Wait a second, wouldnt berdan primers be "better" in the sense that the anvil is in the case and the "primer" is just soft brass that gets struck? Couldnt you just cast little bitchass brass primers then, or is there still some special part prohibiting you from making your own? Im speaking of better in the sense that if they try to cuck us and ban, bottleneck or otherwise restrict primers to average joes
Getting a spent primer out of a Berdan case is doable, but tedious and annoying.
>>65050012Just make a primer punch with two pins. That's also tedious and annoying but you only have to do it once.
Thoughts on USAF pilots survival gear?
>>65049373>>65049480You cannot reduce everything down to plain cost, it is too difficult to calculate.You can just say that using hundreds of millions of $ to rescue a pilot is worth it for the propaganda value. It is completely fine to think of propaganda value as a completely different sort of value from $. Dollars are an abstract fiat currency anyhow.
>>65049090>>65049312kek
>>65043958Apparently not lel
>>65049736It’s moral value, you shitty little ape. Sometimes you just do the right thing regardless of expense.
>>65040569Wasted taxpayer money
How do you think it's going to go down? I imagine there won't be an infantry presence until it's practically leveled.
>>65050075Why did we build an airfield in Iran during the civil war??
>>65050070>exporting just about as much oil as it is importingOnly by the grace of Trump. Stroke of the autopen, baby.>pretending the US can't refine light, sweet crudeThe importing is done by California, which has been regulating its oil production out of existence, and deserves what they get, good and hard.>>65050079>oh no turdie is le seething
>>65050075>muh airfieldsYou mean the ones that resulted in multiple planes lost for a single-day, small scale operation that relied entirely on not being detected? Yeah, uh, your example does not inspire confidence. Quite the opposite, really.And why yes, I have studied those three conflicts. None of them seem to include deliberately stranding a far too small ground component deep into enemy territory with a tenuous supply and communications line as a sensible strategy.
>>65050084Yes, one stroke of the autopen to collapse the oil industry even harder and make the crisis worse. Great idea, retard.And no, the US cannot refine light and sweet crude at anything near the efficiency it can do heavy and sour crude. That means more money spent on maintenance, for less production. That means shortages in the market. that means you paying $12/ga at the pump if you're lucky, and you being told there's nothing to buy if you're not.The commies tried this shit you brag about, retard. Time and again. And we all know how it ends every time.>muh CaliforniaTry the entirety of the United States, retard. Guess what kind of crude all the refineries in the Gulf of Mexico specialise in. Hint: It ain't light and sweet.>itt, someone telling you that your plan is retarded means they're seethingYou seem to be projecting.
>>65050053>>65050067Iran is massive and has no quick reaction airforce due to thr US/Israeli airforce being over it 24/7, the operation was pretty localised in a remote region, there was no risk really to anyone unless someone got the coords back to base (unlikely they had any form of communication that would be fast enough to create a viable killchain in the area)There's plenty of desert where the only opposition is some guys with an AK in for about an hour before reinforcements get there, and the same would be true for the USA too if they had no airforce.It's not as big of a deal operationally as you guys make it out to be, we even have historical precident.>>65050090Hardly relevant, this sort of high risk operation is fraught with danger innevitably compared to conventional warfare. But the US seems committed to propaganda wins and "saving pilot lives" and captiring maduron seems to be worth the risk politically to the current admin. If you want a true wakeup call about the US degrading capabilities in the region you should read >>65050001
Post gear, discuss gear.Cutting Edge / New Shit EditionOld: >>65023454
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>>65049962women hate me
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>>65049926These are admittedly kind of stupid. There's really no reason to separate something like M05 from Multicam Tropic, as they're basically intended for the same environment (green woods in late spring/summer or tropical environments)A better map would be simplified
>>65050095>alpenflage during fallOnly for a very small amount of time. This map needs to be revised.
FCAS:France's Dassault says 'weeks' left to save Europe warplane projecthttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260401-france-s-dassault-says-weeks-left-to-save-europe-warplane-projectGCAP:Money starts flowing for new GCAP fighter, as Britain sorts out financeshttps://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/04/02/money-starts-flowing-for-new-gcap-fighter-as-britain-sorts-out-finances/Canada Eyes UK-Japan-Italy GCAP Sixth-Gen Fighter Program Amid F-35 Reviewhttps://www.eurasiantimes.com/move-over-f-35-canada-eyes-uk-japan-italy-gcap-sixth-gen-fighter-program-amid-f-35-reviewLooks like FCAS has weeks left to make a decision and GCAP is resuming progress with a growing number of nations displaying interest.
>>65048238Sorry, but when an objective look at the past 40 years tells a particular story, and that story is about France constantly being the one to fuck it up.Do you think France is just SOOO unlucky that any time they work on a larger European defense program it falls apart, yet somehow it's never Frances fault its always the other party, whether it's Germany, Italy, England, whoever it is, it's through no fault of France.
>>65046121I am pointing out whataboutism because it is, you are mad about it because I can say one word that instantly shows how your entire argument is fallacious bullshit. I don't give a shit about the rest of whatever regional Indian politics you're talking about. Whatever the reasons they are factually a Russian ally (you openly admit this) which was my point. They are not a reliable partner for Europeans nor do they care about European defence, which is the whole topic being discussed.>>65047366We need a great firewall for Europe/America.>>65048238I posted nothing but facts. If posting the truth is "French bashing" that's their problem not mine. French are more than happy to bash others over far less.
>>65048427>We need a great firewall for Europe/AmericaSo you can shit in the street without shame? I didn't know you guys had shame.
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>>65048238The French deserve all they get, frankly.
any excuse to post sharp objects is a good one.here's the finnish puukko. comes in many varieties, often with regional variations depending on very local craftsmen from small villages. this example is probably from härmä desu.
Anyone got one of these crkt Hissaou tanto blades they want to sell?
>>65049899I hear they are pretty good for stabbing communist politicians.
>>65049909that blade has a guard tho, its between his left index and middle finger
>>65050020Yeah, its like a gunto or wakizashi.
>>65050056we had this debate before, its inconclusive if the blade used still exists somewhere, this picture is most likely wrong, as wakizashi's have guards 99% of the time
f16 is going to be in service for over a century isnt it
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>>65049925That's so gay, what's wrong with modern aviators??
>>65049925radars are (at least for F-15EX and latest block F-16V) about equivalent but the F-16 (especially if it has have glass RAM) will see the F-15 first because the F-15 is much less stealthy.
>>65049913>look at fighter plane from any era>it's just a large engine wrapped in a small airframe
>>65050011>radars are (at least for F-15EX and latest block F-16V) about equivalentnot even close, F-15's radar is twice the size. the only question here is whether both planes' radars are more than capable enough in any combat scenario they'd find themselves in against each other since they're both non-stealthy 4th gens with state of the art electronics in them.>>65049917sure, they carry the same armanents and have their own advantages when maneuvering, with F-15 being better in BVR due to superior acceleration, top speed and climb rate while F-16 being a more nimble dogfighter, but not to a very large extent.what F-15 is massively superior in is combat range, which is several times that of the F-16, especially carrying a substantial payload. this allows the planes to cover a greater area deeper into enemy territory for air superiority and strike missions.
If you get stainless then finish wear isnt a worry, also it looks sexier than hell
>>65049801It can still get giant ugly scratches. I've seen some scuffed up ugly ass stainless guns over the years. They aren't totally immune to rust either.
>>65049825>get a scratch>polish it>get rust>use high grit sandpaper and then polish itLearn to use your hands instead of your mouth, sonny boy
>>65049801It's stain-less, not stain-free
>>65050031And its not a finish, its the alloy itself ya dang bungophile
Impact photo of an Iranian missile with a 1-ton explosive load at Prince Sultan Air Base
>>65044821So you've moved from >The industry is nationalized to >the establishment of the industry was highly regulated?
>>65034786I now demand the death of every Iranian. Moderate btw.
>>65034576i doubt their aim is that good, more like the aim for the general direction of the base and hit something.
>>65040324>>65040406Cute memes, shame you're a zigger.>>65035639>>65044873Anyone defending the retard in chief at this point needs a lobotomy.https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/over-11000-munitions-16-days-iran-war-command-reload-governs-endurance
>>65045401>KramatorskKekDidn't you get surrounded and raped there not even a couple months ago.
Small Cat Girls Big Rifles Editon Post Wood (furniture)Talk about Battle RiflesShoot Battle Rifles Love Battle RiflesFrens together strongthread theme~https://youtu.be/tC9qr2Gamzw?si=PzbYA7T8njMY2QgRAs always; no trips, no traps, no airsoftPreviously on /brg/ :>>64935682
>>65048350>That wasn’t in Arizona it was NevadaYes, I know.>>65048339No, I don't know.
>>65048355Oh yeah I see now. It’s early.
He is Risen! Happy Easter /brg/!
>>65048667Happy Easter! I went to the range today, it was okay. Wish I brought more ammo. Might go tomorrow, hopefully they have a good selection in town.
My C308 has a Fren now. A PTR-91 A3SK. Got it in a trade from a dealer who had a new/old stock one from California so I promptly de-Californicated it. Currently has a Turkish collapsing stock and a Paki wide handguard.Does anyone know if these take standard G3 flash hiders or are they threaded like US AR-10s? It has the solid metal Faux-hider meant for California and I have an HK-21 FH on the way. I suspect I might have fucked up ordering it because the thread pitch might be different. Also did they just spin them on for CA or is it rockset/locktite in place? I don't see any signs of pin/weld like the C308 brake is.Also yes that's a 1980s Thermold magazine I got for $5 because it looks cool. I don't actually use it.
why are soviet ifv so mediocre when compared to their western counterparts?
>>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.
>>65049192The only real problem with the BMP-1 is that the soviets struck gold once and refused to change their way of thinking around IFVs ever since even though the BMP including all its derivatives were obsolete in the 80s. The BMP-2 was a good improvement, but it was still hampered by that god awful chassi.
>>65049532Anon...Look at OP again
>>65049933>the soviets struck goldlol
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
>>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
>>65034274>invadingdoing it wrong, 48 hours
If mid-Cold War had sea skimming missiles but no reliable CIWS / SHORAD, how were ships expected to not die?
>>65046221For the NATO? ECM, which those early active radar missiles were susceptible to, and combat air patrols. For Soviets? Die.
>>65049396In that case my knowledge has been expanded.
>>65049156>When cold war-era missile seekers go active they don't know which target to prioritize, they simply lock onto the strongest returnNot all of them. Some had a tiny bit of logic built in that was able to randomly select one of the strong returns.The idea was that this would cause a missile salvo to naturally spread out instead of overkillling the first or largest return, and it might help against chaff clouds.Soome missiles also had IR seekers, and some could be set to home-on-jam.It mamy loook primitive from today's perspective, but they were really pushing whaht their electronics could do.
>>65049705Yeah but that's implying the formation is very close together. And while Cold War era formations were tighter than today, it was still feasible to station a ship far enough forward on the threat vector to eat the salvo.
>>65046317Falklands was the war where every nation realised how vulnerable their ships were to ASMs and adapted.The UK didn't have adequate defences during that war, but you are correct in that they did have some attempt at a defemsive system.Modern warfare is just the next generation of adaption that's been happening over 20 years at this point.
Today we shed a tear for the French cuck military destroying every FAMAS in their inventory
>>65044947>I've training with a bullpup using over 1,000 rounds of ammunition I am just as effective with it and my mommy is proud of me for it
>>65044666how about you have autism a little bit less and show us what the fuck you're talking about normal people don't revolve around the things you see
>>65044942It's just unobtanium. They were fairly competent as far as 1970s bullpups go, and the lever delayed blowback system is novel but it isn't any better than a basic AR-15 or AUG.Still, it would have been nice to get them as parts kits. A tiny number of semi auto versions were imported in the 1980s which is basically the only way for an American to ever hold or shoot one. God help you if you lose or break the magazine as well, which was intended to be disposable and is virtually impossible to replace now. They did make an AR pattern compatible G2 but that never made it to market here.>>65049022Politics. The military usually has their hands tied and is required to destroy surplus inventory because politicians don't want egg on their faces when some idiot makes the news shooting up a school with a gun or piece of surplus gear they sold. Germany had a huge "oh shit" moment when all the cheap flecktarn kevlar vests they dumped ended up being used by Azov in Ukraine. That's why those vests went from being $34 a pop to unobtanium overnight. They destroyed their remaining inventory in 2015/16ish.Now it's a nightmare for any military in Europe to sign off surplusing anything. It happens, but usually by a 3rd party country. For instance they send old helmets/uniforms/rifles to a small backwater in their sphere of influence and those guys sell it commercially once they have finished thrashing it. It's not impossible to get some FAMAS kits that way from some smaller French speaking country many years from now. I suspect that's where we recently got some French marked Sig 540 kits from.
>>65044666Deep, profound mental retardation, they are like 3 billion dollars in debt and they destroy them instead of selling it. Nuke france
>>65044666I always knew Satan was a fr*g. Source?
Iranian air defenses have successfully intercepted the second AGM-158 JASSM Cruise Missile in as many days, the first one was either intercepted yesterday or that's when the photos were released.
>>65049877if you wanna be a thirdie you need to do it on the thirdie board
>>65049877What do you mean anon?I think this war is an unmitigated clusterfuck that's done more damage to the US than any enemy could ever hope to inflict.But I'm not being a fucking dumbass retweeting the first photo of what I'm told is a burnt out F-35 I see and parading it around like I'm the cleverest cunt to ever live, so it's fine.Don't pretend the issue is just being 'anti-war' or 'anti-west', it's being a fucking /pol/ poster about it.
>>65044705>the admin literally tried to bribe these inbred niggers with free reactor uranium forever in exchange for them to never develop nuclear weapons>they refused because they're a doomsday cult>now they're getting raped
>>65050147NTA but to be more precise here, what it wants is a guarantee that it won't get regime changed. They believe that nukes either assembled or on the cusp of being assembled will do that. State-run nuke programs are done with the hope of dissuading wars more than to conduct them.It's a bit of a catch-22. You don't have nukes, Israel and the US will probably try and bring freedom and democracy Iraq style. You try to build nukes so they don't, they try to bring freedom and democracy because you're building nukes.It's a bit of a paradox of non-proliferation. States without nukes sometimes get toppled, states with them don't, and states trying to get them get their shit kicked in, so you create an incentive to race to get them as quickly as possible when you're trying to stop anyone new from having them.Iran's government vanishing in a puff of smoke would make my day, don't get me wrong, it's just important to think about stuff from their perspective when you're trying to find a way around this clusterfuck.
>>65048395See, I would believe this if it weren't for the fact that there's seemingly no actual policy endgoal for the war and that they're depleting missile stocks that will take years to replace. Taking out the dominos is all well and good but not when you get to the final one and discover you don't actually have enough missiles to sink the Chinese ships or strike the mainland with. Also pissing off all your asian allies who rely on oil from the strait doesn't help either.
