The Abode of McThag

 

Today is Veteran's Day! It is not Memorial Day, even if it is Remembrance Day in the rest of the English speaking world.  Easy to get th...

Even though the modern form of the Marines is actually from July 11, 1798, we celebrate their birthday from today in 1775. Happy Birthday to...

Thirty seven years ago the Berlin Wall came down. So did I. This is also the anniversary of me jumping, not to the back deck as planned, but...

  I can, practically, get scalable drawings of the entire W54 SADM nuke. I can't get the weight of the explosive filler in a 40mm thermo...

Way back in the OICW days, the idea of a grenade that air-burst just past the barrier the bad guys were hiding behind had an instant appeal...

File under "obvious when you think about it". The suppressor on the M7 and XM8 is necessary because the insane chamber pressures a...

It's interesting reading about the changes to the M7 rifle that lead to the XM8 rifle that are based on troop feed back. Almost exactly ...

A long while ago I stated remembering that the Army kept us, arms and ammunition well separated unless we were actually on the range and go...

UK calls up 95,000 veterans. They say it's just a drill, but I've noticed a couple articles about the normal British citizenry being...

Saw a compilation of military fails. One of them was a group of Marines looking in a grassy field for a missing suppressor. I remember durin...

Deserter's conviction reinstated! I can't believe this shit is still going on, nice to see resolution happening.

If we're going to count all the variations of the M1816 musket as a single service weapon, then we really should count all the variation...

Reader Technomad asks, "Why would the Navy adopt a different rifle in the first place? Wouldn't that complicate things?" Yes...

The Krag-Jørgensen was he official service rifle of the US Army from 1894 to 1903; until replaced by the M1903.  Nine years. The M14 was the...

The Soviets made an 8" howitzer too.  It was introduced in 1975 and it's still in service. The 2A44 gun is mounted on the 2S7 Pion ...

Pat Harrigan (R-NC) wants LEOSA style carry for current and former Special Forces personnel . He says he can think no finer group of people....

 

First, since the Department of War gets substantial exemptions from the evironmental bullshit laws... Let's build some nuclear power pla...