Impro Guns

 art, awesomeness, weapons  8 Responses »
Mar 032015
 

Whenever you’re feeling down and losing faith in humanity, check out this blog:

Impro Guns

It’s loaded with photos of improvised/home-made firearms from around the world. Some are *incredibly* crude. Some are extremely professional-looking. All serve as reminders that, no matter how poor you are or how restrictive and totalitarian the government, there are people who have the initiative and cleverness to take a box of scraps and turn it into something useful.

The triple-barreled shotgun pistol from Brazil actually looks kinda spiffy. Might just be a cut-down “professional” gun, though.

 

 Posted by at 12:43 pm

Here we go…

 Forward!, Hmm..., I'm from the government, Meh., news, Obamazombies, politics, weapons, ಠ_ಠ  3 Responses »
Feb 272015
 

A few years ago, people started realizing that 3D printers and small CNC mills were going to revolutionize not just general manufacturing, but firearms manufacturing in particular. How can the government regulate firearms, when you can simply print one – or a dozen – up in your own home?

Well, a way to throttle innovation has been implemented: fear.

FedEx And UPS Refuse to Ship a Digital Mill That Can Make Untraceable Guns

A small CNC mill, designed expressly to be able to mill out AR-15 receivers, is a perfectly legal device. It’s just a complex power tool. You don’t need to have any sort of license to own or operate such a thing. But FedEx and UPS have decided to chicken out on shipping them because they are afraid that they will be set upon by the government.

Couple this with the Obama administrations recent realization that while it cannot infringe on the freedom of the press it can ban ink, things are starting to look interesting in the world of organized gun-grabbing.

 Posted by at 1:29 am

PDF Review: 1973 Senate testimony on Agile

 aircraft, drawings, history, Patreon, rockets, weapons  5 Responses »
Feb 262015
 

A PDF pieced together from scans found on the Secret Projects forum of Senate testimony on the AIM-95 Agile air-to-air missile. Agile was, as the name might suggest, a close-in “dogfighting” missile, an attempt to incorporate the hard lessons learned by the USAF and USN getting their tails kicked in the skies over Viet Nam by scrappy Russian dogfighters pilots by scrappy Vietnamese pilots. The main advantage that the Agile provided over the Sidewinder was that the infra-red seeker was capable of looking further off boresight… in other words, you didn’t need to point the plane at the enemy before the missile could get a lock-on. While the AIM-95 Agile apparently worked just fine, it was simply cheaper to upgrade the Sidewinder.

The AIM-95 would be steered via vectoring the nozzle rather than aerodynamic control fins. Initial targeting was planned to be done by having a sight integrated into the pilots helmet.. where he looked, the missile looked. The AIM-95 was intended for use by the F-14 and then the F-15 as well, but it never entered service.

The PDF file is HERE.

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Much more aerospace stuff is available via the APR Patreon.

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 Posted by at 2:06 am

Warballs

 Hmm..., weapons, youtube  7 Responses »
Feb 132015
 

The “Guardbot” concept for a spherical recon/blow-stuff-up robot.

Note: If you’re sick and tired of listening to your co-workers bitch about things… crank up the volume on these videos. The music will cause your eardrums to fragment.

 Posted by at 9:39 am

“Hey, baby, wanna see my big railgun?”

 awesomeness, news, weapons  4 Responses »
Jan 242015
 

US Navy to publicly show their amazing railgun for the first time ever

The US Navy will publicly show their formidable railgun at the Naval Future Force Science and Technology Expo in Washington D.C. on February 4.

A little vague on what’s meant by “publicly show.” Somehow I have doubts that this will include “publicly demonstrate by shooting a shell from D.C. into midtown Manhattan.”

 Posted by at 10:24 pm

Long Beach w/Polaris

 art, history, nukes, projects, rockets, ships, weapons  13 Responses »
Jan 062015
 

A scan of a piece of art from 1961 depicting a Long Beach-class guided missile cruiser launching a Polaris ballistic missile. Note that the caption says that this *will* happen; as it turned out, not only was the Long Beach never equipped with Polarises, it was also the only ship in its class. The US Navy decided that putting strategic nuclear ballistic missiles on easily-spotted and tracked surface ships was less desirable than putting them on far stealthier submarines.

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