>>15113 I like remove kebab Unrelated, add the shitter glock banner

How about Kebab & animated stripes? The background is subtle enough to move without being too distracting.

>>15219 >Still bashing myself for not having archived every obscure piece of media from the 2014 phase of the war. I bet all that stuff is archived somewhere but not in one place. Huge amounts of that stuff is probably scattered across a bunch of video streaming sites but not archived in any way that is searchable. >there's multiple major aggregators of the footage that comes out (some of them based in telegram though), but all of them seem biased and focusing on one side of the story so a one single archival place doesn't seem to exist and probably won't for a while until after this ceases to be a hot topic. That's a shame. I am kinda tempted to start my own archive. Curating and moderating it though would be a full time job, and I wouldn't exactly be able to run ads to offset the storage and bandwidth costs even before getting into the fact that it'd probably be a legal minefield. >it's silly seeing some militaries placing more orders on tanks instead of drones Tanks and drones fill different roles. Tanks aren't obsolete, and neither are attack helicopters. >tanks can't even properly serve their purpose and are often used from distances where they'd need a drone to correct fire for them anyway. I think is interesting to think about how various systems will be adapted to integrate drones. For instance tanks with a drone operator in the crew, possibly in the place of a loader. Another thing that might happen is IFVs with drone storage and launchers for the infantry inside to use, like an actually useful version of the old firing ports on APCs that were supposed to let them fire out the side. IFVs and tanks might even provide electronic warfare support for dismounted infantry, and act as repeaters to allow them to overcome jamming. >Russia has entered the war completely unprepared in that regard Everyone was completely unprepared for how much drones had changed the battlefield. >anti-air units now a part of the airforce The PVO was absorbed into the VVS around the end of the cold war, while the ground forces air defense units remained part of the ground forces chain of command. I don't know if the air defense units of the ground forces have been integrated somehow into the VVS or VKS, but I am still catching up on the war. >if the troops from Ukraine were to suddenly be freed up, they could overrun Georgia with or without the drones Of course, if hundreds of thousands of experienced combat veterans are sent to fight a country with a military that has like 30,000 active personnel they're going to win, I'm just interested in seeing it how it looks. It'll be a lot easier to see the revolution in military affairs that has taken place when it's placed up against an opponent that hasn't updated their military. >Too much Soviet surplus has been burnt through — and while most of it is junk by modern standards it still beats driving into battle on a spraypainted convertible'd Lada. The idea that Russia is trying to use Ladas as tanks is just propaganda. The use of reconnaissance units equipped with light but mobile vehicles like motorcycles and dirtbikes to scout ahead of their armored units is because they're not so stupid that they would continue using big armored columns that did little but attract fire.

>>15216 >I find it really annoying that nobody has taken it upon themselves to make a big archive of all the Ukraine war footage that's come out. You'd think that'd be a big priority for OSINT types. There's just too much of it. A lot is also random explosions with no damage assesment. >>15217 >It's fascinating to think about how the Russian military is going to restructure itself in the years immediately after this war Yeah, the huge vacuum of armored equipment loss is going to leave some opening for debate on what to do. It should be pretty interesting. >curbstomp some of their neighbors like Georgia Georgia is incomparable. It has neither the population, nor the size to withstand what Ukraine did. Few countries could. Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe after all (after Russia).

>>15222 >Huge amounts of that stuff is probably scattered across a bunch of video streaming sites but not archived in any way that is searchable. Not related, but it feels like searching anything in general has become so much more difficult in the past few years too. Searching for a particular topic (could be anything, like trying to troubleshoot a malfunctioning appliance or searching for a user-made photo of a product) produces fewer useful results than ever and it's all mostly just web-optimized articles and stock footage (lately it's also AI generated). At first, opening a page to find that the article is just a wall of tautology tailored specifically to repeat the same keyword search term over and over to improve SEO rankings was amusing in a way, but now it feels like that's what the majority of the hits are. Fewer and fewer results are specialized forums. Or maybe that's just what getting old is like, and/or the useful information is now posted inside social networks that require an account. > I wouldn't exactly be able to run ads to offset the storage and bandwidth costs Yeah no way, ads won't cover video hosting at all, would probably have to rely on donations. But then Visa & Mastercard act as moral arbiters of the highest instance and get to dictate what is verboten and if they withdraw it will be down to crypto. Personally, I've just been saving anything interesting and naming files in a way that makes it possible to then look it up later. Everything's sort of scattered across different PCs and lately the footage has become so repetitive (drone flies into an object, feed cuts) that I've only been saving the more unique ones and those that come a couple of particular categories. To give an example, one of the folders, last updated in March 2022, has 1354 files and takes up 9.7GB. The entire last year's haul is probably smaller than that — not for the lack of footage, it's just too repetitive to bother saving. >it'd probably be a legal minefield. It definitely can be (if the project gets enough notoriety) if one is a first-worlder. Having it registered on a Kuwaiti and hosted in UAE or something would ward off everything but the 3-letter agencies. >Tanks and drones fill different roles. Tanks aren't obsolete, Sure but it makes little sense to invest into more tanks when you don't have drones or anti-drone measures yet. Tanks take a huge risk whenever they get within enemy drone range (which is often over 10 km now) without some plan of countering said drones (properly tuned EW modules on the tank itself, allied drone teams on the lookout for their counterparts, artillery barrage, some other action nearby drawing attention, weather conditions etc). Having listened to an interview with a Russian tanker a couple of months ago, iirc most missions he talked about involved rolling to a pre-determined position, using indirect fire to hit a faraway target then bailing before the response came. Could be survivorship bias and the tankers who do old-school tank assaults just die before they get to be interviewed, I don't know. Utilizing a tank as infantry/ifv support at closer ranges seems to be a rare occurrence nowadays. >and neither are attack helicopters. Having a human in the seat definitely has its benefits and production lines for helicopters are already set up but from a cost-effectiveness perspective Bayraktar/Orion type of drones seem to be very lucrative. They carry similar payloads but have the benefit of being smaller and more expendable. A helicopter reqiures more maintenance. Pilots are fairly expensive to train and upkeep and losing them is costly, from a morale/optics standpoint as well. Case in point, Ukrainian naval drones vs Russian helicopters west of Crimea. Losing a dozen such drones is nothing, they are mayflies. Eventually losing a helicopter to such a drone was a touche and a PR disaster. Talking from an armchair here but on paper a combo of a strike drone loitering a dozen km from the frontline + a cheap disposable recon drone much closer, painting the target for a missile, sounds like a dream team. Gone are the days of Apaches indiscriminately unloading on infantry with an autocannon.

Technically they recieved it in January, but for training purposes in Germany.

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>>15209 Congrats. Yes to the trigger, not so much on the slide. All guns will have have some play there, but a nice 1911 will have the least.

>>13374 There are a few different things going on with that. They' have always been, historically speaking, pure dead soft lead bullets. Push them too hard and you get leading. Additionally a lot of the popular commercially available wadcutter bullets that were sold as reloading components, particularly in the 20th Century, were hollowbase designs. They were long for caliber with a big hollow skirt in the rear, almost like a lead badminton birdie. Excessive pressure or velocity could, and often did, tear portions of the lead skirt loose and leave a it in the bore. On the next shot this could result in a physics lesson pertaining to what happens when two objects try to occupy the same space simultaneously. And it was normal to seat wadcutters flush or nearly flush with the case mouth. They were loaded, typically, with tiny, tiny charges of extremely fast-burning powder. 2.7-2.8 grains of Bullseye is a very old recipe, 2.5gr of Red Dot shotgun powder is another. Reducing the amount of empty space between the base of the bullet and the powder charge made them less position-sensitive. It made ignition and combustion more consistent and gave more consistent velocities compared to having the bullet seated way out, with a pinch of powder rattling around inside the case underneath it to redistribute itself randomly with each shot. And reducing the available space inside the cartridge case makes pressures go way, way, way up, very very fast. If you want to push wadcutter bullets really fast, I strongly recommend that you use double ended wadcutters rather than hollow base ones, and I strongly recommend seating them as far as you can while still having a place to crimp them and still having them fit in the cylinder. Wadcutter ammo has almost always been reduced-power ammo for shooting at paper targets. There are memes about the bullet shape having terminal effectiveness that is extra more better, but it's just another meme, right up there with all the other retarded gun store fudd memes. "Ya just have ta rack a shotgun an' dey run away, you betcha!' "Ya carry wadcutters in yer revolver 'cause they tear more tissue!" "With da scattergun ya don't have ta aim! It'll cut 'em in two!" "Muh two world wars!" There is now commercially available ammunition in revolver calibers with hard cast wadcutter bullets loaded hot. It might even have made sense in 1925. In 2025 it's pants on head retarded. Use hollowpoints. >but muh .38 snubby won't push hollowpoints fast enough to expand reliably! Noticed that, did you? Yeah, it's a shame there is nothing better available, that's thinner, flatter, and more powerful, with better sights, better trigger, and faster reloads, for about the same weight, and usually a lot less perceived recoil too. Yes, it sure is a shame that there haven't been any improvements in implements of personal defense since 1890. >but muh wheelgunz is reliability! I don't trust them there new-fangled otter-matick pistols, or that there new-fangled smokeless powder neither! Well, okay, you do you.

Hi. I want to ask some questions about electronic sights on handguns. I have a specific application in mind for a dot sight and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice. I've made an impulse purchase, which I hope I won't regret, of a Keltec P17. While I was reading up on them I found a guy who makes CNC milled aluminum optic plates for them. There are two great big screws on top of the slide in front of the rear sight. Apparently they hold a conventional-slide-shaped plastic shroud over the actual steel bolt. You take those screws out, you put on the optic plate, you put threadlocker on the screws, you screw the plate down on the slide. Then you can put your optic on it. The guy makes them in a bunch of patterns and styles. I went with RMSc because everyone agrees that optics made to fit other mounting patterns tend to be much heavier. Additionally, given the difference in footprint size and what I am assuming about the thickness of the metal based on what he told me about the RMSc plate, the C-More mount plate he sells probably doesn't weigh much less than 14g all by itself. I base this on looking up the standard optic footprint size and pretending his adapters are flat rectangular prisms of aluminum 3mm thick, and rounding down to the nearest half gram. That sounds dumb but it got me a guess of 9g for the RMSc plate while I was waiting to hear back from him. Anyway, In my research I saw some threads on Le Plebbit where guys were talking about 3D printed optic plates for the P17, some weighing about three grams. A guy had tried a few different patterns of them with different optics on his P17. With one combination--I don't recall the particulars but I looked up the specs and I did the math--with that plate and an optic whose manufacturer said it weighed 30g, the gun ran fine, at least with the ammo he was using that day. He tried a different pattern plate and put a Holosun on it that was a big fat chonky boi of an optic, weighing 42.5g by itself. 45.5 grams of mass total added to the slide, and no, I don't know if he counted the mass of the screws and battery, resulted, he said, in somewhat less reliable functioning and some apparent ammo sensitivity. Maybe. "Or maybe I should have cleaned it and oiled it before that test. It was really dirty that day. I dno, lol." Another guy said that on his own P17, an optic-and-mount combination weighing 37g seemed to cause some functioning problems, maybe, or maybe the gun was dirty, or maybe it was low quality ammo, or maybe there's some burr on the internals making something important inside that one drag, and so on. It isn't much to work with but this is where I am. And yes, I know, Kel-Tec sells a version of the P17 that has an optic already installed, either a Viridian RFX11 or a Crimson Trace CTS1550. They come with an RMSc pattern mount already attached and the front portion of the slide skellingtonized (spoopy!) to reduce weight, compensating for the added mass of the sight. But I'm compelled to tinker with stuff. Where's the fun in that? Where's the fun in this if I don't get to dremel some lightening grooves inside the top of the slide to make it run? Also it doesn't have a rear sight, probably to save weight, and I might in the future want to remove the dot and take it to the range without it. I promise, I'm getting to a point. I emailed the guy who makes the CNC machined plates and he was kind enough to weigh one for me. He said the RMSc one weighs 8.7 grams. 34 minus 8.7 equals 24.3 grams, which I am taking as the probable upper bound on mass where I have a reasonable expectation of proper function. I know there are a lot more choices in RMR pattern optics, and there will be a lot more features, but RMR optics tend to be pretty heavy, and for this I need something light. There was a guy on Reddit who had a spreadsheet of RMSc optics you could download from his Google Drive account and I started from there, but, you know, a lot of manufacturers don't have very complete lists of specs on their web pages. Some of them have no specs at all beyond what mount footprint it fits and the rest of the product page is a pep talk about how amazing it is. For that matter, I found more than one dot sight available to buy on Amazon whose manufacturer doesn't list it on their web page at all. All that is preface.

>>15199 this is cool as fuck, there's an abandoned house not too far from some land I frequent that some squatters have been fucking around in, might go check that out here

i desperately want to try this but there is not a whole lot around me, at least not worth going to. cool ones like a uranium mine and mill are right next to highways or populated areas or in injun territory. lots of asbestos too. fuck the southwest

>>15206 Check all the public land you guys with google earth and look for cabins and stuff like that.

>>15187 .22lr enough for that?

Home defense against burglars.

>>15193 Effective then.

>>15073 I would bring my AK or my buddy's FAL with my 10mm 1911. I feel like a big bullet with better penetration would be better than something like an AR-15, although I'd use that if I had nothing else. I wouldn't bring a shotgun only because I value capacity over the potential damage of a deer slug. >gladius If you're that close to a bear, you're fucked. I can't image being that close to a creature of the night would be very different. >mimicking people's pets or other animals I remember reading some greentext about people bringing their dog on a hunting trip only for the dog to disappear and for the monster to pretend to be the dog. Why anyone would willingly endanger their pupper if beyond me, I never brought my dogs anywhere near a place with dangerous game, let alone a wendigo.

>>15073 >>15112 I feel like some kind of rifle chambered in .308 is the bare minimum just because of the energy and range it carries even with shorter barrel lengths. That being said, a hypothetical battle with a skinwalker or wendigo i dont see taking place at distance, and more likely inside 100 meters. Ignoring all of that, this may be a great use case of .300 blacked because you can get .30 caliber performance(ish) with an AR15 sized package even while supporessed, and gain back whatever maneuverability you lost with a more traditional full power cartridge battle rifle and better recoil control. In general it doesnt need to be .300 blacked, but this lukewarm take and line of thinking can be applied to 7.62x39 as well. Sidearm seems like the best choice is .45 ACP or super. But why not 5.7x28? Excellent terminal ballistics, penetration, and lighter weight/smaller cartridge means more bullets. Personally, i wouldnt take any and occupy the space and weight with more primary ammo, or a revolver to off myself should the situation need it. Being torn apart while conscious is suboptimal, imo.

>>15073 A fine choice brother in caliber. 10mm has to be loaded at 210 grain or above and FMJ only and the buckshot must be high power too. The one thing you're missing is the prayer kit to remove the corpse from existence. >>15112 is right about the gladius. Unless you're going into thick jungle, just bring a basic knife for hiking purposes.

>>15189 Why couldn't they? The are richer than ever. The poor keep getting poorer and more retarded. There is an endless number of servile slaves pouring in replacing those that might have grievances with the order order. And most importantly no one will ever do anything but continue kissing kike ass.

They are coping hard over on the other general

>>15194 What else is there to do but cope? It's not the worst case scenario but pretty damn close to it

>>15098 With cheap, no-name Chinese knives, you don't really know whether they're actually using the steel they advertise, whether they've heat treated it properly (or at all), etc.

>>15127 Mainly just looking for a beater knife for miscelaneous tasks and don't want to shell out for that. Glock is my go-to for chopping wood, opening stuff and it is indestructable, but it doesn't hold sharpness at all. It's more like a pointy stick than a knife. Sometimes you need to cut too.

>>15158 I think their prices have gone up recently, but Condor always had some solid knives for that sort of thing that weren't very expensive.

And 4cuck is already filled with shills and glowniggers, that didn't take long.

>>15182 The nature of the beast.

>>15182 They have enjoy the shills and glowniggers at this point, why else would they stay?

>>15147 Nice. I think there's some utility in bill drills for CCW / two legged varmint events, but could probably get similar training with doubles.

>>15164 I've noticed that I basically get the same amount of "practice" out of shooting 3 as I do shooting 6. Triple taps give me a draw, first shot, and two split times to measure, which is everything that fundamentally matters. I'm still going to keep practicing until I get a 100% accurate run under 2 seconds, but I want to start spending more time on variable distance drills. I regularly practice out to 25 yards, but I hardly ever put it all together, so I want to practice adjusting my shot cadence in real time.

>>15147 >went to narnia hate when that happens. >be me >brushing teeth before bed >hear glass breaking >nightfolk.avi >grab bathroom gun and rush down the stairs, toothbrush in my mouth >two future astronauts are trying to steal my TV >one of them is armed >he sees me, drops the TV and pulls out his own ghetto blaster >I shoot first but he shoots less than a second after >suddenly the rooms is enveloped in a blinding light >feel like my head is going to explode >a giant wardrobe has appeared in between me and the intruders >both of our shots seemingly went into this wardrobe, causing us both to miss >the robbers and I look at each other, then the wardrobe, then each other again

I don't remember much branching out into unpopular calibers happening in 2020. Maybe I wasn't monitoring ammo prices as well, but it seemed like everything disappeared in a hurry and then I only saw 9mm and 5.56 in any meaningful quantity for a while. Even basic 7 1/2 shot was hard to find. >>15152 Prices for things like .22, primers, and soviet cartridges were forever ruined in 2013, but I think 2020 was worse for how long everything was gone. On top of that, powder is still 2.5x as expensive as it was in the Spring of 2020 and I haven't seen any Alliant Bullseye in 5 years.

>>15118 i guess, but usually they says stock up on 22, not 32. Shoots basically the same i guess

>>15168 I worked loosely in the industry for a couple years and word was that after 2020 powder companies like hogdon were being major kikes cause they realized how much they can control the supply lines

>>15024 >no sound

Is that why there's butthurt in the media about loyalty scans?