When the Geran/Shahed drones first appeared, I figured Russia would use them smartly in a classic SEAD/DEAD role: send waves of them to force Ukrainian IADS to light up radars and reveal positions, then follow up with VKS aircraft, with anti-radiation missiles to systematically dismantle those defenses. Russia instead has chosen the most brain-dead and wasteful approach, by treating the Geran/Shaheds s as nothing more than slow, low-cost cruise missiles hurled directly at static infrastructure targets, while leaving the overwhelming majority of Ukraine's air defenses intact and free to keep operating. They're banking entirely on brute-force volume and saturation to get a few through, completely abandoning any effort at SEAD/DEAD. But the thing is that they're not even achieving any kind of saturation effect since, the launches are scattered haphazardly across random cities, regions, and targets all over Ukraine that changes every night (some they they go after energy infrastructure, some other go after some depots, some others they try to hit some cities...), instead of making up their minds and concentrate them single high-value area, frontline sector, or even one major city at a time, and keep hitting them until achieving disruption or collapse. This is also precisely why so few targets are actually hit despite hundreds being launched every night, and so many of them are intercepted.By contrast, even in the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela, the LUCAS drones (the American Shahed clones) were properly integrated into a coordinated SEAD/DEAD package.
>>64751334>not the impression you'd get from Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rihfixed pidorstanian spelling mistakes, no need to thank me
>>64752409>or electricNice when there's no electricity>gas Some older homes have natural gas water heaters here
>>64749431>then follow up with VKS aircraft>VKS aircraftThere's your problem.
>>64749431>Russia instead has chosen the most brain-dead and wasteful approach, by treating the Geran/Shaheds s as nothing more than slow, low-cost cruise missiles hurled directly at static infrastructure targets, while leaving the overwhelming majority of Ukraine's air defenses intact and free to keep operating.no shit anon thats why the majority of them ARENT armed they are not designed to make strategic hits but to DEPLETE their stockpile
>>64752409this is/was pretty common in euro commie block, we called them "junkers", from the name of the company who made a model of those
>Working powered exoskeletons have been real for nearly 20 years>Working laser turrets have been real for nearly 20 years>Working railguns have been real for nearly 20 years>Working plasma cannons have been real for over 30 years>Autonomous robots that understand simple commands have been around for over ten years>People act like drones are the most advanced weapon around when we've been using them since WWIIWhat gives? Why is everyone still pretending that we're living the 20th century? People are so tired of waiting for these weapons that they're building the things themselves in their garages.
>>64747418i can see it being complete dogshit in open warfare like Ukraine, but kinda good in urban or maybe jungle. But i doubt a bombed out building can easily support a 800kg guy in a suit .... and they would still be very weak to detonation ...
>>64746751>No one wants to be the first to open that Pandora's box, where everyone without advanced eye protection just gets blinded
>>64748796Yes.
>>64747934Is a megawatt weapon going to be able to stop multiple hypersonic maneuvering reentry vehicles, of which half are just decoys?
>>64752618Probably. Hypersonics are under a lot of aerodynamic stress so just a little heat imbalance can throw the entire thing into a tumble.
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
>how do I fuck this toaster without burning my dickWhatever solutions you employ, none wil work as well as simply not fucking the toaster.
>>64752415>not fucking the toasterExtra heretical.
>>64750477>be actually liked by the populace and subordinates >also don't be paranoid as fuck>because of the 2 things you don't have to slice your militaries tendons out of fear if a coupTadaaaa!
>>64750591they agitated themselves
>>64752315what if the military is the dictator?
Kosovo will start producing military vehicles for the first time. In cooperation with Albania, the armored vehicles "Shota" currently produced there, will now also be produced in Kosovo, the Defense Ministry confirmed.
>>64746658finally Albania did something to motivate its existence
>>64752340No, Kosovars are ethnically Albanian, which is why Serbians wanted to genocide them
>>64746417>ara-ara o clock
>>64746658>age_difference, 5+ girls, gangbang, bigger_sub
>>64752869>tall_girl, reverse_rape, breast_feeding
https://attackcopter.com/2026/01/13/versatile-aro-evo-dual-red-dot-green-ir-laser-in-one/
>Gimped ass laser in a who cares tier quality of red dotThis is fodder for PSA review photos.
This must be their next trick all the guntoobers will bust nuts over, after the mediocre ass DRS-TH with a gameboy-tier thermal sensor and then the IRIS that delivers less power than the HFXC and SMS Trinity for 3x the price.Take away the youtubers and Holosun stands no chance. They're weak and rely on influencers.
>>64752876They just need to stick with basic dots and prisms. Trying to step into higher feature optics is not what holosun was originally meant to accomplish.
Hey /k/, favor to ask. I have to run a quick errand, mind keeping an eye on this Horton Ho 229 for me? I'll be back in 30, 40 minutes tops. While I'm gone, don't you mess with my Horton ok? OK. Thanks.
>>64748512I do
>>64749026>>64748489How'd you guys mess this up? Fuckfuckfuck, Anon is going to be back any minute.They didn't have any hortens at the store, but I found this. Just act cool and maybe he won't notice.
>>64747909ah hell nah my nigga just nutted from simply looking at some bitched :skullemoji:
>>64749026fucking kek
>>64749026can't have shit in the hood
IT'S UP!: https://youtu.be/HqeGZNBaWPU?
WE ARE SO BACK!
da ghosts gonna attack the venezuella and 360 no scope robo-maduro's armies led by rorke and the chinese superman Ximinator
>>64752840Which US citizens are still there? Who didn't bail day after.
I am about to import 80,500 of these indian hesbee 22 short single shot handguns. They are currently in transit being shipped from India.They have sat in storage as they were built in 1959 as gunlaws became more restricted in India. If you were in my shoes, how do I make this business venture successful. I purchased each pistol at 2160 rupees (around 24$) and they cost me ($1500 for import and $5000 in shipping) so i am in for abit under $2mil. Do you think people will actually buy these or should I put my house for sale ASAP?
>>64742593Put indian flags and a little cowshit on them and market toward call centers
>>64742593Brand them as the SAAR Redeemer.
>>64742593if you make a combo pack where each gun is a slightly reduced price but comes with a pirate holster id buy 3. Definitely agree with anons you shouldnt mark these above 70$ though at the VERY most.
>>64752071that or just translate liberator into hindi since these are glorified "take your opponents gun" machines
>>64752732>>64742593Taarak
why havent we seen jet troopers yet?
>>64749181>look morty, i turned myself into a 50 USD drone
>>64752613this.what's your dumbass jet man gonna do when i put the same cost of drones in the air to counter him? it'll be 1 against 10,000 it'll be fun to watch them get exploded by drones after taking off, lookin forward to those videos.
>>64749199They were suggested to take naval vessels quickly and to get into rough terrain quicker than foot troops. Indians and Chinese could do with them to go up mountains and stuff. As far as I am aware the only place that actually uses these are mountain rescue medics in Bongland.
>>64749181Jetpacks have existed since the late '50s. Until the invention of modern microjet flying systems, fewer men had been able to fly the old style jetpack than had walked on the Moon, 9 vs. 12, according to Dan the Rocketman. Even the modern ones are very dangerous, hence why most demos show them over water. The right type of flying individual platform, IMHO, is the Wasp or other stop-onto jet. The French design was used a few years ago by cartel miners in South America.>>64749199There's a million uses if you can get over skill/danger of using jumpjets and man flyers.
>>64749764>how would recovery workHelicopter or RHIB exfil if at sea.>>64749181A further thought. These jetpacks would be amazing for inserting units over minefields. Potentially useful for defense or offense.
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>>64752677fucking BURN. Lmao PP wins
>>64752677Colonization is fine when it's Denmark over Greenland I guess
>>64752677PP down but not out, nigga has the sickest burns of any Canadian MP.Shame the elections are rigged and it's not possible for him to be PM.
Everyone thinks they're going to land easy, perfect headshots during the boog, but then they find out that its a little different than at the range when people shoot back.Keep your powder dry and your back trail clear.
We have just seen the US carry out Operation Absolute Resolve, a flawless raid in Venezuela but there's so much more than what meets the eye.The fact that the Nightstalkers could just infil and exfil on gunships guns blazing is insane in the era of gay drones and MANPADS. They didn't even have to worry about the overall IADS. IR dazzlers or just shooting back was very effective against any fuckers that tried to get a shot off. More than half of the air assets in theater being SIGINT and EW just shows the importance of spectral dominance in addition to SEAD and as SEAD itself. It's obvious Growlers used their brand spanking new mid-band Growler pods to jam fire control radars, F-35s used their Barracuda suites, but what the EC-130H's were doing could be anyone's guess. But the power went out and that says something.
>>64750849>he spent twice as long as he needed to type out this entire paragraph just to make no point
>>64750888>I just don’t like smugcry moar
>>64750808>So in other words the Venezuelan government is still in chargeyeah. Did you seriously think that the US didn't plan for any local unrest following the arrest of a dictator?
>>64750849lmao I think you're retarded
>>64752164I think you’re rectally ravaged. And a tourist.>>64751893If by unrest you mean a bumbling unpopular president being replaced with a motorcycle gang leader who runs the country by setting up checkpoints and slaughtering his foes and will be buying drones from china for oil.>>64751881Keep up the wall of text about how no oil from Venezuela means Canada is totally doomed.
Why cant Pussia into SEAD?
>>64752085Prussians also pushed 70km into France when the Americans had finally shown up. Russia couldnt do that today against Ukraine.
No one cares too or if it fails really that simple
>>64751794>ywn be able to marry a cute germanic princessSometimes, reality is pretty gay.
>>64751719>Why cant Pussia into SEAD?Not enough cute but slightly concerned looking Weasels
>>64751719Soviets lost the tech race. More and more they depended on espionage and dumb luck while US computer tech allowed more and more complex designs. By the time Russia had the means to try SEAD the US already had tech to counter Russia's methods. For example, Russia started fielding RWR in the 80s but the FIM-92 came out in the 80s and that was a passive heat seeker, no radar to detect. A lot of soviet planes got hit before they realized someone was shooting at them.
Hello everybody, Bonkanon here. Today we'll be making a morning star from exotic African hardwoods.Most of the materials are in picrel. Wenge for the head and shaft (hehe), a piece of black-and-white ebony for the handle, and some African Blackwood for handle accents & pommel.
A Turks Head knot would be a simple addition.
>>64713236When I was a kid I used to have a shitty wooden morning star toy and I remember the wooden spikes on it were simply glued to the thing and they would fall off. I wonder how the original medieval morning stars had their spikes attached. Did they also screw it like you did? Or is it your original idea? Great thread btw.
>>64750215You could get fancy pants, and do a wire inset. Darker finished with a bit of brass speak to me
>>64752723The color combination with brass and wenge would look great, I agree. Wire inlay is absolutely something I want to learn. That's something that I will be doing in future projects. I'm thinking the gunstock war club would be a great opportunity to play with that because it has a lot of flat surface area to work on.
Tanks are not obsolete they just haven't been updated.Abrams introduced- 45 years agoThe first ironclad to the first dreadnought was about 45 years in comparison.Roughly 45 years between the wright brothers plane and the introduction of combat jet aircraft.>fights in an area of eastern europe over the course of 5 years that was covered sometimes in a day in ww2>tanks are obsolete
>>64752714Except for when it's cloudy. Or rainy. Or when the wide band jamming equipment has to be turned off so that our own communications equipment can actually function. One thing that happened in Afghanistan was that the winter months were Nothing Ever Happens months where it's too cold and the weather is too shit for flip-flop and pajama wearing sandniggers to want to fight openly in pitched gun battles. Afghanistan isn't just desert, it's also high elevation mountains with shitty weather from time to time. Give the hajjis drones, and all of a sudden winter becomes shittier than ever, because now bored hajjis can remotely attack us with shitty chinese toys.And again, they could just drop a mortar on a foot patrol.>we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky alwaysSuch is defensive measures. Every American casualty was us getting unlucky just once, and the muzzies getting lucky just once. If the lives of a thousand muzzies aren't worth a single burger fingernail, then our exchange rate was dogshit. muh K/D looks a lot worse when your average 18 year old PFC with a Charger makes more money in a month than a hajji will in a lifetime.And then there's the supply convoys. A lot of the bases established early on and scattered around Afghanistan were abandoned because the civilians we contracted for supply convoys kept getting hit. Add drones to the mix, and we might not even be able to hold anything other than Bagram and Kandahar AFB.We were lucky as hell in Afghanistan, even with the way things shook out in the end.
I miss the days of TB-2 shadowing convoys.
>>64752692You are aware ISIS used these against Syria, Iraq and the US?You are aware they worked against Syrians and Iraqis, but not against the US?
>>64751799Isn't the Booker just an IRL version of the Paladin?
>>64752785You are really, really, really overestimating flying IED robustness. Most strikes require 2-3 drones for a kill and due to signal issues youre gonna have like 6 max in an area. You cant beat an enemy like the US that can field way more than a trickle with fpvs.
