Which caliber is better? Does the shorter length of the .308 while being mostly the same ballisticly make it better, or does the slightly longer length and ability to use heavier grain bullets of the 30-06 make it better?Or is 30-06 better because it sounds cooler and is an American classic?
>>64664630>Which caliber is better?.308. Period, The End. I don't need to explain myself.
>>64668424>30-06 for anything heavier than 180 grain.Basically, "this". For the average end user, it does not really matter.
>>64677636Is that a Veracity PH? I have one of those. Mine is the 3-15x version. Love it.
>>64681707No, it's a Fullfield 3-12x42. I'm not too enthused with its optical clarity, but the price was right, it's pretty lightweight for its magnification range, and I do really like the reticle. Maybe I'll upgrade it one day but it got me a deer so I can't complain too hard.
>>64680433It's easy when you live in the place that uses it. It's already irritating enough working on some cars that do happen to have some metric bolts, it'd be 10x worse to just halt literally everything, adjust every form of tooling we have for everything, it's just not a practical proposition.
Thoughts about Baofeng radios?
>>64681085I second the DM-32UV. It's a bit better than the UV-32, and the airband reception isn't fucked.You can switch between analog/digital with a single button (programmable). 8W~ max. output on high, good battery life. Battery can be charged via dock or directly via USB-C cable. The port is built-into the battery, so if you destroy it you can replace it.Supports crypto on digital, you can set your own AES256 key when programming channels. GPS is built-in, but you need a second device (or buddy) to reference coordinates.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnp597Xv8Yc
>>64681525>quarter assed effort at recruiting new blood.Gen X make a negative effort at everything.
I guess this is a thread to askI don't really know anything about radios, but am toying with the idea of getting a couple of cheap handsets for short-range comms in the family business: at a glance the low end ones seem cheaper in the long term than using our cellphone plans, and we don't usually carry our cellphones on the job anyway (whereas we could keep a dedicated radio at home and in each work vehicle)>maximum distance would only be about 500m>security isn't really a concern because we won't have anything sensitive to discuss on them anywayare there any particular models that would be ideal for this, or are these kinds of radios overkill for my use case?
>>64682164Not overkill. If you want to stay legal get a family GMRS license (no test, cheap) and stick to GMRS-cert radios. If you're not miffed then stay on GMRS bands to avoid angry hams. Buy a GMRS license anyway so you have a callsign in case you're challenged. UV-9Rs are good. They're hardier than UV-5Rs. Use aftermarket antennas like Nagoya NA-771 to increase your gain and therefore your range.
>>64681432Sounds both gay and fun. Depends on if they're being a bunch of hall monitors or bullying a lolcow on the airwaves
Do freighters have any fucking defenses against being boarded by helicopters? I mean they have to have some small arms or maybe a mounted machine gun or some sort of AA battery right to defend against piracy?Are you really telling me like a small fire team of troops can takeover a freighter?
>>64680564Oh this strategy of arming civilian vessel and claim sympathy when they get sunk
>>64663540So Letters of Marque for helicopter crews? Dare I say, sky piracy?
>>64680735Don Karnage was based
>>64680735Kek. That show is great.
>sir, they hit a third thirdie tankerI didn''t even know there was a second one. Was 2 and is 3 also sending oil to Iran on behalf of Russia to pay for past delivered military gear?
Speech: http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/5ceed4f1eb2058145a9bbbc60fcf07dd.kcmsftl;rd: Basically they want a nuclear sub fleet and are building a Blue Water navy, new surface ships explicitly referred to as 'Attack Destroyers'1/4: It is large.
Holy shit, it's the oscar meier weiner
>>64679564it might be weld but no, that's clearly paint, if it was a coat like they do on the new subs you wouldn't see such details
>>64680785>The opposition comes mainly from South Koreans themselves, they do not want a war, they rather enjoy the status quo and look the other way when their own countrymen on the other side of border are getting massacredThere's always been a north/south divide on the Korean peninsula. It's a bit like Texas and California, there wouldn't be complete unity on going to war to free the other from a dictatorship of their own making (a foreign occupation would be a matter of pride though).
>>64676323ur moms dildo
>>64681613if you have to hide your boomers in your littoral waters, boomers are a giant waste of money
Pistol related but last question thread died a while ago. Are all 1911 .45 barrels interchangeable with all other 1911 models? I've got a Kimber and want a threaded barrel for it and I'm wondering if I should just get a Kimber barrel for it.
>>64680093Smell doesn't mean anything. If the ammo looks fine it probably is fine. Now if it's all rusty/corroded? That's a different story.
Is the weight savings from mlok compared to pic really that minimal? I have a RIS II that was originally a DD M4A1 FSP rail but it was cut down short to 9.55 on the sides/bottom for a MK18 build. ON DD's site their MK18 rail without the relief cut is 14.1 oz. Their RIS III mlok is 12.93 oz, can anyone with a RIS III see if it's really that much?
>>64676439look at Japan in World War 2or Austria in World War 1or Britain in World War 2 (the tank corps used 8mm mauser because of their czech BESA machineguns)
>>64680093Just shoot it.Unless the brass is so corroded it won't chamber, and even then you can sandpaper it smooth.Obviously dont rely on it for defence or hunting, but its still usable for plinking.Worst case is the damp got into the powder or primer and youll get duds, but theyre still good for training to practice hangfire drill (wait a minute holding downrange then rerack).If theyll totally shit, just pull the projos with pliers and burn the powder in a fire. Throw the brass in too to cook the primers.>Throwing intact ammo into a fire is amusing but doctrinally has a 100mm safety radius, practically its more like 10m as it pops out at unconfined pressures.
Forgot about this thread.For ACR barrels, is Templar Precision the only way to go for pretty much any barrel? I want one for .300blk and of course OEM seems to be non existent. Judging by the date on TP's website, the barrels have been on pre-order for over a year at this point
Why were the huge Qing Dynasty armies so ineffective in the Opium Wars? They have to be the most one-sided wars in history.
>>64678608That's exactly what the Han want you to think now that they're the dominant ones. Best way to subvert that is point out all the other nations they forcefully welded into China.
>>64682027Did they make sure to collect the beef off the cows afterward?
>>64682014>where the first Africans to use actual tactics.
>>64682025Battle of salt river 1510>No cannons, infantry clash only>Africans attack the portugese while they are mid looting.>Use cattle as cover>Very aggressive attack that force a melee>portugeses rout, trying to escape back to the ship>the landing boats they used got moved to another point earlier so the retreating portugese get stuck on the beach with no escape>africans notice this and attack>portugese suffer all 64 casualties from this event aloneBattle of fukuda bay 1565>2 ships>1 ship, the galleon get practically speaking ignored by the japs in the fight>said ship use cannons to wreck the japsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64674044>a danish/greekfamous greek and not germanic house Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1De13ZnrNI
>>64676183I love Lujan!!
>>64676240>Garand thumb tapped that after whistling dieselGross.
>>64676183>escape from building>alert authorities>let Department of Defense handle it (SEAL Teams 1, 3, 5, and 7 are headquartered at Coronado less than an hour's flight time away and are highly trained professionals in the art of counter-terrorism)>let US Navy take the fall if SEALs wind up getting massacred by Hans Gruber with "I thought they were the experts here"
If we're going to post about this E-slut, anyone got the slutty pics?
>LujanIf Lujan wasn't doing softcore for the DoD to get more horny young men to sign up, she would either be a hooker or a hardcore porno actress. What is happening now is the best outcome.>GTI silently I understand and respect GT's desire to impregnate and reproduce. I am the same. But I mean HOLY SHIT YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. Shit's weird, yo. Society would brake down if we all acted on that natural urge, and I'm saying this is a guy who donated sperm sperm banks in his collage days (3 times a week, $80 a pop, but you're not allowed to masturbate or have sex on your own time). I think the fame/TRT went to GT's head, he clearly thinks he's hot shit when all he is is aging.
>Ukraine lost 87% of its Abrams tanks in under two years. Australia's 49 replacement tanks arrive as the 68-ton breakthrough weapon has been forced into a different role>It is now used not as a spearpoint but a "shielded hammer" — only surviving in a symphony of sensors, jammers, and screens.Tanks are now truly obsolete:https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/australia-completes-delivery-of-49-abrams-tanks-now-they-must-survive-the-drones/
>>64679160>Based on basically every single metric of the warYou're telling me Ukraine is dominating in every single metric of the war?
>>64670420why no ERA on the upper hull plate which is really thin?
>>64679160saying shit like this and deleting any comment that states otherwise isn't going to change the guaranteed outcome of the war.
>>64682218Zigger pigs will be exterminated, we know
>>64682218>and deleting any comment that states otherwiseMaybe you should stop making them then.I don't think I'll miss them at all.
Abramovsky is now of perfjekt, da?
>>64679834I can only imagine how hard being a Vatnik shill must be on day 1,404 of the 3 day SMO. Only the die hards are left at this point.
>>64673455Wtf was it fighting to cause that?
What’s the reality of the Russian materiel situation?
>>64682250A Ukie ATGM team.
>>64679834another oil refinery and some fucking crazy cope about kupisyank or however it's spelt
Thoughts on battle-ready LLMs?https://x.com/disclosetv/status/2003214540079808920
Corruption.
>>64668111jews think AI will be the golem that finally allows them to extermiate all the goyim, as was promised in the talmud
>>64667101Grok is this real?
>>64674010>Yeah but not at the scale, depth etcYou're just going to get answers that are hallucinated instead lmao
>>64667101My dick is a battle hardened weapon
Well, I kinda have to play my own, I guess. But it honestly sorta sucks. And not only in the "i-it's a W-WIP!" type of way. It's just not really fun.Technically I suppose it's not even a game per se, but maybe a light sim or an app even? Also not wholly /k/ either (except for context perhaps) but more like /g/ x /diy/. Though it's not so much programming as it is math, trigonometry especially, but also with some levels of- you know what, nevermind.
Bulldog Away
>>64679581DIE DIE DIE
>>64678832people here always loved vegas and vegas 2, i remember questioning it back in like 2013. it was praised for its realism, with its sr25 whose charging handle went back like half an inch, or AKs and FNCs whose bolt was manually pushed forward into battery. never made sense, but I guess there weren't many alternative on consoles and the metagame of unlocking shit was addictive, so people decided the games must be good; because they wouldn't like something shit now would they?
>>64682149
Are modern U.S. shipyards still capable of producing ships on such a scale?
>If one considers that the stated purpose of the Navy today is to build ships and win wars, the Constellation program is a disaster in the making. If, however, one considers that the actual purpose of the Navy is to project an image of credibility, then non-finalized, concurrent, ever-shifting designs that never get done and always seem to be just around the corner, just waiting for the inclusion of some “game changer” bit of technology, is actually rational and reasonable. The constant, obsessive fixation with various illusory “game changers” was never in much evidence in America in the 1930s and ’40s, when it enjoyed true industrial supremacy. Now, it is endemic to every branch of the U.S. military, and it makes complete sense given the institutional and ideological pressures that military leadership faces. For its part, given the impossibility of the military math it is faced with, Navy leadership is increasingly standing under the leafless tree and waiting for Godot. Sacrificing the ability to actually build ships on time is not such a great loss, after all, because no ships that can be built today have the power to upend a basic 200:1 ratio in favor of the enemy. Maintaining a narrative that the next American ship (whenever it appears) will have some sort of radical capability that will transform the basic calculus of war actually carries with it demonstrable benefits and a low amount of drawbacks, compared to all the other alternatives. Especially if the careers and self-image of people in Navy leadership are to be considered, it represents the safest and most reliable choice.yea
>>64682216>Sacrificing the ability to actually build ships on time is not such a great loss, after all, because no ships that can be built today have the power to upend a basic 200:1 ratio in favor of the enemy.But that's a lie though. A well-captained nuclear sub can absolutely destroy 200 lesser ships. Like say, the Chinese fishing fleet.
>>64682237they are talking about 052D and the likes.If you want to do fishing ship then it's gonna be 1 vs 20,000 drone ship. You will still get BFTO'd.It is what it is.cont>The amount of fraud and deception that goes into maintaining this ideological, implicit institutional purpose of the American military is difficult to overstate. Nor is it even a real secret: as far back as 2015, the Army War College published a report on this very issue, in which the authors laid out their findings of widespread juking of stats and lying about requirements, personnel levels, and so on.7 This widespread epidemic of lying—already serious enough back in 2015—was not due to individual moral failings, nor “bugs in the system”; more ominously, most of the lying actually formed a sort of institutional grease that was increasingly becoming required just to keep the wheels turning. The more recent New York Times article on military suicides gives a particularly macabre example of how this works in practice: here, a unit commander compels a soldier with acute suicidal ideation to deploy overseas just so he can include that soldier in the readiness statistics. Once he arrives, he is then immediately sent back stateside again, as he cannot actually legally participate in the exercise or even be trusted in the presence of any loaded firearms.
>Most coverage of that event focused on the political issues surrounding the pier, and the general geopolitical context of the Gaza crisis that the U.S. military was recklessly being thrust into. What fewer people picked up on, however, was that the mission was doomed to fail from the start, purely due to technical reasons: the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (jlots) system being put in place was simply not rated to handle the regular sea states in the area. The almost immediate scuttling of the Gaza pier due to damage from rough seas was not a freak accident, or attributable to some sequence of bad luck: it was a completely foreseeable and indeed inevitable outcome. The relevant point that needs to be made regarding the Gaza pier has nothing to do with the Gaza crisis itself; rather, it is that the military was made to expend real logistical assets (assets which are in increasingly short supply) on a mission that could not work even on paper. No one with relevant experience inside the military would have been ignorant of something so basic as looking up a sea state chart; yet at no point was the practical impossibility of the mission allowed to prevent it from going forward. To put it bluntly, the military was given a deeply ideological mission, one that would assuredly result both in failure and damage to or destruction of limited logistical assets. Military leadership, knowing which side their bread was actually buttered on, complied: the mission duly failed, and the limited equipment was damaged and destroyed.ouch...
>Yet again, from a warfighting perspective, this behavior shouldn’t actually be happening. But it is happening, because within the institutional setting of the military—which is heavily shaped by the expectations set by a deeply ideological civilian and uniformed leadership—this sort of behavior not only makes sense, it is often required. To buttress this point with a non-Army example, a major theme covered in the reporting of the 2010s USS Fitzgerald and USS McCain collisions (which together led to the loss of seventeen sailors and constitute two of the most serious disasters the Navy has ever suffered in peacetime) was that ship captains were expected to sail even if their personnel situation or maintenance backlogs should not have allowed it; captains lied to their admirals who in turn lied to their political superiors. Rather than grapple with how lying had become an institutional requirement inside the Seventh Fleet, the Navy instead chose to blame these accidents on the ship captains themselves, even though the captains had repeatedly issued warnings to their superiors about the risk of serious accidents.anyway, with Trump and Hegseth at the helm, I see light at the end of the tunnel. They are draining the swamp and cutting pork. We will be great again. Trust!
PCC thread for my newest fixation. MP5-SD clonePost with me to celebrate, rimfire welcome
>>64680987I'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 phonepostingBro! Im a phone poster, too! Snork, we are like brothers, fug! What's your name?
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>>64681980oops, updated image, check the triggerpack :)
>>64681982B&T stock? I want one for my old ATI imported MKE, although the side folding stock is kino.
SANTA HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED OVER THE EASTERN US BY F-35'S. I AM HEARING THIS FROM UNOFFICIAL CHANNELS WAITING FOR DEPARTMENT OF WAR CONFIRMATION ON THIS BLATANT AIRSPACE VIOLATION!!!!!!
I’M LOOKING AT A REINDEER SLEIGH OVER I-95HOW 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
>>64677956kek
>>64676971
>Presents left in every NATO household besides Turkey>No presents in Russia>No presents in IranDoes this provide that NATO air defense is a joke and that S-4000 works?
Will we ever get another one of these or will all wars be 24/7/365 slaughterfests going forward?
>>64679618We don't like you either, that's why we stopped defending you.Have fun putting on your big boy pants
>>64679679Most of that is true. The west is incredibly Judaized
>>64678693it 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.
>>64679679Virtually everything in that meme is true and real.
>>64679623God
