What are some great /k/ major US cities? Major cities in the US where you can live or exist in as a gun enthusiast and not be too restricted? Including conceal carry. Examples:Houston- in the state of TX, top 5 most populous US cities, constitutional carry Phoenix- 5th most populous US city, state of AZ is super gun friendly, constitutional carryBad examples: NYC, LA
>>65594001philly and you'll likely get to use it
>>65604057Honestly, if your neighbors are cool yeah. My brother killed a few possums that kept getting into our chicken coop despite us living in the city. Oddly enough code enforcement did get on our ass for all the stuff we had growing in the front yard but that was about it. Hell, at one point we were growing poppies and SWAT posted up nearby our house to bag someone a block over for grand theft auto. Would you believe me if I told you SWAT didn't care and were totally cool with us setting up chairs to watch the standoff from our driveway instead of forcing us inside?
>>65599969>NY, CA, VAAre you out of your fucking mind? OP wants to live in a state without horrifically shitty gun laws or the immediate risk of them being signed. Try again.
>>65594001Does Eau Claire count?
>>65604587Hope you cracked open some beers
whats the best looking AFV ever made?
>>65600893Pic rel but only this specific T-34
>>65603316I don't like the combo of the angular hull and a rounded turret. KVs look better.
>>65602368This was the peak Leopard 2 design in terms of looks imo, also I'm so happy that it got added to GHPC so that I can play a Leopard without touching multiplayer slop.
Tuff, so tuff....
>>65600893These right here. I know it is a glorified PT-85 with a big engine and has rather thin armor, i don't care. It is fast and it looks like it would be really fun to rampage across Africa with a company of them. It doubles as an armored boat with waterjets and has 1400 rounds of 14.5mm, it just looks really cool and would be fun to go on a rampage with. It would be superb at wiping out light infantry, mouthy civilians, police actions and other such operations, a mechanized regiment with 36-42 of them and the supporting Nork logistics effort to deploy them would fix Haiti overnight**This would include 3-4 old model Koksans, those should be enough to subdue any dissident factions in Port-au-Prince. As well as anyone within 50 yards of them for a 65 km radius****Footnote on a footnote: Seriously, Nork Peace Keepers are the best way to fix Haiti.
Hell yeahhttps://www.twz.com/air/usaf-confirms-bombers-could-have-a-major-air-to-air-combat-role>Aviation Week was first to report on the potential for bombers to help bolster the Air Force’s air-to-air combat capacity after obtaining a copy of a new long-term fighter force structure report submitted to Congress last week. https://aviationweek.com/defense/budget-policy-operations/usaf-outlines-new-fighter-goals-may-eye-bombers-ccas-help>a B-21 that also has air-to-air capabilities” and can “work with the family of systems to defend itself, utilizing stealth – maybe that’s where the sixth-generation airplane comes from.”https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/USAFs-Dogfight-Power-Curve/
>>65604474F/A-XX tooBoeing has a 6th gen monopoly.
>>65604474Boeing/McDonnell fighter programs have historically run pretty smoothly. Super Hornet was probably the smoothest new fighter airframe acquisition since the end of the Cold War. By all available evidence they also demonstrated a much better product than either Lockheed or Northrop in both competitions.
>>65604496Literally how, I thought Lockheed Martin had this kind of stuff in the bag?
>>65604350Can we bring back the Genie missile while we're at it?
>>65604554F-35 is the biggest military procurement program in world history. This was a massive windfall for them. It also means the Lockheed Martin’s aeronautics division has not really had the bandwidth to focus on anything else for upwards of two decades. During that time Boeing was chasing down every bit of DARPA work they could get their hands on, as they had relatively little new going on. They also bet big on new production infrastructure before they won either contract. This all paid off greatly. They seem to have beat Lockheed to flying a demonstrator by several years, while also producing a better product.
Could the UK hold out and win against a coalition of Spain argentina and Ireland?Assuming spain won't get hit with a catalan civil war.And Irelands primary actions are funding and supplying militias in NI with US financial backing
>>65601064DEAR GOD 'ES WIELDING UNHOMOGENISED GET THE FUCK DOWN
Well as they say, passed a certain point you can hold so much debt that it becomes the bank's problem.1. London restricts access to Irish finance and the UK stops providing defense and security. Instant capitulation. Mostly because nobody wants to touch NI.2. Spain could militarily take Gibraltar. The rock becomes indefensible once you have artillery to hit the airport and harbour even if Britain had a supply route. Of course if the Gibraltarians are playing then it's going to be an absolute bloodbath on those streets.3. Argentina can't threaten the Falklands and I wish everyone understood this. It's now too well defended against an Argentina that has had bigger budget problems to deal with. It would be cool watching Spain vs the UK at sea but any help Spain sends to Argentina will be sunk in the Atlantic. It's just interesting because it'll be old harriers getting shot down.
>>65601582There's a meaningful difference between illegal immigrants sneaking in and the Spanish army landing at Cornwall.
>>65601732How white do these spanish look like?
>>65601732kek
Will playing VR shooting games help me develop good aim, or are they more likely to fuck me over due to how different the handling of real firearms is? Anyone here with experience in both willing to share your thoughts?Never had a real firearm in my hands before, but playing some of these gun range games/simulators got me interested in picking up shooting as a hobby for real.
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>>65602125>>65603532Sweet.
Will jerking off to porno make me good at sex?
the aim reflex with normal sights actually yes VR helpsthe weight and amount of force you need to actually operate the gun, pull and release the slide etc VR helps not at all
Republic of Iran's Lux Lunae Squadron has downed another US tactical air assault squadron of F-15Cs over iraq that would 12 total now. The land battleships Zagros and Xerxes continues to penetrate into saudi Arabian territory destroying evrything in its wake. Seizing 98% of saudi arabia's precious oil fields. Meanwhile US Navy continues face severe losses in the persian gulf by iran's tonitrus spear satellites with the complete loss of the USS Abraham Lincoln and all of its crew. Megafloat Fatsia continues to giant torn on the US navy sides basically vaporizing any us warships that enters the persian gulf with railgun fire.
>>65604239Eh, fair enough I guess but the jet fighter shoot em up genre is basically *only* Ace Combat. They perfected the gameplay and even stuff like Project Wingman is just aping it.All that said - I really like Sky Rogue. Be the change you wanna see in the world, anon. Game development is easier than ever.
>>65604247>They perfected the gameplayMechanicaly, perhaps. The environment remains barely interacteble outside of some weather.>Be the change you wanna see in the worldCease with the tought-terminating clichés.
>>65604211>But I guess now it's all gotta be post-irony or some shit, you cannot just legitimately enjoy anything anymore it's gotta be "slop"It's the logical conclusion of reddit "cringe culture" infecting the entire internet. Liking anything at all is le cringe and makes you a wojak making a funny face, REAL chads are mad about everything all the time and don't ever enjoy anything.
>>65604239I'll still make the argument that the animu dialog and plot are by intent especially when fans expect it. Going Kojima tier with the narration would kind of kill the vibe of the generally cheerful atmosphere the characters still portray in the backdrop of war.You're right about there not being any real good flight games out there outside of the AC series unless you want to go into simulator territory.
>>65604135>Jesus titty fucking christ, these are supposed to be the elites and they are panicking because the randoms are fighting back.Anon, you may be too stupid for the writing you're calling terrible. The point is that not all Shadows are created equal and this is the first time that the FCU's encountered strong evidence of this. The same post-mission dialogue explicitly talks about them not being the 'same' Shadows. There's approaching two hundred of them and the lower tier ones are really nothing to write home about. They're psychological warfare, the highest tiers are genuinely a menace, then they use the associated names, liveries and chanting to make themselves appear more omnipresent. That's why the ones you fight in that mission aren't shit, and are genuinely surprised when the fake ace with a reputation for turning tail and running goes straight for the throat instead. You're two fakes calling each other's bluff.Congrats, you're too stupid for 'ChatGPT tier dialogue'.>>65604341Same people that'd watch Macross and complain about the music.
Are there mortars designed solely for that purpose?
>>65599482Not really, mortars rely on fragmentation, there's not enough of HE filler to kill you with overpressure further away than you get shredded apart by bits of the casing.
>>65599468Correct. Iirc it's called a blast wave shadow, pretty much any substantial cover will create a "shaded" area behind it where overpressure is lower than in the open. It's important to keep in mind that this is an area of relatively lower pressure as opposed to a safe place to be though. Better than nothing I guess.
>>65600641I was talking about the wounding mechanism of fragless weapons like thermobarics.I don't know of a motor shell that isn't designed to produce frag.
>>65599248>f you know you are about to be hit with a blast wave aren't you supposed to force all the air out of your lungs and close your eyes?
>>65600264So... you just hang out for a week writing goodbyes?
>served 30 years>used in exactly 0 air battleskek this plane will literally be retired before seeing a single use.
>>656042121996-2026. It started manufacturing in 1996, anon. F22s are psycho hags.
>>65603875>F5 combat radius is less than half of the viper’s (not counting cfts etc)It isn't. I assume you're getting this off Wikipedia where the F16 combat radius is 300nm for a strike mission with bombs and F5 combat radius is 150nm for a CAS mission with a similar payload of bombs. CAS missions include loiter time at low altitude, strike missions don't. The difference is, like, 10% for a comparable mission profile. Also it's pretty wild wanting to compare a Viper to an unupgraded F5, but anyway.
>>65604243>The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor officially entered service with the United States Air Force on December 15, 2005, as the F-22A.Production isn't service.
>>65604308Who the fuck counts airframe life from the date of first production, and not the date it first entered service?
>>65599063>the 30 year old air to air virgin H-he just needs more time …
What gun is this? Saw this in the season one X-Files episode "Fallen Angel". I don't think it's some fantasy prop... all weapons in this episode were real firearms.
>>65603479It was still kino
>>65603479Just stop watching Lost after S3
>>65603359>*beep*>*beep*>no one say anything about it
>>65603134All day long he was fighting for you And he didn't even know your name Young men come and young men go But life goes on just the same
>>65603598Well, if you told me mobiks were drowningI would not lend a handI've seen their face before, comradeBut I don't know if you know who I amWell, Budanov was there and saw what you didsaw it with his own two eyesSo you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've beenIt's all been krokodil highs...
what do we think of the arena system? Is it good or untested Russian garbage?
>>65599838I hate you as much as the ziggers.
>>65600302Sounds exactly like /chug/ kek.>>65600420Sounds like an effective system that the so-called russia just can't produce in enough numbers to matter due to being a third world shithole. I remember seeing multiple APS intercepts of rockets in Syria back in the day, so they certainly do know how to make a working APS.
>>65604257You don't know what third world means
>>65604261I'm using it colloquially, but without any Soviet Union there can't be a second world anymore, so it's fun to "demote" them to thirdies.
>>65604220Good, it'll make you strong. One day seek me out.
>Finnish surveillance satellite giant ICEYE to work with Ukraine to develop an European alternative to starlinkhttps://www.hs.fi/maailma/art-2000012361071.html>Satellite company Iceye and Nokia have signed a memorandum of intent with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.>Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to remove usage restrictions on his satellite service, Starlink, in Ukraine.>The Iceye agreement was announced in connection with Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s visit to Ukraine.In the future the ever present glaring eyes of ICEYE Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites will not only keep tabs on Russians through the cloud cover, creating profiles of individuals with the help of AI, but these same satellites will also provide jamming proof communications for precision weapons when the order is given for liquidation.No longer will strike missions be limited by american fickleness and lack of will.
the solution is simple, launch as many cheap high-altitude balloon sensors as possible.flood hundreds of balloons all over Ukraine and float them over Russia as well.
>>65604131Sensors are the most important weapon.
>>65604233And use them to drop pee bottles on the Russians
>>65604022>"Finnish surveillance satellite giant">Number of satellites launched by Finland: 0If your spy tech has to be sent through multiple countries to then be secured and launched by yet another country, it's compromised.
>>65604232What part of my post makes you think I'm a zigroid, nigger-kun? Was it the overuse of edgy buzzwords?Because no, Ukraine should not give up. Especially as they are winning despite the seething of every high profile zigger puppet going out of their way to help the tsar.TZD, I hope we get to see Moscow freeze in a few months. Then ideally burn down in the summer.
Just found 1240 rounds of M855 I bought in the before times. 18yo me was buying like crazy in 2017 and I just forgot about it until my parents recently asked me to move a bunch of my old shit out to my place. I've got>Two 500 round boxes of Winchester Green Tip M855>One 150 round "battle pack" of PMC M885. >Two random boxes of PPU M855 in those barely marked white boxesProblem is, I've been exclusively shooting Brazilian 55gr 223 and my target loads are 69gr Matchpoints I reload myself. POI is pretty significant at even 100yds when I tested 2 mags of the PPU through two of my ARs. Also even from a rest it's MOA is kinda shit. It's not enough to warrant rezeroing any of my nicer ARs. Plus, winter is almost here and I can't use M855 at the indoor range I have a subscription to. Also found my old PSA×Poverty Pony AR Pistol I can just SBR now. Should I make that my dedicated Green Tip Launcher?Should I sell it? Do boomers still pay the Green Tip Tax? Could turn out I accidentally made a good investment at 18.
Get a Geissele Super Thicc upper, trigger kicker, pmag 40s and build an IAR.
>>65602506Gilliam tends to go back and forth on decisions. See how it pans out. The Helions sold quick because they're one third the weight of counterpart steel plates and not too much more expensive.Majority of civilian armor is still steel, only because guys like Tac Scorp, Highcom (supply running low), and Down Range can get you in the game for $100 a pair or less on sale.
>>65602195hold on to it nigger, trump slump 2.0 is ending in november so stock up now
>>65603130Shit nigga nah. Das 556
>>65602195Just put it in your safe you retard. That's the whole point of buying and stacking ammo, so you have it in the future.
Like literally what's the point? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAT_oKIeIgQ&https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh4ihe5bH6Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ini7eBCHwKY
>>65603407https://youtu.be/MMdvNV6kAQk?si=bL6sk0PgqEHmZF_7
>>65602207It's based and trad))))))))))))
Honestly, some of the anons have made some pretty compelling points in favor of “hazing.” I think the best argument for them has been that it enforces a clear hierarchy with boundaries and expectations for both boots and the higher ranks. You simply cannot expect fresh 18-19-year-old high school graduates to give a fuck about rank structure, hierarchy, or to understand why they should follow the orders of some Cpl just because he’s been in two years longer than him, or some fresh lieutenant simply because he got a degree in underwater basket weaving. Machiavelli said it best >it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.You can definitely argue that hazing destroys camaraderie, but ultimately I’d rather be obeyed by my boots rather than seen as their friend. It goes without saying that boots shouldn’t be sexually assaulted or tortured. When I was an 0331, I never treated my boots with anything other than respect because it’s not in my nature to be cruel, but ultimately I feel like I had the privilege of not having to participate in this behavior because my peers and superiors did the hazing for me, and my boots implicitly understood that it would have been well within my “power” to haze them if I wanted to.
>>65602207cuz they're gay
It depends whether its funny for all involved. We would tackle dudes, take their boots and then run away and make them chase us in socks while everyone laughed at him. That's funny. Beating the shit out of new guys or raping them like the russians do just establishes resentment and it fucks up the already shakey system of trust between junior enlisted and NCOs. Officers shouldn't be involved in ANY way.
>Ukraine has carried out the world’s first medical evacuation of a human via a drone from the battlefield the 30th mechanised brigade of Ukraine managed to save their injured comrade from a minefield.
>>65602822Bruh, half of these sites are in forests and obscured by greenery at crucial times. Also any official estimate is ignored. Until you actually dig out people from out the ground "it doesn't exist, it's propaganda" and shit. Also, go read up on people talking from Kherson after it got liberated on how people would disappear every day and trucks full of corpses would be burned and dumped in trash landfills. Good luck trying to check that.
>>65600162literally how they won ww2
>>65600565Most realistic scenario is that they are being kept in reserve until the anti-fpv capable active protection tech matures to a sufficient enough degree
>>65600051>you will live to see fully functional sexbots>they have tentacles
>>65598211nigga, i ain't trusting a drone to fly me to safety.
Why couldn't he accept that he was a shit field commander?
>>65603811JEW!
>>65603911>which he could have done by visiting the National Archives or the VA and looking through personnel recordsBetter yet, he could have facebooked them
>>65603911But jokes aside, what a shit 'journalist' who doesn't bother to verify his sources
>>65603911>Hitler was instrumental in creating woke you retard.Only if you agree jews are responsible for antisemitism and blacks responsible for racism.
>>65603911I really don't know what to think about the fact that after all those years one of our most consistent(ly terrible) posters on /k/ is a Jewish pedophile.
