What the fuck were the people in charge of supplying the army doing during the turn if the 20th century?>adopt the krag >go to cuba to fight the spanish American war>so few krags that the rough riders had to use trapdoor springfields >pretty sure there was no draft at the time so everyone would have been volunteers so idk why they got stuck with trapdoors>army drops the krag>adopts the 1903>so few 1903s are built by 1917 that something like 2/3rds or 3/4ths of all the rifles use by the American expeditionary force are 1917 Enfields>the bongs only ever used the 1914 Enfields as home guard guns
>>64888560The issue was calcium carbonate building up in the gas tube.This was ended when they made WC844, a low carbonate formulation of WC846. M193 still does not use WC846 for loading.WC846 =/= BLC-2 just like H335 =/= WC844. Similarity in burn rate does not make different formulations the same powder.
>>64888581>WC846 =/= BLC-2 just like H335 =/= WC844you are *technically* correct since WC844 and WC846 are non-canister grade versions of H335 and BLC-2.
>>64888440>M1917 sights were so good that the US military added them to the M1903A3The M1903A3 sight is nothing like the M1917 sight. Receiver-mounted sights for the M1903 were proposed even before the US became involved in WW1 (note rifle third up from the bottom), but after WW1 the US Ordnance Dept. became fixated on adopting a self-loading rifle (which would have a receiver sight) so retrofitting the M1903 was given low priority. It only ever happened in 1942 because Remington was designing new tooling to make M1903 receiver forgings and hey why not make that tooling produce a receiver forging with an integral sight base while we're at it.
>>64888644is that spike permanently affixed? the one under it looks like an smle and the one under that looks goofy as fuck with that front sight hood
>>64888345Pic is a helpful visual aid representing declining testosterone levels over 300 years.
What would Ukraine need exactly to achieve Air Dominance over it's own territory.I think there was once a discussion abut it here, I don't remember the details but it seemed like it was a complicated process, requiring a lot of specialized air frames with specialized equipment, used in a precise and well coordinated manner, something few playas can pull off.A few modern jets with some modern pods & rockets aren't enough, or so I remembered.
>>64885493Are you talking about those long range suicide drones? Just build your own and bomb their factories. If you can't reach those then bomb the launch sites, train yards, bridges, anything that you can reach really. Or just build them bigger so you can reach.
I refuse to believe that heavy concrete and steel fortifications are completely obsolete especially in a setting like Ukraine, At what point are people going to realize that hinging survivability entirely on running away isn't always the best solution?IF it's possible to defend a ship or fleet then it's possible to build an effective heavy fortification because nearly every technology used to defend ships works even better in a static fortification where there are no weight or space constraints.
>>64888075Wrong thread? Retarded?Concrete and steel fortifications are playing a massive role in the Ukraine war.
>>64888080I haven't seen them employ anything more sophisticated than some really basic bitch precast concrete pillboxes. I don't even think they're placing that many of them when they might as well go full Albania mode.
>>64885891I think taking out the repetition makes it stronger.
It's been a long time since we had an innawoods loadout thread.Let's post 'em>bonus if it's close to your actual kit.>www.innawoods.net
>>64888888holy fucking wasted. fuck you.
>>64888892I'm sorry :c
>>64888700I always felt it was too limited in how it presented the gear.I might make my own version that would rework how bags work and also add a total weight to the stuff you carry.
>Stabs trough metal & leatherI really hate how media makes armor look borderline useless, it really is just a cosmetic to them.
>>648877963.0 was even worse. You got all features at level 1, the only thing that went up afterwards was the amount of Remove Disease per week.
>>64888142What the fuck were they thinking, did they balance classes thinking every PC rolls six 18s for stats?
>>64888707It was built for either point buy (which guarantees an 18 and 2 15s in 3/3.5, or "heroic" stat rolls using 4d6, reroll 1s, and then drop the lowest die. Multiple stats at 16-18 are normal using this system.
>>64888805>point buyBut point buy makes classes like monks or paladins even weaker.Warrior can go 18/14/16/8/8/8 and it will be a beast, in fact warrior doesn't give a fuck, you can go 18/8/8/8/8/8 and it will get a job done. paladin 18/10/10/10/10/10 literally doesn't function as a class. And all that "power" at a cost of your sanity, because every fucking GM considers existence of a fall mechanic as a fucking challenge to overcome. But yeah, rolling high str and charisma + decent con and wisdom will make it work somehow. But your average crpg will almost always use buy out system, I can only think of the Temple of the Elemental Evil as an outlier (and it was an excellent game)
>>64888707They didn't balance at all.
/msg/ - Military Surplus General - Snowed In EditionPost your crests and your old gats.Thread Question: Any Milsurp related projects you working on?Previous Thread: >>64684823
>>64887664The problem is they're clearly brand new and even have marks showing they were made in 2025. I suspect someone made a fucky wucky and signed off on a Form 6 by accident.
>>64884153Not that anon, but related.Hypothetically speaking anyway.Asking here because there's no hand loading thread up and I don't wanna make one just for this question and I suspect there's a lot of crossover twixt the /msg/ and hand loading crowd anyway.Let's say I can get my grubby mitts on a couple spam cans of steel core 54r. CHEAP. But I don't have a 54r firearm. I DO have a .308. I _really_ like the idea of having some steel core .308 ammo for reasons (in minecraft let's say muh dick). Would it be worth it to disassemble the 54r ammo and swage down the bullets to .308? Could you re use the powder? How the hell do you dispose of a bunch of corrosive primed brass? Is this over complicated and there's easier ways to get steel core (or steel core like effects) .308 ammo? Would it even be technically legal? in mine craft?please note : "hypothetically" and "in mine craft" added for humorous reasons. I know the whole thing is probably kinda cringe, but it's my cringe and I own it.
Today's the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, post German and French guns of WWI. Bonus if it could have seen the battle by virtue of being made in 1916 and prior.
>>64888502I'm pretty sure my Gew.98 is a war bond rifle.
>b-b-but muh milsurp ammo is expensiveis it really though?
Why is Washington's sword shaped like this? It looks like of Arabic and doesn't have any hand protectionhttps://www.si.edu/object/george-washingtons-battle-sword-and-scabbard%3Anmah_434865
>>64887046>>64885695nice airshit, thirdie. I can tell you arent American based in how brown your hands are. guns are banned in your third world nazi country, war tourist faggot.
>>64884665Fascism (What most think of as Nazism) as we know it started in Italy, The German Nationalist Socialist Workers party (The Nazis) came after Fascism was invented.
>>64887072>posting a picture of your poverty rifle >taking said picture with disgusting midget thumb nail visible>taking said picture through a camera lens coated in Vaseline >calling my USP airshit despite staring down the polygonally rifled barrel towards the breechface that’s coated in brass marks>still insists I’m a thirdieI have a relative that a US Army post was named after. Can you say the same?
>>64887756>trying to instate an aristocracy in the USdon't care, didn't read, airshit thirdie
>>64887078Italian fascism is different from German fascism
Should hunting ammo>bullets, shot, ectbe lead free?
>>64885040Same. I get why 300 years ago the fattiest meat was premium but in the modern age where we all operate on a caloric surplus without trying it’s just another thing I end up carving off my cut and feeding to the dog.
yeah
>>64884809If your meat tastes like seasoning, it'll all be pretty much the same. If your meat has just salt and some mild spices (black pepper, etc), they can be very distinct.
>>64882338All steel bullets work as armor piercing so yes all hunters should be required to use lead-free bullets to protect the trees or something.
>>64882823>but their barrels can't take steel shot.I am pretty sure they can take soft iron shot. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. Pure iron is very soft.
The USAF is a million years ahead of every military in the galaxy.
>>64885280a nuke in sg universe in general is childs play anon hell even the activation of a stargate as we saw on the second superstage was able to do literally jack shit to the second ori ship they tried to bait into getting destroyed the ships without shields were pretty fragile
>>64884774>The USAF is a million years ahead of every military in the galaxy.You may not like it, but the US is 6 million years ahead in military tech. The US military & government holds the keys to the meaning of life & death, has both friendly & evil alien helpers (ET/FNORD), psychic "remote viewing" spie's, time travel tech, fleets of reverse-engineered antigravity alien tech "TR-3B Black Triangle" flying ship's powered by element 115, communication with ghosts the afterlife & the unborn, triple-barreled M551A666 PsychoSheridan tank's, 75th Rangers exoskeleton-hip-fired gyro-stabilised 120mm infantry mortar's with pinpoint accuracy during 25mph sprint, access to other "parallel" universe's, NSA/DARPA GGGQEP quantum ∞(±6^∀)Petahertz miconpossessors to eavesdrop on every single electronic & non-electronic communication in the world even sign language underneath 1km of EMF Kevlar, "Rods from God" (just 1 orbital tungsten telephone pole = two Czar Bombas), the 300,000-strong "Fighting Molemen" U.S. SUBTERRANEAN FORCE, FT LEE VA (the secret "7th branch" existing since 1899), quantum IFVs, "phase-shifting" Armored Recovery Vehicles, new "Stealth" tech that makes jet's invisible to Radar. Shoulder-fired ASAT missiles. Stealth field kitchens. This is publicized in Stargate SG1, scientific research publication Popular Science, only a fraction of the more spooky & shadowy stuff not listed above is merely hinted at in Marvel Cinematic Universe™, history documentary Red Alert 2, French time travel documentary Life is Strange (David Madsen was a rogue DIA test subject), but the pardoned parcel is the US of A is at least 6 million years ahead in military tech even without the help of alien's. It is 6 million years ahead though the exact number fluctuates due to the activities of the US Military Time Travel Program underneath Barksdale AFB, L.A., this 6 million years ahead is a universally agreed-upon average by the world & intergalactic/ET scientific communities.
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>>64885183>ywn get to shoot down Wraith-niggers in a far flung galaxy and then go back to base to mating press the Wraith queen you have tied upWhat’s even the point man?
>>64884774Unironically yes, if it was written by non-retards. US ships would just be a giant rack of missiles each containing a massive nuclear(and other bullshit later) driven EFP which would smack the enemy with tungsten plasma traveling 0.03C or with accrued alien bullshit hydrogen plasma traveling 0.6C from hundreds of thousands of miles away, from the missile when it goes off that is it could be arbitrarily far from the ship so you could just create massive casaba howitzer minefields. You're point defense weapons would also be just casaba howitzers you jettison and with float along with you disrupting enemy brain-snake plasma balls by shooting the shit out of them. Shields are for faggots when you have firepower.But then the main characters would have nothing to do
>https://files.catbox.moe/klosr7.mp4You've seen BUKbreakingNow prepare for TORtanicThree TORs destroyed in single day. drones used are FP-2 with 60kg of explosives
>>64887524Tunguskas are low performance. They are only good at shooting helicopters really and occasional A-10 going brrrrrttt. They simply lack targets.
>>64887801>I wonder how there isn't a constant friendly drone overwatch to look out for foes.There is.(it's Ukrainian)
>>64886499They did take out the aircraft, but unfortunately they threw the game by ending with a K/D ratio of 0.
>>64887714Ukrainians still use the french guided bombs, and rocket lobbing is still a thing. Don't forget that the Ukrainians managed a helicopter insertion of special forces into pokrovsk not too long ago.
Tornado-bros......why didn't the extra wheels protect it??
how long as it been since k has had a nice, comfy, spoopy nope thread? My entire hard drive of greentexts got nuked, so share your favorite ones. innawoods skinwalker edition
>>64886267>and it always happened with orange lights in the area.These "lights" that you describe are commonly called "orbs". They are naked spirits. They can transform into a pseudophysical entity. The color of the orb indicates its evilness, for lack of a better word. Red = bad, yellow = neutral, green and blue = ok. Most orbs appear to be in the infrared or microwave spectrum meaning that they are hostile. There should be orbs in the ultraviolet range too. >What really confuses me, is that I thought the cattle mutilations was primarily on the larger livestock like bulls and heifers.There are two kinds of cattle mutilations. One, which is like sample taking, where only certain parts of the animal is taken, such as the anus, the eyes and the tongue. These are cored out using some kind of unknown technology as the cuts are made with something exceptionally sharp. The best theory as to why that is happening I have seen is that these sample missions are done to check for prions as there is a massive prion infestation affecting american deers and there is the potential for speices crossover. The entire animal is returned, minus the samples taken. One peculiar thing is that these returned animal corpses does not attract scavengers and take a very long time to decompose. The ground underneath them also goes barren. It is as if the corpse and the ground has been sterilized by ultra strong gamma ray radiation but it cant be that as the sterilizing effect is too strong. Gamma ray sterilization would also not keep scavengers (and insects) away. The second type of cattle mutilation is the feast. All the meat is consumed, and that which is returned is a sack of skin containing the bones. There are teeth marks on the bones. What kind of mutilation happens to the sheeps in your area?
>>64888212I'm not entirely sure what kind there is. It just seems like the sheep disapear. No body, bones, wool, nothing.
>>64888410>I'm not entirely sure what kind there is. It just seems like the sheep disapear. No body, bones, wool, nothing.I would classify that as a feast then. Is the sheep selected completely at random, or is there a pattern to it?
>>64888478No idea. The way my friend put it, they just chalk it up to something that happens.
>>64888520>No idea. The way my friend put it, they just chalk it up to something that happens.Your friends neighbours could set up a webcam covering the sheep pasture. They might catch the moment a sheep disappears. It would be interesting to see if it just winks out of existence or if something comes and takes it. The thing is that these orbs can sense if someone is looking at them directly but if you look at them trough indirect means that strange sense does not work and they will think they are unobserved. Trail cams and drones have caught really wierd things. Theres also a rather well known bigfoot observation from yellowstone captured via a public access webcam.
Previous: >>64785432What are FRTs:Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) are firearm modifications that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more rapidly by automatically resetting the trigger after each shot, while still requiring a trigger pull for each round. They increase the rate of fire without converting the firearm into a fully automatic weapon.AR-15 is the most ubiquitous platform with the most amount of options. Other platforms have other nuances.How it works:https://youtu.be/KIxsnh2fFTo (embed)See it action:https://youtube.com/@juiceymedia1https://youtube.com/@poorboyarmshttps://youtube.com/@printshootrepeatComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64887029It's kinda gay that those roller locked buffers arent F/A rated, that seems like it would be their number 1 use case.
>>64888522well one could use the cmmg blow back system, you wouldnt get an OOB and there is no weight to trim to make it work with a FRT
>>64888482you will get it for sure, but yeah I dont blame you
>>64835508Working on it. CNCs are at maximum capacity but are expanding every month just to accommodate current orders but AK levers have been on the timeline for a while now.
>>64888840oh no foolin'? You guys are actually putting something out for the AK platform? fuck yeah!
Why did they make it look like an M16 tho
>>64883282I don't remember Abe speaking French.
>>64881666It's still the style now.
>>64885782Nice rifle, but this is a thread about shotguns.
>>64886788It was the style at the time.
lpwp
Do they need a weapon systems officer for each unmanned collaborative combat aircraft?
>>64886124>>64886817are you fucking retarded
>>64886124>>64886817???The question posed in this thread is: given that auxiliary drones are not equipped with free will, is it better for the operator controlling them to be on the ground or on board the aircraft?
>>64887922>it's classified bro just trust me bro ur chinese if u don't trust me u know the US govt never ever ever lies ever not once ever, anyway we're so much better than china because we have DEI pilots who are stunning and brave and that makes our fighters all 7th gen so there! no taksies backsies! i am rubber you are glue blah blah not loving palantir is brown coded! ur russian!
>>64887937>Copying other people's research is not intelligence.It is, in the spying sense.
>>64888079Currently the idea is that you need 2 people, one to pilot the plane and one to manage the drones like a mini air traffic controller. It's possible that in the future the plane will fully be piloted by ai and then you'll only need one person to tell the ai what to attack and what to defend.
why is the UK already replacing their Brimstones with the JAGM?
>>64888334UK Apaches have been using Brimstone since 2015.
>>64888712The UK also bought a bunch of new AH-64Es which are set up stock to use the JAGM while Brimstone would require integration, so it is the cheaper option. They may yet get it in future but for now that's what they have.
Brimstone seems really cool with the autonomous target selection stuff, have Ukraine got much out of it with their land-based version? I wonder if both sides using similar gear and turtle-tank silhouette has limited the impact.
>>64888730>have Ukraine got much out of it with their land-based version?They keep getting sent more of them so it can be assumed they are firing them at something and so need replacing and that they are effective enough at it for them to keep wanting more over other systems.
>>64888712The UK has approval for 3000 through the service life of the AH-64E via FMS. So far they have only bought 160.>>64888718No they haven'tMBDA did Brimstone firing trials on a Boeing-operated AH-64E in 2015, but the missile wasn't fully integrated with the aircraft's systems - For example the aircrew had no ability to select the missile's flight profile or seeker and fuse mode in flight.No Brimstones were ever fired from a WAH-64D Apache Mk.1, which is what Britain operated from 2000 to 2020During procurement of the AH-64E, Britain wanted to integrate Brimstone on their AH-64Es, but it was too expensive - Boeing quoted an integration cost that was £120 million more than the combined budget for buying JAGM, Hydra/APKWS and future purchases of Hellfire and 30mm ammunition through FMS.As such, the UK isn't going to use Brimstone on AH-64E either
Previous: >>64872083>Image limit reachedhttps://github.com/rcc11/4chan-sounds-player>Simulate schizophrenic auditory hallucinations with the sound player plugin!
>>64888769Nico Jiang is a real nigga and I am beyond excited for his series to start releasing.also someone please bake
>>64888793Cope>>64888531Nice way to end the thread, thanks anonVive la France
>>64888796On it
Out? No, I was merely biding my time>>64888808>>64888808>>64888808>>64888808>>64888808>>64888808
