Daily Archives: Jul 1, 2026

The history of the modern airpower did not proceed in a linear fashion. It was an engine put together in leaps, a wing form that enabled mass production to be realized, a bomber that survived its creators, a reconnaissance jet that continued to fly when the world around it...

In a world where everything is in metamorphosis by giving new cartridges a name, those very cartridges that tend to endure do it the old-fashioned way: they continue to solve problems. They appear in battered ammunition cans, in boxes with labels half torn off, and in rifles, which still...

A modern polymer pistol and a 1911 can both be reliable, both be accurate and both be on the same belt. It is that superficial overlap that makes the argument vibrant. The actual distance reveals itself in the prosaic details: what is carried when hot and wet, what still...