Is he a cautionary tale of what happens when a totalitarian dictatorship with a cult of personality meddles with military procurement and logistic chains?
>>65500566The problem wasn't meddling, it was that the Italian industry was minuscule and lacked critical raw materials. The materiel Italy used in Eritrea and in Spain was never recouped because Italy simply couldn't churn out more carcanos, berettas and sparvieros in time. Worse still, they joined the war in the middle of a reorganization effort. Pariani’s reforms robbed Italian divisions from a regiment to make them leaner and faster but it just made them weaker overall. Needless to say, this didn't mesh with their existing doctrine and the new doctrine didn't have enough time in the oven to iron out the kinks. Mechanizing the Regio Ejercito to any meaningful level to offset that lack of mass with speed wasn't possible either, again due to the lack of industrial might and the necessary resources.There's nothing meddling or lack thereof would have changed. Even if Il Dunce's interventionist adventures never occurred, their arsenal was never deep enough, was never going to be deep enough and they never had the capacity to replenish it.
>>65500600Eva Perrone? Madonna was hot.
>>65500566Historically Italians haven't been able to fight since the fall of rome.
>>65502102You seem to have missed the "as long as he was top dog" part. He was apparently in love with some negro fetishizing movie "Circus" and when internal records came out in the 90s it seems the top commies really did talk about stupid libtard commie shit rather than the cold calculus of state power behind closed doors like I had expected. Nobody was more surprised than me, before I merely thought Stalin was a self-defeating fool and adroit politician. When I learned he actually believed the bullshit I some level I began to hate him, I despise idealists in general but libtarded idealists are the worst, they are all delusional retards.
>>65502191They were good mercs, the crossbowmen humiliated the mongols. Then again the mongols never took a single stone European fortification in all of history.
There’s a very real possibility that I might have a capture order put on me by high ranking members of government. Im expecting anything from mercenaries, private security firms or lone operators but it’s not impossible that local police might be leveraged to target me. How best to prepare to go to ground? Money, remaining incognito in the age of mass surveillance etc.
>>65501659If the whole thing is going to blow over in a few months you can't be that important.
>>65501593Go to a mental health doctor to get some good meds to clear your mind for starters.
>>65501593do a flip faggot
>>65501792Just identify as 'trans' too. You will get even more freebies!
>>65501907unironically ya. california will let you change your birth certificate and drivers licence if you "change" your gender. So a whole new name and gender might help throw off people looking for you. Plus I bet there are plenty of charities and shit for the homeless, trans, and trans-homeless
I only own a maverick 88 im not that much into guns
>>65497754Im not saying that ar15 isn't the most optimal pick for home defense, im just trying to figure out how to get most out of a shotgun if it is all you have, i guess.
>>65498294>I know youre trolling him, but, why do people imagine that a 12x10 plate in the chest will protect them like a HALO energy shield?They don't. This is a weird strawman. Also it's 10x12, nobody calls a shooters large a 12x10.>Chances are that youll shred someones lungs, shoulders, arms, hands, etc making them incapacitated at fighting back.Rule of thumb is an inch of spread every yard. Measure the hallways in your house. Shotguns do not sweep rooms.>and this is ignoring the fact that a single pellet could still hit the neck, jaw, head and lights out.or it's not a CNS hit and drugged up fucker keeps fighting until exsanguinated. Read up on Dr. Fackler and Dr. Gary K Roberts' works on terminal ballistics.>If I was a swat dude, the LAST gun id want to face with a holed up intruder, is a guy with a 12 gauge, especially a semi auto one.If you're a SWAT dude you'll be in full rattle with vest, deltoids, neck, helmet, face shield, and probably an actual shield which will laugh off buck.
>>65483429same but I also have an ar15, ak47, revolver, a modern handgun, and the mav 88 for the shotgun.I just spent the rest of my budget maxing out each gun with the best possible mods and practicing with them.I don't even like practicing with them all that much cuz of the concussion of firearms but do it at least once a month as a chore.
>>65497931>the kills look like suicides.kek, like they're just going to walk up to people and push your own gun into your mouth and pull the trigger because carrying around several pounds of kit gave them super strength, and nobody notices all the extra bullets and shot residue covering your house.Good satire. I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting you actually believe what you say.>>65498294People assume it works like games and movies because they have no experience with anything more real than games and movies. Full plate mail was defeated by just fucking bashing their head in through the plate, that kinetic energy has to go somewhere and they can concuss you into dying without ever actually piercing the shell.But as >>65498416 said, the advantage of shotguns in home defense is not spread.It's actually raw force and the way the pellets interact with each other in the moment of impact increasing the severity of the injury.
>>65500811The kills look like suicides because you never hear of the cases of fully decked out intruders so they all look like suicides but in reality it was anon's ghetto EBT Team 6 that did the hit. Plenty of cases, hundreds of them, of homeowner's killing intruders not wearing armor. But the EBT Team operators are elite and make the breaking and entering look like a suicide so you never hear about it. Real elite dudes that don't need the publicity like the Seal Team divas. They rob in the shadows and don't need recognition to keep our streets ridden with crime.
/arg/ Post gun editionPreviously:>>65490682
Does the Romeo 7 get brighter than a PRO? Those two are my first picks for my next budget dot but I'm open to other (better) suggestions
>>65502543Pro is dogshit get anything else
>>65502543Buy a compm4s insteadhttps://www.ebay.com/itm/800568962397
>>65502554Why's that?>>65502582I'm guessing this is one of the better prices out there? Still a bit steep for me
>>65502591Pro has blue tint and a not sharp red dot. Holosun and up mogs it to death
Wasn't the sinking of HMS Hermes by IJN D3As the first carrier vs carrier battle in history and not the Coral Sea?
>>65499735She wasn't carrying any planes when she was sunk. So, technically not a carrier vs carrier battle.
Let that sink in for a moment y'all
>65500025your bumps are getting increasingly desperate and gay
>>65500025Yeah
>>65455359You're language is more gooder
>>65499374nta but shit he got you man
>spambot kills other thirdie thread>this one revives yeah
Home defense edition
>>65491280eh i get what youre saying but it's still not sharp enough for you to use it to cut something without force behind it. Where is the line drawn between focused blunt weapons and edged weapons?
>>65495001it's not a great shovel and it's not a great hatchet, but it's an ok shovel and ok hatchet. it's one of those "jack of all trades, master of none" tools
>>65497424but it is a great friend
>>65490038
Bump
Semi-automatic rifles were not a particularly useful development for the military. They entered service in 1940 and were overtaken just 3 years later with the introduction of the assault rifle. This leads to an interesting question:Why did it take major militaries so long to adopt the intermediate cartridge?The USSR had the RPD by 1944 and the AK by 1949, both using an intermediate 7.62. We had the FAL by '53, which even had an intermediate version in development, and other assorted rifles shortly after, but these were still battle rifles pushed to use 7.62 NATO, not an intermediate cartridge. It took way until 1964 with the M16 for the first widely-adopted western assault rifle. A full 15 years after the AK. Was the tyranny of 7.62 NATO standardisation to blame?
>>65501043Grendel doesn't play nicely with anything because nobody's put the work in. There isn't even a GUN for it that doesn't involve significant compromises.RPDs exist, the problem isn't insurmountable. It's just not going to get sorted out by Bubba and his one-off.
>>65501384Imagine an America where the M1 garand remains the standard infantry weapon until the 80s. What would the American PLA look like with this doctrine in mind?
>>65501597There was doctrine for doing volley fire like that with an 1853 Enfield anon. The point is half your dudes (in the case of the 1853) are advancing on the fortified position at any given time and that's what actually has an effect. If you're all sitting in a bush jorking it, you're just wasting ammo and annoying people.
>>65501343>which dramatically improves its ability to inflict permanent wound cavities instead of dumping its energy into elastic deformation of tissuethat's not how it works, which is why 5.7x28 isn't some dramatic magical rifle-tier killer round. .30 carbine has as much muzzle energy as 5.45x39 and so the difference is entirely about bullet construction for them. both can take down deer-sized game with the right ammo.aks-74u is a vile piece of shit in every respect and is inferior to SMGs in accuracy, handling, weight and recoil.
>>65502035same muzzle energy, different velocity, the 5.45 is going 50% fasterwhat does "inferior to SMGs" even mean? As though SMGs are all the same, no difference between a Bren and an MP5
AK General /akg/Behold, A PKM Edition>Thread #2101Old thread here >>65418168
>>65499253Spics can't vote
>>65499264>Spics can't vote
>>65499273Not in rural TexASS they can't, no.
How are Midwest Industries side rail mounts at maintaining zero? It seems impractical if I have to resight in my optic every time I choose to clean my gun.
U.S REGIME can't stop taking L's LmaoooHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAHAH
>>65502328It says the controversy began with the GWOT.
>replying to 10 hours post just to get the last words in>still spewing 'us is just like russia!' Retarded turd
>>65502045The American right wing, and current government, do quite literally run on the same face culture, chronic paranoia, 'the narrative is all', culture that Russians run off.It doesn't matter what the actual truth is, so much as the narrative that everyone collectively agrees to lie towards supporting. Actual conservative values don't matter, so much as getting yours, so ruthlessly exploiting any angle to get one over on everyone else is valid and respectable, while 'moralizing' is weak.If you're powerful, you can do whatever you want. Fuck five year old boys? Eat a baby? You're the oligarch/kingpin/big special boy .But you can't accept any besmirchment on your face, because a threat to the appearance of security and supremacy of your side, through various reasons, is an actual credible threat to its actual power and security.It's part of the reason why the American democrats seem anemic. It's not that they're actually limp-wristed. But these are two peoples, playing fundamentally different games of politics, and one of them cares much less about scruples or backing up their words with actions, as opposed to just securing power.
>>65502536>if we just voted blue things would be better!!!lmao how fucking underaged are you
>>65502538It's an actual Democrat shill. You can always tell because they always bring up the fucking Obama deal and how it was totally working (and it was, in the sense that Iran would have developed a nuke, which is exactly what Democrats wanted).
Henny status?
>>65501087I am physically incapable of holding back when you're talking about things I hate with every fibre of my being.
>>65501073How bizarre and pedophilic
>>65501238yeah, you are.
Total Padanian Death
>>65501238Anon there is nothing sexual about using your loli battle machine to extrajudicially execute members of the terrorist organization that murdered your imouto.
Haven’t heard of anyone coming down with a sudden case of sigleg recently so I guess they got it figured out.
>>65500123>Cheap>Obscene reliability>Proven track record with no early QC issues to worry about>Modular>Striker fired>SafeThe fuck was the problem?
>>65501573I forget, is there a version of the APX with a manual safety?
>>65501985No just 4 internals
>>65501573Sig was half the cost and they figured it wouldn't be a problem since it was already in service with a ton of police departments and shit without (known) issues (at the time) apart from the drop safety thing that they made Sig fix before buying them.
>>65502010The manual safety req wasn’t any less dumb and the M9 still mogs
How would you fortify this position?
>>65492540Nuke Kiev
>>65496664So like five defensive lines, wait for rescue from the Potato Man through Suwalki. Mine the waters and make small attack boats to fight NATO. Nuke the Kaliningrad city when it's over run.
>>65492540backyard bomb
>>65496221>You can do a little better than that. Withdraw from Ukraine, and offer to return Koenigsburg to Poland. Use both as diplomatic leverage to regain access to having an economy and maybe try unfucking the lives of the average Russian citizen.Then you need to move away that half a million Russians that lives there(because nobody wants them in region) and move in new population in order not not make a shithole from it. Keep in mind that many parts of critical infrastructure is different than in rest of Europe.It's like with Norks everybody wants unification until they look at cost
>>65501104Ą hunts there, expect for that there isn't much there
Turkey vs Israel in low to medium intensity conflict over Syria. ( semi proxied current Syrian Govt. Vs Druzes+ any other pro israelis ) Who actually wins in a long grind?While Turkey has the bigger army, more tanks, more F-16s and they can crank out drones like crazy and absorb losses that would cripple most countries Israel has the better tech. F-35 stealth fighters, insane air defense, and a substsntial domestic arms industry. But here's the real question: attrition.Turkey has to drag supplies across half of Syria just to stay in the fight. Every convoy is a sitting duck. Israel can sit back and pick off logistics nodes with precision strikes, making Turkey bleed fuel and ammo.Drone war? Turkey has more. Israel has better jammers and shooters. Turkey might lose 3 for every 1 Israeli drone downed. That adds up fast.So who grinds who down?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65501671as the west gets more brown so does the internet, its all izzatslop, Israeli and china shills and bots now
>>65494481>barking dog doesn't biteNo but it'll piss in all your shoes. That's Israel for you.
>>65501699"America" doesn't get to make any decisions here. You get to clap for whatever happens and cope about really wanting it all along.
>>65501671>genuinely what the FUCK has happened to this boardIt isn't just this board. Take a look at who they let spam, troll and break rules with no consequences. Take a look at what off topic crap they allow and what on topic posts get removed. Look at how they let entire boards get trashed but move immediately to punish hate for reddit or hurting their feelings. As if they are desperately trying to be just like reddit mods and ignore the rules to just censor everything they don't like. And the biggest joke of all is the sticky about ALL current events and politics not belonging here. They refuse to follow their own rules.
>>65501699US currently lacks the resources to take over even half of Yemen by the statements made from the US military today. Not in great shape. The Saudis are pretty mad at the US for not helping them with the Houtis but the US has so few interceptors left that any naval operation risk resulting in ships being hit as the Yemen straigt is extremely narrow, far smaller than Hormuz making hitting any vessel going through it so much easier. So i don't see the US trying anything too serious against anything that is bigger than Panama for the near future.
Okay, /k/, your insights in the last few threads were extremely valuable. Let’s keep going with my game developer questions.Let’s talk bullets and ammunition, including explosives, man portable energy weapons, and exotic weapons.What I’m thinking:>Rounds>Trounds>Sqrounds Exotic rounds:>G11 caseless types>Gyrojet>Flechette conceptsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Fletcher guns, what are they? Beyond the gun from dinosaur hunter
>>65499796Essentially it’d be a dense square frustum packed to the gills with powder. A bit videogamey but I can’t think of any practical use case for a sqround.>>65500243I’m assuming they mean needle guns or guns that fire groups of flechettes.
>>65500243>Fletcher gunshttps://youtu.be/21qZpSJp5W0
>>65499461What shape packs in quad stack mags the best? Can we have caseless trounds in a 60round surefire mag for the +30% volume raising it to 80 rnds?
I see you enjoyed my renders. Here's a disk bullet I made just for you
