Trying to understand kinetic energy can be confusing, but here we break down how it affects terminal performance.When shooters seek information about the performance of handgun ammunition for personal protection they most often look at bullet caliber and weight, plus muzzle velocity and muzzle energy. Of those four metrics, bullet caliber and weight and muzzle velocity are the easiest for us to wrap our heads around. We can see the size of the bullet, feel how much it weighs, and we are intimately familiar with speed. What shooters find difficult to comprehend is kinetic energy due to a lack of…
Author: Tommy Grant
You take a look at your garden and it looks A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! The tomatoes are heavy and bright red all the way up the vine. The beans have run to the top of their poles and started reaching for each other. So you stand there a minute feeling pretty good about the whole thing. You’ve made it! But even with all of these signs, your garden might not be as healthy as you think. Maybe this year’s harvest is good, but this is not a guarantee for the next year. If you were to run a lab soil test, you would…
Vague operational planning and a lack of transparency during U.S. actions in Iran have exacerbated the U.S. Navy’s longstanding logistics, maintenance and manpower issues — and sailors are feeling the effects, congressional leaders, retired military officials and deployed sailors have told Military Times.Following revelations from families about some U.S. service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln struggling with mental health after 250 days without a port visit, sailors, retirees and lawmakers told Military Times that troops were absorbing consequences of longtime flaws within the sea service that have been worsened by the current conflict.The Navy has struggled for years to…
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.Inside an office building in West Los Angeles, retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr. stood tall and strong in his signature spit-shined black cowboy boots. Under the shadow of a red Force Recon Association hat and tinted glasses, Capers’ eyes wore a hardened look that made no effort to hide the darkness and despair that gripped him at that moment. It was the fall of 2009, and Capers had come in search of a new mission.…
The U.S. Navy is leading a multinational effort to develop a new version of the Evolved SeaSparrow air defense missile.The goal is to create a variant of the SeaSparrow that can be used by the 12 nations in the NATO SeaSparrow Project Office consortium, or NSPO, according to the Navy Sources Sought notice. The deadline is Oct. 19.The NSPO is looking for a weapon that can be employed against a wide variety of threats. The NSV SeaSparrow “should have capability against current and future threat classes spanning a variety of threat characteristics including velocity (low-speed to high-speed), altitude (sea skimming…
The U.S. Department of State approved a possible $4.5 billion Foreign Military Sale to Qatar for the purchase of aerial refueling aircraft and equipment. Qatar’s government requested to buy up to four KC-46As, eight PW4062 turbofan engines, 10 AN/ALR-69A radar warning receivers, 15 Guardian Laser Transmitter Assemblies for Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure systems and 8 LAIRCM system processor replacements, according to a Thursday release.The proposed sale also includes “non-major defense equipment,” such as precision navigation, transportation and airlift support, personnel training and training equipment and other logistical and program support items, per the statement. “The proposed sale will increase Qatar’s…
A U.S. Air Force flight enroute to Antarctica turned around to New Zealand after being notified of “potentially hazardous” space activity this week.New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority was aware the flight from Christchurch pivoted following the agency’s issue of a Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM, to the aircraft, a CAA spokesperson told Military Times.The Russian Air Traffic Management Corporation notified the CAA of the space activity, the spokesperson said, causing the authority to issue the NOTAM to the U.S. Air Force flight.In a follow-up statement, the spokesperson said that the CAA was made aware by the Russian air traffic agency…
For many, the idea of digging a well seems out of reach. Some decide to dig their own well to gain some independence from city and government oversight. Others decide to dig their own well out of necessity (the lack of resources in the area they are in). Whatever the reasoning behind the desire to dig a well, it is important to know everything you can about the process. Our goal is to help educate everyone on the process of digging a well in full detail. We will provide a full-scope overview of the process, provide some videos to further…
Kevin Warsh Might SurpriseThe World Next Week Long-term interest rates are exploding across the global landscape, touching 19-year highs. The 30-year Treasury yield recently surged past 5.3%—levels unseen since 2007—while 10-year yields hold highs above 4.7%! The financial headlines are screaming panic: the U.S. government is facing a multi-trillion-dollar debt-service squeeze, mortgage rates are choking housing, and global liquidity is hitting a brick wall. Don’t FALL for this – like I said, markets will SUFFER a major correction, but after the midterms, the stock market will SOAR to one of its best ever years! If you look beneath the surface,…
Sean Jamshidi was a U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who served in some of the service’s most prized roles, including as an embassy security guard detachment commander and in psychological operations. But he feels helpless now to aid his brother, who worked for the U.S. government during the war in Afghanistan and has been stuck for nearly two years at a holding camp in Qatar, waiting for a visa to the United States.Jamshidi’s brother is one of roughly 150 family members of U.S. troops and veterans stranded at Camp As Sayliyah, according to the aid organization AfghanEvac. The camp is…