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French President Emmanuel Macron has taken part in a nuclear missile launch simulation after being winched down to a navy submarine in the Atlantic. The 39-year-old signalled his commitment to France's nuclear deterrent with a day-long visit to weapons facilities on the Ile Longue base off the Brittany coast. During the visit France's youngest ever president spent four hours underwater aboard the nuclear submarine 'The Terrible' where he took part in a simulated rocket launch.

Inspirational , with a beautiful mourning dove & it's coo, over looking a scenic brook, in Autumn.

As part of a weapons amnesty in Denmark, police recovered a vintage stockpile of munitions including submachine guns and grenades. The South Jutland Police posted images to social media last week of some 25 weapons and 100 grenades turned in as part of a reprieve for those with illegal or unregistered arms, many of which may have a connection to Danish history. Occupied by Germany during World War II, Denmark was home to a well-organized network of underground resistance units, often equipped by the Allies through the OSS and SOE. Among the weapons brought down from attics and up from...

...The Portsmouth Naval Prison opened in 1908, after the Navy had kept prisoners from the Spanish-American War on the island in a Revolution-era fortification formerly known as Fort Sullivan....

The Kalashnikov Concern has reported that its 5.45 mm AK-12 assault rifle has passed all military field tests. The military field trials confirm that the weapon meets all the design and operational requirements of the Russian Armed Forces, according to the company.

Ruger is back with another great option for their iconic 10/22 breakdown. They’ve recently introduced the Silent-SR ISB, 10/22 with a built in suppressor.

Folks, Ralph is an 80 year old Christian Pastor that is both a US Military Veteran and a member of Maine State Militia.He is missing in either JFK or the airport in Frankfort, Germany.He was on his way to Germany to preach salvation thru CHRIST. missing since the Fourth of July 2017, a Christian, Patriot and Veteran.

I always savor the insight Freeper History Buffs offer, especially the spirited difference in opinion. The easy answers are Washington, Jefferson, the like. Who are the ones unsung, where the tide may not have turned without?

snip... Washington’s Immortals tells the story of a heroic regiment that saved the Continental Army from destruction at the Battle of Brooklyn by holding the British at bay. Despite the pivotal importance of their sacrifice, the regimental dead are buried in a mass grave with only the most minimal markings, their story largely unknown to the modern public. “About 2010, I was in New York City, and the regimental commander I was with in the Battle of Fallujah, Colonel Willie Buell, is assigned there. He’s part of the Council on Foreign Relations. He just called me up and he said,...

Check it out.  This was tweeted over 3 hours ago.https://twitter.com/HISTORY/status/881852286036783104 On #ThisDayinHistory 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg ends. http://histv.co/2sSocdh   

Just a short clip from the movie Gettysburg to remind us both of the horror and courage displayed 154 years ago on this date. Those who have served excepted, how many of us would truly be willing to give all for their God, family and country? Whatever your viewpoint is on the American Civil War, never forget the events depicted. The time may yet come again.

This is my yearly repost of my (faux-)live (faux-)bagpipes version of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Happy Independence Day! (To download a free copy of the song, click here.)

In 1964, at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Billy Mills, an Oglala Lakota, prepared to run the 10,000 meter race in hopes of winning an Olympic gold medal. Today, over five decades later, he is celebrating his 79th birthday.

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — California’s new assault weapons ban will require tens of thousands of gun owners in the state to register their ARs as assault weapons by the end of the year. But enterprising gun makers have already come out with workarounds to avoid it. One of them is the so-called ‘Drop in Fixed Magazine’ or DFM, made by Franklin Armory. Franklin Armory owner Jay Jacobson demonstrated his patented new device to KPIX. It’s designed to get around the state’s new assault weapons law.

The only word I find for it is cloddish. I refer to the latest CIA-instigated attempt to initiate regime change against outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The so-called ISIS terror attack in the minerals-rich southern Philippines island of Mindanao, a predominately Muslim part of the mostly Christian nation of 100 million people, took place literally in the midst of President Duterte’s talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Duterte-Putin talks in turn followed Duterte’s attendance in Beijing on May 15 for the first New Silk Road or Belt Road Forum. America’s colonial asset since 1898 was clearly walking...

Velma, my wife of nearly 35 years (53 YOA) has been having seizure-like episodes which are getting worse. Lasting longer and longer and more motor control loss/psychological effects. Sunday she had an episode that required life-flight transport to a major med center here in MO. Loss of consciousness, facial muscle twitching, unresponsive in general. No evidence of TIA/stroke on the CT scans/MRIs over the last 6 months, but she now has a facial weakness on the left, slurred speech, extreme lethargy and seems "out of it" about 75% of the time when awake, sleeps ~20 hrs per day. Scheduled for...

China's military on Wednesday launched a new type of domestically-built destroyer, state media said, the latest addition to the country's rapidly expanding navy. The 10,000-tonne warship was launched at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency said, making it the first of the People's Liberation Army Navy's "new generation" destroyers.

On Monday, Raytheon, a high energy laser system developer for the US army, said that it had bolted a laser to a U.S. Army Apache AH-64 helicopter and zapped an unmanned target at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The weapons test marked the first time a “fully integrated laser system” had successfully located and shot a target from a rotary-wing aircraft “over a wide variety of flight regimes, altitudes and air speeds,” the company said in a statement. Raytheon didn’t specify what the target was but said the helicopter’s laser “directed energy” on it from nearly a...

The Royal Navy's largest ever warship squeezed under the Forth Bridge late last night after the captain had to wait for the right tide. HMS Queen Elizabeth, which weighs 65,000 tonnes, made its way under the iconic bridge in Scotland just before midnight.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” believed the late Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple, Inc. It’s obvious that Nosler, Inc., subscribes to this philosophy as well; since 2014, the year that the 26 Nosler made its debut, the Bend, Ore., company has introduced a total of five new cartridges. Outside of the early 2000s, when Winchester and Remington were embroiled in a frenzied ballistics battle, such a flurry of activity is somewhat unusual—makers of proprietary and wildcat cartridges notwithstanding, of course. Of the new Nosler namesakes, the .22 caliber is arguably the most...