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At the Ordnance Museum when it was located at Aberdeen. Not mounted on the A1 is the flash hider. As I was primarily a tanker in the early '70's we all shot them & they had mounting clips inside most AFV's but especially tanks into the early-mid '90's. They seldom left the arms room & would have...

Buried in my archives of stuff-saved-over-the-years is an article on a period made .45 prototype. ISTR there having been more than one produced but maybe not all accounted for. This was decades ago and the existing example(s) a bit out of reach, price-wise.

The point is not the chronology of events or introduction of types, rather it's the pointlessness of even trying to proclaim a GOAT when performance is dependent on the mission it has been designed for (or assigned to). The thing that makes the Corsair so relatively "long-lived" was that there...

And some lovely photos of the ones at key intersections in Bangkok during instability circulate. It was interesting when they offered rule to the same General who had administered the military junta there previously and he declined, so daunting was the economic situation and value of the baht. I...

As "performance" depends very much (and sometimes entirely) on the nature of the mission, when has it ever been relevant to advocate for the supremacy of any airplane, tank, rifle or canteen? I don't recall the Corsair distinguishing itself as an escort for long range bombers. P-51's were not...

Not entirely true. M41's were used for a number of "high visibility" duties including guarding the Presidential Palace during contentious events (like elections). Occasionally nicknamed "voting machines" for the influence they presumably had over the outcome of some elections. Of a number of...

During the project at the Armor Board in '72 we had wooden signs on chains with the "Danger-LASER light" symbol on it. When we were running the M60A1 "hotpants" (track skirts) project the idea was floated to take the "Hotpants" vehicle, stick something ominous looking in the M85 MG tube, hang...

In .45ACP presumably. By any chance do you handload? My reason for asking is that as a handloader of 40 years now & have or had a number of 1911's, the chamber dimensions seem quite a bit tighter than on Colts, Kimbers, even an old Star PD. I find that it takes quite a bit of crimp to get them...

If you served on the M551A1 you enjoyed the fruits of our labors. My first test project at the Armor Board after DEROS was the Hughes LASER RF, the element that made an A1 of an M551. They would also get the TTS but that work was done after my time. Lots of gunnery on the LRF & it was a pretty...

The M114 was rapidly pulled from U.S. service in Vietnam and handed over to the ARVN, who didn't much appreciate them either. The front overhang of the hull in front of the track greatly limited it's cross-country mobility. It would be stopped by terrain that an M113 would easily take in stride...

One of the remarkable things about the toy industry during this period was how on top of developments they were, defense tech advance as it was. Of the numerous "green army men" toys introduced (in the often not green "ringhand" and "slothand" scale) with the new plastics was an MPC "tank" that...

No, Sir. The M60 never served in Vietnam. The very distinct variant of Combat Engineer Vehicle, the M728 saw some use, but it is quite a different beast. The USMC introduced the M48 when the first BLT arrived. The Army deployed them in increasing numbers, rapidly replacing any gassers with the...

In fact the first armor deployed by the U.S. forces was in 1965 with the coming of the USMC Battalion Landing Team, which included a tank section. When the administration approved the deployment of the BLT, they were not aware that tanks were organic to the unit. The USMC had been given no...

It is a reasonably good article. The main criticism I'd have concerns the "lunge" mines & some conflation of the term "fougasse" (which they really aren't). I've armed many a flame fougasse and examined others, like stone fougasses & the only thing they have in common with the Lunge device is...

By the time I made it to 2/17th Air Cav, 101st Abn. we were up to "H" models, I believe and AH-1G's with OH-6A LOH's, the trifecta of Air Cavalry in 1971. The Cobras were even getting air conditioning by then. One of the great "never say never" examples was the observation that UH-1H's were...

Patton was capable of any number of intemperate remarks that were in the press and in at least one case, pointedly refuted by BG J.H. "PeeWee" Collier, CG of Combat Command A. in 2AD CG Isaak D. White's report to SHAEF (Eisenhower) on a late war comparison of U.S. vs. German arms and equipment...

Good to know he can be met in the flesh. I always assumed he was a replicant given his skills. As serious as he is about his craft, he is refreshingly also a seemingly big kid who loves his job, something you don't often see in dedicated professionals. I still watch his Barrett .50BMG sequences...

In another life I performed a lot of technical service to medical laboratories around the U.S. This included government facilities like the Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton when I was living in San Diego. In even the life before that I was with the U.S. Army in Vietnam, both Air and Armored...

We had several M113 ACAV's in 2/11th ACR equipped with the Mk19. Not useful in heavy bush but in more open areas....

We were still using the VSS-1 Xenon searchlights when i served. 😄