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/AKM/ - Guns, weapons and the art of war.

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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://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/the-pentagon-should-scale-back-f-35-purchases-and-buy-drones-instead

>In recent weeks, Spain and India have shelved plans to buy F-35s, a reminder that US allies are reassessing the calculus of very expensive, single-platform dependence. Canada, Switzerland, and Portugal are all also on the fence.


>The program’s technical modernization, the Block 4 software and hardware upgrades, has been slower and costlier, a recurring theme Government Accountability Office (GAO) auditors have documented. The Block 4 effort is now years behind and billions of dollars over budget, disrupting not only timelines but the affordability of the entire program. Those slips are not mere program noise. They materially undercut the F-35’s promise to deliver a reliably modern capability at scale.


>At the same time, the aggregated price of the program is staggering. The Pentagon’s own acquisition accounting shows program lifetime costs measuring over $2 trillion; auditors and analysts keep upping their estimates of the lifetime bill as delays and tech churns stack up. When a single weapons program consumes a disproportionate share of acquisition dollars, it starves other innovations, forcing a false trade-off between fewer capabilities of many types, or many aircraft of one expensive type.


>That fiscal and schedule reality intersects with an operational one: modern high-intensity conflicts are already demonstrating that mass and attritability matter. Peer and near-peer adversaries are fielding sophisticated air defenses and electronic warfare that make a small number of exquisite, expensive platforms a brittle hedge. Ukraine’s playbook of rapidly producing unmanned systems and using swarm tactics has proven operationally decisive in many contexts, offers a cautionary tale for those who equate cost with strategic advantage. 


>For the Trump administration, which campaigned on restoring American strength while trimming waste, there is a clear policy choice: double down on an increasingly risky, costly platform, or reallocate procurement to systems that offer mass, tempo, and resilience. The moral of modern warfare
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US admits F-35 program failure after decades and trillions spent
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-admits-f-35-program-failure-after-decades-and-trillions-s

<A new Pentagon report admits the F-35 will never achieve its promised capabilities, exposing a $2 trillion defense failure and shaking confidence in the US military’s weapons program.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/cost-of-f35/

The military is babying F-35s to hide their true cost to taxpayers

<Fewer sorties and flight hours kick maintenance down the road, hiding performance issues and taking valuable flight time away from pilots

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>I you have radar with limited power output you're unable to detect object with low RCS at max distance
>But there is nuance that you're physically unable to reduce RCS in all possible frequencies so meter lenght waves didn't give a fuck your aircraft use "stealth" technologies or not
Any angular deviation radically changes RCS. So if you have two radars some 15 km apart and 150 km from the stealth target, it is impossible to have perfect angle for any extended time against both radars.

This gives a +/- 5.74 degree angle or a span of 11.48 degrees. It can give a difference between -45 dbsm and -10 dbsm or going from an ideal 0.006 to average 0.1 (over a doubling of detection range).
So you go from being able to maybe shoot a HARM at the SAM system to eating an S300 from the neighboring tracking system.

Ofc, any maneuvering or buffeting means you temporarily spike the returns as well making you a target for both systems even if they aren't networked (which they are).

As Stealth is typically aimed at X-Band targeting RADAR the simple solution is to use other RADAR bands and make up for the lack of accuracy with better signal processing.



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Would ww3 actually be the end of the world, or would it be another regular war? Obviously the scale of a war between nato and russia, china, whoever would be significantly larger than america and iraq (for example) but would any country actually be stupid enough to use nuclear weapons?

Using nukes sort of defeats the point of going to war doesn’t it? If you turn a country into a radioactive wasteland:

A) they’ll just do it to you as well, and
B) even if they don’t retaliate, there will be nothing left to conquer, so you gain nothing

Modern governments view nuclear exchanges as survivable for the state but not the people.

The datacenters, ports, and supply chains are targets. Starvation kills the ones not killed by direct strike.

After the nuclear exchange, in person invasion with military forces occurs. Nuclear stock piles get built up. This cycle repeats every 100 to 1000 years. Nuclear war is cyclical, we just have not lived through the first cycle and have not seen it happen.

Radiation is reduced in favor of physical damage. Ground burst soot is reduced in favor of air burst damage.



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it's killing me;
what's are the major difference between the VZ-58 with it's short-stroke system and Type-81 attempt to improve the AK's shortcomings?

besides stamped/milled receiver?

would it be worth it trying to bring back the VZ58?
or has modern Chinese production AKs ended the AK pattern arms race?



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am I spiritually sick for feeling "less than" JSOC\Special ops\ex-SO PMCs and such elite soldiers?
Maybe it's a (((cope))) but I'm learning to have hyper-realistic lucid dreams so I can have tier-1 missions there with full realism.
I know war is evil, maybe it's even fake\a CGI+ crisis actor huge hoax but…I do really feel spiritually cucked and lucid dreaming seems the only realistic solution for me out of this

>>6117
Stay in your lane, the division of labour in capitalism means that someone has to specialise in some way.

>>6118

also i think spec ops are more likely to get fragged as they're dumb enough to go back for another tour meaning they're either war tourists who know they'll be jerking off in a tunnel and driving FPV drones or dumb cannonfodder just wanting to either have their relatives to cash what little insurance they leave behind / disposable retards with nobody to cash their insurance

see
https://www.youtube.com/civdiv
a radlib confident enough he'll be in a cushy spot, as soon as shit got real in the YPG he bailed out and left all those dumb brown people to die alone

rest assured he'll do the same in Cuckraine if he hasn't yet already.

>>6119
Civ Div has done more for leftist ideology than you've ever done in your life.

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>>6120

>leftist



 

For those who aren't lawyers, injury is generally illegal. Because of this, obstruction or neutralization of class enemies and class traitors is often restricted to adventurism or fantasy, maybe even intimidation if you and others are organized well enough (congratulations!)

Let us explore a potent but seemingly unexplored (or at least underground) counter-strategy. A safe, simple, long-term strategy of stochastic opportunistic biowarfare.
This is not biowarfare in the conventional sense of directly poisoning enemies, so if you want to culture your own mold and plant it in a chud's HVAC then this isn't for you.
Instead, we intent so seize an opportunity to accelerate the self-poisoning of (overwhelmingly) reactionaries. I want you to envision a land of raw meat and dairy, tallow and ghee, supplement cocktails and Ivermectin doping. Oh, that's the world the reactionary grifters are already implementing… if these obviously dangerous diets and medication are so normal among the anti-communists, perhaps we can kick this up a notch. It's easy to poison someone with seemingly-innocuous things: beef liver, brazil nuts, water intoxication. It's very easy to demonize treatments like vaccines and healthier alternatives to traditional habits. It's simple to trick reactionaries into rejecting things seen as progressive, like soy, veganism and seed oils, and jumping up to mirror it with ridiculous excessive meat over-consumption. Simply tell them that warnings and regulations are liberal disinformation and a significant amount of these idiots will want to believe it.

The best part is, you can make money from slowly poisoning reactionaries. Millions of well-funded capitalists are investing millions and billions into selling unhealthy products, they want as many sold as possible. Look at how the dairy industry in the USA has managed to normalize cow's milk as an essential nutritional component. Look at how propagandist streamers and podcasters are throwing supplement pill ads at their audience. These capitalist companies don't care about long-term effects, they're fatally bound to the short-term lines and how far they go up. And for those in the USA, bourgeois deregulation will make more and more of these tactics completely legal.
We can help dismantle the right and make them pay for it. What's not to love?
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>>5960
type shit I would do If I wanted to kms

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You can literally poison these fuckers with the All Meat Diet and bad advice, and they'll blame da devil.

>>6104
Anyone who blames any sort of mishap on the devil is usually not cognitively fit.

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Sometimes you have to accept the cost of standing up for something.

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you said biowarfare and now i'm scared of braapfrens swarming the thread at any moment.



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Do you fill put an application form or is it a job you make it to through connections? Is there a formula?

I have no money, no job and no purpose.

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>>6081
i remember playing the first and second game

Thread theme


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>This is FOG or Forward Observations Group. A group of mercenaries funded by former US Army Special Forces that is in Ukraine now

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Mercenary Strike Team consisting of Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Delta Force Operators, & Legionnaires, hired by the UAE to conduct Targeted Assassinations against Al-Islah in Yemen. 2015



 

Post your fave gun of the week here

starting with my week favorite's:

>Jezail Musket AKA Tortobak

>CETME Ameli
>SHMT-1 Vietnam's Galil ACE clone in 5,56

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pretty fond of the yugo m56



 

I am planning on getting a pistol I can hopefully concealed carry when get a permit for that. Currently, I’m considering the H&K VP9SK because I’m an H&K shill, but I am open to suggestions.
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>>5659
I've never fired anything less ergonomic than those boxy pig pistols. Literally anything but a block that isn't gonna blow upnin your hand. I despise those shitty little shit guns, no safety, throwin hot brass in my face, god damn.

hellcat

i carry an echelon 4.0c and it's pretty nice

Depends on what I'm wearing.

Generally if I'm just around the house or running to town quickly, I carry a Smith and Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 in my pocket.

If I'm in winter clothes, usually it's a Ruger RXM with the full size frame.

Summer carry (I usually wear Hawaiian shirts and shorts) I carry my SA-35 or M9 Centurion in an owb concealment holster.

You really just need to get out, go to a range that has rentals and shoot some. See what you like and purchase from there.

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A big fucking revolver loaded with +P ammo and a bunch of loose rounds in every single pocket you have



 

excavating tunnels, trenches, ditches, ramparts, moats, holes, any kind of defensive earthwork where industrial machinery isn't viable

you can get most stuff off of amazon or any hardware or milsurp store
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>>5470
>infantry using self made fortifaction will die (even though those manholes were invented to succesfully defend against artillery) so let me pull up things that are completely useless when it comes to surviving artillery

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You need a shovels, big and small for dirt and sand, a pickaxe to remove the bigger rocks in the dirt which stop you from shoveling, axe or a separate very sharp shovel for cutting roots in the way but ideally you wouldnt dig near obvious giant tree roots, buckets and ropes and ladders and hardhats and pulleys for removing all the rocks and dirt, if youre throwing rocks out of the hole, call out first, If youre lifting rocks out of the hole with a pully get out of the hole first. Reinforce the walls and roof of the tunnels with something, make the tunnels a oval or circle shape to help it not cave in. Its going to get really cold down there so get some wooden or plastic chairs / beds that are up off the ground or it will suck the heat out of your body and kill you, rain flooding and drainage and pests are other considerations to think about, tape up your boots around your ankles or youll get sand in them all day. I had a ton of fun digging a 5 foot wide 15 foot hole deep in my buddies backyard in south California summer time and I swear to god I got so cold down there. They say its a constant 54 degrees F I think? Men love digging for some reason I'd totally do it all over again just for fun.

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Risk: Flood the tunnel
Countermeasure: Insert floor gaps for water to exit. Don't make it water tight.

Risk: Ground Penetrators.
Countermeasure: Windy tunnels, blast doors. Valves.

Risk: Concrete that is harder than ground but softer than concrete.
Countermeasure: Just keep digging.

Risk: Synthetic Aperture Radar and Wide Area Motion Imagery notice your release of mined material.
Countermeasure: Do it in bad weather in deniable ways. Grind everything up first.

Risk: Soil Testing validates that mined material has been released here.
Countermeasure: Mix it up. Scatter lightly?

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>>6102
Clarification: I posted an OSM Image at random. The goal is to say, you won't be digging in rural nowhereville. You will be digging in big city where 80% of the surface is building or road.

>>6102
Is there any way we could use GPR to our advantage? Tunnels already exist under cities, from sewers to weirder stuff. We need to either avoid them or use them as existing infrastructure to expand on. Also there's really no way to defeat GPR, it can now penetrate up to 100ft, which is first of all way too deep (every entrance from a building would require an elevator or very long sloped descent), and they would be able to see the entrance points anyways, just not a whole map of the tunnel system.

Also how would we get rid of mined material? The best civilian vehicle for the job is a pickup but they don't hold very much, progress would be super slow that way. Anything larger, or constant revolving pickups, would draw attention.

I think the only answer to all of these is that tunnels are only viable in communities that can resist surveillance, or which are already functionally independent, making surveillance useless in the short term. Even if they can map the tunnels, tunnels help mask movement, hide from bombs, and could house facilities for weapons production



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Hello, I am mister CIA Glowmongerer, how traceable (easy to find) are drone kaboom attacks? Are they 100% anonymous kabooms if you handle the drone with gloves to not leave fingerprints? If you buy a generic drone w camera remote antenna thing and somehow manage to put kabooms with remote trigger on it, how could they possible figure out it was you if you're not in America and CIA aren't satellite tracking your microwave brainwaves?
Like if you live in turd world shithole where police are not CIA level skillz and get drone and kabooms from flea market?

The government can track the signals of an antenna drone. If you were to do this in your minecraft server you'd want a fiber optic drone like seen in Ukraine. Though if they find the drone itself they can track the manufacturer and buyer. Your absolute best bet is 3d printing as many components as possible and buying the wiring and hardware with cash.

Forensics:
The Camera is a HD 720P Bob Bill Copywrited 2023.
The frame is made of this type of composite.
The filament is eSun PLA+ Grey 2.
Of the town of 100K, who bought that type of camera and that type of Filament? Only 2 people. Bring both in and wait until 1 confesses.

Considerations:
The future is urban. Drones require on board intelligence to do well in urban indoor spaces. Anyone you are targeting will run indoors and underground.

Onboard compute requires very unique chips and knowledge. Vibe coding this system won't be possible without uncensored 250B Q8 models that require thousands of dollars of NPU/GPU systems.

Governments have radio sensor arrays that detect signals across the RF band. They can observe stuff.

Airport Radars can see drones. The airport radar that sees a Cesna at cruising altitude at the horizon can see your 1M VTOL Drone at 5 to 10 KM.

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