AI and autonomy are being integrated into special operations “at every level,” the leader of U.S. Special Operations Command told lawmakers on Tuesday—an indication that SOCOM, like smaller organizations everywhere, is well-poised to take advantage of disruptive technologies.They are “critical” to sensing the battlefield, continuously surveilling adversary forces and targets,…
Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao made his first public remarks Tuesday as the civilian head of the Navy since the Pentagon announced Wednesday that John Phelan would be leaving the role he’d held for just about 13 months.Cao, a retired Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer and two-time candidate for Virginia…
Adding a new cartridge to your lineup usually means making some trade-offs. More power means more recoil. Shorter barrels usually mean giving up velocity. But every now and then, something shows up that doesn’t really feel like a compromise at all.Enter the 8.6 Blackout.If you’ve messed around at all with…
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While some cartridges are built to be versatile, the .338 Lapua Match is built to be predictable.Not convenient, not cheap, and definitely not casual. Predictable. And when you’re stretching beyond 1,000 yards, that’s the trait that matters most.At those distances, small inconsistencies turn into big misses. “Aim small, miss small”…
Let me start off by saying I HATE panic vendors. You know who these guys are, they’re the ones out there sending emails and posting to social media TRYING to create panic in order to sell more ammo. I’m not one of them. Instead, I want to give everyone a more…
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The Air Force must upgrade its KC-135 tankers to give aircrews more battlespace awareness, say former air-mobility leaders who warn that more tragedies might follow a recent deadly crash.On March 12, two KC-135s were involved in the deadly mishap over friendly airspace that was not the result of hostile or…
Locals in a northern Minnesota community have reported more than 100 dead deer along a railway, where a cart apparently leaked corn along the tracks for miles. According to the Facebook page of Steve Porter, owner and operator of a deer farm in the area, he’s documented droves of deer…
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There’s a certain comfort in stacking ammo cans.Rows of neatly labeled cases of 9mm, 5.56, and maybe even some .22 tucked away for good measure. It feels productive. Responsible, even.But stockpiling by itself is a shallow form of readiness. It looks good on a shelf, but doesn’t necessarily hold up…
Fundamentals Series — Part 3At Valiance Firearms Training (VFT), we view two things as the primary drivers of performance with a pistol: Grip and trigger control. If a shooter can maintain a high and tight grip that keeps the gun flat and apply consistent trigger control that minimizes movement, they can progress…
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There are lines most hunters won’t cross, even without a game warden breathing down their neck. But one Washington man crossed those lines again and again, which recently landed him one of the stiffest sentences for poaching the Evergreen State has dealt in years.Ronald Livermore, 77, of Okanogan County, was…
In north-central Alaska, up to 2.1 million acres of federal land could be transferred to state ownership, opening the door for new mining and road development. On February 25, the Department of Interior announced the revocation of Public Land Orders 5150 and 5180 in Alaska’s Dalton Utility Corridor, which traces…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: What you’re about to listen to is a conversation with Alison Fox, the CEO of American Prairie. For twenty five years, American Prairie has been executing on an ambitious and highly controversial plan to buy hundreds of thousands of acres of ranch land in the vicinity of…
