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<Russia is currently developing a line or network of barrage balloons to protect against devastating drone attacks from Ukraine.

A barrage balloon is a ground-anchored light gas balloon, either hydrogen or helium, that supports a large physical protective net in the sky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage_balloon

<In the first week of July, the Russian company First Airship announced its intention to switch from producing cargo airships to defense manufacturing, according to Business Insider, citing Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti.


https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-use-wwii-tactic-defend-against-ukrainian-drone-strikes-2024-7

<The barrage balloon nets are quite large in size. The balloons would be raised to a height of 300 meters, and 250-meter-wide defense nets would be suspended from them.


<A single balloon can carry a load of 30 kilograms, suggesting that the nets are woven from rather thin lines.


<First Airship also envisions equipping their barrage balloons with cannons that would launch smaller nets over incoming drones.

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Take a tin can, take an airbag inflator w/ sodium azide in it for the shock-sensitive primary explosive and either Guanidinium nitrate w/ an oxidizer (like copper nitrate) or Ammonium nitrate to surround it in to act as the secondary explosive (optionally you could instead use a mixture of potassium nitrate and silicon dioxide to send hot particles flying everywhere to make the reaction retain heat. Then just add a wooden dowel from a broom handle for the grip, and after that's all attached, drop it from a height and watch it explode as it lands on the bottom (you could add some kind of weight to it optionally). Also, I've experimented with the idea of using compressed helium or argon-helium mixtures for the explossive as opposed to a chemical explosive propellant that you can put in a gun. You could possibly wire a car's airbag alarm sensor as a detonator for a bomb as opposed to an impact-activated grenade and make it remotely detonated for you to activate it.

R8 my weapons.

>a shock sensitive explosive to set off a bomb
OP that's retarded
anyway here's my idea:
>put TCCA in a PET bottle
>insert a sealed test tube with HCl in the bottle
>add a spring loaded spike or whatever to break the test tube when desired
>when activated, Cl2 will build up in the bottle until it bursts
you now have something that'll cause concussion/hearing damage, throw plastic shrapnel around and also functions as a chemical weapon. hooray!

Hexamannitol nitrate is rather easy to make

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Fuel: Take an old beer bottle. Fill it up with gasoline, some paint thinner for good measure and a sprinkle of manganese.
It's less hassle to use a slow burning match or some equivalent, and a soaked rag has greater potential to spread the fire to unwanted places plus makes the bottle less aerodynamic and harder to aim.

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https://archive.is/z20SZ
>The F-22 Raptor, the United States’ fifth-generation stealth aircraft designed for breaching enemy air defenses, encountered a formidable adversary in the form of the Korean-made FA-50 fighter jet.
>The most recent encounter of these two aircraft in a combative setting took place in the skies over Luzon, where the FA-50 belonging to the Philippine Air Force [PAF] closely contested the American war jet and even alleged to have achieved a successful “kill” against the F-22. A noticeable surge in defense collaboration occurred between the Philippines and the United States in the year 2023.
>The Philippines, a nation of islands situated in the South China Sea, witnessed the arrival of numerous cutting-edge fighter jets for the first time. The Korean-made FA-50 was reported to have defeated the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Raptor during the 2023 iteration of the ‘Cope Thunder’ exercise between the U.S. and the Philippines, an event making a comeback after a hiatus of 33 years.
>In a recent journal entry, the Philippine Air Force [PAF] disclosed an unexpected achievement. Notably, the radio was alive with the confident proclamation of a Filipino fighter pilot during an aerial combat exercise with the F-22 Raptor, “Fox 2! Killed one Raptor on the right turn!”
>The journal entry elaborates, “This incident marked a momentous development in military history. The Philippine’s Lead-in Fighter Aircraft triumphed over a 5th generation fighter jet in a simulated court of air combat, which took place in the airspace over Luzon, within the context of the Cope Thunder Exercise.”
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Wow, a Lockheed Martin jet was exercise killed by a Lockheed Martin jet, really a blow to American supremacy

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>>5213
Being intentionally obtuse and ignoring the important details does you no favors, /k/oper.
70% of the TA-50 is funded and designed by South Korea, and it still damages Lockheed's reputation that a training aircraft is capable of taking down its best jet. Not to mention the Filipino version is an export model, it's like a BMP-3 destroying an M1A2 Abrams. This isn't the first time the F-22 has failed like this either, with French Dassault Rafale and the Eurofighter Typhoon also outmaneuvering and landing kills.
>muh BVR
the ACEVAL/AIMVAL tests demonstrated that a force of smaller but more numerous aircraft was capable of dealing with heavier, higher-tech fighters. This still applies, as F-15s still lost to MiG-21s in Air to Air simulations at Cope India and even the F-16C has AoA that exceeds the F-22, with the MiG-29 and Su-27 having similar numbers and the the rest of the Su-27 series and the MiG-35 exceeding that.

>>5214
Russian aircraft you talk about couldn't even come in BVR range of F22s in Ukraine lol, how many Mig 29 and Su 27 got blown up trying to go against the hohol ragtag volkssturm again? Now compare that with the losses of F22 and F15s which actually went deep in AA covered Iraq or Syria, but yeah jerk off about exercises sure. At least don't shame yourself and compare US aircraft to an actual peer adversary such as China instead of using a broke state like Russia that can't even maintain properly its soviet legacy gear.

>>5217
I heard the same thing about the Abrams. A vehicle is a vehicle, and if it exists it can and will be destroyed.

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>>5217
>Russian aircraft you talk about couldn't even come in BVR range of F22s in Ukraine
<in Ukraine
LMAO nobody mentioned Ukraine glowie. And yes, they would. F-22 stealth is not an invisibility cloak and the Russians have tracked the F-22 and F-35 in Syria for years. The USSR was among the pioneers of stealth and stealth detection.
>how many Mig 29 and Su 27 got blown up trying to go against the hohol ragtag volkssturm
None because Russia has never deployed MiG-29s to Ukraine nor does it use Su-27s there either, it uses the Su-30 and Su-35 models, and I have yet to see proof of either being shot down, and most certainly none of them in air-to-air combat. Ukraine on the other hand has lost several MiG-29s and Su-27s in the air and on the ground.
>compare that with the losses of F22 and F15s which actually went deep in AA covered Iraq or Syria
LOL, LMAO even at the sheer ignorance of this comparison.
1) The F-22 has never been deployed against any sort of real air-defense, and certainly not in Iraq which is controlled by the USA at the moment. They weren't deployed in either Gulf War either.
2) The F-15 has gotten shot down by SAMs and even enemy fighters plenty of times, even back in the 1980s during its debut over Lebanon, the Israeli's and USAF just dismissed or hid the air-to-air losses and blamed them on accidents while omitting the number of SAM losses.
3) The F-15 was also never deployed against a peer-combatant air-defense, always being backed up by heavy SEAD, AWACS and satellite uplinks against enemies with older technology that had none of those things and who were a smaller fighting force. The Ukrainians in 2022 were the largest and honestly the most heavily armed and well-trained military in Europe, yet now their air-defense and air forces are all but gone, the point that they constantly fail to defend any targets and Russian aircraft freely hit troops with guided weapons. You might as well start praising the F-35 for being able to bomb the Houthi's and not get shot down… wow what an achievement!
>but yeah jerk off about exercises sure
<N-no simulated combat doesn't mean anything!
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Today, the United States is among a number of nations working to develop and field advanced directed energy weapons, or lasers, for a number of military applications.

Near the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union began experimenting with the idea of fielding a laser-equipped tank that could blind the targeting systems of inbound ballistic missiles or vehicles. Ultimately, two prototypes of the laser-armed 1К17 Сжатие, translated to “Compression,” were built, though they weren’t complete until the Soviet Union fell and was replaced by the new government of the Russian Federation.

Today, the United States is among a number of nations working to develop and field advanced directed energy weapons, or lasers, for a number of military applications. The U.S. Air Force recently announced its intentions to begin fielding lasers on their fighter platforms as soon as 2025, and the U.S. Navy began testing its latest laser, the MK 2 MOD 0, aboard the USS Portland in May of this year. But decades before these programs came to light, the Soviet Union was already exploring the idea of using lasers as a means of missile defense.

The Soviet strategy wasn’t to use these lasers to destroy incoming missiles like the applications in development today intend to. Instead, the Soviet laser tank aimed to blind or burn out the electro-optical sensors missiles used to find their targets. Once blinded or damaged, a missile would miss its intended target, whether that was the 1K17 or other nearby assets. Other planned applications included using the laser apparatus to blind heavy vehicles like tanks, making it impossible for them to aim and fire accurately.
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>>4596
There was a laser revolver version of this too. It reminds me of the laser pistol from the original Alien (1979) film.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лазерный_пистолет?useskin=vector

https://en.topwar.ru/38339-sdelano-v-sssr-lazernyy-pistolet-kosmonavta.html

>>4597
The laser pistol actually looks cool. The revolver has to be the ugliest looking firearm I've ever seen.


Laser deforestation demonstrated in Russia
>Specialists from the Troitsk Institute of Innovation and Thermonuclear Research tested a mobile laser complex produced by Rosatom. The laser was used to cut down forests and speed up the laying of power lines. Using a laser complex, it was possible to cut a tree trunk 200 mm thick in six minutes; by simulating a laser beam, this time can be halved. The laser installation has no analogues in Russia and is capable of cutting even metal structures whose thickness reaches 260 mm, at a distance of no more than 300 meters. Previously, a sunken ship located 50 meters from the shore was cut with a laser on Sakhalin. There are no technical details released yet; the laser complex can be installed on an all-terrain vehicle of median size or larger.
An interesting use of a laser. Perhaps its not so fantastical in the future to have laser cannons.

Russia did a laser show on Victory Day to demoralize the Ukrainians



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Meme thread for /AK/
Post memes, stories, funny shit and /k/ screencaps.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Ah4YjLYWM&ab_channel=HonestAds
>If Military Recruiters Were Honest - Honest Ads (Military Commercial Parody, Army, Marines)

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Stupid shit from a while back

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Hello comrades I'm a transwoman who owns a Bersa in 380 (pic rel) that I purchased in more prosperous times. Is it suitable for home defense? I live in a pretty crap apartment and am concerned about over penetration and efficacy. I don't have much money for another option. Please advise.

TLDR trans femme comrade needs caliber advice
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It'll kill people for sure if that's what you're wondering. Cheap ammo and easy to carry as well.

define "suitable". will a .380 kill a man? yes. is it wise to shoot indoors? no, few guns are. hollowpoints are safer though
find a good range and practice. get some click rounds (not sure what the term is in English but blank rounds you can fire without damaging the firing pin) and practice loading, unloading, safing, unsafing and handling it in general

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Birdshot round are good for home defense. Hit an intruder anywhere near the face and you'll ruin their objective without killing them.
Home defense is different than having a body count, try to avoid that if possible.
A blank, a couple round of birdshot and then HP for the final rounds if things get serious. I like my shotgun because I've been able to dissuade one potential intruder with the sound of racking it, glad I haven't had to kill anyone.

>>4939
The best form of home defence is owning a home that’s not in a place that needs defensive equipment.

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>>5163
How to sell your products or political structure: create a need and offer a solution for the need you just created.



 

I see a lot of talk about how Russia n China could shit on the west with hypersonic missiles. which is cool af but I also don't know if thats even true or what a hypersonic missile even is(I assume it goes faster than sound?). Are they a big deal? I really do hope the hype lives up this time
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China has demonstrated its Aero-Ballistic hypersonic missile. It is obviously a copy of the Russian Kinzhal.

https://topwar.ru/241671-vpervye-pokazany-kadry-puska-kitajskoj-ajeroballisticheskoj-rakety-s-giperzvukovoj-boevoj-chastju.html

>>2826
The S-500 reliably intercepted a Sineva SLBM during its testing, which is a very modern ICBM and is not easy to intercept by any means. This is excluding the S-400 system which is very capable as well as the A-235 and A-135 ABM systems.

>>5146
If S-400's are so good, why does Ukraine destroys them?

>>5155
The number of S-400s hit can be counted on 1 hand. I know of 2 possible S-400s knocked out and even then it was the launchers, not the actual S-400 system.
Furthermore, as explained multiple times, SAMs are not magical shields, they have limitations and reaction times that can be exploited under mass barrage, as there exists no SAM system in the world to have a 100% kill rate.

>>3984
So I was right about the Corvette's damage being superficial. Russian Navy has announced the repairs of the ship
https://topwar.ru/245171-ssk-ak-bars-postradavshij-v-hode-raketnogo-udara-vsu-mrk-askold-proekta-22800-karakurt-budet-dostroen.html



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The talk of a new civil war has been going on for a long while now that it almost sounds like a worn out trope.
But how does leftypol feel about it? How could it start, run and end?
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>>4418
what model you use for your art

>>4417
this

>>2102
> This is when we may see the pool of dissident elites growing. I personally doubt many of them will be communist or socialist because the elite seems to consistently absorb this strata so we may see many more reactionary or neo-reactionary dissidents.
examples of this anons?

>>5172
Thiel and co

>>5173
hmmm



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I genuinely struggle to imagine what automated warfare would be useful for outside of defensive purposes. The idea of trying to use a self functioning machine for practical warfare feels pointless. That’s not to say automated weapons don’t exist. After all, automatic rifles, auto cannons, self propelled artillery, guided missiles, and other forms of self-firing and self-guided weapons are used all the time in warfare—hell most countries’ governments have mechanized their militaries already. However, the idea of completely relying on machines to perform every primary task a soldier would normally do, and to leave soldiers to perform all the other work necessary in wars feels as unrealistic as it would be difficult to pull off.

There’s a few questions that would have to be asked about how something like automated warfare would work. Whose gathering and analyzing all the data, what types of machines are supposed to be fully automated for combat, whose going to be maintaining and repairing the machines once they finish fighting, is it even cost efficient or necessary to automate warfare in all settings, what types of machines are going to be responsible for the things infantry men do, what are the carry limits of a machine, and more. Obviously, as humanity’s currently most used weapons incorporate more already-existing machinery, soldiers of the future can come to expect that their weapons have some level of self functioning, but the idea that wars at some point will become fully automated sounds unrealistic; it even sounds utopian even.



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Got any questions about guns, equipment or combat? Have some knowledge you can share? Ask and answer away
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>>339
not very

Guys I was about to drop 1.5g on basic armor and plate carrier, combat uniform and war belt.

But then I realized I probably wont buy a firearm just yet since fam is scared of em and cant have em in the house. Is there a point to buying anything gear without the gun/rifle which seems like the primary thing? I was thinking plates might be good to have and I could conceal them in a backpack or something, but the rest I dont really see a practical use for without a weapon?

>>3629
ask /msg/ on /k/

>>286
The Rifle part goes back to the feature of rifles themselves - rifling of the barrel of a long-barreled fire-arm, usually requiring or having a stock.

If one was going to be doing a lot of camping, presumably where mountain lions reside, what, if any handguns would you take? Multiple killed out innawoods/mountains here last few years, caught without any way to defend themselves.



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