Holidays and winter ops. Any front, any era. Post winter /k/ino. Almost didn't make it home in time to post this year's thread.
>>64700932Either or both?
Americans in Buna, Papua New Guinea. 1942.
>>64702756Some color.
Do wooden logs work as armor or is it cope?
>>64675531no but it makes the soldiers inside feel better
>>64675531Small calibre bullets go through those, so wood armor works for that purpose.
>>64680529>>64680532RPG-2 strikes.The Terrorists that the flips were fighting were only able to get/produce the old RPG-2 so the wood and cardboard armor was enough to prevent the warhead from penetrating the armor of said vehicles.
>>64675531Good camo. I thought it was a chicken coop for a second. I wonder what is would do for IR
>>64701754>>64701859>>64701981>>64703950
Why isn't the 5.56 RDB more popular? I shot one at the range today as it was extremely pleasant to shoot. Nice trigger and adjustable gas system
i love mine but out of the box it would slamfire when you dropped the bolt which is totally unacceptable.
I have a hellion arriving at my FFL tomorrow afternoon. What am I in for bros?
>>64700485i should get one of those, its basically the only IL legal bullpup
>>64703194Disappointment
>>64698062G3 magazines would have been a poor choice because they don't have a bolt hold open tab and they are only cheap because of a huge glut of surplus. That has been drying up for years and prices have been going up.The only good magazine pattern for a modern 7.62x51mm rifle would be the DPMS/SR-25 AR-10 pattern. It doesn't require locking in, it has a bolt hold open, good availability, low cost and a robust enough design.
>why do you need so many guns?>why do you need more than 1 gun that does the same thing?
I realize everyday I wake up I live like a mad man. If I allowed people into my home (I don't) they'd think I'm crazy. Some guns lying in different states of disassembly, a reloading table/knife sharpening station in my living room, a heritage under the bathroom sink, 2 3-D printers in the laundry closet (they get loud), decorated like a 1910s archeologist's study (pelts, native masks, flags in frames, some of my grandpa's guns, a few reproduction John Trumbell and Samuel Morse Paintings, etc.), and that's just the gun stuff. That's all ok, because I'm happy and I want them. I don't need to concern myself with what faggots on the internet think.
>>64705854>>64705942There's consumerist materialist hoarding of bullshit to sit on a shelf in the gun community like any other. Irrational instincts to love shiny new stuff and accumulate it like a packrat weren't invented by collectors of stuffed dolls and laminated paper cards, they're the human condition.But something you can say about guns is that they hold their value pretty well.They don't become worthless the instant you take them out of some special collector edition box, you can own them for a lifetime, use them whenever you want, and then sell them or pass them on with most of their value intact or even see them appreciate.So the tax you pay for being a hoarder is as low as it gets. 'Oh no, my dad passed away and all he left me was tools, land, ingots of precious metal, and guns. What a wasted life and worthless inheritance.'I can happily buy a pointless gun and feel no guilt and laugh at funkopops and feel no hypocrisy.
>>64705886>indeed I'm likely to use them in an offensive fashion
>>64705854This can applied to any hyper consumerist bullshit
>>64705854A smart man has a personal weapon and also a handful of throwaway rifles he can use to quickly assemble a militia
Why isn't this gun more popular? The magazine makes it easier to carry in my opinion
>>64705096The magazine was never super reliable and it would eventually get replaced. We have to learn this lesson every decade or so since we did the same thing with the new RPK a few years back before soldiers in the field came back with the "what the fuck is this drum mag, retard" constructive feedback. I suspect it's an obsession.
>>64706198The fact that military shit is limited by "practicality" and doesn't run on rule of cool will forever be one of humanity's sins.
>>64706198>people who know more than meMost military and law enforcement are retarded faggots who routinely have to big dragged kicking and screaming into modern stuff.
>>64706215a 20rd ar magazine is the same length as the grip you nogunz retard. haven't you seen a picture of an m16a1 before? people choose lever actions because of tradition and because of hunting caliber restrictions in their state
>>64706215>Guns are more compact and easier to maneuvernot really>Why do you think so many people pick lever action rifles as their brush gun instead of an AR?Because lever actions are fun. That's it. It's not about the magazine. No, nobody is wading through brush so thick it's catching on your magazine constantly, how are YOU going to walk through that?Swear to god you've never been outside before.
Late Christmas EditionPost what you want about anything. No rules.Previous thread: >>64597464
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>>64702749i wont fire old bp surp at all.you never know where a bit of hygroscopic bp accumulated moisture and rust inside the action.
>>64702692I don’t really have my sights set on any guns. I’m more of an opportunistic buyer, so if I see something that I wouldn’t mind having, and the price is fair, then I may buy it, but I’ve kind of stopped chasing guns for now. Now I’m kind of focused on bolstering my reloading components and ammo supply. Right now, prices seem to have bottomed out for almost everything, so we have about 2 years to stock up before prices start to go back up during the election year. I feel like I have a good supply of a lot of my ammo and reloading stuff, enough stuff to allow me to shoot for well over a decade in most calibers, but I’d like more.
>>64702366stabby you say?strictly speaking for myself, swiss M1914 engineers stabby is best stabby.because this stabby can hack´n saw too, which is additional fun in fun times. especially saw fun times are very funny.
>>64705022I feel like the saw teeth are actually going to make stabbing more difficult.
What do you ought to have at home in case a nuke happens upwinds? We all know about sealing your home but what if you need to go outside quickly? What kind of civvie filters actually work? Does polyurethane civilian rain gear do anything to protect at all against radiological dust and rain?
Or is it downwinds? I do not remember.
>>64705918If you're upwind of the blast that means the wind will carry the fallout away from you.
>>64705915Nothing. I live 23 miles from a first strike target.
iodine and food. Clean water is a challengehttps://providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org/food-storage/home-storage-center-locations-map?lang=eng
Today the Somaliland coast guard showed off its entire coast guard to celebrate Israeli Recognition I'm sharing every boat showed off. Seems to be 1 warship, a few patrol boats and 2 other boats
>>64704201Bong negroville and Wop negroville got together and then the retarded bong negros realised>fucking hell these wop coons are beyond retardedThe end
>>64688424Tell me more about Somaliland? I'm suspicious over them being supported by the jews now. Are they a part of the Rusky Mir now too?
>>64704201Not personally much into racism, but it does boil down in large part to clan ties. Somaliland differs from Somalia proper for two main reasons: it was administered by a different colonial power, and its much more ethnically homogenous than the rest of Somalia. The isaaq clan predominates, and while there are still subclan beefs, there’s been a longstanding power sharing arrangement between the main isaaq sub clans. Somalia on the other hand is divided between all kinds of different clans and subclans who have been schwacking each other since the Siad Barre government fell and even before. You’ll see fighting in Somaliland by minority clans who want to challenge isaaq supremacy. Imagine that there were dozens of these groups who had equal numbers to the isaaq, and had to find some way to govern between them, and all were armed to the teeth, and Somaliland would look a lot more like Somalia proper. Hope this is racist enough.
>>64702174The real redpill is that they started hitting ships partially as a response to Chinese and other foreign fishing companies coming in with their massive setups and pushing the locals around, including by actually attacking their boats. So at least at the start the conflict was between forms of violence legitimated by large corporate interests and powerful states and forms of violence used by underclasses. Decades later it’s a lot harder to defend, but yeah
>>64704201It's very complicated but basically Italians had a bit of land, Bongs had a bit of land, post WW2 it became all Bong owned and then they got independence. Everything was fine but the issue was the guys who controlled Somalia were of a specific tribe and resources were found in what is now called Somaliland, so Somalia wanted these resources to make money for themselves, so they paid another tribe who don't want independence but want autonomy inside Somalia to go and essentially invade and take the land 'legally' and in turn give it to Somalia. Somaliland was full of people who were much better educated and 'civil' due to being a former Bong colony and realized they were being fucked over, so said 'OK, we're going to go independent' and so a war started using the said above mechanics. There was also a brief (I dunno if it is still going) reunification with Bongland drive (there are images online you can go find) but it was likely - much like Hong Kong - merely around getting 'protection' so you can then get independence from a more reasonable government.tl;dr Ex-Bong colony realizes that ex-Italian colony is full of retards and doesn't want to deal with them any more.
would a starship-based gunship or dragon-based gunship work?
>>64670128what game?
>>64705780i'm retardfed
The Lunar War really makes me like the idea of strapping a bunch of Sidewinders on an ACES booster with a basic crew hab on the front.
>>64671708Based on the last flights, I don't think Starship is as fragile as you'd think. The last 2 flights of the V2 ship had a shit ton of removed heatshield tiles and even some spots where they removed the 2nd ablative backup. Both still landed the ship.Vid related, see that white "smoke" coming from the the bottom part? That's a fucking hole straight into the LOX tank, the "smoke" is cold oxygen remnants escaping. Similarly the other fligth had a fucking fire at the top of the ship (among other damage) and it still landed. And that isn't a small hole, it's the size of a dinner plate. (And because I know someone will say it's a vent, it's not, that is the heatshield and it doesn't vent from there)Other vid here also: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1978179844656480423)These 2 last ships went through reentry and took a shit load of damage and still landed in their designated area. This includes the flaps burning, a fucking explosion in the engine section, and the aforementioned holes in the tanksI'm pretty sure a Starship would tank a Buk-like SAM granted it's a fragmentation warhead.
>>64706426Actually it was this one too that had the fire at the top, you can see it here. The speculation was that it actually had a fucking hole into the header tank too, which it uses to land. If that is true, Starship is a god damn beast of a machine to be able to land with its fuel supply literally burning off at the top. (The main tanks are mostly empty by this point.)Also pic related, you can see the removed tiles here. Each tile is about the size of a plate so you can imagine the holes that would be left if there's a burn through in their space.
Guedelon castle is nearly finished
>>64703842>shartyi hate the sharty with all my heart, shut the fuck up faggotyou're a serious goddamn zoomer if you've never heard anyone use 'ery noice before.
>>64689034>elle ne ton ecrasera jamais les couilles comme capourquoi vivre?
Do you think when the English inevitable take it over we will get our own Maid of Orleans to lay siege to it?
>>64692359>Why would you use clothing dye for wall paint? This. Just buy 50 kilos of lapis lazuli and powder it. It's reasonably cheap nowadays.
>>64688978Awesome always loved the videos on youtube.
The most overrated US commander of all time>Fucks up the Philippines defence >Takes a needlessly gruelling island hopping path back to the Phillipines for political reasons>Actually does pretty good at Inchon>Completely ignores the threat of China>Has to be put down once he starts talking about using nukes
>>64699905He performed as badly as that inbred retard Percival, and deserved to go down in history as being a moronic faggot who fucked up his (admittedly untenable) position
>>64700654>brilliantChinese literally told Norks that MacArthur is most likely going to invade Inchon, but the Supreme Leader knew better and ignored that advice.
>>64701082>the only peopleOnly the stupid.Grant didn't burn Atlanta, or march to the sea.Idjets
>>64706387Yeah. That's a load of bullshit you can't support with anything but gas.He put 40K on the nork's ass in an absolute shit beach head that require precision timing to work or the tide would have fucked it.I'm no fan of that asshole, but shitting on Inchon is fucking stupid.
>>64700916Gay?
>thousands of roundsthat's always such a cope. I have thousands of rounds. it's not hard to when you're got like .22lr and .223/5.56.The guy in the article was a felon in possession so whatever, ignoring that. Why would you own like 15 ARs? I have a carbine and a 20 inch hbar. Like I understand having more than one AR. I understand having multiple carry guns for different weather, having a collection of curio and relics (even if they don't fit the ATFs definition of C&R like if an action for a new gun is cool or modern millsurp or whatever), I understand having multiple hunting rifles or shotguns for different game or having multiple target rifles or clay shotguns for different sports shooting. I don't understand having 15 copies of what is basically the same fucking AR.
>>64693807uh yeah it's clickbait
Rate his Dragon Hoard.
>>64693807I thought the ammo stockpile bait would have become ineffective after the toilet paper hoarding during covid lockdowns.The answer to your confusion, OP, is that you still retain a misguided respect for journalists, instead of seeing them as the traitorous golems that they are. You don't hate them enough.>>64693817fibbity
>>64693859Why don't gun owners defend the second amendment rights of ex-felons?
>>64706389>Disabled>Felon>Wife beaterUnfortunately we don't execute these wastes of life, but allow them back into the general population. The best we can hope for is bullying them into killing themselves. Now go be a redditor somewhere else. Big tent 2A is a failure championed by other failures like Karl and that fat arfcom fag
Are Zerg weapons realistically comparable to Protoss and Terran weapons? It seems like both should have the weapons to wipe out the Zerg without that much difficulty.
>>64706026Kek
>>64705721Perfect image
>>64706179In the sense of meat-guns or whatever, sure. But there's a lot to be said for infantry with chameleonic nanotube skin and double the metabolic rate who can ingest hydrocarbons. Imagine the logistics.
>>64705686Since when did /k/ become some /vg/ nigger offshoot? Like holy fuck.
>>64706348Weapons are weapons, dude.
is it really worth it or overrated ?i mostly see cringy redditors use it for they commute i'd like to know if their bags are really that good before i drop 1k to replace my rig with theirs
>>64702600yeah, the ones frothing at the mouth to finally kill all russians like a nation of john bolton in an indian warbonnet and g string, is sucking off Russia.
>>64696913I have a jääkäri XL and kahakka 25, use them both in my military doings. Both work well with armor, but for longer movements I remove my belt and attach it to the ruck so I could use the hip belt. It is very comfy knowing that my packs wont fail me so for me thats worth the price.
>>64702972I have about 5 for gypsies and 7 or 8 for russians
>>64704921Nah we banned freeze peach because someone might say a bad word about muzzies
>>64705036good to know, im probably gonna get the XL and the smaller kantamus to replace both my packs
The PLA plays Arma?
>>64706307I haven't played in ages, why would I get reforger?
>>64705761>not pre-tourniqueting and taking a morphine hit just before the battle
>>64706307not everyone
>>64706307Some have, far from all.>>64706320It's a fairly barebones game built on the new engine that A4's expected to use. The GT5 Prologue to A4's GT5. Modders have tried to fill in the gaps and done quite an admirable job but it's not A4 and not meant to be.
>play a mission with ACE for first time>nobody knows what the fuck they're doing>map maker has botched the settings incredibly badly>wind so strong trees are going sideways and can't shoot 100m into the wind>beach landing in cherno>everyone is getting dropped like flies because they cant hit shit>medics (and everyone else) is just randomly injecting limbs and throwing bandages at everything>people get stuck in loops of injecting epis and morphine to try and stop passing out/heart exploding >any semblance of order gone and most officers dead random stragglers of teams form up>ride across hillside and spot some MLRS looking straight at us>>is anyone in it>>Nah I don't think>drive forward another few yards and everyone explodesGood times
