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

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun." - Chairman Mao
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Throughout most of history, the secondary causes of most deaths in armed conflicts were present in fortified territories. Sieges were notorious for being the deadliest and longest instances of continuous conflicts throughout much of history. Since the Iran Iraq war, there hasn’t been many instances of fortifications being used in war. The exceptions to this trend include the trenches used occasionally in the Sudanese wars, the Tigray war, and the war in Ukraine. What caused the change? With the introduction of SAM systems, other forms of anti air defence, field artillery, Hesco sacs, sandbags, and better bunker-building techniques, why exactly have conventional and civil wars focused so much less on fortifying territory?

>>5383
If you call people living in bunkers to be safe from drones as siege warfare then maybe.

>>5386
Sorry for the ancient reply, but if that’s true, then wouldn’t handheld guns become irreplaceable? The problem with most drones, heavy weapons, and vehicles is the issue with size. Guns are generally compact, and can be used basically anywhere. Those two properties would make any form of future warfare perfect for guns to dominate in all conflicts.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-12-mn-2959-story.html

Using plows mounted on tanks and combat earthmovers, the U.S. Army division that broke through Saddam Hussein’s defensive front line buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers–some still alive and firing their weapons–in more than 70 miles of trenches, according to U.S. Army officials.

In the first two days of ground fighting in Operation Desert Storm, three brigades of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division–”The Big Red One”–used the tactic to destroy trenches and bunkers being defended by more than 8,000 Iraqi soldiers, according to division estimates.

While 2,000 surrendered, Iraqi dead and wounded as well as defiant soldiers still firing their weapons were buried beneath tons of sand, according to participants in the carefully planned and rehearsed assault.

“Once we went through there, other than the ones who surrendered, there wasn’t anybody left,” said Capt. Bennie Williams, who was awarded the Silver Star for his role in the assault.

“This is war. This isn’t a pickup basketball game,” the official said.

Not a single American was killed during the attack on Feb. 24-25 near the tip of the diamond-shaped neutral zone that straddles the border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. No Iraqi body count was possible after the assault.

“For all I know, we could have killed thousands,” said Col. Anthony Moreno, commander of the 2nd Brigade, which led the assault on the heaviest defenses. A thinner line of trenches on Moreno’s left flank was attacked by the 1st Brigade, commanded by Col. Lon Maggart. Maggart estimated that his force buried about 650 Iraqi soldiers.
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So fascists are becoming reckless in my city and although I'm now terminally online enough to not get in those stupid fights anymore they since recently keep doing those retarded flash attacks on places leftists have. My old father sometimes does the dude at the counter ready to receive anyone in an anarchist library which was attacked like two days ago and there's no way I'm letting him keep doing that without any protection so I'm getting him weapons, but legal and non lethal. Since the fucks attacking come in between 5 and 20 people I want to get him a big ass pepper spray but the legal limit is 100ml here.

So is it sufficient to push away a cowardly rightist gang probably drunk? Are there any tricks to deter relatively big groups of retarded people without hurting anyone too much for a smart average joe using non lethal and legal weapon?

Also thread to discuss those weapons I guess.
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>non-lethal

bold of you to assume the moment you threat with non lethal violence they won't resort to lethal violence and then make a day with a case of how it was a "patriot exercising self defense against those antifa terrorists"

What you want is a "handheld struggle ender"
or like we like to call it down here a "farm knife" but what we're thinking is "cuchillo saca tripas" (gutting knife)

heard you can get a couple used ones on ebay and shit.
if you know how to hit a gut shot fight's over before anyone knows because what you're doing is quite literally hooking someone's innards inside out.

heard you can get one at mexican "hood" stores
but if you can't find one cus they are a bit difficult to come by (which is why i'm forging mine)
you can just go for the "csgo kiddie" version the karambit which i'm convinced you can get quite literally anywhere.
not even half as devastating but you can get a couple good cuts to come out on top anyway.

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>>1719
NaNO3 is sometimes easier to get than KNO3 and you can turn the former into the latter using metathesis with KCl from low sodium salt
https://www.pyrogarage.pl/ sells KNO3 in Europe
t. /chem/ on >>>/edu/
also may I suggest picrel but with a not too sharp wooden tip

>>1722
This is why we download stuff like this when we see it. Can't depend on corporations to act like an archive. If you want it, save it.

>>1724
Taoe sparklers to bottles with a screw cap, that will make it storable.For thermobarics, flashpowder squib taped to plastic bottle. Put matchheads on the fuse and tape a striker pad to your glove or wear it as a necklace so you can just strike them without lighters.
>>1741
Make a simple large firecracker of a smaller diameter than a toilet paper tube, pit it in and fill the gap with pieces of tire or other hard rubber. Again, matches on fuse, strike, throw and theres a homemeade stingball.
>>1752
I may or may not have one buried somewhere. The pepper blanks need a special license but if you have street connections will get you far. The guns will be confiscated if found, even though you can buy them without a license. Weird country, weird laws.

You can make battery powered one shot pistols with a piece of curved pipe. Loaded with rock salt. Easy to conceal and only a misdemeanor if discovered. If you are doing a funny ticking clock thing only do a small cardboard tube charge and use it to blow a box filled with bags or baloons of red paint. And always remember. Fascist clubs and cars arent immune to a plastic gas bottle tied to a flare, made in a sterile room with full surgical protection. The window gets smashed with a rock and the device is thrown in, the thrower runs several blocks while constantly making turns and shortccuts, the outer layer of winter clothing is taken of and thrown into a pre-placed plastic tub of bleach, and the thrower then blends in and goes home. Glives over gloves will block gunshot residue and they are discarded on the spot because they dont have dna and have only been touched by another glove. Everything prepared is cleaned with bleach and never touched with bare hands. The throwers hair is tucked under a swimming cap so no hairs are left. Shoes used are cheap and are burned or discarded far away after the action. Touch dna, fingerprints,hair,shoeprints all exist. All of this is educational and whoever follows it is a fool that risks jail and other peoples safety. Be careful of what you decide to listen to on the internet. All of those actions are illegal and should never be performed.



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How is it fucking worse than an ak74?
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>>5372
>The ruskies did it
Not really.

>>5343
TBQH the main problem with it is just weight. At least concerning the modern battlefield, weight is by far one of the biggest concerned of any major military. Otherwise, its fine like 90% of all rifles in service of all countries.

>>5343
is it caseless? no? then I don't care

>>5374
Well that’s going to be hard to fix. The average marine in the 2000s used to carry over 200+ 5.56 rounds. The idea of bumping up the calibre is definetly going to cause some issues with ammo capacities. The gun may be able to penetrate some armours, but the limitations the weapon puts on firepower and costs are apparent.

>>5375
true and factual



 

RIP Paul Harrell



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I still can’t get over the reality that it can take several seconds to hours before someone critically injured will lose consciousness or just fucking die. Imagine just being there as a fucking corpse in unimaginable pain or being simply stressed to the level where you lose your ability to feel but not to see how fucked up your body is for what May feel like a fucking eternity. The guy that killed you has no way to know if they managed to kill you quickly and painlessly, but sooner or later they’ll move on past you while your still fucking there in agony waiting to just go out easily. This shit is all happening while your body is probably pumping your dying dumbass brain with psychedelics and stimulants to fuck up your ability to perceive what’s real while everything that is perceived is vivid and painful as shit. Fuck war man. Fuck killing; it’s all so pointlessly cruel.
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>>5287
'always' is kind of an overstatement, plenty of people get shot and die instantly, even if not in the head, you can get heart shot, or just have too many holes/too big and die of shock

>>5288
If you hit the hindbrain, then yes, the shot will immediately force someone to lose consciousness. However, what that guy said was right.

You ever seen when cops will block ambulances from someone they shot for 'security' reasons for several hours while holding back the screaming family of the victim outside the police line while they bleed out in the street. Reminds me a lot of the aircraft carrier off the coast of Palestine.

>>5290
What the fuck is that stupid over the top mentally ill evil burger-type shit? No way all the drugs, sugar, stress, and illiteracy present in the average badly trained American police officer makes them do stupid evil shit that extreme.

>>5291
reminder that this was an actual police training video



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Obscure gruella political literature
I'm sure everyone here has Che and Mao's guerilla warfare books downloaded at this point, but I'm curious about similar literature written by people in conflicts that were less famous
The Nepalese civil war, Western Sahara conflict, The Baloch conflict, Sri-Lankan communist insurgency
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>>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

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>>4426
this book was on the news

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All-in-one handbook



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What it says on the tin - I've seen a couple threads about preparing for a Guerrilla war or whatever, but not much about defending yourself and others at a demonstration or during a riot, which is obviously a much more common situation to find yourself in. I specifically had defending from riot police in mind, but anything would be interesting/useful.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Era2Up8ILis
Rioting from kenya live, watch and learn

The Kenyans do it better than you do.

>>5189
thanks anon

>>5189
anyone got any decent tips from this?

>>4589
post it

https://youtu.be/sJdjCy35Hww
Lots of useful things in this video.



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Ok, I'm going to make the dreaded question.
Could normal size mechas (like, 1.5 storey tall) be actually viable in warfare?
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>>4454
>>4452
Kalashnikov Concern demo'd a mecha walker in 2018 called Игорёк. It's for civilian use, with a multi-person cockpit, with manipulators resembling that of a Deep-Sea submersible and leg structure reminiscent of the ED-209 or Star Wars AT-ST.

>A Purely Practical Look at Mechs and Mech Combat
>Jason Wolfe

“Pistol calibres, and rifle calibres, why would a soldier need an intermediary calibre? The future of combat is longer ranged rifles with bigger bullets!” - Probably some MIC fudd in the 50s

Mechas are needed, badly. Infantry equipment is getting constantly heavier and knees get exploded. An arms race is occuring between ballistic armor and tungsten penetrator unicorn ammo. Theres even plates now that can defeat .50 BMG! What this all means for infantry is that their gear will get much heavier in the future until a threshold is passed where it gets too heavy so ballistic armor is dropped completely besides maybe flak vests. This already occured once in history. When black powder was first introduced, armor smiths were ablo to cope by making their plates thicker, or inventing angled armor (Kastenbrust, look it up), but soon enough ballistic tech would catch up resulting in an arms race just like we see now, arm and leg armor was dropped from the equipment because the theoretical weight of such armor that could stop a musketball anywhere on the body was laughable, and soon enough even breastplates and helmets were dropped because of infeasibility to add any more weight to a soldier.

Same process as now. But now mechas are in our reach. An intermediary. Instead of only having naked infantry and armored vehicles, a new unit type could emerge, having mobility close to infantry (especially useful in an urban environment) while at the same time surviving small arms that infantry can carry. Closing the gap so to speak.

>>5255
Mecha is retarded. That's why they don't exist.

>>5255
I agree with this notion, although it is a possibility that soldiers' equipment only comes to weigh less and less. You bring up the example of black powder, but now we have developed assault rifles that achieve the abilities of a power musket tenfold.
>Same process as now. But now mechas are in our reach. An intermediary. Instead of only having naked infantry and armored vehicles, a new unit type could emerge, having mobility close to infantry (especially useful in an urban environment) while at the same time surviving small arms that infantry can carry. Closing the gap so to speak.
I would like to see these tools to be developed for more capabilities then pewpew, for instances the development of entrenchments or transportation across shit terrain.
>>5256
Locheed Martin has devoured your soul I take it.



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The Secret Service couldn't keep up. As consumer-grade Universal Constructors flooded the market, people began using them to manufacture satellite weaponry. The unthinkable became routine: holding Senators hostage with the mere threat of a strike, coordinates programmed into hastily assembled, orbiting death machines.

Page, ever the schemer, had seen the writing on the wall long before the chaos erupted. He ordered us to clone the entire Senate, ensuring his precious legislation remained untouchable and live, regardless of the threats. Now, the real Senators were hidden away, their roles played by perfect duplicates, indistinguishable even under the closest scrutiny.

But that was only the beginning. Page had his secret plan. He implanted the cloned Senators with advanced augmentation devices, giving him unprecedented control. Through SSH, he now wrote laws directly, bypassing the sluggishness of democracy. His clandestine augmentations turned the Senators into mere extensions of his will, puppets executing his commands with unerring precision.

In the midst of this upheaval, Everett, our once-diligent watchdog, had retreated into silence. He wouldn't even read the news, overwhelmed by the sheer impossibility of the world we had created. Page's grip tightened, his influence expanding as he bent the Senate—and by extension, the entire nation—to his vision.

The cloning chambers hummed quietly beneath the Capitol, an eerie testament to the new order. The real Senators, unaware of their own replacements, continued to languish in secure locations, kept alive only as a contingency. Page's machinations ensured that any dissent was swiftly quashed, his synthetic Senate unwavering in its loyalty.

As we watched from the shadows, the implications of our actions weighed heavily. The power to shape reality had shifted dramatically, and the boundaries of ethics and governance blurred beyond recognition. The lines between savior and tyrant, protector and oppressor, became indistinguishable, leaving us to wonder if this brave new world was truly an improvement, or a descent into an even darker age.



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Picsrel (top to bottom):

>UAVs

>reconnaissance drones (these are quadcopter drones used for aerial filming that were disguised as toys)
>unmanned submarines that operate autonomously and navigate using GPS
>"ayyash" missiles (made from metal pipes leftover after the zionists got kicked out of Gaza, some warheads lifted from a WWI-era sunken British naval ship and a fuel engine w/ pumps that has a range of over 200km and can hit anywhere in Israel)

Is this the final intifada? Are they capble of ever standing a chance against Israel?
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>>4047
>You fail to understand what foil does to spoof low-power RADARs. It not only creates a RADAR profile, but distorts it, so that you can't actually get a good idea of the target's actual location or proximity, thus the Tamir missile seeker may 'think' that its on top of the target and detonate, when in fact it is ahead or behind the rocket, since the target is so imprecise.
False for two reasons. Tinfoil doesn't distort radar that much and the Tamir uses a laser fuse together with the radar seeker at shortest range.

>Now again I'm just postulating this based on what I know about RADAR and chaff, so I could be wrong, but I wasn't the person that suggested foil as a method to begin with, I was only repeating a claim by a Raytheon engineer I heard of and thought interesting.

These rumors are lies in 99% of time and just cite authority to look more credible.

So in review, Hamas drones were an absolute failure once the invasion kicked off.

>>3825
Very well. The weapon market is at an all time right and there is now a popular demand from both side for more public spending. Every single weapon manufacturer get filthy rich from the taxpayer's money. This war is a total American victory.

>But all the people who die?

Leave that detail to the unwashed masses. Come on do you think the war on terror was about fighting terror? It's over, we need something new.


>>3549
Is there any Hamas left alive? If the combined forced of Egypt Syria and Jordan lose to Israel then these guerillas stand no chance.



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