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

This thread is for discussing sabotage, its theory, its history, tactics and stories.

It's good to know a range of techniques, especially low risk ones which are easier to get others to do, like go-slow, work-to-rule (malicious compliance) and feigned incompetence.

Low-risk activities are great to know because they can be used in a mass movement filled with people who are (understandably) timid and scared. And once there are enough people on board, then there's the safety in numbers that are needed to build confidence for more extreme actions.

This guide will be purely talking about equipment. There are many other resources for training and organizing. I will leave out anything that requires further knowledge, this guide is meant to be accessible NOT in depth. This guide is meant to be shared to people who do not own a gun or are otherwise ignorant. If you have any suggestions or corrections I will edit it. Once the final product is complete I will turn it into a pdf and a simple image guide to be shared. This is a collaborative project so if you think something I said is stupid, let me know.

You need a semi-auto rifle, specifically an ar15.
They're accurate, lightweight, high capacity, and can shoot quickly.
An ar15 is recommended due to their customization and versatility. Parts and ammo for an ar are also very easy to get (at least in the US). The 556 round has proven time and time again to be effective. Sure an ak might look cooler but they are often more expensive and not as reliable as an ar. This guide will be US centric so a lot of the advice maybe won't apply to you if you live elsewhere.

Ar15 Basic Guide:
You can save money by getting a separate lower and upper. They're easy to put together. The upper matters a lot, the lower much less so. Oftentimes complete ars will have an overpriced lower so buying just the upper and the lower separate can save you quite a bit.

Handguard style: I always recommend M-Lok. It's lighter and better than keymod and allows easy attachments. I honestly don't see any reason to choose anything else unless if you just don't like the feeling of m-lok for whatever reason in which case you can research alternatives.

Length: The length you'll likely end up using is 16", this is as short as you get without dealing with any annoying laws. For whatever reason anything below this is much more of a hassle to get. 16 is a fine length anyway. A 20" will shoot the round faster and a bit further, but the military decided to move away from it in favor of a shorter length. I don't think the extra speed makes enough of a difference to justify the extra length. As for going shorter the rifle will get less accurate but for close quarters combat (such as inside buildings) this is preferred. Specifically an 11.5" is a great option. Remember though the military used 20" barrels inside for years. If they can do it so can you.
Tldr: Buy a 16"

Brands: Now this part depends heavily on your budget. If you're well off I woulPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The engineers behind the t-34 understood the logistical struggles of maintaining entire battalions of tanks where before they only existed in handfuls. Such an exponential expansion of the deployment of tanks, in tandem with the increasing complexity of tank parts and intricacies of tank design, meant that the modern war effort would require logistical feats never before preformed by any army. Innovations of the t-34 would include everything from sloping armor to increase deflection and grazing rates from enemy shells without substantially increasing production cost to simplifying turret design while not stripping functionality to maintain the maximal performance and accessibility while cutting down on logistical profile. The general design ethos of the USSR was to think smarter so they could fight harder, and longer. One of the innovations was its tank treads - rather than being fully bolted on both sides, only one side was bolted, and a raised metal plate was installed to prevent these bolts from slipping out from their position, decreasing the work needed to replace tank tracks while still maintaining full functionality.

This industrious and pragmatic design philosophy is what drove the war machine of the Red Army, making its constituent components consistent and interchangeable, and to make such work easy to preform. Any man or woman, from Siberian tribespeople to West Russian urbanites, could fight with equal skill and capability under the red banner. Meanwhile every German vehicle or weapon required specially trained crews, specially trained engineers, specially trained gunsmiths, all required to jump through the hoops of different corporate designs and methods to keep their weapons of war functional. Where the Germans had tanks so finnicky that only 50% of spare parts would be accepted in any given German tank, you could disassemble 100 T-34s, mix up the parts, and assemble 100 of them again, and they'd all run equally well. In a war of logistics, this streamlining and accessibility is what allowed for the USSR's tanks to stand against the Germans even with numerical inferiority, because of shorter time out of action for logistical or repair work. As the number of T-34s increased, they started to geometrically outnumber them. then, exponentially outnumber them.

Simplified and streamlined designs with accessibility and consistency will win out against the most "advanced" and "complex" of designs, because war is not waged in a way thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

let's play toy soldiers for a second
realistically who would win in a 1v1 between the good freeworld mercenaries™ aka Blackwater and the bad mercenraries™ aka Wagner? without any support from both their government contractors, just the two mercenaries and their own assets, who is more tough?

The soviet union had this lol. poland is returning to its warsaw pact past

All children should receive firearms training. The basic laws of firearm safety and use at the very least, though IMO marksmanship training is good too - it gives actual hands on use of the weapons and teaches kids to respect them. At my summer camp (church run, 1970's-early 80's) we learned how to shoot, starting with BB guns, going up to 22's and M1-carbines. My grandfather taught me around that time on 38 special revolvers (and some .357 mag), Milsurp 1911's and M1 Garands. We also had a gun club in school (5th graders-8th graders) and high school.

I want to become dastardly cunning counter-manipulator like smart KGB agents in Hollywood moobies i want to have a sleepercell and stop mycover from burning by hiding documents between my nuts. I want to call my old friends damaged goods and have 87 hours to discover the kazakh mule within the network

when are we gonna develop em again?

I constantly see people saying, unconditionally, that oh liberals are a lost cause, neo-Nazis are a lost cause, police are a lost cause, soldiers are a lost cause. And often, yes, it's not worth the effort to engage them and doubly so if you're a single regular unskilled outsider.
However, those assumptions are factually false. There are many well-known examples of people from all those groups becoming antifascists, communists and anarchists. It's obviously a transition which can happen. The question becomes, can it be done reliably enough that it becomes worthwhile to target these groups? That will inevitably depend on current conditions, there's no abstract ultimate answer.
OP made it clear that the military are one of the high-value groups. Every military member we convert is a skilled insider (an espionage dream come true) who won't try to kill our comrades later, one more asset detracting from the imperial machine, and one more who won't get picked up by neo-fascists who want to harass us. The armies are filled with people economically oppressed by the state, only joining for mediocre benefits. I believe if there is an effective way to radicalize military members to socialism, it's a very worthwhile endeavour. Of course, that's a very big 'if'!
>>434 mentioned Eyes Left which is useful for understanding this question. They openly share the perspective of anti-capitalist ex-military personnel, interview people to discover their paths away from the military and towards radicalization, what help they received on their journey (civilian therapists are a noteworthy theme) and other great information. Plus, they're in-network, they can talk to other veterans with sympathy. Other 'unpopular wars' should be a useful case study, like understanding how soldiers in the Vietnam War were able to foster such discontent in the military (e.g. circulating zines, radio).

or even eugenics, you could just as well be killing the strongest people as the weakest.


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