dfff7f No.663854
Cretaceous Titanosaurs were not only the largest land animals to ever live, not only greatly surpassed their, previously thought as the biggest, late-Jurassic sauropod relatives in terms of mass but also had extremely convenient flat-back and broad flanks.
What would you mount on them?
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385b68 No.663857
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21e183 No.663860
Remember how in WWII Hitler had an autistic obsession with trains, so Germany had those trains with artillery guns and tanks and shit on them for no reason? Like that except convoys of dinos. Just tons and tons of cannon.
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dfff7f No.663861
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b07477 No.663868
Wouldn't the feathers get in the way?
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21e183 No.663869
>>663868
My understanding is that only some species of theropods and the flying dinosaurs had feathers, and no others did. Mostly raptors, who actually evolved into birds, hence birds of prey are also called raptors.
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8d96ac No.663873
>>663869
You have that backwards. iirc Raptor in latin means thief, plunderer, and so the birds were named as such. Later, when it was hypothesized that the small dinosaurs could and probably had a similar behaviour, they were given such name. Only after that was the link between pirts and dinos discovered.
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dfff7f No.663874
>>663869
Other than that many titanosaurs had rows of osteoderms and hardened skin plates on their backs that could provide extra friction and attachment points for mounts.
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dfff7f No.663877
>>663873
>you are now aware that "rapator" and "rape" are etymologically closely related
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9bd03f No.663887
>>663860
Delete your post before the Magyar Trainautist sees it.
>>663877
>Legions of cloned Velociraptors trained to sprint into enemy territory and rape everything they see
If that doesn't spell 'terror weapon' I don't know what does.
>>663861
Should we really make it a manned system? A sauropod mounted drone installation would be able to mount a lot more ammo and hardware once you've cut the weight/space needed for a crew - it would also allow you to mount guns in other places on the beast, I kinda want to put a pair of 30mm guns placed on either side of its head. Maybe add some kind of pelvic flamethrower in case enemy manages to close on you and tries to attack from under the stomach.
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ae83f3 No.663901
>Not using the chad Theropods instead of the virgin Sauropods as a mobile infantry support system/ heavy cavalry
a battery of pack howitzers, Mortars or AA at a moments notice or a devastating charge with a shoulder mounted GAU 17. It's Chicken like movements present a natural flat plane for clear shooting
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07fb72 No.663908
>>663854
Something like this maybe.
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9bd03f No.663912
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>>663901
>It's Chicken like movements present a natural flat plane for clear shooting
It's like you've never seen a chicken before. Watch the vid, specifically look at its shoulders and spine. Those guns would be unstable in all three axes - with a slow rate of fire weapon your fire would be limited to 'in that general direction', and with something like a GAU the rounds are going pretty much everywhere except where you want them. You'd need to add a shit tonne of stabilisation to bring the accuracy up to anywhere even vaguely near 'reasonable' and that's all cutting into the cost and weight of the project.
>It's not moving THAT much
How many minutes of angle does it take to turn a perfect shot into a straight miss?
>Fine, so it has to stay stationary to fire
When was the last time you persuaded an animal to stay perfectly still?
>>663908
What sort of maximum carry weight do you think one of these dinos would have? They might do very well as (relatively) low operational cost supply independent transport vehicles.
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dfff7f No.663918
>>663912
Conservatively, at least their own weight before structural failure.
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26cd7c No.663934
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dfff7f No.663936
>>663934
Only coelurosaurs (that included T-rex and close relatives but not the vast majority of big carnivorous dinosaurs) were positively identified to have a common ancestor with proto-feathers (aka simple filaments that looked more like hair or quills than actual feathers) also later tyrannosauroids were found with scale imprints instead of any sort of filamentous structure. Closely related to coelurosaurs theropods like carnosaurs and megalosaurs had no positive evidence of feather while the third closest relatives, Ceratosaurs like Ceratosaurus and Carnotaurus, were positively confirmed to be scaled and having osteoderms on their torso.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnotaurus#Skin
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9972c1 No.663937
>>663860
>so Germany had those trains with artillery guns and tanks and shit on them for no reason?
everyone has been using them back then. brits and burgers just less because trying to transport whole armored trains by sea is hell.
l remember brits had some in colonies tho.
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9bd03f No.663956
>>663918
Fair point. The largest Sauropod we've found so far is estimated to have weighed about 77 metric tons - which is well beyond the point where palaeontologists start calling it a 'Titanosaur'. Which would make it heavier than a combat loaded Challenger 2 (the fat bastard of the tank family).
https://www.academia.edu/1504844/Speeds_and_stance_of_titanosaur_sauropods_analysis_of_Titanopodus_tracks_from_the_Late_Cretaceous_of_Mendoza_Argentina
Our best estimate for the speed of comparable species is a little under 5 kmph. Which would make it slower than a WW2 heavy tank going offroad. It's a good thing it could probably carry some additional AA gear/APS on top of its main weapons (assuming we're still weaponising it rather than turning it into a truck), because this thing is going to be a very easy target for hostile aircraft.
As each of them could carry at least 2 40ft shipping containers filled to regulation weight with a fair amount of weight left over for other functions (or to reduce wear and increase their useful lifespan) one of them could potentially carry enough kit to keep an FOB running for a while. A full convoy/herd would be large enough to warrant escorts, and could carry enough to empty a container ship. Maybe get a unit of Gigantoraptor mounted cavalry as outriders and to herd the convoy if they try to wander off and because which one of us hasn't imagined raptor mounted cavalry at some point in our lives?.
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4b1369 No.663958
>>663877
How fitting. Especially when it's a Greek pointing it out.
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dfff7f No.663959
>>663958
Greek equivalent is an etymologically closely-related anagram, rapax is the latin original and arpax is the Greek, both mean "grabber", later "rapator/raptor" in latin and "arpag(h)as" in later/informal greek (-ax was a masculine suffix used in singular nominative case becoming -agos, -agi, -agan, -aga in other singular cases and -ages, -agon. -axi, -agas, -ages in plural, therefore it's easy to see why -ax was dropped from general use in use of -agas)
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4b1369 No.663961
>>663959
I know raptor is from Latin, not Greek. I was referring to the fact that your old god took the form of a raptor in order to do some raping.
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dfff7f No.663962
>>663961
That doesn't say much. He also took the shape of a grazing ruminate, a filterfeeding waterfowl, a secretion-sucking dipteran, a cloud and even "golden rain" to fuck around.
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3c72f9 No.663981
>>663918
Where did the fourth leg of the mounting one go?
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210326 No.664002
Wouldn't they be more efficient as beasts of burden given their size?
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ef5553 No.664003
>>663962
>ywn go around breeding hot bitches while looking like literal golden water
why live
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db4026 No.664013
>>663956
>…and because which one of us hasn't imagined raptor mounted cavalry at some point in our lives?
I give you Jurassic Reich.
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cec510 No.664026
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9bd03f No.664061
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96c4f4 No.664103
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4f6c71 No.665255
Please don't use animals of any kind. They didn't ask or have a say in the retarded murder campaigns thought up by humans.
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907277 No.665292
>>665255
You say "murder" as if it's a bad thing.
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9bd03f No.665302
>>665255
Hey, if you don't want to use magically mutated guard dogs for security, arcane empowered horses as mounts for your raiding parties, or the new breeds of oxen that make Belgian Blues look weak as beasts of labour then that's your call - your tribe will be wiped out pretty swiftly though so your mistake won't last long.
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36e106 No.666490
I too used to play Dino D-Day.
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c6d3a2 No.666593
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c4d94a No.666646
>>665255
>They didn't ask or have a say
Neither did most humans throughout history, but nobody ever seems to give a damn about that. What makes animals so special that their lives are somehow worth more than human lives?
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c6d3a2 No.666686
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122344 No.667116
>>666664
>>666665
>underestimated wartime heavy industry shortages
>in /k/
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122344 No.667118
>>667116
How the heck did I mix up the images?
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2c4af3 No.667138
>>664013
>2nd pic
That is one happy dino
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00b0ea No.668701
>>667138
Of course he's happy, he gets his very own quad-linked rapid fire autocannons, and the Germanic flak-autists necessary to keep them functional. Wouldn't you be smiling if you had those things?
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511c04 No.668977
>>663854
What would you do when their feathers cause the gun to jam?
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068d6d No.669068
I gotta better idea.
Instead of one big dumb animal that no longer exists, and has no stealth…..use a bunch of smaller, smarter existing animals with good track records. Ride on a "raft" of Husky or other work-dogs. Since it lots of smaller units, you could get over walls and trenches that one big one couldn't. Put each dog on the end of raft pole and send them across or over. Ideally, you would have some wheels and normally it would only take two or four dogs to pull you and the rest of pack as they ride and rest, so everyone is fresh for action.
Naturally, all the dogs would be cross trained as individual pack dogs, recon, sentry, and attack, including suicide-vest mode.
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97564e No.669213
>>668977
Why would you not pluck your dinosaurs before attaching the equipment?
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644184 No.669980
How suitable would mosasaurs be for hunting refugee boats in the mediterranean?
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3fa3b0 No.669991
>>663877
Both of those are the size of labrador retrievers. Utahraptor was the only man sized raptor.
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3fa3b0 No.669992
>>669980
They were deep sea hunters eating giant squids like humpbacks today, wont affect surface ships.
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644184 No.669998
>>669992
What about trained Plesiosauria then?
They can peek over the water with their long necks and pluck niggers off their boats one by one.
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97564e No.670006
>>669998
That's going to be a long process, and you'd need a team of trained Dakasaurs (or similar breeds) providing a cordon to deal with attempted swimmers. Much more cost effective to just fire a torpedo - mount them on the Plesiosaur if you want to keep to the thread theme.
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42a8b7 No.670017
>>663854
>Sauropod
>not using Quetzalcoatlus
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644184 No.670154
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>>670006
>niggers
>swimming
>implying humans could out-swim large prehistoric blue water predators, let alone current day sharks
>implying the Plesiosaur will be satisfied after eating a single nigger
>implying the Plesiosaur won't remember the general shape and appearance of niggerboats and start to actively seek them out since they're such easy prey
>implying the drowning niggers/nigger pieces won't attract other marine predators, scavengers etc. once the Plesiosaur is done
>implying niggers won't have to arm themselves to cross the mediterranean
>implying Somalian refugees won't start threatening to board&capture cargo ships if they don't let the niggers on board
>implying cargo ship captains won't secretly hire PMCs and volunteer Streloks to deal with the problem should it arise
>implying Jews won't try to shut it down
>implying Dinosaurs will be marked as a hate symbol of the Alt-right with Greenpeace being ordered to exterminate the animals so the refugees can safely emigrate to Europe
>implying this won't lead to infighting and conflict among Eco-terrorists and Climatologists
>implying Russians won't hire madmen trainers to teach the Plesiosaurs to follow their ships for protection, then use sonar lures to lead them to nearby unescorted refugee boats
>implying cargo ship captains won't try and feed the Plesiosaurs to keep niggers away
>implying the EU won't experiment with attaching mind controlled Ginsu shark escorts to refugee fleets
Anything is possible in Clown World.
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97564e No.670161
>>670154
Shouldn't clown world be funny rather than depressing?
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96a8ab No.670168
>>669992
>they were deep-sea hunters
>literally just monitor lizards with fins that adapted to marine environments 150 million years later than plesiosaurs
Going to need a citation on that claim.
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9ad158 No.670190
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b79e36 No.670192
>>670190
How do you feel about hermit crabs?
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89a080 No.670202
>>670190
>>670192
Amazing. What's the sauce on these?
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8d96ac No.670206
>>663962
Most of the myths of IE peoples make heavy use of metaphor and symbolism to convey knowledge. This was known and is said in various pagan texts.
Regards
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8d96ac No.670207
>>670202
Seconds metal slug iirc
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644184 No.670240
>>670161
>hunting niggers with sea dragons in the mediterranean
>naval dinosaur eco-warfare
<depressing
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97564e No.670255
>>670240
Give me command of a unit of Quetzalcoatlus northropi mounted air cav and we're in business But actual air cavalry; with lances, sabres, and some kind of man portable AGL as a sidearm (firing a carbine on the wing at a moving target is not the best idea, your shot:kill ratio is probably going to be bad enough with sensor fused airburst grenades)
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644184 No.670352
>>670255
Man, it's shame there were no domesticated Tyrannosaurids back in ancient times.
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97564e No.670371
>>670352
RL really is one of the worst possible timelines.
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