|Deutsche Version||Plautdietsche Version|| By Dietrich Tissen and Nikolaj Tissen
January 22nd, 2005
Nuclear Test in Totskoye in 1954
In 1954 a nuclear bomb test took place on the training area near Totskoye, the explosion location lay only 50-60 km away from Neu Samara. On the one hand, further experiences with atomic bomb tests should be collected, in addition, an army practise should be carried out at the same moment, to train the soldiers for a tactical nuclear attac. At that time the army has still imagined, that the atomic bombs could be used as a tactical weapon, like the artillery. After the occurred atomic bomb explosion the area should be taken by the soldiers. At that time the Americans have also carried out several tests of this kind.
Altogether 45,000 soldiers from different army parts have taken part in the exercise. In addition there came another 600 tanks, 500 cannons and mine throwers, 320 airplanes and 6000 automobiles. As important personalities marshals G.K. Zhukov, A.M. Vasslevskij, K.K. Rokossovskiy, I.S. Konew observed the test, further there were the secretary general of the Communist Party 1953–64 Nikita Khrushchev, secretary of defense N.A. Bulganin and the nuclear scientist I.V. Kurtchatov present.
The nuclear test area should be so selected, that it is similar to the prospective deployment place in Germany, i.e. it should be hilly, wooded landscape. The previous tests were mostly carried out in a desert area near Semipalatinsk (today Kazakhstan). After "careful" investigation the military training area in Totskoye has been selected. This was already used since the end of the 18th century as a military camp and field exercise area.
After preparations of several days, about 380 km of protection ditches were dug, the exercise should take place on the 14th of September, 1954. Although there was in the beginning almost calm, the wind in northeast direction became stronger and stronger. However, it was still within the scope of the permissible as the carrier airplane started. At 9.00 o'clock the wind reached the speed of 20 m/s. At 9.33 o'clock the atomic bomb was thrown down from a height of 8,000 m and was detonated about 45 seconds later at a height of 350 m. The used atomic bomb had a power of 40 kilotons TNT (possibly 2-3 fold of the Hiroshima bomb). 5 minutes after the explosion the artillery and airplanes started to bomb the explosion place. Then after the demarcation of the radioactive zones, about 3 hours after the explosion, the soldiers marched on armoured vehicles from two sides, they should practice the taking of the hostile area after the atomic bomb explosion.
On a distance of 300 ms of the epicenter the ground completely burned out. Also in the other distance almost only stumps have been left from the trees. Within a radius of about 5 kms lying villages Makhovka, Olkhovka and Yelshanka burned out(the inhabitants were evacuated before).
Almost all soldiers, who had taken part in the exercise, had to carry bad health effects. Many have died later of cancer. Those, which had gotten quite strong dose, died already in the military camp in Totskoye of the radiation sickness.
Now to the effects on the Neu Samara settlement. As already mentioned a strong wind was there before the explosion, this blew after the explosion the fissure products and the cloud of dust, climbed up till a height of 12-15 km, away from the explosion place. A big part of the radioactive material has come down in an area of about 210 km length. The axis of this area ran possibly from the village Makhowka trough Yashkino and Starobogdanovka in the Krasnogvardeyskiy Rayon (district), and then trough Rozhdestvenka in the Alexandrovskij Rayon. The rest has been scattered about a wide area: even to Krasnosyarsk and Novosibirsk, thousands kilometers away from the explosion.
If one looks at it, on the map of the Neu Samara settlement, the in south and east lying villages must be mostly affected by the radioactive precipitation, so Kuterlja, Kaltan, Klinok, Jugowka, Klinok and Krassikowo. However, in the end all villages must have gotten some of it, because the radioactive dust was blown away later by the wind to other places also. An eyewitness from Kuterlja reports: all women of our village were occupied with the watermelon harvest on the field, suddenly the eyes were blinded by a bright light for one moment. A vague bang resounded and all women turn their eyes to the west. A big, black mushroom cloud rose up there, high up to the sky. "The atomic bomb, the atomic bomb!" all shouted in a mess. A strong wind blew sheets, branches, maps, scraps about the watermelon field. We marvelled all at the big miracle which eyewitnesses we were now. To a big oak leaf I wanted to chase after, at that time, because there were no oaks in our area. "Let this lie, we don't know what it is soiled with!" called Helene Schröder to me. I obeyed her advice.The high column disappeared bit by bit and we began to work again. (from "New Samara am Tock", "Kuterlja 1892-1992 - reminiscenses on selected deceased on the cemetery" by Katharina Nachtigal, nee Unger, abridged by me). One could hear and see the explosion still at a distance of about 50 km. The mention of the oak leaves is noteworthy also, at the explosion place there grew many oaks, the sheets must come from there.
The health effects on the affected villagers have been never examined by the officials. However, one knows that many have fallen ill with cancer later. So the already mentioned Katharina Nachtigal writes also that many people from Kuterlja have died of cancer, possibly as a result of this nuclear test. In 1997 a book about the effects of the atomic bomb explosion in Totskoye on the environment and the people in the Orenburg Oblast (province) was published. The of the government independent authors have carried out an investigation with different methods in the beginning of the 90-s. They have ascertained a raised installment of cancer illnesses in the area affected by the radioactive precipitation. Further one can go out from a damage of the genotype, what will affect on the descendants.


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On Friday, the public finally got a glimpse of the Air Force’s next bomber, the B-21 Raider. Northrop Grumman, who makes it, unveiled the futuristic craft on December 2 at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. It’s a cloaked aircraft, which means it’s designed for minimal radar signature. It is also said to carry both conventional and nuclear weapons.
The new aircraft will eventually join a bomber fleet currently made up of three different aircraft types: the legacy, non-cloaked B-52, the supersonic B-1B, and the flying wing B-2, the most direct of the B-21 ancestors.
Here’s what you should know about the B-21 Raider.
A look back at 1988
At the unveiling of the B-21, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called the new aircraft “the first bomber of the 21st century”. Among the bomber models it will eventually replace is the 1980s aircraft, the B-2 Spirit.
As Peter Westwick relates in his history of the elusive planes in the United States, stealth, two aircraft manufacturers competed to build the B-2. Northrop defeated Lockheed to build the stealth bomber, while Lockheed had previously beaten Northrop to build the first stealth fighter: the F-117. Northrop was awarded the contract to build the B-2 in late 1981 and launched the vehicle a little over seven years later in 1988.
The 1988 rollout event, Westwick writes, included “no fewer than 41 Air Force generals” and an audience of 2,000 people. “A tractor towed the plane out of the hangar, the crowd roared, the press took pictures, and then the tractor pushed it out of sight again,” he writes. In 1989 she flew for the first time.
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Today, the B-2 represents the smallest segment of the US bomber fleet numerically. “We only bought 21 of them,” says Todd Harrison, defense analyst at Metrea Strategic Insights. “One has crashed, one is being used for testing, and at some point several others will be in maintenance – so the reality is that we have far too few stealth bombers in our inventory and the only way to get more was, to design and build a whole new bomber.”
The new bomber
The B-21, when it flies, will join the old group of bombers. These planes, like the B-1, “are really aging and difficult to keep in the air – they’re very expensive to fly and they just don’t have the capabilities that we need in the bomber fleet of today and in the future,” says Harrison. The B-52s date from the early 1960s; once told a B-52 pilot popular science that being behind the controls of this plane feels like “flying a museum”. If the B-52 is officially called the Stratofortress, it was also called the Stratosaurus. (A likely future scenario is that the bomber fleet will eventually consist of just two models: B-52s, which get new engines, and the B-21.)
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For the B-21, the view the reveal video offers is just the plane from the front, a brief vision of a futuristic aircraft. “They’re probably not going to reveal the really interesting things about the B-21,” notes Harrison. “The most interesting thing is what they can’t show us.” This includes both internal and external attributes.
The public unveiling of such an aircraft represents a calculated decision to show that a capability is there without revealing too much about it. “You want to reveal things that you think will help prevent Russia or China from doing things that could provoke us into war,” he says. “But on the other hand, you don’t want to show too much because you don’t want to make it easy for your opponent to come up with plans and technology to counter your abilities.”
In fact, the way Secretary of Defense Austin characterized the B-21 on December 2 was along those lines. “The B-21 looks impressive, but what’s under the frame, and the space-age coatings, is even more impressive,” he said. Then he talked about his range, stealth attributes and other characteristics in general terms. (The War Zone, a PopSci sibling site, did an in-depth analysis of the plane here and interviewed the pilots, who will likely be flying it here for the first time.)
Mark Gunzinger, director of future concepts and capability assessments at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, says the B-21 rollout he participated in “was orchestrated very carefully.”
[Related: The stealth helicopters used in the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden are still cloaked in mystery]
“There were multiple lights on each side of the plane that shone into the audience,” he recalls. “Camera angles were controlled very carefully, reporters were told what they could and couldn’t do in terms of photography, and of course the plane wasn’t fully rolled out – pretty much exactly half of it was still in the hangar. so people couldn’t see the tail section.”
“The one word you heard the most from all the speakers during the presentation was ‘deterrence,'” adds Gunzinger. Part of doing that is signaling to others that the US has “commendable capabilities” but at the same time “there should be enough uncertainty about the specifics – capabilities, etc. – that they don’t develop effective countermeasures.”
The rollout of the B-21 ended with Northrup Grumman CEO Kathy Warden mentioning the aircraft’s next big moment. “The next time you see this plane, it will be in the air,” she said. “Now we’re putting this plane to bed.”
And with that, it was pushed back into the hangar and the doors in front of it closed.
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While military forces, police/intelligence agencies and interior ministries have set their sights on drones for missions spanning the full spectrum from terrain mapping to targeted killings, today’s unmanned vehicles remain reliant on human controllers who are often based hundreds, and sometimes thousands of kilometers away from the theater of operations. Consequently, although the use of drones substantially increases operational effectiveness — and, in the case of targeted killings, adds to the emotional distance between perpetrator and target — they remain primarily an extension of, and are regulated by, human decisionmaking.
All that could be about to change, with reports that the U.S. military (and presumably others) have been making steady progress developing drones that operate with little, if any, human oversight. For the time being, developers in the U.S. military insist that when it comes to lethal operations, the new generation of drones will remain under human supervision. Nevertheless, unmanned vehicles will no longer be the “dumb” drones in use today; instead, they will have the ability to “reason” and will be far more autonomous, with humans acting more as supervisors than controllers.
Scientists and military officers are already envisaging scenarios in which a manned combat platform is accompanied by a number of “sentient” drones conducting tasks ranging from radar jamming to target acquisition and damage assessment, with humans retaining the prerogative of launching bombs and missiles.
It’s only a matter of time, however, before the defense industry starts arguing that autonomous drones should be given the “right” to use deadly force without human intervention. In fact, Ronald Arkin of Georgia Tech contends that such an evolution is inevitable. In his view, sentient drones could act more ethically and humanely, without their judgment being clouded by human emotion (though he concedes that unmanned systems will never be perfectly ethical). Arkin is not alone in thinking that “automated killing” has a future, if the guidelines established in the U.S. Air Force’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan 2009-2047 are any indication.


We hear all the time about how a survival knife is a must have for any survivalist or prepper, but how do you choose the best survival knife for your needs? The best survival knife does not necessarily mean the most expensive, the best knife is one that fits your budget and needs.
You are going to see a lot of sites and read a lot of articles that focus on getting you to buy a knife that everyone else likes. You are going to be the one buying and using the knife, so instead of buying a knife because Dave Canterbury uses it, buy one because you know what knife you want and need.
Picking the best survival knife whether it is fixed blade or folding blade is like picking the best gun, everyone is going to have their own personal preference and what works for them might not work as well for you.
If you are more educated about the purchase you make, you are less likely to end up with something that just sits in your garage, or even worse, fails when you need it most. There are plenty of knock offs and even though two knives might look the same, they are not.
Just remember, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. On the flip side of the coin, just because it’s expensive doesn’t mean it’s a good knife.
If you have no idea what survival knife you might need, follow the steps in this article and buy a low cost survival knife that looks like the expensive one you like and test it out. Don’t expect these to be all that durable though, you are testing the weight, balance, grip and overall feel of it when you are performing certain tasks like chopping, slicing, batoning or whittling etc…
After you have given the knife a good test drive you will have a better idea about what you want, and you can use the knife as a backup or even a hand me down.
If this is a self-defense knife that hopefully never gets used you might be able to get away with a low cost sturdy knife with lower quality steel, that doesn’t need to hold its edge as well as the more expensive brands.
Anatomy of a Knife
Before we can choose a good survival knife we need to know the anatomy of a knife. A knife is more than just a blade and a handle, each knife has little differences that make more suitable for certain jobs.
Here is a list a few of the parts of a knife that we hear all the time…
The Tang: When it comes to a good survival knife a full tang is a must. A full tang runs the entire length of the handle and is sandwiched between the 2 peices of the handle, while a half tang (hidden or partial) does not. A partial or hidden tang runs the full length of the knife, but is not the full width of the handle.
A full tang will be much more durable even with a lower quality knife, and if the knife handle comes off or gets ruined the knife can still be used, whereas a partial or hidden tang knife will be unusable or very dangerous to use.
Blade Style: There are a few different styles of knife blade to choose from, you have the drop point, the tonto blade, the spear point and a clip point. Watch this video to get an idea about what the benefits of each style are.
Blade Style Infographic
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Handle Material: There are quite a few materials that are used for the handle of the knife, the most popular are Micarta, rubber, bone and antler. I prefer Micarta because it is lightweight and strong, but the blade is far more important than the handle.
Thumb Rise: A thumb rise is basically what it sounds like, it is located between the spine and the handle of the knife and gives you a more stable grip on the knife. These can also sometimes be part of the handle.
Spine: The spine of the knife is the unsharpened edge of the blade, or top of the blade. These can sometimes be rounded or sharpened, but I prefer a flat spine because it is better for batoning and striking flint to get a spark.
Bolster: This is sometimes referred to as a guard and can be part of the blade of an added thick piece of metal between the handle and blade.
Ricasso: This is the transition area between the blade and the handle. Not all knives have a Ricasso, but most do.
Pommel: Sometimes referred to as the butt of the knife the pommel is the end of a knife on the handle end. Some pommels are smaller, and some are larger and can be used for hammering or pounding.
Choil: A choil is a cut-out out of the blade (on the edge side) were the tang starts right in front of the handle. These are usually made to fit a finger when you are choking up on the blade but not always.
A choil that is made to fit your pointer finger is used for finer woodworking tasks and is not a make or break part of a knife, but it is one of those things that you don’t notice how much you use it until it’s gone.
Quillon: a quillon is part of the handle that keeps your hand from sliding onto the blade. On some knives there are front quillons and rear quillons, stopping the hand from going into the blade or off the heel of the handle.
Picking the Right Survival Knife
Now let’s get into the meat and potatoes of this article, choosing the survival knife that fits your needs. Think about the tools and supplies you have with you when deciding on the best survival knife.
If you plan on having an axe or hatchet with you then you might not need a large knife, you might need something for smaller tasks and lighter in weight, or a tonto blade might be ideal for slicing tasks because of its design.
Folding vs fixed blade: A folding knife would not be considered a “survival knife” in the typical sense of the word, a folding knife has a joint, and a joint is a point of weakness. The more stress you put on that joint, the more likely the knife is to fail.
Folding knives do have their place though, but they are in addition to a fixed blade knife, not instead of. Folding knives are also great for smaller tasks like feathering wood, and everyone should have one as an EDC item.
Steel Quality: This could very well be the most important part of a good survival knife, and it is what separates the $50 knife from the $200 knife. That’s not to say you can’t find a good quality knife for under $100, but just about every high quality knife will be made from Carbon Steel.
There are too many types of steel used in knife making to mention them all here, but this article is a good guide to all the different types of steel used and their quality characteristics.
Most knives you come across will be made from 1095 carbon steel or 440 stainless. Both have their pluses and minuses but carbon steel is almost always better because it holds an edge better, and sharpens much easier than low quality stainless steel.
Stainless steel will be easier to maintain because it will not rust, but the quality of the stainless steel will determine the quality of the knife. You will find that most knives are made from 440 stainless steel, but don’t be fooled, 440 comes in 3 different grades, 440A, 440B and 440C. 440A is the lowest grade (the cheapest.)
If a knife maker doesn’t state 440 A,B or C always assume it’s A, because if someone uses 440C (the best) they are probably going to want to tell you.
Knife Quality: When you purchase a knife don’t assume that because it’s a Gerber or an SOG that it is a good knife, all knife makers have cheap knives and good knives. Use the information in this article and do your research and you will be able to see the differences fairly easily.
Serrated vs full blade: This is all a matter of personal preference, some people like a partially serrated knife, some people like a top serrated knife and some people prefer a full cutting blade. Again, this all depends on how and what you plan on using the knife for.
Blade Length: Yet again this all depends on your needs. I prefer to have a blade that is no longer than 6 inches but no less than 4 because I want it to be big enough to complete large tasks like batoning, but small enough to feather wood to start a fire.
Knife Tasks: All of this is great right, but what tasks can you expect to be using your knife for in a survival situation? The short answer is more than you think, here are a few examples…
- First Aid
- Tool Making
- Fire Making
- Shelter Making
Knowledge is Key
In this article from Creek Stewart he states the following about the most important part of a survival knife:
“A survival knife is not a magic wand nor does it have inherent magical saving powers. The true value is in the skill of the one who wields it. Skill only comes from practice and repetition.”
The best and most expensive survival knife in the world is only as good as the hand that it is in. If you are just learning to drive you don’t need a Ferrari, and if you are just learning how to build a survival shelter there is no reason to break the bank on the latest and greatest survival knife until the need arises.
In my opinion the only thing more important in a survival situation than a knife is the knowledge in your head. You can literally make anything you might need in a survival situation with a knife…but only if you know how.
What survival knife do you like the best? Leave a comment below and let us know why?


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Rodman and the Courthouse Cannons
By Johnny E. Nolen
In the year 1841, Thomas Jackson Rodman graduated from West Point Military Academy; number 7 in his class of 52. His first assignment from West Point was ordinance Corps officer at the U.S. Army Allegheny Arsenal in Pittsburg, PA.
In 1844 he began working on the problems of cannon-barrel design after a 12″ naval gun exploded on the U.S.S. Princeton, killing Secretary of the Navy, Thomas Gilmer, Secretary of the State, Abel P. Upshur and almost killing president John Tyler. By the early 19th century most of the cannons were made of bronze like the one on the Princeton.
Bronze barrels cast with fewer flaws but were not capable of withstanding the high breech pressures that the larger calibers produced. Most of the barrels were cast solid then bored to the needed caliber. The alternate method was using a sand core and smooth out bore by machining. The casting cooled and hardened from outside, causing stress cracks. It was found in most cases that the boring process did not remove all the cracks, leaving gun barrels weak to higher breech pressures.
Rodman tried to compensate for this problem by wrapping barrels with wire or using bands like iron tire rims used on cannon wheels. Both methods lacked in uniform barrel pressures. Rodman’s new modified system of hollow casting replaced the sand core with an insulated iron pipe through which large amounts of water was circulated quickly. The barrel, as it cooled from the inside out, would cause each successive layer of metal to shrink upon the cooler inner layers.
The U.S. Army Ordinance department was hesitant to approve this process, thinking the design would cause steam to build up and cause an explosion. In 1845, after three trips to Washington and the approval of the Ordnance Department, Rodman entered into a partnership with the Pittsburg Foundry.
In 1849, Rodman produced two 8″ cannons that were identical in every way except for the method of casting. The conventional cast gun burst after 85 rounds of test firing. The Rodman hollow cast system guns were still firing in good condition after 251 test rounds.
In 1851, six guns on the Rodman principle were fired. 5,515 rounds and none failed. In 1859, the government approved the Rodman casting process.
On February 6, 1864, Rodman testified before the congressional joint committee. He was asked if he believed smooth bore guns within their range were superior to rifled guns, to which he replied “yes”. This answer put him on the wrong side of history on this one issue.
In the 1850’s, he also developed and performed extensive experiments with artillery propellants, which led to his greatest and most lasting contribution to ordinance engineering. During the 1870’s and 1880’s, many attempts were made to convert existing Rodman smooth bores to rifled guns, but new technology in wrought iron and forged barrels was becoming more common.
The overall attempt to convert Rodman smooth bore to rifled guns failed, but the smooth bore Rodman guns remained in service well into the final decade of the 19th century.
There are several 8″ Rodman guns at Fort Henry, which were installed during the Civil War when the fort was still operational. At the end of the Civil War, Rodman was investigated by a U.S. congressional committee on charges of “mismanagement” of the Watertown Arsenal near Boston, a clearly trumped up charge of “disloyalty.” Among the elements of that charge were his failure to order the firing of a salute when Lee’s surrender was announced and his lack of an appropriate “sorry” at the death of President Lincoln. Once cleared of all charges, Rodman was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General and assigned to establish and command the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois. (I guess politics will always be politics.)
General Rodman was still in command of the arsenal when he died in 1871 at the age of 54. He is buried at Rock Island National Cemetery.
In 1901, two smooth bore Rodman cannons converted to 8″ rifled guns were shipped to the Martinsville train station on Broad Street. The guns were dragged through mud and water by mules to the courthouse square and placed on granite stone mounts, flanking the Confederate statue. Because of weather conditions, this task lasted for about 1 month.
The cannons have been moved twice more from their original location where they were mounted upside down since 1901. The bores were plugged to keep “want-to-be” robbers from shooting the bank.
These coastal rifled cannons were made at West Point Foundry most likely after the Civil War and restored in 1885. They were placed at Fort Henry, Maryland until 1901 until finding their final resting place in the old courthouse yard. For more information go online to: www.myhenrycounty.com


Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, policymakers, and military officers to ensure that nuclear weapons can’t be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. At the heart of the book lies the struggle, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States.
While I’ve read books about nuclear power this was my first about nuclear weapons and woah. By all rights we should all be dead by now, maybe ten times over. There are two interleaving story arcs, one about the history of nuclear weapons from the Manhattan Project through the early 2000s, and another that covers a Titan II missile accident.
I had no idea that there were so many mishaps, mistakes, and close calls – planes holding H-bombs catching fire on the runway, nukes lost at sea, early warning systems that misinterpret the moon rising over Sweden has incoming ballistic missiles. I thought everyone would be behind more safeguards against human error because no one wants to blow up their town by mistake, but it turns out the military was largely against safety measures. A well-protected weapon requires more checklist steps and time before launch, and those minutes would be crucial in a nuclear attack.
The narrative structure is similar to Columbine in that two separate timelines are alternated – here the history of atomic weapons and a missile accident in Arkansas. I had never heard of the accident and didn’t know how it ended up so Schlosser’s account kept me riveted. It also serves to break up the history portions and keep the narrative fresh.
I listened to this as an audiobook and really enjoyed it. I had no problems with the reader and was able to push the speed over 2x, which is a help when the book is over 20 hours long.
My school history books didn’t do a good job covering the Cold War so Command and Control helped me reach a much needed deeper understanding. We should all know this history, if only to make sure we don’t repeat it.
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Only a handful of countries have aircraft carriers in their arsenals. They form an exclusive club, one whose members who have decided their interests stretch so far from their own waters they need to put air power at sea.
Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of aircraft carrier today: larger aircraft carriers that carry both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, smaller carriers that operate helicopters, and amphibious ships that have full-length flight decks, hangars, and carry helicopters. Some of the world's carriers are new, bristling with planes and capable of circumnavigating the globe without refueling. Others are a half-century old or older, carry just a handful of obsolete planes, and rarely leave base.
Here's a look at the world's fleet. Not surprisingly, it's dominated by the U.S. Navy, which boasts 19 of the 36 such ships currently plying the world's waters
United States of America
The United States now operates 10 Nimitz-class "supercarriers," aircraft carriers that dwarf all other flat-tops worldwide both in size and capability.
The Nimitz carriers are 1,092 feet long and weigh a whopping 101,600 tons—60 percent larger than their nearest counterparts, the Queen Elizabeth class. Each ship is propelled to speeds in excess of 30 knots by a pair of nuclear reactors, giving them nearly unlimited range. The ships are built with high-tensile steel for protection, with layers of Kevlar over vital spaces.
Each Nimitz typically carries an air wing consisting of 24 F/A-18C Hornets, 24 F/A-E/F Super Hornets, 4 to 5 E/A-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft, 4 E-2D Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft, 2 C-2 Greyhound transport aircraft, and 6 Seahawk helicopters.
In addition to the Nimitz-class, the United States Navy also operates nine landing helicopter dock ships of the Wasp and America classes. These ships are 843 feet long and displace roughly 40,000 tons. The ships are designed to carry air and land elements of a U.S. Marine corps landing force and have full-length carrier-like flight decks.
Each ship can carry 10 MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor transports, 4 CH-53E heavy transport helicopters, 3 UH-1 Huey helicopters, 4 AH-1Z attack helicopters, and 6 AV-8B Harrier jump jets. With minimal modification, each Wasp can carry 24 Harriers. The America class is optimized towards carrying Marine aviation units and can carry a few more Ospreys. In the near future the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter will replace the Harriers on a 1:1 basis, and the America class will be capable of supporting up to 20 F-35Bs at once.
Two new carriers, USS Gerald R. Ford and USS John F. Kennedy, are under construction, as well as an America-class ship, USS Tripoli.
Despite its growing military prowess, China has one just aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. She began life as the Soviet aircraft carrier Riga, but was never completed and instead sold for scrap to a Chinese investor whose stated goal was to convert it to a casino. Eventually the ship passed into the hands of the Chinese government. The government then spent more than a decade studying and updating the ship to modern standards before it was commissioned in 2012.
Liaoning is 999 feet long and displaces nearly 60,000 tons when fully loaded. She lacks catapults to launch aircraft, instead using a ski ramp to help fixed-wing aircraft take flight. Unfortunately for China, this cuts down the range and weapons payload of the ship's 24 Shenyang J-15 "Flying Shark" fighters. Liaoning's air wing also includes 6 Z-18 transport helicopters, 4 Ka-31 anti-submarine helicopters, and 2 Z-9 liaison helicopters.
China has a second carrier under construction and at least two more carriers planned.
Russia has one aircraft carrier on active duty, the Admiral Kuznetsov. The carrier was built in what is now Ukraine, and after an extensive construction period complicated by the breakup of the Soviet Union, was put into Russian service in 1991. Technically speaking, Kuznetsov is a sister ship of the Chinese carrier Liaoning.
Just over 1,000 feet long, Kuznetsov displaces 65,000 tons fully loaded. Her air wing consists of 18Su-33 Flanker-D interceptors, 4 Su-25 Frogfoot attack jets, two Ka-31RLD airborne early warning and control helicopters, and 15 Ka-27PL anti-submarine warfare helicopters. Unlike other aircraft carriers, Kutznetsov also packs a punch in the form of 12 SS-N-19 Shipwreck supersonic anti-ship missiles and carries a naval version of the Tor surface to air missile for self-defense.
Admiral Kuznetsov is not particularly mechanically reliable, having broken down at sea in 2012. Like most large Russian Navy ships, the carrier is accompanied by an oceangoing tug whenever it conducts an overseas cruise. You know, just in case.
The U.K. has two aircraft carriers currently under construction. There's the Queen Elizabeth, due to become operational in 2020, and Prince of Wales, due in 2022. They will be the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy.
Once completed, the carriers will be 920 feet long and displace 65,000 tons apiece. Conventionally powered, the two will operate both gas turbine and diesel engines. A high level of automation will keep the number of sailors manning each ship to just 679, with that number increasing to 1,600 with the air wing embedded.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales will feature a ski jump to assist jet takeoff instead of catapults. Each carrier will carry approximately 12 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and 4 helicopters on peacetime cruises, with the capability to surge to 36 F-35s in wartime. Alternately, the ships can operate a mix of Apache, Merlin, Chinook, and Wildcat helicopters to land and support a Royal Marine landing force.
France has one working aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle. Commissioned in 2001, it measures 856 feet long and displaces 43,100 tons fully loaded. De Gaulle is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world that's not part of the U.S. Navy. It has practically unlimited range.
The carrier typically supports an air wing consisting of 10 to 14 Rafale M multi-role fighters, 10 to 12 Super Etendard attack jets, 2 or 3 E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft, and 4 to 5 search-and-rescue and transport helicopters. It is one of the few non-American carriers to have steam catapults to assist in takeoffs and arrestor wires to aid landings.
The first of India's two carriers, Viraat, is an ex-British light aircraft carrier that was until recently the flagship of the Indian Navy. Built during World War II, she is the oldest serving aircraft carrier in the world. Displacing 28,700 tons and 741 feet long, Viraat can carry 9 Indian Navy Sea Harrier fighters and 15 Sea King, Helix, and Chetak helicopters.
The Indian Navy's new flagship is the carrier Vikramaditya (pictured). Formerly a Soviet ship used for anti-submarine warfare, Vikramaditya was fitted with an angled flight deck, given a 14-degree ski jump, and extensively modernized. Completed, she is 930 feet long and displaces 45,000 tons.
Vikramaditya has a powerful air wing consisting of 36 MiG-29K multi-role fighters—modernized versions of the MiG-29 optimized for carrier operations. She also embarks 12 Helix helicopters, both for airborne early warning and control and search-and-rescue operations.
A replacement for the Viraat, also named Viraat, is currently under construction and will be India's first locally designed and built carrier.
Once the world's preeminent aircraft carrier power, Japan has three of what it calls "helicopter destroyers"—aircraft carriers in all but name.
The country has two helicopter carriers of the Hyuga class. Coming in at 646 feet long and displacing 18,000 tons fully loaded, Hyuga and her sister ship Ise can handle tasks including anti-submarine warfare and amphibious assault. Each can embark up to ten helicopters, including SH-60 anti-submarine helicopters, MCH-101 minehunters, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, MV-22 Ospreys, and CH-47 transport choppers.
More recently, Japan launched the helicopter carrier Izumo (pictured), which will enter service sometime in 2018. Approximately 30 percent larger than the older vessels, Izumo is 814 feet long and displaces 27,000 tons. A second ship in the class, Kaga, is currently fitting out.
Australia has a long tradition of operating aircraft carriers, from seaplane carriers of the 1920s to the last full-deck Australian carrier, HMAS Melbourne, which retired in 1982. After a three-decade hiatus, the Canberra-class amphibious ships mark the return of Australian carrier aviation.
Technically amphibious ships, HMAS Canberra and her sister ship HMAS Adelaide (pictured) are each 757 feet long and displace 27,830 tons when fully loaded. Their hulls, built in Spain, are based on the Spanish Navy's Juan Carlos I-class amphibious ships.
The Canberra class is designed to carry amphibious troops, and to that end the vessels have a full-length flight deck, a hangar, and elevators to move aircraft back and forth between the two. Each can support up to 12 aircraft, including Australian Navy Sea King and Sea Hawk helicopters and Australian Army Tiger attack helicopters, MRH-90 transports, and CH-47 Chinook heavy transports.
The Juan Carlos-class was built to accommodate vertical takeoff and landing fighters. However, the Australian government has downplayed the possibility of F-35s operating from the decks of these twin carriers.
The Cavour (pictured) is one of a pair of Italian carriers; the other is the Giuseppe Garabaldi.Cavour is 774 feet long and displaces 27,100 tons, while the smaller Garabaldi is 590 feet long and displaces just 13,850 tons. Both are conventionally powered, using General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines for propulsion.
Cavour and Garabaldi are equipped with Harrier fighters and helicopters. Both carriers can send 12 helicopters or 10 Harriers into action, but only Cavour features a 12-degree angle ski ramp to assist Harriers on takeoffs. Cavour will be modified to accommodate the Italian Navy's planned force of 15 F-35B Joint Strike Fighters.
The ROKS Dokdo is a an amphibious ship capable of launching air and naval assaults. Measuring 653 feet long and displacing 18,800 tons, Dokdo is the largest warship ever built for the Republic of Korea Navy.
ROKS Dokdo's full-length flight deck can handle up to five helicopters at once. She has a internal hangar bay just under the flight deck and two large elevators for shuttling helicopters back and forth. The ship can send up to ten UH-60 Blackhawk troop-carrying helicopters into action at a time.
In addition to operating as a helicopter carrier, Dokdo can act as a command ship, too. Two more ships of this class are currently planned.
Brazil bought its sole aircraft carrier, Sào Paolo, used in 2000 from France. Originally built in 1963, Sào Paolo is one of the oldest carriers in service and the only one operating in South America.
The ship is 869 feet long and displaces 33,000 tons fully loaded with aircraft, weapons, and fuel. In addition to steam catapults for launching planes, she also has retractable ski jumps to give launching planes an extra boost. Her air wing consists of 12 A-4 Skyhawks, older attack jets considered obsolete but recently upgraded by Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. She will also carry four C-1A Trader transport aircraft and an estimated 20 helicopters of various types.
Sào Paolo has been beset by mechanical issues since its transfer from the French Navy. Despite upgrades to its propulsion systems, the ship has suffered multiple onboard fires and reportedly can't handle voyages of longer than three months.
Named after the Spanish king who abdicated in 2014, Juan Carlos I is an amphibious ship with a dedicated aviation role. Measuring 754 feet long and displacing 27,082 tons when fully loaded, the ship can land nearly a thousand Spanish marines by air and sea.
Juan Carlos I has a full length flight deck, too, plus a pair of elevators and hangar. It's got a 12-degree ski jump for launching Sea Harrier jump jet fighters. The ship can carry up to 30 helicopters or 10 to 12 Sea Harriers, or some mixture of both.
The Spanish Navy's website states Juan Carlos I can carry the F-35B, the vertical takeoff and landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter, even though there are no official plans yet by the Spanish government to buy any.
Thailand's carrier, the Chakri Naruebet, was named in honor of the Thai royal dynasty. This is is not only Southeast Asia's only carrier but also the only one with a royal suite built for a king.
Chakri Naruebet was constructed in a Spanish shipyard and based on Spain's Principe de Asturias(since retired). At 597 feet long and displacing 11,400 tons fully loaded, she is one of the smallest carriers around. Chakri Naruebet originally had an air wing of 9 Harrier jets, but a lack of spare parts has permanently grounded the entire fleet. The working remainder of her air wing consists of 4 SH-60 Seahawk helicopters.
As a flat top, Chakri Naruebet is minimally operational. Budget cuts have resulted in the carrier operating outside of its naval base at Sattahip for only one day a month. Without its Harriers, the ship is more apt to carry the king and his entourage for royal cruises than to embark on military exercises, which has led to it being dubbed "The World's Largest Royal Yacht."


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JagdPanther Tank on Remote Control 1:16 scale – INFRARED version, sound and smoke simulation, METAL TRANSMISSION
With the Jagdpanther machine, he came to the world, apparently the most advanced Tanker of the Second World War. The entire undercarriage group was taken from the Panther tank without major changes , as well as the power unit, gearbox and other details.The guy was of good armor protection. The gun’s cover, called the pig’s head, was characteristic of him. The front of the tank was 80 mm thick, the sides 45 mm, the rear wall 40 mm and the ceiling 30 mm. There were two manholes on the ceiling of the tank, another in the rear of the superstructure. The crew consisted of five men.
The canon of caliber 88 had limited mobility, so the crew had to adjust the entire machine. He did not serve the struggle close, as his cannon could dispose of enemy tanks up to 3 km away.
In 1944, serial production began and 384 units were produced in total.
latest model for 2009 JAGDPANTHER with the latest powerful engines, with a metal transmission and with very good sound and smoke. Now with an infrared combat simulation.
– Color: Gray
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ATF Warns Over Spread Of Untraceable DIY 'Ghost Guns'
Across the United States, mainstream network affiliates (local broadcasters) are frantically publishing stories and reports concerning law enforcement struggle to combat unregulated, DIY “ghost guns.” A ghost gun is a firearm without a serial number. It is lethal, untraceable, and perfectly legal, which has federal and state officials terrified that more and more Americans are building these killing machines in their own homes.
Perhaps the surging popularity of Ghost Guns is explainable. The same way Americans do not like corporations and U.S. intelligence agencies examining their emails and texts; they are now demanding weapon privacy. This is an astonishing shift in how the political frustrations of the everyday American are festering into an alarming trend.
Federal and State law enforcement agencies describe these do-it-yourself weapons as a Ghost Gun. It is relatively simple, with a few clicks online, anyone can fill a shopping cart with the components to build an assault-style rifle. There is no background check nor identification needed to purchase a Ghost gun.
The lower receiver, which is the only part legally considered a gun by U.S. Law, can be completed from an “80% receiver” lawfully purchased online. The remaining 20% of work must be achieved using a standard drill press or machine tools available at a neighborhood Home Depot. Once the lower receiver is milled, the gun can then be assembled. Total build-out time is somewhere between two to three hours, and presto, an assault-style rifle that the government has no idea exists.
Recently, a CBS news team documented how they purchased a Ghost Gun from a website and assembled it within a few hours.
“It’s not going to take a tremendous amount of gunsmithing skills,” said Scott Reitz, a retired Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officer.
Reitz agreed to supervise the CBS news team while a Glock 9mm with no serial numbers was being milled. All the news team had to do was follow simple directions on YouTube, which took less than three hours to complete. Once the gun was assembled, Reitz ran the Ghost Gun through a series of firing tests, where he deemed the weapon operational.
CBS says countless websites across the internet offer Ghost Gun kits for everything from handguns to the most popular assault rifles.
“They’re trying to appeal to a certain segment of the population,” said Dave Hamilton, senior special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). “Felons who can’t go to a gun store and legally purchase a firearm, or people who just don’t want the government knowing what type of firearms they have.”
“There’s nothing the ATF can do,” said Ginger Colbrun, with the ATF’s Southern California Public Information Office. “These firearms are with gang members, these firearms are being are being found at various crime scenes all over the country.”
“ATF can’t go shut down the people who are selling these parts because these parts are not regulated,” said Colbrun.
“It’s really up to those companies to be responsible,” Colbrun said. “They’re the ones that are going to have to live with themselves.”
YouTuber shows how easy it is to build a Ghost Gun AR-15 assault rifle in a step-by-step tutorial: https://hooktube.com/watch?v=4Vii8yK-Vq8https://archive.fo/L5blUhttps://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-15/atf-warns-over-spread-untraceable-diy-ghost-guns


Although I think that human beings have the moral and constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and that (as John Lott has shown) more guns mean less crime, I am not a gun owner. Yet. This weekend I started educating myself about handguns. I've found the Handgun Information Page (created by Chuck Hawks) to be extremely useful, with helpful pages about good guns for beginners, a guide to gun types, information about buying used guns (I always prefer to buy major items used if at all possible), and much more. Janis Cortese's handgun info page is also good. Hawks makes a compelling argument that a good target gun (.22 LR caliber) is the place to start, even though such a gun is not the one you'd want to be using in a defensive situation (the first priority at the beginning is to learn to shoot straight!). The Ruger P512 and KP512 seem like good target guns based on my research. Handguns from Glock get uniformly high reviews; though it seems they don't make a .22 caliber target gun, they do make fine weapons in higher calibers (both full size and compact). Massad Ayoob recommends .45 caliber handguns, such as the Glock 21 and Glock 30, but it seems that's not the place to begin given the recoil of large-caliber handguns. I've also started looking into training courses such as those offered by Colorado Safearms Academy and Fred Behnken (who seems to come up to Denver from Albuquerque). The NRA maintains a list of such training courses, too.
I'm still mostly ignorant when it comes to guns (as it seems most people are), which is a shame considering the importance of knowing how to defend oneself. But at least I'm slowly making progress in moving from ignorance to knowledge.
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The P-40 Warhawk was an American single-engine, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircraft that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 which reduced development time and enabled a rapid entry into production and operational service. The Warhawk was used by most Allied powers during World War II, and remained in front line service until the end of the war. It was the third most-produced American fighter, after the P51 and P47.
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AR-15 Information Design
AR-15 is an infographic poster that offers a technical overview of the AR-15 rifle. It features a breakdown of all the physical components that make up the firearm, while also explaining its customizations and general performance.
In recent years the AR-15 rifle has simultaneously become the most controversial and sought-after gun in America. Though its name and appearance are commonly recognized, few people understand what makes this particular rifle so significant. With the use of illustrated diagrams and graphs, this project serves as a tool to communicate a more thorough physical knowledge of the AR-15.


According to Stevie Spiteful and his Cons, the Ruger Mini 14 is a *duck gun*.
That should be comforting to the 14 women shot dead on December 6 1989 and the victims of Breivik's murderous rampage.
Yet, according to this:
The majority of guns owned by Canadians are non-restricted long guns. Should new legislation be passed as the Conservative government has pledged, there will be no requirement to register this class of weapon.The day when ReformaTory Attack Parrots™© - with their constant prevarications and obfuscations - become political dead ducks can't arrive too soon.
Once a gun is bought, it can be modified to make it more agile and functional. Common tactical additions include pistol grips, folding or collapsible buttstocks, sophisticated sights, flash hiders, and lightweight synthetic bodies.
When purchased, a Ruger Mini 14 or "Ranch Rifle" is a fairly standard semi-automatic rifle, shooting the same 5.56-calibre ammunition used by NATO militaries. But when modified with specialized parts, it becomes considerably more combat-ready, accurate and intimidating.
A heavily modified Ruger Mini 14 was the weapon of choice for Anders Breivik in the recent Norway shootings, as well as the weapon favoured by [the killer] in the École Polytechnique shootings in 1989.
The Mini 14 - and its big brother, the Mini 30 - are widely available in Canada for around $1,000 and are classified non-restricted.


So, here we go, my first knife review! As a novice, am I qualified to review a knife competently? Good question. Is anyone on the Internet really qualified to do anything?…Other than him. Okay, other than her. Look, just shut up and read…
Hibbens have always fascinated me; they seem to be the Nikes and Rolexes of throwing knives, so I really wanted to see what their knives are about after owning a Hibben axe. The first Hibbens I bought were these 8.5 inch, 5 ounce throwers.
To be honest, I don’t like them. They have decent weight, but the length makes it hard to distance them for reliable sticking, neither at the short nor long distance-marks for the throwers I already owned. I needed a knife that was about the same length as my faves, which led me to the more expensive but comparably-lengthed GenX series. There are three designs in this line: tanto, dagger, and…well, these.
Bowie? Kukri? Whatever it is, it’s cool.
These knives are big. No, you don’t understand–they are big. At 11 inches and 11.8 ounces, you will feel it after an hour of tossing them.
This is one seriously massive piece of metal.
One nice thing about these knives is that, unlike every other thrower I’ve bought, these shipped to me quite dull, which makes them a very nice candidate for blade throwing right out of the box, with no need to neuter the knife with a file.
You can see that the design and weight give it plenty of power. Notice how wide the mark is, almost like an axe blade.
Take a look at the tip. It’s more of a wedge than a point, which means I pretty much have to hit the target straight-on to get a stick. I also have to throw these beasts with a good deal more muscle than I have to use with any of my other blades. But when they hit, it sounds like the Hibben axe, and the target shakes like I walked up and punched it.
I suppose that the knives are designed to be thrown using the Hibben technique, which may be why they sometimes tumble en route to the target. I really should read his book…at some point.
I do like the scalloping on the handle, both because it lightens this quite massive blade and also for the comfort the scoops provide.
For being so heavy, it’s really a comfortable knife to throw.
All in all, I would buy these again. The weight takes some getting used to, but it’s very satisfying to sink these big boys three in a row, and I’m pleased to have found a Hibben knife that I like. Take a look at the GenX series; I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.


I went to the shooting range and shot some guns with 2 friends of mine, this is us shooting an AR-15.
Action: Semi-automatic or fully-automatic. Direct impingement/ Rotating bolt.
Cartridge: .223 Remington, 5.56 NATO
Weight: 2.27 - 3.9 kg (5.5 -- 8.5 lb)
Muzzle Velocity: 975 m/s (3,200 ft/s.)
Feed System: Various STANAG magazines.
Effective Firing Range: 400-600 m (Average 547 yd.)
The AR-15 is a lightweight, 5.56 mm/.223-caliber, magazine-fed, air cooled rifle with a rotating-lock bolt, actuated by direct impingement gas operation or long/short stroke piston operation. It has been produced in many different versions, including numerous semi-automatic and selective fire variants. It is manufactured with extensive use of aluminum alloys and synthetic materials.
The AR-15 was first built by ArmaLite as a small arms rifle for the United States armed forces. Because of financial problems, ArmaLite sold the AR-15 design to Colt. After modifications (most notably the relocation of the charging handle from under the carrying handle like the AR-10 to the rear of the receiver), the new redesigned rifle was subsequently adopted as the M16 rifle. Colt then started selling the semi-automatic version of the M16 rifle as the Colt AR-15 for civilian sales in 1963 and the term has been used to refer to semiautomatic-only versions of the rifle since then. Although the name "AR-15" remains a Colt registered trademark, variants of the firearm are independently made, modified and sold under various names by multiple manufacturers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15
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“Hunter’s Arsenal” is 1/6 scale weapons collection wielded by the player character, HUNTER, in the mega hit action RPG for PlayStation®4, “Bloodborne,” enthusing game freaks around the world.
The Hunter Axe is one of the starter trick weapons, and commonly used by many players. It’s a blade weapon but also blunt instrument, which can blow wide range with the extended condition. The dull metallic surface heavily used in fierce battles and the rag wrapped on the grip enhances the beautiful roughness. Supervised by the design team of FromSoftware thoroughly, this savage weapon is sculpted. The extended version can be recreated, also.
It can be attached to HUNTER 1/6 scale statue. Moreover, displaying it on the optional accessory, “Collection Board,” collectors can enjoy the world of Bloodborne deeply.
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America Sends Missile-Destroying Warship Into Russian Waters. President Putin Presumably Not Pleased.
Ever since Russian armed forces invaded and annexed the Ukrainian province of Crimea last month, the U.S. government has struggled to find an appropriate response. Trade sanctions and visa freezes on Russian government officials could punish Russia for what it's done in Crimea. But what could the U.S. do to deter further aggression?
This week, it appears the Obama administration hit upon its solution. It took the USS Donald Cook and sent it to Russia. Armed with new Standard Missile-3 IB weaponry from Raytheon (NYSE: RTN ) , the Cook boasts a robust version of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT ) Aegis ballistic missile defense system capable of shooting down supersonic, high-trajectory missiles such as Russia uses to carry its nuclear warheads. The warship was modified for ballistic missile defense (BMD) duty as part of a $22 billion project to build shipborne and land-based missile defense stations to protect Europe from Iranian long-range missiles. But just as President Putin predicted, it appears to have use in countering Russian threats as well.
Departing its new base in Spain, the Cook is now en route to the Black Sea, where it will "show the flag" off the Ukrainian and Russian coasts -- a concrete demonstration to President Putin of how aggression in Crimea could bring about the very thing he fears: U.S. ballistic missile defenses set up right next to the Russian border.


A Tale Of Two Guns ((TOP))
Kate Linebaugh: Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business and power. I'm Kate Linebaugh. It's Wednesday, June 1st. Coming up on the show, a tale of two Top Guns.Over the past 20 years, moviegoing in China has exploded, so much so that the country's box office now rivals that of the U.S.
A Tale of Two Guns
Fortunately, there are masters of the art of designing and making big wave guns. These guys have had all the feedback necessary to get designs honed to near perfection, so that riders can have full confidence in the equipment as they throw themselves over the ledge on 40- to 50-foot waves.
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By World War I, the batteries at Forts Morgan and Gaines were again obsolete. The guns remained manned by coast artillery units, and both forts served as training bases. The Army deactivated the two posts by 1923.
Fort Morgan State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark, is now administered by the Alabama Historical Commission. It has been ranked among the finest examples of masonry star fort architecture of the nineteenth century. Somewhat like a geological fault, the red brick of the original fort bears concrete intrusions from the 1899-1900 batteries. Icicles of salt stalactites slide down the high-arched ceilings and walls of the casemates. The powder magazines retain the davits used to hoist ammunition to the gun crews above. Two 24-pounder Civil War flank defense howitzers were returned to Fort Morgan in 2001 and remounted after an absence of nearly 100 years. The two guns had been part of a Civil War monument in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wildflowers have rooted in the cracks of the concrete batteries.
To investigate the associations among handgun regulations, assault and other crimes, and homicide, we studied robberies, burglaries, assaults, and homicides in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, from 1980 through 1986. Although similar to Seattle in many ways, Vancouver has adopted a more restrictive approach to the regulation of handguns. During the study period, both cities had similar rates of burglary and robbery. In Seattle, the annual rate of assault was modestly higher than that in Vancouver (simple assault: relative risk, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.15 to 1.20; aggravated assault: relative risk, 1.16; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.12 to 1.19). However, the rate of assaults involving firearms was seven times higher in Seattle than in Vancouver. Despite similar overall rates of criminal activity and assault, the relative risk of death from homicide, adjusted for age and sex, was significantly higher in Seattle than in Vancouver (relative risk, 1.63; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.28 to 2.08). Virtually all of this excess risk was explained by a 4.8-fold higher risk of being murdered with a handgun in Seattle as compared with Vancouver. Rates of homicide by means other than guns were not substantially different in the two study communities. We conclude that restricting access to handguns may reduce the rate of homicide in a community.
Goddard test-fired the Thompson guns, then used his emerging method to closely examine the ejector marks and etchings on the bullet casings to the same markings on the casings found at the massacre site.
In the lawless West, The Cowboys, a notorious brotherhood of killers and thieves, reigned over the land with brutal fists and fast guns. Fate had finally caught up with them and now the merciless gang has but a single surviving member. When a deputized gunslinger takes up the call to hunt down the last Cowboy, the chase is on and the bullets fly, and only one of these hardened men can survive.
Simple western tale with lots of gunfights and leading up to the big, final one. It will be between Artemis Hollanger (Ed Morrone) a recently deputised Marshal and Abel McCloskey (Casper van Dien), a renowned gunfighter. Terrence McTeague (Tom Berenger) had a showdown with McCloskey and his brothers, but Abel got away. Artemis is to bring him in, armed only with his rifle. A talky, star-studded film, where those same stars are, shall we say, past their best. Jeff Fahry and Danny Trejo also appear, and make for a professional, good looking story when the west was almost ready for civilisation.
Very disappointing. Doesn't feel like a western, it feels like a youtube red movie. The audio, dialogue, and line delivery are just bad. The fight scenes feel empty, like they're shooting bb guns. Most of the music starts and ends abruptly raising tension and releasing it at random.
Both handguns shape up quite nicely in terms of size and weight. The DAO model has an overall length of 216mm compared with 224 for the blowback, with the 9x19mm Parabellum version measuring 222mm with a standard barrel. The DAO weighs 820g, with the slightly more porky blowback coming in at 855g, while the original was a little heavier still at 871g.
I took turns shooting one Luger, then the other, so the test conditions on a humid, still day were consistent for both guns, continuing to reload and shoot until gas pressure became too low to deliver accurate groups. I began the test at six yards.
Being double-action only, trigger-pull was a weighty 8lb 9oz with the DAO, while the blowback was a featherweight 4lb 10z. The sights on both guns are open and non-adjustable, with a V-notch at the rear. Despite the heavy trigger, I was able to achieve 10-shot groups measuring 5cm centre-to-centre with the DAO, while the blowback shot looser 6cm groups.
Back at 10 yards, group size opened up to an average 8cm for the DAO, and again a slightly larger average of 9cm for the blowback. I carried on shooting both guns at both ranges. Shot count was, as expected, far higher on the DAO, with this gun delivering around 50 good shots compared with around 30 for the blowback.
Because the grip frames and grip panels are the same, the pistols have the same feel in the hand except of weight and size difference. Moreover, sights on the two guns are similar but not identical and the rear sight is supposedly capable of being moved laterally after loosening a small screw. The Pro Carry II has the three dot arrangement whereas the Stainless II has a black post and rear sight with a black blade, but without white dots. Both of the guns shoot very close to the point of aim at 25 yards so I have not moved the rear sights.
As near as I can tell, the Pro Carry II and Stainless II have trigger action that is identical. Initially, the full size Stainless II was very stiff and had a heavy trigger pull, but it has lightened as the pistol has been used. Both guns have very crisp let off, but these are not target pistols and trigger action is certainly better than just acceptable.
A typical load for the .45 Auto features a 230 grain bullet at approximately 870 ft/sec to give an energy of approximately 370 ft lbs. This is not a load to flatten a grizzly or a cape buffalo, but is adequate for most purposes. Ammunition today makes use of numerous improved bullet styles that make handguns more effective than they were half a century ago. In the .45 Auto, many newer loads utilize bullets of 185 grains that are given a velocity of approximately 1000 ft/sec. Two of my favorites are the Winchester Silvertip and the Hornady Critical Defense. Both loads deliver advertised velocity from a 5 inch barrel and the bullets expand reliably. From a 4 inch barrel, the velocity is slightly lower, approximately 950 ft/sec, which is sufficient to assure good expansion.<


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Star Wars technology is the stuff of fantasy (lightsabers, anyone?). However, thanks to some recent technological breakthroughs and some really smart engineers, high-tech gadgetry on par with the sci-fi silver screen may be even closer than you think.
Lasers are a hallmark of iconic comic series and science fiction novels. While their capabilities and uses vary, in most cases, lasers are highly accurate, work instantaneously and cause minimal collateral damage. But does any of the technology behind these futuristic laser-based systems have a parallel in real-life laser technology? Actually, more than you might think.
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Manish is designing a common, modular and highly configurable beam control software architecture for laser weapon systems, satellites and missiles.
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Lastly, I tape-recorded an entire podcast episode on the various cartridge options for the AR-15 (to include the 6.8 SPC and 6.5 Grendel). If you prefer to listen than review, click the suitable link listed below to listen to this episode on your preferred podcasting service. Murray DMR chamber, which was implied to resolve better accuracy expectations for the ERC Unique Purpose Rifle Program in SOCOM.
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The 6.5 Grendel is a moderately effective, reasonably level shooting cartridge that’s also pretty immune to wind drift. This is specifically remarkable considering that the cartridge loads that level of performance right into a very little package that can still fit in the reasonably tight constraints of the AR-15 platform. The table below contrasts the recoil generated by extremely similar loads to the ones compared over for each and every cartridge when fired from identical rifles.
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The reason why is due to the fact that the chambers of the Remington rifles had a bad style that led to pressure spikes. Consequently, what I’ll do is attempt to contrast it to various other common cartridges in similarly functioning guns. I ‘d think about the detest 6.8 Special to be light to moderate, somewhere in between a. 223 chambered AR-15, as well as 308 Winchester chambered AR-10.
The 6.8 SPC had a rough start when Remington bungled its release up causing many people to believe that it wanted when compared to various other calibers. In reality, it is more powerful out of a much shorter barrel than many others. Inevitably, the 5.56 NATO remained in vast usage for the United States military, even though the 6.8 SPC did master close quarters fight. At the muzzle, the 6.8 creates 40% even more power than the 5.56 NATO does. Yet one more benefit of using 6.8 SPC is its capability to supply maximum quantities of power. The majority of various other rounds need multiple shots to achieve full penetration.


As former secretary of defence for President Clinton, William J Perry has decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options. As the Trident debate rages on, The Guardian's Julian Borger talks to a man with a unique, and chilling, vantage point on why nuclear weapons endanger our safety, rather than secure it.
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Another March activity was Shooting Sports Day at Boulder Creek Scout Reservation. Five of us loaded and shot clay targets with muzzle loading rifles, broke lollipops and fake pumpkins with air rifles, did target practice with .22 rifles, learned how to shoot flying clay “pigeons” with shotguns, tried to hit pie pans and baking sheets with slingshots, and hurled tomahawks at redwood rounds. We also learned archery. The safety talks were thorough, the instructor-to-Scout ratio was 1 to 1 at all times, and we felt we learned a ton. It was a rare and really good opportunity to experience a lot of different kinds of shooting sports in one day at one easy-to-reach destination. We highly recommend it to anyone who wants to give it a try.


The Hand gun is a very slow firing weapon with small projectile size, very high DPS and range.
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A Thrown Attack is one of the many Special Attack Types featured in Master of Magic. A Thrown Attack is only executed as an integral part of a unit's Melee Attack, and always delivers simple Physical Damage. Its primary purpose, aside from hurting the enemy, is to try and kill of as many enemy Figures as possible before the rest of the Melee combat process (including the enemy's retaliation) can take place.
Thrown Attacks are only available to units possessing the Thrown ability. This includes 4 of the primary Normal Units from the Barbarian race, as well as three Heroes. Units that do not possess the Thrown ability by default may not acquire it in any way, and thus will never be able to execute a Thrown Attack.
Thrown Attacks are executed at the very beginning of the Melee Attack sequence. Thus, the more enemy Figures a Thrown Attack can kill, the less danger there will be to the Thrown Attacker once the target gets the chance to retaliate.
Thrown Attacks are only executed when the attacker is voluntarily initiating Melee combat. They do not work when Counter Attacking to an enemy assault.
The damage delivered by a Thrown Attack is always very basic Physical Damage, with no additional properties. It will attempt to cause actual Damage Points to the target, and will not trigger any of the target's immunities.
The strength of a Thrown Attack is indicated in a unit's details panel as the value of its Thrown ability. On this wiki, the strength of a Thrown Attack is indicated by a non-official icon of an axe within a blue box: . This icon does not appear in the game, but is based upon the icon representing the Thrown ability. The strength of a Thrown Attack indicates how much Physical Damage it delivers.
The strength of a Thrown Attack will normally grow with Experience at the same rate as the unit's Melee Attack strength. Most effects that improve a unit's Melee Attack will also improve its Thrown Attack. Furthermore, any Axe containing attack-improving bonuses and held by a Hero will improve both the Hero's Melee Attack and his/her Thrown Attack, if present.
A Thrown Attack consists of a unit hurling specially-designed weapons at the enemy from some distance away. This includes weapons like throwing-spears and throwing-axes. These weapons are meticulously balanced in order to maintain air stability, which they usually achieve by rotating around a pre-defined axis. Therefore, they can maintain a rather constant trajectory through the air, and are thus sufficiently accurate to strike their target. Since these projectiles are much heavier than arrows or bolts, they also tend to cause far more damage to anything they strike.
On the other hand, thrown-weapons lack the range of dedicated ranged-weapons like bows and slings. They cannot be used against far-away targets. Instead, they are quite effective at just beyond hand-to-hand combat range, and thus are used as a "first-strike" weapon preceding a powerful charge. In other words, these weapons are hurled just before a unit charges into an enemy formation. They kill a few of the defenders, and thus make it easier to mop-up the rest.
Because of the short distance involved, the Thrown Attack occurs at the very start of any Melee Attack. It will preceded any form of retaliation by the enemy. The desired outcome of a Thrown Attack is the death of as many enemy Figures as possible, so that once the two units are engaged in combat, the enemy has less strength and thus will pose less of a risk to the attacker. It is, essentially, a preemptive strike meant to weaken the enemy prior to actual engagement.
All Thrown Attacks deliver a very basic form of Physical Damage, with no additional effects or special properties.
Physical Damage is meant to cause actual Damage Points to the target - with the intent of killing as many enemy Figures as possible before the attacker and defender engage each other up close.
The amount of Physical Damage delivered by a Thrown Attack is equal to the strength of the attacker's Thrown ability, as indicated in its details panel. This is the maximum potential number of Damage Points that might be caused to the target - though the actual amount is usually much lower. On this wiki, the strength of any Thrown Attack is indicated by the axe icon: . Therefore, an attack with a strength of 4 delivers 4 points of Physical Damage, and can potentially cause up to 4 points of Damage to the target.
To calculate the actual amount of Damage caused to the target, the game runs through the Physical Damage process - a long and complicated process that's explained in detail in the Physical Damage article. In essence, the attacker makes a series of To Hit rolls to determine the accuracy of the attack, and the defender makes a series of Defense rolls to determine how effectively it blocked and/or dodged the attack. When the results of these rolls are compared, we get the total amount of Damage caused to the target. Target Figures are killed as appropriate, before moving on to the next step of the Melee Attack process (usually the exchange of Gaze Attacks between the attacker and the target).
It is currently unknown which To Hit bonuses apply when processing a Thrown Attack, and testing is quite difficult. However, it is certain that some bonuses, such as those received from Axes, certainly do apply to the Thrown Attack. These will improve the accuracy of the attack, and thus help it deliver more Damage on average.
Multi-Figure Thrown Attackers Edit
When a Multi-Figure unit uses a Thrown Attack, each individual Figure executes a separate Thrown Attack against the target, in rapid succession. Each of these is treated and processed as a separate attack, involving the entire routine of To Hit rolls, Defense rolls and Damage distribution as described above, from start to finish.
Each of these attacks has the same strength, equal to the value of the unit's Thrown ability. Thus, a unit with "Thrown 3" and 4 Figures will execute 4 separate Thrown Attacks against the target, each with a strength of 3 (i.e. delivering 3 points of Physical Damage at the target).
Therefore, the more Figures a unit contains, the stronger its Thrown Attack is overall. Nonetheless, a "weaker" Thrown Attack made against a heavily-armored target may still fail to cause any Damage to that target even with many Figures participating. This is because each of the individual sub-attacks is weak, and thus each has an equal chance of failing to penetrate the armor.
- A unit of Barbarian Swordsmen has 6 Figures when fully-healed. By default, this unit possesses the Thrown ability of strength 1.
- When the Barbarian Swordsmen unit is voluntarily attacking, each of the 6 Swordsmen makes a separate Thrown Attack, and each of these attacks has a strength of 1 (i.e. delivering 1 Physical Damage point at the target). Therefore, as per the rules of Physical Damage, each Swordsman makes a single To Hit roll against the target, and can potentially inflict 1 Point of Damage. If all attacks are successful, the target will suffer a total of 1 * 6 = 6 points of Damage.
- However, almost all targets are sufficiently-well-armored to withstand this damage, because it is delivered in 1-point "packets", instead of a single 6-point attack.
- For example, an enemy unit with only 1 Defense - extremely light armor - has only a 25% chance of suffering damage from each of these 1-point attacks. In this case, having 6 separate attacks does help, since a 25% chance with each of six separate attacks means roughly a 75% chance that the target will suffer at least 1 point of Damage.
- On the other hand, if the target has a Defense score of 5, the chance of each 1-point attack inflicting any damage on it is remarkably slim - only about 5% per attack! This gives only a ~25% chance of hurting the target at all. For comparison, a single 6-point attack would've been significantly more useful against the same target, having roughly 45% chance of hurting it to some degree.
- Thus, Multi-Figure units with a low Thrown Attack strength can indeed be dangerous to lightly-armored enemies, simply because of the multitude of attacks being executed one after the other. However they are still far less useful against heavily-armored targets than would a single powerful Thrown Attacker delivering the same total amount of Physical Damage in one go.
Execution and Sequence Edit
Thrown Attacks are executed only by the initiator of a Melee Attack. For example, if unit A attacks unit B, and both units have the Thrown ability, only unit A gets to make a Thrown Attack since it initiated combat. Unit B may not use its Thrown Attack. If both units survive of course, then once unit B's turn begins it can initiate a Melee Attack against unit A, in which case unit B gets to use a Thrown Attack and unit A does not.
Thrown Attacks are always executed at the very beginning of the Melee Attack process, before any other attack or damage is delivered. This is one of its primary advantages: the attacking unit strikes with its full force, before the target gets any chance to hurt the attacking unit and reduce its strength in any way.
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As the table above shows, the Thrown Attack occurs in stage 1, and shares this stage with the Breath Attack. Note that the rules of the game state that a unit may not have both a Thrown Attack and a Breath Attack, so only one of these will be executed as appropriate.
Because of its position in stage 1, the Thrown Attack also has an important tactical advantage: any enemy Figures that are successfully killed off in this attack cannot participate in any of the following stages. Thus, enemy figures killed by a Thrown Attack will not deliver their own Gaze Attacks, Touch Attacks, nor any Melee Damage back at the attacker. This provides the attacker some security: by weakening the enemy, the attacker stands to suffer less retaliatory damage.
Thrown Attacks deliver only basic Physical Damage. As far as we know, this means that no immunity will ever be triggered by a Thrown Attack. This means that there is no good way to prevent this attack from doing damage, except of course when the target innately has a high Defense rating.
Ground vs. Air Edit
The normal rules of combat prohibit any Walking or Swimming unit from initiating a Melee Attack against any Flying opponent. Such units may only Counter Attack to this opponent, allowing the Flying enemy to maneuver freely around them without fear of being attacked.
However, possession of a Thrown Attack by a Walking or Swimming unit allows that unit to break the rules: it may freely and voluntarily execute Melee Attacks against enemy Flying units.


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The lightsaber was initially created by George Lucas. He wished to make a weapon that will create the Jedi stand besides the frequent rabble, both Rebels and Imperial troopers alike. He made a light sword, believing that this weapon could help produce a feeling of mysticism and an arcane quality to the purchase. Much like the Crusaders of old, the lightsword turned into a sign for the Jedi that represented their oath to maintain peace and justice throughout the entire world.
From the immortal words of Obi-Wan Kenobi”Anyone may use a blaster or a fusioncutter – however to use a lightsaber nicely was a sign of somebody a cut above the normal”. It’s the Jedi weapon of choice and also needs the power and dexterity to wield in addition to a command of the usage of this ability of the Force. Regrettably, not just Jedi masters can wield this weapon – Sith lords were both skillful in their hands of those strong blades.
From the tales and films, a lightsaber is called a weapon using a pure plasma , suspended at a force containment field. The handle of this blade is metallic and approximately 30 centimeters long. Every lightsaber is custom built by a Jedi or Sith master as testament to their command of the Force and assembled their very own lightsaber as evidence of finishing their training. This weapon is so strong, it’s reported to have the ability to cut through whatever – anything aside from the blade of another lightsaber, that’s.
George Lucas used different tactics to produce the lightsaber from the films. He had one version that using a motorized hilt that spun a sword that was coated in reflective cloth. However, this version was brittle and hard to manoeuvre. They were awful so far as sparring firearms went and led to an inconsistent and light-hearted shine on screen.
Finally, Lucas struck upon an notion of utilizing rotoscoping to paint the shine to the mild sword into every frame of the movie at which it seemed. Although this was time consuming, it was the method that generated the visual impact we see in A New Hope aw and The Phantom Menace.
Each blade has been modelled after a specific character’s blade at the Star Wars series. You may select from a number of unique styles. Perhaps you wish to maintain the green blade of this diminutive Jedi master, Yoda. Sold using a distinctive piece to attach two blades, then you are able to transform your mouse into a double-bladed lightsaber easily.
Every Force FX blade includes state of the art technologies that allow this lightsaber a legitimate work of art and an wonderful replica of these weapons on the huge screen. Motion detectors can detect objects they are nearing, or being placed into contact . The Force FX lightsaber creates digital audio effects from the pictures to make a whole realistic sound and texture to your own blade. When you take your lightsaber, and then touch the button on the hilt, your blade will power up and start to hum like those from the pictures. When you’re not using it, then you can keep your blade onto its own custom made display stand.