With the collapse of Venezuela and what looks to be soon Iran, Will we see an influx of new AK parts kits hitting the market? Both contries also have facotries that make licensed copies of AKs so are we in for fresh stuff or are those days never to return
>>64732838>tfw have their red dot (BelOMO PK-A Venezuela)>on a russian AKyou have some explaining to do annon
>>64732838>dim as fuck>all frame near zero imageyuck, world rather shoot with irons
>>64728091How wet behind the ears are you still? Our 'allies' dont even send us their surplus.
>>64732881meh, wishfull thinking. Better than yet another optics or AR thread
No because both are still in place, Venezuela is simply under embargo and the fall of Iran is a fantasy of Zionist propaganda
>buy yuro made 5.56>the boxes and ammo smell like curry somehow>shoot the ammo>it works>instead of cat piss it smells like curry mixed with catpiss
Epic greentext reddit!
Never smelt like curry to me, unless you're buying turkroach shit.What does curry smell like to you OP?
why are yuros like this?
>>64715425Approaching a solid year and a half now and I still love my SRS. Don't regret spending so much time saving up for it at all. Had a few other bullpups I still like ok but had issues I learned over time that I could get around but were a little irritating. No such thing with this guy, only issue is the so-so value of it though a good sale helps a bit. Trying to decide whether I should get some extra barrels early though vs assuming support will be around forever.
Here are my 3 bullpups next to an MP5 for size comparison. Top is a wlvrn in 308 which i will post a new pic of the changes I made. Middle is my 556 Micron MDRX, which I really hope they fix the extrusion issue on the new sabretooth handguards as I want one of those for it instead of the cut up BLB LBL one I have(I cut it up as it was absorbing too much heat from the supressor). and last is an a3 tactical bullpup kit with a jakl 300blk upper. Im pretty sure I and FRT it with a super safety and geissele sd3g flat trigger. But that will have to wait
>>64736266Heres the wlvrn in 308 with its current configuration. I don't keep the thermal there on all the time, but it works.
>>64736266>>64736273Very nice set anon. I remember your wrapped Micron from a previous thread, but I don't remember seeing the wlvrn before. If you've had it for a bit now, what do you think of it vs the MDR? While I was mildly bummed they had to give up on FE otherwise it seemed like with v3 they might have finally gotten things firmed up with that gun but hard to know without hands on.
>>64734804Its pretty nice, takes some fiddling to get right. Had to file the inside so the suppressor would fit.
“Oreshnik” MIRV attack on Lviv: https://x.com/i/status/2009393289527738737
>>64736392>Why?Because they don't have a non-nuclear variant
>>64736392Well that's no fun when you just signed a strategic partnership with themi mean, you'd sort of want that to stop being bullied
>>64735760they'd do quite a bit of damage, but it'll be contained to the immediate area of the hit. they impact over mach 10, which is when shit instantly explodes upon impact.it's basically just a realistic way that you'd make "rods of god", as accuracy will never be pinpoint, so the more kinetic penetrators, the better.
>>64736392>Why?Because russia isn't insane enough to actually nooook even a field in ukraine, despite all the threats.Or the nooook doesn't work.
Right now teh deep underground gas storage fields are burning with such intensity that the ground itself is heated to such an extent that not just teh snow has melted and evaporated but it also makes the sky glow. Can you imagine this, GAYRAPEANS?
with this in mind how would you outfit the army for the next one?. urban warfare is essentially solved but in an improvised manner how do you scale this?
>>64734597>we need guns to protect against the government>we will bulldoze the home of anyone who resists foreign occupationcurious
>>64732001he had a grenade, knife, and a dreambut he fumbled the grenade throw and got turned into swiss cheese
>>64735500>foreign occupationWhere did all the Jews in the Levant come from, Ahmed? Are all the archaeological artifacts dating back to the Iron-age that mention Israel fake, too? Did Jews figure out how to travel back in time and make the Egyptians write the Merneptah Stele?
>>64735564They don't say jackshit about Arabs conquering southern Europe either.
regular ass boys with guns won it
Munitions Council anon here. >>64332511 >>64604791Over the past 24h, Trump and defense contractors have made a ton of announcements that are independent of Munitions Council developments, doubling upon the already increased 2027 2-4x baseline that was targeted by the Munitions Council back in September. So up to a 5-8x increase from 2024.For Lockheed Martin we have not just PAC-3 MSE from 620/y to 2,000/y but also>THAAD from 98/y to 400/y>PrSM 400/y to 2,000/y>JASSM/LRASM from 1,100/y to 3,300/yThese are the conversations LM is having with the Pentagon. Raytheon is expected to follow suit as Trump is lighting a fire under their ass. If THAAD is seeing a quadrupling, we might actually get 100 SM-3s a year and 500+ SM-6s by 2027. Also cannot forget LM's JATM, 1000 missiles. Now. I'm calling it.https://defensearchives.com/news/pentagon-seeks-over-300-increase-in-pac-3-mse-production-from-lockheed-martin/
I'm glad Powell will be out soon and someone more competent (Hassett) will take the reins and give us the REAL, unbiased numbers. Cut the rates, Kevin!
>>64736136>FY2025 debt Increased by $2.2 trillion>but inflation is down, trust usSure. In totally unrelated news, I've got a bridge to sell you.>The lower end of domestic businesses is a direct impact of reduced imports from China, which is a good thingHow is making costs higher for domestic manufacturers and services that rely on imports and passing those costs on to consumers good?>PCE is up 3.5%Yeah, because of inflation and tariffs, where do you get off on calling anyone retarded when you don't understand basic market economics? When things cost more to produce, prices go up. Just because Orange Droolius says they won't doesn't mean companies are going to eat the cost increase, they have profit margins to maintain and operating costs to pay.
>>64734818Russia and China.
So tired of free trade fags
>>64736418Expert liberal economist, same type of person who said tariffs would lead to stagflation, everyone. One that does not realize the US is at full economic war with China. There is no return to mean. There is no more friendly engagement. We are going to fucking kill China.>debt and importersSo, the same rate %yoy that it's been since Biden's inflation policies? Why would inflation not be down if the rate debt's been growing has stayed the same for 5 years? You are also ignoring the fact that the debt is going almost entirely to capex to create supply, not stimulus. That's inflationary. If your business relies wholly on Chinese imports, like I said, you deserve to get priced out. No buying Chinese deflation.>inflation AGAINClearly you're BEGGING for stagflation, yet unit volume and manufacturing wages are up outpacing PCE. >Inb4 manufacturing layoffs. Guess what? Robots are doing the shit that manufacturers were just hiring for arbitrage to not do capex. Tariffs are making them do capex. You are also completely ignoring the energy offset. Trump just seized Venezuela and half the zigger shadow fleet. Gas is under 2$.
Does anyone know why like 3/4ths of 1866 winchester rifles sold were carbines where as 2/3rds of winchester 1873 rifles sold were rifles and 1/3rd were carbines? they were sold concurrently for a while, the 1866 was sold from 1866-1899 and the 1873 was old from 1873 until like the 1920s. my best guess is that since the 1866 was cheaper and used cheaper materials it filtered out to the west/poorer people more and they actually carried the damn thing so they preferred carbines whereas the 1873 had a much better marketing campaign>the rifle that won the westeven though the west was largely settled by then with only like 1 major injun victory at bighorn after 1873 and a lot of the notable outlaws/gun fighters dead before 1880.So because the 1873 had a much better marketing campaign and was more expensive it was sold more to guys back east who had money who wanted nice fancy rifles and weren't necessarily using them for work or to subsistence hunt like the pioneers were.apparently the 1892s were also 2/3rds rifles to carbines, which I was not expecting because modern hunting lever guns are almost always carbines and you started to see more hunting oriented design choices like button mags after 1900 before the bolt action surplus market displaced the lever guns
>>64718640Well, maybe by the time the '73 came around everyone who wanted a carbine already had a '66, so you had a different buyer profile
>>64731874They use a thompson center and cut the barrel down one inch at a time for science. Maybe they did the 17” barrel test on a cold morning or something.>>64722591Just capacity and sight radius as the other anon said, but it will always be a shorter range rifle because it’s using pistol ammo, so the lighter weight and shorter length of the 16” could be more useful. As a percentage of the muzzle energy, at 100y that .357 bullet is going to lose a lot more energy than a rifle bullet will at 100y. But hitting someone with a lever .357 at 100y is about the same energy as hitting them with a revolver .357 at a couple yards so it’s not nothing though.
"The rifle that won the west" is just a tagline, it's like when people say the 1911 "won 2 world wars" like nobody actually thinks that's the case
>>64726271How about for .45 colt or .44-40?
>>64734235I know, that's why I guessed the 1873 had more eastern sales >>64734386>lever gun>.45lceww >>64733340that could be it
We've done the helms deep thread a dozen times. Time to do a /k/ defence of Minas tirithNotable differences:>Orks are more numerous but less tough than Uruks>They have significantly more siege weapons>Pelenor fields isn't quite as tight a kill zone as helms deep>They have at least one nazgul>About 20 oliphants?>Rohan and Aragorn aren't coming, you're on your own and have to kill them all.Come up with the minimal amount of modern forces/equipment it would take to defend the city,
>>64734347>>64734382Since this is about LOTR it should be pointed out that even the average man there is healthier and bigger than a modern degenerate.In the books Orcs are much smaller than men, though in the movies they're the same size. No formation of modern men is going to win in a large scale Melee with anything that can press an equally sized Gondorian formation, in any case.
>>64728438Four guys with two vickers would be able to hold off the entire army if they chokepoint correctly with two million rounds of ammo and some spare barrels.
>>64728367>Come up with the minimal amount of modern forces/equipment it would take to defend the city,two lines of men with martini henrys
>>647283672 F-35Bs or AV-8Bs with a pile of Mk82s and CBUs and plenty of fuel alongside a bush plane customized to effectively act as a spotter. If you're feeling extra mean, an AH-64E. Then a ground crew with a few trucks as well as everything they need to rearm and refuel the aircraft. Also bring radio beacons for navigation purposes. Bomb the far side of Osgiliath before Minas Morgul even opens it's gates, then bomb the fuck out of Minas Morgul itself. Then give Mordor more scorch marks with what's left, maybe knocking over Barad Dur because why not?The orcs never march past Osgiliath because holy fuck the entire force is fucking dead or scattered. Minas Tirith is safe for longer than just the immediate aftermath and Gondor now has a decisive advantage even after the modern force fucks off.
>>64728410Aren't LOTR people descendants of (not!Roman) superhumans? Aragorn is literally 2m tall because he is a direct descendant of one.
why was the IDF so consistently successful compared to any first world army.
>>64736407kek
I'm not a military expert, but the bits that I recall1. lots of WW2 veterans were alive during the formation of the state and those early successful wars2. even though US didn't start supporting the state until much later, they still got early support and vehicles from France or something IIRC3. most wars israel was winning through air superiority, it's the air force that was great, not the army, which was and is of average western quality4. "average western quality" was still miles ahead of any state that surrounded israel even with tons of latest at the time soviet equipment
Because they are God's chosen people.
>>64736407they actually do stuff instead of endlessly arguing about legality or authority
>>64736479>esprit-de-corps,i do feel thathow do they mog every other army in that
It seems like the whole industry has universally agreed it's the most practical open carry holster for handguns.I don't think it'll be replaced till exosuits becomes a thing in the future and I doubt that's happening with robots on the horizon.
>>64731126>Why are boomers like this?Holster doesn't dig in to gut.
>>64731120lel
>>64731087this image is a lie,i look a lot worse than the guy on the bottom left
>>64731087You just know someone's mom took this seriously and rushed home, pamphlet in hand.
>>64728824Please be male please be male please be male please be male please be male please be male please be male please be male please be male please be male please be male please be maleI prefer under the shoulder holsters for open carry btw. Nicer for driving and doesn't get caught on anything.
Simpler times, funner times
>>64735812>Paul HarrellI'm actually glad that I for the most part watched his new material as it rolled off the line after I found him like 7 years ago, so I basically have a backlog of like 2 years that's still new to me
>>64735540You still have the pic?
>>64735812>He's basically a less charismatic Paul Harrell (peace be upon him)And his videos are three times the length.
>>64723238>Yeah something was definitely lost when this place went from sks's and nugs to everything being an AR.SKS and nuggets don't really lend themselves to ludicrous accessorization fetish shit, it's obviously not physically impossible to slap rail and gucci whatever on it but that era definitely prioritized doing stuff with guns and money going to ammo and the like vs getting the fanciest shit for safe queen social media pictures. Like a lot of things really, I think it's 100% natural and human to yearn to be unlimited, yet in reality it seems that a lot of creativity and fun and basic aspects of ourselves work best when we're tightly limited on resources and forced to be creative and make the most of what we've got. Ever more power hasn't made computer software endlessly better and more creative, or childhood for that matter. I'm glad I grew up in an era with minimal electronics and a lot of our summer days was biking to swimming holes or going out with buddies and making forts in the woods or taking a bb or 22 and blapping squirrels or cans.
>>64734360The pro and anti shills arguing with eachother chased everyone away.
Why is French firearm design so strange?
>>64733578Im unsure how MAS rifle nades work but perhaps the second guy is meant for chucking while first and third are for launching?
>>64723544>le or la baguette that's actually a prime example of genders in French, if it ends on a -example it's feminine and thus lathere are ofc a few exceptions but if you stick to that rule you'll get 99.99% of words right.And it's not like English hasn't got a fuck to of exceptions
>>64723563>Improving old designIdk mate half there stuff uses not just old parts but the SAME parts from older weaponsAmerica really is the leader in evolutionary improvement
>>64724409True, they’re just ugly to look at.
>>64723248When it comes to engineering there's a saying: The French copy no one and no one copies the French.
>Show is no longer restrained to WW1 content>Crowd begging for episodes on popular firearms, the algorithm and mainstream viewers would eat that shit up, low handing fruits left and right>Refuses to do those episodes because "they must be done in the right order">Does not earn enough money to grow the show or hire help, doomed to fade away after a painful burnout>Does 12 episodes on Bengladeshi contract Albanian made Mauser foot courier carbine variants>The few supporters dwindle out>Will re-do episodes to amend content, somehow still refuses to do a popular firearm and re-do the episode later to add more content>"This Spanish revolver episode is now obsolete because a Belgian patent proves the three screws location was copied from this Irish one-off, not a new thing. I must release this re-do immediately!">Snarks at the channels playing the algorithm and producing crowd pleasing content because they are "gaming the system">Might do a Garand episode in the coming monthsIs it misplaced ego or autism?
>>64719601*scolding
>>64719292>old/weird gun channel sticking to their schtickI bet you're a big fan of ian huh
>>64719675>they have a similar springlooks pretty different otherwise
>>64735212Negro, you best be fuckin' trolling. It's the EXACT same mechanism.The parts are shaped a bit differently, that's true. But the function of every part is 100% identical. Every part in the Fagnus is mirrored in the Colt, and every part serves the exact same function, even if they're shaped a little differently.The ONLY functional difference between the lockwork in these two revolvers is that Colt added a hammer block safety, of a type that's directly ripped off from S&W.
>>64728546Mostly dropped that show because neither had anything interesting to say at a certain point. Ivan is more interesting on his own when he can ramble about a specific topic by himself for 3 hours. Matt is too smarmy. Most lawyers are, but he's worse than most.
https://www.aeronewsjournal.com/2025/12/uk-open-to-germany-joining-gcap-future.html?m=1Frenchbros...c'est fini
>>64733969GCAP WILL meet the 2035 deadline or Japan will behead all the partner nations.
>>64734077>>obsolete >>5 years>Fighter aircraft are usually rated for 6000 - 8000 flight hours. Depending on actual usage and fleet size this translates to anything between 25 and 40 years. Newer western fighters like F22 Raptor or Eurofighter Typhoon are planned to be used for around 30 years, depending on their ability to be upgraded.I think he meant in technologybut the F-35 is built to be upgraded so I don't think it'll be obsolete technologically for a while, especially since it already has stealth
>>64733258>Italywe started funding for initial research on a nuclear CATOBAR carrier, but our politicians are so corrupted by the US that they are already hinting at procuring F-35Cs to keep our F-35 FACO running.
>>64734298Maybe France should buy F-35Cs for their new carrier
>>64734298I mean..... what else would you be flying off of it? GCAP isn't intended for carrier ops so far as i'm aware
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>>64736577You don't enlist in ICE retard.
>>64729585This is basically meShould I join
>>64736581yeah cut your hair you look like a fucking hippy
>>64736577Be willing to murder innocent citizens and be a loyal zogbot and also separate families apart
>>64736581That's entirely your call. 35 is getting up there but it can be done. I hope you're reasonably in shape because at that age it's very hard to undo bad physical habits. Retirement may be out though, if you really wanna be 55+ and enlisted thats your call though.
