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

>>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.”

>>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

3D Printed Anti-Personnel Mines being made by the Ukrainians

>>5571
>>5571
Would be stupid easy to design and make. It's just a pressure guage attached to a bomb.

If they're advertising the shit on places like reddit or youtube or whatever it's mall ninja shit. Applies to any sort of "weapon" but especially knives.

>>5554
Who even needs a $200 knife anyways. Surely any kitchen knife is sufficient to kill someone

>>5555
Reddit fags will insist that you need one. I do collect knives however you can get a $40 knife that is 70% as good as the $200 one. The more expensive ones just look nicer and maybe the steel will stay sharper a bit longer but it really isn’t necessary. You can get a cheap brand Kershaw at Walmart which is all you really need.

>>5552
You should check out Esee knives. Those are beast fixed blades.

>thinking brand knives are anything but throwaway scrap metal
do westoids really?
if you want an actual knife you go to your neighborhood knife maker and buy solid and heavy fixed blade traditional knife forged in front of your eyes from the chunk of steel. you keep it in a leather sheath and only wash it with either oil or animal fat

This is only feasible for trash filled areas like dumps and outdoor ruins. Let's say you were inside, a neon stripclub or a bar. What ghillie camo is best for this spot? Do you cover you ghilli suit in glass bottles? Or maybe wrap your suit with neon wires so no one will recognize you without going blind.

>>5528
lmao shouldn't have tried that on a woman with headscarf

>>5542
surely hiding behind the low wall would be much better than being a weird out of place pile of trash in the open though

>>5560
disguise as a stripper, have a derringer in your pussy/ass

>>5556
you have to be ex-military so that's the first step

>>5557
thats not fair

>>5557
what about joining putin meat machine? will that work?

Maybe

They look cool though

Flinging poo into the face of OP

>>5410
Large use of AA to make them using their air units too expensive, plus trying to capture their airbases

Missle spam

Missle spam is always the answer

>>5428
basically DPRK ground forces doctine.

>>5411
i think the dude killed the guest or his grandpa

Steammaxxing. Boil water until it's a constant lightning storm, then no one can be in the air.