In the preparation for the upcoming Indonesian Independence Day today, an ecosystem of war birds has been displayed full force. A true "Tale of Twenty-two Cities," where American F-16s sit tail-to-tail with Russian Su-27/30s, British BAE Hawks, South Korean T-50s, and French Rafales.
>>65440556>Are AWACs still needed in the age of space-based assets?If you don’t have any space based assets then yes, Indonesia has neither
>>65440922wrong
>>65441122All communications satellites though?
I need a refuel
>>65441122>The Laotians are up to something
besides firebombing tokio or nuking japan. it common for drone teams to have 1000 kills with 0 looses. what we can learn from that?
>>65440274You make illegal explosives every time you fart anon
>>65441577AI was trained by my decades of shitposting on internet forums.It is very easy to get a high kdr if you're a support weapon that somebody else calls in. You're not even the recon guy some other poor bastard has their life at risk and you sweep in and kill what they found. Of course you're getting a lot of kills and of course you're not dying because that poor grunt already took the risk for you.The only way drones are different is that drones can patrol and find their own targets without the grunt needing to call.
>>65444073>make a goofy-ass science class bomb>it maybe lights one person on fire
>>65444909I'm sorry to dissapoint you but those kills go to the guy who called in ypir fire support.>see Call of Duty
>>65440232>Goalposts sprinting for the horizonAre these anti energetics nu-k posts just bot posts? Tbh it'd make a lot of sense
If there was a real life Dinosaur Crisis what weapons would you use?
>>65443169Impressive, but check this
>>65438064>/k/ isn’t the right place to discuss animal anatomy.The skinwalker fuckers in /akg/ - /a/nimal fuc/k/er /g/eneral would certainly disagree anon
Isn't there a distinct possibility that with the evolution dinos were going through you would have eventually had fully sentient dinogirls?
>>65441257>air joustingThe fuck?I thought dinotopia was some kinda hippy fantasy where everyone lives in harmony and all humans are vegetarians.>>65444586Dinos were too successful. They didn't need to get any more smarter than they already were and just size maxxed from a certain point. They were already uncontested rulers on land and with birds evolving they'd have taken over the skies even without the space rock killing all the pterosaurs.
>>65444637>I thought dinotopia was some kinda hippy fantasy where everyone lives in harmony and all humans are vegetarians.Doesn't mean people don't like to have a little fun. The lance is padded and they are wearing parachutes.
Whats stopping drone operators from slotting a rocket launcher on their drone and turn your expensive immobile anti drone thingy into scrap metal from standoff ranges?
>>65444773Rudel would strongly disagree
>>65444601Everything comes back to the predator
>>65444775Everyone else would agree
>>65444879Rudel has the receipts to prove you all wrong
>>65444601Nothing.
You know, I’ve given it some hard thought.I think ultra cheap guided munitions (otherwise known as drones) make nukes obsolete now.Hear me out.Nukes are messy, expensive, and there’s no actual evidence that their use in a war would be decisive or even meaningfully accelerate a surrender or peace deal.There’s only one weak correlation with the surrender of a very exhausted Japan, which many have debated that the surrender was actually caused by factors other than the nukes.Correlation isn’t necessarily causation, especially with a sample size of one.Really for evidence of something’s ability to end a war, you need a war that is started and ended quickly. For me my chosen example would be the US invasion of Iraq. The military defeat and surrender was wrapped up extremely quickly. Mostly by US jets dominating the air and using precise strikes on nodes of command, communications, and logistics until Iraq surrendered. In fact the US got kind of fancy with it using graphite bombs on power stations to keep them in-tact. They were being careful not to completely send the country to the stone age because they thought it would make the occupation and nation building afterwards much easier. Implying that this capability could easily do that.In the modern day, even poorer countries like Ukraine can get close to the same kind of long distance strike capability, but on a massive discount.The current Iran War is another example of cheap strike drones disassembling the nodes of industry and logistics.And since these countries aren’t playing “good cop” like the US was in Iraq, they can cause as much damage as they want.Each of these examples has been more damaging than a nuke in sum, both strategically and economically speaking.(1/2)
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>>65434598>Hague Declaration
What if Fayetteville arsenal made a trapdoor rifle instead percussion system while its Richmond model counterpart was a needle rifle similar to Prussian and Greene one?
>>65433877Nah the final future is nuke power drones with nuke warheads
>>65433877>there’s no actual evidence that their use in a war would be decisive
How did the germans figure out modern day meta back in the 1940's?
>>65444797yes its not optimal for large geographic distances you are right though
>>65444797>>65444797but japs were dropping chemical weapons on entire cities in china in the 1940s so its not like germans who were the smartest people with the best technological engineers wouldnt have figured it out if they wernet ideologically opposed to such barbarity as a matter of principle. hitler famously forbade the use of gas and constantly refused repeated requests from generals to authorize their use. they already had sarin gas and similar nerve agents. hitler was a man of principle and honor who detested the barbarity of chemical weapons
>>65444846the fact someone was using chemical weapons doesn't mean its an efficient use of chemical weapons
>>65440056the aliens originally went to the nazis and then the nazis lost so they went home with the Americans.
>>65444787>putin has held back in ukraine and coddled them with kid glovesThe REAL Russian army hasn't arrived yet
got the privilege of listening to this song to see if it improved a spread. night night keep your butt holes tight! classically conditioning kids to use guns is not a good idea. 181-copyhttps://youtu.be/8ID1plssS4s?si=Gqf5QGrWCYzD4y4k
>>65443977Good shooting. No need to specify that the Glock 23 is .40 S&W. They all are. Also, it looks like you have gangrene in your hand.
>>65443977>mfw I see the hand
wtf is this thing objectively speaking?
>>65444665>A drone carrying a missile(drone)At this point just figure out a reusable heavy lift saturn rocket, tske a shuttle, fill it with jdam made to reenter the atmosphere and bomb the enemy from 10kkilometers away
what's the best method to deal with anti war protestors?
>>65428127'Sir, yes sir! >shiv<
>>65430326I used to live 2 driveways down from him.(He was dead at the time)
>>65407437Watch them but otherwise do nothing. Protestors will straight up tell you what their motives are and are a great way of gauging unrest. Sometimes they'll even come up with good ideas. If you can you should address their concerns with propaganda. Assure them the war is entirely necessary and that you'll make peace as soon as you can. Lies, obviously, but people like to believe what they want over what is more likely.
>>65441377Did you say hi to his kids?
>>65444584All but one of them
Why couldn't the RN design a decent triple gun mount before and during WW2?
>>65441448I don't even know why you would design a triple turret without independent elevation for the guns. At the very least, it seems like it would be easier and simpler to build the elevation mechanism into the gun itself, so making it so they couldn't elevate independently would be adding complexity.
>>65443712>it seems likeand who are you, to be qualified to judge? where did you study engineering?
>>65441695>objectively, quads weren't better than triples>but it was worth the attempt>*angles you*What are you gonna do now, turretlet boi?
>>65444195>fires my 2x3 A and B turrets at twice the ROF of your 2x4s, what with all the jammingheh, nothing personnel
>>65441695>all the British fleet cruisers famously carried triple mountsI was being a little retarded and misread what OP said though point still stands UK would have the most experience of any nation on triple mounts even in a scenario where they didn't have any on their ships because the UK was building them for everyone.
*blocks your path*
>>65443252Sargent Braphog?
>>65442141
>>65444327Their insurance agent just fucking combusted, got on his motorcycle, and headed to that fucking OSHA liability.
>>65443276SAAAR APOLOGIE SAAAR OR I WILL CAULDROOOON YOU SINGLE HANDED!
"Urumi is a double-edged, long and narrow flexible sword-like weapon that is fixed to the combatant’s waist like a belt. The length is customized to suit the wearer’s girth and convenience. This extremely sharp sword is made by joining and compressing foils of iron to ensure strength, durability and flexibility. The urumi is swayed rapidly to inflict slashes on the enemy. As the combatant attacks with force towards the opponent and swings the urumi, the blade coils and turns rapidly. Therefore if the wielder is not quick on his feet, skilful or vigilant, he is very likely to injure himself seriously in the process."What a very stupid weapon.
How did Buks become the most lethal SAM systems from the war in Ukraine?
>>65444294They're known for taking out the most amount of Russian flankers at the start of the war
>>65440166Padding stats with airliners.
>>65443286>>65444304And by "in a bit of a pickle", anon means he is taking a pickle up the tailpipe in prison.Although Girkin might legitimately be one of the few Russian prisoners who doesn't either take or receive cock in prison, given that playing with GRU birds, even disgraced ones, is a very risky game.
>>65444473>Although Girkin might legitimately be one of the few Russian prisoners who doesn't either take or receive cock in prison, given that playing with GRU birds, even disgraced ones, is a very risky game.I believe this is the case.Girkin lasted so long because he has friends and is otherwise loyal to the regime.I think he can probably stay outside the prison hierarchy, I'm sure the guards have had a visit from a concerned friend with an official ID who asked them to look out for him.
>>65444515Girkin would be long dead if he wasn't so well connected.
When you're forging a legendary weapon to slay evil with, do you prefer adamantine, orichalcum, or mithril?
>>65433399Hey you took my gif from that other thread!
>>65440763Unless your thread was in January I sincerely doubt it.
>>65433399
>>654333991. You're a gay materialist, and so you'll never be able to adequately interact with the meeting point of the symbolic and the physical that is Fiction. The material is supernatural, it's ability to inexplicably stop you from being harmed is no more supernatural than its ability to stay perfectly intact when a force that would tear the rings if made of any real world material is applied, but one "feels" more supernatural to you and so you complain.2. As other anon said, if tightly affixed, it doesn't really "give" as it were, so it becomes a matter of quibbling over "well how strongly was it affixed"3. Skewering a boar does not actually require much force. In the book, it is a Goblin who stabs him, a particularly large goblin (I.e. the size of a white man) but a goblin nonetheless. The film magnifies the display by having a Troll the size of an elephant ram the spear into frodo with all his weight behind it, after previously stabbing several inches into hard rock. I don't really consider this egregious, because again we're dealing with magical protection not just "magical hardness" but it is a notable difference regardless.
>>65430323Someone didn't have a full trimmed addy set to mog mithcels as a kid
>let's make big numbers of dedicated light level bombers instead of designing a heavy fighter like the P47 or Typhoon that can both carry a large amount of rockets and bombs for CAS/ground attack and also fulfill an A2A role well at the same timey tho?
>>65441712>assigning the kills of a whole squadronand more myths of WW2
>>65441696>they just needed flying trucks to deliver their bomb loads.IL-2 wasn't good flying truck to deliver bombs at all.Stuka was.
>>65438098Is this bait?4th gen clone of the BMW IVhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikulin_M-17Very much a dedicated aircraft engine
>>65441696>The Soviets had total air superiority in the second part of the warPer month IL-2 losses to fighters in 1944 and 1945 were 75% of the 1943 so I wouldn't call it "total air superiority".
>>65442094Millions were coming through.
No watch party today because OP had a (minor) surgery today. Fully sedated though so I'm still mushy.See you guys next week, all prayers of followers of the one true God Jesus Christ are accepted (complications are unlikely though, seems to have gone well.)See you guys next week at the usual time.
>>65442995Remember that and make the most of the time you get.
Gobbles fellas 07
>>65442799Good speed, saar
list for next week?
>>65442799Hope you recover well anon. God bless you, brother.
