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>Special Forces Fitness Guide
SWCS SFAS guide
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For all Army SF info.
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>Should I go Navy Enlisted Nuke?
No, you'll get cancer and a prolapsed asshole. http://i.imgur.com/FZ0Q9q4.png
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>Do you go to Airborne before RASP with an option 40 contract?
No, stop asking. >5 Indian jets shot down
>Within an hour of Indian airstrikes on Pakistan
>Over Indian airspace
>No confirmed Pakistan losses
What the fuck is going on with the IAF? Is this the biggest modern fuck up in military aerospace history? How the hell do you conduct an airstrike, somehow lose 5 planes over your own airspace and not take down a single enemy fighter? Indian planes are roughly equivalent to Paki planes too, it's not like you're sending WW2 fighters to a 5th gen fight. Is it true the carriers have Wendy's, KFC, Subway, etc in their mess halls? Krab based
https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/u-polshhi-rozpochaly-rozrobku-vazhkoyi-bmp-na-shasi-sau-krab/ Pakistani OSINT account on Twitter reports that a Russian S400 air defense missile was intercepted by a Chinese HQ9 air defense missile
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Previous >>63637918 *flies gently through /k/* Hop Edition
Week two of the rifle and carbine submissions for the ARG collage begins now! Official rules below
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Previous >>63655536
For best results, photograph with higher contrast backgrounds. Cropped or otherwise incomplete images will be rejected, only posts under Friday OP's are considered within the entry period leading up to the collage unveiling on the fifth and final of this month [30 MAY 2025]. Please limit one per anon A nuclear exchange between india and pakistan will have minimal impact on rest of asian continent due to the himlayas blocking most of the fallout. Only certain parts of middle east and burma is to be impacted.
Himalayan mountains will block most of the radiactive fallout will not affect rest of asian continent of east asia.
Even in a total nuclear exchange scenario fallout impact on other continents is extremely limited and will not cause a global ice age >"India carried out an air strike on targets located in Pakistan on the night of May 6-7. In addition to aircraft, Polish Warmate drones were used in the strike".
It's the same drones Ukraine buys in thousands and uses against russia. So I heard people always say the best thing about the F-14 was the ability to fire the Phoenix missile system. What made Phoenix missiles so good exactly? Picked this up a couple days ago, 10mm, Rock Island Armory.
Haven't had a 1911 before, nor have I shot it yet, but I think its super neat so far.
I do wanna upgrade the guide rod in the future though; Dawson Precision has a tool-less one that looks good.
Would it fit in mine? And does it come with a reverse plug or do you have to buy that separate? What could he have done better to handle the space vietcongs?
>Couldnt have WMDs for reasons
He still got napalm though. Today, I visited SF-88, one of a handful of surviving intact launch facilities of the Nike Missile program. I brought my camera along. Let's take a tour. I guess we need to apologize to the Chinese. PL-15E with gimped range still BTFO Rafales if your plane has a modern AESA and EW in support. >10mm
>takes glock mags
>threaded barrel
>not extremely expensive
i'm honestly thinking about buying one as my first long gun, i'm thinking it could be more practical in a defense scenario where overpenetration (vs. say a 5.56 AR) would be important. i'm retarded though almost all remaining Russian AA in far east turned out to be decoys Looking forward to see this baby in action Where did he get this from? China? Does /msg/ like to collect worthless garbage in the "trough of no value", or do they spend their hard earned money on overpriced collectibles that have already appreciated 10x in value?
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>>63578410 which unit in war history was the cruelest and most despised by civilians? for me it's a tie between
>hungarian pandurs
>russian streltsy
>bavarian landsknechts It seems like Natanz is unironically impervious to an non-nuclear air attack from Israel or the US. Israel was relying on a fucking commando suicide raid to take it out. They wouldn't do that if they thought they could take it out from the air with conventional weapons, right? Armenia premiered its bullpup at DEFEA 2025. They also introduced a new Normal rifle. T-AB 1A and T-AB 2A.
https://thefirearmblog.com/blog/defea-2025-maktes-arms-from-armenia-presents-modular-bullpup-rifle-44820790 first post here hi. anyone got a favourite rare rifle in particular? in my opinion i personally like the EM-2 for its weird history. would've loved to see it in actual action. bit of a shame the engineering went to waste. Japan's railgun has been installed on JS Asuka. ITT: We're all lrrping like we're in the jungles of South Vietnam circa 1965 to 1971.
Setting the tone with G.I. commentary and Vietnamese Buddhist death chants: https://soundcloud.com/imscandi/vietchanting2 >6.5mm, same caliber as modern weapons
>Conquered the entire far east
>Buck broke the chinese so hard they still seethe
>Fit for a bicycle
>Fit for tactical rape
>Cheap and reliable
>Dust cover free of charge
>Blessed by the emperor
>Beat the mosin nagant in 1905
>Sex with japanese geisha
>Motivated miners in manchuria
>Harrased villagers in the Philippines 30 years after its obsolescence
The best weapon in the war and what the modern US military should retrofit to salvage the new rifles desu Any other anons find these warships sexually attractive? 80 years since the Battle of Schloss Itter. What are some other bizarre battles? After 3 and a half years, Estonia can into HIMARS. It was sunny when Mriya's baby sis Ruslana landed, and raining for kino photos at the reception. I downloaded the giant photos and shrunk them just for you <3 Why havent the russians added a simple ram coating to their flankers like the chinese? It seems most of the weaknesses from the Second World War come from its military leadership/poor industrial base. Was there anything that could've been done to better prepare Italy in the interwar period? >According to Pakistani officials 125 fighter jets fought for more than one hour in one of the biggest post ww2 fighter jet battles. No airspace was violated and there were instances of 160km distance engagements.
Dogfight bros it's absolutely over. and yes this is a major OPSEC failure. apparently it was subsequently destroyed Get in here and laugh at Ziggers
https://www.youtube.com/live/tVEiz-floKY?si=WAELpXId7DQA2ibx
https://www.youtube.com/live/x2KAewZjy5o?si=D17nNEtPhL6zi8PX
https://www.youtube.com/live/UIJtVvJFZt4?si=vUkbxf_3_JWdEOx9 it appears my superiority has led to some controversy so you're telling me u-boats would surface and then use these puny ass deck guns to finish off smaller vessels? how the hell did that work? i dont think they'd be effective against civil war ironclads... So taiwan has started to train somaliland officers and has donated multiple armored vehicles to somaliland, upgrading its armor away from Old soviet and Italian to more Taiwanese
>Taiwan has provided scholarships to Somaliland military officers, the Taiwan Representative Office in Somaliland announced on Thursday Say a cowboy in the south or a farmer in the midwest, maybe a trapper in the north, what weapons would you pick?
>Cowboy, Lemat since its both a revolver for general usage and a shotgun for the wayward angry bucks
>Farmer, stagecoach shotgun or colt revolver
>Trapper, hawken rifle and pet indian gf for close combat if applicable Another F-18 falls overboard, this time during landing.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/politics/second-us-navy-jet-is-lost-at-sea This was among other homemade firearms seized from a hijacking syndicate by Cape Town LE.
https://iol.co.za/capetimes/news/2025-05-08-crackdown-on-hijacking-syndicate-homemade-firearms-radios-and-more-confiscated/
It looks to be gas operated.
Thoughts? Which assassinations failed due to the weapon or user-error? Do we know why both pistols failed the Jackson assassin? Artillery is called the god of war for a reason
Post artillery here Rafale, J-10, Mirage 3000.
All of them have Delta Wing without Horizontal Stabilizer.
Meanwhile both the USAF and the US NAVY reject this type of wing configuration. Any reason why? Discuss FRTs and super safeties.
>No copypasta yet lets put one together.
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Super Safety: 90-150$ How bad is the issue really? Way in the future, how do you think Space warfare would be fought? Hyundai filed a patent for what appears to be the future K3 tank. The filing has 9 images, which I'll post here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bMN5W04Zs
Don't forget to vote locally. Write them letters and show your support. Have you voted in your local district election faggot? Atmos and Arx linked up, keep it or sneed it?
https://atmos-space-cargo.com/milestones/new-european-space-defence-alliance-formed/
>ATMOS and ARX Robotics to build the world’s first Orbit-to-Ground Deployment Platform
>Newly Formed Space Defence Alliance to link leading dual-use technology innovators with space industry
>ATMOS recently demonstrated its PHOENIX re-entry system with a first orbital mission; next generation capsule PHOENIX 2 launches in 2026
>The new platform adds integrated space defense capabilities to strengthen Europe’s operational readiness & infrastructure
These are the same guys already in the UXS Alliance, with like Quantum Systems and the like. No idea how practical orbital dropped UAVs are but the idea sounds cool. Cops gave me a paper form to fill in to register my telescopic sights but my handwriting is terrible and also I stained the forms with coffee. Now I've decided to just copy the form in Word and hope they don't notice it or care that it's duplicated lol
Americans always say "gun control is dumb lol" but you don't actually live in the clown countries in which it's implemented so you don't really know how stupid it truly is. The Modern Day Marine paper on the XM7 dropped.
the intro:
While it has some impressive terminal ballistic potential, the adoption of the XM7 represents a significant downgrade to the ability of Soldiers to fight and win the next peer on peer war. From World War I to the battlefields of the Russia-Ukraine War, a huge majority of infantry engagements have occurred within 300 meters. The lesson learned in blood from these conflicts is that fire superiority--not long range, aimed fire--is what wins firefights. This monograph seeks to re-examine the lessons of the past in combination with unclassified technical and tactical data to make a compelling argument against the continued adoption of the XM7. It will also examine the programs which led to the creation of the XM7, reports from units currently equipped with the XM7, and potential alternatives for consideration.
the report:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/91xl8q839hn28uj/Trent_NGSW-EWS_Fellowship_Project_%2528Final%2529.pdf/file Tactical Boots approved by /k/ >India paid 288 million per RAFALE
Holy shit how is this even possible as a /k/ommando with a 40 some odd number of guns, I'm looking to expand my arsenal to bladed weapons.
Where do you go for shit that isn't just wallhanger trash? I considered picking up a katana while I was in japan but the process sounded like a pain in the ass
This is a follow-up to my thread on the russian catalogue: https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/62570248
Notes below.
1. What is this?
● This is a visual catalogue of unmanned systems – UAVs, UGVs, USVs, target drones, ammo – in use with Ukraine's military. It features information on weapons you might not have heard about. Includes MALEs and deep strike.
● Russians managed to get their hands on it 6 months ago, spreading it amongst themselves. I sat on it til now.
● In the original materials, there was a table of manufacturers containing the names and contact info of individuals. This displeased some people a great deal. I have scrubbed this information from the file.
2. What has changed?
● The spiral-bound volumes lag their digital counterparts, regardless of the year. The scanned materials and the digital materials were both prepared for 2024.
● As mentioned in >>62354091, 2024 saw procurement reforms that mandated rapid decisions on approving new items for use by the armed forces. The required turnaround time is 10 days for uncomplicated items. This has greatly expanded inventory of all types.
● In 2024, the Unmanned Systems Force was in its infancy. Its structure and methods continue to evolve at pace.
● Codification of new weapons is accelerating in most domains. For instance, in March 2025 there were 12 fiber-optic systems codified for use. Today there are 45.
3. Links
English is machine-translated with google. You can work out the meaning of the obvious stupidities by context, like "until 2 o'clock" for "up to 2 hours".
ua https://files.catbox.moe/atswkm.pdf
en https://files.catbox.moe/z365gc.pdf Russians posted video of a BK-16 landing boat desperately trying to fend off a Magura V5 USV. It's pretty interesting to get this POV.
The drone is carrying an R-73 missile. He gets under their gun, right up on their ass, so they resort to RPGs and small arms.
https://files.catbox.moe/v6sgw7.mp4 Previously unknown footage of wagner shooting down a russian Ka-52 helicopter during the June 2023 mutiny. Said to have been posted by a wagner channel in Dec 24. Audio: https://files.catbox.moe/97h5ld.mp4 Previous >>63631775
>Images (limit reached)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHMpjNt2l7k It's true
>the entire industrial military complex is now in deep trouble because they make money out of these high-tech weapons that cost millions of dollars a piece
>But we've seen that to win a war you need equipment that can be lost. You prefer to have 100 tanks that are average but that can cover a wide range that can be lost and repaired easily than to have 10 elite tanks
>we've seen that with the M1 Abrams
>I know they're not the most modern ones but they were sold as one of the best tanks for Ukraine And well they're just as good as any other Soviet era tank
https://youtu.be/uuYJQKSCEaI?&t=2673 Over the last day I have pored over several government reports, Janes analysis, etc and compiled my own rankings of worldwide Navies. In pic related I show what I consider "blue water" navies, "green water navies", and "coastal" navies (which are essentially little more than coast guard). Agree with my rankings? anyone watch it yet?
I haven't gotten past this webm yet >Walking home one night
>Mugger jumps out of nowhere
>"Gimme your wallet!"
>Pull out my Taurus
>He gives me HIS money because I obviously need it more than he does
>Go home depressed about my shitty gun purchases
>Decide to shoot myself
>Jams Most likely the 35mm variant.
https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2025/four-nordic-countries-to-jointly-procure-hundreds-of-cv90-infantry-fighting-vehicles-to-create-a-unified-mechanized-force What was the stupidest thing your CO did on deployment? Stark Virtus loitering munition. Selected by the Bundeswehr along with Helsing. We finally know what it is. >Russian Shitbox ammo gets hit
>It lits
>Join Skyrim tier giant space program
So basicaly if a bullet like a 308 penned your mag would it mean it blows up that too?
What about rockets and bombs from jets ammos from arty and so on? How would you DIY your own NERA on a budget? The russians want to use steel and plexiglass secured by tape.
>Given the lack of the required number of dynamic protection elements from NII Stalii, it is proposed to use non-explosive reactive protection.
https://defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/defitsit_zvichajnogo_kontakt_1_u_rf_prizviv_do_pojavi_zahistu_z_orgskla_ta_skotchu-18482.html >lmfao let's try to introduce 20 new guns within a short amount of time without having to spend any considerable amount of R&D to ensure that the gun isn't a QC ridden POS when it comes out so we can cater to everyone at the same time while pleasing nobody while making a youtube video bragging about how we're doing community service to the 2A community by making guns afforable for the average joe.
Seriously, what the fuck is their problem? HOHENFELS, Germany — The US Army is embarking on its largest overhaul since the end of the Cold War, with plans to equip each of its combat divisions with around 1000 drones and to shed outmoded weapons and other equipment.
The plan, the product of more than a year of experimentation at this huge training range in Bavaria and other US bases, draws heavily on lessons from the war in Ukraine, where small unmanned aircraft used in large numbers have transformed the battlefield.
The Army's 10 active-duty divisions would shift heavily into unmanned aircraft if the plan is carried out, using them for surveillance, to move supplies and to carry out attacks.
WSJ
https://archive.is/twjBM Say the magic shield only removes shrapnel and slow moving rounds.
How does warfare change? >1trillion budget to research and develop technology to take down aliens craft
>Can requisition any country to be testing bed for this
>All the world scientist are at your disposal
What tech would you be researching, and what would the prototype that come out look like? It is time to go. Post F-15 images.
https://www.kadena.af.mil/News/Display/Article/4135115/67th-fgs-activates-at-kadena-and-bids-final-farewell-to-f-15c/ What is the third plane even supposed to do in a Vic formation? Brits and Japs kept using 3-plane flights for awhile.
>having two planes offensive on one enemy creates friendly fire/collision hazard
>if the third plane breaks off to shoot some other guy, they have no cover Based?
Khartiia. Artillerymen of 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled guns received Fort-230 SMGs as AKS-74 substitutes. What does /k/ think of SEAD? Over rated? Trade, create, and sell your patches!
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>Where can I buy that sweet patch/ find patches?
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>other lists
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https://hackmd.io/@chef5estrela/ByQJ8OFtn (2023) why do people pay so much for gun lubes? i'm guilty of it too, but surely there's a generic general purpose lube that does literally the same stuff. what is so special about a gun compared to other pieces of machinery? Comfy (but unusable, sorry) pistol grips edition
Just got that pachmayr pistol grip for my 1300. They say it's the best available, being discontinued for a discontinued gun. I'll need to sand it a bit, it doesn't perfectly fit, probably because of the trigger guard being meh adjusted. Wondering if I'd need to find a front Tacstar pistol grip and some heatshield for a cool Duke Nukem effect now. Watching the parade, what is that vehicle on the right? Post shit you think is /k/ool.
It's now confirmed that even Iran-quality drone swarm tactics are effective against superpower-tier militaries. During the Red Sea Campaign the US lost between 10-20 Reapers, three super hornets, two navy SEALs, and one navy sailor, costing over a billion dollars total. The Houthis have already stated that they'll continue to fire on Israeli ships (although apparently, not US ships, which seems to have been the only benefit of the truce for the US). Meanwhile the Israeli Port of Eilat has been closed and bankrupt since November and the Israelis are apparently furious that the US didn't negotiate for the Houthis to stop launching drones into Israel. The Houthis suffered a few hundred lost and some infrastructure damage but they've now gotten the US and its allies to essentially fuck off.
Basically what I'm saying is that using cheap shitty drones they made the war unsustainable for the US. Not because they inflicted massive losses or even because of public sentiment, but simply because intercepting drones is too fucking expensive. Before you say anything, I'm a SEA Filipino.
>Brigade
>Distant Thunder
>Mighty Fortress
>Hill of Ravens
>Freedom Sons
What's the correct order of reading this series?
According to the reading order: Brigade is published in 2008, yet it comes first before the Hill of Ravens which was published in 2001.
I'm confused about the reading order. AK General /akg/
.223 And 203 Edition
>Thread #2062
Old thread here >>63590862 Do any /k/ anons know why planes have started to avoid southern Somalia recently? Lot of passenger airliners have started to avoid that area but I can’t find any news on why this is happening.
This was not a thing few months back so im curious as to what could be happening to cause this. Post italian weapons. Guns, cannons, ships, tanks, planes, anything italian I think I'm tapped out on what I can do myself. The wood is just about finished now that I've stippled the foregrip, pistol grip, and back area. I need to stop handling it before it gets a good cure so I can polish out the dull in the oil coating, but that's pretty much it. Only thing left now is to send out the steel and stainless steel pieces to get the black oxide cold blue coating media blasted off, and have it all black nitride finished. Many years of my life working on something for who the fuck knows why has come to a close, and I'm glad to not have to work on anything again for a while. AP mines are back on the menu Why is everyone carrying 17+1 rounds and spare extended mags +lasers and lights when all thats needed is 1-3 shots center mass? Wonder what people will rationalize carrying in 20 years, 6x 35 round mags with thermal/x-ray red dots? This is a no-assembly 22LR for printing at home in one piece, with a wood screw for the firing pin. Lately I've been wondering: what's the future for low-end handguns?
With the whole industry racing to Business Class - trying to capture their piece of the overpriced 1911/2011 market – amid a wider reactionary turn away from carry minmaxing, what happens to plastic? Where does the race to the bottom actually bottom out, and does something new start from there?
It seems like the polymer-and-steel perfection™ paradigm is currently dying. But it's mostly dying from ever-cheaper clones and pushback against strikerslop as premium firearms, not from actual counterexamples making use of either more interesting metals (Al/Be/Mg/Sc/Ti) or better substitutes for Polymer 2 and its analogues.
So. Which way, western hand?
https://web.archive.org/web/20180915111225/http://www.pronews.gr/amyna-asfaleia/aeroporia/637338_agrio-xylo-se-rafale-eurofighter-kai-f-15e-apo-ta-f-35-se-epikes
>Overwhelming superiority of the F-35A fighter was recorded in some of the most epic (virtual) air battles in NATO history, when for the first time the USAF fighter encountered French Rafale fighters and British Eurofighter Typhoon in the Atlantic Trident exercise (April 12-18), some results of which began to leak.
>The score was overwhelmingly in favor of the American fighters, 5th generation of course, but the issue for the Greek side is not how the European fighters behaved against the F-22, but against the F-35, as in six months the "somewhat tired" Mirage 2000 and the third generation F-16 of the PA will have to deal with the Turkish F-35A.
>The result was 18-0 against the Rafale and 19-0 against the Eurofighter and 16-1 against the F-15E.
>The Rafale and Eurofighters were shot down by AIM-120s long before they realized that there was an enemy in firing position.
>The F-35's APG-81 radar detected at distances of more than 230 km. entrapments at distances of more than 150 km. and fired at the firing range of the AIM-120 with the Anglo-French fighters, literally not knowing "where it came from"!
>They never approached at distances of less than 30 km. And when they did, all the Anglo-French fighters were shot down!
>All this from an aircraft that was not designed as an aircraft of air superiority, against aircraft that were designed as aircraft of air superiority (even if the Rafale was given an emphasis on air-to-ground missions), but now it has shown that the 4th from the 5th generation is separated by a real chaos, as it is not only the stealth features, it is also the electronic systems that give overwhelming leadership.
>It was surprising that even in the IRST system of the Eurofighter, it seemed useful, as the F-35s were fired outside their firing range.
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Previously on /brg/: >>63559008 Would tanks be still relevant? Is there still any reason to deploy one heavily armored vehicle instead of multiple expendable UGVs? Do manlets make the best soldiers? I've heard the special forces outfits tend to be small, wiry men with amazing endurance rather than hulking chads who gas out easily. Audie Murphy was tiny, he looked like a child. M-1991 North Korean 240mm MRLS smoked my HIMARS somewhere in Puccia I'm a poorfag from Flint and wanna learn how to shoot and hunt properly, specifically with shotguns. There aren't any ranges in Genesee county that do shotgun rentals though, so does anyone else from Michigan or potentially northern Ohio/Indiana know of one that does?
Also for what it matters I'm only 20, the ranges here require you to either be 21 or be with someone who is. Dunno if that's state/country-wide or specific to here. Not a dealbreaker if it's the former, it'd just be more convenient to not have to drag someone along. lmao
https://x.com/OSINTWarfare/status/1920421041047834682
The REAL reason why Pakistan were able to down so many Indian aircraft is not because the Indians are bad pilots, but it's because the J10C is much more powerful than people give it credit for.
Anybody that looked at these two aircraft objectively knew that the J10C would come out on top.
Both jets are 4.5 gens, but the J10C has much more 5th gen components and capabilities than the Rafale. The Chinese learned a lot when they successfully designed the J20 and went back to the J10 to implement their advancements. The French never developed or owned any 5th gen fighters so they didn't have the capabilities to do the same. In fact, the Rafale had very little alterations throughout the years meanwhile, the J10C is practically internally different from its original design.
Another aspect of why the J10C won over the Indian Air Force is its electronic warfare suite. China currently has one of the most powerful and sophisticated EW network and this is heavily influenced by their defensive military mindset. The Chinese are constantly under harassment from the US running sorties near their borders, they've adapted to the situation over the decades and have built up their EW capabilities by resisting against some of the US's most dangerous armaments. This advancement was of course transferred to refining the J10 and its a pivotal reason as to why Pakistan's Air Force had an edge against the Squadron that Indian deployed. There are of course more reasons as to why Pakistan came out on top, but these are the most significant factors.
>French intelligence official says 1 Indian Rafale shot down
>https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2052326/french-intelligence-official-confirms-downing
>2 US officials say India has lost two planes
>https://www.reuters.com/world/pakistans-chinese-made-jet-brought-down-two-indian-fighter-aircraft-us-officials-2025-05-08/
>four Indian government sources say three Indian planes crashed
>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/three-fighter-jets-crashed-indias-jammu-kashmir-local-govt-sources-say-2025-05-07/
>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/world/asia/india-pakistan-attacks.html
>Pakistani government claims 6 Indian planes shot down including 3 Rafales and a drone
>https://www.tbsnews.net/world/south-asia/pakistan-says-it-downed-2-indian-jets-retaliation-late-night-strikes-1135701
>Pakistan-India fighter jet “dog fight” was one of largest and longest in recent aviation history
>A total of 125 fighter jets battled for over an hour, with neither side leaving its own airspace, according to the source who detailed that the missile exchanges were happening at distances sometimes greater than 160 kilometers (100 miles).
>Neither side was prepared to send their pilots over the border because of a much smaller dogfight in 2019. An Indian Air Force pilot was shot down on Pakistani territory and paraded on TV before being returned to India. A humiliation, he said, neither side wanted this time.
>https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/india-pakistan-attack-kashmir-tourists-intl-hnk
Its safe to say that in the massive one hour dogfight involving over a hundred planes after the initial Indian strikes, atleast one Indian plane crashed, possibly a Rafale Are executioner swords a meme weapon >lights up your outdated yuroshit 4.5 gen aircraft
>guides the chinkshit missile right to you
>fucks off home
Why are AWACS planes so cool? Is European made hardware that bad? >Writting a story about specops with Special tech
>Enemy runs a lot of airpower
>Behind enemy lines
>To deal with the airproblem they have
>Manpads(25km range, Precise AI interception software, UV|IR|low+normal light sensors, Mach 5 in 2.5 seconds, fraghead, limited radar refractive coating, launches on its on when detects a plane or helicopter)
>Multi rocket tripods(8total per One)+computer which programs the path, this shoots out when it detect a bomb, missile is incoming on the position) each one has a 4km rangebut is shoot out and accelerate to speed above in less than a sec
How do this two weapon platform sound in theory?
Also if the second one is needed to intercept a jdam should it have a fragmentation warhead or shaped charge? Which one is the better speargrip? Overhand or underhand? >9mm is better, shoot capacity matters the most. >The Indonesian military philosophy about the defense of the archipelago is summarily civilian-military defence, called "Total People's Defense", consisting of a three-stage war: a short initial period in which an invader would defeat a conventional Indonesian military, a long period of territorial guerrilla warfare followed by a final stage of expulsion, with the military acting as a rallying point for defense from grass-roots village level upwards.
>first we lose
is volkssturm a viable defence strategy? I've got an unmolested, pre-WW2 Yugo M24 (royal markings and all). I've been trying to get an accurate sling for it but all I've been able to find relating to it is this image.
Is this accurate? And if so, then where the hell do I get one?
I've been trying to find more sources and/or examples, but the vast, VAST majority are relating to the M24/47 and even those seem to be dead ends with the ever famous source of "trust me bro". So I was wanting to customize an action figure like Rambo into one of the Ikari Warriors dudes... but I'm stumped on what that rifle is. Seems to have a bullet strip on one side and a handle on the other. Kind of like an M60, buuut...? What is the appeal of LWRC piston ars?
>cost the same as a HK 416 or SCAR
>no mil contracts
>limited LE contracts
>no use in conflicts
>proprietary barrel that costs $500 to replace and must be sent into LWRC, while HK will replace a 416 barrel for free for life.
What is the reason to buy one? I don't read finnish, but here is a source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20160246
They don't have their F35s yet AFAIK so it's probably a Hornet. Does anyone know what happened? if it's not mean to be shot why is it IPSC target shaped? Will we ever see a real life power armor? Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
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What ever happened to the concept of militias? I don't mean like the LARPing retards like patriot front or whatever but people staying within their own community to supplement police. Doing things like looking out for crime, helping out after natural disaster, etc. I'm not thinking about state run organizations like national guards, but one run by private citizens. I'm sure they exist on a small scale but I feel like the concept died in the 19th century Regarding infantry combat, there has been a global trend toward smaller rifle cartridges and more ammunition per soldier.
This we know.
During firefights, the side that expends more bullets during the skirmish generally wins.
This we also know.
So why America has settled on the XM5 as its new service rifle, which seems to be like a modernized FAL or M14? To me this seems like a strange and dubious decision Weapons related, watching them get used in real time.
Status report:
>100+ shells, the tower stands
>Cameraman's building hit with shrapnel multiple times
>Birds: Agitated
>Steve: Eating
>Anons: Drinking
https://www.youtube.com/live/RxWFzoJ7I-A Post your cool RE guns and discuss RE oriented collection. Old thread died. Post yours. Talk about your favorites. nothing will ever happen.
they do this shit every 5 years XX Women
NO traps
airsoft ok if shes smoking (8+)
bonus for girl soldiers
Lets just get along edition
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LAM/MFAL comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5V9qYxITW0
Resource on what these spec terminology mean
https://www.nite-walker.com/post/2019/11/21/specs-for-dummies-101
https://apollogearco.com/blogs/news/night-vision-specs-explained
https://gloomgroup.com/blogs/night-vision-info/night-vision-specifications-understanding-what-they-mean
You shouldn't be chasing for spec values but they do exist and if you wanted to know what "better spec" values are there's a way to know which unit is desirable over another.
Most retailers won't post this info as they build NVDs to order, first come first serve, and depending on their grading scale of high, mid, low tier it may differ from retailers. If a retailer offer a “ready to ship” fully built units they will list the spec values. Hand select is an option from retailers that will try to match to your spec requirements.
Some reputable retailers:
https://www.jrhenterprises.com/
https://steeleindustries.com/
https://nvisionoptics.com/
https://www.customnightvision.com/
https://apollogearco.com
SNR: signal to noise ratio, the amount of signal the tube can make compared to the noise
EBI: equivalent background information, how much false image appears in the screen through which the actual image has to show, sort of a noise floor of sorts
Halo: How big the circle of bloom is around lights
Photocathode Sensitivity: How sensitive the photocathode is
LP Resolution: Line pair res of the center of the image as measure against a standardized chart
If one spec is shit it negates the rest, if you have a halo of 2.0 it kinda fucks on an EBI of 0.20 if you want to do any kind of shooting and it's all a balance game
The numbers to meet or beat are
EBI under 1, preferably under 0.6 being great, 0.1 is gucci
Halo under 1, anything under 0.7 is awesome
SNR, over 25 anything over 30 is gucci
Photocathode, 1900+ is pretty great, 2500+ is stellar
Resolution of 64+ is good, 72+ is gucci Hello dear friends,
I am a historian, and I recently found a photo from open sources that caught my attention. It shows a panther standing on a cliff. I searched a lot to find out where this photo was taken and what happened to the panther, but I couldn’t find any information.
If anyone knows anything about this photo, the location, or the panther, I would be very thankful for your help.
Best regards Spomer is right. It’s a jack of all trades, master of none cartridge in a sport where optimization nets the best results. You’re trying to fill your freezer so you should be using the most op timeline for the game you’re taking and more often than not, 308 just isn’t that. >Martin-Baker, maker of ejection seats for fighter jets, updated its tally to 7,788 from 7,784 after a USN F/A-18F Super Hornet crashed into the Red Sea.
>Three aircraft remain unaccounted for.
>Note that India’s Rafales use Martin-Baker Mk16 seats.
Indianbros?:
https://x.com/clashreport/status/1920071379161923944?t=2cobJkrYY9-lohVlwUw3uQ&s=19 >https://x.com/Defence_IDA/status/1920057405976539215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1920057405976539215%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twz.com%2Fair%2Fchinas-pl-15-air-to-air-missile-appears-to-have-been-used-in-combat-for-first-time New American FPV dropped. PDW's FPV2.0. PDW already sells their C100 transport multicopter to the US military. ITT: Ads for weapons that were 100% somehow real. It's weird to me that their are countless autistically detailed military and civilian simulators for everything from firearms, aircraft, submarines, warships, semi trucks, farm equipment, spaceships, trains, etc, but there doesn't seem to be any milsims for operating the king of the battlefield. Presumably there is a lot of gameplay you could get out of learning to operate an artillery battery? plasticmodelfag here,
while researching modern tank camo i came across the barracuda mcs. Is this what tank camo will be like for the forseeable future? I was kinda expecting more pixelated camos and fancy new futuristic paintjobs. All we get is a large plastic cover with some heat insulation in a color suited to the mission. Thats not kino at all, especially when there is a green 3-tone nato camo visible under the MCS.
Also general tank camo thread i guess You may not agree, but this is how peak soldiers look like Why did they have the meme knife in Andor S02E09? >russia fights Ukraine
>russians immediately lose hundreds of aircraft to mediocre AD
>India and Pakistan go at it
>jeets lose 5 aircraft day 1 to shitty Chink AD
>IDF operating over Syria, Yemen, Iran constantly for years who all claim to possess potent AD systems
>lose nothing
What’s their secret?