Recent content by NavyShooter

Some progress....hull has been masked and the first light layer of gray has been applied.

Ponder if you will the Moskova and Snake Island's defenders. That radio conversation became a legend and gave strength to the Ukrainians in their struggle. What kind of response would the Iranian Corvette have likely given if contacted by the US? Something similar I would imagine, which...

There will always be some form of Force Protection loadout, plus basic safe at sea SOLAS pyro. Etc etc etc....yeah....no further on caps/etc. Sorry.

I'm fine with being wrong....but this guy seems to give a bit of insight: His words - "weapons can be this precise"

As a sailor - I feel bad for the crew of that ship. She literally had no chance. No real ASW capability - she carried a pair of triple 324mm ASW Torp launchers, but, seems not to have had any Sonar systems to detect a target. There was a video that opined that the submarine used a...

What if the US Doesn't care about anything but winning the battle? The war - is a foreign entanglement. There seems to be little appetite for boots on the ground, but there's all kinds of aircraft and bombs and missiles being sent down range (and torpedoes.) Win the battle(s) - destroy...

What was the solution to Germany using the V-1 and V-2? Did strategic bombing destroy those and halt the attacks? Or. Did it require boots on the ground and regime change to make it stop. Similarly, the Kreigsmarine of WW2 - they realized that they couldn't take on the allies in a stand-up...

My kids enjoyed shooting my 1919A4....semi only....back when I had it...and it was legal.... sigh

I bought my kids rifles - for them to use. I own them, they're locked in my gun safe(s) and they have no access to either the gun room, nor the safes. They use them under my direct supervision only. My littlest minion is pretty good with hers - it's a Ruger Precision Rimfire in .22 LR.

I doubt they had any clue they were under attack....and it smashed the entire stern of the ship - engineering spaces would have flooded quickly in addition to the compartments that were utterly destroyed in the initial explosion....the bow looked relatively undamaged, but that ship is dead and...

This should be a GAU-5A https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/us-air-force-survival-rifle-gau5a-asdw/371228

Observation - it seems to me that when regimes fall, there is usually a small core of people protesting, acting, and leading. It starts small, and grows as that core build a center of mass. There were 30-40K of that center of mass murdered by this regime last month....I think those were...

They tried press-ganging me into the sub world over 2 decades ago....long story long, but it didn't work out for the sub guys.

Might not look that much different from afar, but close up, she's looking really good. There's only about 3-4 little touch-up spots to go now. NS

What I've been seeing on the "MIRV not MIRV" object accompanying the main warhead are that they are basically penetration aids - designed to mask the real warhead amidst the cloud of others. Shooting down the actual warhead could now take a complete battery worth of SAMs, and most would be...