>>64680987
I'll also add that very regularly verification is not required at all if I post from the same device.

>>64680208
>which is really nice especially when I'm phoneposting
Bro! Im a phone poster, too! Snork, we are like brothers, fug! What's your name?

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contributin

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>>64681980
oops, updated image, check the triggerpack :)

>>64681982
B&T stock? I want one for my old ATI imported MKE, although the side folding stock is kino.

I’M LOOKING AT A REINDEER SLEIGH OVER I-95
HOW THE HELL DID IT GET THROUGH

>>64677368
>You might hear some reindeer on your rooftop
>Or Jack Frost on your windowsill
>But if someone's climbing down your chimney
>You better load your gun and shoot to kill

>>64677956
kek

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>>64676971

>Presents left in every NATO household besides Turkey
>No presents in Russia
>No presents in Iran

Does this provide that NATO air defense is a joke and that S-4000 works?

>>64679618
We don't like you either, that's why we stopped defending you.
Have fun putting on your big boy pants

>>64679679
Most of that is true. The west is incredibly Judaized

>>64678693
it only came about due to a pyrrhic stalemate.
leading up to the truce parts of the front would not even bother shooting at each other.
talking and trading supply's started to become common, causing great seethe among the officer class.

>>64679679
Virtually everything in that meme is true and real.

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>>64679623
God

>>64679362
If the Czech Republic had chosen not to comply, lump-sum fines and daily penalties could have been leveraged against it. If the Czech Republic chose not to pay the fines, it could cut them off from EU programs.

>>64679368
if a case was brought against them
and as I've explained already it would be very unlikely for one to be brought against them by a citizen. that would have been handled by the ECJ and ruled against the Czech Republic. this due to the a) damages being criminal in nature
b)commercial damages being the result not of implementation but remaining non harmonized elements of countries criminal codes in relation to gun control
the commission could have brought a case against them, but the commission needs them to go after Hungary.
As such the Czech republic could have managed to get an opt out into the directive via an amendment or just de facto

>>64679384
Right, and the case could be brought against them if they didn't comply with the directive. The country obviously felt that it was very likely hence why they changed their laws despite it being unpopular.

>>64678152
Group projects make everything worse, the plane would have been finished faster and cheaper if we hadn't let the yuropoors have any workshare.

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>>64679113
Portugal. Semi-automatic rifles which shared a design with full auto military rifles were in the prohibited category. If you wanted a "black rifle" you had to drop 2,300€ on a Benelli MR1 or something. There was even an attempt to ban the H&K SL8 for being too close to the G36 but nothing came of it.
The EU's directive basically opened the sports shooter category to semi-auto "military style" rifles because that's what everyone else uses in competition.
>>64679232
Who the fuck is talking about getting shot?
>EU: "hey lol some durka durkas shot up a place with real guns shoddily converted to blank fire guns converted back to live fire, so we're gonna restrict true blank fire guns even more even though they are nearly impossible to convert and also 30 round magazines are kind of excessive lol kthxbai"
>countries: "Right boss, we gatekept HIGH CAPACITY ASSAULT MAGAZINES to sports shooters and nobody is enforcing this shit too tightly anyway but on paper we did introduce restrictions at your request"
>you, a ragging faggot: "yeah lol countries won't implement gun control because you have no chance of suing them for late implementation"
Even though it doesn't matter that much, the threat of non-compliance does pressure countries to comply.
If you're a lawfag, you understand that if I threaten to beat you up to sign a document you complied under duress. You were coerced.

>>64675698
First I was like
>What in the Blöhm and Vöss is this?
Then I opened the pic and I was like
>Oh. Sukhoi...

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Nothing will ever compare to the skyraider

>>64664109
>>64674989
Imagine if the 1982 war stretched out and these were doing actual torpedo runs against the Royal Navy.

>>64680641
You don't need stealth for the low part of a Hi/Lo-mix. You just need a cheap bomb truck. Maybe read OP to get a sense what the thread you're posting in is about.

You remove the pilot, for one.

>>64680700
We're talking about manned aircraft here jackass, pilots are expensive as shit and loosing them is politically expensive as well.

>>64679955
>How would you engineer combat aircraft for absolute minimum cost per flight hour while keeping performance acceptable enough for the task of exploiting air supremacy?
You start by removing the pilot, which allows you to ditch innumerable life support and safety features as incidental losses are now just the cost of doing business.
>Would something in the size category of an F-16 be best or something larger? From googling around apparently a B-52 costs roughly 3-4 times an F-16 per flight hour and has far more than that in multiples of its payload.
F-16 is a bit too small. America gets by via having a massive network of bases, but the Chinese are demonstrating why that model has some issues once stealth enters the equation, as stealth drop tanks are hilariously expensive and internal fuel load becomes a lot more important. Relying on tankers runs into the same problem.
>Are there any considerations that would make a 'clean sheet B-52' not the best fulfillment of these parameters?
Large bombers do almost nothing better than smaller jets these days. You don't need huge volumes of ordnance for most missions.

Basically you'd want no stealth, a body design that's easy to manufacture, single engine, jet powered but with a focus on fuel economy for maximizing range. Some kind of fire control sensor package but no gigantic expensive radar for air to air stuff, if you want to use them in that capacity to truck missiles, slave them to a manned aircraft's radar. Oh, and don't bother designing them to accommodate a gun. Saves a bit of engineering in terms of shock hardening and wasted internal space for a useless capacity.

>>64679955
I kind of disagree with the concept as a whole, because there are missions beyond CAP and Interceptions where having a stealth capable 'low' aircraft is ideal as it further reduces the risk of those missions. If you were to ask me a fleet of nothing but F-22 and F35 would be the most ideal, but that ships already kind of sailed because of the Obama admin.

>Would something in the size category of an F-16 be best or something larger?
Something larger like either the F-18E/F or F-15E/EX, with more of a preference to the bug as the Eagle 2 is more expensive despite mogging both the other options. The main issue with the F16 being its anemic combat range and limited hardpoints.

>>64680931
Millions have died.

>>64681205
Could be worse, he could be in charge of 40 people and making decisions that jeopardize the country.

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>>64681239
>Millions have died.
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this part of /k/?
Localized entirely within your imagination?

>>64681371
I uh... yes.

>>64681205
I mean, he did say "paying for" the psycho not to be there, not "paying this psycho".

>>64681661
maybe I'll get a camera next year :)

>>64681677
did you take these with a laptop webcam?

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I’ve never participated and won’t (because I don’t trust myself enough to find cool gifts). But I do check out these threads every year as they add to my Christmas spirit. It’s neat to see the thoughtful gifts and sincere thank yous. So to all of you thank you and a very Merry (belated) Christmas and most excellent new year.

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>>64681983
Just sign up for a low tier and pack a small flat rate box with as many neat little things as you can fit. It's easy to blow way past $20 of value and the effort means a lot to the person who gets it. Handwritten/drawn cards are also a big part of it. If you aren't good at drawing you can even make something in MSpaint like I did for Florida Man this year. This was done with just copy/pasting, tracing and filler.

This year has been a blast!

Big thanks to Ahab and Wendigohunter for getting the site back running aswell as a smooth event.
I strongly hope that next year it will be possible again to engage in gift exchanges with US anons (tho our government and the EU tries their best to fuck up all relations currently) and also to go to the 250$ tier. I look forward to this every year and most packages ive received from anons were more personal than stuff ive gotten from my family. Love you silly fucks like u wouldnt believe, have a happy new year and appeal to heaven /k/ !

>>64681777
Also... won't it be extremely easy to get high explosives from pillaging such a minefield? It's not like they'll have 24/7 observation on every inch of it.

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>>64681777
>it'd be cheaper to dig moats and channels
Producing and laying mines doesn't stimulate the economy by making jobs and moving resources around? It seems to work for america.

>>64681832
you can build your economy on breaking more and more windows, but eventually the people actually sustaining everyone with food, healthcare etc will collapse under the impossible system, and so will your window breaking industry.

>>64674896
Like it works so much better for us in the USA lmao

And to speak to the Ukraine debacle we're gonna get bogged down in Venezuela here ourselves soon enough - we're gonna go in there like it's 1989, get high and arrogant when we topple the PSUV and kill Maduro, but then we'll just be stuck in a mountainous jungle country larger than Vietnam filled with armed people who hate us

>>64681861
>us in the USA
>we
>here
>we
>we
>we
>us
Post hand, outlet, gun, and timestamp.

>>64680347
Its okay. Now that they reverted the burst to a regular 74 trigger, the reliability issues have mostly evaporated; and the newer magpul style furniture is much tougher than the original buffer tube shit. 74s are preferred because of the aftermarket and don't have the quality stigma of the ak12, but with the native ability to mount optics and lights, the actual necessity of the aftermarket is way diminished; which could be said to be the whole point of the gun. The mags are excellent, seriously sought after even by guys who otherwise hate the gun. There will always be those who refuse to accept it, simply because the 74 didn't have these teething problems (at least nobody is old enough to remember), but on the whole its a decent if unambitious upgrade.
>>64680469
generally no, but depend on who they are. a lot of times guys capture a gun with a thermal, and they have no means to use it on their own gun; so it makes sense to just keep using the gun it came on while ammo lasts. it also cant be discounted that its a whole generation of gamers, who think M4s and 416s are cool and just appreciate them as a trophy.

>>64680347
does the top cover hold zero now or not yet

>>64680469
i've seen some m4-like rifle used in russian clips, looked like a sharpshooter or something. also some ukrs have thermal on their M4s, that's an asset too.

>>64682151
if you're talking about the leaf suit vids, that was some domestic Russian AR10.

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The AK peaked at the 100 series and no one can argue otherwise.

>>64680305
seecamps suck and are for boomers just get a p32

>>64681756
Lol p32 aren't ca legal, it's retarded.
Seecamps are tho.

>>64681745
ok skinny-jean twink
>>64680328
fpbp
>>64680428
there is no front site, dumbass
>>64681767
you should consider legally immigrating to America then and not living in a commie shithole
>>64680305
no OP I haven't, and even if I had I also wouldn't tell you

>>64680305
I don't know what serial numbers correlate to what year but I have a 380 made in their current plant and it's reliable. I don't shoot it much as flat nose/jhp 380 can be expensive (32 more so) and it's also probably my least comfortable gun to shoot. I would strongly recommend you get a p238, as it isn't much bigger and my p938 is less painful to shoot than my seecamp.

sigh
>>64681840
Why not? There's nothing wrong with helping people out. Even if you're jaded.
>>64682115
The problem is that they both look so much worse compared to seecamp.

>>64678083
Really, this. And I am pro airgun. Stack the rimfire deep, esp now.

>>64678090
>I've seen old M2 Ball from before WW2
where the hell did you see that at?

>>64678104
>doctor it hurts when I do this
So don't buy white box. Ffs, people. This sport is expensive. Step up or stfu. Fuckingnpoorfags, Jeez!

>>64681831
M2 Ball existed before WW2.

obsession over airguns for shtf is a russian thing

>>64680430
They had those in Europe and they where known as gambesons and they where worn under metal armor like maile plate armor or Brigadines they where useless against thrusts

I want a halberd or a poleaxe but I know they radiate anti-pussy aura.

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>>64680896
Well, if the Anonymous Conqueror is to be believed, as seen the account in that that image, apparently even with steel swords, it was difficult to pierce and slash through Mesoamerican armor and shields.

That being said, the Spanish did embellish things, including the performance of Mesoamerican arms, like in the case of...

>>64681110
What seems to be the earliest version of the account where a horse was beheaded by a Macuahuitl in a single stroke doesn't actually claim that: The earliest version I know of, which is the Anonymous Conqueror, merely says "I saw another Indian give another horse a blow in the neck, that stretched it dead at his feet", without clearly establishing that the horse was beheaded, though in the same line he does say a single blow to another horse's breast "opened it to it's entrails"

I can't think of accounts which mentions clean decapitations of conquistadors, but pic related claims it in the context of the leadup for the battle between Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco in the 1470s.

>>64681170
See
>>64680349 and >>64680430 , most Conquistadors did not have metal armor. Diaz also does claim his breastplate was pierced by a Atlatl dart or a Tepoztopilli polearm (I always forget which) and was only stopped by the underpadding, but I'm sure that was also an embellishment

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>>64682142
Sounds good to me.

>>64680349
>>64680430
>>64682142
cont:

>>64681385
>>64681413
>>64681305
>>64681331
I did a 40+ post long infodump about why the Spanish won and what, if anything the Aztecs could have done to win in a thread a few months ago here: desuarchive.org/k/thread/64434397/#64436734 to desuarchive.org/k/thread/64434397/#64469714, plus a few additional unumbered/unmarked posts I did in the thread after that.

I agree that things being how they were in actual history, there's nothing the Aztec could have done to avoid being colonized or put under European influence to some significant degree, and the idea of the Aztec totally beating them back is cope: Even the most contrived "best case" scenario would essentially result in the Aztec Empire becoming a Spanish puppet, with their institutions gradually coming under European influence even if not being directly conquered

That being said you anons are coping too hard in the opposite direction. Cannons and horses were big factors, but even with them, Cortes's forces couldn't beat Tlaxcala, the two were pretty evenly matched, and Tlaxcala was dwarfed by Tenochtitlan in power. Spanish success was incredibly reliant on alliances with local states (like they eventually did with Tlaxcala), giving lodging, supplies, and additional manpower, which allowed cannons and calvary to matter that much more since there was a sizable amount of infantry to rush in and exploit the holes those could blow into enemy lines.


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>>64680507
You’re a faggot, got it

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>>64680507
>”Youre an incel, got it”

>>64680769
Especially with a proper sound system.

>>64682041
>>64682047
>>64682051
Samefagging incel

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>>64680853
Eight legged freaks is an absolute gem of a movie.