Why didnt eastern swords have handguards?They used swords for far longer than europe because they didnt learn about guns yet so how come their sword tech is still so shit? I hear that they are all horse archers but surely they have to dismount and fight after running out of arrows.
>>65042070Unlike flashy fairground toys like the urumi, pata were considered "serious" warfighting weapons when wielded by a decently-trained soldier.
>>65042916I posted the previous image of one, but to me it feels less like a battlefield weapon, and more like some kind of duel weapon.
>>65042916>>65042953they're indians. the only time indians ever won a war was against the portugese. their weapons weren't great
>>65041641Fun aside, there was a brief intersection in sword cultures during the Dutch/Portuguese period of trade with Japan. What this largely amounts to (inasmuch as what has survived and been cataloged), are smallswords in the Northern European (as in north of the Alps) form, with decoration emblematic of Japanese sword design. Usually called Sawasa swords, they're really cool and I've only ever seen the blackening/bluing and lacquer like this done on some giga rare Napoleonic era French turbo high ranking presentation swords. Usually Euro blades with Japanese made hilt fittings, look at the huge physical difference of the relief details on the pommel and inside of the guard. >More photos here: https://friedlandarms.com/an-early-sawasa-hilted-small-sword-with-scabbard-circa-1690-1700/
>>65038361>Why didnt eastern swords have handguards?1) Pajeets did.2) The sword being a sidearm is more emphasized in the East vs. the West. Most of the fighting & killing happening in battles over there was by polearms, missile weapons, and firearms whereas in the West from the 1500s-1700s), you had units to whom the sword was their main weapon (Rodeleros, Hussars, Cuirassiers). Even in non-military combat like duels and (way more common in Asia) clan-vendettas in the East, swords were still sidearms, unlike in the west where it was the main dueling weapon. The only time swords came out was when you're in a CQC situation (rare in Central Asian warfare), fighting in tight quarters, chasing a fleeing enemy, or lost your main weapon somehow.3) Eastroons used armor & shields way longer than Westroons did.4) In East Asia's case, two handed swordsmanship was quite common and lasted longer than it did in Europe. >They used swords for far longer than europe because they didnt learn about guns.Lol guns were a big reason why Eastern sword designs came to a static halt by the 1600s-1700s as artillery & musketry made close combat infrequent (but not eliminated).>yet so how come their sword tech is still so shit?It wasn't, local designs were good enough. If it was so shit then Asians would have flocked to buying European swords like they did with European firearms during the 1500s-1700s, but no such market existed in large parts of Asia and the only Asians that DID buy European blades (Pajeets and Iranians), rehilted them in local hilts.In fact in East Asia, around the same time they were importing asstons of European Cannon & Firearms, the most in-demand & often copied sword-type were Japanese-style swords. Besides complex handguards did not last long in Europe anyway. By the 1700s most western sword designs mostly adopted simple knuckle-hilts.
How feasible would it be to use a nuke on Iran's underground missile silos, and uranium enrichment sites? This idea has been proposed in the past for targeting the underground sites buried more than 1,000 ft deep.
>>65049703No dude, the geopolitical implications of a nuclear attack on a 3rd world country would be tremendous. You'd instantly alienate the entire world. Conventional munitions can have the same effect eventually if you disregard the optics(see israel), and you obviously are if you're considering nuking a turdie nation to avoid probably 15k casualties.
>>65049433No?
>>65049703>Iran started aggressively shooting at our aircraft after we started defensively bombing their schools and hospitals, so now we have to nuke them
>>65049427>President Trump takes to social media to praise allah on EasterMan I love Easter, it's one of my favorite holidays.Seeing the POTUS call people bastards and pull this out of his hat first thing Easter morning really had me down in the dumps for a few hours til I saw my nephews and gave them a fucking ton of candy.
>Step 1: surface-penetrating NOOK NOOK >Step 2: blame radiation on hidden enemy uranium stockpile scattered by 100 percent conventional strike (wink)>Step 3: Discredit all opposition >3a: suppress physical evidence of NOOK NOOK by flooding the media with an endless tide of brown retard takes>3b: call anybody questioning your narrative a tranny faggot>Step 4: ??????????>Step 5: MULTIPOLAR WORLD ORDER ACHIEVED
thirdes and flyovers do not know the pain of trying to clean you AR-15 with a pull through when it has one of these gay ass "not an A2 flash hider" muzzle breaks pinned to the barrel
>>65045719>Why would I want more than 2 ARs?clonesm16m16a2m4gerythe ar you actually use
>>65045719It ain't the bill of needs.
>>65045977you never posted your hand, airshitter, you just posted airshit>>65046175why would I want it?>>65045990I have>AR I useand >M16A2 but better for target shooting
>>65045719>Why would I want more than 2 ARs?M16A1, XM177E2, M16A2, Colt 933, modern .223, .300 Honey Badger ripoff, .458 or .50 beo or that other weird big cal, 6.5 Grendel, 6.5 Creedmore, HK 416 or LR300, one of those belt fed uppers like the Ares Shrike. Thats about all you need. But then you also need an AR10, AR18, Stoner 63 to round out your Stoner appreciation collection.
>>65046631>ignores hand holding up rifle and BCGThat's crazy. I had no idea they made airsoft guns that have extractors, firing pins, and proper FCGs>only has 2 ARs, both of which are cuck state garbageNo wonder you're seething lmao
/k/ fits.I don't mean armorI don't mean anything that improves capacity, with a fag tier amount of pocketsI mean clothing that enhances a /k/unt's ability to /k/unt it up. Pic related. Shoe coverings, tread removal, hair coverings, gloves, face coverings, cheap & disposable, etc.
>>65049268It doesnt beat this
>>65049268Just deadass gripped a new Yankees fitted.
>>65049268I slather myself in baby oil buck ass nude before every covert operation to raid the fridge, high speed low drag max rape. I leave behind a massive slug trail as I glide about the house gracefully and effortlessly, like a majestic manta ray of oil and crisco. If anyone gets in my way, I remember the basics of CQC and take them out before they can stop me, my lusciously lipid form easily dispatching any opponent with ease as I charge them on my lubricated wings. I removed my fingertips so I won't leave any fingerprints to avoid being caught, and my entire body is completely hairless and perfectly moisturized for maximum slippage. I even exfoliate to prevent dead skin ftom being possibly obtained and used against me by my bitch mother. Anyway, I'm more /k/ than you'll ever be cunt. This world is my canvas, and I, the perfect lubricated paintbrush with a drag factor to make aerospace engineers blush. My CQC is immaculate, my room clearing footwork ascended, flesh pink and perfect, member swollen. You'll never be as /fa/ as me, faggot, because you are constrained by social morality, whereas I am defined in spite of it.
>>65049268>I don't mean anything that improves capacity, with a fag tier amount of pocketswhat does that even mean?
Good old fashioned raincoat
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
>>65050012Just make a primer punch with two pins. That's also tedious and annoying but you only have to do it once.
>>65050115Or just make the anvil part of the primer and skip the bullshit.
>>65050231No more primers for you then, little chud
>>65050243You can fucking make your own primers out of old beer cans and cola cans, you retard.
>>65050246Go ahead and try it then.
Easter Sunday EditionAnon's guide for beginners, text and figureshttps://rentry.org/sa6c4mVicious' TL;DR V3.1 with annotations [A2Grip]https://files.catbox.moe/91lvkc.jpgPrevious>>65032744Submissions for the next holiday collage will be accepted now. For best results, use higher contrast backgrounds. Cropped, poorly lit or cluttered images might be rejected. Please limit one per anon. If time or space were to become a constraint, these rules will be enforced strictly! Ganbatte~
>>65049914I think it was just a 4chan glitch but I clicked on this image and a fucking naked black guy came up when it expanded so what the fuck was that.
>>65050099You just accidentally clicked your bbc tab.
>>65050099it happens every now and then, if you and another poster happen to post at the exact same time the images will swap (this is a cross-board issue, so you happened to post at the same time as some bbc-spamming faggot)
>>65050099I wish that happened to me all I saw was a shitty internals picture :<
i went to Big Jud's and asked for the "a2 grip meal" and they gave me a double nod then handed me a third pin lower with a filed down serial number and a pistol brace (WDTMBT?) along with 40 mcdoubles obviously hastily rewrapped from the McDonalds next door.
>looking for a break-action 20 gauge >know to stay away from anything suspiciously cheap/Tristar>CZ Bobwhite and Weatherby Orion are name brand>do some research >made in Turkey since the last decadeSo there's no way out of paying 2 grand right
Have you have you ever had a dream where where you didnt make a thread which you which you uh could have asked in the in the thread about questions that that don't deserve their own thread if you if you knew a thread died for this
>>65050319I still have like 50 war threads filtered, whatever I slid deserved it
Its just cool. Fills all of the Mel Gibsons of the world with fear.https://youtu.be/nbpSs74bWL4
What would a modern version look like?
>>65049734Not a weapon.>But u wouldn't want to get hit by one :(((I wouldn't want to get hit by a car, a chainsaw, or a scalpel. That doesn't mean they're weapons.
>>65049734Jesus was real, Divine or not. What He said was true. What He did was exemplary and His message was pure.That should be remembered and honored for eternity.
/frtssg/ - Forced Reset Trigger & Super Safety GeneralPrevious:>>64899646What are FRTs:Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) are firearm modifications that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly by automatically resetting the trigger after each shot, while still requiring a trigger pull for each round. They increase the rate of fire without converting the firearm into a fully automatic weapon.AR-15 is the most ubiquitous platform with the most amount of options. Other platforms have other nuances.See it action:https://youtube.com/@juiceymedia1https://youtube.com/@poorboyarmshttps://youtube.com/@printshootrepeatDistributors:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65049767I have a V Seven lower ‘enlightened’, I had it all installed this Friday, ARC fire trigger ambi kit, but it didn’t work. It was like semi fire, and occasional trigger was stuck. I then added lever blocker to it and that did the trick. Shit i just shot one mag, I couldn’t believe it. I never shot auto but I can’t image it’s much different than this
>>65049798yeah you need the lever blocker for any trigger that has a tail-less hammer like geissele. Nice that it works! I'll actually considered a V Sever lower for a build but I was uncertain of the shelf.
>>65049809Ye. I’m glad I figured it out. I still don’t fully understand how it all works. I’m starting to think I need to buy like 5 of these. I know dog fuckers are coming after them, if not now then soon. It’s just too fucking cool. Now I need to figure out how to FRT a Kuna.
>>65050127according to the github list in the OPThe Kuna requires a separate lower and trip from Nexus Firearms and ASDesigns is also working on a lower.
>>65050158Appreciate it bro. May you get every pussy you want and they come back for more
If mid-Cold War had sea skimming missiles but no reliable CIWS / SHORAD, how were ships expected to not 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.
>>65046971>>65047050The missiles in question were Kh-22s. They fly a semi-ballistic trajectory and come from above, no radar clutter to worry about. Terminal velocity of about 700 m/s or Mach 2. Not saying CIWS would've been perfect, but the missiles were not sea-skimming maneuvering targets, they were lumbering, big, missiles on a semi-ballistic trajectory.
f16 is going to be in service for over a century isnt it
>>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.
>>65049917>>65049925>>65050011Real issue is that the latest gens of each are strike aircraft, AKA missile/bomb trucks. They will hold their own against anything not from the west but get bounced on by dedicated fighters or even F35.
Hypothetically if you had a relatively prominent and defensible hill on your property and an unreasonable amount of free time how would you fortify it against an attacking force that could best be described as determined and crafty methheads. Kind of like modern equivalents to medieval brigands. Bonus points if it isn’t just First World War trench systems.
>>65038113And trenches, escape tunnels and a couple home built aircraft.A fednigger never expects the unregistered kit helicopter.
>>65038121And I forgot to mention; tweakers and glowies are much alike. You have to kill or kill the resolve of either, otherwise they just keep trying.
>>65025068Bamboo forest. grows far too dense to traverse and take a lot of effort and fuss to clear a path. you said unreasonable amount of time but bamboo grows pretty fast. hell when it’s in its adolescent stage tangle a few hundred yards of razor wire all around.
>>65025710thanks anon these are good. not OP but still saved. I own a nice hardback of the final title on your list and I suggest everyone get one also.
>>65038113>doped tannerite wrapped in ball bearings on the backs of many of those treesPersonally, I am a huge fan of Tannerite™ Garden Gnomes - now with 30% more diced rebar!
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>>65049535If they can beat me in Power Stone they can call me an Unc. If not I'll call em a squeaker.
PLEASE ENLIST SO I WON'T DIE FOR A POINTLESS WAR. PLEASE, I DON'T WANT TO BE A PAWN!
>>65049535>auto-lableI imagine the brain of an enlisted is just filled with bright shapes and honking sounds. Auto-lable yourself out of the thread.
>>65050137Thanks for bumping the info in the OP that will help others enlist. You are serving your country in your own way.
>>65049529>Dreamcastgood lord this dude is stuck in 1999.
POST TANKSOld thread hit image limitPrevious Thread: >>64994020HOT SINGLE HESH ROUNDS WANT TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
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>>65037952Is there a future for tanks? They are expensive, take a long time to produce, can only travel on land, requires 3-4 crew,Anti-tank weapons are getting better and are pretty easy and cheap to mass produce. Easy to use too. Even drones are getting good at taking out tanks.
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>>65049572Yes, there's a reason Ukraine and Russia are both building more as fast as they can despite knowing more about anti tank weapons and drones than you do.
photographs of flying boats and floatplanes
>>65049984What inspired B&V engineers? Cocaine? Qualudes? Barbituates?
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>>65050154>What inspired B&V engineersRemember that Antarctic expedition?
