Science and Technology
Saturday Shorts
Apparently some form of sanity is infecting the International Olympic Committee. Its President, two-time swimming gold medalist Kirsty Coventry said: “At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins can be the difference between victory and defeat,” Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming, said in a statement. “So, it is absolutely clear that it […]
A gun topic or two
The ATF is still trying to say that arm braces on things like rifle caliber pistols makes them short barreled rifles. Guess they can also say why a rifle which reduces muzzle velocity and accuracy makes the rifle more dangerous? Ah, wait, it’s more concealable… which actually accomplishes what? IF someone is bent on […]
Monday Minis
Remember when it was found that some popular workout apps could potentially reveal unit locations? Well, it happened again, in a BIG way. A French naval officer revealed the location of the Charles de Gaulle, the flagship of the Marine Nationale, by publicly posting a run via smartwatch to the popular app last week. The […]
Floating Drones
Guess it is not a surprise that in addition to all the Air Force drones we hear about (think Predator and Reaper…the ones with cool names) that the Navy is quickly developing new ones as well. Given that we’ve known how to make stuff float for many centuries, and fly for less than two, you […]
New Grenades
The Army has officially adopted the M111 (and it’s practice counterpart the M112). May not sound terribly significant, but they are the first lethal hand grenades adopted since 1968. As many know, our standard M67 grenade works pretty well as a fragmentation grenade. Pull the pin, four-ish seconds later it goes ‘splodey, and sends out […]
Aerial shooting
Here’s a name I suspect very few of you may know. Meet Mr. William Dalrymple Maitland Bell, aka W.D.M. Bell, aka ‘Karamojo’ Bell, Mr. Bell is otherwise known as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, African elephant hunters. He was born too late for the real prime period of ivory hunting, but that […]
Top Aces
Top Aces is a “private military adversary” company that flies F-16s in exercises against regular Air Force and Navy units. Unlike typical aggressor-adversary units, they are flying highly modified F-16s which can successfully use a lot of the tactics and capabilities of modern 5th generation fighters in 4th-gen F-16 airframes. Reading the article, many of […]
High Tech Battlefield
In today’s world of gee-whiz wonder weapons and ammo, you have to be prepared to deal with all kinds of existential threats our fathers never imagined. One such battleground is in Ukraine, where the war keeps dragging on but which is dragging new weapons into public exposure, along with the counter-weapons used to fight them. […]
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