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.
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>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
>>65049596The New Deal, Great Society, and the War on Poverty cost vastly more money than Vietnam did... and they're still costing money today (and how much of that is fraud?).
>>65046901The reason is actually the waste slag created and the fact that economical extraction is extremely unfriendly to the environment as it is is a very low concentration, needs things like mercury, and often comes with lots of other nasty heavy metals you have to dump.Also finding deposits is expensive.The UK only exists so high only the list because they still have a WW2 mine in cornwall that periodically makes bank every time there is a shortage, but this requires long term infrastructure and investment for the future at the expense of short term environmental impact, something modern nimby democracies with 4 year cycles and short term goals just do not do.
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
Do you need special munitions to take out power plants in a similar way to runway cratering and taking out hardened bridges?It seems like Russia and Ukraine just take the route of trying to hit critical components and grid connectors but we've seen that so long as you have access to components then you can quickly return to business after a strike.
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>>65049697>Reality disagreesWhy?
>>65049744You’re a total retard. Oil companies don’t set prices. KYS.
>>65049897What a great system the world has.
>>65050008>phoneposterOpinion discarded
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.
funny how you can talk about politics and current events just fine in this board... but only if you are pro-west or pro-war (you get banned otherwise), even though >>64246310 clearly states that>All discussion of politics and current events goes on /pol/. >>>/pol/
>>65044604did they really intercept them or just take pictures form munitions that failed and crashed and then say they intercepted them?
>>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
How the fuck do you stop the Houthi? I'm sick of them camping out in the mountains and periodically crashing my portfolio. What weapons does it take?
>>65019315>All discussion of politics and current events goes on /pol/.>not this one, though
>>65019605>I still don't understand why we invaded Iraq insteadbecause it's much more difficult
>>65049015>>65049215If we stopped bombing them they wouldn't attack ships. We are the aggressors here on behalf of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
>>65019318this guy would be ripped to shreds by the Houthis. they're Taliban but arguably more hardcore and more heavily armed.
>>65019315>invade coast, kill any who resist or refuse to surrender>set up a perimeter>expel the entire population starting with every fighting age male>proceed with construction of airstrip, naval docks, mcdonalds, etc>enjoy your new strategically located base>houthis spend all their time on shooting at drones and mortar attacks>charge a toll to passing ships for this service
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?
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>>64998138This.It wouldn't have met parity, but given everything they (didn't) have to work with, it's an impressive achievement.>Country can't manufacture a metal wheel.>Tank, sans guns, can be built in backyard of average farmer with local materials and local skill level.>Impregnable to small arms fire. Requires AT to take it out.Don't get me wrong, there's a lot wrong with it. It's taller than a Maus, slower than one too. It can't turn while moving. It gets penetrated by any AT grade munitions. It never got a proper cannon. But it's a genuinely cool bit of history, and for what Semple himself was working with, it's a damn impressive achievement.
>>65027054wehraboo me as much as you wantbut this thing looks like straight outta Halo
>>65023831any more?
Is there anything cool blueprint/prototype wise that Bofors plant ever did with actual vehicles? I know their concept guns like the 120mm automatic anti bomber flak gun is pure sex.
Anyone wanna make a new thread?
