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I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO. The Glock 23 Is an Excellent Pistol and I Am Not a Fan of the.40 S&W Cartridge It Fires.
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (807+ words) Glock 23: Same compact frame as a Glock 19, 13+1 rounds, a striker-fired action with few moving parts, and thirty-six years of continuous production behind it — which means holsters, sights, magazines and triggers are everywhere and cheap. Owners routinely report tens of thousands…...
On April 26, 1971 an SR-71 Blackbird Flew More Than 15,000 Miles in 10 Hours and 30 Minutes With 5 Aerial Refuelings. The Limit Was Not Fuel, Not the Engines, and Not the Crew. It Was 212 Liters of Liquid Nitrogen.
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (515+ words) The SR-71 Blackbird fuel tanks were bare titanium with no bladders — nothing in the 1960s survived the heat. Nitrogen filled the space above the JP-7 so there was no oxygen left to ignite....
A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus Boom Jammed in the Receptacle of an F-22 Raptor 100 Miles Off Virginia on July 8, 2025, Struck the Tanker After the Aircraft Separated, and Broke Off Into the Atlantic. The Air Force Put the Damage at $9,980,000.
6+ hour, 23+ min ago (684+ words) On May 12 the Air Force and Boeing announced a readiness plan with an unusual first item: five early-production KC-46s that were not due in operational service until 2031 will instead be broken up for spare parts and test support. The Air…...
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Came Back From Every Mission 3 to 4 Inches Longer Than It Took Off. At Mach 3.2 the Titanium Skin Ran Around 620 Degrees Fahrenheit, So Lockheed Built the Panels Loose on Purpose and the Fuel Tanks Leaked on the Ramp Until Heat Swelled the Joints Shut.
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (791+ words) A SR-71 Blackbird sitting cold looked badly made — gapped skin, razor edges, fuel pooling underneath. It only fit together properly at 600 degrees and three times the speed of sound....
The German WWII Panzer VIII Maus Tannk Was Specified at 100 Tonnes, Redrawn at 120, and Came Out Near 190. Hitler Ordered 5 Before the Design Was Finished and Wanted 10 a Month. Germany Completed 2 Prototypes, and Neither Ever Fought.
6+ hour, 40+ min ago (547+ words) The Soviets found both Maus tank wrecks, took the good turret off one and the good hull off the other, and welded them into a single working tank. It is still on display....
The F-111B Was Supposed to Be a US Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.
17+ hour, 58+ min ago (485+ words) McNamara ordered the Air Force and Navy to buy the same aircraft to save money. The two services needed opposite things, and the compromise could not land on a US Navy aircraft carrier. That's why the F-111B failed....
Over 4,000 Missiles Failed to Hit a Single US Air Force Mach 3.2 SR-71 Blackbird. Speed Was the Only Way to Survive as It Had No Weapons to Fire Back
18+ hour, 46+ min ago (1379+ words) An estimated 4,000 missiles were fired at the SR-71 Blackbird and not one hit. The complete story of the attacks, the fighters, and how speed beat them all....
The US Navy's New $23,400,000,000 Nuclear Trump-Class Battleship Keeps Getting Called Obsolete Thanks to Drones. Chinese Military Experts Just Tested That Theory Out
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (487+ words) The Trump-class battleship was ridiculed as a relic. The first serious technical argument for its guns came out of a People's Liberation Army naval academy journal....
Move Over, Patton: 276 Years Ago, Frederick the Great's Famous Line on Defense Is Still of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (412+ words) Concentration of force was the whole of Frederick's genius. The line is a warning against spreading an army thin enough to be strong nowhere, and it has outlived every war he fought....
45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (717+ words) More than 3,000 workers in Norfolk built the battleship USS Alabama around the clock and finished in 30 months — nine months ahead of schedule. She was decommissioned after four and a half years....