>Missile crooked>SAM out in the open>No secondaries or cook offsWhy the fuck would they publish this?Source,https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2039647713550110964
>>65035727it wastes the enemies resourcesyou never want to hit a decoy.you want to see them, know they are a decoy, then communicate that it is a decoy to everybody else so that no weapons are used destroying something that isnt a target.or so that if/when a ground invasion happens/advances to the area the decoy is in ground forces can remove the decoy so it doesnt get seen in the future and possibly being a false positive wasting even more time and money.it is literally never a good thing to time and money destroying a decoy.and certainly not boasting that you did so.because it means that either you didnt know it was a decoy because you are retarded or you did and still wastes time and money blowing it up because you are a retard.
>>65035783>If you've got two holes in your bucket and you plug one hole up, you still got a hole.this is bait.
>>65047149You hit it with decoy bombs.
>>65035636Is the missile supposed dislodged and sticking its nozzle directly into the path of another one like that?
>>65035636History repeating itself
what if nasa was absorbed by spaceforce?
What if you're a moron?
If the spaceforce had more imperial ambitions, perhaps claming some asteroids, it'd make sense, otherwise no, they already have what they need.
>>65045660You'd raise the average IQ of US armed forces by 30-40 points minimum.
>>65045660suddenly funding would no longer be an issue. Also, other governments might not want to work with us.
Why did older, obsolete SAM systems outperform the supposedly high-end ones? Both the THAAD and the S-400 have been major disappointments.
>I stole a post from /r/NCDThis might be a self a report, but I'm bringing you with me you faggot.
The whole point of IADS is each system is optimized for certain targets, THAAD and the S-400 are both anti-ballistic missile systems that get dunked on by crop dusters throwing VOGs out the window.The issue right now is there isn't any small drone optimized systems leaving a capability gap.
>>65047843Archeotech
>>65047843>Both the THAAD and the S-400 have been major disappointments.lol no, just the s-400 which is a huge piece of shit :)
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>>65046108>starshipnice, more?
>>65038992That's partially true. The TAM and VCTP were more efficient to manufacture while offering pretty much the same performance as the Marder but subsequent Marder upgrades have provided more uparmoring and powertrain modernizations. The Milan-II armed VCTP was a dead horse as soon as the Falklands happened. In the 90s there was a proposal to sell a variant to Peru and Mexico with a 30mm gun and an ATGM and much more armor. It integrated tech from the Kuka turret prototype and the cancelled Marder 2. They would have been built in Argentina by Tamse then mated with an uprated Mercedes engine and the new turret in Mexico oj the old HWK-11 lines which were themselves a reduced weight Mexico specific Marder family vehicle.The TAMSE plant in Argentina is still maintained on a long mothball status and Mexico has a huge industry building German vehicles so some sort of Marder upgrades could still happen there but it's more likely yhat those will become secondary Lynx or Boxer assembly sites.
Any military vets here? I just discharged last year after 8 years in the US Army. I spent 3 years in infantry (11B) stationed in a really rainy German town and got deployed to a country full of commieblocks before I applied for the Special Forces and managed not to washout of SFAS and after 2 and a half years or so I spent the rest of my time in Army as an 18B in SF. Since I did the full 8 years active I'm not IRR and pretty much a full on civilian now. I have no idea what I want to do. Since getting out, a case worker at my local GI forum got me this job doing basic maintenance on folding machines for a laundry business, and honestly it kinda sucked, so I got a different job now working in a really cold warehouse for an online grocery store. I have little to no prior work experience outside of the military. From my service I do have experience in some building/construction, mainly basic shit like excavation and laying concrete and I've installed basic electrical wiring but I don't have any certifications in that type of stuff. I'm also bilingual, fluent in spanish and ayacucho quechua (lol) but even with all that my case worker can't get me a job that pays more than $16 an hour like shit man come on. I'm having to live back at home with my dad and my mentally ill sister. I was going to take advantage of the GI bill and go to school but I have no fucking idea what I want to study as a career. I don't want to get a bullshit degree and reenlist and go the officer route (there's a lot of bs involved) and tbqh I don't feel like going back to the military in any degree. I have no interests other than my hobbies and no aspirations of what I want to do. I tried looking into PMCs/PSCs and I found this website called Silent Professionals which seems kinda fishy desu. Idk man. Anybody in a similar position?
>>65043396ICE is genuinely a scam>$50k sign-on bonus>BUT>you only get the bonus in $10,000/year payments for 5 years>and YOU have to pay it all back if you don't complete your 5 year contract>presidential terms only last 4 years btw>no refundsit's targeted at high-school dropouts who desperately want to finance luxury trucks. It has never, not once since the 1980s, been a good idea to work for trump.
>>65046467Most of the replied in this thread are supportive of OP, what do you mean.
Learn2code? Onlyfans?
Don't give up. You've overcome so many challenges, you won't fail at this one. Alot of Veterans I know have turned fitness coaches or coaches for Military Fitness, preparing people for SF or SOF selection. If you maybe get a degree or certificate in sports, this could be something worth looking into. I am a western European however so I don't know how easy this is for americans.
>>65043354Learn a trade and get a vet to hire you and then open a company that hires other vets (not drug addicts).
>A Merkava Mk4M-400 of the 53rd Sufa Battalion.you can see the backside of the countermeasure launcher on the top left and the new electrooptical+radar sensor on the top right.it also appears they ahve added a new (for redundancy?) camera over the commander's right
>>65044323imagine the first thing you ever get hit by in combat is a gay ass grenade dropping FPV drone that just blows all your shit upoh great my backpack has been fucking -obliterated-
>>65031305Tanks are increasingly obsolescent in the kind of war israel is waging
Not here to engage with thirdie retardbut I am curious how the Merkava finds itself in so many roll-overs and driving off cliffs.Is there a genuine reason for this?
>>65047978Partly extensive use in rugged, mountainous terrain (notice how all the pictures are from northern Israel or southern Lebanon) and partly confirmation bias (see the seething thirdie ITT, there's an army of them that will have a whole ass Merkava fails folder and nothing else).
Why does Israel use tanks like Russia?
How deep does the chicom military cope go? This is bullshit, right? Doesn't the US have a bunch of tungsten here in Alaska?
>>65047908no, the vast majority of landmass is in the northern emisphere, simple as.
>>65045361> ReservesHave you ever heard of Just-In-Time manufacturing?
>>65045356Wild. Buying literally all of the tungsten was one of the tricks the poms pulled on the krauts. Bottle necked a lot of their production, or forced them to use worse designs.
>>65045356proven reserves is nothing anon between this step and production even if you fast track literally every approval you still need 5 years to say the least for the factory and the mine
>be US >have massive mineral/fossil fuel deposits>don't use them>get thirdies to sell you theirs instead for literal paper you print>thirdies think they wonlol
I'm working on a sci-fi universe and I want to know which spaceplane concept would be the most practical among all concepts and implementations for fighters, bombers, transports, reconnaissance, helicopters, and other military or fleet aircraft across Army, Navy, and Air Force roles. I am open to including the rule of cool as a factor in the decisionPart 1: >>64971918
>>65045580>CCCPback when we believed the Soviet were going to be the forever enemy of the forever United State of America. Nowadays I wouldn't bet on the US not splitting in a civil war.
>>65044948No insult intended.
Check this outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVYbbWAd2WA
>>65046941I'm trying to go for redundancy with large scale ships being the focus with smaller ships and craft being limited in their capacity and function.>Smaller CraftFightersBombersTransportsReconnaissance>Larger ShipsTugsCorvettesFrigatesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65047811I think we'll have to add or adjust your universe to give it that added realism, It's good you've got tugs and fusion with nuclear but like some ships might have primary engines as nuclear rocket because they aren't designed for long term travel outside of a localize area.
Would you have scuttled her like Langsdorff or gone out like a hero?
>>65038937>Graf Spee was just a cope version of Scharnhorstit was more of a big-gun light cruiser, not a proper battlecruiser like scharnhorst
>>65044482We all agree Bismarck was scuttled by 16 inch naval gunfire.
>>65047930Well they wouldn't let the FAA finish the job.
>>65047930Just recently read about Hood vs Bismarck, what a dramatic series of events. Hood gets obliterated by the luckiest shell in existence that manages to kill more than 3/4 of the men onboard but is then hunted down and absolutely butchered by the Royal Navy.
How the fuck do you stop the Houthi? I'm sick of them camping out in the mountains and periodically crashing my portfolio. What weapons does it take?
>>65019315Ground forces and diplomacy. Like we did with FARC in Colombia.The US can do this stuff, just not in the Middle East because of retarded religious hangups or something.
>>65033958>only if he could do as much violence and rape as possiblebased
>>65024476>Modern, functionalThe lynchpin of this post is a naive fantasy that would be totally invalidated by sabotage attacks from medieval mountain people that will never forget what you are and where you came from. I'd be surprised if you were born early enough to even remember the Iraq War.
>>65031915*mealthere, ftfy
>>65019315>How the fuck do you stop the Houthi?Cutting relations with Israel would literally bring peace to the middle east for the next 5 millenia. Golems can't understand that tho.
What should I get for my next handgun?
>>65046265I'll tell you why, they suck. Thats why.
>>65046417Well, there's that. They will never reach the MOON until they fix their MATH. Btw, Euros, commas for every 3 digits to the left, decimal to the right of the first whole number.
>>65044938Like 20 mosin nagants sawed down to obrez’s while getting a custom leathwork bandolier so you can wear them like a pirate. Bonus points if you take this to countless ranges across the country>become the moist nuggets marauder>obrez opressor of the seven seas
>>65044938as you can see none of the pistols have nearly as much style as any of the revolvers
>>65046294OP already busted his NFA cherry with the can. Plus there's a huge fucking difference between the 37 and 40mm. With the 37 all you're shooting is flares and smoke. With the 40 you can legally use all sorts of fun adapters that fire multiple shotshells at once, a bunch of 22's at the same time, (Hornet's Nest), etc.
why does /k/ hate those guns?
>>65047934admitt then that you dislike Poland because hitler said so
>>65047949How many years have you been doing this? I've lost count.
>>65047965i don't count. but time and again i've been proven right, since at the end of a day you're just a marginally whiter offshoot of /pol/
>>65047925>why does /k/ hate those guns?They're all garbage bootlegs of good firearms. Made by pipefitters.
>>65047975>anno domini 2026>still uses the same 20 year old insult from krautchan
This looks familiar to me.
>>65045576I'm going to rape your pussy to death.See you next weekend.
the main problem i have with this claim is that the shitter schizo that said it has to jump to extremely contrived loops to say it happened,ive read some 60s account on nuclear bombs and the explosions they pointed too dont match what was said overwhere i do have to give it to them those large explosion are pretty suspicious i find it extremely hard also because kikes cant maintain shit and they would absolutely fuck up nuclear psysischs and mainteinance(oppeheimer was the pencil pusher and eistein was a fraudI but i digress
>>65045702My Dad eventually died, dipshit fuck.>>65045758Night to day isn't a contrived loop.
>>65047423From disappointment?
I hope Russia gets nuked more, and will continue not doing anything about it.
The UAE has used Mirage 2000-9EAD to teach the Chinese Air Force aspirant pilots how to counter Taiwanese Mirages. This is the reason why Emiratis have been denied access and technology transfers to modern Rafales and F-35.
>>65044919Oh no the Chinese can counter a mass exported French fighter from the 70s, whatever will the Taiwanese do?
>>65044944drop both f-16 and mirage, since PLAAF should have a good grip on both
>>65044944How braindead do you have to be to understand that from OP's post? How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?
Behold, the worst tank ever made by man
>>65021220It really isn't. Especially not in the 70s after it got a laser rangefinger and some composite armor.Any tank that has ammunition, especially semi-combustible, lying around the fighting compartment has similar issues with ammunition fires (ie most tanks, with the Abrams as a notable exception), and sticking to the carousel mitigates a lot of the turret tossing.It's a pretty good tank. Not the best, but far from the worst, even in its era.
>>65035213To be fair, the 115mm unitary was a good round that was just underdeveloped because the Soviets figured out APFSDS for the 100mm, the T-62 didn't get a ton of sales because it was dramatically more expensive than a T-55 and the T-72 and the 125mm came along quickly enough while not being that much more expensive than a T-62 with more upgrade potential. So R&D focused on 100mm and 125mm ammo.
>>65024145the majority of tank attrition back then was mechanical failure.
>>65040559it could be a side armor penetration ?
>>65044984it's just the camera angle, t-72 isn't that small, IIRC iraqi domestic built is a bit more spacious
