The bus driver in chief has threatened that if another oil tanker is seized he'll send Venezuelan special forces to infiltrate and commandeer a US aircraft carrier and steal it. What are the odds of this succeeding?
>>64705406Link the quote since I can't find it from a casual search. If he's said he's hit Official Gov't Issued Lolcow territory.
>>64705406Got a source for that OP? Be funny if true.
>>64705422I never knew this until a Central American moved behind a Puerto Rican neighbor and started blasting Tejano music. Jimmies were rustled.
>>64705406Large ships used to have Marine Detachment security to protect against boarding parties and Navy mutinies. I don't know if those are still on the ships or not. It seems like a bad idea.
What’s the best gun for hunting polar bears?
>>64705181There's like four fags on two boats of sixty people
>>64706456No it's just in the early 1950s Denmark got a bunch of M1917s from Canada for just the cost of shipping.
>>64678660This is also what we carried when i was doing research for my masters in the arctic. University paid for my gun license.
>>64695015Polar bears hunt and eat humans
>>64705181The only homos are the main villain, who is evil and you're supposed to hate, and his victim, who he blackmails after doing gay shit with. So not really about that, at all.
These movies don't even try to have internal consistency with their combat and power dynamics.Movie 1: Navi have superior genetics and bodies but 3 different battles demonstrate that the training and tech of humans gives them a massive advantage. In the final battle Navi get a decent surprise off but then start getting whooped, it's only when nature itself turns against the humans that the Navi win. Movie 2:Recoms now exist, with the the superior weapons and tactical training combined with navi genetic superiority they should be unstoppable.NoNeyteri goes angry mom mode and kills them even easier than she did normal humans in the last movie. Not one recom or normal human scores a kill in this entire movie outside quaritch killing jake's son.Movie 3:See movie 2James Cameron is a fucking idiot.
>>64706462Avatar has major pro-family and caring for your children themes though. >>64706396Norm has children.
>>64706462>I can't remember other examples off my head but you run into this all the time in 80s and 90s scifi movies. For all their obsession with intelligence they don't think long term and refuse to see how they're part of something bigger than themselves. And for all their ranting about how being selfish is bad they're extremely selfish and hedonistic. They don't care what happens after they die because why would they? They're dead. They're r/scientist posters.Actual unironic retardation. The scientists in these movies are the only people thinking of the long term goals, since they want to avoid disrupting the Pandoran ecosystem by stripmining it, and would rather try to learn how to help Earth. The RDA just wants to extract as much profit as they can from Pandora short term.
>>64706477Na'vi children. No human children and I did not see them in the movie and im not sure if they are gona be canon. In the previous technical book about avatar the guns using 12.7x76mm rounds that are used by avatars are depicted having blue tipped bullets and are also quite chonky wide while in the third movie the bullet shape got changed to be bit more slender and the tip is no longer blue.I need to mention but we see alot of Na'vi children and hybrid children between avatars and na'vi. But no human children, Spider is the only one we know about and with some sense of irony his biological parents are both marines and both died fighting against the na'vi, the same people he is now trying to defend and live with.Neytiri is also super fucking racist against him, constantly rejecting him while her kids all like him. which I find funny.
>>64704641They know the climate shit is a grift though.
>>64706540Yes and no. There's been an observable shift in the past 15 years, I remember when there was snow and ice by mid November and the rivers froze, now we get rain and the odd bit of frost and maybe a flurry of flakes in January, and summer heatwaves of 50+c in the sun are the norm now, as opposed to freak weather back then.But there is a question as to if the doomsday prophecies will actually come true, and how much of thus is the earth naturally coming out of the ice age (we are technically still in one) and how much human activity is accelerating it.And then, there's the hard truth the lefties say away from that is the fact that muh precious turdies are the biggest polluters. India, China, and sub Sahara count for roughly 70% of global carbon and pollution output, but the lefties balk at decrying their actions.
I hope everyone has an uma-zing year!Previous thread: >>64694948>image limit reachedhttps://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>uuuuuu (umadacchi) uuuuu (uma pyoi uma pyoi) uuuu (sukidacchi) uuuu (uma poi)
>>64704742fuck off pedo
>>64706220>>64706337>>64706383now proclaim your hatered for poland
>>64706640>tits>curvy hips>thick thighsNTA but you are a fucking retard zoomer or a troll if you think that's a child in anyway. Or an actual pedo yourself, projecting.
>>64706646I love Poland
>>64705195Stop that
Will the constantly developing weapon technology make the basic military training obsolete at some point? If you think about it, it has already been happening throughout history, like the phalanx required extreme discipline and psychological conditioning to not break formation and this continued in some form till the proliferation of rifling, automatic guns and rifled artillery. Then came the system of NCO responsibility and low tier operations freedom where discipline was not a life-or-death matter but obviously crucial for good quality operations. I think the NCO era (WW2 (maybe 1 too) - our time) will be the last era of human warfare where training individual soldiers will be a deciding factor until it all becomes a massive automated systems control handled by people who are out of the harm's way and should be trained more like cost-analysis administrators rather than disciplined combatants who risk their life.
yep china will absolutely make up for a completely unbloodied, inexperienced military with their advanced technology they stole from the west.
>>64706742The US - China war will happen long before military training and experience becomes obsolete (if they ever will).
Post wheelgats. Just bought this 3rd change hand ejector dated to roughly 1912
>>64700191>western stuffDude, literally same. I just wish I could be satisfied with the stuff I have. My newest gun is a 45 SAA, and I’ve barely shot it. I have more guns than I know what to do with, and honestly I’d just like to get rid of like 90% of them. I think I have a genuine problem. Like I’m always after “the next one”. In my head I have this fantasy of “oh that would be so sick to have a rabbit ear 12 gauge or an 1897 Winchester.”; but as soon as I get x, y, or z- it quickly becomes apparent to me that I literally just spent x amount of money on something I’m just going to look at. I hate it.
model 19 classic fren
>>64704927Lol, that's just good old gunsooming. I like shopping for and buying new guns, but there really aren't any in the collection I have any desire at to to get rid of.>No sell, only buy!I like western stuff, but not exclusively. I'd like a Martini Henry or something, but reproductions aren't readily available and they ammo is rare as shit too.
>>64676746Just took it apart, it looks like a true DAO hammer. The sear still seems pronounced, but there's no SA notch on the hammer to catch it, so they just slide against each other. I'm guessing just a hammer swap to one with a SA notch would work?Also excuse the dirty gun, it's covered in flaking suncorite and rust. I'm waiting to give it a proper refinish.
>>64703144>obsessed with manliness, tvradivition and 'the old days' he didnt livethroughi dunno just a hunch
Was Flak useless or just a bad choose against bombers? The window to shoot them was tiny and the fragmentation radius was too small, it need almost a direct hit with time or proximity fuse.It only make sense when you don't have fuel and aluminium for your interceptor planes.
It was frightingly accurate.I read a memoir about a night fighter pilot, and he went into great detail about German early warning systems, GCI, and flak defense.Flak batteries were guided with a rangefinder and a kommandogerat mechanical fire control system. It was just looking down the sights and shooting willy nilly.
>>64706274*it wasn't just looking down the sights and shooting willy nilly
>>64705301retarded daytime raids exposing the bombers to easy interceptions
>>64705654They researched around 30 ways to make proximity fuze.
>>64705283This >>64706274Bombing missions over Europe weren't a cakewalk,(rip radios) and the flak were just one part of the system, so the kill stats show just one side, not mentioning the bombers that missed their target etcThey also damaged a lot of bombers, and a bomber leaving formation due to damage won't be in for a good timeIf you want to see a clownshow than you have to see what the japanese were doing, LeMay, i think, stated that a training flight over US was more dangerous than a mission over Japan
What is /k/ favorite type of glock?
>>64704579>Whitebox slopFigures, I'll inspect the primer stake/crimp the next time I pick up any box of 9x19. Thanks for the knowledge transfer, anon>>64704582Fair
Why does adding cuts double the price?
>>64683169>favorite glockThe model that isn't a glock. Plastic faggot.
>>64706392Because they know people will pay for it. There's no way it actually costs that much to make the comp ports on the slide and barrel, but they can charge what they want and some out there will pay for it without a second thought and they make a profit.
>>64706392Supply and demand, plus less reliable sales. Made in smaller batches and sits in the warehouse longer.
New m113 lore just dropped >IDF deems M113 insufficient for protecting troops>puts them into storage >October 7th war breaks out >put back into service >stuffed with 3 tons of explosives >remote controlled and driven into Gaza city in groups of 5-6>hamas fighters come out of hiding eager for a fight against vehicles with a reputation for vulnerability >wipes out city block https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/DEMOLITION/jnvwkkxdlvw/Is this a good use of the M113
>>64701552>urinalists lying yet again
>>64701552Well of course this is /k/ and if a conflict is not russia/ukraine related then no one knows damn shit about it.
>>64699960Israel is the only country left that still does things "cinematically", if you know what I mean. The pager op is another example
>>64700383vae victis/thread
>>64703997The clinging to solid colors uniforms is something pleasant. Nice to see a Western army with something other than Multicam.
And artillery.Jeep willys vs vw kubblewagon.
>>64704050The Jeep wasn't considered a good automotive design, I recall.
>>64704050The Kubelwagon didn't live up to German standards for offroad performance, just saying
If you put the Jeep top on, General Patton would have punched you, so the Kubelwagen would have been a better staff car with a cabin that could protect from the wind and rain.
>>64705059I'd expect useful and adaptable go into something like towing not road performance.
Jeep has women with hairy pusses. Kublewagon has Karl from In-Range. Decisive Jeep victory.
Post gear, discuss gear.Maximalist edition. Let's go all out, just this once.Old: >>64671717
>>64706448It's not a hateboner, it's called being consistent. When other plates fail on the first fucking shot -- which is literally the WORST signal a plate can give, the single biggest red flag -- it's a major issue. It should be a major issue when it keeps happening to Hesco.I honestly think that Hesco simply builds plates with too small a safety margin, so they're unpredictable, and it causes them a lot of problems.
>>64706449Highcom 4SUS4 skipped drop in the retest, RMA 1165 got one undropped and the Gen2 version skipped drop test entirely. Also, Militech's plates are undropped in their actual test reports. Ditto for some of Adept's, RMA's, etc.>>64706454Because Buff's drop test is likely harder than NIJ 0101.06. If three dozen plates pass the NIJ requirements, not counting FIT examples, but Buff's first plate shits the bed, then his drop test is the determining factor, because otherwise when you account for variance the 4403 shouldn't be passing NIJ.
>>64706449>>64706454Anyways, I think we can agree on the position the NIJ 0101.06 drop test is perhaps too easy. Buff's test is not physically that brutal and it perhaps reflects real conditions better than 0101.06. What if I were to tell you the 0101.07 drop test is even easier?Hate to pull an argument out of the Highcom-RMA book, but put a trauma pad in front of the plate if you need to shore up drop protection beyond .06. This goes double for .07 plates, triple for .04 holdouts.
>>64706468>Highcom 4SUS4 skipped drop in the retest, RMA 1165 got one undropped and the Gen2 version skipped drop test entirely. Also, Militech's plates are undropped in their actual test reports. Ditto for some of Adept's, RMA's, etc.Apples to apples, Buffman test to Buffman test, I think that literally every Militech, Adept, and RMA plate model was dropped, with one shameful exception which is the new RMA 1165. NONE of them failed on the very first shot. Never. It just never happened. > Because Buff's drop test is likely harder than NIJ 0101.06. If three dozen plates pass the NIJ requirements, not counting FIT examples, but Buff's first plate shits the bed, then his drop test is the determining factor, because otherwise when you account for variance the 4403 shouldn't be passing NIJ.It could just be shit-tier QC or an unacceptably close-to-the-margins design. Actually both of those are really plausible. > Hate to pull an argument out of the Highcom-RMA book, but put a trauma pad in front of the plate if you need to shore up drop protection beyond .06.Dude are Hesco paying you?
>>64706596Do me a solid and show me NIJ certs or at least lab tests for those plates showing drops. The problem with Buff is that you can't prove his plates are the same you're getting. We know that wasn't the case with the 4SUS4s and RMA 1192. He gets paid (indirectly) by Militech, RMA, Adept, and Highcom, among others. He really went to bat hard on the 1192 test's validity, even though those were 10oz overweight vs advertised. >shit-tier QCYou're ignoring that these plates handled .06 fine under the NIJ's watch, with a far greater sample size (36 vs 2). Also it's been five years since the CPL suspensions and Hesco has had not one FIT problem since in two rounds of FITs for every CPL'd plate.Many of Hesco's plates also pass the Buff test fine. L211, D220, 4601, L210, 3611 too IIRC. You're cherry picking. Buff regards the D220 very highly.>Is Hesco paying you?Lol no, I run Protech. I knew the 4403 lacked headroom from the very beginning. My 2230s have 600ft/s+ of headroom. I used to run L210s but got cold feet after the 4400 debacle because they share a strike face. You didn't answer what you're running.
We got the Turkish Five-SeveN before GTA 6
>worthless gun in a worthless cartridgeOh boy, I can't wait!
>>64706410Shocked they haven't stylized a shotgun like one yet.
>>64706417based. prepare for retards replying to tell you why you need to pay $50 per round for a cartridge with the same perfomance as 9mm
>>64704975They have been making them for a while, but nobody imports them currently.
>>64706418They should make a shotgun stylized as an oversized Five-SeveN
Why did they killed it?
>>64697305>Guns are predominantly a hobby for retards who know nothing, so any boring formality gets treated like a huge scandal.I work at a gun store, and can confidently say that gun guys are the biggest, most gullible group of sheep-brained fucking retards on the planet (maybe beat out only slightly by ultralight hiking guys, but there's a pretty big overlap in those two circles so I digress...)People were losing their fucking minds when the Gen Vs were announced and came in trying to buy our whole stock in a panic thinking that fucking Glock was going out of business and they were going to flip these Gen 4s on gunbroker for fat wads of cash. Same thing with the SCARs except nobody actually had any money to buy them anyways, so these fucking brainlets would just come in to fingerfuck them and tell us all about how it's part of the Democrats/Deep State/UN's plan to end the second amendment... by ending production of a $3,000 gun that tens of people own. Because some grifter on youtube made a dumbass video titled "GLOCK IS DEAD!?!?!?!? (MARINE REACTS)" with a soiface on the thumbnail, and your uncle joe-bob's brain has rotted through terminal phone addiction bad enough that he's spent all day watching dozens of those fucking videos and is now convinced that the sky is falling.
>>64704407Just wait until you find out about audiophiles.
>>64697248Are PTR's really the best way to go for 308, factory rifles?
>>64704407HAHAHAHA!You and I would probably have fun at a bar.
>>64697272Literally a hundred million jeets online and ever more realistic AI posting. The social aspects of the internet are basically over at this point. Its gonna be thirdies arguing about izzat from here on out.
>>64702753They were ultimately a fragile gun with a short service life due to the reciever design. They worked in Vietnam well because they were new in box - but also a lot of the guns never saw Vietnam service, instead being deployed CONUS or in forces in Europe.By the 80's M60's were frigging clapped from mostly non-combat/training use. On top of the other flaws mentioned here, they had soft stamped recievers that would flex or bend, or could get dented, so occasssionally the entire reciever had to be put into a mandrel and hammered - reliability greatly suffered after this had to be done regardless and it was very taxing on armorers and logistics. These issued were compounded in small 80's wars like Grenada and Panama where the issues became glaring.In comparison the M249 - which gets alot of shit, saw 20+ years of heavy service and multiple conflicts, seeing some early service alongside the M60, before finally getting clapped in GWOT and yet it is STILL in some limited service despite its issuesIf you compare it to the stamped PKM - which is also stamped - the reciever on the PKM is just thicker and better reinforced.The M240 is simply a better gun, in every concievable way, and the M240L has finally gotten the weight down
>>64705076We had the FN Minimi, which is essentially the 249 in US service with some variations on the theme.Moon dust ingress was a problem on them to some extent and it was pretty important to teach your gunner how to clean and maintain them properly in the field, but otherwise they performed really well and at least as good as the FN-MAG. Like no one ever came in crying that their gun busted or shit itself in combat, needed a new one or there was some kind of overall lack of confidence in the guns.Considering how old they were, I think any criticism of them is pretty mean. I mean most people piss and whine about having a phone older than 5 years or a car older than 10 and a lot of ours were at least 2-3 times that and lived pretty hard lives. I mean shit, my pistol was older than I was first sent into Afghanistan and I drove a truck from the late 70's that was 'modernised' in the 80's without any armour and we just fucking dealt with it because that was all there was.
>>64702753US small arms development in the 1950s was just taking WW2 guns and somehow making them worse
>>64703966Eh, the M60 in particular feels like some pre-production gun that wasn't properly field tested. The disassembly looks finicky, esp. compared to interwar top-fed MGs like the ZB or an MG-42 that have captive pins, big chunky parts and don't need to be safety wired together. M60 furniture are rattly assemblies of sheetmetal and hard plastic, yet the whole weight of a slinged gun is suspended from them, it has plenty of snag points esp. in the rear sight area and various nooks and crannies for mud and other shit to get in and stay in. Barrel release mechanism is very simple and fast, but forces you to touch small hot bits, top cover latch looks like a last minute addition taken from a Meccano set and the non-zeroable sights on barrels must be either a huge oversight or a cost-cutting measure. It feels like they spent all the time and budget on the gas system and stellite barrels and then rushed the rest to meet deadlines.That being said, the "bipod on barrel" issue looks stupid but I guess their reasoning was you will only ever need to change the barrel when firing from tripod, and that's a fair point.>>64703380>improve handling of a hot tube, you had a barrel assy that'd mostly stand by itselfNeat idea until you realise that propping the barrel on bipod makes the chamber dig into ground getting sand on tight-fitting surfaces.
>>64705053>fail to extract/barrel changeI carried a 60 for the better part of 8 years and only had 2 (TWO) malfunctions. Ever. And BOTH of those were with blanks during MILES training bullshit.The only assholes who had problems with that platform were lazy fucks who didn't do rigorous PM. The Hog stayed in service for decades for a very good reason. It was a reliable workhorse. And I wouldn't have stayed in a line unit that long if they took it away from me.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/spain-inks-deal-to-purchase-30-units-of-turkish-jet-trainer-hurjet/3784327
>>64706443>french/german 6th genDo we tell him?
>>64706446I'm already accounting for the predicted first flight of 2080
Turkish tactical drones are already sold to 40+ countries. I also expect within 10 years Turkish jets will be sold to 10+ countries and Turkey will be an important player in the jet market just after US, China and France. (puccia has killed itself btw)
>>64706455If you want a franco-german fighter aircraft, you'll have to wait until 2080 for them to forget how badly it went the last time they tried and start a new program. First flight in 2130.
>>64706469superpower by 2030
