FPV attack drones already rolling out, 16–20 a day. Bigger toys coming: Vitol fixed-wing, 5m wingspan, 50kg payload, planned 1,000km tests. K1 kamikaze drone with the same range, 30kg warhead. Skifteri for MoD/export.
New Abrams just dropped
>>64761102Highlights:1. Unmanned turret2. Three-man crew3. Hybrid diesel-electric. No more turbine.4. Weight reduction to 60 tons5. Cupholders
>>64756235Let’s see that Leo 2 kd ratio and compare it with the abrams
>>64760979They are ok at anything and only great at recon. In every other role we already have way more efficient weapons.
>>64761237Ok, let's see it
>>64761192just need to call them AILoaders, then they will be good
Merry Christmas you beautiful anons!If you haven't received your package, please submit an email to me and we will start tallying the late arrivals, and then sorting between folks who are likely to get theirs in the next few days vs those who the dreaded USPS has lost forever. We will be dispatching the Grinch Relief Corps (GRC) as needed to remedy. Send grinch relief applications to wendigohunter at protonmail dot comthread theme: https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU?si=--taGzS1BwZ1KnRTold thread>>64643227
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>>64744860Well it's a bit like the old Soviet-era joke.The dad worm and the son worm walk together:"Dad" says the son worm "Living in an apple, it is great, right?""Yes, my son, living in an apple is great.""Dad, living in a plum, it is incredible, right?""Yes, son. Living in a plum is incredible.""Dad? Living in a peach is marvelous, right?""Yes, indeed. Living in a peach is truly marvelous.""So dad... why do we live in a dog shit?""Because, son.... it is the fatherland."
>>64745113Package was shipped on Tuesday, Ahab has tracking and I can send that too if you want
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>>64758176>"So dad... why do we live in a dog shit?">"Because, son.... it is the fatherland."And why do Russians like living like this?
Realistically, what firearm would you need to take down a rampaging Na'vi from the Avatar films? Nine feet of solid muscle and bone (reinforced with natural carbon fibre), extremely fast-moving and agile, fighting on their own turf with very short engagement distances? There's no way 5.56 mm would cut it, would 7.62mm be enough?
>>64761114>He wasn't already into amazonsFor me it's orc women
>>6475294712ga buckshot unironically
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>>64758266Is steel plate stronger than plexiglass or transparent aluminum or whatever the windshields of their helos were using? That stuff was able to bounce their arrows until they they used their dragon thingies to build more momentum.
>>64752949my faith in the fpbp remains unshaken
why didn't the vector catch on?
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>>64760017>3 feet long >like 12 pounds>it’s just a PCC with a pistol-length barrelYou paid actual, real life, non-monopoly money for one?
funny line in middle
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>>64754974It's a shitty just-good-enough-for-Bundeswehr-contract *rifle* design, not one of HK's finer moments. Polymer receiver of theirs worked relatively better for shorter-OAL dimension guns like its MP7 (best) and UMP cousins, and the short-barrel G36 'carbine' variants are passable for under-100 meter CQB submachine gun missions. It is a light weight, cheap to manufacture (Bundeswehr contract, again) and mechanical-function-cycle durable design. The LMG derivative of G36 wasn't suitable for sustained fire due to trunnion melt and thus dropped from further engineering development
USA spent on average 250 000 bullets per kill in Afghanistan & Iraq.
>>64758647the more bullets shot the fewer American deaths and the only thing that matters is American deaths and casualties since we value American lives, unlike third world countries like yurop where ammo prices are more important than yuro lives
>>64761202>exact same wayWdym
>>64760599So a bullet is like a wireless penis, therefore the enemy will get erect when fired upon, right? Thus the true purpose of suppressive fire is to deny the sexuality of your enemy by forcibly supplanting your own. To test this I suggest we must start a war, have verified straight men get fucked in the ass on both sides while near machine guns suppressing the enemy, and if any man getting fucked cums that means a.) they’re not gay and b.) what I said above was indeed correct.
>>64761094Thurdie world view is litterally "haha you didn't genocide us to extinction therefore we win and your a pussy!"
>>64758647>that picAmerican's don't know what the purpose of a lafette mount is?
Post your most interesting, cool or weird uniforms and kits. Pic related isBengal troops uniforms during colonial period.
>>64760767>Are we Russia... maybe? That doesn't feel right though.
>>64742471What happened to the Chinese cat men?
>>64760742>Meanwhile in the Balkans:
>>64760827kinda makes sense when you consider its the balkans. 90% of what they do down there is Mob from valley X attacks a mob from valley Y because someone mispronounced a word last summer (the occurrence of this event is disputed).
>>64760827Khevsurs. From WORLD WAR ONE.Possibly descended from Crusaders who got lost.
Edition edition.Guide: https://files.catbox.moe/9g5sv2.pdfPastebin: https://pastebin.com/gs6mLNik>>64745514
Gts centurion or LTT centurion?
>>64761297I think the thumb lever is stupid and gets in the way of my high thumb grip
Okay now this is epic.Lyman is introducing a line of extreme value silencers, including .22 and 9mm. Prices are said to be "between $199 and $299" across the board, so street price should be rather lower.https://www.lymanproducts.com/sonicoreI'd love to see more Finland type shit now the tax stamp isn't a consideration, it makes cheap and simple silencers a reasonable compromise
>>64761347very interesting
Luv the Maglite look
Starting with this piece of shit. Any gun that gets a cracked frame within 20,000 rounds is an irredeemable hunk of absolute dogshit. That isn’t even a high round count for 9mm. Glock runs circles around beretta.
>>64751743It has to be rated above average to be over rated anon
>>64751747You go to work camp now!
>>64751865This guy keeps posting his wrists and getting bodied on here. My guy, please just learn how to weld, it pays well and you can post on here without ridicule as your wrists will double in size within 6 months
>>64751111Be polite and the quads will reward you
>>64753860>tracking>altering position using joy stick>acquiring target>fiddling with joy stick abit more>re acquiring >tracking >firing three round burstGet fucked anon, I just shot you
Should Japan also get one of those drone mother ships Singapore is getting? I think the izumo could carry lots of kamikaze drones.
>>64757812Drones can carry missiles and bombs and even the suicide drones are at least theoretically recoverable. Missiles are one off things. That's the main difference.
>>6476038871% are rookie numbers. Singapore's is like 89% last I heard.
>>64760364I think you're fucking stupid.
>>64760692Shut the fuck up. Unmanned systems loving faggot
>>64758392what if we gave it a relatively cylindrical profile so we could stack them vertically in some sort of storage/launch mechanism?
burger Anons, you know how annoying as FUCK it is to ship handguns, due to how you have to drop it off at a UPS distribution center since USPS won't take em because of some weird ancient reg?Well, not anymore!https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1423701/dl>I hope this isn't viewed as political, I just wanted to share the news.
>>64760841Well that makes shipping my USP to get cerakaoted a fuck load cheaper. I'm glad this mess finally got sorted out because it was absurd trying to ship pistols anywhere
>>64760858faggot
>>64760947>>64760986>>64760992literally every member of the commie party wants a complete ban and confiscation. the justice department under the previous pres literally argued in federal court that cops should just be allowed to walk into people's homes without a warrant or talking to a judge and take people's guns just because they wanted to and also argued in federal court that background checks existed to act as a barrier for law abiding citizens to get guns while doing nothing to prevent criminals from getting guns
>>64761316anon this thread is about saving a few bucks a year and an hour of driving whenever you need to ship a peeestol to someone
>>64761325I was replying to the homos who were calling this low hanging fruit and a token gesture
Turns out I was wrong. idk where I read that Teddy liked peep sights, I know the one letter is about him buying a .22 with peep sights https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o293878/it must have been for the Smithsonian African tripI'll post the other version of the letter in the next post but, it turns out he always used what are basically express sights with a u notch in the bottom with a ramped front bead. https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss38299.mss38299-363_0001_0271/?sp=106&r=0.447,0.157,0.595,0.233,0in his autobiography he specifically mentions drawing a bead on things, including an injun. he also straight up couldn't shoot for shit. He even admits he was a piss poor long range shot due to his shit eyes. eyes so she he couldn't get peeps to work. Peeps must still be the most accurate because every shooting competition that allows peeps but doesn't allow a scope has everyone using peeps over open sights. I wonder if he would use a red dot today or if his eyes were so shit he's seethe about the starburst
yeah
>>64759866Fuck yamudda
keep me posted
>>64759866Mostly just heard he'd mag dump because of his poor eyesight (point shooting).
>>64761314every single hunting story quote I've heard that he wrote involved him mag dumping.
They're considered to be some superweapon that could change the tide of a war. But let's take the current war in Ukraine, if Russia were to deploy tactical nukes against military targets, could It realistically enable a proper breakthrough in any of the fronts?
>>64759232Soviet military theory was that they could simply nuke holes in NATO's defensive lines and then drive through the blast zones (hence their obsession with a fully mechanized and mostly amphibious force, all of which were equipped with some form of NBC protection (lol lmao your logistics though)). But studies done after the war concluded that not only would attempting this probably not work out so well, it would actively backfire since it would destroy roads, create impassable firestorms in wooded areas, and of course there's the issue of casualties from radiation and that the breakthrough force couldn't have a logistical tail following it. A timely offensive according to Soviet timetables anywhere besides northern Germany (which would be the main push regardless, not the fulda gap) was deemed unrealistic, even in an ideal scenario where the soviets gained air superiority (lol, lmao). The czechs believed they wouldn't even be able to cross the border in force due to how poorly suited the terrain was, NATO could shut down any major offensive by simply air striking two highways.
>>64761142>The czechs believed they wouldn't even be able to cross the border in force due to how poorly suited the terrain was, NATO could shut down any major offensive by simply air striking two highways.It was basically just as bad in fulda. Any approach south of Nordhauzen would need to pass through Eisenach before branching into one of the few directions they could take, with it being an east german city.I spent some time looking at topographic maps of the area and ended up making pic related to make this point. On another note even the north German plain wasn't very plain and its upper hilly half down south was substantially urbanized with tons of towns and villages within almost view distance from each other all across, which would suck for those living there but would be leave soviet attackers expecting to march through a "plain" quite dumbfounded.
>>64761238I have an old document buried at home somewhere, but by the 80s the V Corps believed they could contain the entire CGF within 5 days at.. I don't remember where, exactly. The Soviets weren't even going to make it to the main. Then by the late 80s there were crazy plans for army level decapitation strikes able to shut the CGF down even in a bolt-from-the-blue scenario with no US buildup from peacetime.
>>64761258Bad Hersfeld was one of the primary nuke targets, followed by the Alsfeld since the roads to Giessen and Fulda both go through there. There's actually a Fulda gap museum in Germany that even has a website talking about the emplacements, history and various vectors of attack, albeit it's only in German.I hadn't read about it but from looking at the map Eisenach is an incredible choke point so bombing it would completely shut down any progress north of Witzenhauzen/Kassel wholesale. Bomb it, mine it and then bomb it again, repeating as necessary and there's nowhere for the soviets to go but north. Even better is that unlike Bad Hersfeld and Alsfeld it's not a west German city so there'd be no bad taste in nuking it either.And around Kassel there are similar mountainous choke poins and road-contnected population centers up north so they'd need to take Gottingen/Witzenhauzen before approaching it, which would completely negate the plans for any quick offensive altogether.
>>64759232Soviets were in the habit of bragging that "The Peace Movement" was "more powerful than Atomic weapons." Considering Paris and Moscow spending multiples of their war materiel aid to Vietnam on psyopping the US public, they may have a point. Fallout and 'nuclear winter' are canards vitiated by airbursting (which is more energy efficient anyways). The point of going kinetic is capitulation, then taking the land for yourself. Not a lot of sense if you've just created a continent sized Chernobyl.
If you're the dictator of a shithole how do you prevent the hollowing out/paper tigerization of your military over time? All of these had strong capable militaries until one day they didn't and got their cheeks busted and wig split
>>64750477become an economic partner and regional ally of the united states
>>64757457Assuming nothing is done to inflect American politics in a more constructive direction, it will take two more election cycles before the rot sets in and entrenches itself
>>64761133this
>>64750477Just don't become a shithole in the first place? Literally all enemies of America are total hellholes because they deliberately and willingly decided they would be just to spite the West. Simply not doing this instantly makes you ten times richer and more stable.
>>64750783Norks are "stable" because they exist as a buffer state between China and US allied counties (SK and Japan)
Any anons here ever been to ShootSmart? Its pretty much the only range I hear about in DFW, but they seem extremely expensive: Their prices put me off but their also the closest range to my neighborhood so their convenient...Would you say if I shoot at the minimum 2-3 times a month that a membership would be worth it? How much money would I realistically save? If you get their most expensive membership you get to shoot at the lanes for free and get a free FFL, which is tempting but I'm not sure if its worth it bros...their normal prices are as follows>Public Shooting Lane: $17>Private Shooting Lane: $32>FFL: $45And that's not even counting everything else. Like I've seen Holosun Sights easily going for $400+ there. I think that they upcharge everything to get you to buy a membership, which is pretty scummy, but I am tempted I'm ngl.
>>64759937>Rifle range doesn't accept FMJ ammo.I was pretty excited reading about Elm Fork until I saw that.
>>64760026nta but yeah huh, that's quite an odd set of range rules, not that I'm any range expert but while steel core or API I can understand a little if they're worried about sparks why on earth would you ban FMJ unless you were running lead free entirely, but in that case it'd include TMJ/TSJ/bonded etc too not just FMJ. And only on the 100yd range, not on the 50yd? And also they want you to have at least 3x mag, does that mean a variable optic is ok if the range jannie sees you dialed it up enough but not at base or does it require you to run an HPVO or something? Usually when you see something strange you can at least theorycraft as to why but I don't get some of those at all.
>>64760026I shot FMJ there though not the 100 yard
just go to texas defensive shooting academy (tdsa) down in ferris. outdoors with bays. its where colion noir goes if you can recognize it. been going for years and its super sweet if you can stomach the drive. i believe it to be worth it, but to each their own. never taken someone who didnt think it was worth it
>>64757503>have range membership>haven't gone in a while at least I paid for a lifetime membership but I really need to go
