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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...

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...