Now that the Chink chimpout over the $11B Taiwan weapons deal and most recent numbers print from their imploding economy has wrapped up, I want to tally some numbers for the 'explicitly presented as the largest-ever military exercise around Taiwan'. This exercise was also explicitly stated as a blockade exercise vs the strike exercises of 2024.Taiwanese sources have reported that >6:00 a.m. Dec 29 - 6:00 a.m. Dec 30, 130 PLA aircraft detected. 14 PLAN warships + 14 CCG vessels.>6:00 a.m. Dec 30 – 6:00 a.m. Dec 31 Aircraft: 77 PLA aircraft detected. 17 PLAN warships + 8 CCG vessels.What's so damming to me is that the area of operations for the exercises were 2x larger than that of the 2024, and 3x that of the 2022 Pelosi chimpout. Yet there were less aircraft than in 2024, 130 in a single day vs 150 in a single day. The sorties also started slow, taking till the mid afternoon to get to peak detection rates as per Taiwan MOD. So this is where I really get to the main bit. A blockade requires substantially more sorties, I'm talking 48 sorties just to get 8 planes on CAP for 24h. Yet the PLA did only 130 in a day, barely enough for a dozen planes to be on 24h CAP. There's just no excuse. You NEED to have CAP or else US and Jap planes can just sneak in and rape you. The second day is so pathetically bad with 77 aircraft so I don't even wanna talk about it, just assume it's 2x worse.So you've got what is >supposed to be the biggest exercise ever>covering an area 2x bigger than previous ones>supposedly have 1600 aircraft stationed east of Beijing>yet can only muster up 130 sorties 6 hours laterImplessive. My theory is that the PLA airforce not only has a low readiness, but the logistics are so fucked that they actually can't turn around airplanes fast enough with things as basic as fuel.picrel is taiwan missilehttps://news.usni.org/2025/12/31/china-wraps-justice-mission-taiwan-blockade-drillsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64708366Are the delivery vessels military ones with escort? I would think lighter stuff could be flown in.
>>64708382it really is weird, you'd expect the people with the biggest genocidal hatred towards kikes to at least make sure they check themselves and make sure they actually do a good job, instead they chesthump about a few burnt down buildings and minimal casualties, it's bizarre. never have i seen a a mindset so completely out of tune with it's populations actual desires.>we want TJD>a-actually losing way more than they did is good enoughthese sandnigs sadly aint got the grit to look themselves in the mirror honestly.
>>64708390Looks like US military exports are handled by the DCSA with one of the main delivery methods being the General Frank S Besson class of ships if it's the army doing stuff or the Bob Hope/Watson/Gordon/Shughart classes if it's Navy Sealift Command. In any case attempting to board them means you are attempting to board a US military vessel not a random contracted Ro/Ro
>>64708314Well yes but Xi's CCP has been purged of any opposition and all of Hu's associates or literally anyone who isn't willing to publicly declare Xi a literal God. Xi IS the CCP and all of the economic, military and cultural fuckups are all basically Xi's direct decisions. If China had just continued with Deng's policies of being an economic superpower that didn't need a big military or bother bullying their neighbors then China would have genuinely been on track to replace or ribal America. Instead Xi made China into the world's bad guy and declared open hostility with literally everyone because CHINA STRONK! Now China is in an economic toilet flush, their military is an embarrassment and everyone has caught on to China's real intentions.
>>64708511Ironically very true. Even assuming trade wars and export controls from 2018 to today, a Li China would've been with still much more healthy economically and with double the leverage on the West, with the same CCP view of global hegemony by 2049 just hiding under the bide your time veneer. Xi saved the wect by chimping out in 2015 and going all in on the military lol.
You wouldn't shoot this lil guy right?
>>64706134Isn’t that the whole point of seasoning and complementary recipes? Not everything is a good, juicy steak that only needs salt.
My neighbors used to be ranchers and once upon a time they had a confused elk join their herd and never leave. Eventually they got rid of the cows and now the elk lives in their stable with the horses.
>>64700917It enjoyed a succulent chinese meal.
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>>64704863I got it wrong. She tried to pet a baby doe deer and the mom deer attacked her.
Bulgaria now has F-16's. Does this change the balance of power in the Black Sea region?
>>64706855Really? Poland I find especially surprising due to its economic ties with Germany
>>64707836There's a common misconception among eastern Euros that having a sovereign currency magically helps industry or something.
>>64707272>>64707305Realistically if Russia's goal is to return to power in the Black Sea then its primary focus should be on naval aviation, ground based anti-air and anti-ship missiles, ground based air defense, and missile boats. Anything else would be a vanity project.
>>64708428Switching to the Euro prevents one from using monetary policy to influence one's economy.
>>64706531>the balance of power is that russia is backed into a tiny corner and everyone else is on nato's side, it's just that nobody else is yet willing to get directly involved in the war, and quite frankly their help would be more appreciated on land than on sea, as ukraine pretty much has that covered by now, taking control of the northern black sea without even really having a navy.Russia is more backed into a hole than a tiny corner02.01.2026Tanks — 11494 (+6)Armored fighting vehicle — 23851 (+2)Artillery systems — 35720 (+42)MLRS — 1589 (+2)Anti-aircraft warfare — 1267 (+1)Planes — 434Helicopters — 347UAV — 99043 (+590)Cruise missiles — 4137 (+1)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>64704311>>64706655Thank you for your kind words anons.
>>64704134That's actually not bad.Torso proportion looks a little off.>>64707942Alright now what's it look like with the helmet on?
>>64708145I'm still getting the hang of it; only started seriously drawing in the latter half of last year. Don't have one yet of the helmet on but here's a work in progress of her under-suit, beneath the armor.
>>64708286>>64707942>>64704134>>64702033Based autism chad>>64701419Boobs too small
Post your sexy operators
We got the Turkish Five-SeveN before GTA 6
>>64706968with a 50 round magazine
>>64706496you can get 5.7 for like .40c a round if you arent a euro
>>64708384sorry, 40c a round, not .4
>>64708395Thanks for clarifying. I was under the impression that a box of 50 costs 20 cents.
>>64706417Except for the body armor part...in which use case is absolutely worthwhile if you're willing to shell out $100 or more for the AP rounds. Yes. They're on GB.com
AK General /akg/New Year, Same Shit Edition>Thread #2085Old thread here >>64623820
>>647082355.45? Yeah I agree
>>64708324>5.45Begone hipster. That shit died with the 7n6 imports.
>>64707093>more unobtanium I wantFuggg.>>64708129Considering I haven't seen any bakes since I bought my last like 7 years ago for $20 (5.45), not bad. And shit, people try to get like $40-50 out of fucking Chinese flatbacks. Still wondering who pisses money away like that.
Speaking of bake mags, how many bake mags is enough? Do you guys actually use them?
>>64708408theyre nothing special, just can't get em anymore. the real sauce is the prototype mags like https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1136910107 or the translucent plastic mags. years back one anon paid $800 for one of the old french stamped fleur de lis mags.
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?
>>64708059That depends on the status of the embargo/blockade, I suppose
>>64705406Please God let them try because it would be so fucking funny.
>>64705595>Brit mediaYeah, that's not biased or dishonest.
>>64707100You are either too stupid or too much of a lying piece of subhuman shit to vote if you deny CNN is biased
>>64705406Venezuelan special forces are probably already on board the carrier.
Why was the Longbow in use for literally 300 years when it simply could not penetrate armor? I have watched several experiments with modern reproductions and never once has it achieved penetration of plate armor. In this latest one they can't even pen at point-blank range a late medieval brigandine and cheap Sallet helmet which was worn by poorfag troops. Rich nobles wore high-end bespoke plate made from tempered steel with every surface calculated to deflect blows and it would have zero chance against that. The amount of training that went into using the bow doesn't seem worth the results.https://youtu.be/SFFgcTzCvMo
>>64699502Oh. Why I'm laughing?
>>64704520Close combat was absolutely expected of English archers, virtually ever major battle they are in has them engaging on the flanks. The smartest thing the English DID was realize that you could have infantry that worse armor, carriers around swords or even pollaxes, and have them shoot people.
>>64704825Archers in Europe wore almost as much armor as they could afford, anon. You could fully expect to see longbowmen in retinues, or who just had the money, turning out in plate legs, brigandines, mail, and helmet, with a sword, buckler, and gauntlets tucked into their belt. Crossbowmen around the continent were the same. Not wearing armor is strictly a function of wealth, not archers being archers, hence the swiss largely having fuck all in the way of armor despite literally 90% of them being very aggressive melee troops. The rest of the world it's more of the same, plus conscription of the poor to fight being far more common (China), plus climate concerns.
>>64684834armor expensive, so you poke hole in those without it from distance, it also stops horses and generally slows down attack, poking holes in those without armor first is important, you don't want them to help men in expensive armor, so you can focus on poking hole in armor :D
>>64684834Armor is expensive anon, farmers don't wear it.
There is a rescue boat waiting for you on the coast. Between you and the boat is every carnivorous dinosaur from Jurassic Park films. You have one gun and all the ammo you can carry for that gun. What gun would you use?
>>64707610Good post
>>64702292>a backpack full of caster shellsAren't half of them not even described?Good call on fictional weapons. I'll take a ZF-1.
>>64707582Dinosaurs are not actually birds though. We have no idea what they would really be like biologically. Late Cretaceous species would have had almost 150 million yeats of evolution in their specific form. Imagine what people might be like 149,700,000 years from now.
>>64707610> Its interesting how maneaters only pop up in bunga-bunga lands, particularly pajeetistan. Meanwhile in white lands random famers with slings exterminated lions and elephants for eating their sheep and barley respectively.Large carnivores were distributed uniformly across the globe? Is this true? I don’t know why, but I always had the impression that India and especially subsaharan Africa got really unlucky with their local megafauna, and those further north got lucky with much more favorable conditions vis a vis being eaten. Though I guess it could just be that Europeans hunted the carnivores to extinction.It still blows my mind that jeets share territory with bengal tigers, and every now and then one of them gets snatched up. And subsaharans always run a nonzero risk of getting fucked up by one of like 15 different species of killers. Imagine trying to go to sleep and you hear the cackling of hyenas and whistling of wild dogs out of your window.
>>64699626For those who are JP fans I recommend to try the 92 JP board game.
>*consumes your fingers*>*lobs brass into low-earth orbit*And yet, I'd still burn down an orphanage for one.
>>64708113My ideal Sneedish involvement is a rapid dash into Norway and maybe the Danish isles.
>>64708149That'd make a lot more sense but I'm imagining them participating in Overlordand the subsequent operations in France and western Germany. It doesn't make much sense but I find it funny to think of Hans and John suffering in the bulge while Sven is complaining its too hot
>>64707651Where do you even find orphanages now days?
>>64708377Normally they're called foster homes these days but the traditional orphanage, much like the classic psych ward, is a thing of the past
contribooting with my ljungman
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.
>>64707302How to "win" against america>During initial invasion suffer 500 to 1 casualty ratios>surrender your capital within a month>run and hide in caves using women and children as human shields knowing your enemy cares about them more than you do>Let america raise an entire generation of your people while you continue hiding>wait 20 years for american to get bored and realize your civilization isn't worth saving from itself and leave>come back to capital chimping out shooting guns into the air>go on every internet forum and claim you defeated america >Use this to imply goat heardes won a conventional war and therefore tech tactics and experience do not matter in war (unless china has new tech in which case it's all that matters and america is finished)
>>64705427>>64708297I love how these images and Col. Q overall now contradict. Do the former now get bullied or have they become world class mental gymnasts?
>>64707801>its AII’m gonna lose my fucking mind man. What is even real anymore? AI is indistinguishable from cutting edge CGI. and these days, I find myself getting tricked often by AI videos.
>>64706405>>64707261A wild form of mirror life appears and extincts your entire planet.. The sun will eventually boil the oceans.>life after mankind.But don’t we have the lowest probability of extinction? We have a high degree of dominion over our environment, and the only species with the possibility of leaving earth and settling elsewhere.
>why do you need so many guns?>why do you need more than 1 gun that does the same thing?
>>64705854I'm into history relating to violence and guns are a big deal in history relating to violence believe it or not
>>64707806>It's a fetish and a form of consoomerism. A lot of book nuts buy books for the sake of buying them, the same way people buy Labubu or Funko Pop dolls. Beyond 2 or 3 books, it's a mental problem.
>>64707806>It's a fetish and a form of consoomerism. A lot of video game nuts buy video games for the sake of buying them, the same way people buy Labubu or Funko Pop dolls. Beyond 2 or 3 video games, it's a mental problem.
>>64707806>It's a fetish and a form of control freakery. A lot of minimalist commie nuts post telling others what they are allowed like or do for the sake of posting, the same way people like to censor books others read or censor free speech. Beyond 2 or 3 posts, it's a mental problem.
>>64707806>form of consumerismAnd what's wrong with that? Are you an eco marxist or something? Are people only allowed to buy vegan cookery books and organic hemp hats now?Without people consuming, people loose jobs, people are poor, people don;t get to have things they want and the people who make those things are unemployed. Every single great museum has a private collection donated to it at it's heart,Without consumers there would be no film, no radio, no tv, no home computers, no nice food, no work,nothing, just endless grey poverty.You are poverty death and socialism which leads to tyranny.
Boring topic but I'm finally happy with what I've cobbled together from different components I've acquired over the years. Covers 5.56, 7.62, and 40mm bores. I'm a milfag who works for a living so no 9mm handgun for me. Does double duty for both my personal rifle and my issued weapons. >1. Repurposed Otis 5.56/9mm Defender cleaning kit pouchNot the only thing that'll work, but I like that it clamshells open. Got it as a gift. I pulled most of the extra shit out of it because having pull through cables and bore snakes in addition to a full on sectional cleaning rod is just redundant. Use one or the other. >2. Two ragsJust a cut up t shirt. One for wiping shit off with, one for laying small parts on. PSA: You can, in fact, wash these every once in a while. >3. Otis stiff bristle brush Have gone back and forth on carrying a brass one too but I've either never needed it or the shit was baked on so hard (M240 gas plug) I had to use a scraper. >4. Plastic pickFor all the things a long, slim, pointy object is good for when trying to clean tight spaces. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>64697944The homogenization of cleaning kit designs shipped with otherwise interesting rifles is disappointing but unsurprising
>>64707599I know they probably just buy chinkshit
>>64707602But it's still boring
>>64707691another one
Do the upper echelon military dudes continue to train with firearms throughout their careers, or would they be completely useless in a fight?
>>64691178you're the only one being obsessive though, officers who are not expected to take part in the action not knowing how to shoot is normal, not bad, and if it bothers you, it means you have a below-average IQ.
>>64699193this was true in the napoleonic era and MAYBE early WW1 when methods of fast long-range communication were either nonexistent or extremely difficult, expensive or rare.in a modern era, if you are putting the thinking head of your army into the increasingly accurate and intelligent line of fire, you are a fucking retard.see: russian officers constantly getting domed by snipers, drones, missiles strikes and precise artillery because their underlings are bad at taking initiative and performing missions without their boss standing at least a few km's behind them.you don't need to stand next to your men to communicate your plan of battle, thus you won't, because it's pointless, suicidal and actively hurting the rest of the grunts in your army because they are now forced to continue fighting without your leadership. the morale trade-off is not fucking worth it anymore.
>>64700371>dishonest question with obvious motive is questioned>questioner has stroke because he didn't get the answer he wantedno, being a modern-day napoleon is not smart, you would get spotted by the enemy, designated a priority target, and your head would get removed by any number or precision implements in 5 seconds flat.
>>64700629Sustainment lmaoThey had all been pencil whipping it for years.
heil satan
