I was thinking that the main issue for the A10 is that it puts pilots into far too much danger in the current SAM and Manpad enviroment CAS is no longer a viable tactic against anyone with any amount of modern air defenses.The platform however does still have an useful role even if it will likely suffer far higher combat losses than modern planes. So the logical solution would be to remove the cockpit and the expensive controls, replace it with a computer and a starlink / satellite connection so that the pilot can control it from an AC office. Without risking his life every time to some random dude with a strela or igla manpad.
Yes it can, but since the A-10 is designed to be operated by humans, it would be excessively big and heavy for its purpose and this type of jury rigging should be just a temporary measure while you design a proper rotary cannon anti armor drone.
>Cousin buys functioning replica of the old Colt single-action>Lets me shoot it a few times>It's awesome>Now I'm considering getting into weapon collectingStupid Colt just had to be the gateway to a new expensive hobby
>>65046908If you want to keep ammo on the cheap side, the Ruger Single Six is both wonderfully functional and has the look down to a t. Get one that comes with both .22lr and .22wmr cylinders, and you've got some nice versatility.
>>65046908Be sure to add reloading onto the list too; that stuff is both fun and economical. (Depending on the caliber)
How deep does the chicom military cope go? This is bullshit, right? Doesn't the US have a bunch of tungsten here in Alaska?
>>65045396>gue'laWhat are you a water caste or something, you dumb fuck? It's gweilo you idiot. When you're trolling pretending to be a chink at least have the decency to get the lingo right, although frankly being taunted by someone who plays tau in 40k is arguably worse in my eyes.
>>65045356That piece of tungsten looks like an ass.
>>65047054it's all for the greater good
>>65046901Can the US government not fund and set up it's own infrastructure? Like how most combloc governemnts did with their small arms manufacturing during the cold war?
>>65047190too many regulations
FCAS:France's Dassault says 'weeks' left to save Europe warplane projecthttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260401-france-s-dassault-says-weeks-left-to-save-europe-warplane-projectGCAP:Money starts flowing for new GCAP fighter, as Britain sorts out financeshttps://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/04/02/money-starts-flowing-for-new-gcap-fighter-as-britain-sorts-out-finances/Canada Eyes UK-Japan-Italy GCAP Sixth-Gen Fighter Program Amid F-35 Reviewhttps://www.eurasiantimes.com/move-over-f-35-canada-eyes-uk-japan-italy-gcap-sixth-gen-fighter-program-amid-f-35-reviewLooks like FCAS has weeks left to make a decision and GCAP is resuming progress with a growing number of nations displaying interest.
>>65046186>day 38 of the 2 day special.milirary operationHow many jets have you amerifats lost to the goat herders now? I don't recall Eye-ran having F-16s, JF-17s and AWACs in the sky India managed to bomb the utter shit out of your terrorist ally. Show me any Indian S-400 that was blown to smitherens like the THAADS and radars have been by lawnmower shahed drones i'll wait
>>65046212>Nooo anyone not buying sandniggers bs has to be an amerimutt!!!No, I don’t give a shit about poo smeared thirdie air defense, but I can show at least 3 rafails and 1 su-30 lost in less than 4 days though, isn’t those thing supposed to be more modern than F-15?https://xcancel.com/swiftretort1/status/1923367877274431980Also, do show me your operational 5th gen please, jeet? Sincerely hope Pidor didn’t scam you too badly on that failed joint program :^)
The ironic thing is both India and France are trying to screw each other in their dealings with one another.It's likely when Germany leaves FCAS and france needs to find a new funding partner they'll likely turn to India and offer full technology transfer (with the understanding India will take 10-20+ years to actually make anything france gives them). India will be trying to steal IP/knowhow, France will be trying to slow roll the tech transfer and local india production line. In the end it'll probably result in India getting pissed at france in 10 years when they've spent $10-20B and are still 5-10 years away from a jet and 15-20 years away from that jet being built in india. The end result will be India has gained IP it can't fully understand or use/build at scaleFrance will have an 80% complete jet with no funding left to actually finish it and total orders so low that the per-unit costs will be astronomical, killing any potential export sales, which just makes the production scale even harder to manage.
>>65046306>paki propaganda AI slop andLmao okay. Just for reference some of those images are downed paki aircraft (old Mirages) and even so maybe you missed the part where 12 of their bases were rendered unusable and their C&C centre blown up and pakis went begging to their benefactor for a ceasefire. In a real war i'd know which side was "winning">>65046312This is exactly why i'm against the Rafale deal and India's approach in general. It's going to be a shitshow. Just try to scalp (usually disgruntled) the designers/engineers as needed they way they had a German who designed their old Marut or how USA had a Taiwanese as chief designer of the YF-23. Rafale is too expensive for what it is. If they are going to lose other potential buyers lile UAE then Dassault is going to have problems
>>65046306>RafailYou are a shitskin Paki lol. Imagine losing 2 AEWCs to s400
This a theoretical. How would the DPRK defend Kharg Island?>10-15K light infanty dug in like ticks>KPVs>The water table and geography of the island does not allow for deep bunkers, don't try to use them>KPVs>As many KPVs and 107mm MLRS as possible, keep it simple>KPVs>If it were Norks defending it fight to the death>KPVs>Use a 15Ktk atomic land mine to blow it up once the USA beat you for control of the islandAm i missing anything?
>>65046183But you will suck my cock and my balls, as well as the leaked seminal fluid on them, and the decayed matter of цheese.
>>65043774die childless for the betterment of humanity.
>>65046195T. Semen Gayovich, cuck of the piss jugs
>>65046286No you are suck the dick, whereas kim Jon Un makes the nation takes your ass.
>>65042988Did this faggot ever find a video of the Type 88 actually shooting? If not fuck this larp fag
Where the NVA and Viet Cong seen as scum and lowly by the American troops fighting the Vietnam war? Or was there some begrudging respect between them?
>>65006043>The South had plenty of well respected units, as well. Kingbee crews were considered among the best in the world by SOG operators and all of their marine and airborne units were reliable allies.Do you know what a drop in the bucket those units amounted to compared to the rest of the entire ARVN? The motherfuckers were notorious cowards, deserters, scavengers etc. and considering the steaming dog shit regime they were defending it doesn't take a genius to figure out why. Face it, the 'commie' North who I and many would argue were far more viscerally nationalist at heart were hardcore motherfuckers and didn't require bribes or beatings to fight unlike your 50 year long dead faggot regime. Most GI's who encountered NVA be it Airborne in the Highlands or Marines a the DMZ had begrudging respect of their capabilities at worst and outright admiration at best. Especially compared to the NLF. The US supports the most subhuman fucking regimes on the planet and seems to enjoy it even as they're being chased the fuck out kek >well desu I think we're shooting the wrong gooks>>65009035Face the funeral home, boomer faggot.
>>65033195The entire 'war' or more accurately the 8 year industrialized war crime and rice farmer turkey shoot was a diabolical fuck up from start to finish. The same guys cheering the hardest for the government narrative (imagine shilling for Pentagon/CIA glowies in 2026) are the same guys who's closest taste of conflict was a fucking UT Lan party kek you and practically every other chicken hawk motherfucker online would be crying and shaking themselves to sleep (with the copious aid of VA prescribed medication) had you been remotely involved in that fucking hellscape. Or maybe you're just a psychopath who's little dick gets hard gutting defenseless rice farmers like a perch to fulfill some faggot life's bodycount quotas and get some R&R. The North won for a reason, you dumb morally bankrupt cunt.
Five hundred yards north there is an island in the River of Perfumes. On theisland a semicircle of miniature tanks is converging upon a frantic colony ofants. The ants drop their gear and sling their AK-47 assault rifles over theirbacks and they jump into the river. The ants swim for it.All of the tanks open fire with ninety-millimeter shells and with fifty-calibermachine guns. Some of the ants sink.Cobra gunships buzz out of a horizon that is the color of lead and swoop in forthe kill. The ants swim faster.The hovering gunships chop up the brown water with their machine guns. The Delta Company gets onto its feet.Three Cobra gunships zoom down to within a few yards of the river and thehelmeted door gunners machine-gun the ants as they flop in the water, trapped ina syncopated hurricane of hot air beating down from the swirling rotor blades,trapped in the water while their red life runs out through bullet holes.Only one ant reaches the river bank. The ant opens fire at the gunships as theyhover over the water like monsters feeding.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65045825The gunship is halfway back to the ants in the water when the ant on the beachreappears and opens fire.This time the gunship pilot brings his ship in low enough to decapitate the antwith the chopper's skids. The gunship fires.The ant fires.Machine-gun bullets knock the ant over.The gunship swings around to verify that it is a confirmed kill.As machine-gun bullets snap into the wet sand, the ant stands up, aims its tinyAK-47 assault rifle, and fires a thirty-round magazine on full automatic.The Cobra gunship explodes, splits open like a bloated green egg. The gutted carcass of aluminum and plexiglass bounces along, suspended in the air, burning, trailing black smoke. And then it falls.The flaming chopper hits the river and the flowing water sucks it down.The ant does not move. The ant fires another magazine on full automatic. Theant is shooting at the sky. Tired of firing into floating corpses, the remaining twoComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65015612>stuck fighting in the jungle >hot, sweaty, tired, missing home>stop to have a little wank>get domed by some chucklefuck with a suppressed StenWar is Hell
>Winchester 1866 is "Yellow Boy">loads via a "King's Gate"So it's the King in Yellow?
>>65047011one of the weird things about the 1866 is that I'm pretty sure it's the only model where the carbines are more common than the rifles. Well other than the 94s I guess. there weren't that many henrys. most 1873s and 1892s are rifles, not sure about the 76s and 86s and most 1895s are military contract. a decent number of 66s are also military contracts.the 66 also has a way sharper drop in the stock angle than the 73 which has a way sharper drop in the stock angle of the JMB designed winchesters. not sure why they did that but you can find boomers online seething about not being able to get a good cheek weld with the 1866 and repros when they do their cowboy action shooting since CAS bans cheek risers for some reason
>>65047024Yeah, that drop is breddy absurd. Imagine being a Spanish tranarchist in '36 and getting a shot-out Yellow Boy dumped on your by Stalin.
>>65047047Did the 1866s end up in Russia? I know a significant number of 1866s were military contract guns, but I think the ottomans and french bought the 1866s and the russians bought the 1895s
>>65047128Ruskies bought Yellow Boys as well.
Knife bayonet vs spike/triangle bayonet. You can get either or for whatever gun you want. Which one you taking?
>Missile crooked>SAM out in the open>No secondaries or cook offsWhy the fuck would they publish this?Source,https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2039647713550110964
>>65035649>Decoys are ment to be destroyed.
>>65044202>>65044202
>>65035727it wastes the enemies resourcesyou never want to hit a decoy.you want to see them, know they are a decoy, then communicate that it is a decoy to everybody else so that no weapons are used destroying something that isnt a target.or so that if/when a ground invasion happens/advances to the area the decoy is in ground forces can remove the decoy so it doesnt get seen in the future and possibly being a false positive wasting even more time and money.it is literally never a good thing to time and money destroying a decoy.and certainly not boasting that you did so.because it means that either you didnt know it was a decoy because you are retarded or you did and still wastes time and money blowing it up because you are a retard.
>>65035783>If you've got two holes in your bucket and you plug one hole up, you still got a hole.this is bait.
>>65047149You hit it with decoy bombs.
So when your designated bro-bot joins your squad in the trench, what kinda of roles are you going to give it? Sentry detail seems like an obvious role. It'll never fall asleep and won't have to suffer through harsh weather conditions the same way a human might while trying to stay awake all night. They'd also make good point men, have them kicking in doors and clearing rooms. Having them act as medics to help people in combat zones seems like an obvious choice as well.On a more personal level, would you dress them up? Give them names? Or would you be more detached and treat it like a piece of kit? I don't think individual units would have advanced onboard AI. I figure a bulk of their processing is handled by a control hub nearby, but that connection might be disrupted by ECMs, so some onboard AI might need to act as a backup.
>>65038112Humanoid robots are a technological dead-end. There's literally no reason to make them beyond wanting to fuck them.
>>65043802There's already a book about that in the i, Robot universe. Robots from two different companies decide that the other company is a threat to humanity. They have a huge war that rages in the streets where they tip toe around humans because they can't hurt them. People eventually continue on as normal while the robot war becomes a background thing.
>>65043806Are you saying guys in a trench will strap a fleshlight to Boston Dynamics looking bitch? I might, but I'm a werido. Perhaps if they had synthetic skin and other more human-like details, that might make me think that. Otherwise, that sounds like a waste of money. Why coat a bot in fancy silicone accessories and send it into the dirty and messy environment like a battlefield trench? If you just need a humanoid bot to operate in a battlefield, a bare terminator chassis or something similarly simple would suffice, I think. From a logistics point of view>Is it cheap?>Is it easy to deploy?>Is it effective?If it checks all those boxes, it doesn't matter whether it's a spider bot that navigates mine fields, a tracked wagon with a gun on top, or a humanoid proxy to act as a stand-in for humans. With all those boxes checked, it ultimately boils down to>Will this tech allow our guys to accomplish the mission where they couldn't feasibly do it without the aid of said tech?
>>65038602this
>>65045376Counterpoint- humanoid robots are cool.
>It's upthe eyetalians haven't invented the screw yet, but they somehow made a gun without inventing screwshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y13tD1uYW7Yvery accurate, dropped once, never fired comes with a brown racoon girl
I don't think there were any guns in Oblivion unless you used mods
>>65046613Based Panko Manko enjoyer
>>65046613Oh interesting, the barrel AND the action are free-floated in the chassis.It's secured only around the chamber area, and the intent is to use that point as a massive heat sink to cool the barrel ASAP, as that's the point that generates the most heat.
>>65046771Behold, the ESL Coon
What was the absolute, most miserable environment to fight in during WW2?
>>65022265>sounds fun and very /k/Not to mention delicious. Hmmm... Long pork in teriyaki sauce.
>>64921562>negritos
>>64940230>6x1>look how good I am!The Eternal Anglo
>>65040826Lurk more, or at least learn how to google so you can see what happened at Ramree island during the Japanese retreat.
>>64928230Look at this happy fellow
Imagine it's the medieval times and you are going to war on horseback. Which mighty steed are you riding to battle on? And what weapon are you bringing? Which suit of armor are you wearing?
>>65043906You never wanted a gf/wife that doubles as transportation?
>>65042646Yeah, but not really.While some horses undoubtedly would get ptsd from woundings in battle, or go through one engagement and need to be retired from their injuries, there are tons of accounts from as late as WW1 from soldiers remarking about how startlingly well trained and courageous the horses were.
>>65037522>A well bred Shire War Centaur is a nine foot tall, heavily muscular creature.>Built for power and endurance as much as speed, they're able to carry the weight of their own armour, and a fully armoured knight and still charge over a hundred meter span in under ten seconds.>Two hearts. Four lungs, which cycle air and blood independently of each other, and can keep the centaur alive in case the first one is punctured or rendered inoperable.>Their upper, or 'human' abdomen doesn't contain digestive organs, and is instead a thick trunk of muscle around a diaphragm, spine, esophagus and trachea.>Intelligent enough to use tools, weapons, build society, trade, and technically learn etiquette. But often aggressive/derpy enough that it pays to find them a bipedal handler serf.Post more armoued centaur girls.
>>65046794Would they be gentle giants like real shires and clydesdales? I like it when the big ladies are nice(to me at least).
>>65037136The kind that can canonically tank bullets.If we're sticking with real-world horses then I'll take whatever the Mongols were riding, those fuckers were like living weapons in their own right.
Post guns and/or melee weapons you got recently. Got this Uberti Cattleman in 44 mag to compliment my 44-40/44 spl Cattleman. Now to find the time to shoot and modify it.
>>65046420>any particular use caseVarious mayhems, throwing, Viking larps and campfire chopping. YouTube instructables all show the obvious flaws with these $30 tomahawks, and how to fix them. Got lucky on the vest and will add chain mail tricep sleeves, fox collar and coon tails.
>>65046448Thanks for the advice.>>65046460Hell yeah man, and you didn't need to make me more jealous.
Most recent new to me gun, import sporterized enfield. The price was right. Enjoying it in 303 for now but bought it as a base to rebarrel in either 45-70 or maybe 50 alaskan
Bought this because I have several thousand rounds of sub .300bo laying around, and despite being a ridiculous thing, Henry did a surprisingly good job with it. Have a Simple Man 7.62 in can-jail to direct thread on and leave, ill shoot the irons for a while, but not sure what optic will end up on it, maybe a 1-6 with a tree reticle?
>>65046012kek>>65046140>Where did you get that?Probably won't be of much use to you but herehttps://www.beareka.cz/pusky/samonabijeci/zb-3037-semi-samonabijeci-puska.htm
I’m gonna miss gun boomers when they’re gone.—————————————-USMC 84’-88’ 3551 SEMPER FI DO OR DIE“Don’t bring your safe space to my danger zone.”////MAGA 4547/// “No Russian ever called me a nazi.”“I hate being sexy, but I’m a certified FORKLIFT operator so I can’t help it”*punisher skull pfp* *lists bubba’d garand for 5k on gunbroker**deletes life savings 1 year before the grave* *sells 3 story single family house he lives alone in to an Indian family**bootstraps own children living below poverty line out of the will*
>>65026283One of the larger threads is about "church security teams" they're apart of. One of them apparently got a credible tip that Iran are targeting church's on Easter Sunday. They talk about how they patrol the church with their conceal carry.>>65028997The super pro Israel stuff is weird after seeing how /pol/ is. You would think older people would be wiser and not 100% regurgitate FOX news talking points, but the users their instantly shit on the slightest anti Israel comment and the one who posted it is banned. No actual back and forth debate.
>>65023143Damn, you laid that out perfectly, I never thought of it that way but I have probably felt it without realizing it. Boomers own so much of the country's land and cash, but mostly choose to blow it on garbage or give it to scammers because they are bored and alone. American culture really doesn't favor taking care of your aging parents. Or really even relying on family. Relying on family is such a taboo these days. And because of that the boomers take their money and houses and do stupid shit. By the time they do pass away there is not much left and its too late for to make a real difference in their family's lives. On the other hand, I am a devil's advocate when it comes to inheritance. I firmly believe you should never plan your life and finances around the idea you will get money from inheritance. And pushing the idea that your relatives are morally obligated to give you all their money is toxic as hell. I stand to inherit a lot from my parents, my dad does very well. But I live every day like it doesn't exist. I bust my ass to get a good career to support a future family. Whenever my parents bring up their will I stop them and let them know I literally don't care. I will of course appreciate any gift, but I don't want to know about it. I don't want to think of my parents death as a financial investment. Not to mention, people that DO plan their lives around inheritance tend to blow it all in their lifetime and leave nothing for the next generation.
>>65026960Involving the law in Wills is as bad as involving the law in marriages. It takes a sacred tradition and reduces it to a mundane bureaucratic pain in the ass. If people maintained good healthy relationships with their family and spouses all the red tape wouldn't be necessary. But younger generations want to suckle on inheritance like any other welfare hand outs and boomers are more than happy to selfishly blow all their generational wealth on flashy cars, Vegas slot machines, and political campaigns to import more browns to cut their grass.
>>65026900Checked.Based and Punisher Pilled
>>65018995>*deletes life savings 1 year before the grave* Anon that's just medical expenses.Being old and staying alive get's real fucking expensive real fast and your insurance company WILL find a way to drop you.
