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Heh. Who knew the Prius Hybrid could go 100mph? Clever way to get the younger crowd out of gas-only-burners. That's some outside-the-box thinking. -the Armorer
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Isn't it enough to know the bombs failed? Why give out the weak link that caused the failure? What public interest is served? I know what terrorist interest is served... Just askin'... -the Armorer
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Heh. This will *not* happen at the Castle. Everything contained therein is safely inert. I even have a binder for the local EOD guys that ID's everything, and lays out the signs of inerting. Why? Because EOD guys don't fiddle around with things, much. They tend to blow it up first and ask questions later. I'd hate to have that happen.
My kinda Beauty Queen. Warning, if you explore Theo's site - it's full of a lot of, um, well, for most of you NSFW pics. Nothing explicit, but Miss Thang would feel oppressed. H/t, CAPT H. -the Armorer
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Captain Ed, on Canada's problem controlling interesting devices with nuclear components (We may have a similar problem, just unreported, lest anyone think I'm picking on Canada). Captain Ed makes the same observation about media assistance to terrrorists I make above - but I do have a quibble with the story that Captain Ed links to (not what Captain Ed said).
One hopes that Mr. Bell knows better than the journalist writing the piece, and that he didn't actually say:
Some of the devices could be used in a "dirty bomb," where conventional explosives are used to detonate nuclear material, spreading the contamination over a wide area, said Alan Bell, a security and international terrorism expert from Globe Risk Security Holdings.
Dirty bombs aren't detonating nuclear material... they're using conventional or improvised explosive to *spread* nuclear material via the effects of the explosion. Important distinction, if only because of the radiation pulse (absent from a "dirty bomb") that accompanies the detonation of a nuclear explosive. Just sayin'. -the Armorer
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Redstate with a fascinating discussion of the MRAP, politics, and industrial capacity, and Senator Bidens deep understanding of the issue.
My favorite bit in the piece? Where Streiff writes...
"Unfortunately, Joe. The V-shaped things have to be actually manufactured by real people, in real factories, with real materials. They aren't created by the Legislative FairyWand™ issued to senior senators."
Now that's good eatin'! -the Armorer
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires.
Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute.
*Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is*
The UAVs (oops, can't call 'em UAVs anymore - they're now Unmanned Aerial Systems... some Colonel got his Legion of Merit for that change...), er, um UAS's we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now.
I call the post that because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to. It's also an open trackback, so if someone has a post they're proud of, but it really isn't either Castle kind of stuff, or topical to a particular post, I've basically given blanket permission to use that post for that purpose. Another term of art that might be appropriate is "Free Fire Zone".
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