instead of previously planned 64 cellsit will also feature the AEGIS system and SPY-6 radarthey will likely come with Tomahawks for land attack as well8 units are planned now instead of previously 526 bn euros have been designated for the projectthese will likely become the most powerful surface combatants in Europe
>>64657057No, but let's enable that capability and see what happens.pic vaguely related, western MIC each time Russia presented the next potemkin village-tier project
>>64657057No one wanted to pay for the integration; they did initial proof of concept testing that the missile would physically fit and could punch through the metal cover.
>>64655714The Hood was not a battleship, it was a battlecruiser, without the armament to withstand battleship shells.Hence why the Bismark sank it in 5 volleys.
>>64651782What an ugly soab
>>64651364Why aren’t they using domestic german radar?
Why is holding a pistol like this so common in movies and videogames? Is there any real world purpose to instead of just holding it arm down pointed at the ground? Feels like it'd get tiring pretty quickly
>>64657676> Why is holding a pistol like this so common in movies and videogames?Only a Gonk would ask this question
>>64658031>You're basically not supposed to do anything outside of pre-determined missions. As soon as you start that things break down.My friend in Christ, not every open world game needs collectable packages, climbable towers and random environmental events. CDPR previously released three RPGs where the entire gameplay was more or less wrapped around their questlines, so you should've expected that in CP2077 and the fact that you're disappointed with it not being like competing open world games is a skill issue on your end. I appreciate the fact that they're selling a different experience, because if I wanted Ubisoft/Rockstar style open world I'd play their games instead.
>>64658038>wdym?E.g. playing ultra sniper-netrunner. Wanna take out gang from across city? Naaah. They'll either wont register shots, apparently die but be alive and aggro'd when you come collect stuff, die but outside of mission zone will register as NPCs and get cops called on you.Wanna make a traffic jam? Good luck, stealing and parking more than 2..3 cars is almost impossible. The game has persistence of a goldfish. Anything more than 5..6 objects on street will randomly phase out of existance as you look away.Approaching a mission you anticipate certain ending - e.g. you see unique car parked ready for getaway, but it's locked for you. What about shooting tyres or parking truck in front? Naaah. It'll go right trough as if it was a train. Unless the mission bugs out altogether.Those are just few examples like that. But you can take any natural action you'd want to do in city and it will break down unless it's a part of scripted mission. There is no open world engine. Just separate mission or location scripts.But i certainly wish them luck in improving and hope the adaption of Unreal engine helps. As Rockstar needs a serious nudge otherwise they're getting behind times. OTOH i'm afraid a lot of that has more to do with studio philosophy than technology. During several interviews I've gotten the impression CDPR artists hate any user agency and are obsessed with pushing their "correct" way.
>>64658031>You're basically not supposed to do anything outside of pre-determined missions. As soon as you start that things break down.What kind of emergent gameplay were you expecting?
>>64658066Checked.>hate any user agency and are obsessed with pushing their "correct" way.Almost every single game nowadays feels this way with actual artificial roadblocks placed as soon as you try to go out of your way to do anything but what the hints say to do. I've played and forgot a bajillion games, but the last few I remember are Far Cry 5, Avowed and... I played at least 3 more recent ones. Avowed added the "parkour" which at least made it feel like you're actually adventuring in a dungeon but overall still felt like Ubislop box checker that had rails. FC5 I dropped as soon as the bliss bullet forced cutscenes started. Just Cause 3 on the other hand was fun as shit and freeform within what it was able to simulate. You can bring whatever vehicle you want, you can zip around, you can zip tie explosive gas tank together and drop them on the heads of nameless goons. Modern games are a stark contrast to older games where you were given a set of rules and told to make do. Modern Vidya is just a cinematic moment planned for you that you absolutely must experience because they can't understand a slightly freeform story where NPC conversation doesn't revolve around what was achieved as opposed to what exactly happened. It's really just piss poor and hand holdy but of course games aren't made for a certain demographic anymore so indies it is.
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/germany-fcas-gcap-italy-invitation/how the tables have turned
>>64655210>They don't have an engine without the bongs you absolute mongoloidIf you think IHI, Avio and MTU can't cook up a killer engine you're retarded as fuck.
>>64657521Even more of a joke because he talks about RR showing real things while japan just shows off lies, and yet RR haven't really shown ANY GCAP engine stuff besides those airducts they were showing off a while back. Japan invited RR/UK MoD officials out to see the IHI XF9 testbench setup and get briefed on the specific capabilities of that engine back in 2018/19. Then in 2020/21 Japan continued working with RR/UK and planned for deeper joint work which eventually ended up with GCAP in late 2022. The idea that japan is just some charity case in the GCAP program only being allowed in by the graciousness of the UK is just telling me that poster is probably korean.
Holy meltie
>>64657532I'm not going to trash Japan but if you think that Rolls Royce who have a very long history of making both military and civilian engines of all types going all the way back to WW2 and are one of the leaders in engines full stop globally can't build an advanced new engine you are simply ignorant.
>>64657532This! All jet engines on military and civilian planes are actually Japanese! Japan also invented the jet engine, the Me 262 was of Japanese origin just like German jet development. Japan is just not taking any credit because honorabu Samurai or however the pedophilia is justified
just look how battlefield looks like nowadays
>>64656006bby ur so butiful pls marry me I rape you kiss pusy all night sexy sex
>>64657755It might yeah.
>>64658007needs to be tested might help em with cities especially
>>64656006i recognize this reference
>>64656006Yo is that Kreia?
the most kino decade, post anything from the 1990s
Eesti SOG
>>64657527kino
I love this picture so fucking much.
>>64657771Found this one recently
looks like this will be europe's main defense system for the foreseeable future
>>64657835Germany subsidizes submarine and warship deliveries to Israel with billions of euros, redirected arms and supplies to Israel when the Gaza war started and was the only major western country aside from the US not to recognize Palestine and the last one to impose -harmless- sanctions that were quickly pulled back again
>>64658012Pretty sure for recent dakar class, they only subsidize like 1/3 of the total cost.Not saying mr goldstein wasn’t already packed from all those holocoaster raperazion
>>64658021>only 1/3that means hundreds of millionsI'm not really complaining, but to then go on an pretend Germany is in any way anti-israel is ridiculous
>>64658012Germany is subsidizing her own naval yards while also showing off equipment actually being used by israel to possible export clients. It's a marketing stunt combined with industry subsidies and some foreign relations sprinkled in. >>64658021Adenauers holocaust reperation scheme was actually a rather clever move. By giving some money to israel he basically got rid of most private claims, which was significantly cheaper. It also reduced leverage eastern bloc nations had over Germany. Look where most of the killing happened and who would have major claims (Poland, Belarus, Ukraine) regarding reperations.
>>64657619https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2025/norway-chooses-u-s-himars-and-south-koreas-chunmoo-over-german-rocket-launcher-systemSo I looked up the article and regarding the sale it says the Letter of Request was denied because they couldn’t supply said missiles in the given timeframe Norway wanted them so they settled with other American stuff instead. What’s the point of being disingenuous when you can use google? The Australians got those missiles and literally build them on license and Norway currently holds a competition between PULS (got kicked out because Germans lol), Chunmoo, and HIMARS for a 500km strike missile including PrSM and ER GMLRS.
What do we think about the Sig P211? or you guys are too poor for it?
>>64656820SiG makes excellent equipment. Adding all that crap to one is try-hard heresy.
>>64656820A glib facsimile.
>>64656820wow, a 2011, so cool…The action feels nice (To my tasteless ass) the compensator works pretty well as far as I know and the decision to use P320 mags was pretty smart. I like the style too, if it weren’t for those massive front serrations it would look like something out of aaron beck’s art. IIRC the hammer and magazine funnel are MIMed and the guide rod bushing is plastic and has a tendency to break. And it doesn’t have a compless variant for the USPSA nerds it’s somewhat marketed towards. All in all I think it’s an ok gun, i’m sure their margins on the thing are way higher then they aught. But sigs gonna sig, why try to get that last 20% out of a product if you can convince some sucker to overpay for a riced up 2011.
>>64656866I'm an ecologist and make $19/hr
would look pretty deagle-ish without the front serrations, comp, and mag well. trash as is.
Ready. Aim. FIRE!Shock troops of the SS, rollout. Post tantalizing pics of your payloads and kristmas gear.Shipping deadline is passed! Quick, get it out so you still make the raffle! Make sure to send the tracking numbers to myself at wendigohunter at protonmail dot comthread theme: https://youtu.be/7pS3nx9zREE?si=ozZcmbvGApkzW3LJold thread>>64557036
CH from VA, my emperor and me got the gift. I am so tempted to open it now. I love the gift wrap and will do my best to not ruin it!
>>64656604Not my rifle, but I have the same optic on mine. I don’t have a magnifier yet, but I do have an astigmatism and the EOtech or the Primary Arms prism optics are the only ones that aren’t flared out. I do like the EOtech donut of death reticle, it’s good for holdovers.
>>64653790Sorry santa, I'm always lazy with the pics>>64657162not the short shorts!
Package received -JB
>>64648402Package received.
>Company… attennnnnnn-shuh>the soldiers creeeed
>>64653725>fuck how does this shit go again>uhhhh>oh fuck sarmage is looking at me>uhhh fuck uhhhhh>"I WILL DEPLOY, ENGAGE, AND DESTROY THE UNITED STATES"
>>64653725Dumb fucking uniform
>>64657328Why are we getting into "close combat?"Isn't that what why we have guns?So we don't have to close combat?
>>64653725>creedWell, I just heard the news todayIt seems my life is goin' to changeI closed my eyes, begin to prayThen tears of joy stream down my face
>>64653735The one that almost dies before every field training exercise.
is a pure fusion bomb possible?
>>64657641>possibleYes. See NIF. micro fusion 0 need for fission>practicalNo. See NIF. It's massive.If Iran managed to come up with a better way to ignite fusion instead of lasers/bombs they should've built a power plant
>>64657641Romulan time travelers gave them antimatter bomb technology.
>>64657953>.nifI didn't know Morrowind modding is all about fusion bombs
>>64657974No, but Fallout Modding is, and it still uses .nif
>>64657641Technically it's possible to achieve sufficient heat and compression, but it would not be practical as a weapon. Some research into it happened in the cold war era, but it was ultimately deemed a waste of time. You need an absolutely inordinate amount of compression to initiate fusion even with relatively cooperative materials (deuterium and tritium). Achieving that without a nuclear primary would make the device far too large to deliver, think building-size. Also because of geometry constraints, it would not be practically possible to daisy-chain fusion stages so that a small fusion reaction provides the energy to kickstart a larger one - the secondary stage would be destroyed by whatever's being used to compress the primary. The whole story is literally just Israel trying to get the US onboard for a hot war with Iran. Because the region isn't fucked enough as is...
Frigatebros, We are SO back!https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/2025/12/19/new-frigate-on-the-horizon-u-s-navy-ditches-constellation-class-for-national-security-cutter-design/https://youtu.be/mFBoBAllLAg?si=YOKHRngMPgBWP7ZGBaseline design is utilizing the Legend Class Cutter with a goal of the first hull in the water by 2028. Wonder how many VLS it will get, and if it will get Aegis.
The main bottleneck for AEGIS on a ship is the radar. The AESA's you need for AEGIS are pretty huge, and for the older SM-2 you need oldschool illuminator dishes, one per target unless you timeshare. You want to mount these as high as possible on a mast since the earth is not flat, which negatively impacts center of gravity, so there is a minimum size of ship you can fit AEGIS onto.You also want the rest of the ship to be designed around that, i.e. aggressively moving anything heavy as down low as you can.The minimum VLS loadout for frigates is 32 VLS, some frigates even have 48. The 16 VLS they managed to put on this coastguard cutter is about half of what other nation's manage to fit on their frigates of comparable tonnage. (ignoring the shenanigans of ship classifications which are, admittedly, absurd due to political reasons)The reasons the US has generally less armament per tonnage is due to US damage control autism and manual systems autism leading to bloated crew requirements, crew needs quarters, that eats a ton of space.The US have 200 crew on ships the japanese staff with 90 thanks to automation.No wonder the japs then manage to put 150-200% the armament into it.The chinese thanks to cold-launch VLS even manage 250-300% the armament (in usable internal VLS missile volume) for the same tonnage as the US. Do not worry, you can cope that these are glass cannons that can't take a hit while your burkes can because of muh ShOcKhArDeNiNg.
>chinky is on his butthurt spree againGrim
>>64656003explain why this will go OK when other was a cluster fuck.same toys in more or less same shape, but at least the prior one has been getting sorted out for a few years and few billion.now they starting again from zero? Why?
>>64658008you telling me the USN wont be Mission Creeping AGAIN???or that they will almost instantly announce "we need bigger ships" and basically go back to cancelled design.Legend-Class (FF(X) Frigate) Origin: Based on the U.S. Coast Guard's National Security Cutter (NSC) design. Status: The new U.S. Navy FF(X) program uses this existing, proven design. Key Feature: A domestically-built, faster-to-field option, reducing dependence on foreign supply chains and addressing delays. Armament: Shares some systems with the cancelled Constellation-class, like the 57mm gun, but with different radar (Sea Giraffe) and missile suites. Constellation-Class (FFG-62) Origin: Based on the European FREMM multi-purpose frigate design.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64656032Surely processing power is an irrelevant requirement in TYOL 2026? I understand that they might not have the relevant systems but just processing power is very cheap and space efficient compared to the cost of a frigate.
Post cool swords or swords you like, talawar of Mughal leader Aurugnzeb
>>64657380That's a infantry's throwing knife. I hope that answers your question.
>>64653927Vietnamese swords are pretty underrated IMO. Interesting melting pot of Southeast Asian swords like the dha along with Chinese daos/jians and Japanese katanas. Also French influence later on during the colonial period.
>>64655941>The blades are actually from GermanySohlingen sold worldwide. I've seen catalog pages of them offering multiple variants of Shotels.
A Balato from the island of Nias, Indonesia. Dated to the 19th century. The basket on the side of the sheath is meant to house amulets and is itself made out of rattan, animal tooths and a chinese perfume bottle. >>64657727I'm from the wider Solingen area and this whole region had extensive cottage industries which were focues on the production and further processing of various blades. The many creeks favored the development of many waterpowered forges, hammerworks and grinding workshops.
>>64654546Yeah. However, tempering steel at various temperatures can produce various colors and genuinely useful material effects. It can even be done in gradients to yield various traits to meet the equally varied needs of different parts.
Why did urban warfare turn from fun looting and raping to nightmare after world war 2?
>>64656334Fighting in cities was generally avoided if possible as it severely limited the command and control abilities and introduced too many elevated positions for the defenders. The looting and raping aspect only really commenced when the defensive works of a city had been taken violently and organised resistance was already broken before terms of surrender could be reached. There were of course cases where cities were deliberately singled out for sacking (such as the infamous Sack of Antwerp of 1576) but those were part of larger penative expeditions, where terrorizing the civilian population and destroying their economic foundation were the goals.
Guns.
>>64656334it was always a nightmarewhen the French first considered instituting chivalric rules of war, the looting and raping which was the then-norm was kept as a reward because of the horrors of urban assaultit's still a horror, it's just that the reward has gone
>>64656334the looting and raping was part of a punishment/reward system. if they surrendered pretty early on in the siege process then they would usually go much, much lighter on the city, if they had to go through the process of a multi year siege then they might punish the survivors pretty hard
Do VLS cells make sense in space?
>>64656777>wouldn't you have an "up"Don't pretend you don't know where down is.
>>64655734i dont think thats a concern you would not make missiles where wether could permanently do any damage to them because then they wont work in an actual fight.as for protection your important surface mounted systems would be guns,radar,telescopes and protection would probably be handled by a big shield (think something shaped like an umbrella and held on a small robotic arm so it can be pointed in any direction relative to the ship). you'd wanna use shields for stealth anyway. but it makes sense to have a laser-protection layer under the stealth top layer.there's already versions of this in orbit with inflatable stealth shields but i feel like that was mostly done because thats the easiest way to deploy it
>>64651878Realistic space combat would be beam weapons and relativistic mass drivers. The Apollo spacecraft of the 60s moved at 25,000 mph. In the future, we would probably move even faster. So you have two ships moving fuck fast in 3D space. Space is yuuge. You need to detect the enemy ship while trying your best to hide your signature from him. If you managed to do this, you only have a few seconds to fire your lazer or mass driver before he flies out of range. Missiles are too slow for this kind of warfare.
>>64657068Thanks anon, i added more SPC's to both my Ocello and Axford, replaced the missiles using self jammers with more decoys and placed the jammer on the ships themselves.Will test more in the evening when people are actually on to play against, but in the testing range the overall mixture seems to pen much better when put against TF Oak and the 2x Ocello OSP one i forget the name of.Still unhappy with the magazne depth on the axford - Ocelokillers cost a fuckton and eat a lot of the missile budget. But I will fuck around and maybe tweak them a bit more to hopefully be 5pts less expensive at least. Current loadout is EO/Cruise/2xRadar Absorbtive coating but i see a lot of people running radar seekers and decoys on their which might be more optimal and i'm not convinced how actually effective the radar coating is.
>>64657990>radar coatingIIRC you used to be able to make some absolutely disgusting high speed S3H that were almost undetectable until they hit visual range, but I don't think that play works anymore
Tell me /k/ what makes a good soldier?
>>64645479Training, motivation and intelligence.
>>64657004Who's your Cousin's faveorite pony?
>>64656544As is his style, sir.
>>64645479>Tell me /k/ what makes a good soldier?Exquisite flavor with right spices and fine wine to compliment it.
>>64657004A man who posts cringe has no friends at /x/
