Hey anons, I’ve started getting interested in weapons, militaria, and artillery. But I have no idea how to study or research this topic. Does any anon know or have resources for that? I always look at /k/ threads, or some messages in militaria channels on Telegram, and I get completely jealous of people’s knowledge. They can identify weapons by name, know about calibers, understand military history, etc… I wish I could have the background to join those conversations.
wikipedia my nigga
>>646879761. >>646879802. Strategic Studies Institute publications - The Bear Went Over the Mountain, etc3. Field Manuals are public 4. Commandant's Reading List5. Unironically, play Arma or Wargame for baseline.6. Go to the range / play airsoft / laarp in the woodsMore importantly though, understand why you want all this knowledge. You become a bitter useless weeb when you learn and don't apply. Unless you are going into the military, starting a defense tech company or a PMC, maybe your time is better spent elsewhere. The other point is that there is just too much - an aircraft weeb and a navy weeb won't necessarily have much overlap with a tacticool and a HAM weeb or range weeb with a HEMA weeb, etc. Decide your weeb class.
>>64687976Concept starts with a name. Saw some weapon in movie and games? Imfdb the media.Read document, put new names in notes.Search database again with those names, note down the new document if can't finish in one sitting.Analysis detail by asking question about how these concepts are linked in the component and big picture, before and after. Do it a few time, realize there is too much to read and the rest feel like a grind.order and map the notes to organize what you have.Distill patterns and principles as you realize they are just different appreances of the same thing, different combination of the same building blocksAsking more basic and fundamental questions like a designer would, if you are the engineer type. Ultimately like the notes we make, something has to be done with the new knowledge, mostly an advantage for a competition prize and a role to be fulfilled.Database you can use are dtic, internet archive, science journal, then google and library search. Im too weak to dig through national archive.The document include field manual, handbook, report, memoir\vignette, some autist's blog and some cadet's thesis who tries to graduate academy. Don't read stuff from an active military staff, all garbage of the month.Hopefully you don't end up as pdf horder like me.
>>64688029>>64687980thanks.>>64688029>maybe your time is better spent elsewhere.Thanks for the advice, but honestly, I just like the subject. I don't think I need a purpose or anything like that. I just have an interest in militaria and want to learn more.>The other point is that there is just too much - an aircraft weeb and a navy weeb won't necessarily have much overlap with a tacticool and a HAM weeb or range weeb with a HEMA weeb, etc. Decide your weeb class.I want to be a jack-of-all-trades weeb :D
>>64688326What stupid questions do you have now OP? Honestly asking stupid questions is how you learn.Why does a heli kill a tank?Why does an IFV get killed by a tank, but the Bradley sometimes doesn't?Why did the Tomcat get discontinued?Why do you still need ground troops when drones win wars?
