Merry Christmas you beautiful anons!If you haven't received your package, please submit an email to me and we will start tallying the late arrivals, and then sorting between folks who are likely to get theirs in the next few days vs those who the dreaded USPS has lost forever. We will be dispatching the Grinch Relief Corps (GRC) as needed to remedy. Send grinch relief applications to wendigohunter at protonmail dot comthread theme: https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU?si=--taGzS1BwZ1KnRTold thread>>64643227
Woah, this looks pretty based. I have seen this thread before, but I never really paid it much mind. QRD on what's going on and hopefully I can catch it next year. Guns and militaria are my winter hobby, so I'm not on /k/ much during the warmer months.
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>>64703031But what's the best watchlist to be on?
>>64702941lurk moar
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Thoughts about the Sedgley OSS .38? Could a modern day version be made in 9mm?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgley_OSS_.38
>>64702466>>64702550Those shotguns have unlimited shotgun ammo...
>>64702620Supposedly they were gonna use 20ga but they couldn't figure out the scripting to make it work. Plus I imagine having to reload your melee weapon wouldn't be very fun
>>64701908Weren't most of them actually issued to Seabee bulldozer drivers, because they were having trouble with Japanese infiltrators jumping onto their dozers and stabbing them before they could grab any other kind of weapon? Instead of getting stabbed before you can unholster your .45 you can just punch-shoot the fucker in the face right away.
Almost as retarded as this gem
>>64702383>I don't care what caliber it's in, I want one.30mm HE, as long as you livestream it.
Su-27 is the peak of aircraft design
>>64705205still a zigger game that got caught tampering with numbers numerous times in favor of zigger gear.
It's a disgusting piece of commie shit
Actually it's the mig31/f15/j-20All that matters is top speed, radar and missile range. More top speed is more energy imparted to the missile while means more range and NEZ
>>64705214It's still a game : you gotta balance it somehow or you end up with a single winning strategy that reduce your game to a very unchallenging puzzle.But yeah, Su-27's IRL performances in conflict have been limited to being missile taxis and not very good ones at that so hard to judge if they are worth the hype / the infamy.
>>64705299>you gotta balance it somehowyeah, by adding hidden modifiers to soviet tanks to bounce off shells better or nerfing non-soviet shell types...kys shameless pidor
And artillery.Jeep willys vs vw kubblewagon.
>>64705097So by that logic the T-55 is the best tank and the AK is a better small arms platform platform than their competitors?
>>64704050The Jeep wasn't considered a good automotive design, I recall.
>>64704050The Kubelwagon didn't live up to German standards for offroad performance, just saying
If you put the Jeep top on, General Patton would have punched you, so the Kubelwagen would have been a better staff car with a cabin that could protect from the wind and rain.
>>64705059I'd expect useful and adaptable go into something like towing not road performance.
Happy New Year /K/ With the cold fronts coming in its time for a /k/omfy /k/ryptid thread. Discuss your load out for facing these beast what beast live in your area ? Defense and tactics against Your experience
I love these threads but I'm so shit at meaningfully contributing to them, some anons set the tone so well I really end up just reading greentexts.Anyway, probably my James Earl Jones gun
Bumping with interest
This. Need advice.
>>64704146No body is gonna like this but 5.56 is perfectly adequate for dealing with sasquatch/skinwalkers as these are fundamentally human sized targets and 5.56 should be able to do more than enough damage to them to at least get them to fuck off. I'm skeptical of stories about skinwalkers being immune to gunfire if the bullets aren't coated in white ash, it would be like if they were immune to the laws of physics if you hit them with a baseball bat super hard, like they wouldn't flinch at all. Not buying it, 5.56 should be adequate to at least get them to fuck off l. Maybe it won't kill them, but it'll give them a bad day. For sasquatch it should be fine, like shooting a big human
What was he doing on the night of the Eggnog Riot of 1826?
>>64701273heh
>>64701034>>64701063>>64701147I find it so weird that Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson until like literally current year were held up as being better than the rest of the confederates and honorable and not racist even though they both owned slaves. But at the same time Virginia and the south in general's place in pre-civil war American history is kind of suppressed and under represented unless you want to >muh 1619 bullshit while Plymouth and Massachusetts are pushed as>the founding place of America muh Mayflowereven though Virginia was more important in the 1700s and most of the early presidents were from Virginia and the southern campaign had a lot of patriot victories
>>64705106>I find it so weird that Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson until like literally current year were held up as being better than the rest of the confederates and honorable and not racist even though they both owned slaves.It is a lot more complicated and have to take into account the laws of the time. Lee had made provisions already that all his slaves should be made free on his death which is not something people could argue with but would have had problems with if he did it before death. Jackson was teaching black people to read and write when at a time when that was considered illegal. He got away with it as he cited it was a religious right i.e. everyone should be able to read the bible.As a result their actions are seen more in line with an abolitionist movement but having to deal with the bullshit of that era.
>>64705127have you read Jackson's wikipage?>taught a black to read in exchange for torch wood so he could read at night. the black used the ability to read to escape>ran a church where he preached to black people that slavery was good and was a local celebrity among blacks>multiple black people asked him to buy them and their family and one slave stayed with him until he died and cried when he died another stayed with his wife instead of leaving>made come comment about making sure you discipline them hard enough the first time there won't be a second time
>>64701034Writing angry letters about Catholic immigrants while everyone else partied.
Are you prepared for Nuclear War? How do you even deal with widespread radiation? Apart from going south to Argentina
>how do you deal with widespread radiationfirst it wouldn't be widespread, even in a mass exchange outside of major population centers that take direct hits not much to do. if you happen to be a mile or three from ground zero and get heavy fallout, go to the basement pile mass around any windows, duct tape windows and doors and don't go outside for a week or two. if you aren't a zoomie who got the temu special version of US education you know about exponential decay, 90% of the problem is gone in a few days. driving further away is probably better but might not be viable. The common sense of having some backup food, water, basic meds, and a gun is a super power in today's world.
>>64683800not as much as I ought to be. Live out in the boonies away from any military installation, and my house's structure should be sufficient to deal with the radiation. Don't have an air-filter though. Decent amount of supplies, but not sure if they're enough, plus i'm lacking in certain areas (no iodine pills, or dosimeter). Also need to figure out a system of safely growing edible mushrooms off of sterilized human waste, just to be on the safe side as far as food goes.
>>64702842>just taking out the US's retaliatory capabilities, also called the nuclear sponge would take most of both Russia and China's nukesNeither Russia nor China stand a chance at eliminating our second strike capability. Forget the missile fields out west, just our subs alone could glass every Russian or Chinese city worth a name. Unfortunately, while this makes any sort of nuclear strike less likely, it means that if they do decide to pull the trigger then they've got no choice but to launch a countervalue strike.
>>64683800I hope the russkies drop a nuke on "my" leftist shithole city. It would be the best thing. If I see the flash of light, then I would be happy knowing all of the lefty trash was about to be removed. I would not even care about myself dying.
>>64683828I hate women so much it's unreal. Stupidest thing any country or civilization could do is give these useless meritless fomoids a vote. Second stupidest thing would be having the useless meritless femoids in the military.
Do the upper echelon military dudes continue to train with firearms throughout their careers, or would they be completely useless in a fight?
>>64691064uselesstoo busy arguing semantics and diddling kids
>>64691064>Do the upper echelon military dudes continue to train with firearms throughout their careers,They do.>would they be completely useless in a fight?They would be useless.t. knower
>>64691085>if they are running around shooting dudes on the ground instead of the rest of the soldiers seems like you've fucked upThey are the highest ranked and most expensive units, so usually you'd send them in with a medic and several less expensive units to avoid the elite one from getting focused down.
>>64691124Same reason they don't train the guys in the missile factory to hold the line in a firefight: if the enemy is that far into the backline then the war is already over.
>>64691064They just end up training with bigger and better firearms.
I was watching Ken Burns's Vietnam War doc, and there's this story where a guy takes a chest wound and seems to be left to die for hours because no one thinks he's got a chance, and he pulls through.Why do some people manage to survive severe injuries, whereas others die? Like how 50 Cent got shot 9 times, and somehow survived, whereas some other guy can get shot once and dies in minutes.
>>64704048I thought he zunied his carrier deck
>>64704006https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/this-marine-survived-a-shot-from-a-50-cal-at-point-blank-range/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alvin_Beckwith
If a bullet doesn't hit any major arteries or organs lethality drops way down for obvious reasons. If you peruse some of the scientific literature the most survivable gun related injuries are those to the extremities i.e. the arms and legs, injuries to the abdomen after that, then your thorax, and finally the worst place to receive a gunshot injury is to the head. Place with more important stuff = worse your chance of surviving when you get shot there.A lot of it is also just luck of course. One of the places 50 Cent got shot in was his face and it just punctured through his cheek and fragmented into his tongue without doing much significant damage.
Phineas Gage seems pretty hard to beat here, at least for single-injury affairs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
>>64704006Some guy survived a metal rod going through his head, but it changed his personality and turned him into an unhinged asshole kek. Sometimes blows to the head can give people abilities like becoming a genius over night, being much better at learning languages or in this case being a based mofo who gives no fucks whatsoever.
Based Canada
>>64669324Canadians are Eurotrash talk a lot, but always buy almost nothing. Canada does not even use its current subs. Canada also constantly lies, double deals, cancels programs, despite the same retards in office. In other words, doubtful Canada will ever buy anything. Just a tire kicker wondering around the car lots trying to get attention. German industries are probably used to it, because Germany and all of the other yuros do the same.
>>64669411We (the USA) do not want Canada. I'm sure the land is great, but the people are useless and retarded.
>>64704627>Implying your next coalburner president won't be larping a water war northward on the advice of his jeeta wifeSee you soon fuckass
>>64704583>UK shape You mean the tall figure-of-8 one? It's more efficient in terms of internal volume, since a perfect circle has a fair bit of dead space (because equipment can't always be packaged into a pizza slice cross-section). It's not as streamlined, but that's not a particular concern with SSKs, since they can't really hit (or sustain) very high speeds anyway.
>>64705130rumors are 212nfs AIP might allow sustaining 10-11 knots for extended period, 212cd should be even better, owing to its larger displacement.ofc, thats like creep speed for SSN, but modern SSK has come a long way from cold war diesel electric boats that can only submerged for a few days to a week at mostbelow is a blog about improved aip on 212nfs>https://svppbellum.blogspot.com/2020/05/u212-nfs-per-la-martina-militare-nuove.html
Which is better? Steam or Electromagnetic Catapults?
>>64701531Stop enshittifying the thread
>>64704951I wonder how the drones would land back on the ship. Also how many drones would fit and how would they load them onto the launcher.
Counting the ones on the dock and on the deck, there would be 6 CCA + 1 recon UAV for that container ship, which can still carry 24 VLS (the dedicated arsenal ship carried 60) launchers while only displacing 5000 tons. Larger container ships will be able to carry even more I bet, since they're larger than even supercarriers...
If china had truly solved all the bottlenecks of a survivable, high sortie DC launcher, we would see other derivative technologies in exports. We'd see chinese railguns, maglev hybrid launches ect. ect. I dont think either side has a fully mature system (like steam) because there hasn't been enough time. However if I were to make a choice, I would choose AC because of the corrosion issues. With DC one side is permanently anodic- meaning the metal atoms continuously oxidize .... pitting, erosion and contact burnthrough ect. You would have to constantly maintain the system. Maybe if they used an insulating fluid that could also work as cooling - but who knows, we might get to figure out whose is best in 2026! :D the US launched the x-47b off a carrier in 2013 from a traditional steam catapult so im gonna put my money on the americans for the most mature tech.
>>64705211About that: https://www.twz.com/news-features/is-this-chinas-truck-mounted-drone-launching-electromagnetic-catapult-systemhttps://www.twz.com/sea/chinese-cargo-ship-with-electromagnetic-catapult-to-launch-advanced-combat-drones-emerges
These beauties need to be shown a lot more love.
>>64703359>25 stacks of 12 round for a total of 300 roundsWould be amazing, if the heat buildup didn't cause them all to start cooking off
>>64702579>>64703359That's not detailed at all, go ahead and tell me how it feeds then. Or how the 'cassette' works.
>>64698883They did a really bad job at differentiating firearms in the original Black Ops. Especially the SMGs since a bunch of them had the max firerate of 937.5 RPM and a nearly identical damage model.
https://youtu.be/szz7PZPMYXg?si=ZmfDXyTRV0xYgYwNRussian guy made his own replica
>>64704024Not him, but its literally just a block of magazines stuck together. The rounds even have their feed order on them in that diagram.Each magazine presents a round to the top row, and the "feeding lever" pushes the entire top row along, loading the front-most round. It then cycles back far enough to let the last magazine push up a new round, and repeats. So it does the first row, then all of the rear-most magazine, and then the second rear-most, etc. until the entire casette is empty. You then swap the entire casette.Honestly its pointless and LSAT was right to just use polymer belt links for their CL spiral same as their CT spiral.
How effective were these things?
>>64705176Anon, it's *Egypt*. They don't have a fuckload of forests to just get nice strong wood from whenever they feel like.
>>64705182even on the fucking moon bronze castings are orders of magnitude more expensive than wood, idiot.
>>64705144https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zywq-Gysw8Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8svNN8saeU
>>64705200That line of reasoning is obviously incorrect, given that we have proof of exactly that, namely a skeletonized all-metal war hatchet, rather than a hafted one (which would theoretically use less metal).
>>64705208we have both, since one evolved from the other and subsequently fell into obscurity again. as to why it appeared it could be many things from durability to a status symbol to whatever else but it's utterly retarded to assume it's because casting the thing out of bronze was easier than to find a wooden shaft.
What’s the best gun for hunting polar bears?
45-70, the only Govt you can trust, it’s also good for cape buffalo
>>64704076yeah, I love shooting "cape buffalo" when they're trying to cut the catalytic converter out of my Honda Odyssey. 45-70 really does a number on them.goddamn buffalos.
>>64700780what is it with austrian and handguns?first Luger, then Glock, and now Pfeiffer Zeliska is the biggest Revovler in the world?what are they compensatin´?
>>64678265is that the show about homosexuals crusting on a boat in the artic?
>>64705181It involves sailors yes?
How would you arm and operate a small squadron of rebel troopers in 3 ABY?
>>64698034Rockets in star wars are like rockets in the fucking revolutionary war most of the time.
>>64677901I wouldn't
>>64698034Stormtrooper armor was probably decent against bullets and shrapnel.
>>64677901Dramatically increase the number of anti-tank weapons available per company (preferably per platoon). That or train them in improvised ways of destroying AT-ATs that don't consist of CIRCLING THE FUCKING THING WITH A CABLE.Seriously, just about any one of those Rebs could have, with proper timing, replicated Luke Skywalker's stunt with a grappling gun, a plasma torch, and a thermal detonator. Even the fucking Ewoks were stacking AT-STs with logs.
>>64677901Defective equipment sold at premium prices. Cause fuck the Rebel scum.
