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Future war? /k/ommando 04/21/2025 (Mon) 11:05:51 No. 13726 [Reply] >>13939
What kind of genetic manipulation do you think soldiers will undergo in the future? How much do you think they'd be comfortable changing their body? I think having space marine-style augmentations would be pretty badass. Hopefully, the attrition rate for converting humans into super soldiers isn't too bad. Looking at current trends in drone warfare, I can see robot helpers being further integrated into combat units. I don't think we'll have T-Doll style waifubots next month but I could easily see more multipurpose humanoid bots in logistic roles and operating in other hazardous environments that a human wouldn't want to go in the next decade. There are already some autonomous features with bomb drones and little delivery buggies for when their connection gets severed. There will be an uptick in AI-assisted target acquisition soon. I think about those AI's that can pick out tumors from MRI scans that doctors missed. Imagine that same kind of tech used for sussing out troop movements and helping locate concealed bunkers. Instead of this being on aerial photography from reconnaissance, put it in a live environment, and have the drone hunt troops down under its own power.
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>>13726 (OP) There will eventually be fully autonomous reconnaissance drones, large ones loitering up much higher and of course smaller ones that can be deployed at grunt level that will end up fully mapping out and automatically updating a battlefield map. That battlefield map will be fed into the combat drones, which, also, will be automated. Some of the combat drones will simply be kamikaze drones, similar to the FPV racing drones we've seen in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Some of them will be much like the manually operated quad copters we see around the world today, that simply drop munitions directly onto other drones and infantry. There will also likely be marksman drones that can loiter miles away from a human, measure wind speed, trajectory, etc, perfectly and take long distance shots to take them out. Think about the furthest shot someone has made with a large caliber anti-material rifle like the Barret, there will be drones strapped with those taking shots from even further- up in the air from far away. All of these drones will be able to instantly communicate with one another- and some of them will just be trying to find targets and update the map for other drones. Of course you will also have drones that lay mines for other drones, drones that hunt other armored drones with anti-tank weapons. There will of course be, bigger drones that are more heavily armored that attempt to make assaults through different areas. There will be walkers for highly uneven terrain, like destroyed cities and mountainous regions- and tracked or wheeled for more flat areas. There will also always be aerial harassment drones everywhere. There will be drones that launch artillery at other drones from far away and of course human sized drones that may assist other drones. There will be drones that collect friendly and enemy drones to disassemble, melt down and reuse. Of course fighter drones like the NGAD wingmen that are currently being worked on.. the main thing with humans will probably be drone control centers and drone repair or manufacturing FOB's as well as drone logistics centers. Maybe some humans will work with drones, but I do think that the environment will be so ludicrously hazardous to human life that eventually we will learn that it is an effort in futility to send humans onto future battlefields. It will be like the invention of the machinegun, where we didn't learn our lesson until millions of soldiers lost their lives. You simply will not be able to compete with combined arms drone warfare once it really begins and becomes autonomous. All it takes is for the Chinese or Americans to get into a real peer to peer conflict and test out such a system to absolutely decimate an organized human force in short order and then everyone will be trying to field them as fast as possible.

FA-50 /k/ommando 04/21/2025 (Mon) 16:53:44 No. 13750 [Reply] >>13913
How effective will they be in a war?
It's a trainer that can be pushed into combat if SHTF, it'll be fine for COIN / Counter-piracy, it won't see frontline use until the F-15s, F-16s and F-35s have taken significant losses or had so many fight hours readiness rates drop.

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Strelok 08/12/2022 (Fri) 18:33:32 Id: c36ad7 No. 7239 [Reply] >>7260>>7261
is there any real chance ,possibility,of there-being a nuclear war within 20-40 years? Will biological/bacterial/nucelar war ever occur?what about balkanization of european countries,and more obviously african and M.E. ones(i think latam will,on the contrary,become bigger countries trough intestine civil wars and inter-statist wars) how do I,myself,prepp for all this?
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>>7239 (OP) Getting better all the time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lmoq0i4uDA
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(Russia, 1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mglpxNid5sc
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>>7239 (OP) why did my infographics get whacked?
>>7240 SomaliAnon from 4chan told us all about the parts of africa that are sick of the shit and doing better. Kenya, if we can protect Somaliland, I hear even Congo is showing signs of hating muslims and drug lords. I think we should cheer on the good parts of africa and make fun of shitholes not fixing themselves.

F-47 thread /k/ommando 04/20/2025 (Sun) 23:57:36 No. 13591 [Reply] >>13676>>13824
ITT WE DISCUSS THE F-47!!!!!!!! TRUMPY TRUMP TRUMP WON!!!!!!!
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>>13601 aleight
>>13591 (OP) hot take i don't think it exists. china's flying dorito is cool but i don't thnk that's going to be a real thing either. it's just going to be gay drones over and over again until nukes are launched.
>>13591 (OP) I think it's going to be amazing. And cost a fuckton in maintenance, and look like shit half the time. But I also want to see if do air stunts controlling drones before I am in love.

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So I did some math on the barrel weight.... /k/ommando 04/20/2025 (Sun) 20:35:08 No. 13506 [Reply]
Please keep in mind these are just the civilian variants barrels and not the beefed up barrels for military use. >No I don't think the spear would be adopted realistically. At .2lbs per inch of barrel 13": 2.6lbs 16": 3.2lbs The AR-15 Barrel weight typically weighs 16"(Pencil Barrel): 1.5lbs 16"(Govt. Standard): 1.9lbs 18": 2.1lbs 20": 2.3lbs Given these weights it never made sense to me this boomer idea of giving every infantryman a Marksman Rifle. Is there any advancement in the AR Platform or a new platform that should've been considered instead?
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>>13763 nah bro we got a go to war for Israel again Anyways this rifle is stupid. New alloy casing 5.56 is gonna extend the AR's lifespan YET AGAIN with minimal effort. We are NEVER moving away from the M4 and 5.56 lmao
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So something funny occurred to me recently while reading the project requirements for the NGSW program. The Colt Monitor fulfilled or nearly fulfilled all of them. I am not sure what muzzle velocity you'd get out of a BAR with a 16 inch barrel, but it's still probably enough to count. Plus in CQB you could use the muzzle blast to concuss and blind the enemy.
>>13773 if it was good enough to kill bonnie and clyde...


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Naval Thread II Strelok 05/02/2022 (Mon) 16:31:42 Id: 48a0ec No. 11131 [Reply] [Last]
Last thread fell off the board. Discuss and debate naval topics here.
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>>11357 It would just need a simple turboprop engine and a propeller instead of all the things and stuff that goes into making a helicopter work, and yet it could still lands just like one. In fact, it might need an overall less footprint. And it would be an aircraft that can go fast. Of course, it wouldn't be a 1:1 replacement for a helicopter, because you could use it to drops e.g. sonars, but using it to collect them would be quite a bit more complicated. And it couldn't carry people, which also limits how useful it is. But you could have a hangar with a helicopter or two, and also park a few of these drones next to them, and then use whichever is appropriate.
>>11146 It wouldn't be a battleship you'd like. It'd be a standoff missile city oil-well looking thing and it wouldn't get half an ocean close to any conflict.
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>>13727 Fuck what that retard would like that sounds sick as hell

do/k/uments Strelok 05/14/2020 (Thu) 08:54:33 No. 8058 [Reply] [Last]
Starting properly
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Paul Harrell thanksgiving special /k/ommando 11/26/2021 (Fri) 01:56:15 No. 652 [Reply]
Paul shoots shit, and cooks. Semi-interesting. https://youtu.be/uYBincQTStk
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>>653 Paul is dead :'(
Watch party tomorrow?
>>12396 It was friday on the chan, I made most of them if a minute late. It's a good tradition.

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Taiwan Tells China To Go Fuck Itself Strelok 01/04/2024 (Thu) 00:32:32 No. 9414 [Reply] [Last]
The Republic of China has told West Taiwan to stop meddling in their elections and to eat shit. I'm curious what CCP-anon who insisted that Taiwan was becoming part of China and how everyone in Taiwan considers themselves Chinese has to say on this? >Number of Taiwanese who identify as primarily Chinese has plummeted to below 3% (it was like 15% before Ukraine) >KMT (historically Chinese-sympathetic party) has taken an anti-China stance after China was caught red-handed bribing and interfering in Taiwan's elections >Young people in Taiwan hate China >Jewkraine of all things is turning the Taiwanese boomers against China >All three parties have distanced themselves from China >KMT and TPP are taking a hardline stance of no negotiation until China stops fucking around in international waters >DPP who is slated to win the elections goes much farther with a hardline "we were always independent, fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on" stance >Foxconn on suicide watch Just like in Argentina, just like in Eastern Europe, China seems to lose allies faster than they can make them. FUCK China.
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>>9439 >But anyway, I agree that the Chishima islands should no longer be a diplomatic issue. Let Russia have them for now. If there was some sort of change in government in Russia that led to a softer approach to diplomacy I wouldn't be surprised if Russia sold them to Japan to help un-fuck their economy from the war or at least worked out some sort of long-term lease agreement. China wouldn't be happy about that but Russia is well aware that the Chinese are much saltier about the treaties of Aigun and Beijing than the Japanese are about the Kurils - 1991 be damned - and are much more likely to use any political upheaval to try to take a bite of Russian clay in the far east.
>>9420 Sometimes it's not "russophobe", normal people are literally fucking disgusted by Russia. >>9435 russia is always the same because the russian people are the same. Shit.
>>13617 Did you just reply to two different posts from a different image board that were made more than a year ago just to rant about how much you hate Russians? What the fuck is wrong with you?

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Books. /k/ommando 04/17/2025 (Thu) 00:56:23 No. 12203 [Reply]
Posting /k/ books
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>>12204 Neat
Some videos of BalticaBeer, an archive of old documentaries by the USN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgVsz_TnkE
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Also "History of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake" that is freely downloadable if you can find them. After the Vol 3 there's a lot of well known weapons. Volume 1: Sailors, Scientists, and Rockets https://archive.org/details/sailorsscientist0000unse (I couldn't find a downloadable pdf) Volume 2: The Grand Experiment at Inyokern (ADA177734) https://files.catbox.moe/5qnxy6.pdf Volume 3: Magnificent Mavericks https://files.catbox.moe/wgwjzp.pdf (45MB, from google books) https://files.catbox.moe/uaa34d.pdf (same but 150MB, from google books)

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Audible has a shitload of free Rhodesia books.

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Alternative history thread Strelok 07/09/2021 (Fri) 15:42:02 No. 7665 [Reply] [Last]
This thread includes alternative history wars, conflicts, weapons, tactics and more. For instance >Axis victory proxy wars >Their equipment >East centered world, conflicts And more
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I've been thinking about this since I got into a balkan wars binge a while back. What if Bulgaria just didn't declare war and start the 2nd balkan war? From what I saw it was a really close thing. They feared that if they did not act immediately, they would lose Macedonia forever. In retrospect we know that 2 more big opportunities arose, but even back then there seems no reason to think the end of history is at hand. So if they bode their time and peace'd out at the end of the first and only war, maintaining reasonable relations with their neighbors, less destruction overall, and slightly larger borders especially against the Ottomans, what would happen next? If they joined the central powers in ww1 it would probably end up similar just with those Turkish borders maintained. But the entente offered to pressure Serbia into giving up some southern land in return for Bulgaria joining them. OTL it wasn't enough to convince them and Serbia refused giving more, but with less bad blood Serbia could offer greater concessions while Bulgaria would be more willing to accept them. While it could not be expected before the end of the war, Serbia gaining all the south slavic lands within AH could offset even giving the whole of Macedonia up. Also, with how much closer Bulgaria's borders are to Constantinople, assuming Ottomans still enter, the entente would be much more interested in getting Bulgaria to join up. If all of this happens, maybe the Turkey carving would be far more successful. At least they would definitely get thrown out of Europe. There seems to be no good maps of the borders before the 2nd war were declared so you'll have to forgive me for using a tigerstar video screenshot.
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>>12850 just to illustrate further, dark green + orange is pre war, - orange + light green is post war. Red and orange are balk war 2 losses, so the whole thing together would be their borders if they skipped the part 2. It's a pretty devastating difference. Less motivation to go to war with serbia, romania and greece, especially if serbia gives concessions. The ottoman border is night and day, if they went with the entante they could remove kebab in less than a year. Ottomans might not even enter the war in this scenario for the risk of it, so that's even less reason to join the central powers. What a blunder.
Does anyone know some alternate history fictions where the 30 years war didn't happen?

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Kusarigama and Other Ninja Gear Strelok 11/14/2021 (Sun) 10:24:43 No. 3529 [Reply] [Last] >>13388
The kusarigama confuses me. The design itself is perfectly reasonable: It's a flail with a short-range weapon attached for when you get a bit too intimate with your enemy. It leaves me wondering why European flails didn't have a spike on the handle just in case, but whatever. No, the confusing thing about the kusarigama is why a sickle of all things? Why not use a kunai, a hatchet or a pick instead? They are typically seen as ninja weapons and in that regard the obvious answer is to use the sickle as a grappling hook. However, a Japanese sickle would be an absolutely shit grappling hook because the shaft is longer than the blade is wide and that's the opposite of what you want. And even if you do manage to catch something, you're going to be putting half your bodyweight directly onto your carefully sharpened blade so now all you've got is a shitty warpick. A normal pick would make an excellent hook, with the downside of losing your throat-slitting capability. And as for skirting ATF-san? Do you really think your local glow-kokujin is going to believe you when you tell him that you thresh your grain with a meteor flail, and that you do it out in the rice paddy? It would be perfect if you could just stick the chain on with a bow shackle, but I don't know if the nips had anything quite that convenient back then.
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>>3529 (OP) >>3532 Both the sickles and the chain were tools used by samurai for the stables. Sickles were used to clear grass to make camp and cut hay for the horses. Chains were used to secure horses so they wouldn't be stolen. People figured out ways to use them individually for combat. Then one guy decided "why not both?"
>>3588 >attacking formations >bodyguard use >siege defense >cavalry weapons
the only ninja weapons you need are a pointy dagger and piano wire (forgot the name). they are simple and effective. if you are seen by the sentry and have to fight him hand to hand, you arent a good ninja. with that being said can we please talk about ninja tactics/stealth? maybe a ninja loadout.

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Race War General : Total /k/ike Death Edition Strelok 11/28/2023 (Tue) 10:54:16 No. 7621 [Reply]
This thread for the discussion of pro-white resistance, past or present, from an onlookers perspective, especially focused on people such as Anders Behring Breivik, Brenton Tarrant and the various copycats that we've seen since March 2019. Are they doing what has to be done? Is it more harmful than helpful? Are they all false flags? Discuss! Memes relating to TKD, TND and the upcoming ethnoglobe are welcomed as well >The Breivik Archive https://ia601002.us.archive.org/6/items/breivikarchive/ >Manifestos http://picochanwvqfa2xsrfzlul4x4aqtog2eljll5qnj5iagpbhx2vmfqnid.onion/fascist/4#823 Useful Threads https://archive.ph/XSaTn https://archive.ph/QlbZA https://archive.ph/oL6k6
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Tarrant’ed up my shotgun
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>>12113 nice, bro
>propaganda and politics this shit glows. why would you need to discuss race specifically? weapons and tactics are neutral, you could just share and learn without the glownigger stuff.

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Mori’s loadout, Nikke /k/ommando 04/20/2025 (Sun) 15:15:31 No. 13431 [Reply] >>13463
>AR-18 pattern rifle >Russian monocle >Vertical foregrip, bipod, and flashlight >Folding stock with duct tape Details make the waifu
>>13431 (OP) I have always assumed those sights are total junk like most slav optics

/k/ommando 05/20/2022 (Fri) 06:11:34 No. 1190 [Reply] >>13392
does this stuff actually help the defender get out of sticky situations? do you got experience from either end of it?
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>>1190 (OP) Yes, mace is effective with a couple of caveats. You have to hit the person in the face and you have to do it before they close the distance, otherwise you'll be spraying yourself too. Same in a confined space, the effects will be shared by people in it. Mind you, it doesn't stop someone from attacking even with their eyes closed and if they're high enough on something, they can maybe force their eyes open through the pain.
>>1191 >Like if a nigger is fucking with you just shoot him. Old thread, but it's all fun and games until the media comes after you and then you have to face up against some jewish or shitlib prosecutor who will do everything in their power to put you behind bars
>Ancient thread and I doubt OP remembers he even mad this thread but It's a good middleground solution where de-escalation/flight isn't an option but discharging a lethal weapon may not be appropriate given the circumstances & factors. If you're threatened but have assessed a firearm would be overkill but still need to incapacitate the individual, utilizing a spray would have you facing the prosecution of assault with a weapon instead of 2nd degree murder; I'm the furthest thing from a lawyer but I'd take my chances with the former. Let me know if you disagree.

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Today, I will remind them /k/ommando 04/20/2025 (Sun) 17:12:38 No. 13456 [Reply] >>13458
This
>>13456 (OP) This thread is more appropriate for that https://8chan.se/k/res/12106.html
>>13458 It's already posted there actually. It's been pointed out before that the bit about BicepHardthrusts IP being government protected is innacurate, he just connected in a way that his IP looked like it was part of the local network. Also karambit's info should include a link to the article from 2016 where he was interviewed, so that people know he's a socialist berniebro. Also Whigs flag should be canadian. I'm sure there are other errors.

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