Kevin O’Brien The M16A2 was adopted by the Marines in 1983, and then by the Army in 1986. Shortly before its adoption, an Army contract analyzed the M16A2 — and found it all wrong for the Army. This is the second of a three part series. In the first part, yesterday on WeaponsMan.com, the Army contractors noted the specific solutions …
The previous two stories set the stage, for a look at a report drafted for the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences the Army was still pursuing the “best” (an upgraded M16 meeting all Army objectives) instead of the “good” (the M16A2, which was developed and revised to meet Marine objectives). Of …
Hmmm… It’s time to think about the coming year’s movie reviews. Yep, we plan to keep doing them. Well, we’re going to watch movies anyway, and going to write anyway, so why not write about the movies we watch? We’ve broken down the list into three parts, 2016 movies we still haven’t seen, 2016 movies …
Tom Scott is an engaging young Briton who gives you an occasional video — hundreds of them, and counting — under the titles Things You Might Not Know and Amazing Places His entire YouTube Channel, which so far as we know — we have not seen all the videos by any means — has little …
The M16A2 was adopted by the Marines in 1983, and then by the Army three years later, but all of its development was done, largely on a shoestring, by the Marines. For example, the finger bump on the A2 pistol grip? The very first prototype was built up by a Marine officer on an A1 …
A Mohammedan act of worship took place in a Christian house of worship over the weekend, with a devotee or devotees of the current manifestation of the moon god Baal conducting the faith’s highest sacrament, to wit, human sacrifice. ABC News: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Monday that a suicide bomber caused the blast that …
Buses in Asia don’t need to “plunge” any more. They can just carom into a retaining wall, and still run up a horrific death toll — 14 dead and 16 injured. The horror crash took place at 4am local time today in Muar, outside Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. As many as 25 firefighters …
Last Tour d’Horizon of 2016, which conveniently ends on a Saturday. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. That’s Not an Auction, Mate. This is an Auction: Rock Island’s next Regional Auction is going to take place Feb. 16-19. Why four days, when past auctions have been two or occasionally three? Ten thousand …
Two kinds of golf clubs, actually: the attempted-murder weapon was a golf club, probably an iron, and the crime scene was a golf club too, specifically the Indian Creek Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas, and even more specifically, the putting green of the 16th hole. As a foursome was winding up their putting on Friday, …
Behind this 1990s interface lurks more information on Hungarian small arms that you can find anywhere else — online or off. For some reason, people don’t think about Hungary when they think about European small arms. Maybe it’s because most of Hungarian history has taken place under somebody’s boot-heel or the other, like the Habsburg …