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 No.132[Reply]

Please dump all your guerilla warfare/ resistance/weapon manuals/psyop tactics PDFs you have. Im finally making a collection. If therers already a collection somewhere on the site point me to it. It can be CIA stay behind shit, homemade weapons shiut, vietnam shit,guerilla warfare from brazil whatever is practically useful and can be printed and disseminated among people in a revolutionary situation. things that give you some rudimentary education
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 No.2751

>>2426
How do i download this?

 No.3973

>>145
>I just say "how to make cake" for the sake of fun (and avoid google searches)
If the way gets hazy, you gotta do the cooking by the book!

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 No.4002

>>1598
>>1599
What good reason would you have to destroy civilian electrical infrastructure?

 No.4027

>>4002
NTC, NAE, but possible for industrial sabotage, economic sabotage, possibly even military sabotage.
As for what reasons others do: Siegefags think le chaos will catalyse le race war so they have been targeting electrical infrastructure intentionally. But they're fuckin idiots so the only relevance would be understanding how people attack infrastructure in order to know how to defend it……. maybe.



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 No.279[Reply]

Got any questions about guns, equipment or combat? Have some knowledge you can share? Ask and answer away
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 No.3629

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where can one get their hands on weapons made by the DDR?

 No.3630

>>3629
I think a huge portion of it was destroyed out of victorious butthurt

 No.3632

>>3629
why would you want weapons with harder to get ammo?

 No.4015

>>312
>>310
There are also some roller-delayed assault rifles, such as the HK33

 No.4016

>>339
not very



 No.2782[Reply]

I see a lot of talk about how Russia n China could shit on the west with hypersonic missiles. which is cool af but I also don't know if thats even true or what a hypersonic missile even is(I assume it goes faster than sound?). Are they a big deal? I really do hope the hype lives up this time
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 No.3980

>>3979
>Russia intercepted 85% of the "stealth" Storm Shadow missiles even though a large number of HARM and MALD decoys were used and none of them were able to hit the actual target, the shipyard and instead hit a ship in a dry dock, with the damage being relatively minimal
Proofs?

 No.3984

>>3980
If you're genuine in asking for proofs, don't s*ge please.

The proofs are in the reports of the actual attack and the video footage which demonstrates 2 impacts, with some debris*. 2 impacts out of 15 launched SCALP missiles and numerous MALD and HARM missiles deployed in a mass attack. That's 13% success rate for the Storm Shadows, which is a 87% kill score for Russian air defense. The actual target was the shipyard itself, as that would a critical hit indeed, limiting repair facilities and production facilities of the Russian Navy.

*The impacts are not full on hits, had the cruise missile actually directly hit the Corvette the damage would have been significantly higher, the 2 missiles that hit were likely clipped by SAMs but were still flight capable enough to roughly reach target coordinates.

The damage looks bad visually, but if you've ever seen footage of WW2 destroyers in Dry Dock, you'll see that this is essentially surface damage, not a write-off of the ship. It was essentially nil. The repairs of the Askold will be pricey, at least several million dollars to replace the damaged RADAR array, siding and burnt sections, but considering that each Storm-Shadow is priced at 3 million dollars each, the ADM-160B MALD is 120,000 dollars each and that AGM-88 HARM missiles are 284,000 to 847,000 dollars each + fuel expenses for putting that many Su-24s and MiG-29s into the air (the Su-24 can only carry 4 Storm Shadows at a time, so that's a minimum of 4 Su-24s + escort and decoy launches) means the combined cost for the entire operation is going to be roughly the same as the cost of repair for the ship, making it a pyrrhic victory for Ukraine at the very least.

Ukrainian telegram channels actually claimed 18 Storm Shadows were launched and 3 hit the ship, but the Russian MoD stated otherwise and someone anonymously released footage before that where only 2 impacts are seen.

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/05/11/2023/6546b4e69a79477298bac1f8
https://svpressa.ru/war21/article/393621/

 No.4001


>>3984
>Ukrainian telegram channels actually claimed 18 Storm Shadows were launched and 3 hit the ship
Source?

>Su-24 can only carry 4 Storm Shadows at a time,

Never seen them carrying more than two.

 No.4005

>>4001
NTA but
>Never seen them carrying more than two.
Which is only proving the point, they're very large missile and require a lot of launch platforms to carry, which in turn creates larger fuel and prep expenditures.
>Source?
Ukrainian Telegram channels claimed this, although the official airforce of Ukraine later stated it was 15, the post you're replying to links the latter

 No.4010

>>4005
>Ukrainian Telegram channels claimed this, although the official airforce of Ukraine later stated it was 15, the post you're replying to links the latter
No, it doesn't. Links two Russian sources that contradict each other.



 No.1630[Reply]

Why have these two weapon systems stood the test of time? I know the UK uses the SA and China uses the QBZ but where else in the world you see other nations adopt these weapon systems? It seems that the m16 line and the Kalashnikovs have the most "mass produced" and used status.
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 No.2087

>>2085
> The only difference now is that Milley is the first guy in 40 years to be tired of the wasteful spending
Is he the guy that said he read Mao or Marx?

 No.2088

>>2087
Yeah.

“I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country which we are here to defend?”

 No.2089

>>2085
I love the line of thinking that it's cheaper to replace every rifle in the US military than to let research keep embezzling all the money under the guise of developing one

 No.2090

>>2089
>Advanced Combat Rifle program cost $300 million
>OICW program cost $100 million
>Individual Carbine program cost $1.8 billion

Milley was the guy that canceled the last one for being wasteful. After a $1.8 billion waste of a program, it changes your perspective on how much you can do for that kind of cash. It literally becomes a better idea to say "fuck it, give us battle rifles that double as DMRs and put fancy terrifying aimbot scopes on em. Just stop spending money on nothing."

 No.4004

>>2027
>but it's still just a fuckin AR platform rifle
lolno



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 No.3972[Reply]

(Just in case some /leftypol/ tourist starts yelling 'glow fed', I'm not American, this is purely out of curiosity, if anyone were serious they wouldn't be discussing it on a public pan-african permagrowth-designing forum, and it's not my fault if your opsec is atrociously shit)

The vid rel (from Examined Life) was posted a while ago, the punchline being the El Salvadorean telling the pessimistic American 'don't you have mountains in the US?' 'It's easy, you go to the mountains, you start an armed cell, you create revolution.' A recent reply retorted, absurdly, that the government would 'just McNuke' them.

It got me thinking a bit, the US despite MacArthur's efforts didn't iNuke any country since Japan and I suspect it would be very unlikely to do it on a civilized part of their own mainland. And ultimately, even in the modern age, the US has failed to really utilize their weaponry dominance. It's easy for the naive eye to look at drones, gun-dogs, tanks and planes and forget just how effective asymmetric warfare can be against superpowers.

The questions:
- Is creating a base of operations onnamountains a viable tactic in the US?
- Are there any modern US examples of successful guerilla tactics, urban or rural? Possible examples could include organized crime or rural compounds.
- How is asymmetric warfare changed by proximity? US wars in Asia and further have a noticeable supply issue with distance.
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 No.3988

>>3985
> In America only certain areas have expansive wilderness where the US army would struggle to operate. The forests of the Pacific North West, the Cascades and Alaska. Everywhere else its just urban cities and suburbs
You're forgetting about the Appalachian

 No.3997

>>3988
That's true let's not forget Eric Rudolph was able to elude the feds there for a long time. But the Appalachians are not remote enough. Roads and highways connect it to large population centers meaning troops and equipment can easily be hauled in and the area is well mapped out. It may be possible for the natives of Alaska to mount an armed resistance to the US but in that case the US will just genocide them like they've done to pretty much every other group of natives.

 No.3998

>>3997
Would there even be enough alaskan natives to carry out a major insurgency?

 No.3999

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>>3972
Eye don't know!

 No.4000

>>3997
do you even live in America?



 No.1807[Reply]

Gonna start a thread on this since I just found something cool I want to share, will post it as a reply.
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 No.3245

>>3190
Shielding from thermal wise you just need some kind of barrier between you and the sensor. A space blanket works well because it insulates heat very well. Dirt or leaves or whatever work too though. Not sure what you would do clothing wise while you are on the move aside from try and avoid showing your silhouette conspicuously, same as with day time operations. But if you are In a trench or fighting position then cover your spot with something, Ive seen space blanket and fabric cover and leaves block IR from a drone completely. If you are sleeping in an unprotected shelter/bivouac wrap your whole self up in your bivvy sack or your sleeping bag if it's not too hot, and you can cover yourself in leaves or snow for camouflage and further heat signature isolating if you need it.

 No.3945

>>1808
>Market NVGs of this generation cost ~$40,000
A PVS-14 + ECOTI is only like 10k

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 No.1883[Reply]

Thought we should have a caliber discussion since we keep having it in different threads.
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 No.2464

>>1883
which caliberussy is the best?

 No.2465

>>2464
For what application and where or in general?

 No.3529

>>2463
good question

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>>1941
>more recoil than 5.56 too which is already much worse than 5.45x39

 No.3993

>>2460
The point of the hybrid case technology is that it allows for significantly higher chamber pressures compared to all-brass casings



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 No.2853[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Haven't seen this thread revived anywhere so I thought I'd bring it back myself

ITT: Discussions about stats of Soviet military hardware, tactics etc. Not strictly limited to Soviet stuff despite name.
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 No.3169

Dunno if this will archive right but let's see: https://archive.ph/wip/L6X2w

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 No.3694

New Mustard just dropped

 No.3976

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I just uploaded a full rip of the Epic Soviet Documentaries channel to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/epic-soviet-documentaries
328 videos, everything subtitled to English

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 No.978[Reply]

What's the most pointless war in recent history?
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 No.1118

>>1116
Ahh ok, I see now. I had interpreted that as leftypol was known by the government but not seen as something to censor.

 No.1152

Second Libyan Civil War. At least it's over now.

 No.1155

>>1070
Pretty sure it was because some dude put a Beer bottle up his ass lmao

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 No.3971

>>1052
What the FUCK is that Belligerents list? That has to be one of the strangest I've seen yet.



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 No.3849[Reply]

I like see with my own eys what's going on. I'd prefer footage of fighting over war crimes being commited but let's see it all. If you don't like just don't ge into the thread
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 No.3892

>>3885
the ones with the arabic logo are officially form hamas

 No.3894

>>3892
what is the official Hamas source?

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latest stuff I got
>>3885
>>3894
I have no clue, they were posted on the palestine threads, I'm just reuploading them here

 No.3963

>>3917
In that last clip, what's that thing he puts on the tank?

 No.3964

>>3963
It's a tandem-HEAT warhead from an RPG-7, only the rocket unit is detached. Probably has a delayed fuse. They use some of their spare warheads as sticky bombs essentially.

>>3917
LOL I posted some of those too



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