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In this thread we post websites about weapons and such. They can be fun, technical, milblogs, whatever. Things you look at. Just link us and explain what it is, if it isn't obvious. If your post doesn't have a kewl www link, it should have a nice image. Otherwise your post is UNCOOL.

Example to start:

Small Arms Illustrated
https://thinlineweapons.com/SAI/
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Thread won't be very cool if only OP posts!

Foreign Military Studies Office
https://fmso.tradoc.army.mil

The US Army has a milblog about world equipment
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>>62785543
>In this thread we post websites about weapons and such
That's what the entire board is.
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>>62786290
>no pic, no link
Naughty anon.

>entire board
Interesting websites, thing worth bookmarking & following. No similar threads right now.
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Some of you know how to read.
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Alright, I'll participate. Or try to anyways.
I'm not sure about the rest of this site but I found this piece to be helpful when trying to read spec sheets for night vision devices. Still haven't gotten one yet though.
https://www.nite-walker.com/post/2019/11/21/specs-for-dummies-101
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>>62787306
Yeah it's just a linkshare thread. Nothing grandiose. People complain a lot about junk sources used for threads but I can't remember the last time we had a /k/lit thread for stuff other than books.

If the Poop Guns guy is your literature, more power 2 u. Likewise with NVG specs.
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Defense Systems Information Analysis Center
https://dsiac.org

The DOD has staff researchers whose job is to do backgrounders, literature reviews, and things like that for various topics. As a private citizen, you can have them research miltech questions for you, for free.
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>>62785543
Cool thread, saving all links for future projects. For my contribution here is Bulletpicker.com, I’ve found it extremely handy in learning more about WW2 era aerial ordnance.
https://www.bulletpicker.com/index.html
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>>62785543
Do cows like this see anything? Are farmers required to give them haircut, so they don't run around blind?
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>>62788368
UXO projects have been proving their usefulness lately, haven't they? New one from ARES:

Open Source Munitions Portal
https://osmp.ngo
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Finally, a good thread
I'll shill this site, he documents retro gun accessories like lights and lasers.
www.zco.world
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>>62788538
>New one from ARES:
Cheers Anon, largely I’ve been using Bulletpicker and CAT-UXO so I appreciate more sites to add to my library.
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Not a website per se but the history and war related content in VR is awesome. Compared to a lot of subjects in VR more people are developing and producing these than say major museums who surprisingly don't make great stuff.
Some gun specific material too, I forgot what it was called but it was the making of a colt SAA. I watched that a bunch of times.
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>>62788576
very nice

Bizjets of War
https://twitter.com/bizjetsofwar
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Good thread, I will contribute tomorrow
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>>62790306
Thread needs to survive that long!

StratoCat
a guy who has been documenting scientific and military balloons / aerostats since 2005.
https://stratocat.com.ar
https://substack.com/@stratocat
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>>62785543
https://www.moderninsurgent.org/
details current militia/activist/hacker groups in the world, the interactive map is cool
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>>62791468
sweet
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https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/
Shows WW2 equipment used after the war. Lots of Africa and SA content.
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https://ww2db.com/event/today/
Gives me vibes of the YouTube project but more indepth in the types of events included.
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https://instagram.com/_the_communicator
https://threads.net/@_the_communicator
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https://youtube.com/@SecurityGuy42
Covers obscure grenades and mines that don't have much documentation in english. Threeper militia retard in other aspects.
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popular front has a magazine now
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https://atomicarchive.com/resources/links/
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https://smallarmssurvey.org/resource/introductory-guide-identification-small-arms-light-weapons-and-associated-ammunition
A good book if you want to be more systematic than just playing 10k hours of shooters
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>>62796968
>goes in depth how to read crate nomenclature
That's the shit I want, thanks anon.
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https://madsciblog.tradoc.army.mil/
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https://sadefensejournal.com/barrel-length-studies-in-5-56mm-nato-weapons/

https://sadefensejournal.com/identifying-collecting-the-7-62x39-ak-47akm-magazine/

https://sadefensejournal.com/the-coming-338-revolution-a-look-at-the-next-generation-lmg-m-machine-guns/
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The US Army journals are often informative.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Military-Review/
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Branch-Journals/
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>>62793504
>>62793517
Very nice.

Who are you in 1917 Russia?
https://arzamas.academy/materials/1269
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>>62802010
Well I’m fairly sure I’ve been data mined but anyway I’m whatever the fuck this is
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>>62802743
Nah, your secret counter-revolutionary tendencies are safe with me. :)

This went around all the pol & leftypol meme-politics circles a couple years back. But it's much more interesting in the context of hasguns. All those people with ideologies that only exist on the internet are unserious about their beliefs.
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anons, gimme your favorite places to peruse /aesthetic/ media.
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>>62803139
Give!
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Blind expert in 20th century firearm collecting.
His casting couch videos with lineups of variants are great.

https://youtu.be/bNn5A9pU55k
https://youtu.be/1niUsW4SNfU
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https://www.tearline.mil
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https://www.navalgazing.net/
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dead website
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>>62803139
>>62804869
:(
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https://www.oldammo.com
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https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2007/06/how-cartridge-brass-is-made/
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NATO Allied Engineering Publication AEP-97
Multi-Caliber Manual of Proof and Inspection Procedures for NATO Small Arms Ammunition

https://diweb.hq.nato.int/naag/Public%20Release%20Documents/AEP-97%20EDA%20V1%20E.pdf
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NATO Allied Ordnance Publication AOP-38
Glossary of Terms and Definitions Concernign The Safety and Suitability for Service of Munitions, Explosives and Related Products

>This Glossary contains the specialist acronyms, terms and their definitions related to the work of the NATO Group on Safety and Suitability for Service of Munitions and Explosives (AC/310). This work encompasses:
>- munitions, explosives and munition-weapon interfaces,
>- safety and suitability for service (S3) thereof and
>- related topics concerning the work of AC/310,
>but excludes nuclear, biological and chemical weapons

https://www.nato.int/structur/ac/310/pdf/aop-38-3.pdf
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https://www.genitron.com/Handgun-Database

One of the only decent free ones I've found.
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https://appliedballisticsllc.com/
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Alright, time to see what happens

Guise have you heard about this cool website? It's really cool and its owner seems even cooler
https://forgottenweapons.com/
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https://royalarmouries.org/collection/
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comfy guides for armor
https://www.tankograd.com
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>>62785543
wtf
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>>62827211
I was gonna let the thread die because it's only OP (me) posting.
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>>62827335
Is the R-77 a Luty?
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>>62830332
no
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Luty's personal website is still online.
https://thehomegunsmith.com
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https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com
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https://odysee.com/@BluePrintzTactical:1
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>>62785543
I love the absolutely random shit you can find within the realm of Army TMs.
>t. the anon who always posts the cover of TM-5-803-11 "Children's Outdoor Play Areas"

https://armypubs.army.mil/
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>>62838828
I also appreciate the times the Army's collective autism becomes recursive.
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>>62838828
>>62838870
Thanks for distxskm
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>>62838882
>distxskm
Did I just have a stroke or did you?
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>>62838894
>Dxst u stirxhnkm?

>>62838870
We need to retvrn to /k/ino covers, thoughmstever. Just pay someone you already pay to do something much dumber to draw little commie bastards runnin around on the front and such.
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>>62838882
>Thanks for distxskm
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>>62838828
>>62838870
Shocked that someone gave some links. Always need reccs on interesting pubs to read, hit me with some.

>>62838882
..yes.. distx skoom covfefe...
(What are we talking about?)
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Not to be outdone
https://www.marines.mil/News/Publications/MCPEL/
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https://zombo.com
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bumpf
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>>62844050
https://www.dau.edu/
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>>62785543
I'll dump some links I got :)
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/uq7ekgz8l9wcz/Books#myfiles
https://archive.org/details/soldieroffortunemagazine/Soldier%20of%20Fortune%20%5B1975%20Summer%5D/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170114070637/https://murdercube.com/files/
https://archive.org/details/MEGA-Dokument
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>>62848100
https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Publishing/History-Division-Publications/Books-by-topic/
https://history.army.mil/catalog/browse/title.html
https://www.mediafire.com/file/k178b49q7jzgjif/Ian_McCollum_-_French_Military_Rifles_1866-2016.pdf/file
https://archive.org/details/pub_leatherneck
https://archive.org/search?query=Yank+Magazine
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>>62848135
https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Survival/
https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/
http://ugcsurvival.com/Files
https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/MCWP%203-35.3.pdf
https://maritime.org/doc/cookbook1945/index.php
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-55-93/fm3-55-93_fdraft.pdf
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>>62848100
Very nice, anon. We need to reboot wiki/library.
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>>62848164
How do you like the marine FMs compared to the army ones?
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This isn't a hidden or niche website, unfortunately, but I still really love it.

https://www.camopedia.org/index.php/Main_Page
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>>62851364
I use it pretty often.
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>>62848164
>https://maritime.org/doc/cookbook1945/index.php
I'll have to try some of these over the holidays.
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A Detailed Look at 1911 Sear and Hammer Engagement

https://youtu.be/v1vwDV8lYbo
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>>62862852
1911s probably have more from scratch gunsmithing material online than any other gun
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>>62785543
TOEs for the WW2 era. There had been a previous version of the site which had a lot more stuff, but the guy lost the domain and a lot of his content in the process.

https://www.bayonetstrength.uk/index.htm


Also, RAND is an underrated resource imo
https://www.rand.org/pubs.html
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>>62863843
Another weird one you might not think of is wikipedia commons. You can find some incredibly specified and completely obscure, but potentially interesting, pictures if you dive deep enough.
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>>62863877
Whoops. Meant to post this one.
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>>62863881
Ship's blueprints... artillery fuse cutaways...
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>>62863902
Diagrams of an M1928 Thompson labeled in French...
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>>62863913
Or an Indian chief manning an M1895 Potato Digger aboard the landlocked wooden battleship the Navy built in New York during WW1.
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>>62848135
>https://www.mediafire.com/file/k178b49q7jzgjif/Ian_McCollum_-_French_Military_Rifles_1866-2016.pdf/file
?
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>>62785543
this is more /o/ related than /k/ but it's still useful. it's a bunch of repair manuals for cars
https://charm.li/
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>>62863877
Commons is definitely under-appreciated
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>>62863971
>?
?
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>>62867875
So you don't have the password either?
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>>62868911
The password is that one French rifle, I forget its name.
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>>62869673
which
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>>62872369
D:
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This french government site TL;DRs selected arms shows for frog government people to read
https://www.defense.gouv.fr/sitta
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Question for the two or maybe three of you in the thread: is there a better way to do a future attempt?

Maybe a different scope, or some other angle. This one felt pretty dead on arrival.
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>>62882868
Bumping once for this question.
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Just keep making threads until one of them catches on. You have to remember that you're competing with generals, autistic spammers who make the same threads every day for years, and plenty of discord groups. If you want to change something, maybe try and tie in the Do/k/ument and Ar/k/ somehow. I used to seed that for years and would again if there was a new version made.
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>>62885634
The bulk of the content threads are currently made by me and half a dozen other anons. I made this thread on a lark to see if a low-pressure linkshare thread would draw out some lurkers who still have a pulse but who don't want to make threads.

Seems like this place is too ground down by daily pitched pol battles and too ethnically cleansed of effortposters for interactive threads to have a future (other than games). The most reliably tolerable threads are all of the solo blogger variety now. Those of us still posting them are basically just writing public notes and dutifully ignoring the local equivalent of wordpress penis enlargement pingback spam masquerading as reply chains in the comments.
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>>62887555
off by one errors are but one of man's many tragedies
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>be op
>post all dem links

Fuck it, I'll ride this thread into the ground.

Max Popenker has a new side blog.
Main focus is russian and soviet guns.
It's on the russian version of patreon.
Bilingual posts (english + russian).

https://boosty.to/russianguns

I haven't spoken to him since the war, but judging from his recent writing, it feels like he has begun to ease off his more idiotic vatnik impulses. His dumb ruspol ideas never compromised his documentarian work on firearms, but they didn't exactly foster the warmest of relations between western and eastern small arms experts. And he has sometimes fallen into the pattern of patching the coverage of his encyclopedia in order of the geopolitical preferences of his audience, not the quality or importance of articles in the queue.

He's now writing blogposts with cheeky titles like
>NGSW: Some thoughts from behind the Iron Curtain
which he wouldn't have done in years past. Embracing the new doom, perhaps.
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>>62894857
Honestly this thread probably should have died like a week and half ago (probably more two and a half weeks ago really) but fuck it I found a site to add to the thread.
https://www.ozatwar.com/
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>>62894940
Agreed, the spite bumps are what they are though lmao.

>https://www.ozatwar.com/
>japsland.jpg Japanese Landings in Australia during WW2
>kraut.jpg German Maritime activities off the Australian Coastline during WW2

Positively Feltonian. Nice.

I was actually thinking that a thread aimed at getting anons to pimp their local resources might be my own answer to "what will draw the lurkers out?" A lot of anons say they appreciate posts about various things but they don't post themselves because they don't know about militaries other than their own.
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>>62887555
I don't usually post in these threads.
I archive anything interesting and pay to keep some of the download links working.
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>>62897580
>these threads
Is there a kind where you do usually post? I'm just tryna chip in to make the vibes more gooder
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>>62897638
Msg and reloading.
This place has died a slwo death so most good posting is just a memory. I mostly just come on to call out retards.
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>>62897884
sounds totally joyless and defeated
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>>62794634
>https://ww2db.com/event/today/
this guy rocks, shame that the other 1/3 of his content is schizo shit about fema camps and black helicopters
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I got a fuckton of links from this thread so I have to contribute. Here's some mediocre links:
>https://www.pmulcahy.com/
Some autistic guys personal documentation of a fuckton of military equipment. Tanks, mines, anti-ship missiles, you name it
>https://pentagonus.ru/forum/11-48-5
Some Russian forum. No idea what its for but I know it has a ton of links
>https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090910/http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100929-043.pdf
Great reading on the F4 Phantom

Wish I had more to contribute, and wish more anons did too. Great thread bro, I'll add onto your thread the next time you post.
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>>62898289
That russian forum looks like it's worth scraping.



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