New Abrams just dropped
>>64756788BF2 is better. If you can shoot the F-35 out of the sky from the north base while it heads south (a perpendicular shot) on Wake island, I'd take you.
>>64757486It's even uglier now than it was in 2020.
>>64757554they really want to believe in the narrative that drones are a new, near-magical technology that's created a new dreadnought moment where everything that came 'before' is obsolete and finally the hato doesn't have an overwhelming qualitative advantage over their favorite thirdie faction.
>>64757632The M2020 is unrelated to the M2024.>yes, wiki is wrong.
>>64756152disappointing since I was expecting a bit more but as other anons have pointed out this shit is a nigger rigged testbed at best and not anything close to what the final product will be. The M1A3 will have a completely new turret and practically a brand new hull with how much they stand to change/redesign inside and out. The change from torsion bars to hydropneumatic alone should mean a significant redesign of the hull.
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
>>64750783Also helps they're a contained problem, the Norks don't really pose a serious threat to their neighbors or our bottom line, they're already in China and Russia's bag so we don't need to intervene to prevent our enemies from gaining ground. Also they're not resource rich so literally no reason to go picking fights beyond letting the worst koreans introduce best korean women to feminist death cults and their men to militant incelism
What’s the next paper tiger to be exposed, China?
>>64753081surrounded by other despots or stinking barbarians that chopped your head off that wandered into their turf in an age with extremely limited communication and low body counts. So anybody born into the empire could live a relatively hassle free life in their own province that was given large amounts of autonomy as long as they payed their due to Rome. Literacy rates were so low learning to read elevated you to a scholar and all important works ever written were assembled in a single library complex of Alexandria in modern days all dictatorships degenerate into open tyrants. Combination of high body counts, ease of communication, ease of killing (unorganized, unarmed civilians), wealth of information and creeping paranoia
>>64750668All of those things are currently going wrong.How long do you think US has left?
>>64757457Not him, but I think we have another twenty years at most before we draft a new constitution or surrender and become an empire in decline.I'm betting on the latter, mostly because most Americans aren't really paying attention and don't really care to.
> see pic related with my kids> expect whimsical adventure movie about sky pirates with plane autism> it’s a meditation on surivor’s guilt and ptsd from the perspective of a WW1 pilotThat shit had no business hitting so hard. Felt gutted all day. Absolute S tier film. Ghibli’s best imo
>>64749583The Omega Man
13 Hours was quite /k/ino and showed why you should never have an embassy set up in the middle of a city filled with hostiles and shady for-hire groups.Also, A Kite is very /k/ino and versions of it are out there that don't have horse-grade penis.There is also the live action version of Kite featuring Samuel Jackson. No horse-grade penis in it.
>>64757467Pretty sure I watched it but I don't remember any horse cock
>>64754434For me it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WvBrj5JlMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ogOoRNVOSI
>>64754234Hell yeah brother, porco and laputa are 11/10 for me. The rest are pretty even, with special mention to monoke hime
Would you a pink gun?
>>64753365$425 is still rather expensive for a used .38 revolver.
>>64754208I am all for people having whatever, but you would be amazed watching random women attempt to rack a slide.
>>64757531>girls with no firearms trainingdon't need to be carrying guns around lolnot even the professionally trained ones can tell their glock from their taser
>>64757393>but I would a purple gun.You can 3d print a gen3 glock frame in any color of filament you can buy. Or just paint any gun to any other color.
I’d cc a pink gun. Don’t really care what the color is, and if I had to use it then I’d get an extra chuckle at the absurdity of some dude realizing he’s getting capped by a hot pink revolver.
>see grown masc man with one of those not-a-purse things>immediately assume that that is where his piece isIs this a common thought process or am I being paranoid? Is this a valid form for CC?
>>64749540Rookie mistake. He should've had a knife so he could cut the strap and take off. If the mark is strapped ir otherwise resist, the knife will give them something to think twice about.
I use these to keep my boyfriend's condoms (we don't use them anyway).
>>64755484Im neither and I dont have aids>>64755770Thank you I drew it myself
>>64750066Ew
>go to https://catalog.archives.gov/search?availableOnline=true&endDate=1949&page=1&q=German%20aircraft&startDate=1940>search some relevant term to your interests>make sure to set filters to "available to access online" and filter for the year range>bring back something cool
>>64757245What are the black orbs ? Also thanks OP for the thread
>>64743196I have an uncommon last name with only one other branch from pre-1900 living in Ohio with a common ancestor. Apparently my name dates back to at least the revolution according to some of the archive records
my great gramps was in this frame somewhere as a captain on one of the LCIs apparentlywe knew he was in the navy back then but he never talked about it and died way before me
>>64757367Apparently it handled heavy seas pretty well, all the extra weight from the Reactors helped compensate for that bigass SCANFAR radar >>64757448SPG-55 radars.
>>64756273American: "At least you're not a snobby Brit."Japanese: "At least you're not IJN"
>makes more sense than AR rifles with pistol rounds>makes more sense than AR pistols with rifle roundsWhy doesn't this exist?
>>64757165>I think AR pistols firing 30 carbine would sell like hot cakes.well you are the only one that thinks that.theres no demand for 30 carbine nobody wants it unless they are trying to feed an m1. other 30 carbine guns have existed and all were unsuccessful. nobody will buy it just cause its 30 carbine.
>>64756393>Kinda just gay and overpriced flavor-of-the-month rounds for YouTube LARPers IMO.your brain is mentally stuck in 2015
I need some comparison breakdowns.>ammo cost per shot>external ballistics at different barrel lengths of velocity and bullet drop>wounding and suitability for hunting or defense>notable design advantages such as magazine capacity, lighter barrels, etc.
>>64756153what about that makes more sense than AR pistols with rifle rounds?
>>64757601Time for our high tech new and improved meat target with fleece blanket bullet stop
>20 years ago>People constantly felate the F22, claiming its the plane version of jesus.>Constantly disparage the F35 saying its a an expensive boondongle that can't fight and is shit and is worse in every way to the f22 and they should have just made more f22s instead of axing the program>Today>People lament that the f22 is underutilized as it never gets any engagements>Still question the value of F35 despite its multiple successes in infiltrating enemy held airspace and leading ground attack missions in heavily defended adversary airspace.Its time you admit that F35 is the superior aircraft.
>>64757521(Poster you're responding to here) Conceptually, there's nothing wrong with the BBG-1 and nuclear power wouldn't add much while it would delay the design and construction at a time when the US desperately needs steel in the water. The only serious issue I see with it is reusing the Burke's radar. If I were in charge of it, I would be speccing a full size LRDR or maybe even some sort of SBX-1 derivative for it.
>>64757623>SBX-1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-based_X-band_radar>The radar never points at land for the safety of the inhabitants.[3]Holy shit lmao>When your radar is so powerful you can conduct EW against the enemy's personnel
>>64757683>The vessel has six 3.6-megawatt generatorswewthat's gotta be the highest powered mobile radar ever
>>64757707That's for propulsion and habitation as well, but I'm sure the radar draws an insane amount of power.
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>>64749576Don't let anyone tell you that you're too smart to do awesome shit. I did all kinds of shit in the Infantry that was super fun and I've got a shit load of stories from deployment.It will also be super gay, boring, and retarded and multiple grown men will look at your dick.
>>64757329>piccongratulations, that's actually insane.but also: great. now robert is going to steal your pic and LARP later.
>>64757329Why will they look at my dick, anon? I plan on talking to a recruiter shortly. I’m still in HS unfortunately but in my senior year and ready to get on with my life. My brother is a few years older than me and was trying to get me to join the Air Force with him but I’ve always wanted to be an infantryman to be honest.
>>64757646NTA. Yes, they will fondle your balls at MEPs to check for issues and will also stare at your butthole. You will also have to take a drug test in front of someone else, both at MEPS and for your whole military career. You get used to it though.And please, please try to get an airborne contract or an option 19 for a light unit if you're going to go infantry. Mech/stryker units are a kind of shitty that slowly crushes people's dreams.
>>64757657Noted. Thanks for the advice man. I’m learning a lot and trying to do my research and from what I’ve gathered Airborne and Light Infantry are better than mech, I’ll keep that in mind.
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?
>>64756498>>64756569>>64756587Na'vi are canonically shrimp-dicks btw
>>64757345Nope. Cameron himself said they were hung.
>>64757358>he doesn't know
>>64757372OK but are the ears erogenous zones
>>64755458That simply means the RDA should be putting down colonies in areas with limited fauna: deserts, arctic regions, and islands. We clearly see the RDA capable of sterilizing square kilometers of territory using ships, so they're not that opposed to environmental destruction.
If I wanted to run black powder through a shotgun for innawoods larp; should I do it with my mossberg shockwave, my 835 ultimate mag, or would should I buy a cheap maverick 88?
Do with whatever is easiest to clean, if that means getting a cheap break action do that.
>>64754370Which one are you willing to FUBAR?
>>64754370Black powder is corrosive; make sure to clean the gun after every time you use it with BP.
>>64754370ShockwaveRe: memes
>>64756355That’s why I’m considering an 88. If I miss a spot, oh well- it’s a maverick 88.>>64757104So shockwave for the memes?
All things precision shooting, no experience necessary. Discuss rifles, barrels, action, glass, loads, groups, competitions, and anything else related to the pursuit of tighter groups and longer shots.
>>64757152He'd rather buy unecessary gimmicks than use his brains to level a scope.
>>64757163The fuck are you on about my post had nothing to do with leveling my scope
>>64756674>made in chinaWell of course it is, that's not the point though. The point is you really can't make mass produced consumer goods anywhere else thanks to them, and when you do they just steel your idea, cut you out and sell your product. Thanks for the free R&D and startup money roser, it'll make us a lot of money
>>64757270You prefer boomers rip people off instead of china?
>>64757649Yes. At least boomers came up with the idea. I don't think you understand just how collosal of a mistake it was to rely on china for practically all manufacturing capabilities. The only way we can hope to salvage our industry is to patronize it, even if it's all coming from the same place
Writefag here, I’m looking for real “out there” firearms that are advanced looking but not too impractical for my sci-fi setting.
>>64756893>fantasy Are you fucking retarded?
>>64757101NTA but no, he isn't. You are writing science fantasy not science fiction. Science fiction is where you take a piece of plausible but unproven and possibly incorrect science or technology and then write a story exploring the effects it would have on how things are done, what form soviety takes etc. Science fantasy is where you do the opposite and fantasize into existence a setting, then weakly grasp around for conditions that make your fantasy setting seem plausible to you.The fact that you come to an anonymous imageboard for the "science" part of your setting is pretty telling of the fact that your object is fantasy and any exploration of science and technology is completely incidental.
>>64754501Kriss Vector.
>>64756879>recoil of a .308that's a feature(tm), the burst is so fast that you only feel it after you shot allowing you to have a very precise burst thus you feel all those bullets at once
>>64757459>that's a feature(tm), the burst is so fast that you only feel it after you shot allowing you to have a very precise burst thus you feel all those bullets at onceYou are misrepresenting what I said. I wasn't talking about the 3-round burst that shot at 2,100 fps at all. When the gun fired in semi-auto (ergo, 1 bullet per trigger pull), the gun's recoil pattern was awful. Regardless of the impressive 3-round burst feature they were experimenting with.
>tl;dr: the US allegedly used sonic weapon to fuck maduro's guards during the operation the whole post feel like BS propaganda to make the US seems untouchable can this be real right ?
>>64749382>When things kicked off I tripped and fell face first on the ground and my pants mysteriously got wet too. It was a sonic weapon used by the USA, thats why I didn't participate in the battle you see.
>>64749394This, just thirdie excuse "We lost because they had a wunderwaffe"
>>64756276>this reads so much like MSM bullshitnews articles is what these things are trained on anonLLM's are just turbocharged parrots, the shit they repeat back is going to sound an awful lot like what you feed into them.
>>64755918Who would you consider to be "our actual enemies" if not Venezuela?These sonic weapons have been discussed in the open media for a long time. I've never personally seen one but it stands to reason that if we can send sound and heat over long distances, we should also be able to send ultrasonic frequencies to induce vertigo too. Cuba has been alleged to use sonic weapons against USIC for a long time. I think the operation to kidnap Maduro in and of itself was impressive. I don't see how it will translate into the US getting Venezuela's oil, which is unfortunate though.
>>64755918>pull out all the stops for a made-for-tv win>expose capabilities we don't have toA lion exerts its full strength even when hunting a rabbit o algo. Jests aside, you can only say that now because the op went off without a hitch. But that was far from a forgone conclusion, and it's prudent not to take chances with something so audacious
Should I buy a gun?
>>64757015Our military strength is not the issue here, ranjeet
>>64757021Are you retarded? Fun and outlet, timestamp. You are incapable of replying, because you do not reside in the most powerful country in the history of humanity. Or you are funless; Either way, show up or shut the fuck up.
>>64756960No, make one in your garage.
>>64756960yes, a Bersa TPR9
>>64756960Better to buy in pairs so they dont get lonely
