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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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It actually happened LMAO. Burger media claims it "landed safely" but with that fireball I doubt it. Another one was damaged according to some reports. CENTCOM is denying everything as usual.

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>>6157
/k/ is absolutely in shambles, if it actually turns out that pic 2/3 rel is the system that shot down the F-35 they will be absolutely wrecked.

>This little Truck could be the reason why the F-35 was hit. Small but smart, based upon a ir Seekers missile and instead of a radar, who would give the f35 a detection and evade the missile, it uses a Heat tracking / search camera. perfect for a silent search to hunt down 5th gen

<The Pantsir at home.
Of course besides this IR-Osa ripoff wagon, others are claiming its the Kaaim 2 (pic 5), some claim it’s a S300 PMU2 (Favorit), some claim a modified version of the Type 359, so we dont know really, I think an IR seeker is more likely.

>>6158
given the vid shared by irgc, it def look like it got got by IR

>>>/leftypol/2749960
that post made me laugh enough to repost it here
>f-15 is 80's top gun 1. super gay. for guys that ride each other's tails everytime.

>f-16 is ace combat. ps2 graphics but can still fly.


>f-35 is top gun 2. it seems flashy and hi tekk but really it's for boomers. basically an f-150 ford truck in plane form and half as aerodnamic as one. the cupholders cost as much as a hospital and are made of a classified material created by crystalizing pure corruption. piloted exactly like the car chairs in wall-e: an insulin resistant nugget sits in a seat and clicks on muslim girls while kahootz music is blasted into his ears. basically a modernised version of those ww2 missiles that navigated by pigeons pecking the target on a screen.

>>6162
> basically an f-150 ford truck in plane form
Nah, an F-150 is still useable. It's more like a Cybertruck; all angles and little actual use-capacity.



 

Turns out the F-15 is a dogshit fighter

The US has already lost three in a frendly fire insident, one from Iranian SAMs, and now rumers of a third F-15 downed over Iraq by an iranian fighter jet with BVM air to air missiles.
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>>6136
>The F-15 is one of the best fighter jets ever designed and definitely earned its place in history as such
In 19900 is was pretty good, but that was over 35 years ago. Today it is ancient, obsolete technology.

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>>6137
The only obsolete issues would be electronics and stealth, but stealth isn't the game changer people think, a powerful RADAR and data-linking with other RADARs can fix that. Electronics are easily replaced and have been. The Airframe is still one of the best in the world. The only current fighter aircraft that are definitively superior is the F-22, Su-57, J-20 and Su-35. The Su-34 is a superior strike aircraft but it and the Russian and Chinese Su-30 variants are all on an equal level. The F-35's main gimmick is its stealth and electronic warfare/surveillance capabilities, but the latter can easily be replicated on an F-15 airframe as they did with the EA-18G Growler (SEAD Super-Hornets). The Rafale, Gripen and Eurofighter Typhoon are light fighters that only stand a chance in dogfighting. The main reason the Kuwaiti F-18 hit those 3 F-15s was the element of surprise and the lack of SEAD concentrated on spoofing its systems. The F-16 is definitively inferior to the F-15 in capability. The F-14 is inferior in WVR combat and out of service, the Iranian versions are very outdated and rundown. The JF-10 and JF-17 are good fighters but in the same boat as the F-16. Yet all these are currently fielded aircraft.

>>6136
Its a failure because it fails materially and economically to be good value for money. Now that anti-air and chinese military tech is on par with it for a fraction of the cost its basically a big flying money vault to be cracked open while the american empire gets bled dry by its hubris.

>>6132

leftypol america bad post #6132

"Umm actaully ching Chong countries temu weapons are better Saar"

>>6172
That is the world we live in, my friend. One hundred billion temu hunter-killer drones have been sent to your location.



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How do I join the kurds?
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>>5451
It's cheap because most people are trying to get out.

>>5452
I mean, duh. Of course. I just mean if you're trying to join the Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan the best route is through Beirut right now.


You are a GLOWING turkish agent

>>5459
This is legit



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A knife brand you will see shilled nonstop on Reddit and other soy places is Spyderco. They are popular because of their unusual designs and consumerist Funko Pop like practice of releasing extremely limited designs to trick retards into thinking they are special and buying them. These knives are mostly made out of a cheap plastic material they trick you into thinking long is special by calling it “fiberglass reinforced nylon” when it is really just fucking plastic. They are very expensive but if you were to hand one to someone who isn’t into knives they would probably think it costs $20 from Walmart not $200. “But plastic is light” so is titanium and aluminum which both feel much better and nicer but go ahead and keep justifying paying exorbitant prices for inferior materials. These knives also come in a shitty box with nothing else. When you buy a Protech knife they are made of aluminum and the quality control is impeccable. They are masterfully machined and you can feel the quality. They come in a special box that folds open and a fabric pouch. When you buy a Spyderco with the Golden Colorado stamp you can notice many flaws like the blade not being centered ect and it just comes in a cheap no frills box. I actually live near the Golden factory and every time I’ve gone their they have barely any knives for sale. The employees are rude and mostly fat women who don’t seem to even know very much. I’m guessing these are the same people making them so that explains why they are so poor quality. So yeah I would recommend buying Protech or WE knives instead. WE knives have amazing quality control and are made in China. Protech are made in California. Both these brands are better than Spyderco and cost roughly the same amount and aren’t used by faggot Redditors.
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>>5922
> there might be something to produce a cheap/disposable nylon knife that can get past metal detection

so you need a deadly weapon to "defend yourself" in a room where everyone has to go through a metal detector…

>>5932
LOL reminds me of a discussion about a knife that delivers ice-cold gas (actually existing product), advertised for defense against sharks.
A: "I need this!!"
B: "You are a diver?"
A: "…"
B: "You want to become a diver?"
A: "…"
B: "You need this for what?"
A: "To defend against big animals."
B: "Big animals like what?"
A: "Like bears!"
B: "There are bears where you live?"
A: "I don't know."

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>>5932
>a room where everyone has to go through
Funny thing is there are still some folks in those public spaces who arent liable to use those metal detectors like everyone else

>>5555
>5555
Fucking checked lmao



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What can we learn from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and this example of relatively modern warfare? Strategy, tactics, operations, geopolitical responses, information warfare, civilian pov and response. Anything related. Not the thread to talk about "who is in the right".
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>>5262
>ukrainian seem to have apparently used an old yak 52 training plane for shooting down drones with great success.
>forbes
LMAO no. Russia shot down those several times. Jet fighters are needed, as are slower low-tech aircraft, as are SAMs. This is what combined warfare is. The USSR leaned heavily on air-defenses and made the best in the world, but it still had a significant aircraft fleet, because air defenses alone are not getting the job done. Drones have vulnerabilities, and low-tech strike aircraft are niche.
>For these task, using a full blown, state of the art, 5th gen stealth jet airplane is completely unnecessary and a waste of resources.
True, which is why the Su-57 has been used against priority high-threat targets rather than doing what the Su-34 and Su-25 do. the Su-57 can absolutely mount the same weapons as those two, but it's a waste of time.

Additionally only low tech aircraft is a good way of high losses in a high-tech peer-conflict, or even a near-peer conflict. In the Gulf-war the A-10 had some of the highest loss rates of ANY aircraft in that war and many of its missions were accomplished by F-16s and F-15Ds at standoff ranges, in part because the US coalition lacked proper SAM defenses and relied only on air-superiority rather than a combined arms approach, they were lucky the Iraqis were weaker and more disorganized.

>>5264
>LMAO no.
no what ? do you deny you can shoot down a recon drone with a simple motor airplane ?

>Russia shot down those several times

even if they did, the idea was more using it into your own safe airspace. And using any missile to shoot it down, you're still paying too much.

>Jet fighters are needed, as are slower low-tech aircraft, as are SAMs. This is what combined warfare is

no shit, way to miss the point.

>rather than doing what the Su-34 and Su-25 do.

any jet fighter will be a magnitude more expensive than a regular motor plane

>only low tech aircraft

I didnt advocate for having ONLY them. But do you really need a jet for lobbing FAB-500s ?
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>>5270
Your spacing is ass, please don't do this.
>no what ?
You realize that people can scroll up and see exactly what I'm saying "no" to right? The fact is that Ukraine has failed to shoot down drones with its trainers, since it's literally pulling WW-1 shit, with people firing handguns out of open cockpits. There's literally a Russian drone video where they try and fail to shoot it down.
>even if they did, the idea was more using it into your own safe airspace.
*laughs in long range SAM*
You realize that Ukraine has been using very long range stand-off weapons like cruise missiles and are STILL getting shot down, right? Only a few days ago an Su-35 shot down a MiG-29 - which was using a HARM missile in a long-range ground-strike - from over 200km away, with an R-37. Earlier in the war the S-300V4 set a similar record kill from a similar distance of over 200km. An S-400 shot down an Su-27 over Kiev earlier in the war from 150km away. Pantsir, Osa and Tor SPAAG/SAMs have shot down numerous low-flying missiles, drones and other aircraft.
>using any missile to shoot it down, you're still paying too much.
If you're an idiot using patriot anti-ballistic long-range missiles against drones. A single Tor missile costs maybe a couple thousand dollars. A single yak-52 costs 50-100 thousand dollars, so you're dead wrong.
>way to miss the point.
I didn't miss your point. I don't disagree in the necessity of low-tech aircraft, but not like Ukraine is doing, and frankly an attack chopper would do just as well, if not better.
>any jet fighter will be a magnitude more expensive than a regular motor plane
Any jet fighter would also be magnitudes more effective.
>do you really need a jet for lobbing FAB-500s
In an SAM-heavy air-space like Ukraine? YES.
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>>2642
>The idea of it going to 2025
There is a lesson there. Stop being emotional, stop eating the propaganda slop, study everything and look closely at the serious people involved in war and political theory. Honestly I didn't need to do half of that to be sure that this stupid war would last a while so if you were wrong you really need to revamp your way of thinking

>>4897
>>4877
>>4946
Restoring files



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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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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.



 

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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