Category Archives: Military

Segways used for sniper target practice.

Segways used for sniper target practice | The Firearm Blog.
Right on!  A good blog, to boot.

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Fearless to the end.

Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth
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This is not going to go well…

Yeah… This.

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An individual member of Congress should not have better records than the nation’s premier intelligence agency.

Bob Graham talks turkey about intelligence:
“The unanimous conclusion of our nine members, Republicans and Democrats, was that it is more likely than not that such a weapon will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere before year-end 2013. “

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Link dump!

Warning, this one is going to be large and varied, folks.

Fighting for the right to clone – It’s rough out there, in the science world.  Hopefully America becomes much more science friendly, soon.
Do not fuck with Chinese shipping – Let this be a warning to you, pirates.
Worthwhile reading – On self defense ammo.
Fresh tomatoes and [...]

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Bush lame duck is the most delicious kind…

I hate to link to op-eds… I especially hate to do so with hyper opinionated rags. *cough NYT cough* But here it is. Accurate as hell, and documented. As Eron has said many times… McCain is a gray wearing a human suit. Think Edgar in MiB.

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Stupid international tricks.

I’m hardly jingoistic, but for the dub of dawg, can people resort to a little less bluster on the international scene? For instance, a Viking S-3 has navigation issues, and all the sudden Venezuela thinks they can, “confront them (the US) and to cover all of our airspace“. Really?
Really?  ‘Cause you’re all [...]

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The day is finally here!

Yes, my exoskeleton is here! With armor and camo!

Bow to your new gods, unassisted human scum!

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Name change. Link dump.

Well, we’ll be changing to tasteslikeangry.com soon enough.
Really. A bit stronger of a brand…
Sweet Home Alabama – Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir. Soundtrack for tonight.
Worldwide Telescope – (Save As) Something so damn awesome, and they can’t deliver a better speech than this?
Work/Life Balance – An architect’s space.
Food Wars -Especially grim considering [...]

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This is NOT going to buff out.

Very equivalent to your first carrier or freighter loss in EVE.     B-2 crashes in Guam.     How bad do you have to feel when you crash 1.2 billion USD?

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IED Hunter

Crikey, is that sum det cord? The IED Hunter wrestles some high explosives right into submission.

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Lasers? On my battlefield?

Imma chargin meh lazer! On a more serious note, 8 weeks and they got it to fit on a HMMV. Nice!

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Bush visits injured veterans (photos).

An extremely good photo series, if a bit hard to watch in places. Bush clearly is uncomfortable in some of these pictures, but again, who wouldn’t be? Aside from the self-righteousness I feel from seeing Bush uncomfortable with the results of the war, I was struck by how much the veterans were clearly [...]

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Mmmm. Pain gun.

Yes, I know.   It’s the Daily Mail.   I know, but… Firsthand reports from the pain gun, er… Silent Guardian.

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Doomsday machines and reflections on a nuclear era.

Good piece from Slate about the largely-ignored, still targeted nuclear inventory.   On both sides.

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Electric destroyers.

That HMS Daring is one bad-ass mother…. Shhh, shut your mouth.   I especially love the electric propulsion system.  

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More than one way to board a helicopter.

I just can’t stop watching this… I mean, it stands to reason, right?   Helipcopter SpecOps Extraction

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Spotting snipers before they shoot.

Wow.   Infrared scanning lasers that use backscatter to detect sniper scopes, or even retinas.   Check the video.  

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This is a shock?

Kids as cover for suicide bombings. This is not new.   Snipers in Mogadishu piled women and children on top of them as a deterrent to being countersniped.   Personally, once you’ve done that, you give up any and all moral high ground you may have had.   Welcome to the new way of war…

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I shake my head every day…

…thinking of how much the real world today seems like the Cyberpunk 2020 campaigns I used to run… private armies, nicotine sticks… the list goes on and on.

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Drones shrinking, getting more deadly.

360 degree situational awareness, C4-packing sniper killers…   The Mossad is going to love these, I tell you…

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The Rules of Gunfighting.

Good basics, from Kilohertz.

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One word, bitches… “Bechtel!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel
Fuck YEAH!..   I would hire them!   Look at that darned pedigree!

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It is finally OUT!!!

This documentary about private security personnel in Iraq is finally out.   Looks very interesting just ordered it myself.
 http://www.shadowcompanythemovie.com/

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This Scares Me

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/15/wmex15.xml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/20/151654.shtml
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200608/SPE20060821a.html
I just listened to a clip from the sheriff in Zapata County TX, and that guy sounds like he knows more of what is going on with “homeland security” then all the Washington types running the country.
If you really want to ruin your sleep; the border patrol admits to catching less then 1/10 that cross. [...]

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