Recent content by k2keller

USNI posted a summary and copy of a Congressional Research Service report on providing F16s to Ukraine. Hopefully a sign of things to come. Transferring fighter aircraft to Ukraine

Thanks for putting that up. They've added to the display since I was there. The 50s and part of the tail weren't there for sure. The story I heard around the loss of the aircraft was that they were taxiing in to the seaplane ramp nearby and hit a semi-submerged piling with the wing float. It was...

I would point out that Putin and his allies come from the KGB in a time when they were actively (and effectively) courting and wooing Western business, technology, and politicians who thought that the relationship with Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union would benefit them and the West...

Pima has this seaplane on display PBM along with pieces of another one from the bottom of Lake Washington near Renton. I got to dive on that one as a training missioin with the King County Sheriff's Marine Unit back in the 1980s. It was in very good shape due to the cold water. The navy broke it...

How about seeing if they can get some Israeli conversion kits to bring the M60s up to the Sabra standard. It fires NATO standard 120mm ammunition. Sabra

I was a paramedic for more than 40 years, so I've certainly seen more than my share of people who survived and maybe shouldn't have. For my own part, I used to do a lot of volunteer Search and Rescue. We had several rivers that we were responsible for. One evening a local drug dealer was...

A good summary of the "informed speculation" here:The Drive: SU-25 crash may point to wider issues. It appears it was at an airfield in Russia, rather than Crimea.

SIG will be producing these is New Hampshire.

Necessity is the mother of invention. If there was a need, countermeasures were within reach. I'm not saying that a Spitfire is the solution, but here's a parallel scenario:

Reverse engineer the STG44. You're going to have to have an intermediate cartridge like the 6.5 Arisaka already mentioned so start from scratch and end up with something like the 6.5 Grendel or 6mm ARC. Better for urban warfare than the Garand and still good out to 500 meters.