photographs of flying boats and floatplanes
>>65049436good, good
>>65049504No, jet engines absolutely love having large amounts of seawater passed through them. Some of them do look just perfect though.
>>65049651Ambi seaplanes are bestest because you never know when you might need to land in Denver.
Pictures taken at/over Edwards or the nearby dry lakebeds.
>>65026037I went to the airshow every year from about 1990 until they stopped having it after 9/11. I got to see the first public showing of the B-2 and at least one SR-71 flight, I think including the final one. Wish I'd been older so my memories of that stuff weren't so hazy.
>>65049161What's the clear window for just aft of the engines?
Post gear, discuss gear.Cutting Edge / New Shit EditionOld: >>65023454
>>65049473Yeah, when the shield obsession was brought up I'm like 99% sure that's dadbitterbatter. He was one of berl's mods I think.
>>65049473>sandmanAh yes the retired FBI agent that groomed the shooter with "dad advice" and then rode off in the wind with no consequences.But let's go after the armor company that just sold some dude a pair of plates. I don't like RMA but good lord they don't deserve that.
>>65049488you know what they say: once intel, always intel.
This is gear related. Why are USAF Pararescue bringing toothpaste with them into battle? No matter what happens, you're not going to be camping out there for long. Just bring a toothpick or something, lol.
>>65049501He was of the LTC 28601 persuasion.>>65049533Quality of life? Toothaches suck.
Why dont modern powers mass produce a mid effective and reliable not fancy manpad made entirely to bring down drones and cruise missiless.Russia could mass produce a slightly better version than the strela which Is around 5k cost to manufacture and it could be used anywhere from anti drone to anti fpv to anti cruise missile.Yet they dont seem to be doing it for some reason.If the bases attacked by spider web had a few manpads and guys with shootguns trying to slow down the drones instead of throwing rocks at them the outcome would have been very different yet they didnt for some reason.Also we ve seen ukranian succesfuly intercept slow low Flying cruise missiless with stingers, they even minched russian helos and some were used on their jets.You could even just strap them to a vehicle or helicopter and link them to a thermal camera to aquire the target and just let them do their work afterwards
>>65049362>They don't make 80's electronics anymoreOh no, now they have to make it with cheaper, smaller and faster electronics.
>>65049341>Yet they dont seem to be doing it for some reason.Perhaps because real engineering is not that simple.
>wasting 100k missile on 100 dollar store drone
>>65049499>Oh no, now they have to make it with cheaper, smaller and faster electronicsThat's the neat part. 90% of their electronics are imported/smuggled
>>65049341MANPADS work at a distance of a few hundred yards to a few miles. Most FPV drones won't be noticed until there within a few hundred feet of a soldier. By then they're well-within the effective engagement range.The future is probably something like a small bird-sized drone that can be worn on soldier's helmet or sholder that will kamikaze into an incoming's rotor to knock it off course. My guess is you could use a passive sonic detection coupled with AI as a simple means of guidance.
I have not been paying attention to the pump-action/semi-auto shotgun scene in like a decade. I have my Over-under duck-.hunter and so far it has been fine enough. But recently I have been thinking that I might want to upgrade to either pump-action or semi-auto model. And since I have not been paying attention, I have little knowledge about "how good is the tech" and "What are the models worth considering".Like, I have had this old (admittedly unfair and biased) view that semi-autos are unreliable and you should at least demand a back-up pump-action feature. But I recognize that these days semi-autos can be considered reliable and I shoudl rid myself of these biased thoughts. So... What are the modern standards for a semi-auto shotguns (with possible "this pump-action is still better" options)?Key categories: 1) The unassuming "basic bitch" models that are reliable and will pass the innocent "it's just a duck-hunting gun" test. The relatively inexpensive ones.2) Gucci bling models, where it's still a "hunting model, but a fancy one". can be with extra features.3) "The Tacticool option", where you have pistol grips, extended mags, rails, bells and whistles. I am not looking for some "home defense model", but since the world is getting to be a bit more dangerous these days, options for such can not be overlooked. Give me your selection of decent shotties.
>>65048286Semis are unreliable is entirely a ammo issue. Find a brand and load it like it will work fine. Unless its turkshit then its still unreliable and something will break.
>>65048286ts12
>>65049580IME it's not even that. I either own or have owned an Auto-5, Rem 11-87, Beretta 1301, Benelli M2, M4, & Cordoba, Beretta 1301, and Mossberg 930. All of them will happily cycle low-power target loads, even the cheap stuff like Federal Top Gun from Wal-Mart or the basic bitch Rio. I haven't been able to test them in all those guns but the Cordoba, M2, 930, and the Auto-5 would all shoot Fiocchi Exacta extra-low-recoil trainer loads, which are the weakest 12ga I've ever found other than less-lethal stuff.I have a Mag-10 as well and that's always been super reliable, though it's not like I've tried to shoot dove loads through that.
>>65048610These are very different guns. The M4 is a one-trick-pony. It's a great combat shotgun but that's about it. The only barrels you can get for it are the 14" (SBS) entry model and the full size 18.5". The M2 is a fantastic general-purpose shotgun. You can get any kind of barrel for that, from the those same combat barrels to rifled barrels for slugs, and various length choked barrels for hunting or clays, etc. The M2 is very popular for 3-gun so it has a huge aftermarket if you're into that kind of thing. The other nice thing about the intertia Benellis like the M2 is they are so fucking simple. There's no gas ports or pistons to get dirty or fouled up, there's hardly anything to clean.
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.
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.
