Weapons

Soldiers are pushing the M7 through real field conditions, and the rifle is changing fast because the people who carry it refuse to accept anything less than combat ready performance.

The Steambow M10 Tactical Crossbow is what happens when you bolt AR-style attitude onto a compact, magazine-fed crossbow that turns every trigger pull into a fast, grinning payoff.

Forged under fire by engineers who refused to wait for permission, Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo shows how a nation can build its own long-reach answer to Russian aggression—and hit harder than anyone expected.

Estonia’s Frankenberg Technologies is betting that its AI guided, “good enough” Mark 1 mini missile, built cheap and in huge numbers, is the practical way to swat Russian drones out of NATO skies without going bankrupt.

The lens hummed, the mud stilled, and for a heartbeat I couldn’t tell who was hunting who.

Standing in B&T’s sunlit Thun factory, watching skilled technicians hand-assemble and test-fire precision weapons while founder Karl Brügger animatedly explained every design choice over lunch, I left convinced that Swiss obsession with engineering had produced some of the finest, most dependable small arms in the world.

Russia’s nuclear-powered 9M730 Burevestnik (SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is a low-altitude, long-endurance cruise missile, with a claimed 14,000 km in 15 hours still unverified, built to slip past missile defenses and push the nuclear arms race into a harder phase.

A mainstream media outlet meant to sound an alarm about “justified homicides,” but its own reporting confirms what gun owners, cops, and veterans already know: trained, law-abiding Americans stop predators and keep families alive.

From the five pound MHTK that swats mortars midair to the F-35 ready Mako sprinting at Mach 5, Lockheed has handed the Pentagon two precise, affordable missiles built for the fights ahead, and the real question is why we are not buying them.

Barrett’s 30×42 PGS family arrives like a sledgehammer for the squad: programmable air bursts, proximity fused rounds to punch drones out of the sky, and a staged Mod rollout that turns a grenadier into a squad level fire support hub.

In the realm of personal and home defense, one must navigate a sea of tactical “enhancements” with discerning wisdom, for while some gadgets offer genuine advantages, others may simply weigh you down with unnecessary prestige and expense.

Facial hair has long been associated with military leadership and rugged masculinity. However, in the context of modern chemical warfare, beards pose a direct threat to survivability. This article refutes the romanticized notion of the “warrior beard” by grounding the discussion in historical precedent, NBC doctrine, and current military policy. From WWI trench hygiene to banana oil testing in Cold War civil defense, through the destruction of legacy chemical stockpiles at Dugway and Tooele, and now to mandated seal checks in 2025, the evidence is clear: seal integrity is life, and that seal begins with a clean-shaven face.