/k/ - Weapons and Militaria

>>8085
Maybe the g*rmans with their Gorch Fock were on to something.

>>8085
>Nylon
Truly a wonder material.
It stretches long before it breaks.
It gets tougher when it's hydrated.
It handles UV exposure well.
It isn't a known endocrine disrupter.
It's cheap to produce.
It's chemically resistant to most things.

Too bad the guy who invented it killed himself because he thought he was a failure.
UHMW fabric is even better, but it doesn't handle UV exposure as well as Nylon. It does float though, which is neat.
A sail kite made of UHMW fabric could be made lighter than Nylon, which would mean that it could stay aloft in lower wind speeds.

Prior to the Geneva Suggestion, was it ever normal for militaries to poison their weapons? And if not, why?
Like I understand that such dishonorobru tactics would be avoided by certain groups or between certain enemies, but these weren't always the case. Plenty of militaries did all sorts of horrid shit to guarantee victory,  and if you could make your arrow rain so deadly that a scratch kills the target just as dead as getting impaled through the chest, that means you can equip your bowmen with lighter arrows and weaker bows with longer effective range and higher ammo capacity.

I can understand why they might not have poisoned melee weapons since something fast-acting enough to make a difference that was cheap enough to issue to an army was likely hard to come by, in addition to how much of a pain in the arse it would have been to reapply poison after each cleaning and how much of a liability a poisoned blade is. Poisoning your swords and spears would more likely have either needlessly killed captured soldiers if you won and got you sent to the asbestos mines if you lost.

>>8194
Poison arrows were used often enough that that's what the English word "toxin" is derived from (toxikos pharmakon, roughly "a drug/poison for the bow").
There's tons of documentation across the world about both actual poisons, and cruder and more opportunistic methods like dipping arrowheads in shit to cause infections.

>>8194
>>8196
"toxon" is the Greek work for bow, so yeah it's a strong association. Since arrows were more often one-time-use contaminating them doesn't come with maintenance headaches like with melee weapons.

Good further reading: Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World

>>7083
>5th 
"General Kenobi.."

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What if a ZIP .22 and a G11 had a weird, illicit butt-baby:

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Alright, just hear me out

>>8175
Da.

>>8175
>>8176
Well fuck, come to think of it, you could employ a drone swarm of the cheapest possible mini drones with AI targeting systems which only target other drones. All they have to do is purposefully run into the bomb-carrying ones, right?

>>8177
Yeah, and then you could make a swarm of even smaller drones (and far more numerous) to counteract the anti-drone drones, and so on, and so on. At some point we'll basically be breeding microbes to fight each other.

>>8174
Would there be any benefit to ornithopter drones over propeller-driven ones?

>>8181
The chinks are already making bird drones be ause they look more natural from a distance.

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>slave guarding the border
>a huge ass cats gets too close
>climb a tree and yell cheeki breeki so it goes away
>can't shot it because it is illegal

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In other they say a hotel Dnipropetrovsk got destroyed because it was full of mercs.

>>8167
>Danish women
>"I think it's fine if it's mandatory, as long as there is a choice of whether to do it or not"
That's not what mandatory means pumpkin.
>"It can be a good break to do military service"
Typical women and their self fulfillment "journeys"

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>>7390
I remember some haplogroup maps showing isolated islands or trail-less circumstances that don't make sense unless we go way back to the point it destroys current academia.
2 parts i remember are an usually euro haplogroup in a big triangle above Cameroon, Nigger and Niggeria that has no reason to be there, the other one is the famous Haplogroup X that, in theory, could explain the presence of some group that worked in the North American Great Lakes producing copper and having some of their wares inside Ancient Egyptian tombs.
Then there's the Olmec ancestors, the Anasazi, the Mount Builder civilization, the Cappadocian natives and the whole story about the ancient indus civs riding flying castles.

>>7594
>>7599
Didn't the U.S. fly a "secret black helicopter" into Bin Laden's crib?
The only strange thing i've seen was a smallish, long dark helicopter flying very low (10 meters above ground) with no lights over a poorfag residential area at almost midnight the same days when the "chinaman spy balloon" was flying. Thing is our local cops don't have helicopters and our feds only have big ass Mi-17's and Black Hawks, and that wasn't either of them. We only saw it due to the noise so i am sure it was a heli.
>Don't forget about this storytime strelok.
I'll 

>>7599
When I was young I lived near a fairly active NATO airbase with frequent low-altitude fighter flybys that reached peak intensity sometime in August 2001 yet dropped sharply after 9/11, and while military helicopters were a less common sight I did see and hear Chinhooks fly by at low altitude at one point even conducting some kind of rappeling exercise in plain view of my school, wtf so I know for a fax their engines are easily audible from a kilometer or more.

What's weird about the mystery Chinhook(?) is that it not only had either twice the regular amount of navigation lights than a regular aircraft wouldn't have been able to see the characteristic humps otherwise as the sun had already set or some esoteric landing light config on top of flying right towards the centre of a decently-sized city that in itself had and still does have a highly active commercial airspace.

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In my readings it seems 2012, 2020, March 2025 and 2030/2047 get repeated
Well, it's that time of the month again and the last notable one at least

>>8140
Say that once the month has passed in full.

>>8145
Curiously enough the supposed original intention of the group that organized that "protest" was environmental and they had a couple of specific goals regarding european energy politics, yesterday out of nowhere UK abided to one of the goals explicitly, an english gtoup that was supposedly involved in the media stunt dissolved after meeting their demands.
Perhaps it was all a globohomo stunt but it does coincide with a bunch of interesting events like Iran feeling the US too close, EU being against the US and a tariff war.

Tips for setting up a beehive?

>>7794
How far along are you in the process? What materials do you already have?

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>>131 (OP) 
I used to get into the agriculture meme, but its unviable because of nutrient demands.  Sure you can grow some potatoes, just incase you cant find an animal or need some emergency food, but the reality is you will need to learn to hunt, clean, and cut animals. fish as well.
Only animals that are unhealthy require cooking. Drink the blood, it coagulates very quickly like jello and will hydrate you better than a stream of water and give you all the nutrients your body needs.
Red meat or fish or shell fish provides every nutrient in the best possible forms.

There is a video about these kids that were stranded on an island and survived. They survived by using shellfish or bugs to lure seagulls, then grabbing them and cutting the necks of the gulls to drink the blood. Kept them satiated.

>>7871
>its unviable because of nutrient demands
If it is for only you or a very small group of people, you have the machinery and the knowledge/means to grow multiple things then you can do it but with all of that i mean growing oats and barley, processing them, soaking them in water, filtering them and then drinking the water to have a milk substitute... which all can be fixed by drinking real milk which also has fats.
Chinamen deep in the woods have proven, somewhat, that a rich vegetable based diet can be done, mostly due to tofu, but then again look at what happened to the poor fellows, they are tiny, male/female look-alike and intolerant to lactose.

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>>7884
They also eat big juicy grubs and live in a semi-tropical climate with alot of land per person. Grains require a shitload of land to even maintain the diet of one person. you are unironically 100x better off eating squirrels and carp. Storage food like picture related is a good way to give yourself a head-start until you can figure out how to reliably hunt and catch, prepare and preserve animal foods.

I also have some guides relevent to north america about emergency foods you can possibly find in the woods.

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>>6398
It's an innovative concept for a home light gun game. I think it's the only console that utilized VHS tape.

>>6401
Here's something additional for you. Zillion uses the Master System light gun as the basis of the protagonist's weapon and spices it up a bit.

>>6389
I've wanted to play this for nearly twenty years

>>6403
>I think it's the only console that utilized VHS tape.
There was a handful of games, not sure if you'd call them consoles as they were more like specific toys attaching to the TV, there were multiple VHS tapes but it couldn't really support different games. If that makes sense.
I remember Captain Power where you had a spaceship with a pistol grip on the bottom and the TV could shoot back, if your ship gets hits your pilot would eject lol. If your friend had one you could play in "room mode" running around shooting each other's ships. Another one was Video Driver or something similar.

Eagle Dynamigs has gone the Jew Blunder route by announcing an F-35 module based on Jewtube videos and ex-Pilot testimony.
Will they take the DOT&E funnies into account, given that those reports are the closest thing to a non-classified official "reference" of the F-35's capabilities or lack thereof, and will there be ebin leakinges on the forums?
Inb4 the leaks are six trillion times worse than pessimistic normalfag guestimates.
Might as well put in the F-22C from Ace Combat 3 with AI voice commands.

>>7592
>>7592
>and will there be ebin leakinges on the forums?
>Inb4 the leaks are six trillion times worse than pessimistic normalfag guestimates.
God I hope so.
>inb4 it's revealed that the F-35 is just an Ohka in a fancy shell with a billion dollar engine kludged on to it.

>USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST Read nigga, read!
What exactly am I supposed to be reading?

>>6819
I think I got at least one of my post deleted there but it didn't matter since it was just a shitpost replying to another post with a cropped saxon.

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Plant thread has been merged into the cultivation thread where it belongs.
>mfw you got hit by another car again, this time driven by a sheeboon.
c'est la vive
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>>7366
>cultivation thread
is >>131 for anyone else is looking for it
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What do you use for this? I don't see any browser extensions for PGP and copy/pasting this shit to files each time seems like a retarded way to do it.

>>7368
>signed message
I'm a copyfag, but I also use CLI usually...
Easy solution is kleopatra. Maybe Okular (also KDE).

>>7431
I am not condoning nor saying ukrainian troops should march straight into their politicians' local headquarters or directly into Kiev, but perhaps if they hypothetically want to do something of real change truly now is the moment, so to speak haha

>>7432
That. And/or nationwide mass desertions. Not just the frontline desertions. Either way is still better than their current course, despite all three paths leading to certain death.

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>>7432
It would be hilarious if the hohols killed zelensky.

>>7423
>the deal doesn't contain any actual security guarantee
>it's just getting signed in the hopes that it "will lead to future deals"
The best time for  >>7432 was yesterday. The second-best time is today.

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>>7427
Sumy Oblast just  before entering Kursk

>>6388
Now use them to cut potatoes

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A kusarijitte is not something that I would have ever dreamed of existing.