Images by the author Ahh… 1964. I remember it well. The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time on February 9th, four days before my 12th birthday, and I had never seen anything like them… America was still in mourning after the JFK assassination the previous November… the Civil Rights Act was passed in July… Vietnam was escalating… and Ruger introduced its iconic .22 semi-auto rifle, the 10/22. The autoloading 10/22 came about when bolt-action rifles were a thing… There had been semi-autos, of course, but the Ruger captured shooters’ collective attention when it was unveiled.…
Author: Tommy Grant
The world’s largest aircraft carrier is expected to reach an unprecedented deployment of 11 months, the chief of naval operations confirmed Tuesday.Adm. Daryl Caudle said the USS Gerald R. Ford, which is currently sitting at 281 days, would likely see a “record-breaking deployment” while speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.The current record is held by the USS Midway, which was deployed at sea for 332 days during the Vietnam War.The USS Gerald R. Ford is currently undergoing maintenance in Croatia after a non-combat fire in its main laundry room injured three sailors, damaged 100 sleeping…
United States ruler Donald Trump said that the U.S. military could seize Kharg Island on Monday, even as Iran has allowed twenty American oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social on Monday showing a military strike in Iran at night. Kharg Island is home to a major oil terminal that is considered the country’s economic lifeline. In an interview with the Financial Times, as reported by The BBC on Sunday, Trump said he wants to “take” Iran’s oil and was considering seizing Kharg Island. But he added an operation “would mean we had to…
A U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry, an airborne warning and control system, was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia — one of several strikes on the installation since Operation Epic Fury began Feb. 28. Two weeks earlier, on March 13, five KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft were damaged on the flight line, two U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal, as reported by Military Times.Since Feb. 28, Iran has struck radar systems, satellite communications and mission-critical aircraft at at least seven U.S. bases across Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait,…
This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News. Trump’s Newfound ‘Peace’ is a Desperate, Empty Ploy I believe we are witnessing the final, gasping act of a failed presidency. Just this week, after weeks of a brutal, unnecessary war launched jointly with Israel against Iran, Donald Trump has suddenly begun speaking of ‘very good and productive conversations’ for a ‘complete and total resolution’ of hostilities [1]. To anyone paying attention, this is not diplomacy; it is a panicked, face-saving maneuver by a leader who has catastrophically miscalculated. The media’s eager framing of potential talks is a narrative designed…
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth on Wednesday appeared to lift the suspension of pilots under investigation for hovering near Kid Rock’s Tennessee mansion last week.In a post on social media, Hegseth thanked the rocker and said “pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots.” The statement came after Kid Rock, whose name is Richard James Ritchie, posted two videos waving to an Apache helicopter as it lingered near the pool outside of his Nashville estate. The musician said “God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her,” in the caption of…
Boeing has reached a framework agreement with the Defense Department to triple the capacity of seekers for the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, the company announced Wednesday. The contract framework, which will be spread across seven years, will match Lockheed Martin’s push to surge production on the PAC-3 MSE all-up round. Lockheed in January announced a seven-year framework agreement to increase annual PAC-3 interceptor production from approximately 600 to 2,000. “This agreement paves the way for us to scale rapidly to deliver increasingly sophisticated seekers,” Bob Ciesla, vice president of Boeing Precision Engagement Systems, said in a release announcing…
Iran has listed a new condition before ending the war with the United States. Tehran is seeking full sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. This has not been on Iran’s list prior to yesterday, and Donald Trump, the U.S. president, has told other ruling classes to head to the waterway and just take the Strait of Hormuz. Trump Threatens to Take Tehran’s Oil as Iran Says U.S. Proposal Is “Unrealistic” The narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) ordinarily passes has emerged as the Islamic Republic’s most potent weapon. And it is now…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “Wolves Don’t Live by Rules,” appeared in the March 1968 issue of Outdoor Life. Frank Glaser was a legendary predator control agent and the subject of Alaska’s Wolf Man, also by Jim Rearden. It was a cold clear March day at Savage River on the north slope of the Alaska Range. I was sitting on a hill watching a muskeg flat on which several hundred scattered caribou were feeding. A quarter-mile below me, a coal ledge jutted from the…
KYIV, Ukraine — While interceptor drones have become the most sought-after commodity of the Iran war, Ukrainian officials and defense practitioners are cautioning allies to recognize the pace of today’s battlefield requires them to buy into an entirely new system of warfare and production, instead of only the endpoint weapon.“Expertise is not a drone, but a skill, a strategy, a system where a drone is one part of the defense,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters on Monday.While Ukraine has built that infrastructure rapidly over the last few years, most countries now trying to integrate interceptors into air defense have…