Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

The 9x19mm cartridge has its niche by doing the fundamentals very, very well: it feeds consistently, it can be held in high rate, and it can hold enough rounds in a good working grip size to count. The combination of that did not merely influence training and doctrine, it...

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...