Category: Weapons

Same-Sex Matters (Race and Gender in Marriage) ~ Re-Posted Due To Currant Events

I wanted to share here some conversation and further thinking on a topic that was discussed vigorously amongst friends while partaking in choice hops this past Halloween weekend. The below is written in conversation style (almost all my posts are like this) for friends. So it... Read More
All Religious and Moral Thinkers in History Rejected/Never Endorsed Same-Sex Marriages (Challenged with Buddhism)

A point Dennis Prager makes is that this is the first time in human history where a “liberal elite” thinks it knows better than all previous religious, political, and moral thinkers before them. I have been challenged on this point and so I enter here a response to... Read More
Was Jesus Black? (Conversation Series) ~ UPDATED

I have, for some reason unknown to me, many run-ins with Black Hebrew Israelites. God, either through my personality or bringing these people to my cyber door step, allows prolonged conversation with these very earnest people. This is one guy I like, he is witty, funny, and... Read More
The Incoherence of the Cultural Relativist Making Moral Pronouncements ~ Conversation Series

Here is a great conversation that stemmed from another story — as debated on FaceBook. I commented on a story someone posted on their FaceBook about an Iraqi woman who was killed in her home, and whoever murdered her left a note calling her a terrorist and they (the... Read More
A Starbucks Encounter with Michael Berryman

I love to go to Starbucks, grab a cup of coffee, and read/study my favorite topics in book form. Once and a while I will bump into people well known in pop-culture. Michael Berryman was recently one of those people. Of course, he is best known to me from an 80′s classic,... Read More
An Ironman Supplement ~ Thin Nothing I

I thought I would post a few items for the average man to engage someone lightly about Genesis. Here I want to focus on larger, easier to defend positions and will also throw in some minutia for the person who is curious about the issue as well. I will give a short reply and... Read More
Reason and Faith (From An Old Debate-Updated)

Certain words can mean very different things to different people. For instance, if I say to an atheist, “I have faith in God,” the atheist assumes I mean that my belief in God has nothing to do with evidence. But this isn’t what I mean by faith at all. When I... Read More
The Shallow, Self-refuting, Incoherent, and Illogical Thinking of `Agnositc` ~ Vincent Bugliosi

I was surprised in listening to Vincent Bugliosi in an interview about his book, Divinity of Doubt: The God Question. Surprised because considering his book on debunking pretty much every JFK conspiracy known to man, I would expect him to realize his fundamental mistake that... Read More

Gun Used to Kill Bin Laden is in Big Demand

By PapaGiorgio / May 09 2011 / in Weapons / No Comments »

The gun most likely used by Navy Seals to kill Osama Bin Laden, a Sig Sauer P226, has seen a huge spike in demand lately. (h/t Ace of Spades)

Russian Porn-AA12

By PapaGiorgio / Apr 29 2011 / in Weapons / 2 Comments »

XM25 In Theater Use Update

By PapaGiorgio / Feb 14 2011 / in Military, Technology, Weapons / No Comments »

BigPeace reports this:

All five prototypes were sent to Afghanistan in November. Officials are putting the final touches on data and analysis, but said Col. Douglas Tamilio, project manager for soldier weapons, said the weapons “performed flawlessly” and no maintenance issues showed.

Soldiers have been so pleased with the XM25 that they are carrying it as a primary weapon, and not bothering to bring an M4 as a secondary weapon, said Maj. Christopher Conley, who monitored the employment of XM25 on behalf of PEO Soldier.

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FireArm Blog has this “after action report”:

Army.mil reports …

“The XM25 brought the difference to whether they would stay there 15 to 20 minutes shooting (and) taking pot shots or the actual fight ended after using the XM25,” said Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Smith, Soldier Requirements Division, Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Ga. “That was due to the defilade capabilities of the XM25 to shoot beyond targets and behind targets.”

The XM25 allows Soldiers to engage defilade targets — those behind a barrier, protected from oncoming weapons fire. The XM25 measures the distance to the enemy’s protective barrier, and can then program the round to detonate a user-adjustable distance past that — allowing Soldiers to put an air-bursting round directly above the enemy’s head, inside their protected area.

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Since then, hundreds of XM25 rounds have been fired in theater, though only 55 of those rounds were fired as part of combat, on nine different operational missions.

“We disrupted two insurgents on an OP (observation point) and we silenced two machine-gun positions — two PKM positions,” Conley said, describing some of the scenarios he witnessed in theater where the XM25 had been used. “We destroyed four ambush locations, where the survivors fled.”

I had to look up the word “defilade”. A defilade target means a target using a protective barrier or terrain to protect themselves from fire.

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WikiLeaks Confirm WMDs-Again

By PapaGiorgio / Dec 07 2010 / in Best of PapaG, Weapons / No Comments »

This post will be intimately connected with my main post on WMDs as well as its update. ATLAS SHRUGS H/T. WikiLeaks is helping and hurting us… here is a help for the masses:

Many of us have been reporting on Iraq’s WMD for years. But don’t expect the propagandists and left-o-media to revise their lies or deliberate obfuscations to advance their treacherous agenda.

WikiLeaks is confirming Iraq’s WMD. **crickets hospitalized from chirping exhaustion****

RUSSIA moved Saddam’s WMDs- Atlas Shrugs, February 2006

Congress’s Secret Saddam Tapes and WMD – Atlas Shrugs, February 2006

Iraqi WMD Mystery Solved- Atlas Shrugs, March 2006

Iraq’s WMD’s Secreted to Syria – Atlas Shrugs, December 06

WMD in Iraq Crickets Chirping – Atlas Shrugs, March 2006

Iraq: WMD –Do Nukes Count? – Atlas Shrugs, Fevruary 2006

IRAQ’S WMD FOUND AT UN – Atlas Shrugs, August 2007

9/6 REPORT: Saddam’s W MD in Syria – Atlas Shrugs, April 2008

550 Metric Tons Of Yellowcake Removed From Iraq, July 2008

Wikileaks: WMD program existed in Iraq prior to US invasion Jim Kouri, The Examiner

The release by Julian Assange’s web site Wikileaks of classified documents reveals that U.S. military intelligence discovered chemical weapons labs, encountered insurgents who were specialists in the creation of toxins, and uncovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. However, Washington, DC officials and the news media have ignored this information.

One of the WikiLeaks document dumps reveals that as late as 2008, American troops continued to find WMD in the region.

There are numerous mentions of chemical and biological weapons in the WikiLeaks documents, however the U.S. media appear only interested in those portions of the leaked material that highlight actions that are viewed as embarrassing for the U.S. military such as the accusation that U.S. commanders were aware of abuse and “torture” of prisoners by Iraqi soldiers and police officers.

The U.S. Defense Department continues to demand that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange immediately return the stolen military documents in his possession, including recent documents that created another stir when published, according to Elaine Wilson of American Forces Press Service.

The department also wants the whistle-blowing web site to permanently delete all versions of these documents, which contain classified and sensitive information, from its web site, computers and records, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters during a Pentagon briefing.

WikiLeaks documents don’t reveal evidence of a massive weapons program by Saddam Hussein — the Bush administration’s leading rationale for invading Iraq — or some enormous stockpile of WMD, but do reveal that chemical weapons did vanish from the Iraqi battlefield.

According to the latest WikiLeaks document “dump,” Saddam’s toxic arsenal, significantly reduced after the Gulf War, remained intact. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict and may have brewed up their own deadly agents, according to the WikiLeaks web site.

During that time, former Iraqi General Georges Sada, Saddam’s top commander, detailed the transfers of Iraq’s WMD. “There [were] weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands,” Mr. Sada said. “I am confident they were taken over.”

Gen. Sada’s comments came just a month after Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, claimed that Saddam Hussein “transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.”

in 2004, for example, American special forces members secretly purchased what they believed to be containers of liquid sulfur mustard which have been used since World War I. Following testing in a military lab, the chemical was then secured and transferred to a secret location.

Read the whole thing.

Marines Training in Counter-Pirating Using MP9s

By PapaGiorgio / Dec 03 2010 / in Military, Weapons / No Comments »

FireArm Blog h/t:

Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s Maritime Interception Operations (MIO) assault force attach a cave ladder with a telescopic pole to HNS Aris during their final exercise at Souda Bay, Crete, Greece, Nov. 12, 2010. The MIO assault force went through a one-week course at the NATO Maritime Interception Operations Training Center in tactics to board a suspect vessel. (Official USMC Photo by Master Sgt. Christopher Matt/ Released)

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XM-25

By PapaGiorgio / Dec 01 2010 / in Technology, Weapons / No Comments »

While the video below mentions people not have hearing about this weapon, I am not one of those people. I linked to it on July 07, 2009. Plus, I am a big fan of Firearm Blog and this technology has been the buzz there for some time. The South Koreans have a version of it (SEE). This technology is surely a huge benefit for our guys in clearing rooms from a distance. This gun however is not — like the South Korean version — a rifle. This would be on someones back until it is needed. The troops carrying this would still have to have a rifle. For you ammo whores, the rounds for the XM25 will cost about $24 apiece. Not bringing friends to the range with that $$$.

Outakes from the tutuorial entitled: The Art of the Dynamic Shotgun

By PapaGiorgio / Nov 05 2010 / in Humor, Weapons / No Comments »

Firearm Blog h/t, the trailer for this tutorial was previously posted HERE:

You can see their site, Art of the Dynamic Shotgun.

Update to my large WMD post

By PapaGiorgio / Oct 24 2010 / in History, Islam, Media, Military, Poli-Sci, Weapons / No Comments »

(UPDATE 10-24-2010) Newsbusters explains how the “WikiLeaks” massive dump of classified documents show that WMDs were found:

WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq – With Surprising Results

By late 2003, even the Bush White House’s staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

But for years afterward, WikiLeaks’ newly-released Iraq war documents reveal, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins, and uncover weapons of mass destruction.

An initial glance at the WikiLeaks war logs doesn’t reveal evidence of some massive WMD program by the Saddam Hussein regime — the Bush administration’s most (in)famous rationale for invading Iraq. But chemical weapons, especially, did not vanish from the Iraqi battlefield. Remnants of Saddam’s toxic arsenal, largely destroyed after the Gulf War, remained. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict — and may have brewed up their own deadly agents.

… The WMD diehards will likely find some comfort in these newly-WikiLeaked documents. Skeptics will note that these relatively small WMD stockpiles were hardly the kind of grave danger that the Bush administration presented in the run-up to the war.

Sorry, Mr. Shachtman, the “diehards” are those on the left who have never backed away from “no WMDs” claim, which has once again (previous examples here, here, here, and here, to identify just a few) been proven to be demonstrably false.

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Gateway Pundit wonders: “Do you suppose this will make any headlines?” Prognosis: Doubtful. There’s too much at stake in protecting the left’s folklore.

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awesome shotgunner class

By PapaGiorgio / Sep 29 2010 / in Weapons / 2 Comments »

FireArm Blog h/t

~AND THE WINNER IS~

By PapaGiorgio / Sep 04 2010 / in Military, News Story, Technology, Weapons / No Comments »

After much speculation and competition, FNH wins contract.

BlackFive h/t:

The Marine Corps Times reported last week that:

….Earlier this month, the MK-17 – dubbed the SCAR by its Belgian manufacturer FNH – went into “full rate production” making it the first new assault carbine to be purchased by the U.S. military since the M-16 and M-4 rifles went online four decades ago. The rifle is expected to be particularly valuable in situations like those faced by soldiers fighting in Afghanistan, where the weapon’s additional range will provide a significant upgrade.

The new rifle meets Special Operations Command’s, or Socom’s, goal of providing a flexible firearm to special operators that essentially puts the capabilities of five weapons into one, says Maj. Wes Ticer, spokesman for the command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base.

“This is the first modular weapons system, with the first interchangeable barrel, that the operator can change in the field,” Ticer says.

The advantage, says Ticer, is that special operators, who carry as much as 75 pounds of gear in extremely difficult terrain, can now carry a single, lighter weapon that can be used in close quarters or for longer-range shooting. It can also fire the standard 5.56mm bullets now used in the M-4 – the mainstay of special operators – or the larger, 7.62mm bullet, which is more effective at longer distances.

The MK-17 won’t replace the M-4, says Ticer. But it will fill a gap in a lighter-weight weapon that fires the larger rounds.

“There is a capability gap,” says Ticer. Socom, he says, has no assault rifle that can fire the 7.62 round.

“This is smaller and more maneuverable than the existing weapons,” like the M110, the MK-11 and the MK-14 Enhanced Battle Rifle.

At 7.9 pounds with a standard barrel, the MK-17 is 4.5 pounds lighter than the MK-14.

The MK-17 won’t be able to fire both calibers until early next year, when the weapons are outfitted with what is called a “common receiver,” according to FNH Marketing Director Gabe Bailey….

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Defense Tech has some reaqlly good input on this weapon, to which I post just a bit of the personal opinion here:

Meet the SCAR

….From personal experience, I just gotta say these weapons rock. I fired the SCAR Heavy and Light at FNHs range near Fredericksburg, Va., several months ago and fell particularly in love with the SCAR Heavy. The gas/piston system has a great thunk-thunk mechanical feel to it and the 7.62 caliber heavy packs a heck of a punch. The SCAR Light is easy to fire, very adjustable, and the barrels are easy to interchange — creating basically a whole new weapon for each variation.

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FNH says the Mk-16 and Mk-17 are the first assault rifles to be procured through a full and open competition since the M4/M16 carbines in the 1960s. Both FNH weapons are impressive and well see how the operational tests and initial fielding go. I bet operators who get a chance to test them wont want to give them up. I didnt.

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Israel Patents Next Gen Sniper Scopes

By PapaGiorgio / Aug 14 2010 / in Israel/Jewish, Technology, Weapons / No Comments »

FireArm Blog Story:

…The patent describes a LIDAR (Laser Identification Detection And Ranging) unit which works by firing a laser beam at the target. The reflection of the laser is captured by an array of photodiodes. Fluctuations in the signals received by the photodiodes are used to detect both the direction and velocity of cross wind…

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(Burris Eliminator LaserScope. Automatically calculates elevation holdover)

Wired Magazine has some more insight on this amazing product:

Earlier this month, a British Army sniper Corporal Craig Harrison broke the world’s record for superaccurate shooting, taking out a pair of Taliban machine gunners from a mile-and-a-half away. It was a one-in-a-million feat — one performed under “perfect” conditions, Harrison says: “no wind, mild weather, clear visibility.”

Darpa, the Pentagon’s way-out research arm, is hoping to use lasers and advanced optical systems to make other snipers Harrison-accurate, even when the winds are howling. The agency is looking for 15 ultraprecise sniper scopes to put in shooters’ hands by next year.

The “One Shot” program originally aimed to give snipers the power to hit a target from 2000 meters away in winds as high as 40 miles per hour. In the first phases of the 3-year-old program, shooters used prototype rifles dressed with lasers and fancy computer hardware to do damage from 1,100 meters away in 18-mile-an-hour winds. The scope-mounted lasers can “see” wind turbulence in the path of the bullet and feed the data to computers, enabling real-time calculation of — and compensation for — the wind-blown trajectory.

The program is just one of several high-tech hardware upgrades the U.S. military is pursuing for its snipers. Plans are also in place to make bullets that can change course in mid-air and a stealth sniper scope that would make shooters all but invisible.

With initial demonstrations complete, the next step for One Shot is to make 15 “field-testable prototype, observation, measurement, and ballistic calculation system[s], which enable [s]nipers to hit targets with the first round, under crosswind conditions, up to the maximum effective range,” Darpa says in its program announcement. Total cost: $7 million….

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