Daily Archives: Jun 28, 2026

A good 9mm pistol can still become an unreliable machine when one weak link disrupts the loading cycle. In a recoil-operated handgun, the slide, magazine, cartridge, chamber, extractor, ejector, and recoil spring all have to stay in sync. Under stress, that chain is less forgiving. The most stubborn reliability...

A military sidearm becomes memorable for reasons that go well beyond caliber charts and catalog specifications. The handguns that stay in Army memory are the ones that solved immediate problems: stopping an opponent at close range, fitting new alliance standards, surviving neglect, or filling a production gap when wartime...

NASA’s decision to strip astronauts from Starliner’s next mission did more than change a flight manifest. It turned Boeing’s capsule into a live engineering test, one that now has to prove its propulsion system can work reliably before anyone rides aboard again. The move followed a crewed test flight that...