what's the point in hiring mercs who aren't at all familiar with your language, culture, or geography/climate?
>>64745607They make for good bullet sponges.
>>64745607Each soldier gets paid $5 a day on the front line + some broken guns and tinned fish they had laying in the back of the supply depot. Each Ukrainian suicide drone cost $50 in parts and labor. As long as you can get your opponent to expend 1 drone to blow up 1 Hero of the Global South in less than 10 days it's a net benefit.
>>64745607Thus endeth the Black Russian spy joke.
>>64753110Russia is also enlisting Colombians. Lots of them.>>64757584Drones are ballpark 400-700 dollars (weighted heavily at 500-ish mark) depending on capability. 50 dollars is a fucking dream, I wish.
>>64757584Considering all the attacks on supply lines and Russian's infamous logistics it'll probably costs about $50 just to get a pound of tinned fish to the frontline.
How well did it perform in combat?
Why aren't ballistic submarines the backbone of world navies? Why haven't surface ships been relegated to carrier protection and amphibious operations? Why not make SLBMs out of RIM-66s and Standard missiles and Tomahawks and ASROCs? If you want force projection why wouldn't the ambiguity of the presence of submarines be enough to scare your enemies?
>>64741566Nobody wants to work on them, they're fucking expensive to build, they have limited utility as sensor platforms (e.g. radar), they're expensive to run, they can't do the vast majority of peacetime naval duties (e.g. disaster relief, interdiction), they're slow, they're dangerous.>>64750263No they won't. Making submarines large enough to launch a reasonable sized aircraft load is a fools erand. "muh dronez" is equally silly because rather than a drone you could just fire a missile because even if your drone carries missiles it is going to get shot down by anything more serious than a DSHK within minutes and the whole system would take up more space than "just a fucking missile". Surface ships suffer less from this because they can be bigger and are reasonably expected to support ground ops. Also it's far easier to recover aircraft to a surface ship than submarine.>>64752734You should see the jellyfish, dolphin, shark and fish mash up that gets sucked into seawater pumps on ships. Fucking horrible.
>>64756527Drone could be big yet still smaller than a plane. With good loitering time, sensors and datalinks these drones could serve as scout and guide missiles in their terminal phase.
>>64756527>Nobody wants to work on themWell, not nobody but it does take a special kind of sailor to be locked in an airtight, sunless, crowded bottle for months at a time.
I assume we're going to see a lot more surface ships with fewer than 150 men in board in the future and perhaps more emphasis on subs and light carriers. This is the age of quantity, big things are rarely worth the price.
>>64756578And falling prey to ELINT or failure to recognize a target.
>880,000 dog attacks in the US of A requiring medical attention last year>Cannot be reasoned with in any capacity as opposed to most criminals that usually just want to steal your shit and will back off if they decide they can victimize someone else easierWhat calibers and firearms do you carry to protect against the pitter scurge? Shot placement?Keep in mind you may be in situations where you have to stop a loose shit bull from tearing some bystanders face off and over penetration is an actual concern when it's lockjawed onto that poor soul.
>>64757190Saaaar
>>64755221shame it didnt actually kill you
>>64756082multiple spelling errorskeep your paranoid dogs away from people who are just minding their own business
>>64755610>My donkeyI, for one, wants to see a donkey vs pitbull fight. For science and shit...
>>64757569i think that's what they call a Donkey Show
"Fackin' cunts" edition>Image limit hitOld thread: >>64746248>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!https://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player
>647574750/10 bait
>>64756239It just worked.
>>64757577Is assistant gunner the comfiest squad position? Sure you lug all the ammo but in combat you don't do a hell of a lot.
>>64757589>but in combat you don't do a hell of a lot.When the machine gunner gets shot in the face, it's your job to put yourself where he just died.
>>64757593Remember dead gunner drills have you roll the corpse of your battle buddy over yourself for just that little extra bit of cover
6,500,000,000€largest sale in israel's history
>>64747059Our perfect time to knife Russia directly in the face is NOW. Total VuVuZela the whole fuckin government. Pull off the Big Snatch. And when it inevitably works... fax pictures of Trump's balls across the earth.I don't like him, he's simply the POTUS of the day.
>>64747519Committment to anti-russian tactical answers is the same as china and every loudmouth shit hole we hate. Because we smashed russian systems multiple times over now, it's plain continental china is incapable of stopping anything the US does.
>>64750646ICBM Fire cone characteristics:Short, brutally denseExtremely bright white-orangeAlmost opaque at the baseVery tight expansion angleHeavy aluminum oxide particles sparkly, violent plumeSatellite or LEO (or ballistic passenger rocket from Friday, a novel by Robert Heinlein) Fire cone characteristics:Long, elegant plumeMore transparentBlue-white core, orange fringes near sea levelComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64747363one day in 2022 the german government woke up and they realized that their fantasy of peace in europe was just it, a fantasythey realized they need an exo atmospheric air defense system nowit took israel a decade to develop the arrow 3, and it was not built from nothing. it rests on the arrow 2 and arrow 1 programs, which themselves took another decade (not to mention the work on the radars) germany does not have that experience.so let's follow these two optionsspend at least a decade developing such a system, with the risk that it fails or is late, and then spend several more years setting up and ramping up production.or buy a system that already exists, has been proven in combat, and can be delivered almost immediately from israel as a stopgap while local industry sets up local production under licensewhich makes more sense?>>64749378you must be trolling right
>>64757565>one day in 2022 the german government woke up and they realized that their fantasy of peace in europe was just it, a fantasyFuck Merkel.
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.
>>64747942A ton of countries make these domestically because they're just upfit light-medium trucks
>>64746658Life imitates art
>>64746417>Ara ara~
>>64754271that's either a very small boy or a very big girl
>>64756472why not both?>>64752086did she grope you and say "hora hora"?
Would you a pink gun?
>>64757393The Mauve Storm
>>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.
>French army testing the Hermione hydrogen-powered UGV that refuels in just three minutes, carries up to 300 kilograms of payload, and operates for 20 hours with all-wheel drive mobility (by Polish P.H.U. Lechmar and French H2X-Defense)
>>64757288retarded fatnigger, im sure a tanker full of gas instead would have magically saved that driverBet your the same kind of fuddniggerretard who think the ping from the m1 garand gave away the position of GI in ww2
>>64756175Pretty stupid, there are other things that can be blockaded. Also you can liquefy coal if you need oil that much. I'm sure a rich yet oil starved country would go all in into artificial oil, it's just meaningless in times of peace when oil make this shit economically unprofitable.
>>64756979better energy density for the mass too
>>64757369Yeah, but mass matters to aircraft. For land vehicles it has inferior energy per volume.
The more things change the more they stay the same
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.
>>64749205That's not even a g36, you are obviously newguns.
>>64756975dude... the gun is a g36 in a bodykit... dunningkruger at its finest....
>>6475534618 years old is the minimum age to post on this site, nogunz incel videogamer.
>>64754702In video games maybe.
>>64757452So go to bed, it’s a school night
>7.62x54r, 7.62x39, 7.62x25>6.5 creedmoor, 6.5 grendel, 6.5 cbjExplain why we dont standardize diameters across the board to appease my personal autism
>>64751200>Have N nearly identical cartridges>"That's stupid! we should develop a single cartridge that fits the niche of all of those!">Have N+1 nearly identical cartridges
>>64755622The Russian system of measurement was not inches but very close.Even between countries using inches there were different inch standards.
>>64756693Even centimetres varied until the French forced a standard.
New caliber means exclusivity for years.
>6.5 Grendel>6.5×25 CBJthese are it, if I can have only two small arm calibers
Post your devious prohibited shots or crazy looking shots.Brother in law snapped this one at the perfect moment. Blasting rounds into sand banks on the highway in the middle of nowhere. Good times.
>>64751182
none of you guys even own a gun or have ever done a road pop
>>64751182My house is over there and the next time you do this I'm mag dumping your car. No one will find the bodies.
>>64751182I shot up some tweaker's motorcycle after they drove around my neighborhood casing cars and houses. I regret nothing.
>>64751869FUCK OFF WRISTLET FFS
AK General /akg/Chocolate Chip Chinese Chestrig Edition>Thread #2086Old thread here >>64704982
AK Buyer's Guides>Rifleshttps://thinlineweapons.com/wiki/index.php/SimpleBuyersGuide>Magazineshttps://thinlineweapons.com/wiki/index.php/AK_Mag_Buyers_Guide#Quality
>>64757397Nice Hungarian
Atlantic has new production Azerbaijani AK 100 parts kits from IGLIM. Allegedly these are produced by a former Soviet defense company using technical data. IGLIM does stuff like heavy weapons too so hopefully its not another KOLARMS situation. These are supposed to be milspec with chrome gas chamber/frontsight etc. Chrome CHF barrel
>>64757397Based AMD enjoyer
https://www.aeronewsjournal.com/2025/12/uk-open-to-germany-joining-gcap-future.html?m=1Frenchbros...c'est fini
>>64734298No shit. The F35 is better than anything Italy could make for a century.
>>64733969The F35 will still be the best plane on the planet.
>>64738138Greenland is American because America has a natural right to the Arctic Circle.
>>64755909Sure thing Muttoid.
>>64752219No shit?
Post gear. Discuss gear. Late night edition. Level IV+ and 4Chan Gold required.Old: >>64732103
>>64757428But what if I'm really really worried about getting shot in the back? I think two plates back there would help a lot.
>>64757435I suggest a thicker plate then, one rated to stop .338 Lapua. Failing that, duct tape a second plate under your carrier.
>>64757461Don't forget plates in a briefcase to shield your head, of course.
>>64755820Based
>>64757487Also to catch the shots while your wife assembles a NEF takedown rifle in .300 winmag. If only the Gilliam 8002 were around in Gecko's day... maybe he could have saved the mayor's nephew.
