/k/ - Weapons and Militaria

>>18414
Second one is straight out from a From Software game.

>>18431
That's exactly what I thought too. I was shocked when I came across it and just had to post it.

>>16913
In such uncouth circumstance one is to herald immediately to all those present "Pray! No folly! No hankering!" lest your character be judged otherwise.

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Is the brass knuckle handle of this knife just a chuuni thing, or could it prove useful in a real fight? I know that brass knuckles can kill, I just don't see the point of trying to punch someone when you are holding a knife.

>>20556
High doubt of it ever being useful if you're getting the knife in the position to punch someone with it. You're in position to stab someone and if someone is in basically hugging reach and is basically aware of you they'll likely try to twist your wrist and or force the knife out of your hand which case your other hand should be the one that's really punching.

>>20546
>The Saudis solve all their problems with Amerigoy money. Why not pay the Houthis to fuck off? It's a better plan than what they're doing currently.
The Houthis literally just want to be left alone, the Saudis are 100% the aggressor here. They already agreed to a peace deal at one point then the Saudis refused to implement it because the Houthis decided to do their little stunt to support the Palestinians. The Saudis wouldn't even need to pay them off to get them to leave them alone, they'd just need to agree to stop fucking with them. The whole reason the Houthis rebelled in the first place was because the Saudi backed government in Yemen was being dicks to them. Now that they are the government of Yemen the whole war is the Saudis just trying to genocide them in revenge for getting rid of their proxy. The Yemen conflict is the most stupidly evil shit being done to the people of Yemen by the US, Saudi, the UAE, and Israel.

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>>20510
Hurry up, goyim! Spend your own sheqels and lets get this mess cleaned up...we have contracts to fill!!

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Talking of grubbing sheqels. Pay up.

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>>20530
I looked into that missile a while back, if it is properly considered a missile. I'm personally not sure if there is a clear distinction between missiles and drones anymore, if there ever really was. It's a two stage design with a jet powered loitering stage and then a rocket propelled stage to engage targets with. Wikipedia says it performs poorly against fast moving high flying aircraft, but I think It's probably a lot more capable of engaging high altitude threats than its specs would imply, since rockets burn most of their fuel gaining altitude. If that's handled by a jet engine the rocket propelled phase will be coming in with a running start and starting at the halfway point of the race. I bet it'd be a real menace to refuelers, since those are slow and have to be in predicable locations. Send out a couple of these to execute a search pattern and you could seriously complicate aerial operations. The real nasty thing would be to take out links in a daisy chain of refuelers so that the attacking planes can't make it to the next leg on the fuel they've got.

>>20553
>The real nasty thing would be to take out links in a daisy chain of refuelers so that the attacking planes can't make it to the next leg on the fuel they've got.
Really shows how the idea of making an expensive plane just to fly a meatbag and a bunch of missiles across half the globe is a wholly obsolete idea. If the US was not a fucking joke they could just park some ships packed with drones off the coast of Yemen and suppress rebel activities for a fraction of what was spent on the Iran debacle. But in practice what would happen is that a company such as Lockheeb would ask for 10% of the country's GDP upfront and then fail to deliver anything close to the specs after a decade of R&D.

>>17785
You're thinking of "gas-electric transmission" rather than hybrid, these are widely used on diesel trains. "Hybrid" is when torque to wheels comes from an ICE as well as electric motor(s) and the transmission combines and/or balances the two sources. Neat little things from an engineering perspective and a fucking nightmare as far reliability and repairs go, as it tends to be with added complexity.
Back to tanks, gas-electric drive was literally the first thing US tried in WW1 era with the Holt tank. Germany, or Porche rather, developed an electric drive tank chassis that was to be Tiger 1 but it lost out to Henschel's design. Soviets built a few protypes (because of course they did) one based on IS and later T-80. So it's definitely been considered and works, not sure why it hasn't caught on, must have its own challenges. Heat dissipation around the electronics seemed to be a problem of its own, as well as balancing the load versus power available from the generator, like when a track is stuck and motor can't turn over you get voltage jumping and shit can catch on fire (I'm not an electrical guru, I don't understand this part as much). It's not really a problem for trains as loads are all slow and steady and predictable. I guess in a mechanical transmission you have the clutch eating shit to compensate for that. In WW2/Cold War era all the control circuits would have been analog, maybe modern electronics wo

j>>17817
>You're thinking of "gas-electric transmission" rather than hybrid, these are widely used on diesel trains. "Hybrid" is when torque to wheels comes from an ICE as well as electric motor(s) and the transmission combines and/or balances the two sources. Neat little things from an engineering perspective and a fucking nightmare as far reliability and repairs go, as it tends to be with added complexity.
Have you watched the first video? He specifically explains how it is different from the system used on diesel-electric locomotives. And it genuinely uses two electric motors in place of a gearbox, and yet the engine can still drive the wheels directly, because they work as a replacement for the gearbox.

>>17849
>He specifically explains how it is different from the system used on diesel-electric locomotives.
Gas/diesel-electric transmissions remove mechanical coupling between motor and wheels/tracks, that's their main selling point. The eCVT design is clever and good for moving a 1-3 ton passenger vehicle, not so much for a 20-100 ton tank let alone a 200-2000+ ton train. Those planetary gears will eat shit rather quickly under such loads I reckon, probably even worse than friction clutches. Plus tank designers don't tend to care about MPGs nearly as much as Toyota does.

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We need to bring back whistles and put them on everything: bombs, missiles, drones and bullets. 
Then you equip soldiers themselves with whistles and have them run psyops on the enemy.

>>20550
I don't there will be enough humans on the frontline to wage psychological war against, but you can do a whole lot of passive reconnaissance with some cheap mics and a computer running a fancy algorithm, so there might be some merit in this idea:
>put whistles on your drones, missiles, and other things that moves quickly
>let the enemy train their algorithms with them for a few weeks
>remove the whistles to change the sonic profile from everything that had whistles, but also add them to other fast moving stuff
>now the enemy slightly misidentifies everything and has to be retrained
Still, I suspect that an AI would quickly figure out that something's off, so I'm not sure if it would actually work.

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>>11453
interesting theory

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video here

>>20477
Watching this felt like chewing on tinfoil! lol Thanks Strelok!

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>On Sept 18, a collision occurred in the South China Sea between a Chinese Coast Guard patrol vessel and the Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel Datu Magat Salamat near the disputed Xianbin (Sabina) Reef

>>20551
Asian drivers, amirite?

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Tragic https://goyimx.com/DefenceHQ/status/2099491623491060182
Must have collided with a wild bird with a pointy beak.

>>20496
>Tragic 
Are you referring to the comments?

Looks like the Ukrainians pulled off another successful counter-offensive that pushed the Russians back to where they started 2 years ago. Guess this is because the later are attacking everywhere at once, meanwhile they can pick their offensive fights to a certain degree, so good for them I guess. More importantly, Russian elections will be held next weekend, and after that we can finally see how much is true about the rumoured mobilisation.

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>III Armored Corps hosted a four-day Russian Way of War panel at Fort Hood, examining military culture, armored warfare and lessons from current conflicts.
>Know the adversary. Strengthen readiness.
USA!

>>20534
Ayo dem russians got TANKS nigga! Dafuk dey usin drones fo?

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>>20281
>I've been working

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>>20284
It becomes less amusing, when you see it everywhere for years on end. He's a boomer living in Iran (proven, with videos), likely thinking IBs are usenets like the other anon said. The problem is that anons have told him to stop being a fag for years, how to use sage, how to post in the correct board, and so on-- he simply ignores it, before receiving bans, and continuing again after a period of time. Combined with all that, they're self-plug advertisements to likely his own bookstore.

He was banned here on /k/ and /fascist/, plus elsewhere, before returning again with zero change in behavior. I do wonder if he's a retarded boomer who hired out some pajeets to spam his stuff for years, as there's posts (again self-advertising) about his digital marketing strategy.

>>20286
Please report him even if not on this board, I consider him ban on sight for spam until he either he integrates or zzzchan is dead.

>>20495
If you want his posts deleted on sight, I will do so in the future.

>>20495
>or zzzchan is dead
soon, it seems

>>20355
>video conferencing with AI avatars
This is already being normalized as well. There are so e states where basically all criminal arrangements are held via teleconference. The accused basically never leave lockup, directly interact with their lawyer or DA, have to stand in a LINE of other detainees (Yeah, this might be the most important conversation of your life, but hurry the fuck up!) and to nobody's surprise, if corrections considers the accused problematic the connection can "just go down" for the day. It's fucking nuts, and a AI chatjudge™ would just make too much sense to add to the fucking nutsitude.

>>20399
The ((( justice ))) system is mostly theater either way, with a good lawyer those problems you describe go away and for those who have to rely on public defenders the odds aren't great, teleconferencing or not.

>>20404
Too true. I just think it's worth mentioning, considering. 

It's also incredibly depressing to bring up deliberate failures in Western justice around WN/NDSP anons and the first thing out of their mouth is, "DID IT HAPPEN TO A NIGGER? IF IT HAPPENS TO A NIGGER OH FUCKING WELL NOT MY PROBLEM." Yeah, it's called a 'Test Run,' buddy. Fucking hell.

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I'm not sure if dup should be banned from playing with AI or if he should do this all day instead of whatever the fuck he does normally.

>>20463
It is just a pajeet doing PR stuff.
>mexico being burger state
Hey, at least they are here LEGALLY.

>>19401
>I can say just будет идёт дождь
I'll assume you meant пойдёт дождь.
When one makes statements about the future (in most languages, I think) some level of uncertainty is implied. Then consider the tone and emphasis, not just the grammar/linguistics.
пойдёт дождь. - focus is mainly on the noun (дождь) with the verb (пойдёт) helping to direct things into the future tense.
пойдёт дождь. - is an assertion.
дождь пойдёт! - a strong assertion.
пойдёт дождь or пойдёт снег - when either snow or rain are plausible.

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My 'tism kicked in: you know how Kriss Vector's claim to fame is that the bolt travels down in order to reduce felt recoil? Well, you could take a rifle with an inline stock (such as the AR-15), bend the barrel downward a bit, and if you also change the placement of the sights, then the shooter will have to  hold at an angle (compared to the ground) in order to shoot forward. Imagine trying to shoot with the gun on the second pic forward with the Krummlauf attached, you'd have to hold it in a rather funky way. Of course, the barrel shouldn't be so extremely bent, but you get the idea. And yes, it's a retarded idea, but such a barrel could be a fun novelty product.

>>20444
>the gun on the second pic forward with the Krummlauf attached
I mean the third pic, for the second pic the device would have to be rotated 90 degrees. Also, it might work better if instead of an external device the barrel itself would be bent, but really only very slightly, like 5-10 degrees.

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>>20444
>>20445
And I should also mention the MAS-38, as bending the barrel would be an alternative to making the whole receiver slanted.

>>20444
>image #3
Well I guess we now know the secret of that anon's exploding office chair.

>>20288
I pointed out before that USrael would do everything in their power to prevent that. It likely is hurting right now but they are desperately attempting to gain control over the home front, using surveillance, for a draft to invade Iran.

Anyone else think that the Trump administration calling the new round of sanctions "Economic D Day" is really lame? By expressly invoking D Day they have unwittingly stated that the US is no longer able (for what ever reason) to pull off the massive sort of ground invasion that they did nearly 80 years ago and so are opting for a sort of metaphorical D Day instead. 

It's also really quite risky. They're forcing everyone to declare their hand. I guess they're just hoping that it will force all the other countries to side with the US and the US dollar instead of against it. But if they're wrong and it starts a sort of "run on the bank" so to speak it'll be an economic bloodbath.

>>20288
>Weekly U.S. Ending Stocks of Crude Oil in SPR
The 80s are so back and on track for the 70s B-)
Is this the grand idea for restoring traditional values in America?

>>20289
As if. A draft at this point in time, regardless of who calls it and how many federal agents are sent to enforce it, would result in an immediate shattering of the union and a (major) net reduction in federal military power. Nothing short of an organized, uniformed land invasion of the continental US would generate sufficient public support for a draft that wouldn't cause a civil war at this point.
Bad news for the rest of NATO, sure, since that means all the US could do in an article 5 scenario is drop a bunch of bombs and threaten nuclear war, but that's the truth of the political situation in the not-so-United States right now.

>>20456
I don't know what they expected really. You would think you wouldn't want to disenfranchise the people you want to go send to die in a massive boondoggle war to the point where if you hand them a gun they are going to turn around and shoot you but hey I'm not a politician what do I know.