/k/ - Weapons

>>545428

ohgodwhat

*sinks whole american navy*

>>545432

/thread

>>545428

Oh God, did it happen again?

*sinks whole american navy*

>>545428

First officer, what is *that* and what is it doing on my ship?

>>545483

it has an uncanny resemblance to some of the special ed kids we avoided in elementary school, the violent down syndrome kids were preferred to them

>>545489

Oh shit, you're right, I remember a girl in grade three who looked a lot like that, once you adjust for age. I'd forgotten about her for a long time.

My school didn't do separate special ed classes, so she got shoved in normal classes with the rest of us. I distinctly remember her being assigned to my group for a discussion activity, and she just sat there exaggeratedly eating out of her used kleenex. I'm pretty sure they started segregating the special ed students after that year, since there were a couple of them in that class I never saw again.

>>545497

I remember one was some kind of egyptian jew and had the skin color of an old skid mark on white underwear. He had some form of autism but other than that he was just plain repulsive. the most distinguishing feature of his was these big kang nigger ears that were so thin that even indoor lightning would shine through and you could see splotches of ear wax caked on at varoius spots. This being before I even knew about pol and was thinking like the average kumbaya singing color blind fucks I would always avoid skid mark skin people because of him and would point out to my friends which one I thought had autism. Sure enough 2 seconds of questioning and they came back witn "Yep autism. How did you know?"

So what would happen if we replaced all of our ships with cargo freighters?

Would they all run into each other, or would we become undisputed rulers of the seas?

>>545573

If they were still called Navy then they'd probably start sinking one another

>>545576

We'll call it the Federation of Faggot Freighters.

I mean, that's just another way of saying US Navy anyway.

>>545578

>>545576

This isnt funny. We depend on the navy for prevention of WWIII, protection of profuct prices, and global dominance. Having niggers and faggots ruin our military isshameful and frightening, not funy.

>>545593

See >>545600

Everything's a joke. I stopped caring a couple years ago and I'm probably the happiest I've been since I was in elementary school despite knowing the world is going to shit.

>>545539

>tfw Armed Forces had a chance to prevent half the shit we've been experiencing for the last decade and instead rigged the game because it made them look bad

>>545593

You've on the money there. The thing about being the Global Hegemon is you've got to have a bigger logistics and force projection arm than seems reasonable in any other scenario, basically you have to maintain the (appearance of the) ability to successfully invade pretty much anywhere, which means a massive navy. As a modern navy requires pretty much every seaman to be technically skilled that requires a top-tier education system focused on STEM just to make sure you can man it properly. America, having a large population could do that, but your academics would rather write essays about how white men are subhuman rape demons. If America can't fix its education system your navy will continue to crumble (if it's gotten bad enough to get into the MSM then it's been crumbling for a few decades already), once your navy goes your force projection and logistics is dead, once that happens your influence and power on the world stage won't last long and you'll see someone else fill that spot and start treating the US the way the US treats other countries at the moment.

I thought the rum ration was forbidden.

>>545424

Sure

>>545649

>>545657

My dudes.

>>545604

>>545600

If that makes you any happier, least you ain't Western Europe.

>>545607

>Editing out FTL motorbike couriers is rigging the game.

>>545810

You could have at least pointed out the size of the explosives he was using on the speedboats.

>Implying them being normal speed would have seriously effected things

>Implying they didn't keep adding handicaps because he was beating their shit in

>>545660

America could fix its education system overnight if they eliminated government student loans and FAFSA/similar government grants. It would both get rid of the SJWs who can't rely on daddy's money, and it would make schooling cheap enough for your average Joe to afford it without financial assistance. That'd cut too much into Student Debt which is one of the ways the government is funding itself though.

>>545810

>that's all they did

>>545810

Thats a lie.

His lightspeed communication were literal light signals and wired telephone lines, which Blue chose to interpret as "lightspeed bikes" because retards on Blue team couldnt conceive of a communication method other than a radio and got pissed when their radio locating equipment was useless.

Also I like how you ignore they refloated the fleet multiple times.

First he sunk the fleet with missiles Iran has access to, then they refloated it and sait it was unfair. Then he sunk the fleet with suicide speedboats, a valid tactic used by Iran, then they refloated it because its unfair.

Third time it was refloated, Red was forced to accept a beachhead, was banned from shooting down Blue aircraft, and was forced to expose positions of all Red units so they could be shot.

Sounds fair you quad nigger.

>>545838

>Also I like how you ignore they refloated the fleet multiple times.

Exercises on that scale cost hundreds of millions of dollars to setup and run. Why is there always one retard who thinks it's somehow unfair that the Navy didn't say "well that's that" and go home fifteen minutes into a two-week exercise just because they lost?

>>545841

So you admit he fairly won several times and USN only won after heavily scripting his response?

Because thats all we are saying nigger

>>545841

I think a lot of the aggravation comes from the fact that they didn't seem to learn anything from it. It would be one thing if they kept restarting the exercise and getting excited about all the new techniques they were discovering and then altered doctrine as a result of the exercise. Instead they gave the impression of just being mad that the exercise didn't demonstrate what they wanted it to demonstrate.

>>545844

This. In the end it turned from exercise to scripted wankfest over how well they performed

>>545843

>admit

I've never said otherwise. Who are you imagining that you're talking to?

>>545844

>It would be one thing if they kept restarting the exercise and getting excited about all the new techniques they were discovering

That wasn't the point of the exercise, though. The Navy already had a bunch of techniques dreamed up that they wanted to test and they ended up all getting crowbarred into MC2002, and testing that much shit against a single enemy required the enemy following what turned out to be a completely ridiculous gimmicked script.

Van Riper met the original intention of the challenge rather than the political rat-king it turned out to be once every single department got their own special interests added. That was why the Navy grabbed a retired guy, so he wouldn't feel any political pressure to validate what the Navy wanted him to validate, and they got mad when he gave them what they wanted.

>>545666

>whole

they'd have won the war if they didn't half ass it. actually sink the Navy, the repair facilities, and the oil reserves and US Pacific fleet was done for half a decade.

>>545857

Did they even fire at the ships before they were an heroing into them? Every kamikaze footage seems to have them simply flying into ships without firing MGs at them.

>>545851

Interesting. I wasn't really aware of that aspect.

> The subject of the letter was the MC-02 Simulation Federation Verification, Validation, and Accreditation. The letter specifically addressed the lack of time to invest in the effort of validating weapons interactions and further, specifically validated the Navy representations in the simulation as valid only for purposes of command and control and invalid for weapons systems interactions.

Still seems wacky, but I don't really have the background to critique it.

>>545838

You have it backwards: the wargame only allowed for electronic communications, so the red team simulated things like couriers and face-to-face meetings using landline phones (the only means of communication they were allowed that didn't involve radio transmissions) and a timer. The landlines themselves were destroyed early in the exercise.

>>545847

The official report actually came to the exact same conclusion, so for the next exercise they did the same exact shit, but with an active officer in charge of red team this time so they could bully him into cooperating.

>>545869

… please read a book. there were no kamikaze attacks at pearl harbor. they weren't even that common in the whole of the war, it was a desperation tactic at the end.

>>545813

It's always the way in politics. Solution A would solve many problems and lead to a 100% improvement for just about everyone involved. However implementing Solution A would mean removing Shitty Decisions W, X, Y, and Z - and asides from the embarrassment of admitting that these Shitty Decisions aren't in fact wonderful, we kind of need the money those Shitty Decisions bring in.

>>545843

It's perfectly in character for the USA though, as I said they NEED to maintain the illusion of an invincible military might in order to maintain their political position. Hence when the UK Royal Navy was running joint exercises with the USN to test our new air defence frigates & missiles (that were able to wipe out the air arm of an entire USN carrier group while shooting down the ASM fired at them before they became a problem) the USN declared that the new ships were making it impossible to run the sims (designed to test the new ships) and demanded they be sent back to harbour.

By maintaining the illusion America makes it impossible to adequately improve their military, maintaining that illusion will eventually destroy Americas position in the world.

>>545889

Didn't they have to inject shit tons of methamphetamines and other hard drugs into the pilots just to convince them to crash the plane?

>>545897

You and I know we're not going to go out that way lad, going out in a blaze of glory only hindered by our incredibly outdated equipment and tactics is just too good a fate for us.

No, they have much worse plans for America, a slow death kind of like your country's but much more damaging and leading to far more loss of life because we are better and more importantly bigger than you. It's not WW3 I'm worried about, in a twisted way there is honor in that. It is the hundreds of these tiny stupid proxy wars fighting against our own interests while subversive elements continue to chip away at us that I am actually worried about.

>>545881

How do you destroy landlines? Theyre undetectible…

>>545897

Modern western ASM are designed to be carried by multirole fighters, which means a size limitation. Size limitation means subsonic speeds and tiny 100kg warheads. Subsonic ASM are inferior to target drones that air defenses can knock down by hundreds, and you need several hits with 100kg warheads to sink a frigate.

However if we make 500kg+ warhead supersonic missiles, they would be too big to mount on fighters, so the entire carrier blue water combat concept goes out the window and we have Russia-style fleets…

>>545899

>hundreds of these tiny stupid proxy wars

That's almost certainly the way things are going to go down. If nothing else WW3 destroys the markets and infrastructure the elite need to maintain their lifestyles. You'll probably see some serious Balkanization in the USA once you stop being useful as well. Even with a hamstrung military and neutered industrial arm you're too big to be left intact.

>>545930

Could you not get similar Anti-ship effect out of the railguns they're testing now, at a much lower cost? Even if you couldn't I would quite enjoy the rebirth of Dreadnoughts and oversized Monitors.

>>545941

Railguns have a variety of flaws that make them unworkable as anything but a ridiculously expensive shorter range tomahawk replacement.

>>545950

>Implying China etc won't get mega-nuked in WW3

>>545948

Maybe something with CLGGs, combined with those refit ideas for the Montana-class. It would be more effective than modern carriers, but a bunch of fast and cheap smaller boats would be better than both.

>>545951

Not if the elites have a say about it.

>>545953

>a bunch of fast and cheap smaller boats would be better than both

Oh yes, If anyone was actually trying to rebuild a modern navy a collection of smaller ships carrying a handful of (decent) ASM and the necessary radar to fire them, maybe with a handful of SAM equipped ships and C&C vessels in the squadron would be cheaper and much more effective.

>>545954

Once the nukes start flying I think it's safe to say they've lost control

>>545957

>Once the nukes start flying I think it's safe to say they've lost control

They're in control of the nukes and will never fire them. That's a pact with the elites of the other nations. Endless proxy wars to control the plebs and for profit where it can be found.

>>545958

CLGG are for anti ship and coastal bombardments. Lasers for anti air and anti missile. Can't dodge, or counteract a light speed beam that's hotter than surface of the sun.

>>545968

Shit now I want to see a mirror plated plane before I die.

>>545969

>jewing your own citizens

>infighting with other white nations

>stealing artifacts for private zionist collections

>giving niggers free shit

Your entire "empire" was kiked the moment William brought the judenry in. Imagine what good those resources could actually have been put to, if your people weren't betrayed into serfdom.

>>545976

>if your people weren't betrayed into serfdom

How are you enjoying that at the moment Burger? Or do you think that not getting President Clinton the 2nd made you a free man again?

>>545977

The first step is admitting you have a problem. You need not beg for mercy here, for the threat lies elsewhere. Simply seek to solve the issue however you can.

>>545979

Eh, just pointing out that Americans are the last people to be pointing fingers on that topic.

>>545980

I think we should save the bickering over who's fault it is for after we get rid of the juden causing the problems.

Everyone is fucked over by the kikes.

>>545962

The way western countries are going is making Warhammer 30k to look like utopistic fiction instead of dystopian fiction. Sage for offtopic.

>>545941

To be honest this cargo ship bullshit is probably part of it too. The Chinese know that the USN in the region is worked to exhaustion compounded with that old joke about the lighthouse, so to them it is probably worth it to lose a cargo ship or two. That shit is insured but at the same time they continue to humiliate the US, which Mockingbird slurps right up since the chinese, the media, and the US government itself have the same boss. So the US government overworks the good people and puts the retards in power, all the chinese have to do is pilot their ship and rely on the USN leadership to be as predictable as always, and the media is always there to start screaming and making everyone know how horrible the US military is. Leads to distrust by allies, distrust by the american people (which fans the flames of a plethora of things designed to chip away at the US stateside) and overall just makes us looks like a joke.

>>545968

Won't do shit against IR lasers.

>>545983

>The way western countries are going is making Warhammer 30k to look like utopistic fiction

In 30k you at least had a real live god(like) Pinnacle of humanity forging a perfect society spanning the stars. I don't think it will get as bad as 30k, or 40k for that matter, though. People are just starting to realise what's happening and oppose it. Autists here on 8chan may have been ahead of the pack on that conclusion, and unhappy that the response is not as energetic or focused as they would like, but things are likely to improve over the next few generations, probably too late for me and thee though. If that sounds unlikely then think about it, as things get worse and worse a larger number of people will be calling for more drastic action, governments must either yield to the will of the people (fixing at least a part of the problem) or clamp down on it (redpilling pretty much everyone and costing the state in question any claim of legitimacy) which would lead to more rapid - if less predictable - change. The wheels are already turning. This period will go down in history as a backwards step, but also a lesson learned.

>>545985

Anon, take a IR cam and point it to the next window. You will see on the monitor an idiot pointing the IR cam to the window

Yeah that's what's needed to defeat the "EYEAARRR" laser, a simple piece of glass

>ib4 muh not IR IR that passes glass, hint there are materials that will refelect / disspate /absorb the beam long enough to make the thing behind still a threat

>>545987

I always found it rather hilarious that as much as science fiction loves to believe that lasers will be the standard weapons of the future they seem to be kind of useless for anything other than ranging and target designation. No matter how much energy and engineering you put into your LASOR the same amount of energy and engineering applied to a solid projectile will make a better weapon for a lower cost.

>>545855

Roll

>>545988

The idea originally comes from stories where the combat was taking place in hard vacuum at astronomical ranges. In that scenario a "projectile" travelling at the universe's speed limit has some real advantages, especially if you don't have to worry about atmospheric diffusion or diffraction. Also older, harder science fiction stories were very much informed by the practical rocketry and optimism about nuclear power of the time. From that perspective shipboard mass can be more logistically precious than shipboard power.

>>545995

Fair points, but when it gets to the point where every infantryman is carrying a collection of laser weapons, and you can buy a laser pistol in most bars, it becomes increasingly silly.

>>545958

See >>545965

CLGGs are good for fucking up big targets/artillery substitution, but lasers are super accurate- you can shoot down a target the size of a coke can from dozens of miles away with no way of tracing it prior to impact other than the heat wave produced by it (military lasers are "invisible" to the naked eye). The range is expected to practically expand into the hundreds in the next couple decades. Honestly I want microwave cannons that boil enemies/enemy vehicles from the inside to be a thing, but maybe I'm asking for too much.

>>545968

Would need to be pretty powerful since it'll get melted before it can properly reflect.

>>545988

Energy weapons were never meant to be more powerful than projectiles- they're meant to be more accurate, more controllable, have virtually zero recoil, and (generally outside of the fallout-style universes) be lighter than solid projectiles. It's like comparing apples and oranges- you aren't gonna use traditional projectiles in a near-zero gravity environment or vacuum because of the recoil systems needed to prevent your ship from careening into the abyss of space, or you're going to use it because the laser is barely effected by wind current and such, meaning you can shoot it at a small target from extreme distances without having to compensate the shot for environmental factors. It's the idea of trading damage at high mass for speed/accuracy at low mass.

>>546003

>the laser is barely effected by wind current and such, meaning you can shoot it at a small target from extreme distances

How do you plan to counteract the effects of atmosphere on the laser beam? Your laser gets less and less effective pretty quickly

>>545997

It's like a lot of things: something is created a certain way for good reasons but as it ages people keep doing things the same way out of inertia without knowing why they started doing it that way in the first place.

>>545965

>Can't dodge, or counteract a light speed beam that's hotter than surface of the sun.

1. lasers are only about 10% efficient, meaning there is ten times more thermal emergy that has to be dealt with by the firing ship than the target.

2. lasers are attenuated by atmosphere. something like fog makes them useless, same problem with rain.

3. since the missile only needs to survive a few minutes, it is childs play to layer that much ablative armor (wet cork) on its surface.

Railguns and lasers are useless for the forseeable future. Im sure in 10,000 years the problems will be solved, but were looking ay major modifications to laws of physics before they are useful.

>>545855

roll

>>546008

>meaning there is ten times more thermal emergy that has to be dealt with by the firing ship than the target.

A ship floats in the world's biggest reservoir of coolant. Just use the whole hull as a heatsink.

>since the missile only needs to survive a few minutes, it is childs play to layer that much ablative armor (wet cork) on its surface.

You can't armor the control surfaces and sensors, and if the missile doesn't have those then it's not going to be maneuvering much so you can just paste it with a missile of your own. Lasers aren't a universal solution for point defense but they're a really good part of a system.

>>546045

>what are attittude thrusters

Even anti tank missiles have them. And besides simple countermeasures, you havent really addressed the weather issue which is way more important on the sea. There are days in spring when every single day theres a massive fog.

>your own

So massive capacitors, power drain, slow refire rate, use the ocean as a heatsink, and still have to use a missile to take out a target? Kind of expensive for a whole lot of nothing.

>>546056

My point is that nine feet of wet cork isn't a counter to anything because existing systems can defend against something flying straight and blind. I didn't comment on weather issues because I don't know much about it.

>even antitank missiles have them

Do they work for hypersonic glide vehicles?

>>546045

> Just use the whole hull as a heatsink.

Would the massive heat signature make it any more obvious than it already would be?

>>546085

>9 feet of cork

try a quarter inch.

lasers arent as powerful as you seem to think…

>Do they work for hypersonic glide vehicles?

Thats corporate buzzwords. If you mean a maneuvering ballistic missile warhead, then yes.

>>545428

This is why I elected to go greenside.

Fuck diversity quotas

>>546197

>Implying all the branches aren't cucked except maybe MUH-REENS

The only thing MUH-REENS have going for them is they're bodies to throw at the enemy bullets, so they have to be fit. Women and urban dwellers value their lives too much/are too faggoty to work out so they're by default unable to get in but are working damn hard to change that. Otherwise marines are all window lickers that have very little value outside of combat/that will leech off the system or their family members for the rest of their post-military lives.

>>545593

lern2joke nigger

>>546241

t. sailor

>>546393

>when a giant flying penis

>releases its seed

>impregnates the earth

>twins, Death and Destruction, are born

>>546117

Even if it was that great, all you had to do to defeat it is to put a 2 mm ablation shield on a missile.

>>545898

No, they told them the Emperor himself asked and said doing it will imbue their family with 100 years of Honour, and then hey did it for free

>>>/pol/11217800

<A quick rundown is that a military contractor called Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA) was bribing a whole shit ton of US Navy officers with hookers, cash, booze and parties for information about ship's movements. He would then use this information and use his moles to redirect carriers to ports he controlled where he could overcharge the Navy for fuel, tugboats, barges, food, water and sewage removal.

>A former United States Navy commander pleaded guilty on Tuesday to accepting bribes from a Singapore-based defence contractor known as "Fat Leonard" Francis in the largest corruption scandal to hit the US Navy.

>Troy Amundson, 50, who once controlled the service's joint military exercises, admitted to the district court in San Diego having traded "confidential, proprietary US Navy information" for entertainment expenses and services from prostitutes, according to a statement from the US Attorney for the Southern District of California.

>"Amundson admitted that from September 2012 through October 2013, Francis paid for dinner, drinks, transportation, other entertainment expenses and the services of prostitutes for Amundson and other US Navy officers," the US attorney's statement said.

>Amundson is the 20th of 29 defendants to plead guilty in the scandal, that dates back to at least 2007, and faces up to five years in prison and a US$250,000 (S$328,000) fine, reported the Stars and Stripes, a news site for US military news.

https://archive.fo/LaT9F

>>548750

>and faces up to five years in prison and a US$250,000 (S$328,000) fine, reported the Stars and Stripes, a news site for US military news.

Is a quarter of a million dollars actually that much all considered?

>>545898

That was more of a German thing, Japs did it because of cultural reasons.

>>545503

I remember there was a kid like that in my middleschool and he had serious issues. He would be calm one minute, then the next minute he was trying to bite your throat. I remember a few of my buds nearly got in serious shit because he attacked one of them so they all beat the piss out of him and he had a seizure.

>>548765

Russia uses VDV like the America uses the Marines. There are ~60 thousand frontline marines. Not counting POG, air support, or ship crews. Just frontline riflemen, tank crews etc.

Russia aims to have 75,000 VDV by 2020.

This is at a time when countries like Germany have 60,000 standing troops, and most that neighbor Russia have less than that. So they can do a KO on a country in hours.

At midnight complete country wide radio jamming, power grid failures, international internet and phones cut. Then a wave of radar jamming from the north hits every air traffic control including military, fighters are scrambled to find the source of the jamming. They disappear off the radar 45 minutes later. More are sent up. Three hours from the start of the power failures, 75,000 VDV begin airdropping on Berlin. The German troops mobilize, but they are spread over the country, and outnumbered. They cannot call for NATO aid. 100,000 Russian troops in Kaliningrad begin invading to join the 75,000 VDV in Berlin… Merkel is captured and signs capitulation papers in less than 24 hours since power failures began.

>>548826

Why on Earth would Russia want to capture Germany? Especially in the sorry state it's in now? If anything Putin seems to be veering away from relations with the West and all their attempts to move in on his sphere of infuence, and focus on building relations with Asia.

>>548834

The only thing he would probably want to get in Europe are the smaller countries with Russian minorities like the Baltics.

>>548834

You wouldn't even need the invade European nations at this stage, just air drop weapons for the ahmeds and watch the fireworks.

>>548834

It was mostly just a spoiler shitting on Germany.

Imagine your national defense resting on no one ever wanting to conquer you

>>548834

Germany still has a massive industrial output.

>>548929

Ah the blowfish/Sweden defense

I've been under a rock. Can anyone explain this to me?

>>552216

https://nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/navy-collisions-history-mccain-fitzgerald.html

>>552216

https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/uss-fitzgerald-and-uss-john-s-mccain-officers-to-face-criminal-charges-for-deadly-collisions/

>>552221

>>552223

How does this even happen? The fuck?

>>552229

>>545428

>>546202

Is this the "Steel Rain" that I keep hearing about?

>>552229

Kangs and wamen being promoted over orders of magnitude better deserving officers because they're kangs and wamen. To the point where a rude power tripping black bull dyke drinking a whole bottle of vodka on breaks is somehow selected to be a O4 over the most effective and caring lieutenant I've ever seen, because he didn't check enough boxes.

Basically some guy higher up in the navy has a checklist of how many different variables of diversity he needs to fill, and by promoting a WOMAN, GAY and BLACK cunt as a single person instead of 3 different people with those 3 qualities means that that brass officer opened up 2 extra positions for normal people. And it didn't matter if she was shooting up heroin and eating babies, that promising male white lieutenants career is a small price to pay for 2 extra normal officers.

>>552231

Oh.

>>545869

>>546462

Suicide tactics are rational if conventional tactics are suicidal.

>>545988

A Lazgun could potentially have no internal moving parts and near-unlimited "ammunition".

>>548759

aesthetic but mass airdrops are a meme. airdrops should only be used by highly trained special forces for harassment, supply, communication, and logistics disruption, assassinations, and precision strikes. name a mass airdrop which was an unqualified success. market garden? disaster. normandy? disaster. it would be more effective to drop missile teams behind enemy lines than to drop tanks.

>>545941

>You'll probably see some serious Balkanization in the USA once you stop being useful as well.

I hear this a lot and I can't really disprove it, but I have my doubts about that happening. The closest thing to balkanization the US can go through is North and South again with Texas and California not for long before California comes slinking back sadly, their social programs are just too much a burden and they feel a strong need to make their problem everyone's becoming their own countries. Even that isn't really likely as despite the south's "muh rise again!" they wave the burgerstan flag just as hard as rural northerners.

Why I don't think it will happen? Because the only other real country that ever went through the loss of superpower status was Russia and they are still unified. Yeah they had some wars and ended up missing a few teeth as a country but they are still more or less intact. Warsaw pact dissolved, NATO will dissolve.

What does Russia have that the US doesn't? Well for starters, a bunch of native ethnic groups who hate each other including Chechens who have been terrorist assholes since just a bit after the US was founded.

Yeah we are going to lose superpower status, yeah we will probably have another civil war and it will be a horrible time, and definitely we will have more terrorism and more than likely even a bit of open ethnic conflict coming from the beaners. At the end of the day the US will probably end up similar to Russia, a not so strong but still pretty strong from sheer mass alone power on hard economic times.

>>546241

Army seems good. They're a bunch of crippling depressives, every one I've met though

>>552329

Tnqh, I dont know anyone who makes more 9/11 jokes then americans.

>>545898

Many of the kamikaze pilots were from the Japanese cultural elite (i.e., from the Special Higher Schools), as the others were already all enlisted or dead by 1944. Marius B. Jansen wrote that many who survived due to Japan's surrender went on to become leaders and politicians after the war. They were probably motivated by the mass culture of fatalism and death in Japan during the last 6 months of the war.

>>545857

The fact the IJN failed to get the A7M into production while the IJA had 5 different frontline fighters in active service at the end of the war puzzles me to this day.

>>545855

Rowlin!

Roll

>>545855

>>552330

>the US will probably end up similar to Russia, a not so strong but still pretty strong from sheer mass alone power on hard economic times.

This is why I think those in power will be working as hard as they can manage to balkanise you. Like I said, you're too big to be left in one piece.

>>557587

>balkanise you.

Stop using that term.

Germany is not supporting regional independence movement in order to torpedo an agreement that would leave them out of the role of a regional power like they did with Heksagonale.

>>557638

>Germany is the only factor in this situation

There are plenty of other countries that would benefit massively from a broken burgerland.

>>557651

No doubt, but balkanization happened thanks to kraut's asshurt about not being a superpower and their status of european shot-caller was in jeopardy with the aformentioned Heksagonale agreement.

Now they're attempting to do the same against intermarium, but infortunately for them, Poland is now under American-Israeli management real right wing government (even though "radical elements" were agreed to be never let into power during magdalenka talks) (^:

Also, general question to Russian, Burger, Swiss and Chinese anons, how does it feel to live in a sovereign nation?

>>557652

>>557638

>Germany is trying to galvanize the US

Maybe I just misunderstood but that's a dumb as fuck thing to say that is devoid of any real geopolitics

>>545930

>How do you destroy landlines? Theyre undetectible…

You take out the infrastructure the lines rely on. If the lines are heavily reliant on microwave towers, you take out key tower junctions or switching stations. If it's heavily reliant on fiber optic, coaxial, or cellular you take out key switching centers and hubs.

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Japanese engines hit the wall hard in the late 1930's and their super/turbo-chargers were too fragile to warrant their use. The IJAAF did not learn anything from seeing the newer marks of the Spitfire or the Corsair and continued to not armor their planes in order to squeeze all the horsepower out of those few engines that did not eat a piston or four.

The IJN by this point had no functional need for planes to fit within a 12' by 12' space as the Taiho's elevators were 16' by 16'. They realized that armored fuel tanks were a thing, and that having your fighters tear their wings cleanly at the fuselage while in a power dive is not the best idea. Also the Army was being a little faggot and actually stole engines and even the tires from IJN planes awaiting inspection for acceptance into service.