/k/ - Weapons and Militaria

>"the era of one-sided deals is OVER. We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking."
>from the Persian negotiator
Fun really is really back on the menu. How long until gas skyrockets again?

>>19057
>'«Lindsey Graham died in Kiev, not Washington, DC.»'
LMAO, I wanna habeeb.
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/07/12/2436936.html

>>19086
>He was visiting a drone factory in Kiev that was hit by the Russians. He did not have enough time to depart Ukraine on Saturday morning, take the train to Poland and then catch a flight back to DC.
>Senior folks at the Pentagon are talking about Senator Graham dying during an inspection of a drone factory in Kiev.
That is a remarkable argument.i too, "wanna baheeb".

>>19087
SUDDEN ILLNESS

>>19088
I will be completely honest. The worst of "neoconservative" politicians getting got in one of the wars they promoted pleases me. Shame it wasn't for this kike war.

>>13640
Not really relevant when using a torpedo but yes and also yes the tsar bomb was just a stunt.

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North Korea Could Overwhelm US Missile Defense With Nuclear Strike
>North Korea is rapidly expanding its nuclear capabilities and may be nearing a point where it can challenge the effectiveness of US missile defense systems.
>According to Bloomberg on April 29, current estimates suggest Pyongyang possesses around 50 nuclear warheads and has the capacity to produce fissile material for up to 20 additional warheads annually.
>The report highlights concerns around the US Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, which is designed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles. The system currently includes 44 interceptors deployed in Alaska and California, with plans to expand by an additional 20.
>However, intercepting a single incoming missile typically requires launching at least two interceptors, limiting the system’s capacity during a large-scale attack.
>Under these conditions, Bloomberg reports that a simultaneous launch of approximately 20 intercontinental ballistic missiles could potentially exhaust available US interceptors.
>North Korea’s Hwasong-series missiles are identified as a key component of this threat, particularly when combined with the country’s growing stockpile of warheads.

>>16870
Ok, mental note if one day I took over my shithole nation: have at least 100 nukes and throw 70 to israel and 30 to the usa.

>>18505
If you mean armoured vehicles I think so. Being able to over pressurise the hull seems to be a standard feature now for pretty much everyone not just NATO.

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/ 
Found this website that tracks billionaire's business planes around the world and tries to give an estimate level of an imminent nuclear holocaust.

>>15559
Is it gay if lance tips touch?

>>18414
Second one is straight out from a From Software game.

>>18431
That's exactly what I thought too. I was shocked when I came across it and just had to post it.

>>16913
In such uncouth circumstance one is to herald immediately to all those present "Pray! No folly! No hankering!" lest your character be judged otherwise.

>>18343
>Seems like this is becoming a daily thing now.
USrael carried out new strikes on the Iranian coast in response to that third tanker strike earlier in the day.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-hormuz-attack-strikes-b3004145.html

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>>18365
Seems like the Blumpf-in-Chief's bluster>buy_the_dip>TACO>sell  cycle is a little off kilter now?

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>>18343
>Le "Transit with Caution" maymay
The standard kike issue part of all this is the burgerstanis are using the tankers & crew as fodder to test whether the minefields are still clear. Literally.

Clearly they would tell them to stay the fuck out of those zones if safety of the crews, cargo, and ships was their priority. Its not.

>>18368
Why the need for all the aerial refueling tankers aloft at once for such a minor patrol/interdiction operation? Fishy.

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>>18369
Huh. If this data is to be believed, it appears CENTCOM is literally allocating one full tanker to one T-38 each. These are very lightweight jets, so that makes little sense from an economic/logistics standpoint. Are they refueling other, hidden, aircraft as well?

>>4466
It's high grade LARPing, that's what it is. It's as if the Finn soldiers would always wear the pure snow-white complete suit with fur just because that's the real deal out there.
The best camo at the office would be to look like a corporate fuck toy of the lowest levels since nobody would pay attention to you.

>>4450
Recognizably is half the point of uniforms. Also economy of scale.

>>18299
Honestly not really.
Unless its special coating for stealth or titanium white.
But you have to paint them anyway to limit wear and tear. You are paying for paint either way, might pay 5$ extra and have it painted in funny shapes.

>>18309
>>18314
it's a bot

>>18320
I was wondering how a bunch of older threads bumped up out of nowhere. lol

>>18187
>manifesto against women
>shot up zogbots
>somehow manage to make a female zogbot to shot a jew
Poetry.

>>18187
It could be another one of those agency groomed killers, wind him  up and set him off and he just so happens to bump off a few people that were starting to look a little threatening inside your regime.

>>18201
Could be, yeah. Though I tend to assume the windup shooter is the threat to the regime, and any casualties sustained are written off as the "cost of doing business." Not that our perspectivse are mutually exclusive, of course.

I forgot we had this thread!

Montreal shooter's alleged manifesto, courtesy of other IBs.

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>>18201
>>18191
>>18190

Also, manifesto (or, "manifesto") in the appropriate thread: >>18250

(polite SAGERU for doubleposting)

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Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning (CV 16) transited through the Taiwan Strait

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China will grow larger.
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>idiots lost in the middle east
>moved assets to protect their only friend the kikes
>everyone knows the US can only really engage in one theater due to stockpile depletion at the moment 
>the kikes won't let the US leave the middle east
<mainland steps up its claims to claim to the waters around Taiwan 
<including using coastguard and survey vessels
<steps up language against Japan and the Philippines 
Gee. Who could have seen this coming?

>>18135
One video I saw, the guy had a theory that the US and China talked before this conflict and was like "Hey, stay out of this and you get Taiwan," which would explain why Chinese oil imports relaxed around the beginning of the war. I wonder if there's any validity to that, and I wonder if that's emboldened the bug-eaters now that America not only gave them a promise (not that they'd keep it) but also that America failed at the task and has shown they're too incompetent and unreliable to attack or defend anyone.

>>18140
Economically Taiwan is crucial for supplying electronics to the US outside of West Taiwan. Completely ditching the document that outlined why the US should pivot away from other theaters to deal with West Taiwan would be completely irrational, detached from reality.
That is not to say that the incompetent "chief" wouldn't make that "deal". And it really doesn't matter, in effect, that is the current scenario.

Bro please I don't want to debate boomerwar any more.

>>17778
>>17793
>anon thinks we've ever reached space

>>17838
>we
no.

>>17793
Isn't spacex the only none loss making business he has? I'm not exactly happy with the idea of him monopolising space mining but at this point anything that gets us off this dying rock.

>>17793
You're not exactly allowed to gather 500 140-160iq people together anymore because that's not what the qualifiers are anymore.

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>>17941
spacex and blue origin aren't the only private players in space, there's Axiom who's trying to build a commercial space station. kind of like but hotel but in low orbit space

>>16591
Is it supposed to have a detonator and an explosive warhead? And what's the maximum range?

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=KnUFH5GX_fI
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ppyK3ZlUbtM
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dxmxIsoV_Xo
So a proper hybrid pretty much replaces the transmission with a pair of electric motors, so the internal combustion engine can power the wheels directly while the whole thing has less parts and better efficiency than a fancy gearbox. Makes me wonder how well it would work for a tank or other tracked vehicle if you used this system with a turbine instead of a piston engine. Although I don't comprehend it enough to understand what would be the best way of powering the tracks, but maybe you could even get away with two independent turbines each powering only one of the tracks. Still, this hybrid system could be adapted to all kinds of wheeled vehicles as it is.

>>17785
You're thinking of "gas-electric transmission" rather than hybrid, these are widely used on diesel trains. "Hybrid" is when torque to wheels comes from an ICE as well as electric motor(s) and the transmission combines and/or balances the two sources. Neat little things from an engineering perspective and a fucking nightmare as far reliability and repairs go, as it tends to be with added complexity.
Back to tanks, gas-electric drive was literally the first thing US tried in WW1 era with the Holt tank. Germany, or Porche rather, developed an electric drive tank chassis that was to be Tiger 1 but it lost out to Henschel's design. Soviets built a few protypes (because of course they did) one based on IS and later T-80. So it's definitely been considered and works, not sure why it hasn't caught on, must have its own challenges. Heat dissipation around the electronics seemed to be a problem of its own, as well as balancing the load versus power available from the generator, like when a track is stuck and motor can't turn over you get voltage jumping and shit can catch on fire (I'm not an electrical guru, I don't understand this part as much). It's not really a problem for trains as loads are all slow and steady and predictable. I guess in a mechanical transmission you have the clutch eating shit to compensate for that. In WW2/Cold War era all the control circuits would have been analog, maybe modern electronics wo

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>You're thinking of "gas-electric transmission" rather than hybrid, these are widely used on diesel trains. "Hybrid" is when torque to wheels comes from an ICE as well as electric motor(s) and the transmission combines and/or balances the two sources. Neat little things from an engineering perspective and a fucking nightmare as far reliability and repairs go, as it tends to be with added complexity.
Have you watched the first video? He specifically explains how it is different from the system used on diesel-electric locomotives. And it genuinely uses two electric motors in place of a gearbox, and yet the engine can still drive the wheels directly, because they work as a replacement for the gearbox.

>>17849
>He specifically explains how it is different from the system used on diesel-electric locomotives.
Gas/diesel-electric transmissions remove mechanical coupling between motor and wheels/tracks, that's their main selling point. The eCVT design is clever and good for moving a 1-3 ton passenger vehicle, not so much for a 20-100 ton tank let alone a 200-2000+ ton train. Those planetary gears will eat shit rather quickly under such loads I reckon, probably even worse than friction clutches. Plus tank designers don't tend to care about MPGs nearly as much as Toyota does.