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

>>5383
If you call people living in bunkers to be safe from drones as siege warfare then maybe.

>non-lethal

bold of you to assume the moment you threat with non lethal violence they won't resort to lethal violence and then make a day with a case of how it was a "patriot exercising self defense against those antifa terrorists"

What you want is a "handheld struggle ender"
or like we like to call it down here a "farm knife" but what we're thinking is "cuchillo saca tripas" (gutting knife)

heard you can get a couple used ones on ebay and shit.
if you know how to hit a gut shot fight's over before anyone knows because what you're doing is quite literally hooking someone's innards inside out.

heard you can get one at mexican "hood" stores
but if you can't find one cus they are a bit difficult to come by (which is why i'm forging mine)
you can just go for the "csgo kiddie" version the karambit which i'm convinced you can get quite literally anywhere.
not even half as devastating but you can get a couple good cuts to come out on top anyway.

The Wasp non-lethal pistol is used in Russia.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D0%B0_(%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B5)?useskin=vector

>>1719
NaNO3 is sometimes easier to get than KNO3 and you can turn the former into the latter using metathesis with KCl from low sodium salt
https://www.pyrogarage.pl/ sells KNO3 in Europe
t. /chem/ on >>>/edu/
also may I suggest picrel but with a not too sharp wooden tip

>>1722
This is why we download stuff like this when we see it. Can't depend on corporations to act like an archive. If you want it, save it.

>>1724
Taoe sparklers to bottles with a screw cap, that will make it storable.For thermobarics, flashpowder squib taped to plastic bottle. Put matchheads on the fuse and tape a striker pad to your glove or wear it as a necklace so you can just strike them without lighters.
>>1741
Make a simple large firecracker of a smaller diameter than a toilet paper tube, pit it in and fill the gap with pieces of tire or other hard rubber. Again, matches on fuse, strike, throw and theres a homemeade stingball.
>>1752
I may or may not have one buried somewhere. The pepper blanks need a special license but if you have street connections will get you far. The guns will be confiscated if found, even though you can buy them without a license. Weird country, weird laws.

You can make battery powered one shot pistols with a piece of curved pipe. Loaded with rock salt. Easy to conceal and only a misdemeanor if discovered. If you are doing a funny ticking clock thing only do a small cardboard tube charge and use it to blow a box filled with bags or baloons of red paint. And always remember. Fascist clubs and cars arent immune to a plastic gas bottle tied to a flare, made in a sterile room with full surgical protection. The window gets smashed with a rock and the device is thrown in, the thrower runs several blocks while constantly making turns and shortccuts, the outer layer of winter clothing is taken of and thrown into a pre-placed plastic tub of bleach, and the thrower then blends in and goes home. Glives over gloves will block gunshot residue and they are discarded on the spot because they dont have dna and have only been touched by another glove. Everything prepared is cleaned with bleach and never touched with bare hands. The throwers hair is tucked under a swimming cap so no hairs are left. Shoes used are cheap and are burned or discarded far away after the action. Touch dna, fingerprints,hair,shoeprints all exist. All of this is educational and whoever follows it is a fool that risks jail and other peoples safety. Be careful of what you decide to listen to on the internet. All of those actions are illegal and should never be performed.

>>5132
It's as bad as the Zumwalt tbh. The LCS and Zumwalt should have been a lesson… clearly it was not learned. As a side note I don't think people realize just how MASSIVE the Zumwalt is (pic rel) yet how poorly designed and armed it is. 2 "special" artillery cannons as its primary armament and missiles that are in such low quantity as to be easily overwhelmed by any serious attack. The main ammunition is all this precision guided stuff that has been proven to be unreliable in Ukraine due to jamming. >>4945
They're so ineffective tha there are plans to remove the 155mm guns and replace them with Hypersonic missiles, hypersonic missiles that the US military does not have at the moment, with the few models it has being barely in testing and do not perform consistently.

https://topwar.ru/244343-zamvolt-bez-pushek-i-na-veslah.html

As posts >>5147 >>5132 >>5103 >>1969 demonstrate, the US Navy ship-building for the future is disorganized, the only ships I can think of being constructed properly in these past few years was the recent Gerald R. Ford Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers. Everything else has been a mess. Russia has had a similar problem, but that was primarily due to the dissolution of the USSR fucking up its industry and other socio-economic aspects in general. The depiction of e.g. "rusting Soviet-era hulks", has some basis in fact, but conceals as much as it reveals. Russia's famously "old" submarine fleet, for example, isn't older than the US submarine fleet and ships in general have expected service lifespans of 35-40 years, with many US Naval ships easily being older than some of Russia's. The real problem for the Russian Navy has not just been the retention and poor-maintenance to date of late-Soviet-era ships, but the low rate of production of new vessels to replace them, with the largest warships produced since the USSR being the 6,600t Ivan Gren landing ship and the 5,400t Gorshkov class frigates. And that's an entirely different discussion.
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The USN is just an example of Capitalism in decay: - The USS Bonhomme Richard was scuttled because repairing it after the fire damage in San Diego would have cost a little over 3 billion dollars and take 3 years. Meanwhile, the cost of replacing the ship outright in 2020 (when it was decided to be decommissioned) was 4 billion, so rather than repair a damaged but seaworthy ship that exists, the Navy is opting to replace it in the future for an extra 1 billion dollars, even as costs go up, with the cost of a replacement for the Wasp-Class light carrier rising to over 4.1 billion dollars as of 2023. Considering that constructing a new ship of the class takes 3-4 years, it the Navy's decision was idiotic, but in part due to a lack of repair facilities.
- The larger USS John C. Stennis and George Washington have had their RCOH delayed heavily, with the two carriers only expected to come back into service at the end of 2026 and 2027 respectively.
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Ukrainians launched a salvage dive on one of their patrol boats sunk in 2022 at Snake Island. Honestly I don't think people understand how heavy the fighting there was in the brief time that it was relevant.

https://topwar.ru/246120-vms-vsu-proveli-operaciju-po-obnaruzheniju-unichtozhennogo-vks-rf-v-mae-2022-goda-u-ostrova-zmeinyj-dshk.html

A while back the Ukrainians hit a DE submarine and a Landing ship that were in dry dock, using the Storm Shadow missiles. The Ukrainian side and naysayers in the West and Russia claimed the submarine was a total loss. I knew differently, and the result is that the submarine is repaired, out of Dry Dock and completing its refit. Pic related was the damage inflicted and subsequently repaired

https://southfront.press/dock-repairs-of-russian-submarine-damaged-in-ukrainian-missile-attack-completed-report/

Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-the-us-cant-build-icebreaking

>Because polar bodies of water are often covered in ice, accessing these regions by ship requires specially designed ships which can break up the ice and create a path for other ships to follow. The need for icebreaking vessels will remain even as climate change reduces the extent of sea ice: paradoxically, as new polar routes become accessible and sea ice becomes more mobile, the demand for icebreakers is likely to increase. Russia has an aging fleet of more than 40 icebreakers, with several under construction. China has somewhere between 5 and 7 icebreakers (depending on exactly how you define “icebreaker”), with more under construction.1

>The U.S., on the other hand, has allowed its icebreaking capabilities to wither. The Coast Guard has handled all U.S. icebreaking since 1966, and estimates that it needs 8-9 polar icebreakers (4-5 heavy and 4-5 medium) to fulfill its needs. But it currently has only two: the heavy icebreaker Polar Star, and the medium icebreaker Healy. The U.S. hasn’t built a heavy icebreaker since 1976. In fact, no existing U.S. shipyard has built a heavy polar icebreaker since before 1970. A 2017 National Academies report stated that “The nation is ill-equipped to protect its interests and maintain leadership in these regions and has fallen behind other Arctic nations, which have mobilized to expand their access to ice-covered regions.”

>>5372
>The ruskies did it
Not really.

>>5343
TBQH the main problem with it is just weight. At least concerning the modern battlefield, weight is by far one of the biggest concerned of any major military. Otherwise, its fine like 90% of all rifles in service of all countries.

>>5343
is it caseless? no? then I don't care

>>5374
Well that’s going to be hard to fix. The average marine in the 2000s used to carry over 200+ 5.56 rounds. The idea of bumping up the calibre is definetly going to cause some issues with ammo capacities. The gun may be able to penetrate some armours, but the limitations the weapon puts on firepower and costs are apparent.

>>5375
true and factual

>>5367
Apart from Austria nobody really "let them in". They all attempted to put up a fight but were simply significantly outmatched, even when they had allied support as in the case of Norway, France, and Greece.

>>5355
>>5364
it's also illusionary to believe that there was some kind of coherence and discipline within the state apparatus. everything was a constant shit show of overlapping competencies, nepotism, corruption, sabotage and infighting.
for example, there was, until the war ended, constant warring between Goebbel's Ministry of Propaganda and Rust's Ministry of Science, Education and National Culture in regard to censorship of libraries. Both circulated lists containing verboten books and texts (other political entities did as well). The lists were mostly based on vibes, so anything deemed bolshevik or marxist was banned. The lists contradicted each other, no one librarian ever was sure which list was correct as they contradicted each other and themselves constantly. Also, up until the end, state and university libraries where except from actual destruction of banned books. Some locked them away for researchers, some had them publicly displayed with a note that stated as much as 'pls only for science, danke'.
Public libraries were less lucky, they got purged quite well. The substitued political scribes where not well liked and the public went to private librabries instead.

>>5355
You’re either trying to undermine the sacrifice of the Soviet Union and various partisan units by claiming that the fascist war machinery simply defeated itself because of sheer incompetence OR you use whatever ideology you hold as replacement-religion where things invented under an enemy ideology is icky, has magical properties and is cursed, so it can’t be copied.

Thankfully the military minds of the USSR weren’t dogmatic retards, so good things were instantly copied, like mountaineering gear, jerry cans, V2s, cameras, optics and many more things.

Not a single T-26 tanker went “Oh wooow this T-26 is a copy of the Vickers 6-Ton I really feel inadequate now!”

On the contrary, being scared of copying enemy designs is actually hurting the war effort.

There's some things where the nazis were legit ahead of everyone else but it's not really known about widely. Sonars for one; the hydrophones from the Prinz Eugen were reverse-engineered post war by the US and a superior replacement wouldn't be put into service until the 1980s. Similarly, the entire first generation of Cold War submarines basically boiled down to "copy the Type XXI" because it was just that great of a leap over anything previous. Over in Asia Japan basically wrote the book on modern amphibious operations with the Daihatsu landing craft, alongside their dedicated supporting depot ships like LPDs and LHDs.

Still didn't make up for the logistical nightmare and the many boondoggles of course, but it's worth giving them a fair assessment.

>The strongest weapon to ever grace the hordes of fascistic scum is the most bland, mediocre, and uninspired rifle imaginable
as the owner of two Mausers, I take offense at this characterization of a descendant of the Gewehr 98, one of Paul Mauser's finest designs

>>5281
Not really. Most modern conflicts consist mainly of gunfights with some light artillery.

Sorta related note, the usage of drones and testing of other military equipment like ground drones, robotic weapons and equipment, and laser shit is about as useless as the weird tech developed in the world wars and cold wars. Maybe some of it will be used in the near future, but much of the tech that’s being developed for the war in Ukraine suffers from either being overengineered for the purposes it’s supposed to fulfill, being hard to maintain, being costly to mass produce and to adopt in modern militaries, or just being shitty on a conceptual level. Obviously shit should change as time passes, but that change is looking pretty slow.

>>5282
read comprehension

>>5284
No I understood what you meant about militaries being complex. However, most battles fought today aren’t. Most battles have almost zero tactics today and likely won’t due to the range and mobility of the weapons of today can offer. Additionally, most battles in wars today aren’t even large enough to justify the use of complexity in combat; they’re just really long and expensive.

>>5282
>light artillery
No

Military contractors make more money the more shit they sell. It's a very simple calculus.

>>5335
I'm starting to suspect that you've never been an infantryman and are just talking out your ass.

>>5338
Thank Christ I’m not. Even with endurance training I’d likely get hurt first from a back or ankle injury from carrying around so much garbage for days to weeks on end than I would be from a bomb made by some half-illiterate jackass whose lucky enough to never have seen a tank in his life. Manual labour is awful.

Does this post glow like me?

>>5337
They’d probably make more money by selling ammo if the flashlights, binoculars, radios, microphones, and other electronic and mechanical junk was made smaller. The reason why ammunition sales should increase is because the decreased sized would accommodate more space for more rounds. This change might also prevent the weight of the average rifleman today to actually change.

>>5287
'always' is kind of an overstatement, plenty of people get shot and die instantly, even if not in the head, you can get heart shot, or just have too many holes/too big and die of shock

>>5288
If you hit the hindbrain, then yes, the shot will immediately force someone to lose consciousness. However, what that guy said was right.

You ever seen when cops will block ambulances from someone they shot for 'security' reasons for several hours while holding back the screaming family of the victim outside the police line while they bleed out in the street. Reminds me a lot of the aircraft carrier off the coast of Palestine.

>>5290
What the fuck is that stupid over the top mentally ill evil burger-type shit? No way all the drugs, sugar, stress, and illiteracy present in the average badly trained American police officer makes them do stupid evil shit that extreme.

>>5291
reminder that this was an actual police training video