The fact that a president of a state could be kidnapped by SOF, doesn't it mean that nuclear war could be "won" against a nuclear power? Just send SOF, kidnap their president alongside his "nuclear football". Point a gun in the head of his wife and kids so he gives up the nuclear codes. Then proceed to nuke each airbase of that country and naval bases with nuclear bombers and SSBNs and the major cities of that country. This leaves only the patrolling SSBNs for launching a counter strike. But still, this "simple" specops mission would have transformed a massive, unmanageable nuclear exchange into a limited engagement that modern Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) might actually be able to manage and thus win the nuclear war.t. Tom Clancy's ghost
>>64741963No such protocol existed in real life, and General Ripper is not depicted as a "lowly officer". His role isnt exactly made clear but he seems to at least be in command of an airbase. Possibly overal command of airforces stationed in Britain.What annoys me about Dr. Strangelove is that no way would it be US units sent to relieve the airbase. It would be British army units.
>>64742659>General Ripper is not depicted as a "lowly officer"he's a General, that's pretty high up.
>>64742659Ripper's base was in the US, Mandrake was an exchange officer.
>>64742786>commander of burpleson air force baseHuh. So it is. I always thought it was a UK based air wing.
>>64719453Yeah
>>64745236France has an independent nuclear arsenal so he's not going to do shit against French Guyana
>>64745228Ceeding “low end manufacturing” to focus on the “high end” is dumb because eventually those “low end” competitors level up to start jeopardizing your high end and now you have no fallback point
>>64745250Exactly, though the reason why western manufacturers are abandoning the low-cost segment also has a lot to do with government policyWestern governments are like>you can't produce cars that are too unsafe or polluting, you must respect the unions and can't fire unproductive employees unless they murder someone and if you ever break any of the rules we will fine you billions. We'll be nice and give you tax breaks every now and then if you're in trouble though.Meanwhile in China>here's 100 trillion yuan, cheap land, rural slaves and subsidized materials. You can pollute as much as you want as long as you're producing anything that has 4 wheels and an engine. We'll make sure you also own at least 51% of any joint venture with foreign manufacturers so make sure to steal whatever tech you can get your hands on. Make sure to make EV's instead of ICE cars though, we basically have a monopoly on batteries and you guys suck at making ICE cars anyway.
>>64745276this doesn't make any sense.ev cars are less polluting than ice cars. ev car makers in china have no history as ice car makers but evolved from battery cell makers.in reality every chinese industry hub funded its own player: BYD (Shenzhen), NIO (Hefei), GAC Aion (Guangzhou), SAIC (Shanghai), etc.the west simply doesn't have any such industry hubs anymore.
>>64746264And yet this modern state of affairs is deliberate on the part of the westWe think its good, desirable to have everyone move to subburbs while foreigners come inYou could never scale a company up, like BYD did in the USA or Europe
>Show is no longer restrained to WW1 content>Crowd begging for episodes on popular firearms, the algorithm and mainstream viewers would eat that shit up, low handing fruits left and right>Refuses to do those episodes because "they must be done in the right order">Does not earn enough money to grow the show or hire help, doomed to fade away after a painful burnout>Does 12 episodes on Bengladeshi contract Albanian made Mauser foot courier carbine variants>The few supporters dwindle out>Will re-do episodes to amend content, somehow still refuses to do a popular firearm and re-do the episode later to add more content>"This Spanish revolver episode is now obsolete because a Belgian patent proves the three screws location was copied from this Irish one-off, not a new thing. I must release this re-do immediately!">Snarks at the channels playing the algorithm and producing crowd pleasing content because they are "gaming the system">Might do a Garand episode in the coming monthsIs it misplaced ego or autism?
>>64727102>if she doesn't get fat.and if she gets fatter, i will personally make up for the lost viewers
>>64726506He strikes me as an extreme bible thumper type. A magatard would love memes. Completely basing this on his, I'm an adult now and have to change how i dress because it's the south, bullshit excuse he threw out.
>>64727567>>64740951I checked and she's not that much fatter than a decade ago but the fat went to unfortunate places. I like fatties more than anyone ITT but nah, she should lose weight.
>>64743575>I like fatties more than anyone ITTI'm here so no
>>64743575>not that much fatter than a decade agoLMAO she gained 60lbs easy.
Why the fuck does my 1911 keep pushing the rounds further back into the brass when I drop the slide? For reference I have a RIA 1911>inb4 get a better gun
one thing about 1911s is some have the feed ramp built into the barrel and others are built in the frame. I think one over the other allows reliable hollow point cycling but ball ammo usually fixes feed problems. "git bettur ghun" is solid advice because damn it theres ALOT of weird 1911s out there and most cannot handle hot ammo either to get around their hollow point deficiency. maybe try those bullets that encompass an almost round nose look with a little plastic, ballistic tip while still being a hollow point? picrel is video my smith 4566 cycling empty, weightless .45 brass reliably, by hand of course. good luck, fren
>>64744328 I'm notorious for buying the cheapest everything until it's fucking dead or does something cool. Did RIA make or sell a 9m/38 Super barrel that would drop in your gun? 50 years ago I bought spare barrel for Colt .38 Super and machined the back of the barrel out to .45 case diameter. 30-06 cases cut off behind the shoulder then necked down to 9mm.I had to buy a little piece of tool steel and make an extractor with a little longer claw because the '06 rim smaller diameter. What was cool about it was THE GUN WOULD FEED AND EJECT A MAG OF EMPTY CASES because of the shoulder on the case.Also the brass was a LOT thicker just ahead of the rim and IF you needed or wanted to "throat" the barrel for even better feeding the case wasn't going to blow out. I had gotten a 6' barrel but had no chrono back then. It would do it's impression of a .357 Mag spitting outany shape bullet you wanted. Hey just a thought - too much work but THAT would fix it :D
Because you are using retarded meme bullets invented as a copium for people too stupid to appreciate the inherent advantage of the big bore 45 and who are too gullible to believe that overpenetration is actually a thing.
>>64744394Not hornady, not a 1911, but>shootin my .357 mag>shitty ass armscor ammo> last bullet>pull the hammer back, jamWhat the fuck>cylinder rotates to the left, however because shitty armscor doesnt crimp their bullets, the 6th round physically was able to work itself forward because of the inertia from the other 5 rounds being fired>cant rotate the cylinder>cant open it>critical failureDont buy shitty ammo
>>64746153The only time I've had problems with ammo is with Blazer. Everything from fiochi, Winchester, Hornady, and even fucking steel ball from WW2 function just fine. Then in a 50 round box, I had a failure to load, failure to extract, and a fucking stove pipe. Blazer is absolute shit and nobody should buy it.
AK General /akg/New Year, Same Shit Edition>Thread #2085Old thread here >>64623820
>>64744396Yeah that's fair. Either way I would say that zastava definitely has better qc than cugir.Either way it is safe to assume if you get an AK and want to customize it you're gonna have to fucking hit it with a hammer at some point.
>>64744405>you're gonna have to fucking hit it with a hammer at some point.Way she goes
>>64723355>it's not a HUGE dealthis is pretty huge deal unless you're using a plain dot, and this is why a fucked rail mount isn't always the way to go
Does anyone have videos with bad WBP examples form the last 3 years not from kalash boomer guy?>>64744405is that pic related brace? How is it?
Old thread: >>64730333>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!https://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player
>>64745928Honest opinion: they always did shit like that, the relative amount of offenders has just skyrocketed due to a combination of me too, narcissism, and tiktok brain. They've got the magic ability to make any problem go away by doing it so its become a knee jerk reaction for a significant amount of women, and they never were good at handling being turned down. Truly grim times, don't associate with any females that you aren't banging, shits dangerous if you aren't getting them off and they aren't friends with your GF.
>>64745967I think maybe GUP had them too but they may have been original overlays.
>>64745928Morality, honor, honesty, and such are man traits. Women require external, ie social, pressure which they no longer get at any point. Some men need it too but it actually exists for them.
>>64745970RPK is mogged heavily by AK15, both in terms of personality and in terms of looksstop posting evil women
new bread: >>64746248lewd skirts: >>64746248cute thread: >>64746248
Holidays and winter ops. Any front, any era. Post winter /k/ino. Almost didn't make it home in time to post this year's thread.
German Bundeswehr soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) pose during a photo session with a Dutch ISAF soldier (3rd L) during Christmas celebrations at the ISAF camp in Kunduz Dec 11, 2011.
How is this such a basic but /k/ino combination?>Plain white snow suit, no gay digital pattern >Simple chest rig worn on the outside if anything>Zastava M70 underfolder>Headband with nationality, beanie, cap, steel helmet or white balaclava (if gooning)Much prefer this to modern fully kitted out operators
>>64745876>Dutch
>>64695808it's a High Standard HDM.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Standard_HDM
The dragon is the size of the ones in GOT, use GOT as the point of reference for most everything to be honest. If you want to be a furry abut this you can do a version where the dragon(s) are smart cookies that can talk and junk.
>>64745136> 2-3mm>arrows could still cut through that thickness of armour, if the plate was flatIm not so sure about that, even lower quality steel at that thickness should be pretty hard to pierce, in the arrow vs armor test 3 where they shoot at a brigadine using 1.2mm mild steel plates with one side being hardened. The arrows they are using have bladed hard steel tips and they dont show that impressive performance. Only two arrows showed undeniable killing power, one launched at 40 meters hitting the neck plate that was about 1.5mm thick and the other at 20 meters hitting the eye slit ignoring the helmet armor. Every other arrow did not have the same clear killing power when striking the brigandine or arm protectionhttps://youtu.be/SFFgcTzCvMo?t=446They also did test against just flat 1.5mm mild steel plate and the penetration depth was not as dramatic as the textile or chainmail armorhttps://youtu.be/UBbVWqA45fI?t=962>arrow vs 1.5mm mild steel penetration depth 7cm-2.3cm>arrow vs chainmail penetration depth 25-24cm>arrow vs fabric armor penetration depth 25-17.5Pic related from ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - Best metal for armour video all the test plates are 1.5mm thickBut back to dragons.https://youtu.be/xXfEsEYeTKc?t=870>Season 5 of games of thrones dragons have grown quite alot and are large enough to be ridden but are still vulnerable to hand thrown spearsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64745408the brigandine they test in this latest video was designed in an era when everyone feared the longbow, and therefore likely with stopping arrows in mind. it's no surprise to me at all that it resisted most hits.Tod's AvA 2 video showed fairly consistent and human-wounding penetration of 1mm arm plates too>They also did test against just flat 1.5mm mild steel plate and the penetration depth was not as dramaticalright, so call it 1.5mm then>White walkers carrying random melee weaponsthe White Walkers also 1-shot a dragon with a single magic missile, the obvious implication is that they possess powerful specific anti-dragon weapons
>>64745651>it's no surprise to me at all that it resisted most hits.Yeah and it is only 1.2mm thick. If you took a brigadine using thicker plates at 2 or 3mm plate and removed the hardening it would still resist the arrows just by being thicker and heavier. If you keep the hardening then you can stand with absolute confidence that no arrow launched by the strongest man on the planet could pierce the armor.>White Walkers also 1-shot a dragon with a single magic missileYeah and it a special ice spear only carried by the Night King and his Captains. The same type of spear would instantly kill a human it stabbs and shatter every normal weapon into ice except dragonglass or valerian steel. There is nothing to imply that the snow zombies carry any special anti dragon weapons, they just carry normal melee weapons in every scene. Even if we go with idea that since they are magical zombies they have super retard strength and would just super stab the dragon with normal steel weapons that no normal man could and that would work but then you run into the problem that if that is the case then any clash between humans and snow zombies would be complete win for zombies thanks to super retard strength alone and not that they are very hard to kill zombies that all charge at you in the 1000's.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWWeT82OB8o>This clash wouldn't really play out the same and the zombie walker they capture would just retard strength away from being tied up.Another possibility is that the writer for the show could not figure out a good way of removing the dragon from the battlefield and just had zombies swarm it and stab it. The same dragon that in previous seasons would tank arrows from bows, require ballistas to hurt it and magical ice spears to kill it is getting pierced by normal swords wielded by zombies that shouldn't have the strength to do it. A bit inconsistent showing of the dragons hide protective capability.
>>64745947do bear in mind that a couple of arrows pierced the brigandine plate in Tod's test, and were only saved by the underlying chainmail and arming doubletTod is being a little disingenuous (as usual) in claiming that the plate is resisting the arrows. it's not the plate per se; it's the whole multi-layered ensemble
>>64734174A DnD dragon would still be viable on the modern battlefield because its giant lizard with an IQ of 180 which can sprint fly at over 200mph, teleport several hundred miles at time, melt steel with a thought, spray psychoactive mustard gas over miles of terrain, breath underwater, perfectly imitate any human it sees once, poison any water within 300ft, cast Wish Spells several times a day, read and control minds at will, make an entire division fall over laughing if tells a joke, has innate thermal vision, construct bridgeheads in minutes, make everybody who can see it shit their pants, ect, ect. Dragons are bullshit.
Listen Here You Little Shit EditionPost wood (furniture)Big RiflesBig BulletsFroppy Frens InsideThread theme ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HUtwku8R9Q&list=RD1HUtwku8R9Q&start_radio=1As always; No Jannies, No TranniesPreviously, on X-men: >>64608347
I need a PTR91 Receiver. What site is selling them? Everyone seems out of stock.
>>64744240>PTR91Is there any reason you can't use a G3 receiver flat? RTG and HK parts have them in stock
New Boot Goofin
>>64746144Hat to match? I saw an awesome tooled leather western blazer at an antique shop done in oak leaf. But it would definitely need a hat and old pawn turquoise bolo to match..
>>64746199I have a very nice white hat but its in storage. I need to go fish it out
on one hand, probably a dumb idea against near-peer, and even worse with MANPADS, but on the other what is the replacement?
>>64743820but is it cost effective? B-1 used for CAS isn't being used for other missions where it might be more necessary. They used them in GWOT not because it was the best solution, but because they didn't have anything else to do.
>>64745913>didn't have anything else to doThey frequently don't have anything else to do though. There was that bit of strategic bombing they did in Iran, which was the first real strategic fuckery they had done since 2001.
>>64742705Its current replacement is the B-1 Lancer because it's so bad that a supersonic nuclear bomber somehow manages to be better at close air support.
>>64742705Turn it into a drone
>>64745913>but is it cost effective?The paradox is that keeping a dedicated CAS airframe in inventory isn't cost-effective.While the A-10 is nominally cheaper to run on a per hour basis, it requires upgrade programs to keep it relevant and able to use the newest smart munitions, it has required airframe reinforcements like 30 years ago and remanufacturing of wings in the 2010s, and it comes with opportunity costs like requiring pilots and mechanics who could be assigned to other airframes thus indirectly increasing the operating costs of other aircraft.
What if you made an entire city out of UHPC,How hard would it be to root out the defenders?
>>64737424>too brittle for flooring though i bet something like a countertop or sink would workIf it's too brittle for humans walking around, it's too brittle for dumping a hoggy onto or carrying a sink-full of water weight
>>64728638What do you mean by this, does it make you not anonymous?
>>64716073This building reacts like this due to it's prefabricated concrete pannel design. It wasn't tried by only socialist states but also western states. In the 1960s a gas explosion in London England caused one pannel section to cascade through flats below it causing a horrific disaster and so this construction method is not used much anymore.
>>64715609to survive a nuclear explosion
>>64732722>Proper drainageVery true. Germans 200 years ago knew this>t. Posting from inside a 200 year old German house on formerly German clay.The roof fell apart and it nearly went down because the outside brick is cooked but the inside brick isn't and would just wash away. Gutter water also had to be sent a metre or two away from the foundations to prevent further cracking in the walls due to sinking in wet clay.
How many armored soldiers from the late middle ages would you need to appreciably affect a bronze age battlefield?
>>64739032I just love reading wiki articles about pidorashka wars, because literally every time>contemporary sources note how russniggers got btfo despite massive numerical superiority>event description suggests ruskind getting btfo>uh oh according to modern blyat historians it is unclear who won there is no proof that russia lost where are the proofs>in fact it was russians who were outnumbered 20 to 1, there were only 500 russians, because it was physically impossible to be more than 500 boyars as tzar didn't know>it was a draw, but russia achieved all of it's objectives, so it was actually a victory
>>64739878Overall I think you're right, but it's still worth mentioning that horse nomads already existed at this point. There's nothing to say a force of cataphracts couldn't be outmaneuvered, their supply lines cut off, and slowly harassed until they wither into nothing by a numerically superior force of light cavalry. >>64740315>Note how you wrote Frankish and not Frenchish, stick to that and remember to call my boy Karl next time.Based howeverEnglish and Frisian shifted K -> ch, hence english "Cheese" vs German "Kase", English "Chicken" vs German "Kuchen". French did the same sound change law but later on and separately from English. So his real name in English would actually be Charl
>>64738044It's not about many you have, it's about how many you can replace them with.
>>64738959crossbows weren't invented until 600 years after the end of the Bronze age and they wouldn't become wide spread in Europe for another 1600 years
>>64745912>crossbows weren't invented until 600 years after the end of the Bronze ageAh, you got me there; they were invented in the Iron Age. Kudos.>they wouldn't become wide spread in Europe for another 1600 yearsHowever, this is irrelevant. The thread is about middle-age armies vs. bronze-age armies. It doesn't matter that they weren't widespread in one region.
What's the coolest fictional sword?
>>64744841>1 last thing. Have you any recommendations for a good quick coverage of Celtic mythology?I would strongly recommend looking into the primary materials (the mabinogion might throw you with it's language at first but once you get into it goes quick), but if you want basic introductions I know Bullfinch's trilogy is an easy read, though he's going to (at least he admits this) gloss over or flat out omit anything he deems unseemly. I know the celtic myths get some mention in book one, and more in book two. At least from my memories he tends to be well organized so you wont have trouble picking out the sections you want about Norse myth. But again I consider summaries to be very basic in general, and often a little misleading. I had a professor that tried and failed to get me to read the primary texts early in my schooling and when I finally did I realized I had done myself a big disservice by glossing over them.>I've read a number of Norse and Greek mythology books so I know my roughly around thoseIf you read one primary source in Greek do yourself a favor and read the Iliad, I prefer Butler's translation. Suffer through the chapter that's nothing but Ship's manifests, and the other one that's nothing but a description of armor, and enjoy the rest of the funny Greek Anime. As for norse, the Eddas really are quite short, past that there's Helen Grueber's primer, I think it's usually printed as "Tales of the Norsemen" or something like that, and of course Bulfinch.Beowulf translations are a deep rabbit hole. Tolkien would disembowel you with a shortsword if he heard you say "Whale Road" in his presence instead of "Riding place of the Dolphins" or whatever. Speaking of Tolkein his translation of Sir Gawain is the only one worth reading, Sir Gawain itself is a story attempting to bridge the gap between the two "worlds" of Arthurian mythos. >Neil Gaiman's Stephen Fry'sPlease don't.
>>64744841>>64745037I should also add that I'm something of a radical when it comes to my choice of Mabinogion volumes, almost no one else on the planet would point you towards Ellis and Lloyd. Jones and Jones is Solid, to my memoryI'm not a fan of Gantz (hey it's that same guy from earlier!)People tell me Ford, Davies, Parker and Bollard are all very good, but I've never read them. I have my weird old translation where they say "Gwyrda" instead of "Knight" and I'm quite comfortable there.Stay away from Charlotte Guest. Evangeline is more "novels based on the Mabinogion" than a translation.
>>64745067>Speaking of Tolkein his translation of Sir Gawain is the only one worth readingWell that's good>Bulfinch's trilogyOh excellent i can get that thanks>Iliad, I prefer Butler's translation. Suffer through the chapter that's nothing but Ship's manifests, and the other one that's nothing but a description of armor, and enjoy the rest of the funny Greek AnimeExcellent, I need that too>As for norse, the Eddas really are quite short, past that there's Helen Grueber's primerThanksThis is awesome
>>64745094>Jones and Jones is SolidGreat to hear that, cause I at least want to hear what a couple of actual Welsh have to say about all this>Evangeline is more "novels based on the Mabinogion" than a translation.Then I will avoid that too
the monomolecular wire from ringworld was pretty cool
Alright anons show your favourite wheeled IFVs. Just know you will always have to live in the shadow of the bad boy that is called the Boxer. Your inferior dingy shitshacks will have to do for you guys i guess.
>>64745317Sehr gut.
>>64745279it's good enough. US air power is unparalleled and paves the way for the armor anyway.
>>64745317instant 1 billion deutsche marks invest from germany
>>64741555Unironically, I think wheeled IFVs might become more common given the resilience of wheeled vehicles against mines. Instead of the track being blown off they can retain some mobility with the remaining wheels.>>64743974>>64745118Given how Soviet/Russian doctrine has them advancing with and supporting infantry, BTRs, especially the 80A/82A count as IFVs at least from a doctrinal standpoint, even if they may as well have paper armor
>>64745422I still don't know the difference between the M2 Bradley and the M3 Bradley.
how the FUCK did the passenger survive the explosion?no sound since the source just had a music track playing
>>64745800>Virtually every other weapon requires the user to expose themselves to danger in some wayFPV drone operators have been consistently getting blown the fuck up in this conflict because of the limited range of FPV drones.
>>64745816>In 10 years AI drone warfare will be common, AI will decide who lives or dies in a battlefield. Autonomous decision making for life or death. I guess you can say it's like a land mine, but land mines don't make decisions.Yes this is how they're going to counter jamming and limited range causing drone operators to get fucked by other drones. It's also why jamming, even ignoring the square law of effort for range and more frequencies, is eventually going to be a dead end, probably at first it'll be a fall back mode when contact to the pilot is lost since you can safely assume that'll happen close enough to a non-friendly target.
>>64745716How has the bottom not dropped out yet? How much longer can they sustain this? It feels like it's lasted far longer than it has any right to.
>>64745800>it's kind of like artillery without the risk of counter batteryso US troops in every war since Korea ?
>>64745823Sure, but it's no different than the guy sitting next to him eating lunch. You have to poke your head out to use a rifle or a launcher, you have to leave the fob to get close enough to throw a grenade, probably using a large and loud vehicle to get there. A little drone going bzzzzzt is way harder to notice than artillery. (Ignoring ew.) So even if pilots have high casualty rates the perception of what they're doing conceptually it's going to seem safer at the surface. It's kind of like the meme of being a pussy for shooting someone instead of fist fighting.
