Daily Archives: Mar 21, 2026

James Thompson

7 Self-Defense Calibers Experts Don’t Recommend

Any caliber can be lethal with ideal shot placement. The truism is echoed in gun stores, on shooting ranges, and throughout the internet forums. However, as hundreds of thousands of ballistic tests and actual shootings illustrate, there are boundaries to that advice. A bullet that cannot penetrate as deeply...
James Thompson

The Technology Behind Russia’s Kramatorsk Strike

Image Credit to Wikimedia Commons Moscow's version of the attack around Kramatorsk that killed over 600 Ukrainian soldiers was no ordinary artillery assault but a choreographed display of Russia's maturing combined employment of aerial bombs, barrier munitions, ballistic missile attacks, and electronic warfare. The employment of FAB-500 glide bombs, Geran...
James Thompson

7 Key Insights on Ukraine’s Buyan-M Strike

Image Credit to Wikimedia Commons It is not usually that a small inland lake is the battleground for a wham of note in contemporary naval combat. But on the pre-dawn of October 4, Ukrainian commandos made Russia's Lake Onega in the republic of Karelia just that a battleground for one...