Your plane makes an emergency crash landing that leaves you a battered but marooned survivor. It’s just you alone in the elements. The only good thing is that your M6 will get you through the night and hopefully a speedy rescue tomorrow.
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After generations of not being able to get their nuclear powered boats to work right, the Chinese have gone and built the world’s largest conventional (diesel) sub. The Type 032 Qing-class test submarine is thought that this big diesel boomer will replace a forty-year old Golf class submarine that has been used since the Nixon era to test Chinese SLBMs.
For reference, it is thought to be over 6628-tons, making it very nearly the largest diesel boat ever made (the Japanese I-400 series boats, profiled on a previous Warship Wednesday, in fact drew 6670-tons at full load). Except where the I400 was capable of carrying 3 seaplanes, a 140mm gun, and 8-torpedo tubes, the Qing is capable of carrying the 4500-nm range the JL-2A submarine-launched ballistic missile, CJ-20A cruise missiles and the YJ-18 anti-ship missile. Oh yeah, plus torpedoes.
Previous Chinese nuclear powered boats were considered the brass bands of the Pacific, being heard from miles away by P-3 crews and 688 boat passive arrays. These new ones may be an interesting move in the quiet direction.
Only time will tell.
Hattip to MP.net for breaking the story even before Janes.
…..Dolly is waiting to make contact
Do bears go (well you know) in the woods? The inevitable answer is always yes. Moreover, sometimes, hikers cross paths with these animals, and that is when things can really go from bad to worse in no time at all. Just as one Alaskan hiker who carried just the right piece of insurance.
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The rhyme goes: If its Green- start to lean, If its black- take it back (on the followers of your GI Mags)
So keep that in mind if you find a good deal on black-follower used GI mags…
Granted, its Independence and its $11 a box, but they also had a shelf full of 556 American Eagle 100 packs for $59…now if they can get 22 back!
Vintage 1962 Ten day survival kit. Had enough food, water, sterno, can openers, matches, utensils and first aid kit to get you through ten days.
Not bad looking for fifty years of storage. I wouldn’t drink the water though.
Ever since 1975, the world has come to know and love the sleek and downright elegant CZ75 combat pistol. This Czech designed and produced firearm has been cloned probably more than any other modern gun with the exception of the M1911 so chances are you are familiar. One variant you probably haven’t gotten your grubby little hands on though is the full auto one, and that’s a shame.
Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) always had a more Western tilt than other Soviet satellite states. This can be seem clearly in their history of firearms manufacturing.
The Czech firearms super factory of Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod (best known simply as CZ) had long been a maker of top shelf firearms that earned the old Communist State of Czechoslovakia hard foreign currency. By 1991, with the end of the cold war and the coming of capitalist freedom to the region, the Czech Republic divested itself of the CZ munitions works and the company began life on its own two feet, as a private entity.
Looking to help push new products out into the world, that could include Western countries without import restrictions, the company looked at two of its bestselling products, the CZ75 pistol and the Skorpion vz61 submachine gun and came up with a novel way to have the first become a new and improved version of the latter. In the early 1990s there was a certain niche market out there for high speed 9mm machine pistols such as the Glock 18 and Beretta 93R, but the CZ’s dated Skorpion design was chambered from the ground up for .32ACP.
Hence: a CZ75 that could sting like a Skorpion.
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Why yes, that IS a 2nd magazine used as a forward grip…
The littoral combat ship USS Independence (LCS 2) demonstrates its maneuvering capabilities in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel M. Young/Released)
Today the pump action shotgun is well represented by various offerings from Benelli, Remington, and Mossberg among many others and stands out as perhaps the best symbol of what modern firearm ownership is all about—personal defense, hunting and recreation all wrapped in a package so simple that even a youth can operate it (under the right supervision, of course). This is pretty amazing considering the basic design employed on all of these weapons is over 120-years old. Guns.com looks at five classic slide guns that, while no longer in production, remain as a testimony to the brutal versatility of the pump gun:
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Many vintage pump action shotguns, like these Stevens 520 and 620, while no longer in production, can be great guns