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Thx, generally the impression I had. Kind of ironic given the potency of the Super, which enjoyed wide use during the era of depression-era gangsters (penetrating power, including on cars). Collector guns sources/brokers seem to do very well placing pistols from South of our border when someone...

And they were all chambered in .45ACP? I had the impression that most 1911's called to serve in S. America were in .38 Super. Was the Super just the "limited caliber" for the civilian market* or did regional armies opt for .45 in military service? *I seem to recall that .38 &/or 9mm was the...

1970 Series '70. Bought new that year by my dad for combination birthday/enlistment. First presented in the original box at a nice steakhouse & no one thought a thing about it (or if they did, they kept it to themselves). A few months later I surreptitiously packed it for my deployment to...

Being long out of uniform but not out of .mil training areas there is one quality of the Osprey I'm comfortable with based on prior service (in two campaigns in VN, one of them in an Air Cav Sqn.) as well as years near military bases. Buried in there are 15 years with a office about a mile off...

Is the clipboard still "tactical" when ordered in colors other than black?

Well, not the whole Navy. Not everyone was prepared to speak altogether candidly where the SecDef had an interest. In a Senate hearing where Senator Stennis pointedly asked if new, uprated engines would facilitate it meeting the fighter needs of the Navy, the Deputy CNO pointedly answered "Mr...

My biggest gripe was that it could not be made to take an "aimed" shot. For cooling, it fires from an open bolt. Pulling the trigger first produces a large mass of movement that screws with aiming. Closed bolt weapons don't do this.

A keen eye will detect colors not seen in nature...black wrinkle jugs with alum. heads? Sportster and XL750 guru, the late Allen Girdler had a chance to check it out in Oceanside, CA and was very generous about the build.

I owned quite a few bikes, mostly big twins of the shovel era, but also some evo's and even a V-rod. But after my Ducati, I wanted better handling that was still fun in town. Bought a new '74 base model XL 883 as project bike. Built to resemble a 1970 XLCH I added the big jugs for 1204cc, Wiseco...

Recognizing that this is an old post the account above is even more interesting in Wyden's "Bay of Pigs" and likely also Haynes Johnson's book of same name.... The USN pilots were also sanitized, turning in various dogtags, ID's professional associations indicators for a Navy aviator. They did...

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...