When the Indonesian FNCs were unveiled at shot show earlier this year, one of the first questions everybody thought was "what about all the registered auto sears?". To this the common reply was that those can only be installed in original, pre-ban, Belgium FNCs, citing an ATF letter asking if one could install an FNC auto sear into a SCAR. Unable to find this letter, and unwilling too take Internet folk lore at face value, I sent a letter asking for a copy and explicitly asking whether or not a sear could be installed on any other rifle, besides the aforementioned pre-bans. After many months, I just received a reply, that the ATF has ruled, "Installation of a conversion sear into an original FN FNC or a similar exact clones or replicas thereof the FNC rifle is lawful, as long as the conversion sear was lawfully registered in the NFRTR as a “machinegun” prior to May 19, 1986, and subsequently properly transferred.">TLDR, full auto Indonesian FNCs are (theoretically) on the menu
>>62145077What the hell are they smoking, that's almost pre-ban prices.
>>62146870>What the hell are they smoking, that's almost pre-ban prices.That's exactly why they plan to sell the for so much. There are like what ~4,000 preban FNCs? Collectors and Heat fans will fall over themselves to grab one. Though that's only IF they manage to get ATF approval to bring them in.
>>62145077>500well fuck, good luck to anyone not connected
>>62144196The ATF just makes shit up as it goes and it takes hundreds of millions and about 5 years to force them to be consistent on anything
>>62145077What a fucking waste. Then again why sell thousands of guns with little profit and high liability. When you can sell 500 for the same money and way less chance a retard, retards with it.
Russia has developed their own ISV. HATO pigdogs are terrified! It even has built in divine protection
>>62146407But /k/ told me sanctions don't work!
>>62146417I'd like to get you all on an open field and have you fight it out Napoleonic war style
>>62144644left>right:Shiguli, Samara, 2x Daewoo Lanos (likely made in ukraine), 2x shiguli
>>62144426there is no fucking way this is real
>>62147852>>62147791>>62147783>>62146698>>62146615Thats an adaptation of a copypasta from 2ch. Its so fantastical(half of shit mentioned doesnt exist even as a vaporware) it became a meme to mock over-zealous patriots there.You have to be a special kind of retard to post that unironically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0IvQe2j0UU
>Immune to IEDs, most small arms fire, and most missiles>Can better than infantry in mountains and forests, better than submarines in the ocean, and better than tanks on the plains and desert>Can wipe out entire platoons of infantry in seconds>Conventional vehicles are so weak compared to it that tanks now fill the role that technical used to fill for third world armies too for to afford battlemechsHow the fuck is an insurgency supposed to fight one of these things?
mechniggers when ground pressure:
>>62148019Tukkayid? The battle where 80% of the phone company's army was composed of battlemechs? THAT Tukkayid?
>>62151675THE TOURIST REARS HIS GAY HEAD!!it was the battle where focht trolled the clans into walking into his PATENTED ACME BRAND Wile E. Coyote SUPER GENIUS tier boobytraps that stretched for timezones. the mechs were only there to lead the clans into bigger, sillier and more ridiculous booby traps, including an entire mountain range rigged as IEDs to blow dropships out the sky. that they lit off to blow clan dropships out the sky and wound warships in space.
>>62151713That's like using ALL of America's carrier battlegroups to lure the Chinese navy into a fucking naval mine area.
>>62142415You forgot the part where they still work after centuries of neglect, there is a reason why Battletech is a setting where you shouldn't think too hard about the details.
Looks like Japan has thankfully had no airframe input. The delta lives.Big wing, big range, big payload.
>>6215068387 billion pounds is nothing in England when you have no industry to speak of.Compare yourself to someone like Italy or France and see how much more they have for quite a lot less.
>>62150698>said thats not happening>proven it is>no uIts all so tiresome>previous govt.>"I am committed to that 2.5% within our fiscal rules, but that strategic review needs to come first," Starmer said as he departed for a NATO summit in Washington.Bruh>your gdpIm Australian. Quit the circle jerk.
>>62150733>Im AustralianOkay, your former GDP.
>>62150507Japan's budget for FY23 was 8.13 trillion yen with a 130:1 exchange rate at that time would give a $61 billion defense budget.
>>62150507>Yes they have 4 SSBNs. Making them unfuckable unlike Italy and Japan so they are worth every cent.Not a single shot needs to be fired at the UK lol
A few years ago while scrolling through GunBroker I found a posting for a Longbranch Arsenal Rifle No.4 Mk1 with what looked like original markings from the factory. Alongside the usual longbranch marking there was also a marking "Georgia VT" Is this an import marking or did Vermont lend some of its factories to Canadian rifle production?
>>62150831>this an import markingCentury Arms is located in Georgia, Vermont.
its a shame these threads don't take off.Guess its back to a Ukraine drone thread for me!
>>62150839You mean Vermont, Georgia?
It's 1945. The Nazi's valiant struggle against the ancient ones is no longer tenable as the Allies have liberated the sacrifice camps. Unknown horrors and an excruciating death awaits you. What is your loadout and plan for such occasion?
>>62148322>>62146251Great stuff kike writerfriend.I'm glad to have witnessed this thread.
>>62136197>>62139731>>62142818>be me, Kovacs>be super autistic turbo sperg that got homeschooled by his even more autistic single mom only speaking Hebrew, having no way to communicate with other hungarians (wtf mom)>through chaos of war end up with ragtag group of jews of different nationalities>even though I'm with my peers everyone treats me like an alien due to my awkwardness and language barrier>try to speak with Rachel, the beautifullest woman I ever saw, have a crush on her>she backs off from me like I'm a hungarian mangy stray that she suspects of carrying rabies>feels רַע man.jpg>whatever, am just happy that I'm with a group that doesn't oust me amidst all the creepy shit going on in this dark foreign forest>one day go to the lake with Rothblatt and Mendel>they act kinda weird, but then again everyone acts kind of weird around me>stand by the water overlooking the calm lake>Rothblatt says something in Polish behind my backComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>62150180Poor Kovacs, constantly putting up with these (understandably) paranoid neurotic Jews psyching themselves out because they never spent a night in the woods before, and they won't even give him a gun
>>62148970You do realize that during the cold warthe CIA sponsored ex-german army officers to write a huge amount of history on ww2?
>>62136066This is From right? Kino show premise.
lockmart made a new version of the most popular FLIR + laser targeting pod used by 4th gen fighters. the new version - Sniper Networked Targeting Pod - adds edge computing, MANET, and F35 datalink. so now 5th gen should be able to seamlessly interact with other aircraft and ground elements on one datalink. call in hypersonic airstrikes from the comfort of your foxhole. https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2024-07-23-sniper-networked-targeting-pod-to-link-f-35s-4th-generation-jets-and-missile-systems-for-unprecedented-deterrence
>>62150431Hasn't Raptor had the underlying problem of no Link 16 integration? Or did they finally make that upgrade?
>>62150431>>62150448How can West still be scared of China/Russia when their military is some backwater mess compared to just a single US company in the MIC?
>>62151193The boomers and Gen X grew up on pic related, and when it imploded, they thought it there would be a new world order of forever-peace so China didn't matter.
>>62150454Both do. The stealthies operate their own proprietary datalinks and there have been a few rounds of kludge-transcoder-middleware concepts to provide bridging.At one point not too long ago, the middleware was literally a box carried by a U-2 that handled interactions between F-22's IFDL and F-35's MADL. At that time – and right up til the retirement announcement this year – the U-2 was the primary dev&testing platform for Open Mission Systems. It was the first craft to fly a full suite of OMS shit, and one of the arguments in favor of keeping it in service was to continue as a test platform.The U-2 team, in turn, had The Box (hydra OSG) talk to land and sea systems via multifarious other acronyms.What the sniper pod iteration represents is lockmart trying to consolidate the man-in-the-middle widgetry under a preexisting product line already in use by everyone who flies F-16 and F-35. Commoditizing the complement, in so many words.(Northrop leads Link 16 development, IBCS, and a bunch of other datalink shit. Physically colocating the hell-muxer onboard lockmart aircraft marginalizes northrop while ensuring they still do most of the real work.)I see no obvious reason why it won't work.
>>62151193Can't get complacent
STOPLEAVING HATCHESOPENSTRAY DRONES KEEP FLYING IN THROUGH THEMAAAAAAAAA
>>62147886>he survived because he regularly gave blood and could handle a larger blood loss.That's not how it fucking works.
>>62136667I can't fucking believe it, it's literally the meme
>>62148588What if we stuck a large spring underneath them so they can leap like the hopper mines in Half Life 2?
>>62136778Well an AC would take up space, and since the Soviets wanted to make there tanks as small as possible so that they could have more of them and make them easier to hide than NATO tanks, it would have been immediately cut from the design if it was even there in the first place.They would have just told the crews to drive with the hatches open or ride on the outside of the tank until they reached combat if it was too much of an issue for them as drones like this weren't a concern in the 50's, 60's and 70's when most of these tanks were made.
>>62136535stop writing like a stupid, clapping negress
I've seen a million and a half quick and dirty rattle can paint jobs and I've been thinking about anything more creative. What's your best paint work on a gun?
>>62147690I was pretty happy with the result on my 10/22
>>62147690what is this? a Johnson rifle?
>>62147690been thinking about rattle canning my deer gitter savage axis
>>62147993It was sold recently.
Rattlecan is fun.Esp with a 6 pack
Calling all finacially challenged retards, report in.I haven't seen one of these in a fat minute so I took it upon myself to make one and I miss you guys, no homo.
>>62152359I'm not the other retard you've been arguing with
>>62152235I think its that Glow ones don't want discussion about us arming our fellow anons with 20 inch rifles that can cook through plates and vehicles. The more COMMRADES we have armed the better off we will be when we the communist revolution of the CONUS take power back from the Scum sucking capitalist Dogs.PHewww!
>>62152423That’s my first post. Lol. Seems we’re both retards. Sorry for the broadside though. I get suspicious when I see an Uncle Paul meme these days. It’s the go-to for tourists if it’s not GT slop
>>62151912Heat them a little and try to flatten it via bending. Nothing crazy, just try the hair dryer on hot at first, bend it by hand when warm, keep it there, and if needed, then stuff it full with a shaped block or aluminum mags or something for a while to see if it sets. I've fixed (actual brand name) Tupperware the same way. Feels very similar, like it's also LDPE, maybe HDPE. Or ALICE pouches don't work with PMAGS, I dunno, it's entirely possible.
>>62151912Fug by "keep it there" I meant keep it in that position after taking the heat off. May need to bend it past flat to get the bend fully out. Eating and trying not to make my keyboard (more of) a mess while also watching something.
>>62148724Subtle, too subtle for these mounthbreathers.
>>62147718Literally the best thread on /k/ right now.
>>62149194Yes, but you’re trying to shoot and not make it cum.
The Yafa drone was the one that hit Tel Aviv this week and now we have actual photos of the drones beforehandSeems to be a new Samad model, shocked there's no camera on it
lol. lmfao even
>>62136012>>62136002I'm from austria and I'm ashamed of my forefathers deeds. People like you and current acts of Israel makes me want to reconsider
yemen is going to get itself invaded isn't it...
>>62151336>I used to think genociding jews is wrong, but now that Israel bombed the jihadist terror group shutting down an international waterway, I'm sadly starting to realize Hitler was right.What makes /pol/troons think their bad-faith faux outrage is remotely convincing?
>>62151336hyper cringe
Post unpopular opinions thread. I'll get it started:>logistics have been overrated by reddit, mcnamara and shoigu>tactics matter>skills matter>weapons matter
>>62150586No anon you don't understand, ammo, food and water should just be in the pockets of every soldier ever, it's just that easy ! You will be fine if you can't transport yourself or supplies to the front, or access a radio to communicate with others around you. The tactics and synchronization will be unaffected. Why rely on some squishy POG in a flatbed truck to get you supplies when you could just get better skills and tactics to obtain such items on site.
>>62150547/k got taken over by Reddit level Jannies that allowed Ukranian and Nato internet Nafo gentlemen to take over the board while they banned and shut down any voices that offered even the most remote criticism of the very apparent spam.
>>62150547the sticky disallowing talk about gun control is retarded and should be removed, especially since people talk about other strictly non-weapon related shit on /k/ all the time with janny approval
>>62150725This is why Russia's superior logistics are enabling them to overwhelm Ukraine's superior tactics and weapons...vatniggers, we're so back!
>>62150547>logistics have been overrated by reddit, mcnamara and shoiguUnpopular opinion =/= correct opinion
Who's cooler? >Fighter pilotsVs.>Gunship pilots/gunners
>>62148357Bong have NCO helicopter pilots. They typically come from ground crew, who get the opportunity to apply to be a pilot after reaching a particular rank.Also:>>62148370Most bong pilots were NCOs during WW2. The posh stereotype comes from actors in later films.It was when bongs gained nukes that the RAF moved away from NCO pilots, as it was deemed unseemly for a Sgt to be responsible for dropping instant sunshine.
Fighter pilots become:Astronauts WITH command rolesCEOsExecutive board membersLow to high level politiciansRoyalty, high echelon societyDo gunship pilots have equivalents? Gunship pilots can't even make it to flag officer roles in their own branches.
>>62148067Fighter pilots obviously. Hats off the rotor-heads but they are basically part of the ground scheme of maneuver, doubly so if Army and not Navy/Marines. Army pilots are treated no different than their grunts.
>>62148067>If looks could kill, they probably willGunship GunnersThis man is one with the machine, a precision death machine on the razors edge of realityLook at this old ass 70s technology, it still looks high tech as fuck. The gunner is the embodiment of the synthwave aesthetic, he doesn't look out of place in a retro 80s warzone or a futuristic cyberpunk wasteland.
>>62148990Wait, a gunship pilot in Britain was royalty as well.
