When did militaries stop caring about the aesthetic value of the equipment they produce?
Did they ever stop? I think not.
WW1
>>62880439so cool they might even make you forget the hundreds of children they "accidentally" killed in the siege
>>62880449It didn't happen and even if it did, they deserved it
>>62880449Doesnt matter, they looked cool while doing it
>>62880443Either this or US Civil WarPeople always forget that we figured out how to handle trench warfare and artillery barrages and industrial-scale destruction in the US a good 50 years before the rest of the world did.
>>62880432Industrial revolution and it's consequences..
>>62880432Do you think this shit was standard issue or something? No serious military every invested significantly in just aesthetics alone.>>62880662Older than industrial revolution, aesthetically fancy weapons and armor was nearly always the realm of the personal belongings of the rich and powerful.
>>62880449>killed a bunch of russians>emulated the American passtime of gunning down schoolkidsBased
>>62880432They still care about aesthetics. The XM-8 existed because army generals wanted a cool future rifle after seeing Starship Troopers. The Sig XM7 was chosen because it looks more AR-like and like a "proper" rifle and not a weird bullpup or nerf gun.
>>62880563Not the Civil War. Europe continued to care about aesthetics after 1865. Even in the US we didn't drop them completely. Indian Wars and Spanish American War troops looked good.
>>62880432>engravings give you no tactical advantage whatsoever
>>62880432The military /fa/ cycle is thusly: >rough new design replacing older design, >utilitarian upgrades, >aesthetic adornments as the design gains prestige>relegation to ceremonial use as the design becomes outdated but gains "trad" prestige>museum piece
>>62881416They actually do. It identifies the wearer as a noble/high ranking officer. This was important before the days of radios.
>>62880563the adoption of uniforms like that during the civil war wasn't actually an attempt to look cool or aesthetic, it was an attempt to look modern by copying the (then) most advanced army in the world at the time, the French. When the french lost to the prussians in the franco-prussian war, the US toyed with the idea of copying the germans and adopting pickelhaubes
>>62880439>>62880449>>62880479These pictures are from the Russian constitutional crisis, not Beslan. There were no children in the House of Soviets.
>>62880432The reason for the face plate (beyond protecting your face) is to scare the enemy and not let them see how terrified the wearer actually was
>>62880563Trenches and artillery barrages were common in Europe since star forts became common and field battles in the US civil war were still fought in line formations.How did you even come up with such a retarded take?
>>62880432Probably around when they realized that wearing shit to make you look scary/tough became irrelevant when the scariest thing on the battlefield wasn't a man but an iron bowling ball traveling as 500m per second
>>62882711How come it is always possible to distinguish American posters by their writing style?
>>62882694I dunno know, man. You look at the last year of the American Civil War and it's closer to WW1 than say, the Franco-Prussian War is.
>>62882791>people from different parts of the world speak/type differently than meWow, good job figuring that one out dumbfuck.
>>62882791Why do you fags come here at all? I don't go to /int/ and whine about noguns foreigners, yet you cock jockeys are always bitching about Americans breathing wrong or something.
>>62880563>People always forget that we figured out how to handle trench warfare and artillery barrages and industrial-scale destruction in the US a good 50 years before the rest of the world did.Both the Crimean and wars of German unification including teh first and second First Schleswig War occurred before the US civil war ended. In the mid 19th century the USA was really a nothing a backwater like Russia it still had legalized slavery, it was outside the civilized world, a place filled with savages and immigrants. The US civil war was not the first or best example of anything except Americans ineptitude at war for the opening stages(in fact the Americans never really managed massed cavalry throughout). It was a place for Europeans to dump obsolete arms for profit. Your post exhibits all the most inane and ill educated pondering we have all come to expect from American posters these days though, every bit as brainwashed, jingoistic and stupid as their Russian and Chinese peers, who also post brainwashed jingoistic nonsense over emphasizing the importance of their idiot farms. I'll bet you think the American civil war was something special and remarkable because ken burns said so when it was just another war of unification under central government like the German and Italian wars of unification facilitated by railways. The Crimean war, Siege of Sevastopol, was in fact the war that showed the transformation from Napoleonic warfare to industrial warfare best including trench works and sniping and the advance of rifle muskets and range of contact and engagement. The US civil war only demonstrates how backwards and far from civilization the US was at the time and how brainwashed and stupid Americans are today. America was a place of little importance until the 20th century.
>>62882883>noguns foreigners
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>>62882968>I don't read so gud neither
Modern is cool.
>>62882994>implying you're a hasgunshttps://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/487071903/#487082479lol
