H/T: Wynn John M. Browning designed the 1911 so that an empty cartridge casing could be used in a pinch if the spring plug was lost.
Category: Warrior Tech
Armed Citizen Corner: On the Rise
On The Rise The Globo-Homo’s are panicking at how fun and appealing these things are. Bottom line is they are afraid that folks will be reminded that an armed man is a CITIZEN and a unarmed man a SUBJECT!
AK Corner: AR-15 vs AK-47 Wood, Concrete, and Steel penetration test
AR-15 vs AK-47 Wood, Concrete, and Steel penetration test The 7.62×39 FMJ chews up most cover. One of the many benefits of having a big and slow .30 caliber round versus a light in the ass but fast .22 Calber round.
Mossad Pager Bombs
Lebanon: Pagers Apparently Exploding and Blowing Pieces Off of People At least eight people were killed and about 2,750 were wounded by exploding handheld pagers across Lebanon. We appear to have entered into a whole new era of bizarre warfare, where consumer electronics can be triggered to explode and kill you or seriously injure/deform…
Rhodesian Twofer
Archives, 2022 The Rhodesian Vest, Fireforce Style (a YBH tale) Fire Force: A Trooper’s War In The Rhodesian Light Infantry
Handgun Corner: Jeff Cooper’s First Article from 1946
Jeff Cooper’s First Article Here is a scanned copy of Jeff Cooper’s first published article, from the Marine Corps Gazette, in Sept 1946. Titled “What Good Is A Pistol?”, it discusses pistol training and caliber selection. Highlights: Cooper comments that the semiauto pistol be redesigned to have more slant and a slight curve — essentially…
The Modern Battlefield: Kamikaze Robot Dogs (No, I’m Serious)
Ukraine deploys $9K robot dogs vs. Russia with plans to use them as ‘kamikazes’ on the front lines Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. Ukraine is siccing a fleet of robot dogs on Russian troops, including some four-legged terminators it hopes to use to conduct “kamikaze” attacks on enemy soldiers and vehicles along…
4GW: Harnessing Insurgent and Narco-Criminal Drone Tactics for Special Operations
Harnessing Insurgent and Narco-Criminal Drone Tactics for Special Operations Editor’s note: This article is part of Project Air Power, which explores and advocates for the totality of air, aviation, and space power in irregular, hybrid, and gray-zone environments. We invite you to contribute to the discussion, explore the difficult questions, and help influence the…
Future Warfare: You Can’t go to War With Your Factory
You Can’t go to War With Your Factory I know I talk about the book Ghost Fleet a lot on this blog, but it seems every time I read an article about WW3 or China, I am reminded of something I read in that book! Think for a moment how much of a disadvantage…
Reference Library: CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual
CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Via: HSDL) This historical document was originally published by the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS; now the Central Intelligence Agency) in 1944, for use by OSS agents in motivating or recruiting potential foreign saboteurs. Agents were granted permission to print and disseminate portions of the document as…