>>64749851And those are knockoffs of Dornier DARs which are a German-American project. Dornier did the flying and hardware bits and Texas Instruments did all the electronics.>Dornier unveiled its Mini-RPV at the Paris Air Show in May 1977 (Jane’s 1979, 619). Constructed of a fiberglass shell, the tailless, delta-winged Mini-RPV was designed to serve as an expendable anti-radar weapon, though it could be equipped with a parachute for recoverable missions such as reconnaissance and target acquisition (Wassum 1977, 24). The anti-radar version of the Mini-RPV became known first as the Dornier KDAR, following the convention of naming aircraft after the title of an acquisition program. In October 1978, the company concluded a three-week long flight test campaign 20 at the Meppen Test Range (Heise 1978, 14). The KDAR was initially equipped with a passive radar seeker developed by Texas Instruments, the US firm responsible for the guidance systems in the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-88 HARM anti-radiation missiles (Dornier Post 1986). Both MBB and VFW produced competing designs to the Dornier Mini-RPV. In 1978, MBB displayed its Locust/DAR drone at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) exhibition (IDR 1979, 74). MBB developed the Locust in cooperation with Teledyne Brown Engineering, the US firm responsible for the Firebee family of drones, and initially incorporated a radar seeker from Motorola. The MBB Locust featured a tubular fuselage and a cruciform wing. VFW, meanwhile, unveiled an early prototype of its Tucan drone at an air show in Hanover in 1979 (Munson 1988, 49). Like the Dornier Mini-RPV, the Tucan featured a tailless delta-wing design. VFW would offer a variant of the Tucan, the RT-910, for the joint US-German antiradar drone program.
SEAD is pointless now, everything they destroy will be replenished by the West, also there radars in Poland, Romania and AWACS in the black sea sharing intel to Ukraine.
Anyone else going to the Muncie gun show Indiana
>>64750286Muh dik
>>64750286Commander Riker
>>64750505Those are just to fight your way to your rifles.
>>64750593He's tight, Tupperware kills.
>>64750950He meant the niggers. I suspect he watches cnn. It felt like I was talking to a liberalgunowners redditor.
>3D Printed GunsWhat are the best filaments you guys are using for frames and gun parts? Is it still PLA + or are the different carbon/glass infused filaments better?What are you guys printing?
>>64748239it's just beginning
>>64748681Ivan is alive you fucking retard, and ECM was developed by Jeff Rodriguez(some Polish dude or whatever did it a few years before by whittling a mandrel out of wood instead of printing, but he made airgun barrels and not actual guns).
>>64748239You can make barrels out of pipes, and you can make ammo out of nailgun blanks.
>>64748679You're not entirely wrong but the speeds it prints are slow and the amount of time spent troubleshooting far outweigh any time spent actually printing or designing parts.I'll be keeping the SV06 of course, despite its flaws its my baby.
>>64747841>>64750926Get yourself an SV08 and build a cheap enclosure for it.
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>>64750897oof, same, fren.
>>64750897racism is cringe, maybe try having sex with a refugee
>>64750940Do NOT do this you will catch a gnarly STD.
>>64750897my wife is more racist than anyone in this thread and she's not whitey'all don't even ethnically cleanse anymore, other cultures love that shit
>>64750969>y'all
It's up!: https://youtu.be/APmgHMDOObk?
>>64750806we all know secdef is an idiot>The former official also noted the redundancy of the proposed nondisclosure policy.>“If you have contacts with the press, you’re supposed to disclose them. If you have a speaking engagement, you’re supposed to have your remarks cleared regardless of whether the event is classified or unclassified. If you’re read into intelligence programs, you’re already covered [by the nondisclosure obligation],” the official said.
>>64750801>lie detector testThe absolute state...
Here's a better video that actually traces the routes and timing, and maps out maduros bunkerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFz594f4C0Q
>>64750179It's just speculative resource wars, and venezuela is sitting on massive oil reserves. Not hard.
>>64750002>had they failed, we would've had another "Black Hawk Down" scenario, where a fast raid turned into a shit fest due to the downed choppers that allowed the local militia to mobilize, and lots of US casualties within the QRF sent to recover the dead/wounded from the crash.They undoubtedly had a flying QRF just waiting to touch down next to a wreck and cut the bodies out. I wonder how they actually plan that eventuality?Do littlebirds have the range to get into the city?
TRVTH NVKE
>>64750581Maybe not where you live
>>64742297BRB Reloading some of my cyber punk era 44
>>64750581>Not preparing for the worst case scenariongmi
>>64742519more bullets is just better, if you cant hit a torso 9/10 times within 15 yards while just magdumping 9mm you're awful at shooting. the "oh shit" feeling is just you shooting them more than 7 times in 5 seconds
>>64750581The real trvke is that barrier-cognizance is preferable in almost all civilian use cases and at least some law enforcement use cases due to reducing the possibility and severity of collateral damage.
