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80s operators
80s cops
80s guns
80s guns on 80s cars
80s tunes
80s drugs with 80s girls
80s, back when everything was as cool as you remembered.
You will never be a cop in 1980s Miami, banging hot chicks, not having to worry about your use of deadly force ending up on Youtube and selling drugs on the side
Your time on duty will never have a rad as fuck soundtrack
>>30423147
That carbine looks small as fuck. Is it pistol caliber?
>>30424051
Looks like it
>>30423082
1988 Infantry OSUT
>>30424051
It is CLEARLY a pistol caliber AR. Look at the magazine sticking out from under his hands.
>>30424051
That is a PCC - Pistol Caliber Carbine. PCCs first entered service back during the Indian eradication. Custer and his boys from the Cav had them.
Clear!
>>30423082
>80s tunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk
Just found this, my dad in the 80s
80's gun culture and 80's style.
Were the 80's the best time to be alive? It feels like I missed out on a lot of things besides the machine gun ban.
>>30424681
Fuck I wanna roll my sleeves but these uniforms just aren't made for it
>>30424796
>Were the 80's the best time to be alive? It feels like I missed out on a lot of things besides the machine gun ban.
Yes, sorry anon.
Born ~1974. I'm lucky, but wish it had been a few years earlier. Being a teen/young adult in the '80s would have been perfect.
After the '80s the '90s were a horrible letdown. The music was nihilistic, the computers sucked, we had that stupid first gulf war and then bombed the Serbs. Our manufacturing base went to China amazingly quickly. Political Correctness got underway seriously (it seemed like a joke people would grow out of, but it just got worse). White males became officially evil to the media and academia, and feminism took on its current, nasty form. It's amazing that you have to be pretty old now to remember a time when that wasn't the case.
I was just a little kid, but girls were so sweet and great looking in the early '80s.
>>30425155
I hear ya man. I was in when we wore BDU's and rolled them. Feels good man. Doing it with the new uniforms though? It looks... awkward.
>>30424756
Remember when there was a TV movie of the week the bad guys always had UZI's.
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>>30425368
Are they chewing Kaht?
Had a scan of an old gun magazine advertising this thing, looked like the 80iest fucking optic ever, can't find it now though.
>>30425400
Is there anything remotely close to the Bren Ten available today?
>>30425564
Sig 220 in 10mm would probably be the closest.
http://www.sigsauer.com/CatalogProductList/pistols-p220.aspx
There's Glocks in 10mm of course; but I don't think that's what you want.
Personally the STI Perfect 10 (a doublestack 10mm 1911 variant) is what strikes my fancy.
>>30425564
Delta elite and the RIA 10MM look sexi. But idk if they can take full power 10 Milli
>tfw been tens are like 3000+
>>30423082
>ywn buy a FNHB for $450 as your first gun
>>30425445
It's obviously dip you fucking virgin yankee teenager.
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>>30425564
>tfw Vltor is working on bringing back the Bren 10
>tfw its been years and they still haven't been able to get it to market
the Bren 10 curse is real friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI66MY231aY
>>30425938
It's like a /k/ vaporwave A E S T H E T I C S thread.
>>30425543
Kind of want.
>>30425938
>>30425987
A E S T H E T I C S
>>30425450
There's something aesthetically pleasing to me about the Calico. Maybe it's the fact that if I imagine hard enough, it looks like some sort of electric arc gun or a really precise flamethrower.
http://youtu.be/CnVf1ZoCJSo
>>30425987
A E S T H E T I C S
>>30425955
>not knowing what khat is
>not knowing it's like chewing tobacco with an amphetamine-like substance instead of nicotine
>>30425188
>Political Correctness got underway seriously (it seemed like a joke people would grow out of, but it just got worse)
How did it come to this?
>>30426164
trump kun you tease!
What I would give to see the glorious Soviet military roll over NATO and the American arrogant punks.
America has never fought a resilient opponent like the Soviet Union. Would have been the ultimate test of our mettle.
>ywn look this cool
>>30425543
This thing probably cost at least a grand.
>>30426235
You can see forum posting of people offloading them for 80 freedom-stamps back in 2005. They appear to have been comparable to bargain red dots of today.
>>30426244
They look like it but they were probably futuristic as shit in the day.
>>30426053
My god, it's beautiful.
>>30424947
>we still had an 18-division army
https://youtu.be/x1U1Ue_5kq8
>>30425269
https://youtu.be/lawk5PbYZuM
>>30424658
New Ghost recon lookin' pretty good
>>30426129
I blame DACOWITS.
>>30425543
IIRC you can find them on eBay
>>30426937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIs5StN8J-0
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>>30425785
The Delta Elite can take standard 10mm loads but IIRC not the stupid-hot Buffalo Bore stuff unless you upgrade the barrel. I'm looking at one for my next pistol.
>slim enough to CC because lol1911
>10mm because I live in black bear territory
>A E S T H E T I C as all get-out
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>>30424861
It sort of crazy that soldiers nowadays are decked out in plated and pads and shit we used to just roll around in long shirts with some suspenders.
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>>30425450
Saw one of those for sale the other day at a local store along with a Muzzelite
>>30427114
Black bears are giant raccoons you faggot. Talk to me when you have grizz tearing up your shit because it thinks you got grubs in you.
>>30426129
Wives of the Democrats tried to censor music because they were bored and thought they deserved to control society
Seriously.
>>30427463
I wouldn't trust anything smaller than a .44 magnum against a grizzly. Thankfully I don't live in grizzly country so 10mm is enough.
>>30426117
>US servicemen would be chewing sandnigger plants instead of tobacco
wut
>>30426190
>that mong in the middle
im laffin
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>>30423147
>you will never be vice squad with a Hawaiian shirt, mustache and Uzi busting Coke smugglers and Colombians in Miami during the late 1980s
why even live
>>30426939
I wanna throw that on a bullpup and wear a black motorcycle helmet.
More pictures please
>>30427152
The size of that fauna
Shit, imagine the insects they house.
Would /k/ rather, inna-arctic or innajungle?
>>30427863
I'm not sure. Good fishin in the arctic, but good bush meat in the jungle.
>>30423147
>>30427682
Don't remind me, anons. I'm applying to several departments before I finish undergrad(Miami-Dade PD include). If I wasn't a minority I wouldn't even bother.
The 80's were pretty rad. Those 3-wheelers had an annoying tendency to tip over when braking hard though.
Why was 80s pop so based? Why does modern chart pop all sound like ghetto clubshit? Virtually every white female pop singer today is trying to sound as black as possible.
Why will I never carry an aging 7.62 REAL FUCKIN' NATO battle rifle in the 80s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCC_b5WHLX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41P8UxneDJE
>>30427463
>>30427615
>Livin' in barr country
>Not carrying .45-90 Express with the hottest load and heaviest bullet you can get
>>30423082
1988 Soviet troops in Afghan.
https://youtu.be/hs3k1gcMDzE
>>30428648
>barr country
Oh yeah.
Not everything was great about the 1980s...
Definitely need some serious firepower to deal with that.
>>30427142
The guys in that pic are pretty decked out in the period equivalent, PASGT. Still looks cooler than when we started shifting to the Interceptor.
>>30426939
Those fucking aesthetics make me rock hard.
This thread needs more falklands
>>30428808
9mm Tokarev for $239
My poor broken heart.
>>30424638
>join the army
>get told one day you might have to stand against the endless red tide that will most likely hit you with dozens of tac nukes the second it goes hot
>have your unit filled with IQ-70 apes with lips that no camouflage can hide that will shoot you in the back and desert the first moment they can
>>30428819
STAHP
>>30426129
Honest answer?
End of the Cold War (alleged Peace Dividend).
Democrat elected after 12 years of conservatism (Bill Clinton).
Maturity of Gen X generation into adulthood.
.... and most importantly....
...the Internet.
Whatever your faith or lack thereof, this is the undoing of humanity and the more organic life you see people living in the pictures of this thread.
>>30428744
Dang, that's badass.
>that cupronickel
>the VC
Young PFC back in 1988.
>>30423082
Based Pat Mac
>>30428831
>SOF magazine
I am fucking devastated that mag had to cut out all their merc work. It was unreal reading about them getting the first AK74 to the CIA, and user accounts from all over the globe.
>>30429046
Is it still worth it anymore? Do they just talk about the same dumb tacticool shit everyone else does now?
Imagine how the future must have looked for bored pumped up men with guns reading SoF knowing that things like executive outcomes existed in the world right now. "10 more years and I'll be a mercenary!"
Now it's all fallen apart.
>>30424861
That belt on the farthest away
>>30429063
Same tactical shit. It's worthless.
Used to be you could read about them testing the French exocet missiles, or fighting with the mujaheddin, or banana republics and one story I remember from an ex-marine and a British commando who just practiced basic fucking sense in cleaning their weapons and doing drill with the locals showing up some "speshul forces" liar who let his weapon rust and later tried to kill them after he lost his contract with the local warlord.
They even had a special arrangement and ads going on to fight in Rhodesia. I still have one of those shirts.
>>30428590
>80's hair
Why oh why can this not come back.
>>30429201
Mop head in Panama
>>30429201
I agree, much better than disgusting slutcuts of today.
>>30429226
What is a "slut cut?"
>>30429233
He means those skrillex hair styles, I assume
1982, my dad on way to landing in the Awali in Lebanon.
same year, chillin near Beirut
>>30425347
>that eyepiece is awkward
>top part is messing my hair
>the mike is itchy
>my feet hurt
>I wish I was home, having unprotected sex
>>30428590
>Why does modern chart pop all sound like ghetto clubshit? Virtually every white female pop singer today is trying to sound as black as possible?
Because it's "popular".
>>30428828
>>have your unit filled with IQ-70 apes with lips that no camouflage can hide that will shoot you in the back and desert the first moment they can
Don't be a cunt
/pol/
Shooting MGs as an 80s SEAL aesthetic.
I took this photo in front of the parking garage. Delta Force was manning the gate to the Papal Nunciature. Noriega was holed up inside.
Dec 1989.
>>30423082
FTFY
>you will never go to high school in the 1980s US
>you will never make out with your tomboy-ish cheerleader gf in a beat up Dodge on a hill with a view over the city
>you will never go innawoods with friends and retro ARs
>you will never be hyped when the Commando and Terminator hit the cinemas
>you will never buy cheap surplus
>you will never buy a mini-14 and a pack of cigars after binge watching A-Team from worn VHS tapes
>you will never live in a world where ALICE gear and ARs with iron sights were the top of the line gear
>woodland camo isn't a thing anymore
Instead we're forced to watch the horrific shit show that is 2000s SJW-progressive-modern-liberal-feminist culture. For fucks sake, even the original og hippies are tolerable. I just fucking hate this new wave "tolerance" shit that just breeds hate and divides people.
>>30424638
They look so fucking ready.
>>30429500
You just described my life growing up. I'm 1971 vintage.
>>30424051
>what is colt commando
>>30425257
Dat secret service on the left, back then they looked like someones dad; now they all look like hardcore operators.
>>30426220
shit, I had forgotten about denim painting my clothes in that stuff...
>>30427499
Thank God for Frank Zappa Dee Snider & John Denver for stopping that cunt Tipper
>After that her husband Al decided to go after the enviroment
>>30425564
There are a few. The ones that come to mind are:
Sig Sauer P220 in 10mm
EAA Witness in 10mm
Rock Island Armory 10MM 1911
Colt Delta Elite
S&W 1006
S&W 1076
Glock 20
There may be a few others I missed but those are all I could think of.
>>30429500
IKTF, shit would be cash
But instead
>be noguns in an anti-gun Yuro country
>be a kissless virgin loser
>economy down the shitter
>fag parades on the streets
>SJWs and cucks everywhere
>brown sand people roaming the streets
>>30429704
>except California
My sides
Dem staches
Dat civil service
>>30427142
Objectively, how many guys benefit from plates. Statiscally speaking
>>30425564
EAA Witness is the closest you'll get to it mechanically.
The 1986 FBI shootout. Very 80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1FoWi1nx0
>>30429709
>no mentioning that they're Korean
>>30429709
"In Canada call somewhere in Toronto..." for a Daewoo K1 or K2. Stupid liberals and their undemocratic prohibited oic classifications.
>>30429996
1:19:00 for action my friends
a few mins earlier if you want tension/buildup
>>30429500
>>you will never make out with your tomboy-ish cheerleader gf in a beat up Dodge on a hill with a view over the city
Why live?
I need to go listen to some Bruce Springsteen now.
Anyone got that picture of the Royal Marines before they leave GB heading to the Falklands?
There's one guy in the pic doing the tough guy with a knife and several missing teeth in his mouth while the rest is smiling/laughing
>>30426980
Hand over the muzzle. Fucking cherry.
>>30424051
look at the clip it looks like a 9mm
1980s Red Army anyone?
>>30425257
That guy had a huge head
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>>30426967
Were these taken during the repatriation of Cuban workers after the invasion of Grenada?
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>>30427199
Is this in Grenada?
>>30432804
Yeah its Grenada, dunno about the repatriation.
http://www.pbase.com/olyinaz/urgent_fury_grenada
>>30429900
>those old school nigger beaters
We need to bring those back. The collapsable batons are for fags.
>>30427119
I wonder if they could hear after touching that thing off?
Would you be willing to give up modern comforts and the internet and go to the 80's?
>>30433368
Only if I could shoot commies with an M16A2.
>>30429693
>I'll never own and carry a P7
>Why bother living
>>30428590
Is that Chris Pratt with the GPMG?
>>30433773
That's Harry Macklin, Bert's uncle.
>>30431667
I want to read about the "wild mook".
Mook is a terribly underused word these days.
My stepfather
>>30426190
>the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore
It's just not fair.
>>30428831
>SAS Smock
That looks boss. Wonder if there's a modern equivalent in DPM?
>>30429285
>$180.00
Just kill me now. I don't want to live in 2016.
>>30428831
yeah i remember that photo. had to buy the afrika korp field marshall hat after seeing this.
wore that hat everywhere...even risked my life to retrieve it after it blew off on a shear cliff in the mountains...buddy said that was the bravest/dumbest thing he ever saw watch me crawl out to get it, never occurred to me to leave it behind.
hats is on permanent retirement status now.
>>30429693
in a world of compromise...some men don't.
>>30429233
probably undercuts.or whatever else is fashionable now.
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>>30427682
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dUbtrTU-1U
Back when Germany still had a spine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOEfDzhhxKw
>>30424756
>ugly yet endearing submachineguns just aren't a thing anymore
Just fuck my carbines up, dude
>>30435595
https://youtu.be/sh9bu4iGRXU?t=134
>>30425987
Synthwave is fine too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM18Tn1VaT0
>>30429454
Carry Handle optics are aesthetic as fuck
>>30434734
They certainly made the Olympics interesting.
>>30429900
muy macho
>>30429128
SOF was one of the greatest magazines a man read back then. They might as well not exist these days.
>tfw you lost your Guns & Ammo magazines from the eighties moving
>>30426190
Keep crying Ivan.
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>>30426953
those fucking glasses mhmmm
>>30426190
With less than 5 days worth of logistics? Soviets weren't into resupply.
>>30425564
we should make a /k/ approved handgun list for 10mm like the other two that we already have, also can anyone point out any handguns on the market currently that can take a steady diet of 10mm without something breaking?
i don't want this thread to end.
i'm browsing slowly just to enjoy it more.
i wish i could've been an 80's DEA agent.
>>30435783
Pic is from John Freemann.
>>30427119
Wait, what is that guy in the middle using?
>>30440366
looks like a javelin
>>30440366
An M47 dragon I think?
>>30440375
The Javelin was made in the early 90's. Which is why I ask.
>>30440380
Yeah, looks like they were lugging lots of them around Grenada.
>>30440366
Dragon.
>>30435695
I'm not sure if im describing it right but DOSE TV GRAPHICS.
I love that shit. So comfy.
>>30440394
Just like the m16a1 bipod the bipod for the javelin seems to have disappeared. Is this the case?
>>30429500
I went to high school in South Dakota in the 90's, which means I went to high school in the US in the 80's.
>make out with your tomboy-ish cheerleader gf in a beat up Dodge
It was a beat-up '66 Chevy pickup
>you will never go innawoods with friends and retro ARs
There weren't many woods, but we def went into them with retro ARs and everything else.
>you will never be hyped when the Commando and Terminator hit the cinemas
No, but at least my 3rd grade teacher would play the Top Gun theme on cassette tape if we were good.
>you will never buy cheap surplus
Personally, no. But I watched my dad buy 100 Chinese paratrooper SKS's when they were $90 a piece and resell them all in under 6 months. I also remember when Russian Makarovs were $35 and 9x18 ammo was a penny a round. I was eating 80's MREs on camping trips well into the 90's.
>you will never buy a mini-14 and a pack of cigars after binge watching A-Team from worn VHS tapes
I bought Vietnam-era uniforms from the thrift store (back when they always had that shit) after watching Tour of Duty...no VHS needed.
>where ALICE gear and ARs with iron sights were the top of the line gear
Actually, I did. Shit, when I was a kid we'd still playing in WWII gear -- helmet liners, aluminum canteens, wood handled e-tools...
>woodland camo isn't a thing anymore
You still see it at deer camp.
>>30440549
>80s mres.
The dark brown ones almost blackish?
Who /unironically enjoys 80's pop/ here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5nxWZwhBA
>>30440576
I pretty much enjoy all music except yuro techno (german mostly), ska and punk.
>>30440562
Yep. Beef stew was my favorite. They also taught me what Chicken Ala King was. Last 80's MRE I remember eating was from 1988, and I ate it in 1995. I don't remember what dinner...probably frankfurters. I still have a bag somewhere of matches I had saved from back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGiOvubmnX4
>>30440549
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6fcd--354
>>30440628
...and for your girlfriend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFXmkbj5BY8
>>30435274
yea there is, the standard smocks these days incorporated the older SAS smock design. . also level peaks make a swish as fuck one for spec ops personnel
I realise the SAS in gas masks were a bit of a meme, but fuck if they didn't look cool.
>>30440950
That's a real Argentine nightmare right there.
ARGIE FUCKING SHITS
Meanwhile in the Soviet Union...
>>30441058
I preferred the Daytona to the Testarossa
Say hello to retardation level hard.
>>30423082
Jungle Operations 1988
>>30440950
>this is 10/10 in the UK
>>30440835
I want to build this
>>30440518
>VHS graphics
http://youtu.be/A5bs6epOYLw
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>>30431667
That watch is now worth shit ton of money.
I hope the guy still has it.
>>30440028
>i don't want this thread to end.
Same.
Sticky it and let it flow forever.
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