How viable are battlemechs as weapons of war?Does having legs make them too vulnerable?
>>64957440Power armor combat is more likely. As long as they fit indoors they're useful for door kicking ops. Think Infantry+. Mechs have a problem in that they don't really have a combat niche. Logistics and engineering niches, sure, but not really direct combat.
>>64952304Its supposed to be a sort of Styrofoam that is used on starships for micrometeroid strikes
>>64961773Maybe a similar principle, but that armor is extremely light and optimized only for super high velocity impacts. Conventional, slower weapons would actually be more effective.
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>>64952645>posts video of gameplay that doesn't reflect how BA actually operate in-universe
We are about to witness a battle of intermediate rounds vs regular.
>west seeks explanationProbably the same reason as the Turks, they retained battle rifles as a standard rifle; something to do with mountains.
Bout to witness my freshly shaved balls softly plopping into yiur open awaiting mouth.Oh.Oh?!You think I forgot?
>>64967869>the M7 was adopted merely for this fuckfestPlace your bets people, will it suck so hard congress tells the military to get rid of anything bigger than 5.56 across the whole board or will it work good enough that congress urges the military to dump anything weaker than 6.8 furry?
>>64967910I really don't think they had Iranian body armor in mind lmao
>>64967910The marines don't use the M7, so it wont play a significant role in any ground invasion.
Ukraine has been advancing again with a new tactic, massing 400+ FPV pilots on a small section of the front and advancing behind the slaughter.This isn't some fancy AI swarm trickery, just a shitload of optic fibre FPVs shreading anything that doesn't retreat fast enough.www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSFm2DTUIxA
>>64965784yes. It was said that Ukrainians essentially took the creeping barrage tactic and applied to to drones >Meanwhile cellphone coverage over Moscow is dead
>>64965646>This isn't some fancy AI swarm trickerywhy does this phrasing trigger me so much.
>>64966083So Kino
>>64965881Well it's also because, despite the criticism, air defence is way too powerful and effective for 4th gen aircraft to having meaningful offensive impact. If you don't have 5th gen, you relegated to a slow grind.
>>64965853The best part of artillery is that its mostly unstoppable and has always been relatively accurate with high rates of fire. Plus you get the fun of cluster, extended range and airburst munitions which will shit up people's day.Drones are really getting quite close though, there's stuff like the Firepoint 1 and 2 series of drones which are carrying a massive charge onboard and capable of fucking up a lot of stuff from very far away. The next generation of those types of drones using military satellite guidance could potentially be a huge deal as they're much harder to jamBiggest pain for artillery has always been its comparatively expensive, fairly heavy and requires a fair bit of precision engineering, that does mean it lasts quite a long time and it can live in a warehouse, get busted out decades later, polished up and put into service fairly quick if you need it.
Continuing a quesion I had last thread. Have any anons made their own composite stocks? I'm newish to resin but have all I need to make molds. I'm mostly bubble-free at this point in molds. Whether that changes if I switch to using urethane or tin cure silicone for molds we'll see; I've yet to try those but urethane seems to be the way to go for stiffer large molds. >>64926639Found some old carbon arrows I got from god only knows where. Thinnest and shortest seem to be the stiffest but you're right; they're still flexible over a long enough distance. Dense urethane foam with a fiberglass coat may be the best option yet.Previous: >>64876900
>>64933822bros, does anyone have the Journal of Forensic Sciences article "Fatal .45–70 Rifle Wounding of a Policeman Wearing a Bulletproof Vest"? I am referring to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7097213 but I can't find a pdf for it. I read the article once (well, I'm pretty sure it was this one), and the gist of it was: >The only confirmed case for fatal back face deformation >Police officer wearing the equivalent of NIJ Level II vest >Gets hit by .45-70 >Surprisingly, the bullet does not penetrate the vest >Unsurprisingly, it results in 100 millimeters of back face deformation >Officer dies a pretty brutal death Thought I had it bookmarked. I know I didn't pay for it. On a similar note, what would be some brutal things to get shot with while wearing NIJ Level IV (I guess they're RF3 now) plates? Like 9mm would be laughable, 30mm would instakill you regardless of your armor, what's an awful middle ground that would leave you probably alive but kinda wishing you weren't?
>>64967318>>Surprisingly, the bullet does not penetrate the vestThat's not surprising at all. Unless this was some super-spicy Ruger-only handload .45-70 is not a very serious threat to armor. The average .45-70 load is a soft-pointed hunting bullet with pretty low velocity, and with that amount of backface deformation it sounds like it aaaaaaalmost penetrated.
Is there anything illegal about putting signs that say "DANGER LANDMINES" or "DANGER UNEXPLODED ORDINANCE" on your private property to deter thieves? I know it's illegal to actually place landmines or boobytrap things, but you can put a "TRESSPASERS WILL BE SHOT" sign and there's nothing wrong with that.
How do you start working on guns? I want to learn how to modify stuff like AR-15s and revolver internals.
>>64967318Does .50 BMG have too much ass on it to get stopped? I feel like I've heard of youtube shitters demonstrating Level IV plates stopping .50s, but I'm too lazy to double-check that. I figure even if it does stop it though, you're gonna feel that immediately, and then feel it even worse the next morning.
How long until they get its stealth engine completed?
>>64967150Didn't notice; will sudoku later. I assumed it was some Iranian project.
Prototyping now sohttps://theaviationist.com/2025/12/22/su-57-new-izdeliye-177-engine/>>64967082
>>64967079I can't wait for this thing to be unreasonably overpowered in warblunder.
>>64967079>grown ass men will look at that body shape, look you straight in your face and say that's not stealth
This thing is pretty ingenious and nifty.Basically a drone that loiters for 100km and carries a AAM. It has shot down at least 11 Reapers/Hermes over Iran and possibly brought down the KC135 too.This truly is a new concept.
>>64967313I still remember how you could resize the brush size in Gimp + and - in steps of 0.01 pixels not even joking. Took them even a few years to notice and realize how dumb that is and change it. Bonus:>Edit bmp file>save newpicture.jpg>you can't do that>you need to save as...>*eyeroll* gimp mascottThat is what you get when something is made by people as a hobby who actually never use it.
>>64966710I like the cut of your jib anon. My only wish is that watch on the sidelines as the hebs, golems and moon worshipers blow the crap out of each other. >>64967046>(Israelis and UAE are not innocent civilians)But he's right.
>>64966455>not a single interceptor upthey really bled them white, didn't they?
>>64967212You are shilling right now, kind of crazy right
>>64966545do you shave your hands and arms? its unsettling
Post what you got.
>>64961715It's especially funny seeing changs shed their crocodile tears about slavery given their history
>>64964366For the Chinese, social propriety (i.e. political correctness/party line) always takes priority over truth.
Guys I need the WEBM where you have some guntuber on the range.They have a tommy gun, a whip, pistols and WWII outfit think.I need it to illustrate the next range session to my buddy
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>>64961715SLAVERY
Is there a way to modernize the classic wide-brimmed helmet?
>>64963916>he doesn't know about the bombers flying around inside the hollow Earth
>>64946191ok faggot, put on a trip so I can filter your stupid assmake sure to add "gayfaggot" to your name too so others know who the fuck they are talking to
>>64945149Full Metal Sombrero
>>64963916>The inertial impact triggers of WWI artillery shells would detonate above ground level I don't have it in front of me but i believe injury studies post WWI were one of the reasons why everyone but the bongs went away from the Brodie helmet. It may be apocryphal or just because it didn't help or protect the ears/side of the skull enough, but a brim to funnel shrapnel into the brain was one of the reasons for no tactical kettle helmets.
>>64945040https://youtube.com/shorts/wbgneex9k5Q
DDG(X) planned features:>Aegis Combat System Baseline 10>Growth margins in space, weight, power, and cooling>Integrated propulsion system>Reduced detectability>Anticipated armament: 64 Mk.41 plus 12 GVLS (single packed with hypersonics)>Anticipated cost: $4.4BDDG-1000 existing features:>Growth margins in space, weight, power, and cooling>Integrated propulsion system>Reduced detectability>Actual armament: 80 Mk.57 plus 4 APM (triple packed with hypersonics)>Actual cost: $4.3B including $700M spent ripping out the AGSes (cost of building and installing them originally also included in the $4.3B but not in the $700M retrofit) to install hypersonic payload tubesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64967827>spend billions on a destroyerExcept now it costs x2.25 in Biden bux.
>>64967838Take it up with the Navy. Burke Flight III is the official replacement for the Ticonderoga.
>>64967863The only difference between them is in software nowadays
>>64967915They run mostly the same software. The big problem is that the Tico's radar is over 50 years old.
>>64964294Id fund it but then again I'm drunk af and my wife is arguing with me because I admitted Giselle is the hottest woman on the planet and I'd like to be married to her instead. Women are so gassed up rn they think a 10/10 woman worth half a billion is beneath them.
I don't lurk this board often but how come nobody's talking about the War in Kivu?There were so many kino moments>romanian mercenaries captured fighting for congo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx7m-Cn55ZY>Kagame saying "I don't know" when asked if Rwandan Defence Force soldiers were in Congo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW36WN7q7cc>SADC peacekeepers withdrawing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdzNZsK_uH0>bombing at m23 rally in goma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3D8T9Ic_QI hope Kagame marches all the way to Kinshasa. It's hard to find good footage of the real situation though.
>>64965312>single person to benefit from 4chan everrespect, anon
>>64966337TL;DR, Congo is a centralized govt controlling what is Africa's central Asia-stan region where it isnt so much a concrete country as it is a land formed because it is NOT part of other countries. So tons of tribal shit. Meanwhile, post Rwandan genocide, Paul Kagame who came to power in Rwanda shortly after, has made Rwanda into a sort of lib-right but authoritarian state government wise. But impact wise, Rwanda is one of the safest most developed states in central Africa. But to do that, it requires resources both internally and as effectively payment or bribery to the major Western and Eastern powers. So while DRC does have so loose a control of its territory that you could use it as casus belli for attacking them alone, most people can see the realpolitik reasons Rwanda is going after strategic locations in Congo. It's a mess but frankly in Kagame's shoes, I'd do the same. Congo is less of a country than tribal confederations during the 18th century in North America and it is always going to be a drain on surrounding countries, at best, or allow insurgency factions, terrorist groups, black market trade, etc. pass through unless they all build a 100' tall wall around the entire border of Congo. It needs to change and I can't blame the people living next to it for at least recognizing what it is and trying to get something out of it.
>>64959254i read about it its like the wild west but with ak 47 and africans. no real state control because congo is a shithole. its been in civil war state since independence so at this point is just a seasonal thing. congo should really just disolve at this point they have been trying to build a state for 80 years? and keep failing at it
>>649653124chan IS addictive short form social media brainrot, just less pervasive because we call each other niggers and autists instead of making schizo video edits about itto elaborate on >>64962748; I realised that the study of informal logic is what is missing from nearly all levels of current academia, despite being the very basis of knowledge. the current system just does not teach neither children nor adults how to reason, period. even at the highest level of doctoral study, most people just learn and practice it by empiricism, i.e. trial and error. which is part of the reason for the vast amount of shitty "research" that is published (no doubt much of it is intentional bullshit, but there is also tons of well-meaning but misguided nonsense.)and it is an integral reason for a few key sociological factors described above; the pervasiveness of propaganda and conspiracy theory, as these are always illogical and unreasonable, but nobody can identify propaganda and conspiracy because nobody has been taught how to reason; susceptibility to AI and social media brainrot, because LLMs and influencers sound amazingly compelling when you're unable to identify the illogical bullshit in what they're saying; and the rewriting of history, because dittotherefore anons, if you wish to mentally arm yourself with the skills against all these: learn and practise informal logic.
>>64967846What this anon said is correct, he has a very well developed understanding of game theory and basic human nature. He is correct in almost every way and you should make it life lesson to absorb what he is saying. I'm sure this post will be ignored so i'll go back to thinking about sucking on Kim Yo Jong's toes like they were tiny nibblets of corn while she diciplines me...
There is no way this POS costs that much or even the $10K some sources claim. Everyone and their mothers are building their own variants and somehow it still costs them an arm and a leg. Anyone over /diy/ can build you one for less than $5k.
>>64967753We already have half a dozen different cruise missiles for that.
>>64967753I thought about this due to the other thread on an Iranian drone-launched anti-air missileif you want speed and "snappy takeoff" you need to bolt a rocket-assisted takeoff on to a LUCAS. go back to the very first US surface-to-air missile, the BOMARC. it was basically a primitive jet plane with a couple of rocket motors for very-short-takeoff that would drop off after burnout.
>>64967312>I'm dumbWe know.>>64967346>I'm also dumbWe know.
>>64967889>you need to bolt a rocket-assisted takeoff on to a LUCASHow do you think LUCAS is launched?
>>64967892good pointhigher impulse rocket then
What is the worst military “advice” you’ve ever seen?
>>64933397The Ukraine war exposed so many retards it's insane
>>64958530>One of my friends spent like 5 years in the navy and they're paying him literal thousands every month for the rest of his life for "PTSD and bad knees". Doesn't seem like that bad of a deal to me.I guess it depends. If he actually has PTSD and bad knees, thousands every month might not be worth it.
>>649366284 years already where does the time go?
>>64961448He's a washed up D list sci fi author who is mostly famous for a couple viral tweets. The remnants of the online Opie and Anthony (defunct radio show) community decided to pick on him because they were bored and discovered that he never ever backs down from people trolling him ever and they've been at it for like 6 or 7 years now.He's /k/ related I guess because he's kind of a stereotypical "liberal gun owner" and there's gifs out there of him shooting guns while his tits jiggle from the recoil. Sadly, I never saved them.
>>64952128I seriously hope the US suffers a series of catastrophes just so I won't have to talk to such indignant faggots anymore. They're so annoying.
'Sup, /k/? I'm doing a fishing trip in April to the Northwest and I hope to grab some chinooks in Oregon. What's the best way to filet these for consumption? Do I have to cut away the rotors or can I skip that step?
>>64967189Wonder if the extra volcanic minerals in the water improved the flavor.
why is the chinook the sexiest of helicopters
>>64967206It just is.>ywn be a doorgunner on a Chinook gunship during the Caracas YoinkeningWhy live?
>>64967193>Wonder if the extra volcanic minerals in the water improved the flavor.retardsalmon are born in a stream, swim to the ocean, grow in the ocean, return to their stream to spawn and die
>>64967804Yes and no. There are lake-dwelling salmon populations that hang out in fresh water all their lives.
Post boom-booms, big and small
The Dutch Navy operated the most advanced naval AA-system for a short period in 1941. A self-contained, triaxially stabilized, radar assisted double barreled 40mm Bofors gun. This was at a time that Bismarck worked with single shot 37mm guns.
>>64967782>A self-contained, triaxially stabilized, radar assisted double barreled 40mm Bofors gun.Hot damn, that is pretty advanced for its time. I searched for more info and found a wiki page about ithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazemeyer_gun_mount
Do spies use these?
>>64959789Sadly no. They use wine glasses, cameras and microphones.
>>64959890Best i can do is a two dimensional image.What else ya got?
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>>64959789>>64967408What's the legality of shooting someone with a dart gun in an otherwise valid civi self defense situation? Do the contents of the dart matter?
>>64959789lol no, only zoos and animal sanctuary workers use tranqs in real life, without knowing the weight, temperament and general health of the target it's near impossible to get the correct mix of chemical to put someone down in a relatively short time amount of time without actually killing them
