Could the Secret Service fight off a raid of Tier 1 operators?
>>64674064If the president was aaron eckhart then yes. If it was jamie foxx then hand him over.
>>64687180The Germans seem to have a habit of it lol. Didn't they completely gut their SOF not that long ago for that reason?
>>64677805>>64686974I think its an old pasta. Ask him about Mig29's and we'll see.
>>64674978Delta is only used mostly when you're not on home turf.
>>64679408KEK do jeets make up 13% of malaysia's population by any chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6MfjV2vsdgPresented without comment.
>>64686147>why is this not realbecause china's fundamental values are at odds with the west, not just with america
>>64682196Holy hell if you harnessed the europoor seethe this produced they could reach finally reach their asinine net zero commitments.
>>64681884> Anything that doesn't reaffirm MY worldview by saying my enemies are WEAK and will easily be defeated is EVIL DEMORALIZATION PROPAGANDA what a sad life you must live>>64682074if you don't have anything to contribute other than posting AI sludge please do the human race a favor and don't waste global bandwidth
>>64681592>tfw my shitpost from a year or so ago is now considered high-tech for Russian militaryLol, lmao even.
>>64686255>europoor How does it feel knowing that you live paycheck per paycheck and the slightest drawback could make you homeless, despite earning twice the average euro salary? Do you enjoy having like 3 days of unpaid vacation and being in crippling debt already at 19? And they call us europoors lmao, you're a country of slaves.
>>64678822What are you even talking about?
>>64686793
>>64674700my fav
Thoughts about Baofeng radios?
>>64687817Also, keep in mind, I can talk to the international space station with a baofeng and 5 watts, using the rubber duck, but holding it sideways. That's 250 miles up in the sky. More power isn't what you need on uhf/vhf, it's height. Now, you can argue for extremely high gain antennas being useful (even required) for proper tv reception back in the day. Especially when you want to eliminate noise from outside sources by using a very directional antenna. But it doesn't matter what antenna you put on the roof of your truck, I can sit on top of my house and get better reception with the rubber duck, send and receive. More gain helps to a point with omnidirectional antennas, usually, but even then you don't want too flat of a radiation pattern either.
>>64687039>You need an amplifier and an antenna to get rangeYou don't need an amplifier to get more range out of your handheld. The difference between 5w and 50w isn't very significant when your maximum range is under 100 miles. Keep in mind people use qrp rigs on 10 meters to talk 2,000 miles away. All while using less power than your handheld. Antenna (height and build)>power every time.
>>64687863>>64687877You do this every radio thread. Yet, I never argue with strangers. If your goal is to wear the Baofeng crown, have it. I sure af don't want it. But assuming you have the most RF knowledge and experience on /k/ is presumptive, at best.
>>64685710Thanks, I need to get more crayons to settle down with and chew on this.
>>64687863And here's where I'm going to autistically disagree with you>350wYou're going to get diffraction effects and likely exceed 12-15 miles at 10 foot above ground.
AK General /akg/Kot edition>Thread #2084Old thread here >>64573822
>>64687704Sorry, my bad, meant to say B-11+B-19(N) combo. Then again, it doesn't have rails on the sides of upper handguard either. You may have to go custom for this one, it's a weird place to put a rail on an AK.>>64687914That looks ghetto as fuck. Once again I implore you to research Kochevnik's solution to bulpupping a short AK.
It's an older photo but it's of an aks-74u with a short orange magazine? Does anyone have it?
>>64687994This one?
>>64687632Fab Defense has a railed upper, although it's kinda janky. Seems like most "railed" upper handguards only have a top rail.
>>64688030Nah if I remember correctly it was super high def
Are they an effective, cheaper alternative to heavy aircraft like the AC130 for air support?>Pic-related is an AC235 by KADDB and Orbital ATK
>>64686658>>64686641Indians should get them though, they're Western allies against China and should be armed with superior western aerospace tech
>>64686829gr8 b8 m8
>>64686829So they can piss them away with it competence like the rafales?
>>64686829I don't want to see a ac-130 get shot down over the kashamir mountains
>>64686641>Why don't they export the AC-130 anyway?Because it's just a transport plane with guns on it
Hello everyone. I know how to reload ammo but I lack certain mathematical concepts that are needed to work a load backwards from projected performance. I know you lot can be pretty smart so can you help me? I want to find chamber pressure. The cartridge in question is 7.62x25.Case:>7.62x25Bullet weight:>265 grainsVelocity:>1000 fpsI want 300blk but smaller and dumber.
>>64685651Can't do because no info on the powder.
You can’t load 7.62x25 with 265gr bullets - there isn’t enough available length for the bullet. And even if you could, I don’t think you could get them to go 1000fps. There isn’t enough case capacity for the 600ft*lbs needed.
>>64687753Nobody said that you have to maintain OAL.
>>64687753>I don’t think you could get them to go 1000fpsYou can get them to 1200 fps without exceeding the original pressure spec. You could go way beyond 1200 if you loaded to higher pressure.
>>64687917I stand corrected. Kinda incredible what a tiny case is capable of even at low to medium max pressure. I was however considering normal OAL from a pistol-length barrel.>>64687851True.
Why did US GI's love to smoke cigarettes so much?
>>64687949i never really minded. Fun fact though, I'm a shitty person so i used to intentionally carry around nicotette to hand out to street people who would ask me for a cigarette. The amount of seething it would generate was hillarious
>>64687960made me realize there are different kind o f nicotine addictsYou have the vape people who are adhd brained zoomers/milleneals, the zyn people who are the most addicted to nicotine but the healthiest/most functional, and then the ciggie/dip people who have something else going on psychologically. I think i read somewhere that nicotine is an anti psychotic. Cig smokers were always more depressive while the novel form users were more neurotic
>>64686875you posted complete fiction.>On the next day they found the Marines not practicing what they learned. The area they had been in was near a small river and much food was around it but they never searched or hunted the animal. The hut they were supposed to build, not like a hut at all, it looked like shit. When asked why they don't eat, they said they always eat MREs and when the foods almost out they will radio to send food.That story is a complete fabrication. The Marine Corps has a million schools and courses on jungle warfare and survival, and key components of the curriculum are sustainment in the wilderness and building shelter. Either your FB friend was with a bunch of POGs on a MEU or he made it the fuck up.
>>64684593>did>USYou don't know a lot about soldiers do you?
>ITT zoomer faggots absolutely assblasted by the chad smoker
Why don't modern rifles have a cleaning rod along the barrel anymore with a cleaning kit in the stock/grip?Seems like a pretty inelegant solution to give the soldier these separate maintenance packages when it all could be mounted on the gun, easily and quickly accessed when needed, and never misplaced/lost.
>>64686512If your get a stuck case or a barrel obstruction in the middle of a firefight you can't just ask the enemy to stop shooting so you can clear the jam.
>>64686662>>mortar clearing>rim shears off
How often am I supposed to clean a rifle barrel anyways
>answer my stupid question>NOT THOSE ANSWERS, GIVE ME THE ANSWER I WANT TO HEARWhy don't you just tell us what you want us to say OP? We're probably not going to say it, but you might feel better if you get it off your chest.
>>64686900>making up highly-inprobable circumstances to justify his retardation
38 spl is the best example. It can be shortened to the length of 380 acp but it's not. And after all the changes in service rifle cartridges, I refuse to believe 9 mm is still the best pistol round. Nobody is interested in inmaxed calibers like 5.7 or 30 super carry because they cost more money because nobody is interested in them because they cost more. Like a perpetual motion machine.
>>64685424Can’t you run regular 380 with moon clips in a 9mm chambered revolver anyway?
>>64686182454 in an Alaskan is a fun time. Get a good rhythm and you can shoot pretty rapidly
>>64685460Feel like the north sky marshal should get a mention. No I don’t own one. Wouldn’t turn one down if I came across it and had the cash though..
>>64686366I would assume so. there shouldn't be any more difference between 9mm and .380 on moonclips in a 9mm cylinder than you'd run into with .38s in a .357 cylinder, which is none at all.
>>64685299>I hate how handgun calibers are low effort 100 years old status quo Technologies hit plateaus sometimes.>38 spl is the best example. It can be shortened to the length of 380 acp but it's not.To what end? .38 Special is practically a legacy cartridge, yeah, it's longer than it needs to be, but that's because it's a cartridge from 1898 and was first loaded with blackpowder, where it needed that extra volume. This later allowed for the .357 Magnum cartridge's development.You're looking at a whole bunch of economic and cultural inertia, there's no good reason to make a shorter .38 Special because all of the guns and tooling already exist, and nobody is going to spend more money on getting in on a hypothetically slightly better variant when it's cheaper and more practical to either stick with the older type guns and ammo, or go for something more modern than a revolver anyway.>Nobody is interested in inmaxed calibers like 5.7 or 30 super carry Probably because 5.7mm is dubious as a pistol cartridge, and even less viable from shorter barrels, meaning you can't do subcompacts akin to a 9mm Glock 26 or M&P Shield..30SC is too much of a sidegrade from 9mm Luger to most people to be worth bothering with, particularly when 9mm Luger is going to perform better and be less loud.>>64685339>.38 SuperComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Hey anons, I’ve started getting interested in weapons, militaria, and artillery. But I have no idea how to study or research this topic. Does any anon know or have resources for that? I always look at /k/ threads, or some messages in militaria channels on Telegram, and I get completely jealous of people’s knowledge. They can identify weapons by name, know about calibers, understand military history, etc… I wish I could have the background to join those conversations.
wikipedia my nigga
>>646879761. >>646879802. Strategic Studies Institute publications - The Bear Went Over the Mountain, etc3. Field Manuals are public 4. Commandant's Reading List5. Unironically, play Arma or Wargame for baseline.6. Go to the range / play airsoft / laarp in the woodsMore importantly though, understand why you want all this knowledge. You become a bitter useless weeb when you learn and don't apply. Unless you are going into the military, starting a defense tech company or a PMC, maybe your time is better spent elsewhere. The other point is that there is just too much - an aircraft weeb and a navy weeb won't necessarily have much overlap with a tacticool and a HAM weeb or range weeb with a HEMA weeb, etc. Decide your weeb class.
i wanna turn this cheap PA15 my coworker sold me into a commando style build from black ops 1 like picrel. has anyone here done this before?
>>64685923Post source of this ruling
>>64686007https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/504/505.html Scalia also shits on constructive possession in his opinion, still cucking out on MGs though, he must have had an investment collection.
>>64686100Thanks, I'll give that a read. I'm probably going off outdated knowledge because the "once a rifle, always a rifle" concept was drilled into my head all the way back in ~2008 which is before this case was heard.
>>64686129"Once a rifle, always a rifle" is an atf determination, not a law (chevron removed the weight of that even more). SC ruling is that you actually have to construct an SBR for it to be one (constructive possession only applies if you have no other use for the parts than making a title 2 firearm, Scalia says that constructive posssession is irrelevant except for suppressors because congress passed an amendment relating to suppressor kits, and MGs because they're special or something), part of constructing the SBR is making it in such a way that it is intended to be fired from the shoulder. Like that other anon said, probably needs a test case, but assuming that you don't use the firearm in a crime the atf will probably decline prosecution is you surrender the firearm. I really think the ATF doesn't want anything that challenges the status quo going to trial unless there's other crimes attached to it. I've had unregistered title 2 firearms seized from me in two different states and ATF declined prosecution both times as long as I consented to the destruction of the firearms. They were SBRs, SBSs, and suppressors, maybe they would be harsher with MGs or DDs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LygP7OdULxo
I used to intern with a Class II FFL precision rifle builder who also manufactured some NFA items and no joke, you can literally make a good quality (albeit rough finished) suppressor for under $100 provided you have a lathe. You can make even cheaper wipe suppressors for close to $50 out of pipe tubing you find on amazon. I remember watching this video by an American volunteer in the Ukrainian International Legion who talk about a company in the Czech Republic that sold suppressors for the Bren 2 that cost $125 so clearly it doesn't cost that much to make them yet I'm having a hard time finding anyone selling even shitty .22lr whip suppressors for under $500. Certainly with the NFA tax going away you'd think there'd be a market for cheap suppressors in the US right?
>>64676719John and Barry have 7 other employees, 500 grand of machine tool loans, and $35,000 in monthly business bills.They only sell 300 silencers a month.Do the math on wyat those silencers need to be priced at.
>>64686704Yeah well I do have a few semi autos myself. The point is even with a limited pool of buyers and taxes out the ass they don't cost more than a few hundred. Non-FA rated less than that
>>64676719Until literally the last couple years, NFA ownership has been purposefully made difficult.Traditionally, you'd be physically mailing fingerprints and forms, maybe being denied a CLEO signature because fuck you, perhaps forming a corporation to get around that, and then after all that the ATF would sit on your paperwork for a year specifically to discourage you.While wipes are *suppressor components*, only to be replaced by the factory.If you are enough of an enthusiast to navigate and push through all that, that shit better be heirloom grade.If it had been a 4473 and $200 at the register the whole time, January would be only be moderately interesting.3d printed titanium is likely to remain expensive."Oil filter adapters", "freeze plugs in a tube", and "solvent trap" type suppressors are likely to be quite affordable.Personally, I'm hoping SHOT '26 is absolutely bonkers.
>>64684773kek
>>64687147>3d printed titanium is likely to remain expensive.>"Oil filter adapters", "freeze plugs in a tube", and "solvent trap" type suppressors are likely to be quite affordable.Jesus Christ there are suppressors between titanium and oil filter thoughJust look at some Euro catalogues
Lets settle this once and for all /k/.Using the charging handle to reload is better than using the bolt release on the AR-15, to always ensure a properly seated round, correct? Using the charging handle doesnt take that much more time either.
>>64686846Please explain why the bolt release is less reliable at properly seating a round.
No guns.
>>64686846>This post was typed by nogunz handsUse the bolt release faggot, the buffer spring is stronger than you anyhow, it'll always chamber without you groping it like a fagShit post
>>64687789Technically, the BCG isnt completely maxed out in rearward travel when it gets caught by the bolt catch. So, if you pull it back when It is locked back, you'll get a little bit more spring compression which translates to more forward momentum. More forward momentum means less of a chance of hanging up on dirt and debris and failing to chamber the round.I said technically because its basically bullshit and doesnt matter unless you are in the shit and have little option of performing remedial action. If you are worried at all about failure of going into battery, you should spend time tending to your magazine feed lips (if they need it) and of course making sure your gun is clean and oiled with operable parts.
>>64686846The opposite of this is true. You're much more likely to ride the charging handle or just fail to release at its apex and induce a malfunction than you would be if you just used the bolt release. You have no idea how many "professionals" I've seen induce a double feed by fucking with the charging handle instead of just using the gun as designed. Literally the only time you should touch the charging handle is to lock the bolt to the rear when the weapon is clear or to do remedial action if the rifle malfunctions. >>64687789He can't. It's not. It's orders of magnitude more reliable, especially under stress or in confined spaces.
Post M1911s
>>64685184Hey bud why does your 1911 look so weird?
>>64686664He said 'post' M1911
