What the fuck is this thing that's supposedly "guarding" the venezuelan presidential palace right now? It looks like a five year old's drawing of an armored car
>>64711189Yes, undeniably. It is supposed to have a 90 mm gun, probably one of these hi-low pressure lightweight low velocity cockerill guns. Basically big air guns, but using gunpowder burning in a high pressure chamber instead of compressed air.
>>64711976ive lived in chile almost 9 years, thats practically a third of my life, i consider Chile my home too, i have a job and friends herei cant speak for my folks and siblings, but ill stay here, maybe go back from time to time to venezuela to visitbut what would be the point? its just gonna be depressing to see the places i grew up in abandoned, the people i grew up with gone, scattered all over the globeive come to terms with the fact the country i grew up with no longer exists, id be like me saying "i miss living in the soviet union!"thats why when tankies say>"b-but the US will put a US friendly dictator in place"i respond with: i dont care, my country is gone and its never coming back, i just want bloody, violent vengeance, and hopefully a better life for those still left there
>>64710900>60+ year old Soviet hardware that was poorly designed and crudely hammered together at the factory>probably failed to meet QC inspection at the factory who built it>unknown history with questionable maintenance for decades>unknown Bubba mods by 3rd-worldersI used to know a guy that collected armored vehicles, including actual tanks. He used to daily drive a Ferret scout car made by BMC/British Leyland.According to him, even the worst crap the Brits ever made was better than the "good" Soviet vehicles he owned.
>>64712409You forgot to add, all of it's crews were pissing inside
>>64711934Their constitution outlines the rules of succession. It doesn't specifically provision for what happens if the president is plucked out of office by another nation, so I guess this is technically a constitutional crisis for them, but the simplest solution is to just have the VP act as president for the time being.
Post your sexy operators
>>64709871After having beaten Hilary at leaking military secrets, he decided to also leak his bikini pics.The Clintons will never recover from this slam dunk.
Lovely thread, gave me a chuckle. Thanks OP.
I can’t stop looking and laughing. OP, you’re one of those cool fags like Freddy Mercury. Thanks for the laugh and playing the game of “is it real?”
>still not as gay as forward assist threads Nice
It is somewhat interesting that the AI is mostly giving them masculine bodies despite the prompt being for bikinis
Post attack jet pics
SEPECAT Jaguar with Sea Eagle
>>64711992sorry that appears to be a HarpoonTHIS is the Sea Eagle, but carried by a Panavia Tornado
>>64711992Why is it covered in shit?
Happy New Year /K/ With the cold fronts coming in its time for a /k/omfy /k/ryptid thread. Discuss your load out for facing these beast what beast live in your area ? Defense and tactics against Your experience
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>>64704146I’m going to be moving to southern Arizona (Tucson probably, but possibly Phoenix) for work this spring, what kind of cryptids/weird shit should I be on the lookout for? It looks like there’s lots of opportunities to go out innadesert and explore.
Considering an SP5K for tunnel diving in case I run into Reptilians, already have NVG and a LAM so I am good on that, will obviously need a suppressor for 9mm but I was also considering a shorty 556 since I have a can for that already and an SBR'd lower but not excited about 556 in an enclosed space tunnel diving old mine shafts. I COULD technically run 300 through my suppressor would just need a new end cap since mine is for 223 and would get end cap strikes.
>>64705275Maybe if you aim for the face/neck, if you can. They are very fast when they want to bet. my buddy fired 3rds of 30-06 center mass into an 11ft critter at 30 yardsI carry minimum 7.62x39 and usually 308 for over-penetration aspectt. 1 class A at 20yds, 30yds and surrounded during a class B>>64712181These have some feeding issues with flat faced and some JHP ammo. Way less destructive on your ears than a carbine in enclosed spaces. Consider Stribog?
>>64710688>>stumble upon some asshole with a garand>>BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG pingIt was point blank. The bigfoot was on the other side of a fence. And its not the first time someone has tried to use a gun against a paranormal entity and reported zero effect. You need special ammunition to disable their pseudobodies or shoot out the central control node. >>64711649>M8, gonna be honest with ya. 99% of these stories are made up. You have to take them with a grain of salt.>C'mon man, you already know this right?I find it very strange that people that are completely unrelated from each other, sometimes from different parts of the world, and often from different times, lie in exactly the same way and describe things in exactly the same way.
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
>>64711926If a that and replacement intact stock set cost less than a whole complete rifle yes. Which is likely at that price.
>>64711926>Would you fags buy a 1903a3 in a sporter stock for 450 dollarydoos?That really depends on how extensively it's been sporterized. In 2012 I bought mine sporterized for $250. Handguard and bands were gone and the stock was shortened and sanded. Bubba had ground the triangular "ears" of the rear sight off so he didn't hurt his widdle hand. At the time there was still a lot of NOS US rifle parts floating around for relatively cheap. The next year I got a stock/handguard and most of the furniture for $90. Found a complete rear sight assembly in a $30 box full of various receiver sights I got at an auction. Missing stacking swivel and screw was another ~$10 or so. So for ~$400 or so in 2014 dollars I had pic related.
>>64711988>>64712033The Barrel action is good, front and rear sights, bolt, barrel length, etc not been fucked with. Only the furniture needs to be replaced. But that said the repro furniture and bands would cost me around $300, plus the 450 plus another 50 in fees and theft would put it in $800 pretty low for 1903a3 overall. Honestly I'm about to send it, if nobody injects, and add another rifle to American Collection. Plus our state's largest gunshow is happening in like 3 weeks so I might find a stock set for cheaper.
>>64705022Based Swiss enjoyer, I should post my run of all their official military sabres as well.
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What is this? I haven't seen an ir laser flashlight attachment without a brand name before. Did I buy a bb gun made in China tier toy?
>>64711529Front pic
>>64711529>IRwhat makes you think it's IR? Looks like a normal light & red laser to me.
it creates mustard gas
>>64712205I’m going to go out on a limb and guess it’s a chinesium IR to green laser with a frequency shifting crystal that’s either busted or has come loose. Or the diode’s plain busted and retard-kun put in new batteries so he assumes it must be IR
>>64712324it says 635 nanometers, which is red. So chinesium and retardism.
I lost the template :(
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>>64702033>>64704134>>64707942>>64708286I'm seriously getting this sort of 'early 2000s' feel from your drawings and it makes me all giddy
Well, thread is slow, might as well post this again
>>64712111Yeah that's kinda the vibe, late 90s-early 00s. The setting is largely fantasy, but it takes place on a massive Alderson disk instead of a traditional planet, where ancient machines formed by the divines are scattered across the surface. The disk itself is damaged, leaving a lot of its systems offline, and so pockets of civilization have formed around those areas that do work, building cities that mimic the modern world or light sci-fi, while the wilderness regions outside are home to ancient horrors and traditional fantasy monsters. It's essentially a smattering of dark fantasy worlds but I wanted to have guns, tanks, and spaceships. My OC here isn't actually human; she's a sort of super-powered homunculus created from one of the functional divine machines using a demigod's blood, granting her immortality, superhuman abilities, and minor psychic powers.
were important because every naval maneuver was planned with the consideration "what if a battleship shows up?".there werent many grand battleship engagements but that was on purpose because every side planned around them, an in effect battleships shaped every naval action
>>64710041If you're talking about Guadalcanal, that was with shitty radars and inexperienced captains and admirals.Your own example of Scharnhorst (and to lesser extent even the tracking of Bismarck, warts notwithstanding) is a fine example of radar-guided night engagements.
>>64710107> as was shown when they got the drop on carrierswhen did this happen? I dont disagree, genuinely curious and want to search more info
>>64712005Exactly once, where Scharnhorst and Genisenau caught Glorious by Norway. A carrier with no CAP up and only two destroyers escorting.
>>64712005>>64712021/Thread
>>64712021>A carrier with no CAP up and only two destroyers escortingDon't forget a commanding officer who - only commanded submarines before - didn't trust his own aircrews because he was an amateur pilot - didn't believe that the concept of a CAP made any sense
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.
>>64712171Japan is free to make taiwan its business,but it wont be free from the consequences of that folly>>64712171bot Japan and shit-korea will tow the lines the US writes for it to the letter, or ELSE-thank you for your attention on this matter
>>64712227Who gives a shit? Trump bombed the fuck out of Syrian airports in 2015 and no one seemed to make a fuss.
>>64712227It's not a simple DEA operation. It's kinetic action in the US' own backyard leading to cataclysmic economic follow on effects for China... And Canada if they don't behave. Beyond the chinks losing any influence there, which was literally their main island in the American hemisphere, if (when) a new leader is installed, they'll default on what remains of the $60b chinese loan and the shadow fleet will stop selling cheap loan repayment 600k barrels a day of Venezuelan oil to them. Canada has zero leverage left for the upcoming USMCA negations in July as Venezuelan oil being on the table now totally undercuts Canada's heavy crude leverage. Canada MUST listen to Trump about China and everything else on that negotiating table get their economy crushed.
>>64712237cry harder chang. based jappos cucked the mighty wolf warrior and he did nothing about it
>>64712260>Canada MUST listen to Trump about China and everything else on that negotiating table get their economy crushed.It is theoretically possible that the US success in Venezuela leads to an US special military operation vs Canada (which would be an undeniable easy success).
Another conflict where Russian AA is outed as a complete turd
>>64712418My (politically oblivious) family member had a similar reaction, at least for a few hours until they read in the national news that our own government doesn't consider Maduro to be a legitimate leader, and that he was warrants for his arrest by the international criminal court. This same news story also cited one of our major government officials making some vague statements about democracy being a good thing, and that the will and sovereignty of the people should be respected.They're currently very confused. They hate orange, mainly because they've been told to hate orange. But now they've been told that the drastic actions taken by orange weren't necessarily bad, despite being quite drastic.As far as I can tell, their stance on the matter will most likely remain ambivalent until our government/media provides further instructions as to how they should feel about the whole affair.
>>64712224 but the mutts like >>64712255 >>64712256 >>64712291 are permitted to listen, too>It isn't wrong tho?yes, wrong, redirected implies some "correct" amount of spending they failed to reach, and wrong that US was subsidizing Europe, US was running an empire and benefiting greatly from itit is 1990, you're a subject of the globally hegemonic empire, your threats are Russia (you're spending more than enough to deal with them) and said empire (no chance in foreseeable future to shed its influence, and the costs would far exceed the costs of being a subject), so how much more and for what purpose? then the empire decays, turns extractive because it is not a peer competitor for China, and your mistake was not seeing it coming a few years earlier, not accounting for deferred costs of being their subject, believing their bullshit too much>muh basesplease, who believes, in 2026, that these defend anything other than US interests? don't answer this one, don't care
the Euro who "doesn't care" is seething lmaoThis is the American Millennium, get used to it.
zero reading comprehension, typical muttread this part again>not a peer competitor
>>64712494>Europe blocks ozempic exports to the US*plays this is the end music*
Pistol related but last question thread died a while ago. Are all 1911 .45 barrels interchangeable with all other 1911 models? I've got a Kimber and want a threaded barrel for it and I'm wondering if I should just get a Kimber barrel for it.
>>6470936316 inch147 grain HSTs
>>64710595>>64710629>Popped primers bro.Yep. Looks like bubba might have been experimenting with some extra-special handloads
>>64705670bump, no one got the pic saved?
>>64711591Fuck. That's gay. Suppressors off the NFA now, Cheeto Hitler
>>64705670this one?
Are Zerg weapons realistically comparable to Protoss and Terran weapons? It seems like both should have the weapons to wipe out the Zerg without that much difficulty.
>>64711985It’s not meth, it’s combat stimulants that allow you to “fire faster” to the true rate of fire of the gun while still maintaining accuracy. And probably causes brain bleeds. Recoil and the limit of cognition prevents full auto from being practical due to human error.
>>64712071>probably
>>64712071>This is true IRL as well with most stimulants>combat stimulants that allow you to “fire faster” to the true rate of fire of the gun while still maintaining accuracy.
>>64706098>ish Metzen just stuck to doing edgy metalhead artwork instead of handling the story.I think allot of people feel that way.
>>64706348/k/ is the only board where you can have a decent discussion on vidya and anime.
UCP is so cool looking.
>>64712090soul just means something that you like at this point
>>64712179That's what it always meant you fucking retard>>64712093>UCP but curry seasonedWow it's still dogshit>>64711672Maybe if you're retarded and blind
>>64712179>>64712194Nah, soul means soul. I like McDonald's french fries and I like my mother's Thanksgiving stuffing recipe but I'm not going to say the McDonalds fries have SOVL.A thing has soul when you like it for reasons that wouldn't make sense to a robot or Vulcan. Which usually means tradition or nostalgia or pining for something lost, which is of course the original reason the meme is spelled like it's in ancient Roman latin.Going back to the original example an oldfag could claim the beef tallow fries had SOVL, or the original menu with like 6 items on it had SOVL, that would be a defensible use of the term.
>>64712093It's the best of the worst
>>64712162No one knows, we have the testing results that shows UCP scored extremely poorly and yet, to the confusion of virtually everyone, it got adopted. Theories that some high rank general's pushed it through just because they thought it looked "futuristic" are pretty common
According to images from recent military drills and some Marines talked about it on the Internet. The Republic of China (Taiwan) Marine Corps decided to replace all their T65s and T91s with US supplied M4A1 carbines, instead of buying the new T112 assault rifles. Do you guys think it's a good idea? Dumping the short stroke gas piston and go back to DI.
>>64711965>Red Chinese copy everything American, right down to the jingoistic Boomers on social mediaKek.
>>64711963M4s don't have reliability problems with those environments. If they do then so to does basically every other rifle
>>64710761You're actually retarded if you don't understand the strategic advantage of controlling Taiwan.
>>64712055more like mid industries lol
>>64711136>everyone goes pup>US resists because reasons>rest of world switches back...I have a feeling the US will finally get a bullpup just to troll everyone.
Russian SAMs... Why aren't they performing as advertised?
>>64710969Is this post made before or after Iran got kicked in the balls?
Worked fine for me. Maybe a user issue?
>>64711641Full throated knee slapping boomer laughs from this kek
thanks for playing
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