Why was WWII the most aesthetic modern era war by far?
>>65045728I'm always partial to the Korean war. WWII Pacific theater on both sides is a close second, and so is Nam.
>>65046320thomspon wasn't invented until ww1 ended.
>>65045736/thread
>>65046241Yeah, but looking good doesnt mean you win wars. The Germans had uniforms designed by Hugo Boss, but look at what happened to them.
>>65046551They are ww2 soldiers.
>shits all over staccato to the point of capitalizing the 2011 marketSo how did Kimber pulled this off, by getting rid of the old CEO?
>>65046252>2011 refers to only 9mm doublestack 1911sHow many times did your parents drop you in the head when you were a baby?
>>65041798>how did Kimber pulled this offA functionally 100 year old design has no business being more than a Beretta 92.
>>65042267>The idea of a "premium 1911" is just so weird to me.Used to be you had hand fitted custom job 1911s. 2011s piggy backed off that as a production series, and competition shooting.
>>65042632>people even sell that the manual safety makes NDs harder compared to other duty pistols.Statistically, in events where perpetrators somehow cop the piece off a cop, ignorance of the manual of arms vs. striker fired saved a significant number of bamboozeled and fucked officers from dirt naps.
I guess the modular frame is half of the point of a 2011 but does anyone make one that's a single piece of metal like a 1911? not like a para though.
>be USSR>start a bioweapons program>start pumping out barrels of anthrax on an island in the aral sea>the sea dries up>the state collapses>leave those barrels rotting in the open until the Americans go in and sterilise the entire place by spraying the entire area down with bleach>nobody tries to step foot there again Why is Russia so incompetent when it comes to dangerous substances and making sure they don't leak? This shit happened at Mayak, it happened at Aralsk, and by the latest news it seems to be happening again.
>>65046474Sure. But like modern day russia, nothing goes through without direct approval of Moscow.
>>65046416What are you basing that off of? There isn't exactly polling on this subject
>>65046493uzbekistan continued to do it after independence so the uzbeks were in on it at best and the responsible party at worst
>>65045579>shitposting about muh ebul pucciaShitposting about russians being retarded, is just a natural consequences of discussing anything about russia, given atleast the most basic information.
>>65046246>Lyme's disease escaped from a lab!>N-no, not that one...Ok bud
How do picrel compare to the original full size Wranglers? I have one of the originals and it is my favorite .22lr plinker. Are the little birds heads ones just as good? Is it worth picking one up?Also, revolver general I guess.
for a model 10 from the 60's or 70's I think>whats the spiciest load I can run through this thing?pencil barrel. just your average model 10 from more than half a century ago.+P is out?so what would you actually put in there beside FMJ .38 range ammo? am I just restricted to using range ammo or is there somehting more exotic this thing can handle?
>>65026943What revolvers do you have in 327? what's your favorite to least favorite?Do you find any of the shorter caliber work worse? because i have. And not a question but a statement I really wish ruger would do another run of these 8 shot Blackhawks
is the trr8 a meme or is it actually good?
>>65046398>What revolvers do you have in 327?Talk about dumb af327 isn't even good as a boutique offeringOther than 22, 357, 38, 44, 45LC and 500 there are NO calibers worth itEven 45 and 9 are stupid in a revolverFuck does ever nu-/k/ suck
>>65046898Listen... niggerI always dismissed 327 thinking why bother when 357 exists. But then I shot it and experimented with it and I learned really quick why it was not a dead round.More company's are making guns chamberd in it then ever. Even if I didnt root for it I can't deny its getting more common. I can always find it at the big box stores. S&w might be doing a new run of model 16 with a + on it. I understand there has to.be an echo system of calibers but I will be dawned if 327 gets the 41 magnum treatment Hopefully pic related is next
Pussya loses hundreds and hundreds of armored vehicles and personel plus aircraft in the first stages of the war>uhhhhh sweety.... it's a war, what do you expect? The cock is sucked, the ass is in ass, just one more hour and the nazis will be over just like in 1945!!!!US loses a few aircrafts>TOTAL GLOBOHOMO ANIHILATION, IT'S LITERALLY STALINGRAD FOR AMERIKKKANAZIS, IT'S OVER!!! SAAAR LOOK AT THIS EDIT OF BEAUTIFUL BRAHMINS OF PERSIA TAKING WASHINGTON SAAAARRR JUST LIKE BOLLYWOOD PUNJABI MOVIE
>>65043539>not Iraq 2003You are correct saar, Iran still has an electrical grid because the US has deliberated not drops kilotons of conductive fibers around all their high tension wires. Iran still has water, or at least as much as it did previously because water and sewage have not been targeted. I could go on but you get the point. The heat can be turned up much higher. Whether that will have the desired result is another matter but even it if increased support for the regime it would also hamstring them into fixing their infrastructure. The real issue is that everybody white and under the age forty absolutely despises kikes either because they are racist due to kike bullshit or ironically because the diaspora kikes which indoctrinated them in academia made them think ebil "white" israelis are fucking with the poor peaceful brownoids.They really can't drum up support for the war because everybody hates Israel.
>>65043183>I want a return to the economics of the 50sSo when the country was 90% white?>90% top tax bracketNot going to happen because that was mostly the government taxing the shit it was paying to defense corporations to make shit for them, a holdover from WW2. If you want to tax 100% of the income from the stock market and thus crash it you'd have support but not because anybody likes socialism, they just hate jews. Who account for 1/2 of the 1% you dislike by the way.>well paying government jobs putting upwards pressure on private sector wagesThat's retarded because it lead to inefficiency throughout the 50s and 60s. Just get rid of all the non-whites and the value of labor increases and which products produce viable margins do as well. Just be racist and it solves all the problems. Also the government employers constituted a lower percentage of earned income reported to the federal government, so the only way it would be viable would also be if you drastically cut federal workers and then expected more out of them to justify wage hikes.>>65043239I mean we could also just kill billions and seize their territory which would be highly profitable to individuals if they receive it in stipends for service in a campaign. Also we could make looting a thing again to incentivize people to join.
>>65042741>muh pedo muh epstein empire >:(((I would take you virtue signaling faggots much more seriously ifa) the whole stunt wasn't rich assholes fucking 16/17 y/o whores explicitly hired to fuck rich assholes who wanted the excitement of fucking jailbaitb) every shithole country that is calling out muh Epstein empire didn't have a legal age of marriage of like 13 (Iran) with shit like "9 y/o are fine too if the father approves"t. not even a burger
>>65042697Miggers are no different than ziggers at this point. Who are you trying to fool, eglinigger?
>>65042741What reddit shithole did you crawl here from that you're too scared to type the word pedophile? Kill yourself.
Today we shed a tear for the French cuck military destroying every FAMAS in their inventory
>>65044972>m16 dominance>hk416Stoner still won, but with the AR18 not the 15
>>65045118You have forgotten the cardinal rule of Western civilization: And then the (gauls, franks, french) made everything worse.
>>65045142Even in my country, we kept the 300k Mausers the Germans left behind after the war. Most of them, aside from the ones the Navy got, were eventually rechambered to NATO standards.
>>65045070Horse-pilled again
>>65044942>is the famas any goodIt was pretty good for its time (better than the L85); now it's sort of dated.
Wunderwaffe.
>>65046931Did another donkey video get released?
>Cousin buys functioning replica of the old Colt single-action>Lets me shoot it a few times>It's awesome>Now I'm considering getting into weapon collectingStupid Colt just had to be the gateway to a new expensive hobby
>>65046908If you want to keep ammo on the cheap side, the Ruger Single Six is both wonderfully functional and has the look down to a t. Get one that comes with both .22lr and .22wmr cylinders, and you've got some nice versatility.
>Video of a Shahed drone being shot down by a battle-tested Ukrainian P1-Sun interceptor drone in the Middle EastNow we know why Zelensky was doing his gulf states tour
>>65046269>this stupid little stunt + epsteinthe epstein thing wherein he's completely innocent
>>65046782>goes out of his way to protect everyone involved and makes sure nobody gets prosecuted and brought to justice>censors multiple names to protect pedos>makes sure to name the victims and have them harrassed>completely innocentSure bro.
>>65046836none of this happened as you say it has
>>65045561>loses AWACS to country with no air forceThey had an air force a month ago. What happened to it?
>>65033729It's public theater. It's a show for the Russians and the people dumb enough to believe it. Behind the scenes, the uSA is sending Ukraine whatever it needs, DARPA is pulling out it's latest and greatest, and organically creating the most effective weapons systems to push Russians back and knock their very expensive cruise missile spam out of the sky.
How viable are battlemechs as weapons of war?Does having legs make them too vulnerable?
Jess Christ, how is this thread still alive? Its the post equivalent of a zombie mech.
>>65042053Dedicated mecha autists.
>>65042203Have you done your taxes yet?
>>65045007Yes>>65042053Mech is life.
People often look at this through the robot themselves but I think we're overlooking the weapons these mechs are packing. Even at a grunt level, the Zaku's machine gun is an automatic Abrams cannon. Maybe that's why in-universe, they're not just putting these weapons on a tank because we can't even do that.
How do you think it's going to go down? I imagine there won't be an infantry presence until it's practically leveled.
>>65046455Kharg Island basically looks like a Battlefield 2 map so I imagine it's going to go down exactly like that. There will be rapid territorial gains as the IRGC try to take their defensive neutral control points, unable to attack the US rubber boats. However due to the "assault" style of the map, and the layered defensive lines, it'll turn into a meatgrinder real fast. There will be a building down a hill where all the Americans will shelter and grenade spam onto a poorly rendered hotel uphill that acts as the IRGC control point. The bottom floors are accessible for suicide-C4, but the IRGC will consistently repel squad attacks. Even if the point is lost, the proximity of the next IRGC control point will make it basically untenable to hold for the Americans.The strategy I think is most likely to work is if a squad on voice can get past the hotel on the sly, and coordinate a push on the hotel at the same time as they capture the rear control point. If they both go neutral at the same time? Check mate. But tickets are counting and if this can't be done quickly, we might see a total failure to break out of the quagmire and players will just settle into their roles, hunker down, and wait to go next. Commander's artillery is liable to cause TK and I suspect two commanders from both teams will be autobanned for friendly fire. No one is hitting pg_dn to forgive in this conflict. However, this is an expansion pack so as it stands we're seeing the server failing to populate, and randos hopeful that the server will reach a stable 24 players will continue to fuck around in 'waiting for players to join'. During this time it wont be unreasonable to see the US forces pushed all the way back to their carrier spawn point, and the kind of animosity that will brew from camping the plane spawn might bleed into the game when the match starts for real. If so the cohesiveness of the US air force will be at risk of total disintegration. Welcome to doody.
>>65046741>Kharg Island basically looks like a Battlefield 2 map That's because it's based on a Battlefield 3 map. Iran never paid a cent to the hard working game developers who came up with the idea.
>>65046768Yet another case of Iranians stealing Swedish intellectual property rights. However, here we go straight into politics; because if the US recognised the ICC then they could avoid this conflict simply by issuing a C&D. This would reduce tickets to zero and password protect the server on map change.
>>65046484what happens if we commit a bunch of resources to taking it and then they just say fuck you eat shit we didn't want it anyway we're not giving up and then just wreck the place?
>>65046455Bomb it and that's it. Kharg isn't worth holding, it's not Iwo Jima, it's a barrel for ducks.
This probably has been asked a lot, but are bolters realistic? And if they could exist, would they be as good at penetrating armor as the tabletop game suggests?
>>65043627Why?
>>65044404Because warhams has cool weapons.?
>>65038900It should also be remembered that in lore the typical space marines engagement doesn't involve fair fights. Early lore was much more calm about space marine's capabilities, and said they'll do badly in the open. They're not supposed to sit there tanking lasgun hits, they're supposed to engage in ship boarding actions, or do a huge orbital drop onto a HQ. Obviously tabletop stats aren't purely comparative, but they are meant to be an indicator and it's a reasonable assumption that a bolter really is meant to be about as powerful as a heavy stubber.
>>65045171This tracks, seeing as if you play guard, bolters of the heavy variety are one of your options for your heavy weapon squads. The others being heavy stubbers, lascannons, and I think some manner of mortar, and a heavy flamethrower for kriegers.
>>65045292I fucking love mortars.
Why didnt eastern swords have handguards?They used swords for far longer than europe because they didnt learn about guns yet so how come their sword tech is still so shit? I hear that they are all horse archers but surely they have to dismount and fight after running out of arrows.
>>65039864>That went away when robbers could afford flintlocks in a large calibre that could just kill the horse with a single shot to it's chest Depending on region, some robbers would still try to do it the old-fashioned way, with sharpened bits of steel on pointy sticks. In some places, being a criminal wasn't an automatic death sentence (replaced with deportation to the colonies), but using a firearm in felonies would always mean summary execution if caught.
>>65042070Unlike flashy fairground toys like the urumi, pata were considered "serious" warfighting weapons when wielded by a decently-trained soldier.
>>65042916I posted the previous image of one, but to me it feels less like a battlefield weapon, and more like some kind of duel weapon.
>>65042916>>65042953they're indians. the only time indians ever won a war was against the portugese. their weapons weren't great
>>65041641Fun aside, there was a brief intersection in sword cultures during the Dutch/Portuguese period of trade with Japan. What this largely amounts to (inasmuch as what has survived and been cataloged), are smallswords in the Northern European (as in north of the Alps) form, with decoration emblematic of Japanese sword design. Usually called Sawasa swords, they're really cool and I've only ever seen the blackening/bluing and lacquer like this done on some giga rare Napoleonic era French turbo high ranking presentation swords. Usually Euro blades with Japanese made hilt fittings, look at the huge physical difference of the relief details on the pommel and inside of the guard. >More photos here: https://friedlandarms.com/an-early-sawasa-hilted-small-sword-with-scabbard-circa-1690-1700/
Post gear, discuss gear.Cutting Edge / New Shit EditionOld: >>65023454
/gq/ Infographic Emporium:https://imgur.com/a/gq-infographic-emporium-1-00-1lZ5xw6Legacy Infographic Reserve: https://imgur.com/a/k-infographic-reserve-AIKzwWF>Last time on /gq/, RMA became the lolcow of armor and discontinued the XRT. Gilliam released lame-ass ICW plates. A2 did battle with Anon on whether dump pouches are ass.>QUICK ARMOR GUIDE 2.165CODE: * = active NIJ-cert, ^ = NEEDS SOFT ARMOR, DND = do not drop, ** = military.>Special Rifle Threat (M855A1, no M80 <44mm BFD):Budget: Hesco T212 or L211Mid-Range: Hesco M210High-End: Hesco U210 / U211, LSAPI**, or Tencate CR-6450SA.>CONUS Minimum (M80, M855, M193):Budget: Expired Hesco 3611C, surp SAPI**^, or Gilliam 6001Mid-Range: Hesco 3612* or 3810*Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Well in terms of new shit, Adept Armor wrote an article about combat drugs.https://www.ade.pt/chemical-endurance-the-pharmacology-of-russian-military-stimulant-programs/
>>65046593Will give this a read in the morning. I need mysterious Russian chems to finally quit nicotine.
>>65046593>no free lunch We have an insider at adept it seems.
>Just talked to them. They said the XRTs were a limited run and they have no plans to sell them again.RMA XRT is apparently no more. Now RMA has... nuffin?
Still looking for info/advice about making synthetic stocks at home. Fiberglass, carbon fiber, resin, foam, that kind of thing, not nylon.Previous: >>64933822
>>65044028Those are nice rifles for walking around with, boomers love them. They don't suit the tripod at all
About to grab a LTT 1301, what red dot should I put on it?
>>65044028It can't decide what it wants to be.Really it's a much shittier version of the Browning BLR. If you want a mag fed lever action rifle look into it. Japanese made, great shooters, and only a little bit more money. They don't use AR magazines though.>>65044029Lighter than a bull barrel, less overheating and stringing shots than a pencil profile. The biggest downside is that it also lightens your wallet. Theoretically it's also possible for the carbon fiber to delaminate and cause horrible barrel harmonics problems or even catastrophic failure but that's pretty rare.>>65044230Depends if the gun you are running them out of is picky. If so, stick to what you know works. If not, buy a box and try it.>>65043083Yes but insignificant.>>65040808I have a Pre-B CZ-85 (just a 75 with ambidextrous controls) and it's a great gun. I don't see where CF has them in stock currently but if the price is comparable to a current production B model I'd consider it. The only downside I've found is that modern CZ-75 pattern magazines seem to be a little wider so you have to scrounge around for the older Pre-B pattern. New production mags seem to just get stuck in the magwell.82s and 83s are VERY nice if comparing to a PPK or Makarov PM. Again, value depends on the price and 82s are way cheaper because they are more abundant, at the trade-off of ammunition that is harder to find.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65044724Bless you anon
>>65045918Vortex just came out with a direct mount enclosed optic for shitguns that's supposed to fit "every" tapped receiver, czech it outhttps://vortexoptics.com/viper-shotgun-enclosed-micro-red-dot+reticle-3~MOA~Dot
