Independence class continues to be the goto testbed for the USN when it comes to fielding experimental autonomous/unmanned or high-trade systems.>The Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) achieved the historic milestone in the Arabian Gulf while launching a Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS).https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4363707/us-navy-in-middle-east-employs-attack-drone-at-sea-for-first-time/The way I see it, this provides even more asymmetric ability to the ship in the littorals and a long-range ground strike ability which some people have pointed out is missing without the inclusion of VLS cells or NLOS. What say you?I'm sure the thread will also become a shahed-style drone discussion so that's welcome as well, particularly in the context of launching from or targetting naval platforms.
>>64660557>Where did you get that idea?He's never heard of sensor-sharing.
>>64660557>They are fairly cheap for what they can do at only $500m apiece fully equippedThat's massively expensive for a minesweeper/patrol boat.
>>64661536>They are fairly cheap for what they can do at only $500m apiece fully equipped>That's massively expensive for a minesweeper/patrol boat.
>>64661923>An overpriced piece of shit is actually goodStop retardmaxxing.
>>64661536>>64661923Its hard to place the "real" price of the LCS as the R&D of a lot of next-gen technologies got rolled into it. An easy example would be all the UUV/USV development that went hand in hand with the MCM module. A lot of that set the groundwork for all the "ghost fleet" stuff the USN is currently engaged in. A rough parallel would be how mk 41 develeopment was tacked onto Ticonderoga budgets despite it obviously having use throughout the rest of the fleet going forward.I know that makes it hard to have concrete figures to hit each other over the head with, but its the reality.
And snipers don't?
>>64661537t-shirt, shorts and hand in pocket have always been the meta in pistol though. Only thing he doesnt have is the eye patch which he says he doesnt need. The stupid thick supporting leather clothing is used in rifle disciplines
>>64661459Wait wait Olympic shooting is done with laser pointers like a mantis trainer?? I thought it was pellet guns...
>>64659479The hyperextended arm is actually very common in olympic air pistol.
>>64659187Tldr olympic "shooting" is gay and fucking lame because a whoke bunch of Euro nigger countries banned guns, and almost immediately the US, Russia, and a few Nordcuck countries started winning top 3 left and right so real guns were banned and now the whole sport revolves around turning your whole body into a bench vise using clothes, fucking up your joints, and "totally not a scope" corrective glasses that magnify your vision like a dcope.Sage goes in all boxes.
>>64659992you fucking retard
I've got a tx22 toro with FRT and it'll run everything unsuppressed. Once I put the can on, it absolutely will not run. I even bought the weighted backplate and a lighter spring. I've tried high velocity, cci subsonic, cci quiet semi auto and cci quiet. With and without factory recoil spring.It will fire, extract, eject and load the next round into the chamber but the trigger is dead every time. When I rack the slide a live round comes out. When I take the can off, it runs like a scalded dog.
>>64660067Try a dofferent can. Suppressors radically change the mechanics of a handgun. Fwiw, I have a Hux Flow and it with a Viridian dot (very light) and it won't cycle woth the FRT. If I take the can off, it rips. Based on PSR's video, I assume I just need more weight on the slide, but I don't care enough to get the FRT to run suppressed, so I just bought another TX22. Now I have one for quiet plinking and another BRRRRR.>>64661031>>64661075>shit talking what's objectively the best semi auto 22 handgun on the market today>aggressively inserting console war faggotryYeah, I'm with that other anon. Post a single gun you own or stfu.
>>64661025>>64661031Post your suppressed .22. Bet you won’t. Bet you can’t.
>>64661075> none of them are a TaurusBecause you own none
>>64660067If it makes you feel better I have the same exact problem. It’s infuriating. I have a rugged oculus so I might try the short version of the can and reduce back pressure.
>>64660067You wouldn't have this problem with a gen3 glock 19 and a 11.5" PSA AR. Both of those run with FRTs and cans just fine.
Why Erusea always has the most advanced military tech?
>>64661058And the story has the war going badly for them so it might be a last ditch museum carrier being pressed to service.
>>64661034>>64661058>>64661090I've also never been clear on where the Federation of Central Usea fits, great power-wise, with the rest of the community of nations. Osea, as US/Japan, is obviously going to be one of the strongest powers, if not a superpower, and Yuktobania certainly comes off in AC5 as the Soviet Union if its military were real, so it's probably also in that boat. But, as compared to Erusea, for example, how's the Federation supposed to stack up? Because they've gotten bodied by the Eruseans twice now before getting saved by God in a fighter jet, and the second time they had Osean help.With this track record, I kinda wonder if the military always gets short shrift come budget-time, which is why we're getting museum pieces floated out there to fight the bad guys.
>>64660953Belkan science is the future.
>>64661107With how Osea had to bail them out in the Lighthouse War, and now getting apparently caught with their pants down in 2028, maybe they're supposed to be like all the other european countries that have just been relying on Uncle Sam to handle their defense for them, like Belgium.
>>64661312Maybe.
The Leopard 2A8 is a rather attractive vehicle
>>64661746Do you like to play pull the pig anon when you go to a nightclub?
wtf that lil timmy autmated gun station gunna do in a real war?that shits for occupation patrols
>>64661746Make the turret remotely operated, add additional active protection systems like StrikeShield, and a couple high RPM ai-operated autoturrets loaded with droneshot rounds and you have a perfect tank>>64661749Abrams is too heavy and with the modular add-on armor modules Leopard looks way cooler. Panther even more so. Super duper heavy Maus-style armor needs to become a thing of the past. It's cooler to have armor just a little higher than Bradley-tier, and then a bunch of APS spam onboard so you can zoom around at high speed with extensive range on just a tiny amount of fuel and never have to to deal with the annoying fact of having to constantly stop operations and repair your vehicle whereas here you are putting almost no stress on the suspension like Abrams.>>64661864They could retain the same looks of the old turret by simply making the old turret into an empty shell that instead of hiding armor is a lightweight mostly empty shell that is used to contain systems like electronics and ammo etc and is superficially shaped like the old one. It's not hard to think of some bullshit to put in an empty shell of a turret. You can even make it put of cardboard and paint it green but holy fuck the new one looks silly if they just remove the entire form while keeping the huge dorky cannon sticking out of it
>>64662031>abrams is too heavy!>weight of both vehicles is within a metric ton of each other (SEP v3 vs 2a7)
>>64662031This poster is an indian
Why did america only destroy iran's nuclear facilities while they cant do shit to north korea?
>>64661890Here is a (you) for trying
Because North Korea didn't do a pic. rel. chimpout to any of their neighbors. Neither it directly threatens to destroy them for no reason at all. AFAIK they really only care about being left alone and maybe have some fantasies where communism prevails in united Korea.
>>64661997aipac and being israel centric is deadits un-electable radioactive poison nowanyone in the 2026 even mentioning being pro-israel will be completely and totally non-viable as a candidateshapiro and his hysterical pro-jew "get back on the bandwagon or else" messaging was panned hugely the other day. jews dont have any of the clout or influence the had even a few months ago, its that bad>>64662037Iran struck israels deep 'command and control' figures in their homes and at their bases, and israel turned right around and swore to high hell it was ackshully them that did that to Iran...and not the other way around!no one believed it and within days the Qatar debacle happened, and the last sole shred of israeli credibility evaporated forever
>>64662037>for no reason at all.lol, lmao even
>>64662067>for no reason at all.>lol, lmao evenisraeli talking points are so shamelessly pathetic its unrealthe perpetual victim bullshit really is DNA level
Frigatebros, We are SO back!https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/2025/12/19/new-frigate-on-the-horizon-u-s-navy-ditches-constellation-class-for-national-security-cutter-design/https://youtu.be/mFBoBAllLAg?si=YOKHRngMPgBWP7ZGBaseline design is utilizing the Legend Class Cutter with a goal of the first hull in the water by 2028. Wonder how many VLS it will get, and if it will get Aegis.
>>64661405Good ol' watchstanding abuse. Make sure everyone is dead tired to operate at peak Navy
>>64661553It doesn't meet survivability standards of a frigate, it meets the standards of a non-combatant. Also source of it being designed for Mk 41 VLS cells?
>>64661553>The NSC is designed to U.S. Navy damage stability criteria and to level-1 survivability standards.So you've got to redesign the hull to increase it to a level 2 and redesign the super structure for the sensors. This is even worse than the Constellation. And you've got to fit a MK41 VLS onto it, you've got to also add a towed array and a bow mounted sonar. You've got to redesign the ship from the ground up.
>>64661604>you've got to also add a towed array and a bow mounted sonar. It was already designed for those things and you know it, you are just shitposting nonsense that you know are lies.
>>64661604>So you've got to redesign the hull to increase it to a level 2Why?
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>>64661070A few people have made custom modifications, one I know was to a PT92 frame so it had the correct frame safety. Another was a completely one off custom frame
What the fuck you stupid fucking faggot
>>64661387mmmmmmmmmmm soup
>>64661057I ordered a DPT from walther on wednesday for $100. Apparently they accidentally listed it at that price and everyone else's orders are being cancelled with no communication from walther. My order still says confirmed and my on my credit card says pending.I have 3 options right now1) buy another one at $125 while the sale still lasts and hope they eventually stop holding my money in purgatory?2) they accidentally shipped it to me at $100 so I just wait
>>64662029I forgot 3) don't buy back because its kind of fucked up that they're cancelling orders without emailing, and in my case, they've just left a pending transaction on my card for 5 days that they (apparently) don't intend to honor
Why do they need that big anchor, and also a plank?
>>64660858^this. Takes 20 army retards to do what a squad of marines can accomplish and silently.
How much did that wooden board set back the taxpayer and how do I get the contract to supply it? By the lack of cool stickers and carvings it looks like a one-time job item. Possibly kept in a safe miles away from grunts.
>>64652087Nigga just jump over it man
>>64660480>>64658739>>the right way>>the wrong way>>the Army way>I was told this by a buddy in the army years ago. I assume they still operate the same way>>the Army way>>the Army way
>>64660858Based army markings sure its soft squishy infantry don't get exposed.
Could old shipping containers be repurposed lfor building turtle tanks?
>>64661736no.
>>64661736>if it fits: it ships.
>>64661736Its hard to comprehend how truly pathetic were people not 4 years ago when they were talking about T-14's and Terminators.This is what we got instead.
Instead of a cage or thin bulletproof steel plate, they used a heavy container, making it into an assault tank.
>>64661986Y-you don't actually believe 'heavy' containers are actually bulletproof, r-right? What the fuck is even a 'heavy' container?The fact we're nearly in year 5 and the russians are still doing these ad-hoc field conversions probably means they're more emotional support armor rather than an actually effective way to protect the tank otherwise they'd probably have standardised it and produce factory kits by now.Its the equivalent of putting concrete and sanbags on your Sherman during world war 2. Especially ironic considering trough how much trouble soviet tank designers went to make their tanks small, low profile, hard to hit and then have them topped with shipping containers in 2025.
What the hell happend?>Didn't see any of their videos in a while.>Yt algorith reccomend it>Check the channel>It has become a psyops channel
>>64660219> he owns a 2cvNeat
>>64647142I remember watching a video by this guy years back, before I even knew who he was, historical retelling of some shootout or other. Interesting video, but man, he just oozes negativity. It's like he exists in permanent pain and anger, and I felt that pain myself by just looking at him.
>>64647142>It has become a psyops channelboth guys dudes probably have puss come out of their anus regularly
I wonder if the FBI will give me free Daniel defense ARs if I were to infiltrate these Lefty groups. I can't imagine it's very hard as long as you arent a huwhite.
>>64660443If you're as capable as you seem to think that you are, you don't have to be the worker. Get rich. Not every rich person out there was born into it, and the ones that were born into it have a successful ancestor to thank for that. Plenty of them got rich themselves. What's more, the strategies that people use to get rich are generally not mysteries. Rich people love talking about how they got rich. Pick a strategy that sounds like something you can tackle and get to it. This won't keep you from working now, but you won't have to work in your middle age, and if you really pull it off your children won't have to work at all. Your parents fucked you out of your chance to be a nepo baby but you don't necessarily have to do the same to your children.>but you won't, because you're not smart or driven, which is why you whine about smart and driven people having things that you don't>btw, when rich people state publicly that the key to being successful is being passionate, they're lying>the most important thing is to be intelligent>they're rich and you're not because they're smarter than you, but they don't say that out loud because the stupid people outnumber them and don't like being told why they're poor
Is this enough for deterrence, or just rookie numbers for 800km border?https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2025/12/19/2003849170
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>>64661675Man, he is not a good liar.The fact that he believes nothing he's saying is written all over his face.
>>64656600They should just start restoring swamps around all borders which were drained for agriculture , like we in Lithuania are doing.
>>64661665>But that means "lost interest" in this context because they're not sitting down and hatching plans to suppress Poland with air strikes while they annex Estonia.No? According to ukranian intel that is what they are exactly doing >>64661485
Based brasilianshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXOsGT7DtCMWhy invest in a new tank, if it is going to be destroyed by a $150 3D printed drone anyway?
Not watching the video
>>64659028For Brazil this is too new. I'd expect them to modernize the Pershing considering what they did to the Stuart and Greyhound.
Jobs program.
>>64659028>Why invest in a new tank, if it is going to be destroyed by a $150 3D printed drone anyway?Don't you just love thirdie logic? Innovate and adapt? Implement counter drone measures? Invest into shorad systems? Nah, why not just arm untrained civilians with sticks and send them at the enemy? They're just going to get killed by a $0.50 round anyway so why invest anything?
This is the new Bundeswehr service pistol, say something (nice) about it.
>>64660969Flat-faced triggers first started with custom 1911s. Canik, SIG P320, Glock, etc. all copied it from the OG.
>>64658806solid/10 b8
>>64660758HK got the new rifle contract for the Bundeswehr G27, so them probably not too much.
>>64660388Millenials are literally just younger boomers, Günther.
>>64660884The vast majority of soldiers qualify on pistol and basically never see them again. Also anybody in their right mind would rather bring 2 mags and a frag instead of a pistol with 3 mags to high intensity combat. If your rifle goes down, you load or carry stuff until you can use the rifle of a mate that became a casualty.The guys whos job actually requires carrying a sidearm get sufficient trigger time.
AK General /akg/Kot edition>Thread #2084Old thread here >>64573822
the fuckin SAIGA spammers are hilarious. the only reason people think theyre worth the money is because somebody told them theyre worth the money so they went and bought one, and then to justify their purchase they go tell 4chan about how the SAIGA is the best rifle and such a GREAT DEAL at EIGHTEEN HUNDREDS DOLLARS FOR AN UNCONVERTED SPORTER! So what if its just a basic bitch SPORTER with mediocre build quality and CAST components, its RUSSIAN! KC IS IZHMASH TOO SO ITS LIKE THE EXACT SAME THING! Just admit that you got into the AK game too late and that youre paying $1400 more than you should be paying for literally no reason, REDDIT is jewing you but you dont want to admit it because you dont want to see like a retard for paying over $400 for a featureless rifle
>>64661533
At work so I can't take any pictures but I think im fixing to sell my Saiga. I'm looking at gunbroker and the prices vary pretty wildly so its hard to tell what I should sell for, was wondering if anyone here could give a rough ballpark. >converted Saiga in 7.62>Midwest handguard/dust cover>KPYK stock>500 Golden Tiger boxed>1000 Wolf, loose A friend said he might want the ammo but he's been saying that for like over a year at this point.
>>64661533Since when the fuck do Russian AKs have cast components?
>>64661901>replying to a copy pastaCasting non-pressure bearing components has been the norm for a very long time.
