lets get this rolling, faggots
>>34052376
>>34052328
>>34052328
>>34055726
Do you know who those guys are?
>>34052328
>>34055791
Blücher
>>34056038
It sank, so obviously not.
>>34056047
But it still exists
>>34056054
It says win, not obliterate.
>>34055848
>iraqi federal police?
>>34055791
>18000t Warship sunk because it was sailed within 1000m of a 40 year old defensive position
>not conducting even basic intelligence gathering before invading another country
>being so arrogant that you expect you can just sail up to a nations capital and take it hostage
>Germans
>good at war
>>34055419
Kekd
>>34052328
>>34058230
Germans are good at war, just not at sea.
>>34055902
idiot
>>34055791
The guns were also of German manufacture.
Just goes to show that Imperial Germany > Nazi Germany.
>>34059217
Sure, that's why they've won so many of them, right?
>>34059374
>>34059394
>>34059411
>>34059429
>>34055726
>top left guy pointing a rifle at his buddy
>>34059446
>>34059476
I wonder what level you have to hit in Battlefield to unlock that.
>>34052328
There's a reason the search feature exists
>>34026946
>>34052328
To be fair, it was 280 dumb planes.
Like, these niggas weren't joking around, they wanted that thing 20,000 leagues under
>>34059411
>>boy across the street picked up my yard
>>34055848
>>34057824
I don't remember the full story but it was covered in a Middle East General thread years ago.
They were a special forces unit who had multiple pictures of them posing and looking hard like in the first pic. And as the other pictures show, they subsequently surrendered to ISIS and were executed.
>>34059858
I don't understand surrendering to ISIS.
If my choice was get captured or die trying I'd give their tactics a real run for their money.
WHO WOULD WIN?
>A Japanese main battle fleet consisting of numerous capital ships, heavy cruisers, and destroyer escorts
OR
>A tiny American ASW force made up of destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers lacking proper ordnance
Who remembers this stupid piece of shit
>>34060041
>tfw the kamikaze attacks later on in the day did more damage than your entire fleet in your overly convoluted counter attack
>>34055942
Jesus I shouldn't be laughing at that.
>>34060111
>Autism Pistol
kek
Anyone have that dildo thread?
>>34060082
And my Most Painful Elimination of the Day goes to... the heavy cruiser Chokai for being taken out by the ONE 5in gun aboard the escort carrier White Plains.
>>34059769
pretty decent camo there
>>34059451
I recall a story my dad told me
>be innarmy
>Banter with best friend soon to be my brother in law
>Point gun at him and make jokes about it
>tell me to turn that shit away from him
>tell him to relax and try to prove the gun is empty by shooting upwards
>guns fires a chambered round
>my dad's face when
>>34059360
Name another country that took on just about the entire world and managed to last 6 years doing it.
Germans are (were) good at combat. What their shit at is geopolitics.
An American Tourist in Canada sent this letter to a newspaper up here
>I recently visited Calgary from Michigan. As a police officer for 20 years, it feels strange not to carry my off-duty hand-gun. Many would say I have no need to carry one in Canada.
>Yet the police cannot protect everyone all the time. A man should be allowed to protect himself if the need arises. The need arose in a theatre in Aurora, Colo., as well as a college campus in Canada.
>Recently, while out for a walk in Nose Hill Park, in broad daylight on a paved trail, two young men approached my wife and me. The men stepped in front of us, then said in a very aggressive tone: “Been to the Stampede yet?”
>We ignored them. The two moved closer, repeating: “Hey, you been to the Stampede yet?
>I quickly moved between these two and my wife, replying, “Gentlemen, I have no need to talk with you, goodbye.” They looked bewildered, and we then walked past them.
>I speculate they did not have good intentions when they approached in such an aggressive, disrespectful and menacing manner. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ they did not pull a weapon of some sort, but rather concluded it was in their best interest to leave us alone.
>Would we not expect a uniformed officer to pull his or her weapon to intercede in a life-or-death encounter to protect self, or another? Why then should the expectation be lower for a citizen of Canada or a visitor? Wait, I know – it’s because in Canada, only the criminals and the police carry handguns.
>Walt Wawra, Kalamazoo, Mich.
The two men were employees of an oil company who were handing out free passes to people.
>>34060041
Also at Leyte:
WHO WOULD WIN?
>US force consisting of two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and ten destroyers
VS
>a lone Japanese AA destroyer that doesn't even have any main battery AP ammo aboard
Only good write-up I have available, sadly: http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/99110-the-last-stand-of-hatsuzuki/
>>34060851
Sounds like every fake "Stupid tourist in our home" story ever. Right up there with the old "Navy Vessel and the Lighthouse"
Got a friend in Kalamazoo pd and another in Portage, so this one should be easy to figure out for myself, just check to see if 'Walt Wawra' was ever an officer.
>>34060923
Yup, got a text back.
Walt's real, but the story has been blown into leaf folk lore. Apparently even Calgary PD says it's bullshit as there's no way of knowing if the two employees were acting hostile or not. Because when have workers ever been known to cause trouble alone in a park with an older man alone with his wife...
>>34060957
It didn't help that he wrote a letter to Obama about Common.
Protip about Canada. When you write a letter praising god that you were unharmed is pretty much the fastest way to get ridiculed until you look like dumbass. All it does is make life even more difficult for gun owners up here by showing your paranoia autism. the gun grabbers use it to argue against conceal carry and ownership as a whole.
>>34060853
That's a really neat story that I've never heard until now. Between the USS Johnston and other Taffy 3 ships, the IJN Hatsuzuki, and the HMS Glowworm, I'm starting to get the impression that all destroyer skippers are madmen.
>>34055942
Faggots BTFO.
>>34059769
>Mars 2167
>>34061031
Well friend, let me tell you about Kalamazoo then
Fun name right? They even have it in a few songs because of how catchy it is.
Kalamazoo is a shit hole.
Basically, if you aren't downtown by the hospital on the land they bought up, you're in melanin rich areas known for crime. If he was Portage PD, then he was being a faggot. Kalamazoo though for 20 years, I'm surprised he didn't sink his teeth into one of their eyes to protect his woman before urinating on the corpse to try and word off the second potential assailant.
That Kalamazoo cop was being downright FRIENDLY.
>>34061199
>>34061039
"Well we have no armour so we're pretty much guaranteed to die, might as well go all out"
>>34061039
Destroyer and Destroyer Escorts are the Leroy Jenkins of the naval world.
>>34059476
>I like to see my enemies up close when I kill them.
>REALLY close
>>34059476
>You of seeings Ivan, when of scoping in with knife, you can of actual fight from longer distance.
"oi blyat, Pyetr you are of genius!"
>>34061455
>Unknown, but probably higher
>>34061039
Yeah, pretty much. The naval equivalent of a Napoleon complex, I suppose.
It always really saddens me that ships like Hatsuzuki have been all but totally forgotten by western historians. The IJN had at least as many crazy badasses as the USN, but unless you speak Japanese you never get to hear about them.
>>34061039
They are. Have you ever really thought about the Arleigh-Burkes?
They have no redundant safety mechanisms for the V-Cells. Which means any decent hit on those cells, and you're going to explode with the force of all the ordinance on board. Each destroyer is effectively an ammunition ship from WW2. And we've all seen footage from what happened when those were being strafed/hit by torps.
I would never serve on Burke in a million years. It's simply fucking madness.
>>34060064
I do, it's almost as funny as the LESS LETHAL device that some company was trying to shill to PD's.
>LESS LETHAL
>LESS LETHAL
>LESS LETHAL
Still laugh every time.
>>34060725
Was your dad less of a fucking idiot later?
>>34061512
Now repeat that 9 more times.
>>34061524
He went on to make Anon, so clearly not.
>>34061512
Good ol' Luigi "Twelfth time's the charm" Cadorna.
>>34060725
>letting your best friend marry your sister
>>34059451
>trust no one not even your squadmate
>>34061515
>that coked up black kid sure takes a mean pinball
>>34061694
someone shop this with Kurt Kobain holding the gun.
>>34055848
actors in ISIS propaganda, duh
I can't believe how many of you retards fall for that shit
>>34059217
The Germans were ahead of their time tactically and technologically, but I question the strategy of their leadership. They knew they were in a bad strategic position to fight a two front war against Russia and France, and yet they still made the decision to start a two front war against Russia and France.
>>34059899
Look at all the mags they had left. Fuck.
>>34061818
>That narrow track body and tall gun.
Could- could you somehow just, maybe... tip it over?
>>34061832
Read it and find out.
>>34061837
>...the entire land battleship toppled onto its side from the amense recoil.
Oh russia.
>>34060851
>fucking leaf talking shit about Michigan cops
*ahem*
R C M P
>>34061755
if you are referring to ww1, it's because of wilhelm ii who had a inferiority complex and wanted to show the german military might. The military leadership agreed because they thaught they'd be able to btfo france within weeks. What happened before ww1 - the fact that germany was surrounded by enemies - was something that bismarck always tried to avoid and would have never let happen.
>>34055848
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d5d_1390322550