/k/ - Weapons and Militaria

>>8880
You're a genius! You'd just need to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow every ten thousand miles.  And on Whitsunday during leap year, of course.

>>8873
Well there goes my hopes and dreams of a blimp based retro near future setting.

>>8873
Didn't the USN use unarmored non-rigid airships for anti-sub reconnaissance during WW2?

And yes I know you can't armor airships but the fact of the matter is the USS Akron and Makon were active for more than a year before dying as was the LZ-129 before the Jews did it in.
The scout-carrier airships in my shitpost would have a "realistic" service life of a few weeks to a year and would scout in the same manner as a regular aircraft carrier, that is by employing fixed-wing aircraft.
The ship itself would never dare approach enemy warships/aircraft as it would be a guaranteed fug, their greatest non-meteorological non-flying seaborne threats would in theory be subs with AA guns but good luck to any captain trying to chase or intercept a big hydrogen benis flying at 100+kph that totally won't have ASW ordinance for its aircraft compliment  ready to go in an emergency, nor any strange wired guided flying bombs.

Yes it's retarded in the long term, but how else are you going to scout for enemy forces in the mid-atlantic without putting your actual swimming aircraft carrier(s) at too much risk?
Use Type XIV u-boats to refuel flying boats at sea?
Due to their speed, could such an airships LARP as a "proper" carriers by modulating Radar signal strength to lead hostile task forces on fuel-draining goose chases?

>>8880
>Like treat it like it was a space craft?
But
<alternate late 1940s
Either way an airship is not a spaceship. Ion thrusters have very low impulse (force), not enough to overcome mild wind (let alone a storm or jet stream), plus you need a engine/generator to power it.
It works in space because it's super efficient with fuel and satellites can't refuel because physics, and the "wind" is similarly mild, and solar provides reliable electricity. None of that is true within the atmosphere. except physics
>>8881
>reverse the polarity of the neutron flow
Oh it's this nonsense again. Flux capacitors needed for this would be way too heavy for an airship.

You know what? Put a giant nuclear reactor on the airship, just like aircraft carriers have. Then it can have powerful ion thrusters and enemy will be too afraid to shoot at it. Actually a fusion reactor would make even more sense since the airship will carry metric shittons of hydrogen, some of it can be used for fusion (and the resulting helium byproduct will just make it float even better).

>>8912
>using nuclear fusion to solve the helium shortage
Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks.

>New thread?
>Nope, some fag necrobumped it.

>>3048
>necrobump
Spotted the newfag

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>>178 (OP) 
How doesn't that kid realize how fucked up he is?

>>3648
What he is lacking makes it impossible for him to comprehend what he is lacking, or even that he is lacking something. He is probably autistic. Many such cases.

>>8710
I didn't notice the "on" and thought you were an englishman taking the piss.

>>8733
>englishman
>getting a carry license
WEW
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That's a good one.

Does anyone here shoot .22 LR in high volume?  I have a .22 pistol that keyholes intermittently but it currently looks like it only does it with Federal "Automatch" bulk pack from Wal-Mart.

My shooting session of a few hours ago, starting with the gun freshly cleaned and well lubed:

250 rounds Federal Automatch, two failures to extract, three duds, at least seven keyholes at ten yards, very dirty, could feel and hear that these were very inconsistent

150 rounds Armscor 36gr high velocity copper plated hollowpoints, no problems, decent groups at ten yards, a bit dirty, orange sparks (I assume burning propellant) visible spraying out of the ejection port a few times

300 rounds CCI "Mini-Mag" 36gr high velocity copper plated hollowpoints, no problems, good groups at ten yards

Leading was not bad.  Almost all the fouling present was propellant residue.  Cleaning the bore was the work of less than five minutes with a boresnake and carburetor cleaner.  It's going to get wet patches with copper solvent put in the bore to stand a bit and I'll then clean it a bit more, but that never results in more than the smallest, barely visible trace of green on dry patches pushed through afterward.

Is anyone else seeing this kind of problem with Automatch?  It seems like the quality has declined badly over the past three years or so.  It used to be decent plinking ammo and a well kept secret for the money.  But the price kept going up and it got dirtier and dirtier, more and mo

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>>8733
OI U GOT A LOICENS FOR THAT BOIKE?

>>8710
Pocket carry is the only good way to conceal and ride a bike, unless you go off-body and carry in a courier bag (which I advise against.) The max size of a "pocket" pistol depends on your pants, but even blue jeans can conceal a Ruger LCP. Cargo pants can get you a Glock 43 / Sig 365 / S&W M&P2.0 or whatever other subcompact you like. Even though I don't bike anymore, I carry an old Sig p938, which is a Colt Mustang clone chambered in 9x19.
As far as state ID rather than DL keeping you from getting an LTC/CHL/CPP/CWL, no, not usually. If the requirements in your state are too difficult for whatever reason, check if your state recognizes any other carry licenses and see if they will issue to nonresidents. Some licenses are as simple to get as an afternoon on Zoom and a background check.

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>>8661
To be fair, this is more of a big pop-up launcher than a cherry picker, so it's not exactly good at peeking over treelines and buildings.

With Ace combat 7 being made into reality over the Ukraine, will the twisted games of the modern age finally be reset?

>>8799
What did he mean by this?

>>8800
Russkies and Hohols now regurlarly employ autonomous A2A interceptor drones that ram anything that doesn't respond to IFF, the latest models of the Lancet recon drone IIRC now have muh AI to detect and evade hostile interceptors and supposedly fully autonomous A2G drones have been deployed to strike mobile Hohol targets behind the front lines with no radio guidance whatsoever.
Airborne drone carriers have also been used, the only thing AC7 didn't predict were fibreoptic drones to get around ECM and anti-fibreoptic interceptors carrying scissors.

On the note of drone countermeasures, has anyone prototyped an anti-drone MANPAD small enough to fit into an underslung grenade launcher?
The missile wouldn't need more than a kilometer of range and the warhead could be tiny as well mounting them on tanks would also be the first step towards Battletech.

>>8799
>will the twisted games of the modern age finally be reset?
Yes! The bad news is it's Ace Combat: Temu Edition.

Some say that India allegedly bombed some Paki nuclear silo installations and the US offered a radiation-detecting plane to check the area just in case, then later Egypt sent a cargo plane full of boron. 
I think yesterday the pajeets said they did not hit the Kitana Hills nuke base after the rumors increased so the plot gets more confusing. If a nuke depot really got hit then i am very surprised Pakis did not fling one of those at India already.

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Its over, close the thread.

>>8609
>millions of people could have been killed
>people

I'm still hoping that these silly headbobbing world pollutant shitskins will nuke each other. 

>>8609 
Let them sort out their problems. Fuck orange nigger

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In my readings it seems 2012, 2020, March 2025 and 2030/2047 get repeated
Well, it's that time of the month again and the last notable one at least

>>8140
Say that once the month has passed in full.

>>8145
Curiously enough the supposed original intention of the group that organized that "protest" was environmental and they had a couple of specific goals regarding european energy politics, yesterday out of nowhere UK abided to one of the goals explicitly, an english gtoup that was supposedly involved in the media stunt dissolved after meeting their demands.
Perhaps it was all a globohomo stunt but it does coincide with a bunch of interesting events like Iran feeling the US too close, EU being against the US and a tariff war.

I was just outside and I saw the fuckiest thing. It was like a string of pearls in orbit, moving pretty fast. Space station or some satellite hasn't broken up has it? It was too slow for meteors unless they were actually in a temporary orbit.

>>8452
Sounds like Elmo's space internet. I've seen them a couple of times, considering how's many satellites they launched I thought they'd be visible more often. I guess due to low orbit they don't catch the sun as often.

>>8327
>They even got him to kill his parents.
That makes it so they can't sue or go around as spokesmen against fed entrapment, the prey takes out its own defenders.

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>>8357
Like this?

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>>3678

>>244 (OP) 
>7.62x39
ДА!
This is my main caliber.
Not because it is good in itself, but because there is VPO-136 on the Russian arms market. This is the best that can be bought in Russia for reasonable money:
1) Original AKM, Soviet production. Personally, mine, made in Tula, 1976.
2) The automatic trigger axis is riveted, the automatic trigger lug on the bolt carrier is cut off. The trigger mechanism has been replaced with a dual-axis, semi-automatic one. For reference: the bolt carrier and trigger mechanism from an AK can be bought completely legally for ~ $ 100. And this was my third purchase, after 1000 rounds and a dozen different magazines.
3) The butt screw is welded. It is illegal to unscrew it, but who knows what is under the welded cap? Without an examination, which I will get if I am detained with my beloved Zhukov, this cannot be found out.
4) The rifling pitch allows shooting long and heavy subsonic bullets. The thread on the barrel is completely free for any muzzle devices. And naturally, I bought myself a can a long time ago.
5) Full compatibility with army magazines. Large, reliable and cheap. Steel at the price of dirt, bakelite at a higher price, aluminum for those who care about weight, drums for machine gunners. 30/40/75 - for every taste!
6) If I get a GP-25 somewhere, I know where I'll put it. All the mounts are preserved. And the bayonet-knife is simply included.
There are also bad things.
AKMs did not have a standard side mount for sights. And this was a big problem for me. You could have used something new-fangled tactical, like a receiver cover, a rear sight, a gas tube with a weaver. But all this crap is only good for collimators! It provides sufficient strength and stability of the aiming point for installing 1-4 optics or any night sight. In addition, I already had a 1pn93-2 night sight, which is compatible only with a side dovetail.
I will not describe my adventures for long, I will only say that my AKML side rail made it on the LAST plane from Poland, and for its high-quality installation, I had to go to Moscow for the first time in my life.
The second negative from it is its high weight. Sometimes I think, maybe I should have taken 5.45 for everything and 9x19 for subsonic cartridges back then, seven years ago? It would have been worth it if weapons for it, with a third axis in the receiver, were on sale in Russia then. But there were none - there were only Saigas. Besides, back then, the 60-round 5.45 quad-row magazines were nothing more than pictures on the internet. And even now, when I can buy them, they are not known for their reliability...

Sorry for my English, I use machine translation.

>>569
90+% of war deaths are caused by shrapnel. Shrapnel is what helmets were invented to protect against.
Also, in order for a helmet to be on a soldier's head at the right moment, and not under his ass, it has to be lightweight. A soldier at war 24/7/365...

22 lr, 12 guage, and 300 win mag. Almost all your needs are covered with these calibers

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>slave guarding the border
>a huge ass cats gets too close
>climb a tree and yell cheeki breeki so it goes away
>can't shot it because it is illegal

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In other they say a hotel Dnipropetrovsk got destroyed because it was full of mercs.

>>8167
>Danish women
>"I think it's fine if it's mandatory, as long as there is a choice of whether to do it or not"
That's not what mandatory means pumpkin.
>"It can be a good break to do military service"
Typical women and their self fulfillment "journeys"