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>>64683848Once again, the superiority of atacs IX is clear
>>64683910i wish they raped me at gun point
>>64683848>pencott badBut what if pencott good?
>>64684831Yep. Drones and thermals used to cost literal tens to hundreds of thousands dorrars. Now they cost pittance and with vastly improved capabilities. I call all the drone deniers here as "Horse Cavalry Majors" for their obstinance.
>>64683848Multicam tropic is clearly the best here, closely followed by a-tacs ix
>1990s>all sorts of different assault rifles, battle rifles, SMGs, PDWs>2020s>everything is an AR or an AKwhat happened?
>>64686636>But what about AKs?What about them? They're dying too. They are on life support because of how iconic they are, but ammunition is drying up thanks to economic sanctions on Russia where almost all of it came from. Imports have to cross a tenuous shifting goat bridge suspended entirely by red tape that shifts like the weather. US made AKs are either fantastically expensive, cut corners to where they are downright unsafe to use, or both.People still want AKs and are willing to accept their downsides up to a point, but most people are doing the math and just getting an AR instead. Despite holding out better than almost any other non AR design even the AK is becoming a niche item nowadays. Thankfully it isn't there yet, but tariffs aren't helping.
>>64686636>>64686649this is why civil and legal history is always going to be more interesting and more important than military historyyep, with enough knowledge of it you can pretty much predict the future
>>64686676We had Zastava and PPU drop out of the IS market altogether this year (allegedly only on a temporary basis) due to political problems on their end. Shit happens. Anything imported can disappear overnight for a wide range of reasons.
>>64686615Standardization happened. If an alliance or conglomerate sees the logistical value in standardizing on a particular ammunition then standardizing on parts support is the logical next step
>>64686615why make many gun when same gun do many thing
Fucking things been in the fleet for nigh 500 years, and kept getting obliterated by Vanduul ships at Vega, and the Javelin destroyers weren't much better. I guess the chin mounted railgun and hanger are nice, but what does that really get you when Vanduul Maulers can shred them to pieces in an instant. Not to mention the hanger only carries 2 fighters.I guess it does fine as a patrol frigate, but I really don't get why the Navy hasn't replaced this decrepit geezer of a ship in the main battle fleets.
Luv me Gladiator.Simple as
Isn't this "game" literally an investment scam? Holy fuck if they're shilling on /k/ of all places, then they must be scraping the bottom of the barrel
>>64685590>>>/vmg/
>>64685711nah they had a really good 2025 breaking the previous funding record by 35mil~ the most recent patch adding official VR support seems to have also done some good for them.
>>64685711They collected enough money to buy an actual irl naval corvette.
>in war your aim should be to defeat your enemies Huh... I guess people back then weren't so stupid after all?
>>64684727>military class gets gutted by a long period of conflict>have to start letting people from outside this class command armiesit's basic because it's an introductory text for newfagsthink of it like Warfare For Dummies, not a PhD thesis
>>64684851Honestly if McNamara read Mao or Sun Tzu we might never have lost Vietnam. Western military thought is too focused on winning wars. East Asian military thought is actually more about conquest than the winning of wars which is why I think it complements European warfare really well.
He truly is the Jordon Peterson of his field.
>>64686095don't diss Sun Tzu like that
>>64684727Tell that to Putin.
How effective were these things? Obsidian is said to be extremely sharp and multiple edges instead of one straight blade might be extremely painful.
>>64634477This is bullshit.
>>64680029prove it
>>64683609https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank%C5%8D
>>64665416would. raw.
>>64683651fake news
Will we ever get another one of these or will all wars be 24/7/365 slaughterfests going forward?
Not when the only people there are to shoot at are Muslims.
>>64679607Or Tommy and Hanz thought>fuck this shitWhich was promptly stomped out from above never to happen again, and trading games between trenches and foxholes got replaced with grenades once vile canuks got in on the action
>>64678711Retarded Marxist bullshit. WW1 was one of the very few wars where this could actually be true.
>>64678693I'll honestly never understand how this even happened. Those two aren't neighbors that got into a heated argument and are now shaking hands with a few beers
How widespread was the truce? Would it have been possible for them to all flee/"defect" to Switzerland or whatever? They probably wouldn't cause it would mean expatriotizing themselves and they didn't know what was coming, but supposing they did and wanted to advocate for peace could they have logistically done it?
Was it better than the su27?
>>64685132the production su 57s have an actual 1500ish module AESA, dont they? Even their modernised flankers are still on cope "hybrid" PESA
>>64685655posting stupid questions that are easily answered by wikipedia is not bannable (though it should be)you must be a little 'tarded yourself for not knowing that
>>64685099Ethiopia had female fighter pilots in 1999?
>>64684738They actually don't. I love the F-16, but it's an export model.
>>64684015They're shit for anything other than climb rate. But, because of that, their shitty engines get rekt 8x faster than Western ones. Our RMAF Fulcrums are now useless barnyard birds because of this. Our Flankers are still flying due to spare parts from India. Russia has shit tier aftermarket service. When we asked to buy new engines, they pushed for us to buy new airframes.
Could plastic garbage from the ocean be used for 3D printers for printing guns like FGC-9?
>>64624726What wars are the fish fighting?
>>64624726Filthy eastoids.
>>64680447Why would you do that, lol, they're fucking ugly. Their women in particular look like they're covered in a layer of shit.
>>64681326>>64683099Of course there's a lot of trash in the philippines. That trash is called pinoys
>>64636072idk what the outrage over these caps is. its a fucking pain in the ass to constantly have caps building up somewhere like on my desk or in the storage compartment in my truck. always building up stashes of fucking bottle caps everywhere.
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>>64684933I have a truck, yes I have a Stetson on my dashYes I technically live in a suburbNo my truck is not liftedI put the bare minimum amount of money into my truck because I would rather be buying guns.At least it’s paid for. People who get into debt buying vehicles are stupid.
>>64686456Yea, it sucks anywhere east of the Mississippi. That said on NYE I am going to load my percussion pistols up with powder and wads and blast them for my kids.
>>64686326Thanks fren!
>>64686450pretty much
>>64685624Spectacular gut, Randers.As for you question; Hasnt got that cold this year yet, though, today it may have been with the wind chill, crazy windy, but im working on my zero's so shooting in that wind would've been silly.>>64685977>17hmrsounds gay.Get a .17wsm>>64686062>bren 2 mogs ar15.Bait
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
>>64685909>Just how many 1903s got the treatment thatBruce Canfield says at least 101,775. The problem is that Mk.I production was coincidental with standard M1903 production at Springfield. 163,332 receivers were serialized between the first Mk.I recorded and the last Mk.I recorded, but not all were Mk.I configuration.>thing was (never?) fielded.About 3,000 Mk.I rifles and devices spent nearly a decade in the Panama Canal Zone. That’s as close as they came to any real service.>>64686272They’re prized because they’re cool, even if an impractical solution. Most crazy ideas like that never even hit prototype stage, much less mass production.
>>64686349It died a hero, instead of living long enough to become a villain.
I ordered an antique Swiss 1889 from Atlantic Firearms yesterday. Pretty excited about that, though I need to find ammo and chargers for the damn thing now.
Finally got out and shot my M96 FSR that I got almost 2 months ago, as well as a couple other guns that I had acquired this fall and not shot yet. A combination of busy weekends or shit weather has led to me not going to the range for almost 3 months. I enjoy the sights, but I believe this rifle has seen many more rounds through it than my regular M96. The trigger on my M96 is much smoother, and it might be more accurate. I’ll have to pit them against each other sometime.
>>64686571Congratulations. I’ve been wanting one off Simpson. And you are aware it fires 7.5x53.5mm gp90, not 7.5x55mm gp11, right?
Pistol related but last question thread died a while ago. Are all 1911 .45 barrels interchangeable with all other 1911 models? I've got a Kimber and want a threaded barrel for it and I'm wondering if I should just get a Kimber barrel for it.
>>64685602I didn't consider that.AUG was always 1:9FNC, HK33, Galil and AR70 were both 1:12 then went to 1:7AR18 was 1:12 for the most part FAMAS went from 1:12 on the F1 to 1:9 on the G2Ruger Mini-14s seem to have gone from 1:10 to 1:9 and later 1:7 on some models.So that seems to be by en large the pattern. Most of the old school 223/5.56mm rifles started as 1:12 but went to 1:7 around the 1980s. 1:9 existed here and there though. It seems that 1:8 is really a commercial US AR-15 thing more than anything, and I vaguely recall S&W M&P15s starting the trend but theirs were originally gain twist if I remember correctly.
can you get this sig gun nowadays in this configuration? Are they still imported?
>>64686206Yes. They are imported from Switzerland as "handguns" in order to sidestep 922r, you have to buy the stocks separately. They are also fuckspensive.https://atlanticfirearms.com/sig-pe90-p-5-56-pistolhttps://atlanticfirearms.com/sig-pe90-p-pistol
>>64686217Oh nigga you can buy a car for $7k are swiss okay.Btw does anyone know the difference between those two?
>>64686230I don't know if it's entirely up to the Swiss, I suspect that the importer is only getting a small amount of these pistols and trying to make a huge profit on each one to make it worthwhile. Taking the stocks off and claiming they are pistols is also a bit of a stretch. That's after somebody in Switzerland would have had to rebuild them on new semi auto only receivers as well since I think the original ones would have been full auto with a blocked selector which wouldn't be legal to import.
PCC thread for my newest fixation. MP5-SD clonePost with me to celebrate, rimfire welcome
>>64686547It will a little bit, just remember it has to go somewhere. Pic is from my buddy's fitelight MG when a spark caught all the unburnt powder alight inside his brass/link catcher. It's probably a good idea to have vents so nothing pressurizes and breaks.
>>64685086>sp9a3s pdw>omega 9k>trilug>go mags>tui 80 grain +p>x300u-b>acro>reptilla mount>hb safety and bolt release>bfg subgun slingYou go now.
>>64686574That's metal as fuck
>>64675681I have it on good authority from a specialist in private mall security that the HK MP5 can not feed HSTs so you must be lying.
>>64686578okpost a picsounds intriguing I do like gp
post photographs of counter-insurgency aircraftpiston engine, turboprop, or jet powered
>>64675825>>64675949
>>64674363thats not napalm, thats a daisy chain of pyrotechnics being detonated to simulate a napalm strike in apocalypse now during the aircav scene.
>>64682122>Nothing will ever compare to the skyraiderNothing, other than... a turboprop Skyraider.
How is Ukraine able to receive this quality of video feed and send controls to low fly drones targeting airbases inside of Russia?
>>64686592Worse! Not even an option for a cucumber in the ass
>>64685064>the Russians are literally selling oil to the Saudis so the Saudis use it for their internal use and they export more Saudi oil to the EUSaudi internal consumption is a fraction of EU consumption and only a fraction of Saudi internal consumption can be ascribe to Russian imports.>Indians refine it and resell as Indian. Same with south American and African producers. Literally everyone is fucking the EU on energy from the us to India because of this while the cost to Russia is a slight discount usually ranging between 5% to 10% of the market price. Meanwhile eu pays 20% to 40% premium compared to pre war on oil and gas.1. There are no markets that can replace EU consumption to where Russia can export hence the drop in Russian exports across the board in its energy sector2. That's the cost of decoupling from Russia>If the nato/west was serious about screwing with Russia financialsRussian financial are seriously screwed up. With oil prices as low as they are they can no longer sustain their government spending. This is what even the Russian central bank is saying. Oil prices are lower than their lifting+transportation costs.>Just a partial blockadeA blockade needs to be enforced.>This would put Russia on a brutal economic clock where they would run out of money by the end of 2026 instead than in the next 4 years.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64684955>>64685394One of the things massively crippling Russian agriculture is they don't produce seed and import it from Europe; without it they have to use native varieties that simply aren't as good and initially just were not available.Russia and Belerus are also getting massively fucked by not being able to import western pesticides. That plus the mysterious sudden popularity of French fries in Pyongyang combined with Luka profiteering is why the last two years have resulted in potato shortages. >>64685927They really don't have what it takes, Juche requires a whole set of unique conditions that are simply not possible in Russia. At best the cities would temporarily resemble the USSR if Beria was in charge and rural areas would look it was Pol Pot giving the orders then it would collapse very quickly. Russia's geography and ethic diversity alone makes it impossible. The only industrialized nations (and Juche requires alot of heavy industry) that come close to the geographic preconditions i can think of is Spain and maybe France (probably not, too many borders) and those are an mess in terms of Ethnos.
>>64686663>sudden popularity of French fries in PyongyangThat still counts as total American cultural victory, right?
>>64686669>french fries>americanAlthough they're more Belgian than French, these places have fast foods based around french fries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friterie
Post M1911s
>>64685322It's more like 75% Star, and 25% 1911.
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>>64685184Hey bud why does your 1911 look so weird?
>>64686664He said 'post' M1911
