Guns & Gear
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Russia Was 40 Percent Done With a Nimitz-Class Style Aircraft Carrier That Might Have Been 94,000-Tons and Had 4 Nuclear Reactors When It Was Scrapped
Summary and Key Points: When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk sat 40% complete at…
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1,000-Pound Bombs Made in 1953 Turned a 75,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Fire Into a Catastrophe. 7 of the Korean War-Era Bombs Were Among the First to Detonate
Summary and Key Points: On July 29, 1967, an electrical surge on an F-4 Phantom fired a Zuni rocket 100…
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I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: 550 Rounds a Minute, a 30-Round Magazine, 400 Meters, 10.5 Pounds. The Germans Got Every Number Right on the StG-44 in 1944 Except the Last One.
The StG-44: The Rifle That Changed Infantry Weapons Forever – Every modern infantry rifle owes a debt to a German…
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Raid the Museum: The NASA SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 Comeback Is Going to Need What Looks Like a Minor Miracle to Get Off the Ground
One of the most storied, celebrated spy platforms of the Cold War may have a new lease on life —…
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Pete Hegseth Orders Midterm Election Defense. Pentagon Won’t Explain What’s New
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed military cyber and intelligence agencies to protect the midterm elections from foreign interference. The…
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Disabled Female Veteran, 69, Financially Defrauded for $120,000: Police
A North Carolina man is claimed to have financially exploited a 69-year-old disabled veteran, amounting to hundreds of thousands of…
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The U.S. Military’s Flying Saucer
At first glance, the Avrocar looked like a prop from a 1950s science fiction movie. It was round, low to…
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How Navy SEAL John Allen Became a Storyteller
The grenade bounced off John Allen’s shoulder and exploded nearby during a firefight in Afghanistan. Allen, a Navy SEAL, was…
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Green Beret, Military Spouse Challenge ‘Broken Veteran’ Narrative
Herb and Corrie Thompson have spent roughly 50 interviews asking people a deceptively simple question: Why are you special? The…
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Operation Enduring Freedom Began 25 Years Ago. Its Legacy Is Still Being Written
Operation Enduring Freedom began Oct. 7, 2001, when U.S. and British forces launched airstrikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban targets in…
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