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

>>3638
There were more

Skinwalker hunting kit
The knife is for fun and the gun is also for fun but also to shoot myself

Ancapistan loadout

I serve the Soviet Union.

There's a guy on fosscad who made his own with more power than ones sold over the counter
https://www.reddit.com/user/Proof1447/submitted/
Free download I think

I just have a break action air rifle. I've mounted a red dot on it, will give that a try soonish

>>1770
I see one of the comments mentions Caselman's air machine gun. I found the plans for it at https://thehomegunsmith.com/CaselmanAPMG.shtml . attached pdf related for posterity
here's another build of it: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/05/02/32-cal-caselman-air-powered-machine-gun/
another build: https://www.airmachinegun.com/caselman_build.htm

vid and gif related are someone who built a more compact design that fires round BBs. relevant forum post: https://www.spudfiles.com/viewtopic.php?p=386263#p386263

I have the pellet gun in the op, american classic. it is the only pellet gun i own at the moment (but i've used others).


that thing on a full pump will hurt. close enough it'll puncture the skin. a point blank shot to the skull will penetrate it. i don't think it'll go in far and i'm 100% positive they will live.

so defensive i would say the site of a pistol or w/e might deter some people, offensively i would say you better be a good aim and hit them in the eye

story time


i got my dogs thanksgiving dinner one nov that way. they cornered a possum and i grabbed the American Classic and put one in its skull point blank. it lived. did it again. and it continued with its living… i felt bad, don't get me wrong. who woulda thought it would have lived a point blank shot to the head.

>>4573
Thats why you keep some cheap 22. by your side for the purposes of pest control. The cheapest option in the US would probably be some single shot "daughters first gun" bolt action but i cant speak from expeeience as im a nogunz at the moment

>>1769
They aren't that strong but I've heard that competitive shooters use airsoft replicas of guns they have so they can practice handling indoors since they're basically silent. Also it's good for iron sights training.

I've got too much on my plate rn
Sorry comrade :(

>>2594
Sounds very interesting to me. I may wish to join in a few months time. Thank you for the offer anon.

>>2594
I dunno about a reading group, but is there a list/archive of MODERN(so at least ww2) military literature? Specifically military, not guerilla/terror stuff. Some youtube channels about military would also be appreciated.

>>4664
And I'm not talking about stuff like "how to treat your wounds and handle your ak", but preferably stuff like "how to be an infantry squad leader".

Yeah I heard about this. Though to be fair that training jet isn't exactly a slouch either.

The magic word is "dogfight".
The F-22 is a fifth gen jet designed for long range and beyond visual range attacks using missiles.
In a regualr combat scenario, the F-22 can fire missiles at the FA-50, before even getting detected by radar.
Fifth gen jets regularly lose gun dogfights to fourth gen jets because stealth design and general considerations for BVR engagements reduce the ability to turn fight while being subsonic.
And this is totally irrelevant for combat as the last two decades have seen virtually zero dogfights in jet to jet engagements. The future of jet fighting is slinging missiles at each other over more than 100 km range.

>>4615
This is retarded. Dogfights absolutely still happen and is both proven in previous wars -from Vietnam to Lebanon - and in modern simulations of a US air-battle with Chinese and Russian air forces
>the last two decades have seen virtually zero dogfights in jet to jet engagements.
The last 2 decades have barely HAD any jet to jet engagements because most air-force activities have been ground attack against under-armed guerillas and terrorists or civilians. However dogfights do occur.
- In Syria an F/A-18 shot down a Su-22
- In India a MiG-21 modernization shot down a Pakistani F-16 and more than one skirmish of this kind has occurred between them.
- During the late 90s Yugoslav and Serbian wars dogfights happened quite often, with MiG-29s and MiG-21s engaging F-16s, Panavia Tornados and other aircraft in close-range combat.
- Russian fighter jets, primarily the Su-35, have shot down drones with auto-cannon fire over Ukraine

Dogfighting was declared dead in the 1960s and Vietnam disproved that, which is why all fighter-jets today still mount autocannons. Dogfights would continue into every conflict of every war after. The first Gulf War had an F-15 engage two MiG-29s and there were a few more close range engagements in that war.

The idea that BVR will end dogfighting is retarded because counter-measures against such missiles will improve with the missiles and never guarantee a hit. This was proven in Iraq when F-15s with AIM-120s failed to shoot down MiG-25s because they simply avoided, out-maneuvered and out speeded the missiles, with the F-15s likewise avoiding the R-40s fired back at them. DFRM and other countermeasures mean Active RADAR seekers are vulnerable to spoofing, Semi-Active missiles force the firing aircraft to reveal its position by actively using RADAR and IR-guidance is primarily used for close range engagements and is vulnerable to flares and decoys.

Finally the F-22 was built specifically to outperform the F-15 Eagle, including in maneuverability and IS more maneuverable than it, so no the excuse of "stealth design and general considerations for BVR engagements reduce the ability to turn fight while being subsonic." is absolutely untrue.

>>4619
Most of what you listed from the last two decades weren't dogfights and all of them are irrelevant border skirmishes.
Dogfights are just beyond irrelevant in real wars like Ukraine, as ground based air defence utterly denies enemy jets ever meeting within visual range. And yes, the F-22 and F-35 regularly lose mock gun fights against F-16 because it is not the role they were designed for.

>>4620
Yes those were dogfights - close range shoot-outs within visual range, the same applies to Cope Thunder and other previous F-22 involved exercises.
>ground based air defence utterly denies enemy jets ever meeting within visual range
And yet they have, because air-defense is not perfect and counter-measures exist. The primary reason we don't see many air-air battles in Ukraine is because the Ukrainian air-force is operating older units, in much smaller numbers and most of them were destroyed on the ground, along with bases that were close to Russia. In turn the VKS doesn't push deep into Ukrainian territory because there is no need for long range aerial operations against a nearly non existent air-force and the primary target are ground-based, not aerial.
>the F-22 and F-35 regularly lose mock gun fights against F-16 because it is not the role they were designed for.
Excuses. The F-22 is extremely maneuverable as a design and has thrust-vectoring. Both it and the F-35 are supposed to outperform the F-16 and F-15 in aerodynamic capabilities as well as BVR and stealth. The F-22 achieved this, being more maneuverable than any of its 4th Generation predecessors, the F-35 failed and this is part of the reason the F-35 is criticized as a replacement to the F-16 and F-18. The F-22's main problem aside from technical issues is the lack of an IR targeting system and its prohibitive expensive and complicated production per unit, which is why the program never reached 200 planes. And just because the F-22 is supermaneuverable, and superior to its predecessors does not mean other air-craft are incapable of shooting it down in WVR and BVR combat.

TL;DR: Any turning aircraft bleeds off energy. Some more than others. The F-16 is one of the best fighters for holding energy through transonic turns, better at that even than an F-15C but not nearly as good as F-22 with its thrust vectoring.
Dog-fighting may be a reduced quality, but it absolutely still exists and the F-22 was absolutely designed with being superior to the F-16's, F-18's and F-15's capabilities in mind.

>>2428
These are literally my costudents

t. I was there too a few times. years ago.

>>2437
very interesting idea
>>2392
it's extremely easy to make a good suppressor by cnc milling a cylinder of aluminum and stuffing the holes with steel wool for baffles. There is also 3d printed suppressors now but I still need to research them before I can comment. They are probably the best option today, in fact the new line of rifles the American military is rolling out right now all come equipped with a 3d printed suppressor.

For an extemely low tech solution you can simply use a plastic (PET) water bottle from the recycling as a suppressor. In fact that is what the chechen seperatists used to great effect during the first battle of Grozyny. A plastic PET bottle taped to the barrel of a bolt action .22 rifle firing subsonic ammunition will be completely silent aside from noise made from crunching the bottle etc. You could even stick one to the end of a .22 pistol and if it doesn't cycle the action then no one in the room with you will hear it fire. Just the sound of a body hitting the floor if you don't catch it.

Dump massive buckets of HRT into the water supply of the Pentagon covertly.

https://topwar.ru/236854-tureckaja-kompanija-razrabotala-nazemnyj-bespilotnik-so-zvukovoj-pushkoj.html
Turkey has developed the AVAZ, a drone-mounted sound-cannon which can at minimum burst ear-drums and cause Nausea, and its dB can hit 184, rupturing the liver and other organs.

On the topic of Sound Guns - https://armystandard.ru/news/20216151111-7AjCF.html

>>4579
Probably either a false flag operation to sow fear in the country or it's genuinely some rogue Ukrainian terror cell

>>4580

time for american terror

Continuing on the topic of Yakovlev aircraft, the Yak-24 was a bit of an anomaly since it was a helicopter and not a plane, contrary to almost every other Yakovlev aircraft. It was also the only Soviet helicopter to be produced that featured a tandem rotor design, IIRC (not counting the Mil V-12 as it was a prototype)
It tends to be overshadowed by other designs such as the Mi-2, Mi-4 or Mi-8, though, and I don't think it was as influential as those. However, I appreciate its simple design: it's basically a long box with rotorblades and stabilizers.

>>4568
Pics 1 & 2 are MiG-31s, pic 3 is a MiG-25. A sexeh beast indeed.
The MiG-25 is pretty fucking awesome. It can reach about Mach 3 under the right conditions, it has an extremely powerful radar that is also resilient to ECM and EMPs, and it does all of that by using engines from a cancelled cruise missile project, vacuum tubes, and being made out of steel.
The MiG-31 modernizes the whole thing with upgraded electronics and perhaps better aerodynamics, although it's a little bit slower (but still really fast).

On a related note, the Mikoyan Ye-150/152 (picrel) used the same engine as the MiG-25 and was also meant to be an interceptor.

>>4568
I remember reading about how Soviet MiG-25/31 pilots would lock onto SR-71s but they would run away before they could fire. Super cool planes.

I know the MiG 1.44’s first flight was post soviet but it was in design in 86’ so close enough.

>>4570
The MiG-25 could lock-on but the R-40 did have some trouble chasing, so MiG-25s would approach from the front. The MiG-35s R-33s and PESA RADAR did not have this issue and easily forced SR-71s out of Soviet air-space. The SR-71 was only good at being high-speed, it turned like a brick, ate fuel like crazy, the engines constantly broke-down and leaked.

He was studying software, like IT stuff it sounded like from some of his social media posts.

>people in the US military are all too right wing to do a revolution
Nah, they just need the "correct" motivation to join the revolution, remember a large part of the Bolsheviks army was made of former Tsarist officers, including several very highly-renowned ones like Marshal Alexei Brusilov.

>People like Greek Aussie living in the bougie part of Crakeristan, South America, have valid opinions.
The Military is pretty shit these days, so I'm not surprised that Aaron did what he did.

>>4529
>People like Greek Aussie living in the bougie part of Crakeristan, South America, have valid opinions.

I am not online enough to get this. Are you talking about bad empanada?

Who else lives in Argentina and smells like gyros and vegemite?

anyone have Revolution Without a Revolution by Regis Debray

>>4511
Seconding

>>4572
>>4511
Here's the last thread about them, if anyone wants to shift through it to find any guides and pdfs
https://leftypol.org/leftypol/res/645630.html#750333

>>4426
this book was on the news

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

>>2078
Oh it is lmao, like especially with military ammo that shit fucking sucks

>>1630
>why have the main rifles of the former two world superpowers stood the test of time

hmmmm

Cowboy Bebop was predictive programming. we're still gonna be using AK's, M4's and Tokarev's on mars.

>>4515
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.