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Why is every branch of the US military suddenly shelling out for this thing? Have they figured out how to impregnate aircraft composites with egirl pheromones or something? YOU CAN'T FUCK THE PLANE. GAO, T- TELL THEM THEY CAN'T FUCK IT• US Navy Selects Electra to Design Ship-Based Contested Logistics Aircraft• US Army Awards Electra Contract for Powered Wind Tunnel Test of Contested Logistics eSTOL Aircraft• Electra to develop ultra-short takeoff plane for Air Force
>>61548837Bigger the better
>>61542440guessing it means it can pull 600kw from the electrical system during takeoff, not that it's a literal 600kw generator. Use your brain
>>61549029Sometimes you just need to get it wet.
>>61547388The most american solution possible
I'm a mechanical engineer. I have upgraded that plane.
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Has Cangen ever tried Iqmik?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqmik
>>61549151Have you? That having ash in it sounds like asking for mouth cancer. Certainly doesn't sound nice to me. If that doesn't bother you though go ahead I suppose.
>>61548038>the lgbt monument is a chewed up holeWhat did they mean by this?
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>>61548929>>61548853it's literally a plastic piece you can remove in 10 secondsand nah the goofy handguard is worse than having some options with pic railsx95 is the better style for sure
So I guess the US is also able to enjoy a war economy without actually being at war.
>Russia’s state-controlled gas giant reported its first annual net loss since 1999 on falling shipments to Europe and lower prices for the fuel.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-gazprom-group-reports-first-162545260.html?guccounter=1
>>61547494>Russia's war economy: $140 billion>US peacetime economy: ~$800 billionit was never a question
>>61548157>normally I only shit twice a day
>>61547515Imagine trying to tell modern Americans there are butter and fuel rations.
>>61547982You are assuming he has a job to begin with, anon. Rookie mistake
do you guys have a loadout that is more than just a CCW? Dunno what you would call it besides grey man+
>>61548966kek, based
>>61548966Funny, he said he was waiting for the holosun thermal but it's likely to get sanctioned along with gray, not so much for being a thermal but for being used across the pond
>>61548966damn what the door do to you
>>61541008As a former LEfag, that may be the most effective “suicide by cop” rig ever. Realistically, that’s your greatest threat. 1/3 LOD deaths are plainclothes and off duty officer killed by friendly fire, and they have badges, radios and often know the local lingo. >inv4 all cops are gay. I am confident the average kommando is a better shot. >>61541233The elephant in the room. >>61541277When I moved and spent the night in a hotel, put my long guns in ones of those rolling gold bag travel covers. >>61544185>flip flops
>>61544139It's not even mine but it's fucking hilarious and true. You're a wannabe secret agent with 0 training, 0 skills, yet 7 guns.
Autistic pellet rifle discussions part 2Previous: >>61449656
Fuck ya mudda
>/felon/ general
>still don't have a P-Rodfuggggg
why's their military history so shit
>>61549371Tunisia was occupied by Vandals, dingdong
>>61548037Shut your whore mouth, the Italian Wars are the peak of kino.
>>61549377And then by Arabs, you fucking imbecile. Have you been to Tunis? Does it look Vandal to you?
>>61546108It clearly has it's dick in.
>>61549378They sure are. It's outstanding how quaint they feel with everyone constantly switching sides, forging and breaking alliances, all the while having the fucking renaissance and the highest amount of swagCompare it to how germs and northerns did war were they would wipe out entire populations at a moment's notice while having the most miserable of times that would put the so called dark ages to shame
Stop buying chinese trashOld >>61424339MFAL comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5V9qYxITW0 [Embed]Resource on what these spec terminology meanhttps://www.nite-walker.com/post/2019/11/21/specs-for-dummies-101https://apollogearco.com/blogs/news/night-vision-specs-explainedhttps://gloomgroup.com/blogs/night-vision-info/night-vision-specifications-understanding-what-they-meanYou shouldn't be chasing for spec values but they do exist and if you wanted to know what "better spec" values are there's a way to know which unit is desirable over another.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>61548242Laserspeed is lucky...for now because its not as big but I wouldn't doubt faggots like BEmeyers/Wilcox push for ban.Holosun and DJI are fucking next
>>61549240i mean they're gonna have to go when we steamroll our infantry across the mainland anyways i guess
>>61549240I just pulled the trigger on one of the ngal clones.
>>61549419Uh, thats not laserspeed. Are you thinking about somogear? That shit ain't gonna get sanctioned.
>>61549437Nah, the is-eg clone. If lasersneed was close to the price of the ngal's I'd have opted for it. As for the sanctions, I still wouldn't put it past the alphabet agencies to fuck with it, even if they're sold as 'airsoft' toys.
>drones are the futureFpv drones would be almost useless in war in Indochina
>>61549348>start a fire in specific location with drone>checkmate
>>61549348>everything covered in treesWhat makes grenade drop and fpv with thermals even better. You can get air bursts for free and thermal is even better than in ukraine.>poor connection Not different from ukraine. Use masts.>can't see shitThermal, and unironically it's easier to see people and equipment in the jungle because they need cut trees to make anything comfortable. River and water source surveillance makes them even more useful>can't fly because will collide with a treeUse grenades with impact fuze+delay and you get air burst grenades...
>>61549319bearing in mind Indochina isn't all tropical rainforest, but also tropical forests. Tropical forests have dry seasons so you'll get more aerial visibility. Plus, defoliants.Also naval drones would probably be pretty good, given how important waterways are for transportation in jungles.
>>61549348Southeast asians don't want you to know this but vegetation can be removed, you can just fly up and just drop agent orange on it. I have 3 million hectares of defoliated Vietnamese countryside on my front lawn.
>>61549319While tree canopies will reduce their effectiveness you can still have a FLIR spotting drone seeing though some of it and bigger suicide drones so airburst on branches is still a bad time for guys on the ground.Also the loss of visibility works both ways, good luck shooting down a mortar dropper drone that's 50m above the canopies.
Is there some practical reason why tanks and other large AFVs are generally around 12 feet wide?I tried to find information on roads, railways and bridges, but nothing I could find eliminated the possibility of an AFV chassis of 4+ metres width.I thought maybe it was for rail transportability, yet loading gauges generally seem too narrow to carry many modern AFVs, so they would need to go by road anyway.Sweden, for some reason, seems to be the exception, yet the widest loading gauge is still only 3.60 m, too small for many modern tanks.Even heavy and superheavy tanks tend to be 'long' rather than 'wide', suggesting some kind of width limit.If I was to describe a fictional vehicle as 13 or 14 ft wide, would that just be incredibly stupid for some practical reason?Tanks:>Leclerc: 3.60 m>Abrams: 3.66 m>Merkava: 3.72 m>Leopard 2 2A6: 3.75 m>T-72: 3.59 m>T-90: 3.78 m (why so wide? sources vary)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>61544911>giving Sprey credit for the Falcon
>>61546320Stop trying to rewrite history and convince yourself with memes.He may have been dead wrong on radar, he is still the one who made the F16 that agile and god the Ukrainian wish they had A10.https://airwingmedia.com/pilots/2014/pierre-sprey-designer-f16-a10-says-f35-lemon/https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/frustrating-development-f-16/>Routing new ideas through the Pentagon’s bureaucratic meanders and ideological roadblocks is an intricate, seldom mastered craft, and John Boyd and Pierre Sprey, the first of the F-16’s many architects, are two of the few to practice it with any claim of success.
>>61547300>he is still the one who made the F16 that agileSprey contributed to the Fighter Mafia. He did not 'build the F-16'. If any one person can take credit for the design of the F-16, it would be Harry Hillaker. I expect you haven't even heard of him.
>>61547300Bull-fucking-shit. Sprey and Boyd were behind the "Red Bird" idea, a basic-bitch craft with few avionics, limited range, and only equipped with a gun and heat-seeking missiles because "BVR is a meme." Their idea flopped, and they had to repackage it several different times for it to get anywhere. Once it finally started to get some traction, the Air Force co-opted it and established specs that made it an actually capable fighter, as demonstrated by the resulting YF-16 and YF-17 prototypes.The A-10 was supposedly the ultimate expression of Sprey's love for bare-bones, "simple" aircraft, and yet the original version was such a hunk of shit without then-modern avionics that they had to go in an add them in an expensive refit in the '80s.All fucking Spreyfags must fucking hang.https://files.catbox.moe/qeplyh.pdf
>>61547782You are splitting hair, he was one of the designers trusted to decide what to make BEFORE the design document is sent to engineers, his job was critical in the worldwide success of the F16 over the "favored F15".If Harry Hillaker was asked to make a completely different plane, he wouldn't be the one turning it into a F16.Give credit where it is due.>>61548417>the Air Force co-opted it and established specs that made it an actually capable fighter...out of the agile fighter concept he pushed and whose agility is now of interest.Yes he was 100% wrong about radar&missiles in an era where they were very limited, that happen.>The A-10 ...served nicely thanks to its basic design choice from (among other) Sprey and would be very useful today.No denying it needed the electronics more than the gun.Compare to other purpose aircraft like F-104 "window maker". Lockshills probably launched an infowar against Sprey and you follow it blindly to look like the edgy smart guy criticizing an "accepted target".Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What weapons related hijinks will this original odd couple get into now?
>>61549306Listen to yourself.
>>61548284>USAretard
>>61549323Listen to what?The fact that the russians where mulching civilian cars with autocannon fire on the first day of the invasion?That the bombed a opera house full of sheltering civilians with CHLIDREN written in front off it in 20 yard tall letters?The videos of them torturing, castrating and executing POW's?The mass graves the filled with executed civilians?Their torture dungeons manned by men that wear patches with old SMERS logos on them?Or perhaps the opposition that has been jailed or fled?Yes, I listen to myself and others. That is why I am a moderate and fully support TZD. Fuck the regime and all it's willing stooges
>>61548252fighting over the "special" 6 oz rip its
>>61549412I'm the first guy he replied but you put my toughts into words perfectly
>Following a public competition to choose the name of its future F-35A Joint Strike Fighters, Poland has revealed that these aircraft will be locally known as Husarz, or hussars. This name pays homage to the Winged Hussars cavalry of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.https://www.twz.com/news-features/polands-future-f-35s-have-been-offically-named-husarzBased Poland
>>615400832 or 3 things in history making us look cool is still more than gaygoymany which only has hortler
>>61549403>we
>>61549428>wuz
>>61540083>how they will furiously jerk off to it makes them look like the average Indian or SEA in the YouTube comment sectionBecause they are. You know how russian is like black but wrong colour by mistake? Pole is too. They are third-worlders that exist on Europe by accident. The white negroes of Europe.
>>61549434>seething that based Poland was the first to prevent border crossings and the rest of the EU is following suit
Old>>61547663 Holo sunWon't you cumAnd wash away the jewish pricesHolo sunWon't you cumWon't you cum
>>61549300This isn't poorfag general.
>>61549312It's very late and I'm phoneposting. Please be patient : )>>61549325Then why are you here?
>>61548687The lads will sort them out. >>61548847Wish I got more when they were selling ODG.
>>61549300Cope. You're an idiot.
>>61549333>no uGo to bed.
How will the use of chemical weapons effect the current stalemate now that the gloves are off
>>61546963Russian tactics don't work on Russians
>>61539852Time to give Ukraine napalm and our remaining VX stockpiles.
>>61545797Nope
>>61549354>NOOT NOOT
>>61546963zigger mentality
