Lets say, hypothetically, that I am a very rich man who wishes to acquire a fighter jet for personal use, through the legal means.Could I just give a phone call or send an email to a Lockheed/Boeing/Sukhoi/SAAB/etc. representative and buy an aircraft directly with them?
>>65101444Actually, now that I think about it. The F-16 has an EPU that runs on hydrazine, which is a fucknasty devil’s brew. I don’t know if a decommissioned version would keep it, but if so it might be a royal pain in the ass to find someone who’s WILLING to work on one, even if there’s a few people who are able to.
>>65100883You can get civ subsonic jets (bigwig my dad used to work with owned a demilled mig17). Govs are pretty hesitant to allow civ ownership of anything that can boom
>>65100883You can only buy at best, last gen fighters that are retired from the military. Never anything brand new. Unfortunately for you, many of the 4th gen fighters are still in use (as updated models) even 20-50 years after they were introduced. So, manufacturers and governments won't allow you to buy even used F-16s or F/A-18s. At best you are looking at old 2-3rd gen fighters as third hand or more to buy.
>>65101775> governments won't allow you to buy even used F-16sThe listing is dead, but there was absolutely an F-16 for sale a couple years ago. I don’t know if it was ever revealed who bought it, but it was probably one of the REDFOR PMCs.Also, there’s at least two Su-27’s and a few MiG-29’s in private hands.
>>65101801In the US that is. Not sure about other countries.
>send in the next wavehow do you beat this strategy?
>>65101520why? shit's real. they had a live eagle there
>>65101580The static look of the bird conflicts with the rushing motion of the rest of the picture. Those men are charging forward through gunfire and there's a bird on a perch.
>>65101660How is it static? It's hunched and screeching.
>>65099843you are not wrong.
>>65101216>>65101456pickets do be jumpy. John S. Mosby mentions nearly being shot by friendly pickets while scouting and nearly shooting friendlies on his own pickets back when he was a line cavalry trooper on several occasions. He also got straight off the steamboat that delivered him in a prisoner exchange directly to Robert E. Lee to give critical intel. The day officer told him to fuck off and it was only an adjutant interceding that he was able to see Lee and tell him the critical info that Burnside wouldn't be reinforcing Little Mac.
>Taxicab Army>Small Boats of DunkirkWhat are some other examples of civilian vehicles getting pressed into service under desperation?
>>65101345Slavs = orcs. They'll continue expanding by stealing horses and toilets while sharpening rusty blades forged from Lada leafsprings.
>>65101262so close, but no.
>>65100365What he wrote looks and sounds better, which matters more. If u were so smart you would have realised this
>>65093151During the Lahad Datu incursion by Flip terrorists, Malaysia flew a whole battlion from West to East Malaysia by commercial low cost Airasia flights, presumably to save money on air fares. Not sure if we got scalped on the baggage fees though. There is an entire ocean between East and West Malaysia.
>>65101743>scalped on the baggage feesDon't look at how many government flights are charged as business class but are actually economy class
10,000 US troops are in the Philippines for the ‘biggest ever’ Philippine war games
>>65098459The point is that moving 10,000 troops anywhere and getting them to do anything is really hard to do under ideal circumstances, so the exercise gives your officers valuable experience moving people around.That's also why the military likes doing stadium flybys and large movie productions, even separate from the propaganda value.
>>65096522I like animals more than weapons desu
>>65099648carabaos are very chill animals
>>65096522That's where the fake Navy Seal was stationed during the war
>>65096522Does this War Game involve visits to "Physiotherapy Establishments"?
Look at these numbers.
>>65099481>russia repairs the refineries after one to 4 weeks they got drondThey don't even extinguish them in that period.
>>65099323To be fair, they got targeting data from Russia (Trump refuses to believe or accept his 'friend' hates him).
>>65099481What is the actual point of this post? Are you suppose to go 'well what's the point then?'. Shit can be repaired, but a week of not producing stuff is a week of lower income.
>>65099481>the italian nafri frogfaggot is mad againlol
>>65099507Huh, not bad. Those Concrete prefab's come in handy.
AK General /akg/Laser Aimed Edition>Thread #2093Old thread here >>64966725
SAM5 or M90 for next AK? Already have an M85 so leaning SAM5
>>65042528Go 104. Still working on my no dimple saiga to 104 conversion. Feels and looks way better. Unlike you I’ve got to weld the old saiga trigger holes and had to swap the rear trunnion.
>>65044524Anyone shoot an amd65? I need to build out my kit and want to be convinced
>>65101378>What's my motivation?To get off your ass and build a sweet fireball machine? They're fun as fuck, how much convincing do you need?
Post a gun, post a book
>>65092052here's a newer onehope we're still posting old books
>>65100135My nigger
>>65096659I’ve got my grandpas 1940 ww2 blue jackets manual from the navy kicking around in storage…. Might have some odd library sale fiction that’s older, but that’s by far the coolest old book I have
Are there gun companies that are universally liked, the way some are hated? I don't mean "have a large and controversial cult following" but I mean like pretty much anyone with a gun thinks of them in favorable terms with no qualifications like "but they're overpriced" or "but I wouldn't want anyone to know I got one"What companies have unfairly gotten a bad rap?
>>65087801kel-tec consumer beta tests WAAAY harder than sig, and KT stans will just say 'uhhhhh its kel-tec lol!'
Barrett and Mossberg. Maybe Canik? People are posting a lot of super niche ones even though you specified no cults, lol.
>>65087801two of the most overglazed gun companies ever to exist. muh 500 years! they must be doing something right hurr durr!the flaking on the finish of my a300 ultima says otherwise. Beretta CS is enough to make me write off the whole company and never buy their garbage.keltec is for losers that don't get enough attention from mommy so they feel the need to tell everyone about their "quirky" gun that would be called a steaming pile of shit if it was made by literally anyone else
>>65088066SQUISHY SQUISHY
>>65087832>Kel tecDoes cocaine make people come up with kooky ideas?
>Range open to members only, no visitors, no exceptions >Membership by invitation only>Range operation hours, M-Th 10am-4pm, closed all major govt. holidays >All members must pass through security checkpoint at front office before being assigned a bay>Only one (1) firearm and one (1) may accompany a member to its bay; multiple firearms will be held at the office until user exchange>All members must be accompanied by an RSO, no exceptions >Members must wait in the office until an RSO is free to chaperone a new member to its bay>Absolutely no assault weapons, semiautomatic rifles or pistols, capacities over 7 shots>.30 caliber limit>No .22 caliber >One shot per 30 seconds, max.>All shooters must be seated when shooting with lap belt buckled>All weapons must be secured with a weapons vice while shooting >When not actively shooting, all bolts must be completely removed from the action, chamber flagged, and safetied>No outside ammunition allowed, all ammunition to be purchased from the officeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>65101332The only hard rules our range has are "no centerfire rifles larger than .50 BMG", "no shooting the steel poppers on the pistol range with centerfire rifles" and "No artillery/pyro/explosive rounds".
>>65101207>Remember that Hammer and LaPierre were the response to the original rot in the organization!Kind of.They were "a response" not "the needed response".
>have land>shoot on itsucks for you landlets
>>65101181>community serviceYou mean work party hours? I just flip burgers for the annual raffle and occasionally paint something.You're a faggot.
>>65100935If it is for absolute beginners, sure. You want to drill gun safety from the start and also avoid accidents with beginners. Also I think this is to avoid suicide attempts. Once you got experience, go shoot elsewhere.
Is carrying a gun in the woods in case of bears or other animal attacks a good idea? Do any of you guys do this? Any recommendations on the type of gun?
>>65101173Thus why you should keep that muthafuckin thang on you Anon
>>65101393Looks like that Finnish desert the name of which I forget.
>>65101613I didn't know Finland had any deserts.
>>65101596Anon if your not drilling regularly for assault bears then you deserve to get mugged…This is my once a bear thread reminder that regular practice with your bear gun is way more important than choosing the right caliber of bear gun…
>>65101613Salmiakki?
So how much neck and/or upper back problems are these tacticool "the AR-15 and its derivates are not unergonomic at all, you just need to drop your head down" guys going to suffer when they are in their 60s or even younger?This can't possibly be healthy at all. The AR-15 was designed with a heel drop of essentially zero inches, which is fine and actually preferred for prone shooting, but is an ergonomic nightmare for standing shooting. I don't know how these guys tolerate shooting like this, or at least how they can in good faith defend the poor ergonomy.
>>65100142>Why do you keep saying bongs fighting bongs was a bong civil warIt's a real headscratcher.
>>65100158Daniel Morgan considered himself American and wanted total bong dead
>>65100169Well there's one thing we can agree on then
>>65099482hop has a really bitch made face and it's been a joke for years that he's either a lesbian or an FtM tranny to the point that he's even mentioned it in videos. the only think keeping him from completely losing to the allegations is the fact he is like 6'2"
>>65099571have UN peacekeepers ever been effective at anything?>>65099660you aren't American
is the px4 storm a good pistol
>>65096756How's it different?Is it spinny?
>>65096419>underbidThey won the contract before that. The MHS was also for new 9mm ammunition. Glock partnered with Federal who came up with a three part, lead free bullet a la the M855A1. Federal had patents and didn't want to let anyone else to produce it, so license rights were shitty. This is a big deal for the Army if they wanted to up production using other manufacturers in case of war. SIG partnered with Winchester, who brought a FMJ flat point and didn't give a fuck about licensing. Glock also lagged behind on the ergonomics, which their plastic 2x4 grip has never done well in. It was the ammunition that really caved them. The fact that they were $100 million more expensive would have only mattered in a tie breaker situation like the XM9 trials.
>>65097379So it's another situation like the airland scorpion being hamstrung Textron's retarded maintenance contract?
>>65096420Yeah you're right the sphinx SDP should have won
>>65097379That's incredibly talmudic. How can anyone outjew sig with fucking licensing fees for fucking ammo? I wouldn't be surprised if the other competitors during the NGSW program tried to pull that shit too and now we're stuck with the fucking M7 and the M2shitty
Artillery autism thread. anything 20mm and up welcome
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/2047357912457105482
I want airdroppable vehicles, I want them now.No parachutes.
>>65100647This is legit comical
>>65101597what a hell of a way to die
>>65100647Not as good as that time the pissed off loadmaster cut the chutes on a dozen hummees and they all splatted in a row.
>>65100647Uncle Hank, their dead!
which blade shape is best or self defense?
>>65100907>Cold Steel starts a thread instead of buying an ad.No wonder all your shit is made in Taiwan
>>65100926Bread will never stand a chance. Or cut neatly.
I got the 5.5" Espada in SV35N a few years ago.It's nice.
>>65100907
>>65100907Fixed blade knife, 4-6 inches, has a design that supports both stabs and cuts. I'm very fond of trailing points like these three I'm about to link, but other shapes can work too.https://www.bladehq.com/item--Spyderco-Bow-River-Fixed-Blade--85407https://www.bladehq.com/item--QSP-Viper-QS166-C2--218051https://www.bladehq.com/item--CRKT-Clever-Girl-Fixed-Blade-Knife--34376
