Being the son of a career Navy man and the father of a Marine due to deploy to the Middle East sometime this year, I found this post to be great: 9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on “pucker factor” than the inherent accuracy of the gun. 9.5 Use […]
This story should have some interesting follow-up: Federal authorities are investigating why a military rocket traveling about 600 mph crashed into a building at a Tulsa apartment complex Thursday evening. Jeremy Isbell, who lives at the Canyon Creek Apartments, 2102 E. 51st St., said he was told by a federal investigator that the rocket came […]
The Ukrainian Army that is: I think that our own armed services could learn a thing or to from this ad. And if that wasn’t enough incentive for Ukrainian guys, check out this photo. Hat tip to Instapundit. ..bruce w..
There is a special place in my heart — and, I suspect, that of most geeks of a certain age, not to mention virtually every pilot who has ever flown — for the famous SR-71 “Blackbird” spy plane, the fastest publicly acknowledged plane that has ever flown (though see Henderson’s posting on possible classified replacements). […]
Angelina Jolie, who has been doing humanitarian work in Iraq, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times that says: the surge is helping the UN’s humanitarian efforts and that she’d like the troops to stay: During my trip I also met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has announced the creation of […]
The Pentagon is confirming that they got a good hit last night against USA 193, also known as NRL 21; a crippled intelligence satellite. While we await a better quality version of the video to be available from the DoD, take a look at this wonderful computer rendering of the shot and the break up..
![Shooting Down USA 193 – My Best Guess [UPDATED]](http://andstillipersist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/usa-193-paths.gif "Shooting Down USA 193 – My Best Guess [UPDATED]")
[02/19/08 – 0944 PST — Henderson here – Looks like they are going to take the shot early Thursday AM GMT, I am on the road at the moment but if I have time I will post a follow up with the new target solution in graphic glory, as well as a run down on […]
Thanks to co-worker and friend Rob Wade for sending me this great video of someone getting a back seat ride in an F/A-18. During my days in the “short haircut club for men” we would sometimes take people up in the back seat of our RF-4B’s, though most frequently it happened when we were outside […]
The DoD has begun to discuss high level elements of a project to build a hypersonic UAV system, currently working under the name Falcon Blackswift. The details that have emerged thus far are quite tantalizing. From Wired: According to the few details available on Blackswift, Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works shop is the main contractor […]
Getting perspective
Here and elsewhere, I have decried the deliberate or inadvertent lack of historical perspective on current problems, particularly with regard to things military, and especially among the mainstream media and the Left. I come from a family with a strong and long history of military service and am myself a student of military history. My […]
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