Does anyone else see the IJA of WW2 as the cool bad guys?Everybody likes the wehrmacht, but I think the real cool bad guys is the Imperial Japan.
>>64468179Some counterpoints;>C6N>B7A>B6N>D4Y>Ki-84>Ki-61>J2M>N1K>Yamato class>Arisaka Types 38 and 99>Type 96 and 99 nambu LMG>Fubuki class DD and all its spinoffsComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I’ve always had a thing for the Japanese WW2 LMGs, the 96 and 99 were as good as any allied LMG, and the Type 11 while obsolete, was an interesting design>>64468493You forgot the type 89 knee mortar, which was also a pretty novel design
>>64468525The type 99 is hands down one of the best LMG's of the war. Better than the Bren, BAR, DP-27 etc. Also had a fucking bayonet.
>>64456544Nips were the bad guys that fought on the side of the good guys during ww2.
>>64468179Their ships were pure sex, regardless of their actual usefulness.
Ukraine needs more s-125s so that they can finally shoot down one of the su-57s that have been FABing them to the ground
>>64461770Glide bombs only have a range of 150km
>>64468717Yes? 150km for a dumb bomb from WWII with wings slapped to it counts as "super far".
>>64468724AMRAAM has a range of 180km, ukraine can theatrically shoot down those russian jets from within their own airspace
>>64460771Amazing how easy it is to date image macros just from the slang used
>>64468733Lol do you have any idea how AMRAAM works?First off, no AMRAAMs don't have a 180km range (at least nothing confirmed), and anything near the maximum range needs to be a highly lofted trajectory with basically zero kinematic performance once it reaches that range.It would also take an AMRAAM around 2 minutes of flight time to reach a target at/beyond 150km.This means you need a Ukrainian jet to be in the air, with an AMRAAM, have the Su-57 on radar track (either from the AMRAAM launch platform itself, or other sensor platforms like their SAAB AWACS) and be confident that the Su-57 isn't going to turn around in the next minute and a half.There is a higher chance of the Su-57 being downed by friendly air defence than a Ukrainian-fired AMRAAM. The only thing an AMRAAM is going to hit at 100+ miles is an AWACS, tanker, cargo plane, civillian airliner, or a fighter plane that has a pilot trying to commit suicide.
The Sharpest General on /k/ - Spooktober EditionThis thread is about the appreciation of knives and their design, their history, and the engineering and materials that are required to make a functioning blade."I want a knife recommendation."Answer the following:>Fixed or folding (or both (or neither))?>Intended use/misuse?>Blade length/girth?>Local laws to ignore?>You can afford this knife! Think of how much money you spend on food and water. Do you really need it? What about home heating? You can just turn it off and spend all that money on a knife! Do you really NEED to not freeze to death? Stop being a big baby, you can afford this knife!Resources:>Freehand sharpening guidehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWU_qTp3DLM Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>64466961A couple of red flags: it's an "unknown website," didn't even show up in image results when even this thread did, grammar errors. I'd only purchase from the manufacturer or a reputable dealer such as bladehq or knifecenter.
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>>64464338Oh fuck, a prototype. Congrats man! >>64466480That gun came straight out of an anime probably...
>>64463664How do you like the tops knife from “the hunted”?
Is she a historian or something? Or is she just a southern girl who likes shooting guns?
>>64466174>period techniqueDid she grow a penis or already have that?
>>64453458I can't dream of getting laid with a woman that doesn't share my niche joys and interests.
>>64464408>>64464422Mae is a cutie. Y'all have bad taste
>>64466635they are incel-tier retards with nigger-tier mentality, what do you expect from them
>>64465559This. Find a picture of megan fox from this year, that's her with the best makeup and plastic surgery money can buy and she still looks like a busted 40 year old stripper. I can't imagine how bad she looks walking around the house without makeup on.
China is one bad flood away from 1 billion dead. No nukes or bombs needed. Just one slightly above average rainy season on an already crumbling dam
>>64468049>zoom out>get like 5 more blocksI concede. My silly schoolyard tier insult was not founded in facts.
>>64467590Eglin shill is too obvious
They're building a much bigger one in Tibet near the border of bangladesh and myanmar.
>>64468599Would an Eglin shill say that Trump needs to use nuclear warhead stealth cruise missiles to cascade strike the entire chinese dam system and drown 600-800 million of those slant eye bug niggers?
>Chinashill makes falseflag thread>Starts ranting about 'eglin'Everytime.
Is it true that if you're using 10mm you don't need to practice trigger discipline?
>>64465708Has it not occured to you that there are multiple different people here.>It failed because it wasn't REAL 10mmI haven't said this, there are good 10mm loads out there.>It failed because they weren't REAL shootersI haven't said this in this thread, but yes, users can be weak. It's the same reason many revolver buyers will get a .357 Magnum handgun and only shoot .38 SPL out of it.>It failed because they weren't REAL 10mm handgunsPlenty of bad handgun designs have influenced the market. One of the reasons that 9mm took longer to get popular in the US was that the Browning Hi-Power couldn't take the hot loads that the Luger, Walther, and MP-40 could take without falling apart, so everyone here in the US thought it was a super anemic round.>>64465764 >Colt and their militant fudd loyalists insisting on shoehorning the cartridge into a frail and fragile borderline antique pistolThe first production 10mm guns were the Bren Ten (CZ-75 clone), not the Colt Delta Elite. The "antique pistol" had fewer problems than the new design.
>>64463968You called?
Reddit finger in general is a sign that you're deeply cucked.Pro-tip: don't shoot things that you don't intend to shoot.
>>64465708It never failed. 10mm is simply niche, and misunderstood. It's niche is full-size autoloaders, which have gone out of favor. But even in that realm it has to compete with 5.7, 9, 45, 460, ect. It's misunderstood because the majority of people think that the only appeal is the full power loads, which are both expensive and uncommon. The actual appeal to the cartridge is VERSATILITY. Just like 357/38 Special and 44 mag/44 special, you don't have to shoot the full power loads. You simply have the option. Also even the "weak" stuff(range loads are consistently slightly hotter than the comparable. 40 load, look it up nigger, god I hate that rumor)tends to shoot pretty nice due to the guns being a fullsize more often than not.And most guns can straight up shoot .40 without a conversion barrel.It's a good round. Unfortunately the fullsize autoloader niche is so small that anyone even bothering out of curiosity gets something more interesting.
>>64458183Fpbp
This guy is causing trouble in your neighborhood, and you have to take him down. What's your loadout?Hard mode: your gun choice is limited to civilian small arms you would find in a small town gun shop in 1978
I listen to what he has to say
Halloween franchise is only marginally less retarded than Texas Chainsaw Massacre.Assuming we're talking about 1987 movie, six-shooter was enough to temporarily incapacitate him. If you carry an axe, you could probably decapitate him.The Thorn timeline Michael is straight-up supernatural, so you're probably fucked.H20 Michael, the axe solution still applies (the only thing that saved Michael is off-screen plot armor of Resurrection being the shittiest movie ever, but it probably would've worked if not for the gayest niggerfaggot retcon ever)I barely remember RZ movies, so whatever.2018 continuity Michael is tough (bordering on horror plot armor bullshit) but still human. His eye never grew back and IIRC he still lost fingers, so dismemberment still works.tl;dr Michael is overrated as a threat outside of Thorn bullshit.
>>64467578Are you saying you wouldn't enjoy exploring that jungle?
>>64467482pretty good answer tee bee aycheven if he's "immortal," I'd like to see this little faggot do any kind of harm after he's been truly dismembered by concentrated fire of 30.06 through the limbs and spine
>>64467991>>64467737Do you feel embarrassed the next morning?
Is this the best pistol ever made under 1000 dollars?
>>64463610>Literally Google "CZ75 firing pin retaining pin broke" and you will find dozens of examples of them breaking, often under 600 rounds of "normal" usageYou used "literally," so now we know you're a plebbitor. Listen, I followed your advice and googled it, and after looking through multiple sites, I couldn't find a single example of it breaking at less than 2,000 from normal use and even those are treated like they are rare. Again, I'm not doing a "bad faith argument"; you're just a retard who believes the hyperbole of haters.
>>64462480?I bought one for cash in a home depot parking lot a few years back off of armslist. Did I score bigtime? I just like DA/SA pistols
No
>>64463180These are also better than OPBest modern pistols (top of the list) on the market to buy are HK 45 / P30, and the Px4 seriesfollowed by the CZ P-07/-09Grand Power
>>64465136People that take guns "to the shop" are so weird. If a person cant figure out how a Glock works then.... they might be low IQ, they're not even had to take a apart , down to the frame.... I have a friend who has his shop do everything for him, including trigger installs and im like bro WTF??? he cant even replace an AR-15 trigger but he shoots in IPSC matches regularly. Its so weird to me. He also cant install his own night sights, he just throws money at people.
I guess I'd have to rate this as GOAT weapon.1)weapon used by most decorated soldier of all time.2)sure there might be weapons with more history in more campaigns like Brown Bess, but I'd guess others like Frogs and Krauts had nearly same thing.3)Plus something like Brown Bess doesn't really "stand for" any particular cause, and that counts.4)Most iconic symbol of most iconic military of most iconic "movement".5)Sure like B-52 is longer lived, can drop big H-Bomb, but WTF does it stand for? Viet Nam, Cold War SAC, GWOT??? Plus, its really just like an airliner with a nuke, not much of a "weapon" itself.6)Unlike propaganda, Stuka not used to terrorize peasant women running across open fields, but was an unparalleled precision strike of most critical targets, and that counts.7)One of the few, if not only, weapons in front line service all during the biggest war in history. (if you don't count the tail end of WW2 against the Japs).
>>64464457>F4U-7 is better, as is the Yak-9Knobody except a war-nerd would have a clue WTF those are, or even know WTF nation (or even war era) they are from if show without markings.Every 1st grade teacher knows what "Stuka" means and could ID it from silhouette and it has a particular emotional impact.
>>64463934>it "stood for" something >it wasn't for murdering subhuman peasants, just a precision strike mechanism bro!Make up your mind Hellmut, you can't have it both ways.
>>64466828>I want to out myself as a wehraboo tourist even more than I already haveStrange flex
>>64466828>nobody except a war-nerd would have a clue WTF those areThey're famously toxic planes in War Thunder ground battles. That's the joke
It was a 'goat' weapon in the Wehrmacht's mind 1939. As it turned out in practice it was a mere accessory to offensive mechanized panzer operations (and even then only when air superiority was in effect).>>64466828>emotional impactThis is the totality of the Stuka that lasted its 15 minutes in historical retrospect. >OP 'few if only in front line service during entire war'P-38 Lightning satisfies that for the USAAF : was still in full production and on par with its corresponding direct adversary airframes in Sept 1945.Stuka was not a "front line" airframe during the last year of the war, it was being used for night bombing and last ditch Reich defense <--as were many obsolete airframes predating the Ju 87: it's called the kitchen sink. It had been declared unfit for combat operations in October 1943 and production + factory parts support ceased after mid-1944
how could they have won?1)Have some SS Kommandos LARP as "Spanish Nationalist Extremists" and take The Rock. Have Franco shit all over himself and promise to fix it, but say he can't control events if UK comes in shooting, so lets everyone just calm down, or Franco gets replaced with real anti-UK group and Spain officially links up with Germany.2)Contract with some neutral ships and scuttle hard to remove cargo in the Suez, and frame up anti-colonial Egyptians for it.3)Land UK branded small arms from Dunkirk in Palestine with U-Boat and give to The Jews.4)Land Soviet branded small arms in India and give to anti-colonists to re-start The Great Game in minds of UK.5)On NYSE, short companies that need shipping through the Med, and go long on shipping firms.All that would turn Med into Axis lake and end most trouble in Greece and Yugo, and give Rommel's end run to Russian oil a chance.Sure UK still has overwhelming surface fleet to force action up Red Sea and P, Gulf, but its 3x as long to sail around Africa as UK to USA.
Stop after grabbing the Sudetenland, accept that the economy is going to be utterly fucked by the MEFO bills scam collapsing. Endure going back to poverty until the Soviets eventually pour back into Poland, go in with the blessing of Poland and become heroes fighting against the power everyone on Earth hated way, way more at the time. Redeem your international reputation and be called Bismarck the second. Any other result leads to failure.But that's not going to happen, because Hitler is Hitler, and the German people want what they want. A lot of decisions that were stupid in retrospect made sense at the time. Anything else requires totally different thinking from people who just weren't that way.
>>64468406>MEFO billshadn't hear, interesting. Gee, with all the "Nazis were crooks" stuff being pushed, you'd think I'd have heard of this. Was this in fact maybe a very JEWISH program???Its sort of an unpopular opinion but Hitler seemed very unreasonable with the Danzig thing.Poland had just come out from being a German run land and he wants to cut off their only sea access of the measly 40 miles, and you know lots of Krauts were in newly reformed Poland whispering about "this so called Poland will be over soon and Berlin back in charge of these peasants".I heard Germany actually got a great deal on borders after WW1 when borders were mostly decided on language, and German would be the most used COMMON language in areas with several languages, so areas with minority Germans would end up as German Govt.He should told "any Germans in Poland can come to Germany, but we can't protect you in Poland" and build a few fast ferries and He-111 shuttles to hop to the Eastern territory without touching Poland.Be like US English in the Orient. It will be most common language among Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, Japan, S Korea and China.
>>64468387just Mussolini accepting Hitler's offer for a German tank division in Libya in the summer 1940. Suez would have been taken and the war would have been won automatically (infinite oil from the middle east, access to Africa and the Persian Gulf and so on). Churchill would have fallen and Chamberlain would have bargained a totally honourable peace for Britain. Happy ending for everyone except world Jewry.
>>64468387>1) Have some SS Kommandos LARP as "Spanish Nationalist Extremists" and take The Rock. Have Franco shit all over himself and promise to fix it, but say he can't control events if UK comes in shooting, so lets everyone just calm down, or Franco gets replaced with real anti-UK group and Spain officially links up with Germany.Just false flag as one of your (very, very few) allies and try to capture one of the most fortified positions on the continent! Surely this will go off without a hitch and not alienate a friendly power, giving the allies a foothold on the continent!>2)Contract with some neutral ships and scuttle hard to remove cargo in the Suez, and frame up anti-colonial Egyptians for it.Ah yes, lets just convince some neutral people to try and sabotage a vital supply line, which would mean certain death if they were caught. Also, what do you mean with "hard to remove cargo?" The Suez is big as fuck, it takes a lot to block it, and ships passing through are under surveillance. >3)Land UK branded small arms from Dunkirk in Palestine with U-Boat and give to The Jews.>4)Land Soviet branded small arms in India and give to anti-colonists to re-start The Great Game in minds of UK....this would help the axis how, exactly? Ignoring the logistical constraints that made especially the second point an impossibility, they tried something similar in Ireland (which was way more anti-anglo) and it didn't work, why would it work now?>5)On NYSE, short companies that need shipping through the Med, and go long on shipping firms.If they tried something like that, the US government would step in to tell them to fuck off (and also steal their money) and I'm not sure what this is supposed to accomplish either way if it did work.
how often was the .50cal jeep used in WW2?every rifle company had a jeep with .50cal on it in the weapons squad, but its officially meant for light AA dutydid they just drive the jeep to the frontline and keep the gun pointed at the sky or did they keep it in reserve and then drive it to the front when they got reports of enemy planes?
>>64468051>You are not going to drive away faster than the bullets chasing youyou can drive away much faster than you can run, so you can shoot and scoot
>>64468027All I know is there was one at Lanzerath ridge, because the unit traded in their war memorabilia to get one.
>>64468580Lovely map. Where can I find more? Tineye finds nothing.
>>64468585It's from this https://achillestheheel.com/2022/05/01/lanzerath/
>>64468589Thanks.
Was scrapping the F-14's the right call?
>>64466546I was under the impression, it's the Super Hornet that replaced those plane types. And the Super Hornet is quite a different aircraft from the original Hornet.
>>64466557hindsight is 20/20. Also you have to keep in mind that Dick Cheney played a part in forcibly killing the F-14 and A6 intruder by cancelling their modernization programmes to fuck over Grumman (he owned stock in a rival company o algo). The Super hornet was in many way completely different to the Legacy hornet (30-40% structural parts commonality) and they basically tricked congress into funding it by selling it as "hornet upgrade" instead of the functionally brand new aircraft it actually was hence the F/A-18E/F designation instead of a new one.
>>64466557in the 90s they got the Legacy Hornet and went on the whole super hornet tangent in >>64466605
It became an unnecessary money pit when the USSR ate shit and the US had nobody in the forseeable decades that needed a long range (capable), heavy missileer plane to combat against.In all other aspects besides novel intercept threats the hornet was already superior, and the already existing Super Bug more so. Dumping the F-14 secured finances for other necessities.>inb4 muh highway to the danger zoneThere's a point where the attachment to formative age experiences is a hindrance, and a grown man in his 30s should opine fondly yet readily advance from them.But Gen X is the most lead poisoned one, after all.
You can thank Dick Cheney for killing the F-14. Cheney had stock in McDonald Douglas. That's how you got the Super Bug to replace the Tomcat. The excuse is that Super Bug can use an existing airframe, when in reality only like 20% of the original F/A18 is in there. Grumman also tried to propose a super Tomcat in the same vein and was shot down.Cheney is also why they upgraded so many F-14As to F-14Ds. It certainly wasn't to save money as tearing an airplane apart just to put it back together wasn't saving the taxpayer much money, but it was killing Grumman's profits.So yeah, always thank Dick Cheney for killing the Tomcat and Grumman.
>want to go hunting>it’s raining>don’t want fun to rust>mfw
>>64466028based, im so sad im not going to be able to go birding this year.
>>64458392Gun-poncho.
>>64465269I got an bottle of his early stuff, I don't think anything's gone more than a year without re-oiling but there's never been any rust when I get back to it. I have a few >100 year old guns too, it's not all new stuff with near perfect finishes.
>>64466324I think I'm going to buy some of his oil this Christmas for sure. I feel bad because I've been saying I'd buy some pretty much since his first posts.
>>64458392Just get out there OP. It's a Spanish Mauser meaning it's a military rifle, meaning it's literally designed to be slung through the rain and mud still be fine
How does one company cause this much asshurt?
>>64455967Their I don't give a fuck negress customer service is the absolute worst in the industry.Morons will assert that a PSA is as good as x. Maybe your PSA is great but they are notorious for putting rifles together poorly. Crooked front sight bases. Incorrectly torqued barrels. Rough chambers. They do not put the same level of care and attention to detail into their guns as some other manufacturers.That said, they make inexpensive guns and many people are happy customers. I would buy a rifle from them, I'd just make sure to thoroughly test it before relying on it.
>>64467416problems abound, like out of spec picrails evidently
>>64456601California
>>64468312if i lived in california and tried to enjoy guns i think i would just kill myself
>>64466336KekYeah sure, buddy.
What are the advantages of vertically positioning the molle?
Yeah
Nothing, that's why it was literally only done on the Spear vest. In principle a horizonal mag pouch would be a good thing to have in a pinch, but retention in 1998 wasn't what it is nowadays (no kydex, no bungie pouches, no tacos or fastmags, etc) so it wouldn't be that practical in practice.