What the hell am I looking at here
>>64536316end result of our "Greatest Allies" importing slaves into the US
>>64536865I swear whoever wrote that used to lurk here a decade ago and is just fucking with us.
>>64539886>rec me an entry-level bourbon pleaseOn the cheap, Buffalo Trace. For a few dollars more though I'd say Woodford Reserve. For a first bourbon, stay away from rye only bourbons. Those aren't for everyone.
>>64539886>what brandies do Anglos drink? Martell?I've lived in Detroit for 30 years. I think I've only met like 2 white people that drink cognac on a regular basis. 99.9% of cognac drinkers here are niggers. On very rare occasions I'll drink Dusse. That's the only cognac I find palatable. Another great entry level bourbon I'd recommend is Early Times bottled in bond. It's the only sub-$25 pour I'd recommend. Problem is that's it's not easy to find.>>64541986That looks the same as an ATI Strikforce stock. I had an ATI Ultralight, picrel. I wish I could offer advice, but I didn't do the conversion and bought it that way. This was 30yrs ago too.>>64542341^this
>>64536321You fucking retard.>>64536316Ignore the other guy, that is clearly a FAMAS.
>A-20 Havoc>Only five years in production>7,000 built in total>Retired less than 10 years after production>Almost none leftWTF
>>64541848>everything that wasnt considered absolutely essential was scrapped as quickly as possiblethey didn't just offload stocks of shit onto the national guard and such?
>>64542600stuff that was still "good enough" like surplus small arms, vehicles, and a small number of armored vehicles were used to pad out the national guardbut much more was simply sold into foreign service at rock bottom prices, often solely because it was cheaper to just tell the country that this stockpile of tanks was theirs now than it was to pay the shipping cost back to the USa common anecdote was that troops stationed in japan were offered a jeep for free, but had to leave it in japan because the cost of shipping was larger than the price of a new jeep
>>64542600>>64542617That top-of-thread anon's comment ("scrapped") was scattershot and vague. (He presumably intended to refer mostly to some aircraft types that had become obsolete by the latter two years of WWII)yes all kinds of vehicles airplanes weapons artillery gear small arms ships ammunition and other funsies were given not only to U.S. National Guard units but also to other smaller less-wealthy countries/anticommunist allies.P-47 Thunderbolt was quickly phased into NG and foreign service while the P-51D was kept in front line USAF service 1950 Korea. Other materiel was shipped to Europ
>>64541828replaced by pic rel
>>64541828it's not only US stuff. German iconics like tanks are near extinct breed. Whenever you have some specimen that survived thanks to careful owners, like it happened with that Panther, bureaucrats want to immediately destroy it if some bigger force does not immediately interfere and stop them As for US airframes it is pretty amusing how out of the gigaproductions everything got destroyed. Like was it so hard to take decommissioned examples and then just stuff them under a tarp in the dry desert? Its not like they ask any money for it. Best you get these days for certain units are at the bottom of literal oceans, 4.8+ kilometers deep
How many kills could AN armored train get in india?
>>64501609According to Grok, a fully loaded mile long American freight train traveling at 60mph will need about 14,000 to 15,000 Indians to come to a halt.
>>64501700based
>>64537810Based Grok
>>64528671awwwww
Rotund Gat General - magnum rounds in snubs edition
>>64541658>>64542822Further proof gun companies today have no taste
>>64542262>I know what I'm doingRight, but someone asking that question on here clearly doesn't. Post carry set up?
>>64543203I think it's some artist on twitter, completely unrelated to any gun company. Probably for a video game.
>>64538271I might have 2 eventually. I got the .22 police training revolver and I like enough that I might get the .357 version. I could have gotten something smaller and lighter and with a massive magazine, but I wanted something that would be a pleasure to fire.
>>64542073Taurus 856 or Ruger LCR, unironically
If push had come to shove, could the Soviets have actually launched a nuclear attack on the US from Cuba?I recently read an Order of Battle document on the crisis and while around 36 R-12 missiles and 24 launchers had arrived in-country, only six launchers were actually operational, the rest were still in the process of unloading and reassembly. Seems to me like the proposed conventional preemptive strike or Operation Ortsac might've actually succeeded at least locally.Here's the document if anyone's interested.https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/event/2012_10_24_Norris_Cuban_Missile_Crisis_Nuclear_Order_of_Battle.pdf
>>64540318>the Republic of West Idaho will continue the torch of liberty!You really have no idea how the American government works, do you? You wouldn’t be posting such stupid shit if you did
>>64540318>>64543693>>64543700Damn, boy. You sound mad. Three replies to the same post? Come on, you can do better than this.
>>64535133>end the world because a bunch of red balloons got too close to a NORAD siteChkd, obligatoryhttps://youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY
Sorry about misreading the chain, I know anon's probably going to reply to my deleted post. Anyways China has a pitifully small number of nukes and basically is going to trade its entire country for a chance to cripple the USA for decades. Its a gay as fuck gambit for any Chinaman with a brain.
>>64523299From european perspective, it was bloody hilarious how hard USA soiled its pants at the prospect of having to exist somewhere near soviet missiles.
>$1.5 billion per battery>supposed to shut down all western air defenses and allow the global south to fend off any NAFO regime change>turns out it's completely useless against literally any kind of aircraft or munitionwhat went wrong?
>>64538272>Brown russian influence actor implying Russian missiles ever work as expected
>>64537943>ukr flagdoomed from the start
>>64538272>when it got proven they can kill lockheeb shitwhat
>>64537943I want to see shoigu's katan collection
>>64544752Pretty sure the Plywood Marshal only has bokken.
Thread for all deals starting this month for black Friday.
>>64544574Desert Tech is literally going out of business. Do not buy their stuff unless you want to be stuck holding a bag when it breaks(which is often from what I've heard).
>>64544619>from what I've heardffs anon
>>64544625It's been years since I looked at their stuff but I was not impressed with their MDRx and went with a fucking 70 year old AUG instead.>MOA not impressive>stupid ergos>no handguard>reliability problems/picky with ammoMaybe it's gotten better but my AUG shoots 2 MOA and has none of those problems and the company has been around for 200 years and probably won't get SAAR'd out of existence anytime soon.
>>64544654I specifically was talking about the SRS though anon, not the MDR which I also specifically mentioned negatively. I've never had, nor heard of anyone having, a problem with either the SRS or HTI. I'm sure the occasional lemon exists but they seem plenty solid work horses used even in extremely high end prs comp, king of 2 mile stuff.The only criticism is it being way way more expensive then a nice T3X setup that'll do just as well until you go to like, 1600yd+. So you have to really care about the form factor and ultra easy fast caliber swap etc features which is why I don't think most anons would be interested. I know I'm not the only owner on /k/ though and it's a real savings, so figured I'd mention it.
>>64544771Oh, I'm not a precision rifle guy but still their MDRx was so poopy I'd look anywhere else first personally. If they failed so hard at a basic rifle that europoors managed to practically perfect 70 years ago why would I trust them to make a $5k+ precision rifle? Even if it's fine in reality I'll just go somewhere else.
hi /k/ this is my cat rupert, hes a very smart and cozy cat, i was wondering has anyone ever used cats in warfare, i know dogs are usedcould he be trained to use weapons, and if so what weapons would be best? thank you
>>64474538>>64537256>>64540262Fuck off pedo
>>64536633Of course we'll keep this thread up for our pal Rupert!
>>64450062Should post the one with the mortar.
>gay faggy cat thread
>>64450053
https://www.aviacionline.com/english/defence/latin-america---defence/colombia-closes-negotiation-with-saab-for-17-gripen-e-jets-worth-usd-4-25-bn_a6916a202dcef37ae1e9288eb
>>64541640Embraer is Brazilian and they make good stuff.
Didn't it get the US veto?
>>64544480not yet, and often the US will let a country know they're going to veto BEFORE the contract gets signed, and sweden and columbia signed the contract, so sweden likely asked the US first.
>>64541640BR planes actually have impeccable safety history, except when flying over Russia for some reason.
>>64532127It's just part of the fuselage and we'll see if they can pull it off given it would be a first for Peru. So far it's all announcements.
>russian AA fire against incoming ukie drones at novorossiysk a few hours ago uh, what happens to all the AA rounds fired towards the city?
>>64541091I'm sure you'd here a hell of a racket first and know to go indoors. Maybe the Lada on the street gets a hole in it
>>64541098>I'm sure you'd here a hell of a racket first and know to go indoorsWe have curfew, so they tell us not to stand by windows instead. I did take cover once when after a close intercept, I heard hard hail rain down around roofs on the block. https://youtube.com/watch?v=MMrkFYu622s
>>64522581I don't think they care, lad.
>>64538470they call them ports
>>64541091To be fair, you can only fit pretty simple fuses in 20mm.
You can choose any air force and any time in history. You must build an air force entirely comprised of prototypes that never entered production. They have to form a comprehensive aerial fighting force that would have been relevant to the time period. You could also shoe in aircraft that were technically mass produced but in tiny irrelevant quantities, like replacing the B-29 for the B-32 for example. My personal fantasy Airforce is the early 1960s US air force. I want XF-85 goblins as my frontline fighter, XF-84 thunderscreech as my attack aircraft, Convair XFY and my interceptor, and YB-49s as my strategic bomber.
>>64540525I'd go with the RAF and USAAF from 1945 onwards, but the jet engine proved to be a dead end and was abandoned
>>64542698>hey Martin.... Uh....The engines are burning the fuck out of the fuselage. >Just cant em outward like 10 degrees IDGAF
>>64544405I don't care what anyone says having an amphibious strategic bomber and fighter that can actually perform well from the water is cool as hell
>>64540525Peron survives 1955 military coup. Pulqui II (Ta-183 descendant) enters mass production circa 1956-58. This and the historical Gloster Meteor force gives you a pretty solid air force.Bonus track: Some potential air forces it might have been exported to based on Peronist political alignmentIIRC only five prototypes were built and one unit served on the airforce. Argentina acquired F-86 Sabres instead post-Peron.
>>64540793he was already sick of war by 1917
>fog starts to clear>CONTACT! Indian dragoons
>>64535490I have to give it to the pushup truck because those guys could just pick up the indians and bodyslam them. It's not exactly military tactics but if it works it works.
>>64534029The one with the flexing giga nigga on the top?
>>64543229Yea, that one.
>>64533676>he doesn't shoot litterers on sightBeing European must suck
>>64530124>A nogA Nigger.
How would you rate his loadout for his time period?
>>64478355The coolest Arab in fiction. If he was real he would the only cool Arab to ever exist.
>>64480032He deserved worse for the thing he did to those Hawaiian kids and their family.
>>64492609>Sex scenes are racists and genderist, goyThere was not a single sex scene in all of the mummy series.
>>64542728Really? I'm sure there was at least one
>>64542725QRD? Last time I heard about a celebrity shitting on Hawaiian families was when Ezra Miller went on rampage of terror on the big island
>does nothing>winshttps://www.armyrecognition.com/news/aerospace-news/2025/pakistan-announces-new-sale-agreement-for-its-jf-17-fighter-jet-during-dubai-airshow-2025how did they do it bros?
>>64544354China is focusing its effort on big boi engine (the F110, F119 and AL-41 territory) so medium engines like RD93 or M88 isn't high up there on the priority list
>>64544361Whatever happened with the WS-13 and its derivatives?
>>64543793My fucking sides!Someone post the AMA with the US naval officer that spent 5 days on an Indian warship
>>64544438>How bad was it?15+ years old and they looked like nobody had done any maintenance in the last 5+ years. Their ROs were in such poor shape that despite having a greater fresh water production capacity than my ship by several thousand gallons, they were still on water hours.>How do they runs things differently then the USN?Their engineering practices were abysmal. No undershirts, no steel-toed boots - they wore sandals - no hearing protection in their engineering spaces. No lagging (sound dampening material) in any space. No electrical safety whatsoever. No operational risk management. No concept of safety of navigation. Absolutely did not adhere to rules of the road. They more or less did not have any hard-copy written procedures for any exercise or event, at all. They had no concept of the coded fleet tactical system that US coalition forces and allies utilize (they literally made it up as they went along, and when I tried to interject and explain to them how it worked, they ignored me). When I arrived onboard they thought I was a midshipman and treated me as such. I had to be frank and explain that I was a commissioned officer and that yes, I stood officer on the deck onboard my ship and was a qualified surface warfare officer. They don't entrust their people with any responsibility until they are very senior Lieutenants (O-3s) and junior Lieutenant Commanders (O-4s). At this point in the US Navy there are literally guys commanding ships, and these guys couldn't even be trusted to handle a radio circuit.
>>64544438>>64544733>I read 'Indian Navy' and I immediately pictured a ridiculously crowded boat, with everyone living(?) in squalor. Is that at all the case?Actually, yes. Before I came onboard I was told to bring my own roll of toilet paper, if that alludes to the conditions that they live in at all. There was actually toilet paper aboard their ship. It was thinner than one-ply, if that's possible. I might as well have been wiping my ass with my bare hand.After a particularly wet small boat ride over to their ship, I was dying to get out of my sea water-drenched uniform and into a fresh one (unfortunately, my entire bag was completely soaked to include my shirts, underwear, spare uniform, phone, camera, and my roll of toilet paper)... I walked into their "officer's head" (their are extremely, extremely hierarchical and classist, even from a military standpoint) and there was a good 2" of * * * * -water sloshing around back and forth across the deck and an obscure, probably live wire with it's end wrapped in electrical tape non-surreptitiously protruding from the wall. They have an entire "class" of civilians onboard. I still don't know what to make of them. I think they were some sort of cheap labor, but everybody onboard referred to them as slaves. As in, they used the word "slave". Anyways, the quarters those guys lived in was awful, it was basically a big open space partitioned with a sheet. They slept on a steel deck with a simple blanket and a pillow. Good times. Their enlisted guys didn't have it much better. Their berthing was infested with rats (a guy from my ship swore up and down that he saw a rat that was no-* * * * the length of his arm) and another US sailor from another ship came back covered in bed-bug sores. Dude looked like he had fucking chicken pocks.
>Chief scientist at China’s top naval research institute detained over ‘faked’ credentials>The school of materials science and engineering, where Guo worked, has contributed to a number of major projects, including China’s first independently designed and integrated crewed submersible, the Jiaolong, as well as initiatives such as China’s lunar exploration programme.LMAO, they are using fake science by fake scientist to make their carrier
>>64543617Okay sar
>>64541972This is obviously politically motivated and not about the actual quality of his work. Since when does China care about the quality of anything?
>>64541972>itt, OP thinks one single scientist is all it takes to design a fleet carrier
But these initiatives worked? Does reality follow Looney Tunes logic where gravity only applies when Wile-E-Coyote (super-genius) notices that he's running in the air?>>64542444You had one more step to gohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBjMRvOB5M>>64542559What do you think is more likely:1. The entire Chinese academic system is open to some dude in the wrong party retroactively writing a certificate and faking an entire PhD thesis in material science.2. He fell afoul of the politics of academia and is getting absolutely destroyed for it.Having been in western academia and seeing the intercine conflict over a corner office I'd lean towards the latter. I cannot even begin to imagine how brutal that politics is in an authoritarian regime.
>>64541972>LMAO, they are using fake science by fake scientist to make their carrierdid this dude just said>fake science ?
