what's the point in hiring mercs who aren't at all familiar with your language, culture, or geography/climate?
>>64745607>zigger said Russia is fighting against entire Nato. >turn out its Ukraine alone fighting against entire Global South.
>>64745607meat>>64737979
>>64745607funny how the current pop culture image of the mercenary is that of a seasoned veteran who's more competent than regular conscripted militia, when most of the times it was the exact opposite. mercs were hired simply because the lord didn't have to pay for their food, training or equipment, they were a ragtag bunch of misfits but ready to go. and best of all, their officers were not part of the cadre of scheming backstabbing nobles looking for any opportunity to usurp him, so having a general not close to court affairs was useful. the con was that you obviously had no control on it besides the pay.
>>64745627Not one of them looks drunk. So what do you think?
It's like hiring any good help - it is hard and you learn to settle. Sometimes that best you can get is quite bad.
Let me guess, you think your airforce needs more expensive higher performance aircraft.You could get 5 of these fucks and arm them for the price of an empty KR-67.
>>64744128It's pretty but given the weak targets you'd probably destroy more using rockets.
>>64744208You just use it poorly, it's ridiculously cost-efficient.I've soloed an entire island of anti-air with it before the new anti-air system.As the other anon said: - only one laser vehicle can shoot fast enough to intercept all the shells of one tarantula- you can shoot targets 16km away from behind a hill, keeping you safe from anti-air defense.The only impractical aspect is linked to the interface that don't make it easy to switch to the next selected target. If you could you'd one-shot each target.If the game is fair, ground artillery gun will eventually shoot indirect guided-flak-shells at anything detected by someone's radar.
>>64745690Reality is also fast-paced, most of the training is to have pilots be able to mechanically go through dozens of step in no time.Even without getting into drones, missiles swarms already require means to quickly distribute anti-air missiles between as many targets as possible without wasting missiles.Locking and lobbing bombs at ground targets without entering interdicted airspace before is also very tight.The only reason reality is not as fast as NO yet is because it's hard to get an interface as good as KBM inside a moving airplane.Joysticks in fighters don't even move (much) anymore, they mostly detect pressures, and to fly at extremely low altitude the flight-computers override some pilot action to do the flyby the pilot wish he could do.Helmet-displays have now moving toward letting the pilot select targets with their eyes.In short, don't blame mouse control scheme when reality seek to reach that kind of efficiency.
>>64745999>The only impractical aspect is linked to the interface that don't make it easy to switch to the next selected target.Huh? You target everything and deselect a target every time you fire
What type of aircraft do you want next?Me: supersonic bomber, I want something more maneuverable and faster than the Darkreach that can carry a few dozen bombs.40 PAB-250LRs loosed going mach 2 would be excellent.
Could Wisconsin take the UP in a special 3 day operation?
>>64744138Only in name. They're thoroughly americanized. No military training, no finnish nation/homeland to defend, even the old farts can't remember finnish customs and words right anymore.>finnish wisdom.jpgThis is better if you want some more of that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuFpviabvi8Honestly, every human being on this planet should listen to this.
>>64734660Would they conquer Quebec to gain access to the Saint Lawrence Seaway?
>>64737391>amphibious invasion by the Minnesotan Coast Guard is sunk by a Lake Superior seiche
>>64735358Border crossing on road usually waves me through after glancing at my passport. Then again, I go through at tourist areas like Niagara Falls.
>>64736751dreams of falling of a bridge into the water AHHHHHHHH
/arg/ cooked weekend editionPreviously>>64735474
>>64746314Well that's definitely promising. I was also eyeing their radial compensators for some SBRs at some point too. KAK seems to make decent stuff.I'm hoping my Form 4 for my velos gets approved in the next week or two. I really want to get these parts put on a gun and working
>tfw destroyed a pair of cryes with hot can 2 years agoI was just reminded of this and I'm still seething over it
>>64746333>Not using a silicone hair curler heat wrap thingamabobngmiSpeaking of curling iron things what bands do I lie about being into if this whore likes Sleeping With Sirens? I already used Paramore I need backups.
>>64746333Just cover the hole with a band patch or some scrap leather.
>>64746320>B.E. Meyer's 249f>PING PING PING
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.
