I call it a Z7_Zastava, rhimes with slava
>>64297130Finally, a decent thread.
>>64297130>ar23 liberatorFuck it, how many helldivers minimum and how long would it take for them to depose Putin if they were dropped into the Kremlin?
>>64301127how many Putins would they have to depose? how many Putins could they destroy per minute?
>>64297130Rhino looking head ass
>>64301127One, if he drops his pod straight into Putin's office.
Were the Soviet generals better than their german (or even american) counterparts by the end of the war?
>>64293286No since it really involved just human waves and using handouts received from other countries as well as Soviet propaganda overseas deceiving the foolish masses.While many will save the human waves were effective and talk of how "brave" the conscripts and "volunteers" were, they seem to ignore the fact that Stalin and his generals were willing to use countless Russians, Ukrainians, and other peoples as disposable to prolong Soviet totalitarianism. Those same people praising will then self-contradict by making accusations of recklessness and heartlessness when talking about the Third Reich using the Volksturm (many were veterans of WW1 and trained youth group memebers) during the last ditch efforts.
>>64293286A generals "quality" is largely irrelevant and most decisions emerge quite naturally from the resources you have available.Every general in a modern-style conflict is about as good as every other general, the only real difference are the resources they have available.
>>64293644>I thought modern historians didn't agree with it.Turns out said historians were commie cocksuckers
>>64298484Is this bait?
>>64298484If that was really the case, Ukraine really would have been knocked over in three days given the sheer amount of resources Russia threw at them in the opening stages. The ability to leverage resources in a useful way is just as important as actually having them.
Anyone else learn to shoot a gun alone? I'm 31 and never fired one. I own a shitty Ruger LCP and never shot it, there's an indoor range 15 minutes away, just never gone. Feels nervous to go by myself and teach myself. Did anyone else learn completely alone without friends to teach them?
>>64295720Walk into literally any range and tell the person working there that you've never fired a gun before and they will go out of their way to teach you like you're their goddamn son. Stop being a bitch and just ask somebody.
use yourself as target practice, that way you don't have to deal with other people making you nervous at the range!
You're all sick people. I hope you all get cancer. Fuck youse all. I put a curse upon you all. Fuck ya mudda
>>64295720Dad taught me how to shoot guns and safety rules when I was 10 years old. He bought me Rossi .22/.410 combo gun.
>>64295720Take a class if you can, or maybe youll get lucky taking to someone who works at the range and theyll teach you the basics for free. Also maybe get something a little bigger like a compact (glock 19 size) or full size(glock 17 size) theyre more comfortable to shoot so youll have a better experience, you can also rent guns that size at most ranges. the ruger lcp isnt a bad carry option but its not a very pleasant shooting experience in my opinion. If you really cant talk to people then watch youtube videos and get snap caps and practice dry firing and some reload/malfunction drills before going so you feel comfortable handling it
Has the gun world gotten too serious?Circa 2012 all we had to worry about were zombies.I probably sound retarded but people used to be happier with less. I dunno.
>>64299258The computer will actually get used, though. Shooting at night sucks, and it has nothing to do with target visibility. It takes a special kind of nighttime/firearms enthusiast to want to kit up, go out and sweat at 10:00 PM and get raped by mosquitos just to shoot a few mags.
>>64301358>body armourHe's British.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMnJxOpGHxQ
>>64299280>Home invasions are now done using signal jammers and some body armorWhat? Seriously???
>>64302892NTA but cartels like signal jammers, and there have been a few notable cases of them being used during attacks on farms in South Africa. I've never heard of them being used in the US, but I guess its a matter of time and to be fair, its an inherently difficult thing to track.
Don't ask questions you'll mess it up
>>64292013I talked with my mom about her day, that's about it
>>64301738>The hamon is just painted onShamefur dispray
>>64301753im ausfag without a loisence, I can only get shit from bootlegging chinks who don't care about the law
>>64292013it's a pittsburg long handle 1/2" ratchet that i bout attacked a hoodrat with for creeping up on me at the gas stationshe dumped me over a text a year ago.
My Artillery gunner sword that I bought for 150 leaf bucks.Was chatting up a girl at my local TTRPG game shop, went well, but she mentioned she was dating so no luck there, chatted about MTG then ended the conversation polity.
From the K-19 “Hiroshima” to my boy Sergei Preminin, discuss the Russian military’s history of reactors.Sequel to the first three threads. Feel free to also bring up their land based military reactors, Mayak is a bit of a doozy
>In 1949, when we were reaching maximum capacity, Kurchatov and Beria arrived. And they came to our lab. Beria back then was nothing like how he's portrayed today. Exhausted, sleep-deprived, with red eyes, bags under them, in a shabby raincoat, not very rich. Work, work, work. He didn't even look at us, the beauties. On the first day, he arrived, got out of the car, and rubbed his butt: "What lousy roads you have!" The next day, he came home limping: he went to bed, and the bed frame had collapsed under him. And no one was jailed for it. And then one day, they were renting out the building in the socialist city... After all, Chelyabinsk-40 is the villages of Tatysh and Tech, old Russian settlements, several kilometers apart. And so, in Tech, they were opening the first wooden theater. Everyone had arrived: the unescorted prisoners, the prisoners under escort, the engineering and technical workers, the guards, Muzrukov, and Beria himself. His driver was dozing, and Beria's tattered raincoat, the same one he'd been wearing on his first arrival, lay in the car. The celebrations were over, and Beria returned to the car, but the raincoat was gone. Someone had cut him off. And no one had been arrested either. It seemed he didn't care about anything there except work.>I played cards with Kurchatov in that very cottage by the lake. Slavsky built two cottages there, one for himself, one for Kurchatov. Then, during Khrushchev's time, they were torn down, and they said, "Oh, oh, oh, oh, the burps of a personality cult, how immodest." Incidentally, I don't even remember the occasion on which Igor Vasilyevich invited us, about ten of us, to his place—some kind of sabantuy (a social gathering) to celebrate yet another great achievement. We drank wine, played a game of podkidnoy (a throw-in), and it was all very pleasant. Igor Vasilyevich was a truly amazing, charming man. He treated everyone as an equal. He never put himself above others and was always joking endlessly.
>>64301900Fuck me. I remember how astonished I was when I learned that there were replacements for stellite intended for use in primary valve seats that didn't include cobalt, specifically to prevent the formation of Co-60. And now you jokers have anti-C's that don't need laundering and bags that don't require incineration or burial.We really are behind the times.
Ok, it's time to bitch about the INES again. Especially Level 5 which sucks just like everything above 3. And you know what, let's forget about the fact that it completely ignores human toll and how fucked the reactor itself is and is all about 'how far is this shit spread and how far will people notice badly' type deal. I'm gonna play by their rules.Level 4 is 'accident with local consequences'' which implies no off-site risk other than maybe a brief 'shelter in place' for those super close. . Level 5 is 'accident with wider consequences' implies stuff like temporary evacuations or milk decontamination or stuff like that and nasty stuff getting off site. Goiania and Windscale are here and fit that part of the bill, K-431, yeah, Chalk River.....ok not quite as bad, but the river needed cleaning so close enough. But TMI? Just some gas, maybe shelter in place if you were RIGHT downwind and didn't want to breathe in a little of what's essentially Radon, but nothing that would fuck up milk supplies or require evacuation. I don't remember who, don't know if it was here or not, but I swear I heard from an industry guy it was ranked 5 and not 4 purely because of the evacuation of pregnant women and toddlers(which was unneeded and based on the BS Hydrogen bubble explosion bursting containment theory) and the following mass panic leading to more voluntary evacuations. Honestly Chalk River is probably on the lower side too come to think of it, would it kill them to add an extra category in-between 4 and 5 for the really bad 4's(SL-1) and the less bad 5's?
>>64302789Ok ok enough of that, Windscale, fucking Windscale. Level 5 still implies that the contamination off site isn't...THAT bad, or isn't THAT widespread. Do you know how fucking contaminated Seascale was with really, really nasty shit? I'm talking hot particles filled with uranium oxides and plutonium and fucking polonium. Every 10 feet or so. There are chunks of the exclusion zone not that hot. And the less hot shit, like the gases? There were traces of it in fucking norway. That doesn't seem very Level-5y to me, spraying shit halfway across Europe and besmirching the local towns to Belarusian levels. And INES does HAVE a system for calculating this, converting to I-131 equivalent. Except it's missing a ton of fucking isotopes that aren't common outside of breeder reactors. Like, say, Polonium which is fucking horrific on the body. If you do the Windscale math and account for the hot particles everywhere and the Polonium(which they DIDN'T) suddenly it's a Level 6 and on the higher end of that. That same list also doesn't include a lot of nasty waste elements like Cerium, of which literal tons of which were blown sky fucking high at Kyshtym. Kyshytm should be a Level 7. The only reason it wasn't smelled across the continent is that there was no light gas to spread everywhere and no fire, it was one big boom. But locally? It was worse than Chernobyl. If Kyshtym happened where Chernobyl was the entire southern half of Pripyat would have ARS and most of them would die before they could be evacuated. It was horrific and the only reason the garrison on site didn't die was they had a damn good man in charge.Make Windscale(and honestly Fukushima, how do three Level 5 accidents, a 4, and a couple lower ones somehow add up to 7 on a supposedly logarithmic scale?) Level 6, make Kyshtym a 7. That's a good start. Then maybe look into smoothing up some of the weirdness in 4 and 5.
>>64302803I think it's hard to explain to people used to Chernobyl what Kyshtym to like. It was one bang of heavy death poison. Everything not downwind in that hour or two after was fine(well ok not fucking fine, but not poisoned by this particular fuckup it was poisoned by some other fuckup), everything in that straight line left or died. Even IRL I'm preeeetttty sure people died at Berdyanish on account of the 'porridge meter' thing. Had the wind been blowing to Ozyersk(a big important city the Soviets would have been hesitant to evacuate that was even closer than Berdyanish) it would be even worse. If you put Kyshtym where Chernobyl is and had it blowing straight to Pripyat, Northern Pripyat would be 10 Rads an hour and southern Pripyat more like 20, not including Alpha or Internal.(Honestly I'm not even sure they included beta the original sources are vague and if not the real numbers are way worse) You wait a week to evacuate in those conditions and you're going to have fatalities. Russia basically crafted a gigantic 100 ton dirty bomb made of nitrate and atomic death salt and let it get nice and toasty, meanwhile the Yanks took one look at Texas City and decided to keep that stuff faaaaar away from the nuke garbage.
ITT: critique fictional vehicles
>>64291356Like many UNSC vehicle designs, it just needs doors.
>>64299688>The Army draws a significant distinction between heliborne and parachute mobilityI'm aware, and I hope from context it was clear I was referring to air assault.>At all a thingI was specific because there were some experiments in the Korean War and if I wasn't, someone was going to 'um ackshually' me.
>>64297012To be fair the scorpion's turret is completely automated and the entire vehicle is operated by one man in a relatively low position
>>64292899>MY BACK IS A CATHEDRAL YOUR HERESY IS INVALID
Is the Black Hawk as unsafe as it seems to be? They keep falling right out of the sky.
>>64300167Sanguine et flybrella
>Is flying (something that has never been naturally achieved by humanity) unsafe as it seems to be?Wow I could never guess the answer to this question. This question has no deeper meaning or context associated with it. None at all.
>>64300268>The PIC flying was a white maleFalse. Read the cockpit voice recorder transcripts.
>>64300667kek
>>64300675There was no statistically significant increase in plane crashes. That was just the media hyping every minor incident for like two weeks and then forgetting about it.
I'm looking at picking up my first handgun pretty soon, and I've been eyeing police trade-ins as I'm on a budget. At present, the most affordable pistol to me is a certified pre-owned Sig Pro 2340 in 357 Sig. What are the advantages of 357 sig as opposed to 40 smith? Should I look elsewhere? Thanks for reading.
>>64297835>he exception I suppose is if he's physically or mentally disabled.i.e abort the rubberbaby, post natal if needs be
>>64286054stop pretending to be christian.
>>64286054I don't know why a lot of faggots are getting triggered by this post, it's true! try living in san francisco for two fucking years and then you can preach to me about muh oppressed hobos
>>64285870Wait until 2028, newfag.
>>64286054Most "homeless" niggers you see on the streets are drug addicts. Their brains are fried and are practically animals and deserve to be treated as such. The real homeless are just dudes living in their cars already working some dogshit job to pay off debt.
Does the humble gladius have any place in modern combat? Do swords in general? What's your favorite sword?
>>64300422not helpful at all
>>64298969Could work in home defense possibly in some other niche cases when paired with a bullet proof shield, but I don't think that would ever become some kind of standard.
>>64298969That's a spatha though
>>64299061French* larping as that is a copy of a french swprd popular in the confeseracy.
>>64298969The best argument I've heard for gladius is that it's slightly shorter than arm's length so you can reach behind yourself to stab someone right in front of you.
/SGG/? I just got this new mossy and wanted to show her off. It absolutely fucks. Has all the or3gun upgrades, so I put it through its paces with a 500 round mini-torture test of mixed target, bird, and buckshot ammunition. No failures at all. I would like to get a lower profile red dot however. I was looking at the vortex enclosed shotgun red dot, or I may just get an RMR mount.
>>64260220FYI PSA is selling Beretta A300 Ultima Patrols for like $800. >seething because I paid way more than that
>>64298568Based
what's the 556 white box of the 12gage shotgun load? I saw some federal "defensive" load 5 shells for 6$ and I was like fuuuuck no lol
>>64302439https://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/fiocchi-defense-dynamics-12-gauge-2-3-4-buckshot-9-pellet-25-rounds?a=2323059
>>64302598it's white, it has to be red
Thoughts about CATOBAR Flankers? Had the USSR not collapsed, we could have already seen them operating from the Ulyanovsk Carrier in the late 90s...
>>64297855If they could pay former US/NATO pilots they can pay off former admirals, flight deck crayon shirt dudes and engineersThe only dudes they probably could not pay off even if yuan weren't an issue are submariners and those involved in nook reactors
>>64300476NTA, but i think it depends.I don't really believe the US ones would work for the PLA since they get pretty decent jobs after service.Now the Brits, yea no wonder they followed Chinese money, things are grim on that shitty island.
>>64301520They had multiple former F-16/F/A-18/F-18EF/Growler American pilots cashing in on the yuan until they got tipped off/warned and returned stateside
>>64301575Growler pilots doing that sucks. At least they didn't take the tech with them.
>>64294991
can you effectively suppress a 10MM pistol? Reddit is an uproar about this. Came here to see thoughts with the "radicals"
>>64288800You can put a silencer on anything, but Kentucky Ballistics broke his FN 510 by using a silencer with a Surefire WML and nuclear-tier Underwood ammo. I'm pretty sure he used the factory reaction spring as well. Basically the slide velocity overcame the ability of the plastic frame to flex due to the weight of the WML, which caused the frame forward of the trigger guard to break.
>>64289707in these types of boomer cope posts they always mention that the fancier, nicer, better performing gun is definitely NOT used, in this case the poster says "take it to the range 3 times a year"however, nothing is said about the simple alternative, which would be taken to the range much less often if at all.
>>64293130"Carted", not "continue with purchase". I guess I have some browsing to do.
>>64293959Sounds like he voided his warranty.
>>64293959>reaction springDO NOT REDEEM SAAR
a modernized version of bombing, more cost effective and scalable.google translated: 1. At the beginning of the development, it was not based on armored personnel carriers at all - but on unmanned robotic engineering bulldozers ("Panda").Later, the IDF stopped using bulldozers, and switched to using the outdated "Zelda" armored personnel carriers - outdated American armored personnel carriers that have been in use since the 1970s, and are in the IDF's inventory in large quantities (about 5,000 such armored personnel carriers without use).2. In the initial version of the development, the IDF would fill the "Zelda" with explosives, send the armored personnel carrier to some building complex that they wanted to blow up - and it would explode with all its explosives. It was indeed a "suicide" armored personnel carrier. In this way, about 20-30 Zelda armored personnel carriers were blown up last year.3. Later, the IDF's Ground Technology Brigade developed an upgraded version that does not require the APC itself to be blown up and destroyed.The brigade developed a special device in which a box containing a large amount of explosives is placed inside the APC - the APC drives it to the point that it wants to blow up in Gaza, the device drops the box there, the APC drives away, and only then does the box explode. This avoids the destruction of the APCs themselves, and they can be used repeatedly.4. The effect that detonating such an explosive box creates: equivalent to two heavy bombs from the Air Force. The goal - destroying buildings and neutralizing the charges inside them, so that afterwards - a force can enter the area and operate there when the threat of charges is reduced (although certainly not completely eliminated - and still exists!), and yet - a significant portion of the charges are supposed to explode as a result of the power of the explosive.
>>64289397Like from fucking Gears of War?>>64301548I don't like Israel, and frankly fuck it. I will never support the US giving them weapons, support, or intel. They are not our friends, and have done nothing to help the US except bribe our politicians and drop more bombs in the ME. Fuck off and leave us alone.Also, I have seen the US militaries attitutude to civillian deaths, ie, ignore, label them as "military aged males" and thus combatants, and Israel is 100x more lax on that than we ever would be. You are deluding yourself if you don't acknowledge that civilians are dying all over Gaza.
>>64302505Yes, civilians, to include insurgents. Since that's the definition of insurgent. It would be a lot more damning to Israel if you had the exact numbers of non-combatants killed by them.
>>64302519Insurgents are not civilian's dipshit, they are armed combatants, and your conflating of the two means your likely a IDF internet warrior. Fuck off.All I know is, Israel doesn't give a damn how many civilians die, and instead of being pussies about it just be honest. Not my war, I only wish our leaders felt the same.
>>64302586I'm looking for a definition of insurgency that excludes them from the civilian population and I'm not finding it. If you know where to find it, by all means, share it.
>>64297889>hey ahmed, can you show us the damage? we're trying to get a bda>no, you have to fly here and see it in personOf course random pictures also show up on telegram channels that "covert" the war, which is pretty strong evidence.
