This probably has been asked a lot, but are bolters realistic? And if they could exist, would they be as good at penetrating armor as the tabletop game suggests?
>>65038815While the Tabletop RPGs make Astartes more resistant to WW1 machine gun fire, it also makes the shitty by modern standards autogun the almost exact equivalent of the Lasgun, just like in the wargame. Space Marines aren't immune to heavy stubbers in many of the books, yes I know there's a book where a standard astartes is totally immune to a heavy autocannon but if that was accurate they wouldn't put them on fucking terminators and dreadnoughts. The setting has a great deal of disagreement over the resistance of Space marines to lasgun fire, with some sources claiming a space marine can basically just stand there doing nothing while twenty guardsmen empty their batteries on him and others having it as more like he can take ten or twenty shots before being injured.
>>65049564I know what he's referring to, I told him not to be gay about it.
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>>65028560>but are bolters realistic?All of the principles behind them are sound but the design of a Godwyn pattern is pretty silly.The tabletop suggests they're good at piercing man portable protection up to light carapace, which is a ceramite/armorplas combination, the space magic version of ceramic/uhmwpe. They're diamantine tipped which again is space magic, but probably means they're a barrier blind round similar to M855A1. But remember these are anywhere from .6 to .75 cal rockets. >>65028616They're AP nil in rending, AP4 in 7e and before style AP. Which means they beat everything that's not power armor.
>>65049668>>65028888Ah my bad I was misremembering, they're AP5. Which means they pierce basically the flak armor that a standard guardsman has but not much more.
why are soviet ifv so mediocre when compared to their western counterparts?
>>65049192>the first large-scale adaption IFV in the worldYou mean the Schutzenpanzer Lang?Nah I know what you meant Im just breaking balls
>>65048424>Lust provoking image>Irrelevant questionMOOODS
>>65048424look i know ruskies are all into anal sex, that's part and parcel of their prison culture, but was it really necessary to make the doors for the troop compartment look like a giant ass? worse still, the fact that it's so cramped you really need to crawl into it, and the smell of shit really paint a fucking picture. was the guy in charge of the design some pervert into scat or something?
>>65049361>MT-LB>lust provokingThat's both geronto- and necrophilia on your part
>>65048891If that's true it worked since soldiers even rn will ride on top of it despite drones and artillery just to not be inside it.
How deep does the chicom military cope go? This is bullshit, right? Doesn't the US have a bunch of tungsten here in Alaska?
>>65049596>utopiaBitch please, we'd be at war constantly just like we always were but our family lines would be much better off. Also given that the US political stances don't change despite their oil importer vs exporter swinging from half the worlds supply, to massive importer, and back again indicates that oil has very little to do with it. It's just the kikes and libtards(cuckservatives included), that is the only correlative relationship. You wouldn't even need fission, it's just useful under certain circumstances and produces plutonium to make more nukes and thus enforce your will on others. The actions in the middle east and the alliances cultivated do not fit the actions of a power which prioritizes control over oil production. Indeed the actions inhibit any amount of control and don't change in correlation with US domestic production or that of allies outside the levant. "It's the oil" is just a libtard front to avoid talking about the political influence of jews in general and Israel in particular.
>>65049591Petroleum and natural gas source rocks are shales which are laid down in an anoxic environment with limited siliciclastic input. It's mostly plankton both plant and animal as well as actual shit. Coal develops from peat bogs.
>>65049596>why israel is such an important ally,Wrong. Israel was not that important in the Cold War, and was considered an uneasy counterbalance. Israel worship is a post-Cold War phenomeon.
>>65049619What reason would there be for war in a world where energy is plentiful and cheap, and so too then is basically everything else? How are US actions inhibitive of control, when Israel is their staging grounds for any war they'd need to wage on middle eastern countries that challenge the US? You could also say their actions do change in correlation with domestic production, which is why after their capture of Venezuela and the largest reserves, while being one of the world's biggest refineries, they are now looking to get the fuck out of the middle east, which they can use the disastrous Iran war as an excuse for.
>>65049656>ou could also say their actions do change in correlation with domestic production, which is why after their capture of Venezuela and the largest reserves, while being one of the world's biggest refineries, they are now looking to get the fuck out of the middle east, which they can use the disastrous Iran war as an excuse for.t. has a child's understanding of the oil and gas industry
This is the last time the T-14 Armata was seen.Not even under a fucking roof.
>>65049566Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't some "Ukrainian" pressgang videos actually filmed in russia?
>115 posts deletedHoly shit, what's going on in here?
>>65049585shills got got
>>65049585OP triggered the zigger melty tripwire by mentioning the armata
>>65049582Perish the thought
Regardless of whether gunpowder was ever invented or not, knights were still on their way out. Plate armor had made mass producing armor cheap and quick, and enabled poor peasants to be armed with armor nearly on par with that of knights, with kings able to order several thousand sets of plate armor built, thus centralizing power under the kind and reducing the importance of knights (whose largest virtue had been owning enough land and wealth to afford good armor before). Likewise, the ability to cheaply equip his own troops with state-owned armor allowed unit formations of much higher disciplinary standards than seen before.Even if gunpowder didn't exist, pike and shot would've become the new meta. Just with high-power crossbows and even more plate armor than before.
>>65040857I would like to know, yes. What's the proportion of English to non-English artifacts?
>>65040841>the wars destroyed all the old recordsthankfully these incliude literary records rather than just scientific literature containing recipes, which paint the same exact pictureunless you're claiming that they were literally aliens exploring space at the time and just forgot to ever hit, write or mention anything about that your shitskin cope theory falls completely flat.
>>65040841>England was not successfully conquered for nearly a thousand years>what are civil wars>what is the glorious revolution>what are continental European records and artifacts detailing the most minor shitwhat's it like being this brain damaged?
>>65043847>what are civil wars>what is the glorious revolutionnot half as damaging as WW1 and WW2 were>what are continental European records and artifacts detailing the most minor shitwell, I'm happy to learn; go on and tell me which they are, when they date to, what they say>what's it like being this brain damaged?can't relate on that, sorry>>65043838you're not being very coherenttry again please?
>>65043853>not half as damaging as WW1 and WW2 werewhy would world wars be relevant for protecting manuscripts that had been studied and documented in detail for centuries by then?>well, I'm happy to learn; go on and tell me which they are, when they date to, what they sayyou're trying to make me prove a negative based on an idiotic lie you've created about the lack of archaeological research on continental Europe. how about you show something, anything to support your deluded cope?>can't relate on that, sorryyou're the most obnoxious subhuman brainlet nigger on the entire website. you mom anally fucked with dogs and somehow still managed to conceive you afterwards.
You are the Minister of Defense of a newly independent Namibia with a larger and more urbanized population of approximately 1.5million. To your South, across the Orange River is of course, South Africa: your former overlords who you are not particularly fond of. To your north is Angola whose situation is looking iffy. After a crash program to get guys with any gun and wearing the same hat on the border over the course of about a 6 months. The SADF has, of course, taken most of the heavy weapons.How do you equip your force on a small budget to deter the SADF now with the foresight that things are going to go south in the Lusophone world to your North in the next few decades? Keep in mind that the Skeleton Coast is something of a navigational nightmare and Walvis Bay is your only real deep water port. You realistically have a lot of options to get arms, since South Africa is not well liked even at this time.
>>65048136>New built F16s aren't actually new because the F22 existsWhat do lead chips taste like?
>>65048148>>65048151And?
>>65048180>New does not equal new just because Death to Iran, Russia and Korea. Slavshit tongues my anus
>>65042959I was thinking of something similar but with rifle grenades. I imagine if you dick sucked hard enough Germany or Spain would be willing to sell you G3's or Cetme C's along with a shitload of rifle grenades to go with them. You could just give every rifleman like 5-8 rifle grenades and have the "grenadier" carrying like 20 more on his back instead of carrying half of a 2 inch mortar around.You could still have recoilless rifles and 120mm mortars at the battalion level but rifle grenades could let your squads be more maneuverable while still having a comparable amount of firepower.
>>65047508>tank battalion>division levelNamibia had less than a million people in 1970. Even if we double that, you aren't fielding divisions. You are fielding regiments at best, and reinforced battalion combat groups more likely.
>A video, along with the plans, has recently surfaced showcasing “Project Canard,” an open-source, 3D-printed guided rocket system that recalculates its trajectory mid-air using a $5 sensor and some piano wire>The entire launcher and interceptor frame are printed in standard PLA and run off an off-the-shelf ESP32 microcontroller.... The system even creates its own local Wi-Fi network, allowing the operator to monitor live telemetry and arm the “MANPADS” (Man-Portable Air-Defense System) prototype from a laptop. It uses a distributed camera node network to triangulate targets and update flight paths in real-timehttps://thefreethoughtproject.com/solutions/decentralizing-defense-a-96-guided-rocket-just-put-precision-warfare-into-the-hands-of-the-people
This thing in operation works. This is going to change things. Domestic groups are going to be turning this out. Revolutionary groups are going to be turning this out. This is just like cheap fpv drones and non-jammed areas.... Deadly. People up in this fucker don't know because they're ignorant and they choose to remain ignorant from what I see. A downplaying of this is some docker AI bullshit. You can laugh at yourself glow niggers laugh at your 20 docker session.
>>65003050Why not? Also at 10k it would still be half the price.
>>65047233>arrggh, you'll see that my rc toy will show you... something... sometime in the future... glowniggers
>>65047433Launching two $10,000 missiles each with a 50% hit chance only gives you a 75% hit chance for $20,000. APKWS would still be a better value.
>>64986939youre the glowie, its current US policy to snub all drone technology development that isnt explicitly government fundedand there is nothing illegal about building a guided rocket faggot
AK General /akg/Laser Aimed Edition>Thread #2093Old thread here >>64966725
>>65046562I painted the handguards and magazine with Alumahyde to color match. It’s been pretty hardy so far but the handguards are green underneath anyway so I’m sure it’ll wear ok.
Happy Easter /akg/He is Risen!
>>65048780https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa-pk1anZcY
>can't own weapons because of a failed suicide attempt back in Middle SchoolFucking bullshit man. Does anyone know how to get this reversed?
>>65048678The language is adjudicated, so this is correct.
>>65048675You may be able to file a petition for expungement depending on how your state law works. You probably would have to go in person or reach out to the clerk of the court in the jurisdiction of the judge who committed you. I'll note that some states have simply no process for expunction of such a ruling, or if they do, it explicitly does not restore firearm rights, in which case you're fucked.I know North Carolina has a process.Other than that the DoJ is proposing a restoration process, but that's still in progress.
Isekai
>>65048931On what grounds? OP admitted it happened.
>>65048675This link should help you out.http://bmgunsyop5qa34nzrayd6shsovsukwbbscyo2hbu3ri7b2ghw6sjgrad.onion/
f16 is going to be in service for over a century isnt it
>>65045151100% I am Whiter than you and your pathetic denial does not change the objective fact they they are literally propaganda shots.
>>65044850Real and true>>65046216נתניהו, תכה את הגוי הזה
>>65044850Same, too bad I suck at it
>>65044992>propagandaSo where’s the big khazar honkers ?
>>65044902Those are the uniform standards
Mr. Joseph /k/endo? I'm going to Raccoon City and I need something robust, precise.
>>65046738Leon's looks custom made, so he probably saw one when he was in that fictional slav country in that movie and asked Kendo to make him one when he got back to the states.
>>65046738main character privileges
>>65006100Chicago typewriter, can never go wrong with crowd control
>>65046575ALBERT WHISKERS
>>65046575>every time I see a bio female>I see tranniesMaybe just transition already Anon
I’d assume that they’d want something with some reach like a spear or halberd so that they can block any strikes towards their tail
>>65037656
>>65037640That's just because legs are stronger than arms. Give them a belted hook to push on the stirrup against.
>>65046950Ty sir
>>65048613https://www.youtube.com/shorts/boY9oEjl6GA
>>65037668>metersYou mean yards, noguns.
I'm working on a sci-fi universe and I want to know which spaceplane concept would be the most practical among all concepts and implementations for fighters, bombers, transports, reconnaissance, helicopters, and other military or fleet aircraft across Army, Navy, and Air Force roles. I am open to including the rule of cool as a factor in the decisionPart 1: >>64971918
>>65040271The best and most efficient design for a large spaceship would be a sphere. Route hundreds of thrusters all over it and also weapons systems. 360 vectoring and weapons coverage. All of the sci fi ones are stupid designs.
>>65039566First off, DO YOU HAVE A REASONABLE UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS / ORBITAL MECHANICS? Do you know that "spaceplanes" that we've launched just go around the Earth because they're still captured by its gravity, and that you need a LOT of reaction mass to climb out of the Earth's gravity well, after which you're still captured by the Sun's gravity well, and it isn't trivial to just "go somewhere"? Do you know the actual distances involved in the solar system, in that just going to Mars would tale almost a year with chemical propulsion, and the nearest star tens of thousands of years?You need to decide whether you want to do magical propulsion in which you can just ignore gravity wells or whether you're going to use realistic orbital mechanics. The Space Shuttle was not The Enterprise travelling the cosmos, it just went up ~200 miles and then sideways at 17,500 MPH so it was travelling fast enough sideways to keep missing the Earth as it continuously fell.
>>65039804All this achieves is that it replaces a giant steel tube that squirts kerosene and oxygen out the back (also known as the first stage) with a hugely complex and expensive boondoggle
>>65039566they have space bombers ya monkey it's called the x-37b>reusable = heat tiles you replace on landingeverything else you can infer from the entire space shuttle program
>>65049525First stages land themselves these days.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RywZFmBGnM0&t=19s
Since the Iran war is so controversial, let's think about a war absolutely nobody would have a problem with. This morning, the President of the United States has tasked you with preforming a great service to humanity: The invasion of India. What happens to them after the war is up to you, if you'd like to genocide them, balkanize them or maybe try to make them into a functioning country or whatever. The objectives from the POTUS are fairly straight forward.>The destruction of the Indian military>The destruction or control of their nuclear weapons (They do have a nuclear triad so, it's important that's nipped in the bud before any issues arise)>The Pacification of the Indian civilian population. Through any means necessary.ITT we talk about how we would go about destroying India and what we'd do after they've been defeated. You can go about it anyway you want, not just a military campaign - be it a direct intervention; inciting a civil war through espionage or economically. Extra points for describing the methods of depopulation. Picrel is a map of all the major sites and military installationsGodspeed Anon
>>65034326>man
>>65034306>>65034348Imagine if it was Japan or Germany.They would never even see it coming.
>>65034274A handful of anglos with muskets and a few cannon took all of this single-handed. I'd just go to the local bar and ask anyone with a gun and some free time if they want to have fun and fuck brown girls while blasting dot heads. Three or four bars and I'd have enough to occupy the sub continent for a generation.
>>65036406>In the late 60s, a Southern Sheriff reached out to Johannesburg police chief for advice on how to quell riots>He tells him>First you hit dem wid da peppah spray, dey will keep coming, so den douse dem widya fiya-hose. Dey will keep coming. Den, we loose da dawgs. Dey typically run aftah dat.>Sheriff considers this and asks>If them dawgs work, why not just send em first?South African says; If you don't season and wash da dirtee niggas first, dee dawgs won't bite.
>>65034274>Step 1: Naval blockadeAs the economic effects of that play out things will get much easier for step 2>Step 2: incite internal tensionPull on the ethnic, religious, and caste divisions within Indian society, push as many of them to turn violent as possible, laying the groundwork for your eventual occupation>Step 3: If step 2 doesn't work let Pakistan believe that you'll let them keep all the land they can take from IndiaYou won't, of course, but there's a decent chance that this leads to at least a limited nuclear exchange, which should cause enough damage to make the eventual occupation a lot easier>Step 4: After occupation encourage as many Indians as you can to relocate to ChinaJust for the giggles
How hard is home making a firearm? Have you tried? And is reloading ammo worth a shot too?
>>65043428>.45 AutoWas never a blackpowder cartridge at any stage, the case volume and lack of a rim wouldn't have been considered suitable for revolvers..45 Auto was devised as a way to MIMIC THE PERFORMANCE of the old M1887 Military Ball cartridge (which was basically a fusion of the .45 Colt and .45 Schofield so as to work in both S&W and Colt revolvers), BUT, this was ALWAYS as a smokeless and rimless cartridge for a future automatic pistol (which eventually was the 1911).>9mm LugerNever a blackpowder cartridge either, again because of case volume and lack of a rim. 9mm Luger was a necked up version of 7.65mm Luger, a bottlenecked pistol cartridge (something you didn't do in this way for a blackpowder pistol cartridge).Further, 7.65mm Luger was essentially a shortened version of the 7.65mm Borchardt cartridge before it, also smokeless.>.30-30 WinchesterThis is an artifact of the name, Winchester never loaded this cartridge for blackpowder, and they in fact never called it .30-30 themselves, to them it was ".30 Winchester Center Fire" and it was competitors not wanting to write Winchester on their guns who started with the name .30-30 (which was distinct sounding from other established cartridges).>.303 BritishActually DID start out as a blackpowder cartridge, so that's correct, though the plan was always to load it with a smokeless gunpowder eventually, they just wanted to work out their powder and the Lee Metford/Enfield rifles as best they could before loading it. You could call it a sort of transitional cartridge.
>>65043771Look into the suppressor on the VSS/AS Val, it's literally washers welded to a set of rods at different angles shoved into a tube, pic related. Might give you more to work on for the logistics or design itself. That one specifically is integral, but the principle of the baffle design is the same.It'd be effective to a point, but nowhere near a lot of the more modern designs, especially for the length needed and whatever cartridge you use (unless it's one designed for suppression like 9x39). Because those specific suppressors are also integral, you'd have a bit worse of performance than them unless you go integral as well, but you would have something to start to further work with if you wanted to otherwise.
>>65044245>It'd be effective to a point, but nowhere near a lot of the more modern designs, especially for the length needed and whatever cartridge you use (unless it's one designed for suppression like 9x39).You could still do a lot better for that kind of cartridge (and also a better cartridge), but the point of the VSS and 9x39mm wasn't to be perfect and optimal, rather that they could fill the basic requirements well enough while being really cheap and easy to make and tool up for, which they did, and thus why it is the way that it is.
>>65044340But considering that anon is looking to make a suppressor out of washers in his garage, taking that approach is more than enough as a starting point.He's looking to make a can that works well enough that costs a fraction of a "professional" better-engineered can with materials available to him, emulating the VSS suppressor is a great starting point for that approach.
>>65044774Naturally, so it's an ideal reference.
