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Ukrainians get some
Those sneaky b******s in Ukraine… If you had asked the world what chance they had against the full might of the mighty Russian military a few years back, I suspect that no one would have given them more than a few months, much less three years. With a boatload of surrogate help, they are […]
Fast-attack motorcycle units
Hah! Y’all are thinking I am losing my marbles ‘cuz I already wrote how the Rooshians were using these against the Ukrainians a while back. Well… there is some justification for that thought – just ask my wife – but this case is a little different. Quite a few derided the two-wheeler units as easy […]
Pro Palestine man shoots and kills two Israeli diplomats
Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, paced back and forth outside of Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC. Rodriguez approached four people leaving the Museum and then began firing. Two of the four individuals were Israeli diplomats, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who ended up dying as a result of the gunshots. Rodriguez entered the museum and […]
Forced reset triggers cleared to be sold
The Trump administration has cleared the way for forced reset triggers to be sold. One major precedence for this move involved the Supreme Court’s determination that bump stocks did not convert firearms into machine guns. Brady United’s president, Kris Brown, described this move as an abuse of power that undermines sensible gun safety policy. From […]
The dumbassery of a 747
Hopefully life won’t overtake this – I am traveling this weekend so writing is taking place early. We’ll see if what I do Tuesday lasts till Friday! Oh, Lord, everyone is making noise about Qatar’s gift of a luxo 747 to serve as Air Force One. Trump is hailing it as a wonderful gift: “So […]
Enough politics?
Well, tough. Today is updates. First up – Molly Kaptur of Ohio (a D) just won re-election for the 22nd time. I suspect she thinks of the House as a relatively low-stress job, as she has only introduced a whopping 5 bills in 41 years. (Ironically, the same number as of bills Trump has signed […]
Dominican Republic 1965
JeffLPH sends – this was the USS Okinawa ‘Family Newsletter’ from 15 May 1965. May not ring bells with many of you, but we got ourselves briefly involved in another hot spot then, half-way around the world from Vietnam. He notes that the deployment went so rapidly that they had trucks piling up on the […]
Not so critical
Back in 2021, the Navy said that adding hypersonic missiles to its weapons mix was urgent at critical: The service previously described it as a critical capability that needed to be fielded before 2030. Four years later….apparently it isn’t really. The U.S. Navy has halted plans to acquire an air-launched, air-breathing hypersonic anti-ship cruise […]
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