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A knife brand you will see shilled nonstop on Reddit and other soy places is Spyderco. They are popular because of their unusual designs and consumerist Funko Pop like practice of releasing extremely limited designs to trick retards into thinking they are special and buying them. These knives are mostly made out of a cheap plastic material they trick you into thinking long is special by calling it “fiberglass reinforced nylon” when it is really just fucking plastic. They are very expensive but if you were to hand one to someone who isn’t into knives they would probably think it costs $20 from Walmart not $200. “But plastic is light” so is titanium and aluminum which both feel much better and nicer but go ahead and keep justifying paying exorbitant prices for inferior materials. These knives also come in a shitty box with nothing else. When you buy a Protech knife they are made of aluminum and the quality control is impeccable. They are masterfully machined and you can feel the quality. They come in a special box that folds open and a fabric pouch. When you buy a Spyderco with the Golden Colorado stamp you can notice many flaws like the blade not being centered ect and it just comes in a cheap no frills box. I actually live near the Golden factory and every time I’ve gone their they have barely any knives for sale. The employees are rude and mostly fat women who don’t seem to even know very much. I’m guessing these are the same people making them so that explains why they are so poor quality. So yeah I would recommend buying Protech or WE knives instead. WE knives have amazing quality control and are made in China. Protech are made in California. Both these brands are better than Spyderco and cost roughly the same amount and aren’t used by faggot Redditors.
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>thinking brand knives are anything but throwaway scrap metal
do westoids really?
if you want an actual knife you go to your neighborhood knife maker and buy solid and heavy fixed blade traditional knife forged in front of your eyes from the chunk of steel. you keep it in a leather sheath and only wash it with either oil or animal fat

Real shit tho, looking past the reddit-esque "limited availabilty" and price tag of spyderco, there might be something to produce a cheap/disposable nylon knife that can get past metal detection. Say, for instance a 10$ polymer blade that you get before going to an event or something just so you can defend yourself if needed and throw it away at the end of the evening if you didnt need it.

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Long ago I found an old beat up Mora on Ebay for $5 and cleaned it up and made a new wood handle for it and it's served me well ever since.

>>5922
They used to sell these actually 10€ plastic daggers online a decade or so ago but after online purchases started to be tolled (and illegal ones such as daggers got stopped) at the border manufacture seemed to end mostly. Pierced melons and cheap drywall well enough.

aluminum isn't even very strong. some polymers like peek are stronger by weight than titanium


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Thread for hating on the F-35 "Lightning II" stealth turkey a.k.a the most expensive military project in history to date.

The USAF declared it ready for service in 2016
As of that date the following problems I can list just off the top of my head
- Vulnerable to lightning; it's practically a lightning rod https://archive.is/QSIii
- 0 redundancies in the cyber or mechanical aggregates; any malfunction
- RADAR glitches means it literally ahs to be turned off and on again https://archive.ph/EEd9y
- Ejection seat is banned for anyone 136 pounds or below and anyone not above 150 pounds has significant injury risk, it literally can break your neck.
- F-35 helmets glow too brightly for air-to-air refueling https://archive.is/pKE0Y
- F-35 helmets are so heavy at nearly 5 kilograms so that maneuvers cause them to bang their heads on the inside of the cockpit https://archive.ph/WsRxA https://archive.ph/dE1gP
(keep in mind these helmets are 400,000 dollars each).
- The oxygen system is unreliable (something that the F-22 shares) https://archive.ph/kGGKq

The Plane was supposed to be ready by 2010-12 having been projected in the early 2000s
the list of problems in its past and that are remaining in various levels of urgency number over 800.
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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61482

>As all three variants of F-35s have aged, their full mission availability rates have declined, on average. For F-35Bs and F-35Cs, only the newest aircraft have generally had full mission availability rates above 10 percent.

>>5062
Pierre Spray was a nut and a liar. The F-35 has great avionics and stealth, maneuvers decently, generates lift from the fuselage which makes his tiny wings point moot. The problem with the F-35 is it’s unreliable, the airframe can’t fit the mission, and the way the thing is serviced guarantees it won’t be available. It just doesn’t work 90% of the time.

>>5894
>The problem with the F-35 is it’s unreliable, the airframe can’t fit the mission, and the way the thing is serviced guarantees it won’t be available. It just doesn’t work 90% of the time.

What makes you so sure of this?

>>5900
Did you not read the post above his or what

Even this pro-NATO youtuber can see how fucked the F35 program is. Meanwhile:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/chinas-j-35-fighter-beats-f-35c-becomes-first-stealth-jet-to-be-launched-from-an-aircraft-carrier-using-emals-fujian-breaks-us-navys-monopoly-watch-video/articleshow/124060309.cms


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How garbage are 3D printed weapons?
i was under the impression they were mostly dogshit as for making a 3D printed weapon that wouldn't blow up in your hand after 6-18 shots you'd need machined parts that could effectively seal the gasses and even so it'd probably just do you good for like 50 shots at best

but i just heard the FGC-9 actually requires no machined parts and you can essentially buy these online disguised as anything else just like estrogen goes disguised as skin care products from online pharmacies

as well as apparently airsoft springs can work for the magazines if you can't get glock ready parts?

how stable could this design actually be?

also why did Russia and Cuckraine started carrying 3D printers to print AP mines and shit? knowing how long 3D models can take wasn't it easier to just carry literally any kind of molds?

did they stop doing that? or did they just hope they could rely on the redditwaffen division?

There have been some solid advancements in the filaments they use to print these so to my understanding they are getting more reliable. Something to keep in mind is that the original AUGs components are mostly manufactured with polymers, hypothetically you could probably print most of the parts to assemble one. If we arent already to the point of viable 3d weapons then we're like right there.

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Read about what the IRA and Spear of the Nation did in their homelands. Read about the Viet Minh and how they were formed. Read Clausewitz and Diem.

You have to start somewhere. Never forget, Castro had 60 fighters on the Granma. Spear of the Nation was five people at first. The Viet Minh had fewer than 500 members for years. The IRA probably never had more than 1000 at a time.

Shit is only going to change if you MAKE it change.

>>5869
why dont you reccomend some reading meterials then?

>>5871
Not OP but I recomend these. Please share anything else too if you guys have it since this is a basic rec list
On War by Carl von Clauswitz
US Army guerilla warfare manual and related manuals (urban warfare, counter guerrilla, etc.)


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Would metal gears actually be good weapons? If so, why haven’t they been made yet? CAN they be made?

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>Would metal gears actually be good weapons?
If they worked yes, kind of 4 or 6 legs is better
The height compared to a tank however is a major issue
Also they'd be very expensive to make
>If so, why haven’t they been made yet?
See above
>CAN they be made?
Maybe China in 5 years but see above

There's little practical benefit to legged vehicles over wheels/tracks. It would be no better at traversing rough terrain; if anything it would be worse, tripping and falling down hills and getting caught in trees and shit.

the mech is for anime bullshit coolness. irl we have nuclear-armed submarines that serve the same purpose

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Any Metal Gear is going to be a jack of all trades master of none, especially in the mobility department. The two things it does best are things we have cheaper, more reliable alternatives for: Taking out hard targets like bunkers and emplacements can be done by attack aircraft, armored vehicles, and artillery without all the baggage that comes with nuclear capability. For warhead delivery we already have picrel. It's also so big that it could be pretty easily destroyed by laser-guided bombs, ATGMs, and big guns.

Shagohod is the only one I think could be made currently, but it would probably be too heavy to move over difficult terrain, it would also break down fairly often, as most complex weapon systems do, and again, it could be pretty easily identified and killed from the air and ground. Bipedal technology just isn't there yet even for a hypothetical.

Rapidly deployable nuclear weapons are something we've had figured out since the 50's. The Metal Gears were designed from the start as an allegory for those existing systems.

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If you count the metal gears like Arsenal Gear and the Shagohod I can see those having some kind of real world applications. The walker gears also since they're infantry platforms that have the benefit of treads and legs for movement.


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Historically speaking, the kinds of people who are hired as mercenaries tend to be dangerous violent outlaws and psychopaths, the absolute lowest levels of humanity. How many men, women, and children have you murdered and/or raped in your lifetime? Statistically-speaking, you are very unlikely to be that hardcore and thus very unlikely to find any employer for that kind of work.

>>5896
only make sense if you're already russian and can physically go to their office.
now I'm wondering how do you join the blue helmets,only thing they do is assist in color revolution and defend islamic terrorists in the middle east from getting BTFO by the local governements,and maybe in africa.

>>5899
> I'm wondering how do you join the blue helmets

Join the national army of a country that commits soldiers to UN Peacekeeping (most western countries don’t)

>>5899
>only thing they do is assist in color revolution and defend islamic terrorists
you forgot about them raping the local children and spreading HIV/AIDS

>>5556
Join some Russian telegram channel, ask them if anyone has wagner contacts. Then tell that wagner contact you're interested in being a mercenary, they'll want scoop you right up as more meat for the grinder(non-elite mercs like you are usually used as fodder for frontline assaults in Ukraine)


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>Taiwan's new "Mighty Hornet" drone series
>copy of Lancet, copy of Geran, copy of Molniya
I should start trolling people by saying Taiwan can't innovate and only knows how to copy Russian designs

>>5909
it depends, if any of those designs (specially the geran copy) can use starlink or some other satellite Internet connection, then they are fundamentally different technologies. a low-cost, mass produced geran with an unjammable internet connection would be the perfect weapon for industrial warfare because it could easily counteract the logistical infrastructure of regular armies

american media likes to fear-monger about an impending prc invasion of the roc, which is extremely unlikely, but even if it were to happen, the prc would probably wait until completing their satellite constellations which are planned to support this type of weaponry

>>5910
why would satellite connection be unjammable ? GPS get jammed all the time

>>5910
>unjammable internet connection
>Unjammable anything
Well yeah that's how we ended up with glass fiber stuff. If it uses radio waves, it can probably be jammed.

Cheapening of AI and sensors for low cost drones which could guide themselves to targets and act with some autonomy after the point where jamming is expected. Recognizing landmarks and targets along with inertial navigation and no need for remote guidance.

>>5911
for a number of reasons, the most important of which is distance. gps gets not only jammed, but also spoofed (not only is the signal from the satellite interrupted, but it is replaced with a fake signal) because gps reception is passive, unidirectional, and analogical - the technical details make it extremely easy to interfere

>>5912
>If it uses radio waves, it can probably be jammed.
truism with no content. if you jam a fpv drone 30 meters away from a moving target, that's a problem. if you jam a geran-like long-range loitering munition 30 meters away from it's static target (once it is already diving in) it literally doesn't matter. there is a reason why ukraine uses those heavy bomber drones (that can carry both the ordinance and the antenna) and why they use them at relatively high altitudes (>100 mts) and why the videos you get from those are in 1080p while the russian single use fpv drones use 360p analog tv signal and still get partially jammed during the final approach: one platform is using satellite internet, the other is not. the underdog trick against that asymmetry is the fiber drones you mention, but that doesn't scale for things like gerans

>>5910
Pretty sure Gerans already use a satellite connection for guidance. Not that it matters much once the terminal AI guidance develops more. They generally strike static targets so they can just fly to the general area using an initially set distance/direction when launched then fly the last km or two to a pre-specified target with AI guidance.


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Many advanced systems (such as the F-35, HIMARS, Patriot) have software and hardware that is controlled, updated, or encrypted by the US. This can indirectly act as a "switch," because allies cannot freely reprogram or modify the systems without approval from the US. They could shut down the entire Western defense capability if they wanted to. Most often, Washington limits capacity through policy or hardware configuration prior to transfer (e.g., by limiting the range of HIMARS in Ukraine). It's not a "remote control," but it achieves the same effect. Communications and networks (Link 16, GPS, etc.) are also under US control and can be shut down or restricted in certain areas, giving Washington leverage.

Buy Swedish.


 


Why are modern US soldiers such pussies? They constantly moan and complain about ptsd because they served a year as a drone operator that bombed dudes from an air conditioned room 3000km away from the front.

because reactionaries are paper tigers

It’s warrior cosplay, self-assuring theatre for people who cannot come to terms with the fact that they are nothing more than a glorified neocolonial police force, stepping on the weak.


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Are there any methods for defending your country from a nuclear strike? So far it seems that nuclear war would lead to everything on the planet being wiped out, but could there be a way to neutralise the threat of nukes altogether?

I’m not a scientist or weapons expert or anything but hypothetically, could it be possible to create some sort of defence wherein the nukes are disabled before impact by neutralising the warhead with some sort of force field?
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>>5876
>Communist China is planned to withstand nuclear weapons.

Didn't like 20 million of you die in a famine not too long ago? And that was without the help of any mass extinction event, that was just your own bad planning; do you really think Communist China could endure the effects of a nuclear winter?

>>5859
Basically, no. The US tried to come up with a solution with SDI/Star Wars, and wasted $1 trillion on a boondoggle

>>5859
patriot missile batteries have a 75% chance of intercepting an ICBM before reentry and separation, and all that scary stuff. the plan with the US missile shield in the event of a nuclear war, is to launch 4 of them per ICBM. 0.75*4= approximately 97.5% chance of getting a hit or some number close to that IIRC. basically enough to probably protect against a rouge nation like north korea. not sure about the remaining 2% odds. not sure what happens if they get unlucky.

>>5883

Patriot missiles can't stop an ICBM, they are designed to intercept short-range missiles. The US has some missile defense systems that can intercept an IBCM moving at hypersonic velocities but they are not very effective and a country like Russia with thousands of nuclear warheads could easily overwhelm any defense system that current technology can produce.

It's possible that in the future, with major breakthroughs in material engineering, the military could develop working railguns which could potentially be used for intercepting hypersonic missiles, but then the enemy could use that same technology for launching nuclear warheads at hypersonic velocities that even your defensive railguns cannot intercept. This is the fundamental problem - any technology that has the power to defend against a weapon of mass destruction could just as easily be repurposed into a weapon of mass destruction. Technology reaches the point where the weapons are simply too powerful for anything to possibly defend against them and there's no putting that genie back into the bottle.

>>5887
>but then the enemy could use that same technology for launching nuclear warheads at hypersonic velocities that even your defensive railguns cannot intercept
Metal Gear?!


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