Tag: Military

  • Fat Kids Are A Threat To National Security

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    National security is threatened by the sharp rise in obesity rates for young people over the last 15 years, the group Mission: Readiness contends. Weight problems are now the leading medical reason that recruits are rejected, the group says, and thus jeopardize the military’s ability to fill its ranks. The solution? To throw some money…

  • M4 Barrel Profiles and Forward Assists

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    40mm grenade launchers are NOT easy to get, they are classified as destructive devices and require an ATF Form 1.  Unless you talk to ABC news, you’ll find out that not too many people have them. So why do so many companies make barrels with M4 profiles, if very few of us have M203 grenade…

  • Bushmaster ACR Field Strip And Overview

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    The Bushmaster ACR is sure a nice looking rifle, I just can’t stomach the price tag. Check out the videos for the field strip and overview: [youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUVsV4ejs8A[/youtube] [youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txoGAM-qoKA[/youtube]

  • U.S. Abandoned Position in Korengal Valley And Apparently Left Lots Behind

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    [youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsyNvgDvvQw[/youtube] Boxes of ammunition, mortars, rockets, missiles? Tons of fuel left in the tanks? How hard would it have been to put everything on a pile and blow it up?  I don’t buy it… My guess is the Taliban is just making that up to appear stronger. I do think its odd that…

  • Boron Treated T-Shirts For Stopping Bullets

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    Researchers at the University of South Carolina, collaborating with others from China and Switzerland, drastically increased the toughness of a T-shirt by combining the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third hardest material on earth. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with boron carbide, the same material used to protect tanks.…

  • Guns For Hire – Afghanistan

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    This aired a couple of years ago on Skyone in the UK.  It’s about private military companies in Afghanistan: [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7363637773800999021[/googlevideo] I haven’t watched it yet, but It looks promising. Anyone that has seen it have any comments?