Himself. If you take that question the wrong way, you’re thinking who is this bozo to diss Saint JMB? But we’re not putting the emphasis on the JMB side of the sentence, but the What’s so special? end. As in: we really want to know. Why is this guy head and shoulders above the other great designers of weapons history? What made …
It’s instructive, sometimes, to see how different agencies react to lean budgetary times. Some go into hibernation. Others flare up like a box of flaming mortar increments — or, to continue the animal analogy, like salmon on their fatal trip upstream to reproduce. And then, as we will see, “hardships” for government workers are seldom …
The dean of our German scientists, Dr Ing Wernher von Braun. In the Alistair MacLean novel Ice Station Zebra, and indeed in one of the scenes preserved in the necessarily snappier film adaptation, the British scientist (portrayed by Patrick McGoohan, not playing a spy for a change) observed: The Russians put our camera made by our …
Using gravity: US Air Force tandem jumpmaster and jumper, and photographer, at terminal velocity. (The line is to a drogue that stabilizes the tandem pair). Beating gravity: A Delta rocket at sunset, launching an Italian geospatial-information satellite from Vandenberg AFB, in June 2007. (Technically, of course, a satellite launch too uses gravity, according to equations …
The Armory Blog had a “pretty cool” graphic that purports to show what country uses what weapon. It would, indeed, be “pretty cool” if it was correct. As they said: Here’s a pretty cool map of the rifles used by all the various militaries around the world. Guess which rifle is used the most around …
The official DOD press release misrepresents the cause of death for two SF soldiers and one SF support soldier who died last week in Gardez, Afghanistan. They died Sept. 21, at Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with small arms fire while conducting range training in Gardez, …
The title of this post isn’t just a truism; it’s a statement the District Attorney made in the trial of a New Hampshire man who shot a young hunter from out of state on the first day of deer season in 2011. It’s a story with several endings, all sad ones; nobody has suggested that …
Sebastian at SNBQ (aka PA Gun Blog) points out the some bloggers out there are giving people legal advice that could very well land them in Cold Stone College on the long course. Everybody we know who’s ever been to prison (most of whom were either helping keep the denizens on ice, or dropping new …
You’d think the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, which is reflexively anti-gun and particularly hostile to noncriminal gun owners, would be a natural ally of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still so-called despite losing much explosives authority to the FBI some years ago). But the J-S has reported extensively on ATF conduct in its …
OK, this is only sort-of weapons related, but it’s right in the mainstream of our Special Forces history. This website is an unofficial recruiting information page for National Guard Special Forces. The NGSF is one of the best little secrets of the US military. It lets someone join and serve in one of the most …