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Microprepping for People with Small Homes
Estimated reading time: 1 minute When most people picture an emergency stockpile, they imagine a basement lined with shelves, a spare bedroom packed floor to ceiling, or a garage full of five-gallon buckets. And if you've got that kind of room, great. But a lot of us don't. If you live in a small house or apartment, you might have…
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‘Usually Only in the Single Digits’: Just a Tiny Amount of Donated American-Made F-16 Fighters Can Fly for Ukraine Against Russia Because of Spare Parts Problems
Summary and Key Points: Ukraine has taken delivery of somewhere between 34 and 39 used F-16s. Ukrainian industry representatives at Poland’s MSPO defense exhibition told 19FortyFive that the number of aircraft actually flight-worthy on any…
The 15 Best Shotguns for Grouse Hunting
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more ›Grouse and the cover they live in shape grouse guns. Heavy brush demands a light, compact gun…
The SR-71 Blackbird Was Originally Going to Be Named Something Different and the Story Seems to Confuse Everyone
The History Behind the SR-71’s Name: The SR-71 is half a century old, yet it remains one of the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever made. This summer marked 50 years since the legendary U.S. spy…
3 Civilian Job Search Myths Veterans Should Rethink
Service members preparing to leave the military are inundated with advice about how to land their first civilian job. Build a personal brand. Translate your military skills. Make sure your résumé gets past artificial intelligence.…
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Top 7 Best Next-Generation Revolvers of 2026 — The Wheelgun Is Back!
The revolver was written off years ago. Seven say otherwise.
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The Pentagon Cut the B-2 Bomber Program From $75,400,000,000 to $61,100,000,000 and Made Every Aircraft More Expensive. Cutting the Order From 132 to 21 Nearly Quadrupled the Cost per Bomber.
Summary and Key Points: The Air Force wanted 132 B-2 Spirits. In 1990, the Pentagon costed the program at roughly…
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The A-10 Warthog Was Designed to Destroy Soviet Tanks in the Fulda Gap With a 30mm GAU-8 Cannon. In the Iran War It Used That Same Gun Against Drones and Missiles Over the Gulf, and in April 2026 the Air Force Reversed Its Early Phase-Out and Kept 3 Squadrons Until 2030.
Summary and Key Points: The A-10 Thunderbolt II was built for one war that never happened. Its job was to break up a Soviet armored offensive through the Fulda Gap, flying low and slow over advancing NATO armor with a 30mm GAU-8/A Avenger cannon that the entire airframe was designed…
$850,000,000 Australian Submarine ‘Sank’ a $5,500,000,000 US Navy Nuclear Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier and 2 Nuclear Attack Submarines by Evading a Fleet of Warships and ‘Penetrating the Screen’
Summary and Key Points: In the summer of 2000, during the RIMPAC exercises around Hawaii, an Australian diesel-electric submarine that had been in commission for ten months went hunting. HMAS Waller displaced 3,400 tons submerged, measured 254 feet, and carried 58 people. Her targets belonged to a formation built around…
His Wife Was Trapped In The Driveway… Then He Came Back Armed
The video describes a St. Lucie County incident in which deputies investigated a man who shot a dog after his wife was trapped in her car by two loose dogs in a Port St. Lucie driveway. The narrator argues that dog owners, not bystanders, bear the primary responsibility for preventing…
Harvest or Kill? Which Term Hunters Should Use
I never heard the term “harvest” used in reference to hunting until I was an adult. Growing up, the term we used for killing a deer was just that: “killing,” or maybe “shooting.” We kept our descriptions literal. The first time I heard someone say they had “harvested” a deer,…
Iran ‘blew the hell out of’ Bahrain base, acting Navy Secretary says
Iran’s attacks on the 5th Fleet’s base in Bahrain were severe, the acting Secretary of the Navy admitted this past week. “They blew the hell out of Bahrain,” acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said in an interview with The Epoch Times. The military has largely been quiet on the extent…
9/11 Bought China’s Military 2 Decades to Become a Powerhouse
On the morning of September 11, 2001, policymakers in the Bush administration were focused on the prospects for the renewal of great-power competition and on the military and diplomatic problems associated with the recovery of Russian power and the growth of Chinese power. Bush’s focus on geopolitical problems rather than…
How to Hunt Swamp Bucks
A mud-caked buck appears out of nowhere, his legs stained from the bog. The deer scans its surroundings. He’s an old deer that knows just how perilous life can be outside the security of his swamp. This kind of buck is hesitant to leave his bedding area during daylight. Fortunately,…
Common Use vs. Military Utility: The Case That Changes Everything for AR-15s
The video argues that a Supreme Court amicus brief in AR-15 ban cases flips the usual anti-gun logic on its head: if a rifle is suitable for militia service and commonly possessed by law-abiding citizens, that is a reason to protect it under the Second Amendment, not ban it. It…