Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

Army handguns do not often bear the story-telling burden of the service rifle, but they bear something even bigger: continuity. The issued pistol is the piece of equipment that must be operable on command, when the primary weapon, which is either out of reach, empty, or requires service, is...

The monumental engineering lesson contained in the Starliner program did not come as a dramatic splashdown. It came as a gradual and creeping building-up of little, cumulative propulsion uncertainties-thrusters which went adrift, helium which would not remain in place and test evidence that explained much and yet left painful...

Long-range groups do not often simply open up. The ugly surprise often is a minor, fixable input error which does not manifest itself until time-of-flight scales up and margins go down. The difficulty with these errors is that to a great part they result in a shooter seeming to have...