Friday, March 16, 2012
Your hollow points just became obsolete.
That's right gun guys. Your favorite hollow point just became obsolete. Whether its Gold Dots or Rangers it looks like a new kid on the block might be worth checking out. I know I will. via Shooting Illustrated.
The initial goal of the EFMJ bullet was to provide a non-hollow-point projectile that would reliably expand without hydraulic dependence, yet would feed unfailingly in semi-automatic handguns. You see, conventional hollow-point handgun bullets need to impact a fluid-based material to expand. Bad guys are made of mostly water. As a conventional hollow point enters a bad guy, liquefied materials enter the hollow-point cavity and create pressure on the inside of the jacket walls. This forces the bullet to expand.Read the whole thing but I know I'll be taking these to the range as soon as I can lay hands on a box.
If the hollow-point cavity is clogged with some sort of material like cloth or dry wall, the bullet may not expand. EFMJ bullet expansion relies on mechanical force as opposed to hydraulic force. How does this work? The EFMJ bullet consists of a gilding-metal jacket surrounding a lead core located at the rear of the bullet. The open (rear) end of the jacket is crimped over the rear of the lead core, just like in a hardball round. The real difference is at the front of the bullet, where there is a void between the front of the lead core and the nose of the jacket.
Wanna buy a Me163 cheap?
Ed (thanks man! I thought you were punking me at first) sent me this ad on gun broker for a supposedly original Me163.
I almost hope this is fake....and if its real I hope a museum swoops in quick. We have to preserve aviation history.
See the ad for yourself here.
Air Delivery Unit training.
More pics of the new State Dept CH-46
160th in S. America??????
The caption to this picture is garbage!
That's a UH-60?.
Yeah...on steroids...that's a MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator. Stats via Wikipedia...
- MH-60L Direct Action Penetrator (DAP): US Army variant. Special operations modification of the baseline MH-60L, operated by the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.[81] The DAP is equipped with ESSS or ETS stub wings, each capable of carrying a M230 Chain Gun 30 mm automatic cannon, rocket pods, and various other armaments. M134D miniguns are used as door guns.[75]
After thinking this through I'm a bit miffed. Why is Special Forces doing a training mission in S. America? Convetional forces could easily do it and I thought that they were screaming that they need more man power????
SOCOM complains about not having enough assets in theater but then sends the 160th on a training detail to S. America instead of supporting the war effort????
This makes no sense.
Coverup: Marine killed by Afghan ally.
This is your Marine Corps and mine.
A US Marine was killed by a sorry, low down, bastard of an Afghan dog...and instead of being forthcoming, the leadership withheld the information.
Our Marine Corps is broken.
Via the Washington Post.
WASHINGTON — An Afghan soldier shot to death a 22-year-old Marine at an outpost in southwestern Afghanistan last month in a previously undisclosed case of apparent Afghan treachery that marked at least the seventh killing of an American military member by his supposed ally in the past six weeks, Marine officials said.
Lance Cpl. Edward J. Dycus of Greenville, Miss., was shot in the back of the head on Feb. 1 while standing guard at an Afghan-U.S. base in the Marja district of Helmand province. The exact circumstances have not been disclosed, but the Dycus family has been notified that he was killed by an Afghan soldier. Marine officials discussed the matter on condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation.Read the whole thing for yourself. My stomach is turning, I'm ready to punch walls and I would love to hear the explanation that the Corps has for with holding this info.
Time for some resignations. This is a force protection issue and violates the tenets of the Marines.
Mission accomplishment first.
Troop welfare second.
This mission in Afghanistan can't be accomplished so Troop Welfare becomes the primary mission set.
3 aircraft carriers off Iran. The new Yankee Station.
The Lincoln, Vinson and Enterprise....all operating near the Strait of Hormuz. We have the New Yankee Station...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Fighters heading to the Middle East now this???
Information Dissemination has a story out about naval movements to the Gulf in preparation for a war against Iran.
Additionally there has been rumblings about Fighter Squadrons on the West Coast getting orders to ship out to the Middle East in support of operations and supposedly one of the Marine Expeditionary Brigades Headquarters is suppose to be going down range to become MEB (FWD).
These movements are outside the normal rotation pattern.
Between the information that Information Dissemination provided, in addition to the rumor control about fighters and I do believe we're seeing the world line up for ANOTHER war in the middle east.
Additionally there has been rumblings about Fighter Squadrons on the West Coast getting orders to ship out to the Middle East in support of operations and supposedly one of the Marine Expeditionary Brigades Headquarters is suppose to be going down range to become MEB (FWD).
These movements are outside the normal rotation pattern.
Between the information that Information Dissemination provided, in addition to the rumor control about fighters and I do believe we're seeing the world line up for ANOTHER war in the middle east.
Terrible news from Cold Response...
Bjørnar sends the following (thanks dude)...
Norwegian C-130J with five crew reported missing - presumed crashed - during exercise Cold Response in mountainous terrain near the Norwegian-Swedish border. Norwegian and Danish aircrafts are assisting Swedish search end rescue units. There are unconfirmed reports of a Danish Merlin helicopter picking up emergency radio transmissions and that Norwegian F-16s has picked up "heat signatures". If accurate it could however be animals or other people.I hope the crew is alright.
If I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times.
Even training is dangerous.
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