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

Here's something "local" (to me at least):
https://tangosix.rs/2014/01/03/letacke-price-suada-hamzica-moju-susreti-sa-nlo/
and a roughly translated, shortened version:
https://openminds.tv/yugoslavian-army-jet-fighter-recalls-ufo-encounters/

>>5597
It’s actually great that poor proletarians are in the military instead of rich aristocrats

they are doing this to prepare for war
most central european countries are reinstating drafts

>>5595
Didn’t Lenin write something about it being important for capitalist societies NOT to enforce drafts?

>>5592
But fox said there were Iranian space ships

based droner
I demand more drones in US air space

CEO Killahs know what to do

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.”

Want to stop builders from making anti homeless concrete spikes? sugar ruins cement. Pour it into cement bags and the mortar will be useless, even little amounts of sugar is destructive.

>>5583
Thanks, Senpai!

>>5577
>le doomsday fantasy
peak american brain rot, have this book. there is no going back to le wholesome small farmer utopia - does that frustrate you?

Ah yes, a hummer with a protective punisher decal (red so it makes the vehicle faster) and some prefab guns and loudener attachments. Can totally tank a space laser.

>in a disaster situation it's gonna be hecking mad max
>I need to fearmaxx!
why are burgers like this? just talk to your neighbors. it's not hard

>>5426
Such a dead thread, but it's worse.

The Americans fucked up concurrency, when the Russians and Chinese do it, they finish the base model before trying variations, whereas the Americans tried to develop 3 different variations at the same time where none of then do their jobs correctly.

The F-35B and C (STOVL, carrier) variants can't go above Mach 1.3 without damaging their tailfins. The F-35A isn't maneuverable enough.

It's pretty much a totally cocked up project, except that the F-35s are still stealthy and capable strike aircraft.

They're just completely inferior as air-to-air platforms against the same generation of aircraft, provided the opponent doesn't cut tlk many corners on stealth and sensors.

why are all the old images gone?

>>5549
Server fuck up a couple months ago