/k/ - Weapons and Militaria

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

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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.

>>17543
Fuck off we are full.

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>>17558
Don't worry, I will be there LEGALLY.

Someone more competent than me make a new Iran thread, orange man sez he wants to invade Kharg.

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WTF I LOVE JEW CREEK TUNNELS NOW

>>17515
Ad from some Chinese optic manufacturer, yoinked from their website.  I think it was either CVlife or Votatu.  It is a really blatant, really obvious AI image.

I got the optic ready slide for the P17 and ended up going with a Swampfox Sentinel I found on eBay for $56.  It's not terrible.

>>17731
More like Trump is realizing that dragging out the deal while trying "soften up" Iran with small strikes or just string them along while he continues to harass Iran and Israel continues to fuck up Lebanon for who knows how long is no longer an option and he realizes that he is about to be forced to negotiate from a position of weakness so he's trying some military shit to regain "control" (he never had it, but there are likely moments when he believed he did) of the situation and bargain from a position of strength now. Trump prides himself on being a dealmaker who makes very good deals, so being forced to make a capitulation of an agreement with Iran would be too humiliating for him, especially since everyone knows the press will drag him for this shit.

>>17732
Makes sense it's the smaller more homogenous nations that can actually get that sort of thing rolling.

>>17733
They're aleady dragging him through the shit and anyone with two eyes and a pair of brain cells know that capitulation is a forgone conclusion

>>17736
Well capitulation or going all in with the nukenings.

>>17737
I think there are enough checks and balances in place in the us, i think, but israel not so sure.

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>>16988
That's probably coming eventually. In the near term I anticipate that we will see two disparate vectors pushing developments in the same direction, and it keeps me up nights.

1, continuing advances in electronic warfare will make remote control of drones more and more difficult, less and less reliable 

2, continuing advances in AI will result in more and more capable systems that can run on cheaper and cheaper hardware 

Autonomous war-bots are coming. Most of them won't resemble humans at all.  Don't think Terminator. Think autonomous quadcopter bombers that go over there all by themselves, find people in the area they've been told to bomb, and kill them, all without a human anywhere in the loop. Think T55 with autoloader, thermal cameras, servos to operate the weaponry, and a bloody-minded little autistic savant murderbot AI running on a cheap tablet from Temu.  Think Boston Dynamics "Big Dog" with an M240 bolted on and a simulated lust for blood.

It's coming. Soon. How long will it take after the first deployment for a software bug to result in a city being erased?  Not long.  Who will be held responsible?  Will anyone survive long enough to assign blame?

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>>16987
>>16988
I'm sure there would be literally zero negative consequences to such a thing!

>>17147
>inb4 nukes are used not fight WWIII but to fry all the electronics of the trillinons of slaughterbots that fought WWIII

Anyone wanna buy a japanese lithium-battery submarine?

Can one expect to see lookouts posted on the deck of ships manually designating drone targets for CIWS, or perhaps launching drone interceptors/aiming the guns by hand?
Are graffiti drones for painting benis on the hull at night a possibility?

>>17527
I see no reason as to why a bunch of fleshbags would be superior to an array of cameras & microphones, especially if you can train an AI to target the drones with them.

>>864
>uncleanable canteens
Que?

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>>866
Its 1898, youve been handed this and told to go sit in a mud ditch somewhere in missouri, youll get your water from the local stream that the cooks just dumped some animal remains into. Chemical cleaning doesnt exist and the only way to really clean something with an opening that small is to dunk it in boiling water. Half the camp doesnt believe bacteria is real so youre told to stop wasting matches, firewood, and water dunking canteens like an idiot.

>>872
Damn, at that point literal swamp water might be more sanitary.

>>1842
Kohlchan ist anderswo, dies ist ein Kriegsschlafplatz.

Where in USA can I get a AK-47?

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>>17049
I wasn't able to find anything specific to .380 ACP.  On the face of it, the typical FMJ bullets in that caliber are so short and stubby that they are closer to spheres in their proportion than elongated cylinders, and even if you made them yaw 90 degrees on impact it would make little difference.  The article from the crazy Finns suggests that the spoon-point technique doesn't work very well unless the bullet is already on the edge of gyroscopic instability.  I don't know how that would work for a projectile that is basically a length of wire with fins at the rear.  Would any spoon-tip cuts near the point change its mass distribution or the drag on different sides of the point in a fluid medium sufficiently to make it turn sideways?

Years ago, I came into possession of some yellowed old copies of Soldier of Fortune magazine from the 1980s, in whiich Peter Kokalis and his merry band of miscreants were shooting gelatin blocks and opining about what was happening inside them in the moment between "bang" and when the block hits the ground and stops quivering.  One of the rounds they tested, I am almost certain, though I no longer have the magazines, having lost them some moves ago, was a weird-looking 9mm FMJ bullet that Kokalis claimed was an experimental product from Speer.  It weighed 124gr and was longer than average for a 9mm pistol bullet.  It also had an oddly shaped ogive, which I will attempt to repr

Does anyone sell a spring kit for the Rossi RP63?
>in b4 huegun
I got one just to scratch the itch for a 3" S&W 65, as the prices on the latter are crazy. The fit and finish aren't terrible and it shoots to the sights, at least with 158gr .38s. It sets off 100% of primers, including whatever Armscor and Magtech use, that get so many complaints. However, possibly not coincidentally, it has a trigger like one of those old Arrow brand staple guns.  It has to be every bit of twenty pounds and shooting thirty or forty rounds makes my hand cramp up.

People on the Taurus Armed forum say you can use the spring kits from Galloway Precision for the Taurus 856.  When asked directly GP says "no u dont idort."  wat do, guise?

>>17096
Multiple sources say the RP63 is mechanically identical to the 856 and the internal parts are interchangeable, though fitting is often required due to Braztech's opinions about the concept of "tolerances."  Rumor has it that Galloway Precision takes this position because the fit and finish of the internals of the Rossi revolvers is crap. They are filled with rough as-molded MIM, complete, in many cases, with mold flashing and sprues still attached, and the absolute minimum of filing and grinding to get the parts to more or less seat and maybe pass a function check--if they're doing function checks this shift.  You can install the spring kit but the gun may or may not work afterwards if you aren't polishing every surface where any moving part touches another.  The people at Taurus Armed who are reporting good results are all either advanced hobby gunsmiths or do gunsmithing for a living.  These guys can tell by looking which little ridge on the rebound slide is a casting flaw that has to be ground off and which is a camming surface necessary to reset the trigger.  If you don't have that level of knowledge, don't even try it.  You could send the $299 gun to a gunsmith and pay $450 for a trigger job, I guess.  Is it worth that much to you?

Yes.  I sometimes talk to myself here after I do research.  Maybe someone will see it and it'll be helpful.

I have done spring swaps in Ruger revolvers and it's not too bad.  I got a Turkish "Melik" Beretta 92F copy just to learn about Berettas, and learned how to tear it down do the last spring and pin.  I did a fluff and buff on the internals, and I put a spring kit in it.  The spring kit did not come with a trigger return spring so I made my own out of music wire from a hobby shop.  I learned a lot.  I got a Gen 3 Glock clone frame and I am trying to cobble together a Glock 34 clone.  It was a much simpler, cleaner design, far easier to work on than the Beretta 92 design, right up until I started getting random intermittent trigger reset failures.  What is happening is not obvious to me.  Maybe I'm not tall enough for this ride.

So I am not up to working on revolvers.  There's a whole new world of tiny springs and detents that can launch themselves when you take off the sideplate.  And I do not have the knowledge to know at a glance which surface features on internal parts like the rebound slide are artifacts of the manufacturing process that someone at the factory really should have swiped off with a file before putting in the gun, and which have to be there for it to work.

It's disappointing.  I didn't really expect a cheap South American fixed-sight revolver to shoot to the sights.  I was pleased enough at that to put black paint around the rear sight notch and

Does anyone have any recommendations for RMSc/Shield/SMS/Jpoint footprint optics?  I have decided to get an optic cut slide for a .22 pistol I shoot a lot.  It needs to be:

sufficiently low in mass that it will not prevent it from cycling, and exact figures about how much extra mass this design tolerates are hard to come by, so "lighter than most" is the only guideline here

not a bottom battery design 

green illumination rather than red if at all possible, I know it's a feature less common in RMSc

inexpensive without being complete trash, it's a .22 so I'm not paying three times what I paid for the gun for Gucci optics

multi-reticle would be nice, just to see if I like it, but I know it's even less common in RMSc than green illumination 

The particular slide I have on order actually has enough space fore and aft to mount a DeltaPoint Pro pattern optic. The hole pattern is the same and the recoil lugs are in the same places.  It would be physically possible, and also hilarious, to bolt on, for example, a Vortex Defender-XL. But DPP pattern sights are usually pretty hefty.

Bump for actual importance.

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>2030, colorized

>>17003
Right. And... Wait which way do we want that to go again?

>>17005
>" " "we" " "
Of course the entire world wants to see the kikes destroyed. I suppose China & Russia can potentially manage to sabotage ((( their ))) doomsday weapons somehow? As this pic-related says >>16971
The world will be a much, much happier place without ((( them ))) here.

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Iran just shot down something likely a spy drone

>>17007
Who are the niggers?

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WTF I LOVE THE KIKE'S WAR ON IRAN NOW!

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>>9628
>4th pic
Reminds me of those ammonites who evolved into all kinds of weird and disturbing shapes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancyloceratina

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Lances are melee weapons, right? Art by centurii-chan

>>15559
>Lances are melee weapons, right?
Or possibly sports equipment. The jousting varieties were specifically made to break and splinter in a relatively safe manner when paired with jousting armor.

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I cast FIST

>>15559
Is it gay if lance tips touch?