What makes halberds so good? I've heard they're the best polearm, but not why.
>>65032969If your pikeman are engaging normal footsoldiers there has been a massive fuck up somewhere. A pikeman in halberd range is just as fucked by a swordsman standing the same distance apart.
>>65034941pikes are good against everyone, that's why they had to invent spears with hooks to hook the pikes
>>65034434Nice 1st ed DnD flex.
>>65034941No. Pikes engaged infantry all the time, it's one of the primary reasons they existed.
>>65034941If your halberdier gets into halberd range while there's several ranks worth of pikes pointed at him, someone has fucked up indeed.
>A Merkava Mk4M-400 of the 53rd Sufa Battalion.you can see the backside of the countermeasure launcher on the top left and the new electrooptical+radar sensor on the top right.it also appears they ahve added a new (for redundancy?) camera over the commander's right
>>65036239Explains why israeli thirdoids think we're falling for their shit.
>>65036339>t. fat toddler
>>65036167its not for footage it gives the tank commander a live feed. it might have a secondary DVR function but the main use is a secondary redundant camera.from what ive heard its a lesson from previous engagements where a tank was rendered ineffective while still being mostly 'working' because the commander camera was so damaged
>>65034072someone posted few videos here days ago considering how fast it got down id say its true
>>65036737that's a great epistemology you got there, retard
He's going to be forced to stop being a queer and buy a bunch of Wedgetails now, right?
>>65030816>Silo ICBMs are now solidThey've been solids for like... 60 years, Anon. If you aren't using solids in your ICBMs, you will die.
>>65031192Which is why no one will ever launch nukes at a silo and therefore why they're useless.
>>65031192About half of Vatnigger ICBM and SLBM types use hypergolic liquid fuel. Even their latest RSM-56 Bulava SLBM is mixed design with two solid stages and liquid final stage allow higher maneuverability in space to avoid defenses and higher accuracy. Their latest ICBM, RS-28 Sarmat is liquid fuel design, mostly because liquid fuels are quite a bit more efficient than solids when it comes to creating thrust. Obvious drawback being much more expensive missile maintenance, but that has never been too high on Russian priorities.
>>65032394Knowing Russian maintenance, the fuel might well be solid at this point.
>>65030702do you think the buyers only order when they run out?
What's the tactical value of a robot dog with a gun strapped to its back?
>>65030011My ex thought thats how the sentence goes. God I mis her
>>65029999Saves real dogs for cuisine
>>65031999>and then..The tankette makes a comeback!
>>65033181For all intensive porpoises, the idiom is the same.
>>65030079At best we'll get the Bugs from Gundam F91
Will there ever be another battle between surface fleets? Where each side brings dozens of ships and tries to sink the other side? Because I can't think of a single example since WWII.
>>65036895no. drones have made navies obsolete
>>65036895There were several coastal vessel engagements during the Arab-Israeli and Indo-Pakistani wars of the Cold War. If you're talking about multiple ships on each side of an engagement as big or bigger than a frigate, something fairly drastic would have to change, like significant navies not allied with a current nuclear power going to war far enough away from land based fighter support for large surface vessels to dominate
Can we seriously move on from this boring design?
>>65031048Ar18 systems exist, have better recoil and allow folding stock. People move to gas piston and ar18 like designs outside of the US because they are just better systems. Unfortunately ar18 design works better for bullpups and shorter barrel rifles.
>>65024404Come home king
>>65035632>have better recoilElaborate on how.>Unfortunately ar18 design works better for bullpups and shorter barrel riflesWhy do you think this?
>>65024404The Saint handguard is so good looking bros
>>65025673>thinks military procurement isnt jewish bullshit that doesn't care which rifle is the bestfunny guy
>>AK-47so is there any logic or reasoning behind the numbers and letters when it comes to gunz
>>65032847Goalpost shifting faggot.It's a thing, and was shown to be a thing and your retort is basically "nuh uh".kys
>>65032280OP didn't ask if the system had to be good, just whether one exists.
>>65032248Armalite Rifle 15
>>65032322>implying>traveling with 3 dudesWhy do you think she kept "falling for the bait" and "getting stuck"?
>>65036843Armalite Rifle 17
What was the worst military you worked with?
>>65036400As one would expect.They primarily show up to do crowd riot control stuff in case albanians and serbs chimp out again, and at least they're motivated. But more often than not, they have to draw equipment from us because for whatever reason they couldn't bring their own. My guess is no funding. With the exception of the Slovenians. They have a platoons worth of M-84s parked permanently in our motor pool. They show up for maneuver and force on force exercises and they're a bunch and a half to be around. All super old, average age is around 45-50 (I think the youngest of them I've met was pushing 40). They're career tankers that have literally been in since the fall of communism, and when they go to the field here they treat it like a massive boys trip to the woods but with M-84s, which frankly I'm jealous of. They don't sleep on their tanks, instead they set up a massive multi-family sized green tent and sleep in that instead (they don't have any night vision capabilities, so when the sun goes down they just park and camp). Lots of Turkish coffee, lots of grilling and frying meat and such. They know how to relax really damn well. When it comes to actually maneuvering, up until recently they had only one (1) radio for the entire tank platoon, which was in the platoon leaders tank. All communication at a PLT internal level was otherwise done with hand/arm signals and signal flags while never leaving line of sight of each other. And they would go out there and absolutely murder Abrams, challengers, whatever. Really impressive honestly, coordinating movement is a pain in the ass with proper comms, for me doing it solely with signal flags is amazing. Love the old fart Slovenian tankers.
>>65036370Conscription doesn't have to mean thirdie-tier slave labor camps, the Finns visited the same kind of armored column destruction on American troops on exercises before
>>65036494>Yugo tankers treat combat training as big boy camping inna woods with the bois and tanks with crates of yugo AK'sSo fucking jealous.
>>65036558It's always a pleasure to have them attached.
>>65030381former 19K here.Back in 2013, I literally painted the Company's rock lol.1-64 "Battle Boars," the Thunder Run armor BN. Pretty cool all-in-all.D Co's Commander was a 2nd generation jeet-American who had a wall-spanning mural of Reagan behind him in his office. Guy was a living meme.And cherry on top, on the backside of Dragon Co's NO SLACK rock, that commander asked me to paint "COME AND TAKE THEM" [the Spartan motto for you uneducated] on the backside.For this effort, I didn't even get a battalion coin! All I got was a fuckin' dragon stencil sticker about the size of my palm.Classic.
Let's talk about nuclear strategy and nuclear weapons.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtUobr7xGz4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEjB5UrOqwU&list=PLKWSTkN5DHshwmNQ4QlzYeBoF4d54qcZ-&index=1
>>65025487this, it's obvious who made that shit post
>>65025483>no nuke on indiaSaar, i kneel...
>>65025637It's part of a major issue with old, badly-maintained arsenals like Russia's where what they want to nuke and what their coordinates are set to remain different and difficult to alter on the fly.
>>65025477what strategy dude its very simplethe big three well four if we include japan too (they have almost 50 tons of plutonium enough for 6000 nukes) are there to keep the rest in check thats it IF someone decides to throw a nuke they know that one of them will respond back with impunity because only one of the big one have the capacity to destroy them and nobody wants to be nuked in retaliationend of chapter
>>65025483That's just Aroden's city.
Guntubers are the cancer of the world.
I wish there was a gun equivalent to that one pharmacist that goes to shitty gas stations, buys all of those 'RHINO ENERGY STINGER BONER PILL 9000 MG' pills, then takes them and reports on their effects. Like, I have no idea how that concept would translate but it's somewhere in the realm of 'Gonzo Public Service' instead of Gonzo Journalism.
>>65027788How are the 5.56 and 308 supplies looking?
>>65034952isn't that what the forgotten weapons guy is for? going to competitive events with some weird plastic balkan belt fed revolver that shoots 7.19x23mm
>>65027462Fuck e-celebs and fuck streamers.>>65033521It only works because the porn market is oversaturated but a thot shooting guns is rare enough to stand out.If they all flocked to male hobbies then they'd all start suffering from the consequences of overfishing and most would stop pretending to like these hobbies again.
>>65028497How small can you be to make a b&t look large
how long are Glaives? I saw a vid where a guy made a repro and said they were basically poleaxes/polehammers but more optimized for raping unarmored or lightly armored fags in battle while also being usable like a poleaxehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvYezpHuRkI thought they were like halfpike/halberd/billhook sized or is this the halbert vs poleaxe thing where 2 weapons had similar heads but were used differently based on haft length and there was a longer glaive too? Cause I saw glaive heads with protrusions and those are basically the same thing as halberds/billhooks/insert any number of halfpikes with a stabbing part and hooking protrusion and by poleaxe vs halberd/halfpike I mean poleaxes would be shorter than a guy or about a man's height and halberds would be like slightly taller than a guy to like 9 feet long
>>65031356The patton "sabre", whatever patton or other americans may call it, doesn't handle like a normal sabre at all.
>>65032293Staff weapons vs. Polearms. People are sometimes confused the what we call a poleax, but it's staff length and you fight with it using quarterstaff techniques as a base. Staff weapons were the preferred type used by men-at-arms, as you indicate.>>65031490>"amateur trepanning"Fun times, fellow enjoyer.No, not every curved sword is a saber, nor ones with a knuckle bow. >>65032501No, it's not swishy like a cutting saber, it's a thrusting saber. It's not a rapier, Oakschott type, jian, sidesword or other sword. It is very much a cavalry saber, possibly the most advanced ever fielded. It handles like one, it's meant for horseback. The manual of arms for it covers ground fighting but it's meant for the saddle.
And... I meant to post this. Cool picket kit that was issued with the Patton saber, lashed to a government-issue saddle.
>>65035026do those all attach to the pin on the left?
>>65035051No, I think the cavalryman would carry a separate wooden handle to attach the tools onto. They might fit the picket pin in an emergency? The picket pin could be used as a horseshoe hammer and nail puller, too, IIRC.
Inside a tunnel used by rebbels against rome.How did they manage to live in such a cramped place?
>>65033850>rebbels Dumb motherfucker it's spelled "Rabbis".
>>65036251>Hellenized Philistines>be Myceanean>invade the Levant while your homeland goes to shit>spend six hundred years fighting Jews>eventually adopt local customs>Alexander invades>re-adopt the customs of your ancestors a thousand years ago
>>65034510Kek Roman women are getting BBC’d and Rome is under the new management of Blacks and Nafris, yet Israel is a high TFR tradchud ethnostate
>>65036436pissreal is under daily missile attack you fucking faggot lol, what a powerful country and people
>>65033850>How did they manage to live in such a cramped place?People were smaller back then. Their horses were smaller too
Congratulations Commander Anon,Due to unforeseen complications with ISR your predecessor was exploded seventeen times taking his daughter to school.You are given a simple order:Survive. How do you go about harassing the US military enough to force capitulation? Do you base any of your tactics or strategies off similarly successful asymmetrical belligerents that have also repelled American invasion? Remember, any use of materiel will likely result in its destruction. Your resources are limited but the resolve of those under your command is infinite. Surrender of any kind is not an option. How do you proceed?
>>65035752Yeah, the US ahould have never become a global superpower and thus increased its wealth and prosperity by an order of magnitude.Retard.
>>65035873The average American is far worse off today than in the late 19th century.
>>65035939400k+ White Americans died in wars in that century
>>65035939>itt, retards actually believe thisProtip: If you're not dying by the hundreds of thousands because you started shitting too much from drinking the water, you're objectively NOT worse off than in the late 19th century.
>>65035263Japan was willing to fight all the way till we nuked them twice, and even then it was a split decision that needed the Emperor to make the tie-breaking vote. The Soviets had to march into Berlin before the Germans finally gave up. In both cases, Germany and Japan had to be thoroughly defeated before they surrendered. Censorship allows for normalfags to pretend like the war isn't going on. Propaganda, meanwhile, prevents the normalfags from pushing back against the war. Compare and contrast the US, Germany, Britain, Japan of then, to us now. A few Iranian missiles, low teen casualty counts, and gas going up by a dollar a gallon, and all of a sudden we're on the verge of surrendering and just leaving the Strait to be controlled by Iran, and letting them charge ships just to pass through. And we're just gonna let them do that, because the Wall Street opposition to a "war" that's lasted a month, is too high.Censorship and propaganda aren't for OSINT autists, they're for the 90%, the everyone else percentage of the population.
Do soldiers in the military have any countermeasures of protocols for dealing with flame weapons?
>>65024593Shit. You made me look too and they definitely keep the tards and BRICSite down and out.
>>65028454In all fairness the most solid counterargument against the government of the people is talking to said people.
>>65023846
https://gcaptain.com/us-removes-sanctions-on-three-russian-vessels-says-move-not-policy-shift/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d415g55nno>Mar 21, 2026 — The US has lifted sanctions on some Iranian oil, as it scrambles to contain the impact of its war in Iran on energy markets.Yeah what the fuck are normies thinking we're totally winning /k/ sisters
>>65024538>it was a big problem among navies until the falklands*laughs in borax-impregnated cotton*
What could actually be achieved if r&d was pumped into biological warfare and all moral concerns were tossed aside?
>>65029531Over a long span of time and through many, many waves of iteration, sure. The reason why they become nominally less lethal isn't that they intelligently choose to be - the more lethal strains still happen, still spread, and still kill shitloads of infectees, they simply burn out in comparison to the less lethal variants. That will be great news for the distant future peoples that may exist, not so great for the masses of dead in the modern day.
>>65033554More of a labor of love then?
>>65033847More side projects that spun off the founder's attempts to use the progenitor virus to build a new superior breed of humans that he would rule over as a God king. Stuff like the sharks and the spiders were early animal testing.
>>65026108Nanomachines
>>65026057>make virus thst targets plants>easily transmitted airborne>can live for weeks without a host>when the host dies, releases spores that continue the process anewNow everyone and everything dies
