Thomas Magnum EditionOld: >>64701020
>>64706686well what do you expect from people when they are constantly excluded from the collages and being ridiculed for having an unpainted rmr?
>>64706677Besides that it's pretty neat that the can wouldn't glow under NODS that much after mag dumps. 85 degrees is pretty impressive.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xd5vKMnn70
>>64706601Fucking lol got meIn my defense I have been critical of heavy carbines for for over a decade now, and have only come to appreciate passive recoil mitigation by way of weight in just the past couple of months with the advent of FRTs and SS, so it might take some time for the disparate hemispheres of my smooth move brain to push the new updates across. >>64706505Gearing "towards" maximum combat efficiency only is not the same thing as actually achieving it. Holding multiple priorities at once within a hierarchy is totally valid. Don't take me for an absolutist in this sense. That is more A2s flavor, and even then he enjoys himself plenty with various collector pieces. Gearing towards maximum fun only with no other purpose is however NOT the same degree nor type of irrationality as the straw man position you're describing, but is additionally meaningless as compared to it. I sold my handheld scanning thermal. Waiting on COTI market offerings. >RPKs or Chinese SaigasThe Chinese Saigas all blew apart unironically. I don't have an RPK, but all of my AKs are intended to be fully capable carbines with suppressors and NVG compatible red dots etc and legitimate reliability. This is what they are intended to be, as in a goal. >>64706577No but I put baby bellas in my green chile bolognese >>64706665Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64706691Go to r/liberalgunowners if you want to talk about guns with troons
>>64706717vish was fine after he fixed his head and de-transitioned, but I'll concede he was annoying prior to that. I never learned if he got with that girl near his apartment or not
Was Flak useless or just a bad choose against bombers? The window to shoot them was tiny and the fragmentation radius was too small, it need almost a direct hit with time or proximity fuse.It only make sense when you don't have fuel and aluminium for your interceptor planes.
It was frightingly accurate.I read a memoir about a night fighter pilot, and he went into great detail about German early warning systems, GCI, and flak defense.Flak batteries were guided with a rangefinder and a kommandogerat mechanical fire control system. It was just looking down the sights and shooting willy nilly.
>>64706274*it wasn't just looking down the sights and shooting willy nilly
>>64705301retarded daytime raids exposing the bombers to easy interceptions
>>64705654They researched around 30 ways to make proximity fuze.
>>64705283This >>64706274Bombing missions over Europe weren't a cakewalk,(rip radios) and the flak were just one part of the system, so the kill stats show just one side, not mentioning the bombers that missed their target etcThey also damaged a lot of bombers, and a bomber leaving formation due to damage won't be in for a good timeIf you want to see a clownshow than you have to see what the japanese were doing, LeMay, i think, stated that a training flight over US was more dangerous than a mission over Japan
What is /k/ favorite type of glock?
>>64704579>Whitebox slopFigures, I'll inspect the primer stake/crimp the next time I pick up any box of 9x19. Thanks for the knowledge transfer, anon>>64704582Fair
Why does adding cuts double the price?
>>64683169>favorite glockThe model that isn't a glock. Plastic faggot.
>>64706392Because they know people will pay for it. There's no way it actually costs that much to make the comp ports on the slide and barrel, but they can charge what they want and some out there will pay for it without a second thought and they make a profit.
>>64706392Supply and demand, plus less reliable sales. Made in smaller batches and sits in the warehouse longer.
New m113 lore just dropped >IDF deems M113 insufficient for protecting troops>puts them into storage >October 7th war breaks out >put back into service >stuffed with 3 tons of explosives >remote controlled and driven into Gaza city in groups of 5-6>hamas fighters come out of hiding eager for a fight against vehicles with a reputation for vulnerability >wipes out city block https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/DEMOLITION/jnvwkkxdlvw/Is this a good use of the M113
>>64701552>urinalists lying yet again
>>64701552Well of course this is /k/ and if a conflict is not russia/ukraine related then no one knows damn shit about it.
>>64699960Israel is the only country left that still does things "cinematically", if you know what I mean. The pager op is another example
>>64700383vae victis/thread
>>64703997The clinging to solid colors uniforms is something pleasant. Nice to see a Western army with something other than Multicam.
And artillery.Jeep willys vs vw kubblewagon.
>>64704050The Jeep wasn't considered a good automotive design, I recall.
>>64704050The Kubelwagon didn't live up to German standards for offroad performance, just saying
If you put the Jeep top on, General Patton would have punched you, so the Kubelwagen would have been a better staff car with a cabin that could protect from the wind and rain.
>>64705059I'd expect useful and adaptable go into something like towing not road performance.
Jeep has women with hairy pusses. Kublewagon has Karl from In-Range. Decisive Jeep victory.
Post gear, discuss gear.Maximalist edition. Let's go all out, just this once.Old: >>64671717
>>64706448It's not a hateboner, it's called being consistent. When other plates fail on the first fucking shot -- which is literally the WORST signal a plate can give, the single biggest red flag -- it's a major issue. It should be a major issue when it keeps happening to Hesco.I honestly think that Hesco simply builds plates with too small a safety margin, so they're unpredictable, and it causes them a lot of problems.
>>64706449Highcom 4SUS4 skipped drop in the retest, RMA 1165 got one undropped and the Gen2 version skipped drop test entirely. Also, Militech's plates are undropped in their actual test reports. Ditto for some of Adept's, RMA's, etc.>>64706454Because Buff's drop test is likely harder than NIJ 0101.06. If three dozen plates pass the NIJ requirements, not counting FIT examples, but Buff's first plate shits the bed, then his drop test is the determining factor, because otherwise when you account for variance the 4403 shouldn't be passing NIJ.
>>64706449>>64706454Anyways, I think we can agree on the position the NIJ 0101.06 drop test is perhaps too easy. Buff's test is not physically that brutal and it perhaps reflects real conditions better than 0101.06. What if I were to tell you the 0101.07 drop test is even easier?Hate to pull an argument out of the Highcom-RMA book, but put a trauma pad in front of the plate if you need to shore up drop protection beyond .06. This goes double for .07 plates, triple for .04 holdouts.
>>64706468>Highcom 4SUS4 skipped drop in the retest, RMA 1165 got one undropped and the Gen2 version skipped drop test entirely. Also, Militech's plates are undropped in their actual test reports. Ditto for some of Adept's, RMA's, etc.Apples to apples, Buffman test to Buffman test, I think that literally every Militech, Adept, and RMA plate model was dropped, with one shameful exception which is the new RMA 1165. NONE of them failed on the very first shot. Never. It just never happened. > Because Buff's drop test is likely harder than NIJ 0101.06. If three dozen plates pass the NIJ requirements, not counting FIT examples, but Buff's first plate shits the bed, then his drop test is the determining factor, because otherwise when you account for variance the 4403 shouldn't be passing NIJ.It could just be shit-tier QC or an unacceptably close-to-the-margins design. Actually both of those are really plausible. > Hate to pull an argument out of the Highcom-RMA book, but put a trauma pad in front of the plate if you need to shore up drop protection beyond .06.Dude are Hesco paying you?
>>64706596Do me a solid and show me NIJ certs or at least lab tests for those plates showing drops. The problem with Buff is that you can't prove his plates are the same you're getting. We know that wasn't the case with the 4SUS4s and RMA 1192. He gets paid (indirectly) by Militech, RMA, Adept, and Highcom, among others. He really went to bat hard on the 1192 test's validity, even though those were 10oz overweight vs advertised. >shit-tier QCYou're ignoring that these plates handled .06 fine under the NIJ's watch, with a far greater sample size (36 vs 2). Also it's been five years since the CPL suspensions and Hesco has had not one FIT problem since in two rounds of FITs for every CPL'd plate.Many of Hesco's plates also pass the Buff test fine. L211, D220, 4601, L210, 3611 too IIRC. You're cherry picking. Buff regards the D220 very highly.>Is Hesco paying you?Lol no, I run Protech. I knew the 4403 lacked headroom from the very beginning. My 2230s have 600ft/s+ of headroom. I used to run L210s but got cold feet after the 4400 debacle because they share a strike face. You didn't answer what you're running.
We got the Turkish Five-SeveN before GTA 6
>worthless gun in a worthless cartridgeOh boy, I can't wait!
>>64706410Shocked they haven't stylized a shotgun like one yet.
>>64706417based. prepare for retards replying to tell you why you need to pay $50 per round for a cartridge with the same perfomance as 9mm
>>64704975They have been making them for a while, but nobody imports them currently.
>>64706418They should make a shotgun stylized as an oversized Five-SeveN
Why did they killed it?
>>64697305>Guns are predominantly a hobby for retards who know nothing, so any boring formality gets treated like a huge scandal.I work at a gun store, and can confidently say that gun guys are the biggest, most gullible group of sheep-brained fucking retards on the planet (maybe beat out only slightly by ultralight hiking guys, but there's a pretty big overlap in those two circles so I digress...)People were losing their fucking minds when the Gen Vs were announced and came in trying to buy our whole stock in a panic thinking that fucking Glock was going out of business and they were going to flip these Gen 4s on gunbroker for fat wads of cash. Same thing with the SCARs except nobody actually had any money to buy them anyways, so these fucking brainlets would just come in to fingerfuck them and tell us all about how it's part of the Democrats/Deep State/UN's plan to end the second amendment... by ending production of a $3,000 gun that tens of people own. Because some grifter on youtube made a dumbass video titled "GLOCK IS DEAD!?!?!?!? (MARINE REACTS)" with a soiface on the thumbnail, and your uncle joe-bob's brain has rotted through terminal phone addiction bad enough that he's spent all day watching dozens of those fucking videos and is now convinced that the sky is falling.
>>64704407Just wait until you find out about audiophiles.
>>64697248Are PTR's really the best way to go for 308, factory rifles?
>>64704407HAHAHAHA!You and I would probably have fun at a bar.
>>64697272Literally a hundred million jeets online and ever more realistic AI posting. The social aspects of the internet are basically over at this point. Its gonna be thirdies arguing about izzat from here on out.
>>64702753They were ultimately a fragile gun with a short service life due to the reciever design. They worked in Vietnam well because they were new in box - but also a lot of the guns never saw Vietnam service, instead being deployed CONUS or in forces in Europe.By the 80's M60's were frigging clapped from mostly non-combat/training use. On top of the other flaws mentioned here, they had soft stamped recievers that would flex or bend, or could get dented, so occasssionally the entire reciever had to be put into a mandrel and hammered - reliability greatly suffered after this had to be done regardless and it was very taxing on armorers and logistics. These issued were compounded in small 80's wars like Grenada and Panama where the issues became glaring.In comparison the M249 - which gets alot of shit, saw 20+ years of heavy service and multiple conflicts, seeing some early service alongside the M60, before finally getting clapped in GWOT and yet it is STILL in some limited service despite its issuesIf you compare it to the stamped PKM - which is also stamped - the reciever on the PKM is just thicker and better reinforced.The M240 is simply a better gun, in every concievable way, and the M240L has finally gotten the weight down
>>64705076We had the FN Minimi, which is essentially the 249 in US service with some variations on the theme.Moon dust ingress was a problem on them to some extent and it was pretty important to teach your gunner how to clean and maintain them properly in the field, but otherwise they performed really well and at least as good as the FN-MAG. Like no one ever came in crying that their gun busted or shit itself in combat, needed a new one or there was some kind of overall lack of confidence in the guns.Considering how old they were, I think any criticism of them is pretty mean. I mean most people piss and whine about having a phone older than 5 years or a car older than 10 and a lot of ours were at least 2-3 times that and lived pretty hard lives. I mean shit, my pistol was older than I was first sent into Afghanistan and I drove a truck from the late 70's that was 'modernised' in the 80's without any armour and we just fucking dealt with it because that was all there was.
>>64702753US small arms development in the 1950s was just taking WW2 guns and somehow making them worse
>>64703966Eh, the M60 in particular feels like some pre-production gun that wasn't properly field tested. The disassembly looks finicky, esp. compared to interwar top-fed MGs like the ZB or an MG-42 that have captive pins, big chunky parts and don't need to be safety wired together. M60 furniture are rattly assemblies of sheetmetal and hard plastic, yet the whole weight of a slinged gun is suspended from them, it has plenty of snag points esp. in the rear sight area and various nooks and crannies for mud and other shit to get in and stay in. Barrel release mechanism is very simple and fast, but forces you to touch small hot bits, top cover latch looks like a last minute addition taken from a Meccano set and the non-zeroable sights on barrels must be either a huge oversight or a cost-cutting measure. It feels like they spent all the time and budget on the gas system and stellite barrels and then rushed the rest to meet deadlines.That being said, the "bipod on barrel" issue looks stupid but I guess their reasoning was you will only ever need to change the barrel when firing from tripod, and that's a fair point.>>64703380>improve handling of a hot tube, you had a barrel assy that'd mostly stand by itselfNeat idea until you realise that propping the barrel on bipod makes the chamber dig into ground getting sand on tight-fitting surfaces.
>>64705053>fail to extract/barrel changeI carried a 60 for the better part of 8 years and only had 2 (TWO) malfunctions. Ever. And BOTH of those were with blanks during MILES training bullshit.The only assholes who had problems with that platform were lazy fucks who didn't do rigorous PM. The Hog stayed in service for decades for a very good reason. It was a reliable workhorse. And I wouldn't have stayed in a line unit that long if they took it away from me.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/spain-inks-deal-to-purchase-30-units-of-turkish-jet-trainer-hurjet/3784327
>>64706443>french/german 6th genDo we tell him?
>>64706446I'm already accounting for the predicted first flight of 2080
Turkish tactical drones are already sold to 40+ countries. I also expect within 10 years Turkish jets will be sold to 10+ countries and Turkey will be an important player in the jet market just after US, China and France. (puccia has killed itself btw)
>>64706455If you want a franco-german fighter aircraft, you'll have to wait until 2080 for them to forget how badly it went the last time they tried and start a new program. First flight in 2130.
>>64706469superpower by 2030
So im working on a worldbuilding project inspired by the war on terror and im curious how /k/ thinks ground combat will look in like 200 years. Will armored vehicles have their own drone support systems? Will AI lead militaries? Will we have D-Day boat style dropships unloading soldiers in the middle of warzones? Will we finaly get mechs or will the square cube law still be a MASSIVE faggot?
>>64705640Do whatever you want , if you want hard sci-fi it's going to take a shitload of research and if you want soft sci-fi it can be fantasy with techno-babble.If you want mechs add mechs, if you want mechs that kind of make sense put them on a lower gravity planet.
>>64705588Itbis your book, you should have an idea.
>>64705626We haven't taken one single step towards an AI. LLM's are not intelligent.
>>64705588>Will AI lead militaries?AI are comitting suicide because they can't properly display the seahorse emoji. The most stable AI in operation is Neuro-sama, its evil twin and the filter AI that prevents them from calling everyone a bunch of fucking niggers, most likely due to regular positive human interaction and doting care. If you want to make it interesting, do not have AI that were trained by the military. Have AI that were RAISED by the military, with all the nostalgia and tragedy that comes with it.
>>64706506These are my ideas but i want to make them authentic. That's why i asked this board.
Why was the Longbow in use for literally 300 years when it simply could not penetrate armor? I have watched several experiments with modern reproductions and never once has it achieved penetration of plate armor. In this latest one they can't even pen at point-blank range a late medieval brigandine and cheap Sallet helmet which was worn by poorfag troops. Rich nobles wore high-end bespoke plate made from tempered steel with every surface calculated to deflect blows and it would have zero chance against that. The amount of training that went into using the bow doesn't seem worth the results.https://youtu.be/SFFgcTzCvMo
>>64684834either it penetrated armor or a bunch of troops were unarmored.
>>64704833Source for every statement you've made of course.
>>64699502Oh. Why I'm laughing?
>>64704520Close combat was absolutely expected of English archers, virtually ever major battle they are in has them engaging on the flanks. The smartest thing the English DID was realize that you could have infantry that worse armor, carriers around swords or even pollaxes, and have them shoot people.
>>64704825Archers in Europe wore almost as much armor as they could afford, anon. You could fully expect to see longbowmen in retinues, or who just had the money, turning out in plate legs, brigandines, mail, and helmet, with a sword, buckler, and gauntlets tucked into their belt. Crossbowmen around the continent were the same. Not wearing armor is strictly a function of wealth, not archers being archers, hence the swiss largely having fuck all in the way of armor despite literally 90% of them being very aggressive melee troops. The rest of the world it's more of the same, plus conscription of the poor to fight being far more common (China), plus climate concerns.
>Pakistan Wants India To Enter Into War With Bangladesh: India's Chief of Defence Staffhttps://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/pakistan-bangladesh-defence-deal-nuclear-what-it-means-for-india-2840610-2025-12-23
The rest of the planet sincerely wishes you brown trash would obliterate each other.
>>64681024Yes.
>>64705110Hello Saar
>>64681020Why not? India and America are natural allies.
>>64699385>china overrun with jeet insurgents"hey Sgt. ping, this guy rook too brown""take him to wall and shoot him pvt. pong"
what 10/22 should i get? i like the wood carbine with iron sights but the slick one with receiver rail looks cool too. will i miss not having iron sights? is there any accuracy advantage to stainless barrel?
>>64698895>Like $40?Show me a $40 Volq 10/22 rcvr. Anytime.
>>64703932I meant that they were selling take-offs from Ruger made rifles, anon. They do it for MK IVs as well. Just have to look in the clearance tab. $65 gets you a stripped receiver, looks like they may have bumped the price a little.https://volquartsen.com/inventory_configurations/7172?clearance=1Or 10 of them for $500 because apparently someone out there needs that many.https://volquartsen.com/inventory_configurations/8636?clearance=1And the MK IVs. Railed and threaded upper for $100 and short tapered barrel upper for $35.https://volquartsen.com/inventory_configurations/8071?clearance=1https://volquartsen.com/inventory_configurations/5098?clearance=1
>>64700616what model is that S&W?
>>6470490122142213 is the same thing silver
Rimfiresisters... Do any of you have the Beretta 20x? Tell me about your experiences with this firearm.
Waiting for iron sights to come back in stock for the AKB-23, also need a cheap ass optic for the 10/22 p90.
>>64704630Your dick is theoretically a dual-mag bullpup. Just saying.
>>64706226Nah the trigger (prostate) is still behind the balls.
>>64706558Does being into sounding make it a muzzleloader?
