Mark Koernke discussed preparedness equipment and tactical solutions on August 25, 2010. The show featured detailed product offerings from Marspec International, including Swiss field telephone sets (EE8 style) and East German DDR rain camouflage grenade pouches available at bulk pricing. Koernke provided extensive technical guidance on underground cable protection using PVC pipe armoring for communications infrastructure, and conducted a comprehensive discussion of rifle drum magazines across multiple generations—Mitchell Arms, Chinese, East German, Bulgarian, Russian, and Korean variants—explaining their applications in patrol, vehicle mounting, and aircraft configurations. The episode also covered night vision technology options and unconventional aircraft designs for close air support missions.
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And a reminder, it is weapons Wednesday and getting darker outside, losing all that sunlight out there. You continue to change, get a little cooler out there. Humidity's up. where it's been but the air temperature in general is down. Humidity might back off a little towards the later part of the day here but be careful on the road even going home. In many places we're already seeing fog in the hollows. So that's another example of conditions we need to be prepared for in central inventory things. Now a couple things here real quick. I mentioned helmets. I don't have a uh... any new source i do have a source i would i'm not going to worry about mentioned right now here though for helmets in fact for the swiss helmet as a matter of fact we were talking about but don i do have something that's a little off its funeral holdover from communications uh... tuesday but also promise from last week i found the Swedish and had a big little more attentive uh... would've found uh... that we have also a listing for swiss Field phones, EE8s, and what's interesting is again excellent condition but a little different configuration as far as how they're being offered. So give me a second here, I'm going to pull that up as a matter of fact. For all of you guys, get your pens and paper ready and listen carefully, pay attention and follow instructions. It's up to you as far as what you want to do. or however you want to do it or if you even want to respond and do anything with what we're offering here i don't care either way that's up to you mark can't control that need a conduct so anyway first of all this is another mar spec offering and all on the one hand we have the uh... we have the swedish phones we will mention yesterday these are swiss field telephone sets Now, there are four of these in a crate, in actually a transport box. They're EE8 style Swiss field phones. These are used but in excellent condition. In Field Issue Crate, a set of four manufacturers is Albusverk Zürich AG. Let's see, it takes one D battery, again only one battery, cool there. Canvas case for phone measures 9x6x4. Wood master case measures 21.5x12.5x10 inches. One set for $95.00, however, by five sets at a time, they're $85.00 a set. Only five sets available. Well, I should have mentioned that from the beginning. Actually, some of these may be gone, so I think you have to negotiate. I think if you say you'll take them all, you'll probably get them for the $85 for a set. How many sets are left? I'll be willing to bet. You need to talk to the guy about that whenever the time comes. It's 40 pounds for a set. Now, the way that works, this is a wooden case. If you've ever seen how the Swiss stuff is, it's all top of the line. It's all best quality. and uh... it doesn't get any better than the twist except you know they've they bought contract from a lot of different countries and not going to which is even the united states and most people don't know this one of the things to consider here is that these are basically an american type system the e eight type phone are immaculate but what i can see excellent overall uh... and again very robust I like the headset. That's one thing I'll say. The headset looks more modern than most of the modern headsets. That sounds weird, but again, it's typical Swiss. You know how they are. They were trying to be space age. Anyway, now here's how this works. First of all, you need to order these from a store or a business. If you've got a friend who's got a pizza parlor, a what's it shop, a drug store. I don't care what it is. As long as it's a business, you see they can be extending their inventory. This is a jobber, this is actually a jobber importer. These items are offered as email specials only. In other words, they are not necessarily in the regular catalog. So pay attention. You are going to use a business, a job, a company name, whatever you got. You figure that out. You do the math and common sense. Remember, this is not a retail outlet. Does everybody understand? Does that sink in? I'm repeating that again. This is not retail. This is a jobber. Act accordingly. Okay. Now the number is V-4-6-5-2-2-7. That's the item number. V-4-6-5-2-2-7. The title is Swiss Field Telephone Set. For E-E-B style Swiss field phones with case. In other words, crate. Anyway, price per unit is a set of four plus the case plus the spare parts kit for $95. Everything is in one package, all in one box. You'll have to call to find out more. And as I did the other day, and now I get to slime because I have that right here in my hand, and what I did is I turned it back into the file to make sure it wouldn't be lost, which means it's not where it needs to be now in that special. Anyway, the website for Marspec to get all the contact information if you like is www.marspec.net. For any of you who are looking at your need of equipment, technology for operations, etc. Then, guess what, here's where there's a lot of stuff that is perhaps useful to your area of interest. You need to see what you can find, what it is that might be in that category. Phone number toll free is 1-800-274-7123. That's 1-800-274-7123. That's 1-800-275-7123. Regular phone line is 5084871411. They are located in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Go to their webpage, check out all the contact information. We need re-verification on that just in case Mark is going too fast. Again, this is part of the email specials. Typically, one in particular individual takes care of that with the business. This is a unique opportunity. While these are available, take advantage of them. That's all I can say. Because when they're gone, they're gone. This is one of those items that as they show up, they show up. And when they're there, they're there for however long. They're there until somebody finds them. And then all of a sudden, they're gone like a vacuum sweeper. The word spreads. So this is a solution, not just lamenting about the problems. What do we do about communications? Now, I don't know about field wire, you'll have to ask them about that, see what they have available, then go from there. That's the only other variation down on things that probably need to be covered. Field phone wire, you have to shop around the country to see what you can find. If not, you're going to have to turn to the wire industry and buy something that matches up that will serve the purpose. Remember, you're trying to go a distance with this stuff. So 500-foot spools and 250-foot spools were not uncommon. In fact, they were the norm. They should be the minimum. Yeah. And that way you don't have to shout. Get my drift. Another thing that's a little cheap, if you're doing any permanent fixtures, I like to do this with everything we do that's underground wiring. And I do underground antennas. People say, well, you're losing part of your signal. Yeah, well, I'm not worried so much. about that by the very nature of some of the equipment we're using, but eliminating the possibility of it being sabotaged or damaged by either wind or by people, armoring it and putting it underground. It won't mean by armoring. Every time you say armor, people think tanks, Don. Like, four inches of a whole genius armor plate. Armored helicopters really aren't. They are protected, but they really aren't that well armored, contrary to what you might think. Pilot and critical areas are, but not the whole thing. Well, in this case, we armored the whole power cable or antenna cable or whatever it is by using PVC pipe. Now, there's two tricks that I use of that. One is, if I was running this cable here for a permanent fixture from, say, a building, a house to a barn, and from a house to a work shed or an observation post, kind of like what you saw in, if you read the book, Patriots surviving the coming collapse. Remember down there, the field phones? Well, in this case, guys, I would take and buy the cheapest ChaiCom or second market PVC half inch pipe. I would run it over my lines, one pipe, one jointer. Now, it's good for 10 feet plus, so you feed 10 feet or more depending on where you buy the stuff from. Sometimes it's 12. It's odd, but it won't mount. I've gotten some that's 20 foot long. with no seam. I love that stuff. If you can find it longer and you can get it home in one piece, you're better off. That means fewer seams means fewer things to mess with. Anyway, if it's going a long distance, the idea is cover it up, lace it on like you're doing beads onto the wire. Run the wire on the ground. One full length of pipe, then a connector, you know, a jointer. Then another length of pipe, then a jointer. Another length of pipe, then a jointer. You know how the routine is until you get to the very other end of wherever you're going. bring it up on a 90 degree angle and snorkel the fixture at the top. That means make a U bringing the pipe back around with a union, or forgive me, not a union, but a U. It can be a 45 and then a length of pipe and then another 45 down and then a little length of pipe for finishing up to give yourself a little bit of an extension. But the idea behind this is that you actually create a gravity control point so you don't have to worry about water slithering down into the line, in with the power line or in with the signal line or in with the antenna line. Now the last thing I do, since this is all virgin and I can afford to do this, is I get a $99 or $1.29 caulk can for my caulk gun and I inject a whole bunch of it at the one end. Once I have enough wire out for what I need inside the building or inside the bunker or whatever, I'm going to make sure I have a little excess. Then I'm going to caulk that sucker in solid so there's no moisture getting down inside the tube. Now, step by step, once I know I've got everything where I want, once I know what my depth is, I cut a slit trench and I bury the stuff accordingly. I can do it shallow, the depth of a shovel, or a little more, it's actually best. Or I can dig a deeper trench and put it down completely out of sight, out of mind, and almost impossible to mess with. Especially if it's in an odd area where nobody can be out there digging a power line, that kind of thing. The advantage is I've protected my equipment and I don't have to worry about somebody slithering through and snipping my connecting lines. When I build the snorkel, I build it right into the wall or the fortification so that it's on the inside and I'll even still PVC armor everything right up to where the actual radio phones are sitting. That way there's additional protection indoors. Now if I want to really get paranoid, this is really fun because when people say, you've already done enough work, well I get deals because we have FEDFORD over here. And like I said, 20 foot pieces of 3 quarter inch or 1 inch pipe. And I've got connectors I've saved up because people throw out 2 here, 5 there, 3 here at the construction sites, 20 there, 5 here, 1 here. It's just oddball stuff. But now I can put a second layer of armor over top of the first in one inch pipe, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. And it's super armored. If I keep it shallow, it's not likely a shovel is going to be going through all the protections there. So if I've made a mistake, miscalculated or forgot where something is, it's got a double wall of protection. Just something to do, something is an idea. And again, depends on how long you plan on using the equipment. Also, the option is run multiple wires through the same half inch pipe guys. That way you have extra wires on standby. Something happens where one is compromised and you don't know what's wrong with it. Guess what? You just switch over to the next set. D'oh! Hey, that's too simple. Or I might want to use that to get to one point and then create a jumper and run the line to yet another location separate from that so I can run a separate phone to another spot either in say the house, the fortification, the bunker, a barn or whatever. I may want one high. for the listening post observation post and I may want one low where there's say an old milk house or something that's fortified where I've got a below ground protection line, you know, earth, berm, and I've got narrow slit windows I can use to observe from, staying back away from the windows and observing with my optics and passing information on with my field phone. See how that works? Be creative, think ahead. Anyway, hopefully they've given you some ideas. Please follow instructions and don't try to seem dazed or confused or that you forgot part of what I mentioned in the instructions. If need be, go back through the archive and replay what I said again just to be safe. Again, I don't want to hear later, well did you follow the instructions that I gave you? Well, I didn't think I needed to. That's why Mark wastes his air time breathing so I can give you faulty information. That's the center of my universe. I'm a Chinese jet pilot too. Anyway, we do have a lot of work ahead of us, but this is a solution. Hopefully, I'll give you guys some ideas. Now switching back to weapons since we've eaten up a little bit of time here unfortunately But I had to do that because this is something where I finally found the other I knew they were Swiss and there's probably some Norwegian headsets out there too Don there is one other thing that is weapons related now. Here's the hell of a deal But you're gonna have to spend a few pennies you figure out how much this is gonna cost For those of you who needed web gear how many remember the East German DDR? rain pattern camouflage Oh yeah, now Marspec again, all the other information applies with Marspec except listen to this. This is the DDR Rain Camel Grenade Pouch. This is the three pocket grenade pouch. It'll fit SKS stripper clips by the way quite nicely too. Personally, what I would do is create a plastic wraparound insert with some art construction plastic and that makes the pouch that much more rigid as it is. It's a soft canvas, well not real soft, but it's a floppy canvas pouch, typical with the East German stuff. Really nice cloth bucklers. These are the metal silent keepers. They don't click, they don't clack. They're cloth like the M14 mag pouch, but bigger. More like the British equipment. DDR Rain Camel Grenade Pouches, brand new, cotton rain camel body with green nylon closures and belt loops on the back to fit any pistol belt. And they do, they'll fit any gear. Inside has three compartments each measuring 2.25 by 2.25 inches and 4 inches high. Entire pouch measures 6 inches in height, 7 inches in width and 2.5 inches thick. Now, The email special price. First of all, let me give you the email. Well, I'll give you the price first. Special price, 150 pieces, 75 cents each. Okay. 600 pieces, 50 cents each. Think that's cheap? You got a few dollars to put together. This is a great way for you to put the equipment together for your small unit and such, or big unit for that matter. 2,400 pieces, 35 cents a unit. So you figured out you can't get any cheaper than that for a brand new piece of a mag pouch, in this case a grenade pouch, three pocket grenade pouch, in camouflage pattern, in a system that will work for a number of other devices or objects. These are brand new slash, remember they're DDR, so they're not brand new anymore, but they are brand new. They've never been issued. They're $2400 to a bail. Okay, figure that out, that's what it's going to be. You're talking a big chunk. Now those are the increments. 150 pieces, 75 cents. 600 pieces, 50 cents each. Now I'm going to make sure I qualify that so everybody's saying, Mark, you said you could get 150 for 75 cents. No, I didn't. I said 150 pieces, 75 cents each. 600 pieces, 50 cents each. 2,400 pieces. Put some money together. This is worth it. 35 cents each. Now, I'm going to warn you about something. They're still shipping on this, okay? So don't be surprised. And UPS is most likely the best choice, although it's not the best choice. It's just you're stuck with them. Pieces of trash that they are. But anyway, UPS is probably one of the options that you have to use. You figure out what you want to have it shipped by. uh... and now here it is all the other marspec information applies if you haven't heard go back to the earlier show get to the archive go back and listen to your part of this hour only a few minutes ago right now benchmark that it is eight twenty three go back about ten minutes the uh... item number for the email offering is number three zero eight three nine three the number is three zero eight three nine three The description is DDR Rain Camo Grenade Pouches. here again the price one hundred fifty three-mail special this is not the regular price go to the catalog you're not going to find anything on this there's no information this is only a specific like an express list for only certain people to get This is the kind of stuff we can access. You can get it directly, but you have to follow Mark's instructions. Use a pizza popular, use a gas station, use a grocery store. If a friend's got a law firm office, it doesn't make a darn better difference. It's got to be some kind of business or something where it can be delivered. Use their letterhead, use their business contact, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You cooperate. Don't sit there and let me know they can't do this. Somebody has got a business or an operation. There's the way to connect. Again, the phone number is 1-800-274-7123. That's 1-800-274-7123. Then the company's name is Marspec International. Wholesalers of European military surplus and US Army Navy government surplus. Well, it's a mix of stuff. Anyway, that is a weapons oriented pouch. It is very handy, by the way, for you medics. It can also be used for a medical kit and it's separated, which is really nice. So you have three different servings, so to speak, or three different increments on board in that particular pouch. They are really nice. We have done a lot of DDR. You'll notice in some of the videos we've done recently on YouTube in the last year, we have incorporated these pouches, the DDR pouches, and the DDR web gear. This is where, again, when you've got little money and you're trying to outfit a whole bunch of people, a whole pile of people, a whole ship full. Yeah, here you go. Don't say you can't find cheap. Mark found cheap for you, didn't he? I think I did. So anyway, it's out there. Just got to make the effort and look. So again, Marspec, 1-800-2747-123. The item offering number is 308393. Category title is DDR Rain Camo Grenade Pouches. Price is 150 pieces, 75 cents per pouch, 600 pieces, 50 cents per pouch, 2,400 pieces, 35 cents per pouch. You ain't going to get any cheaper than that guys. In fact, that's bargain basement. And they're decent and they'll fit on pretty much any web gear you got, so that's pretty cool too. Now, another thing, Don, real quick here, we're going to be four at the bottom of the hour. Night vision, I want you to give a point of contact. Look outside. If you're right here where we are in Michigan, it's 8.30 right now, guys. You might notice something about the outside light. Getting darker now, isn't it? Oh yeah, days are getting shorter, isn't it, at the top of the hour. This is why we've been promoting the night vision technology for as long as we've been on the air, because again, we're going to be working at night. Supply, quarter master, support between light radio technology and even first generation night vision. So much more can be accomplished and can be accomplished safely. Okay, so Don go ahead please. Well you guys have to get the phone and if we've got a caller waiting I'll make this brief. I think I heard a beep a little while ago. If you want to talk to me about night vision after the top of the hour you can reach me at via the telephone, you know, 231-9. Again, two, three, one, seven, nine, six, eight, four, five, eight. We can talk about first, second, third generation. In fact, if you want to, I'm not certain if there are any left, Mark, but a while ago I was mentioning a generation gun sight. Not a heavy recoil piece, but it'll hold up on top of your 22, your 223, you know, your 22, 250. I wouldn't say it's going to live a good long time on top of your SKS, particularly if you put it in a plastic with that in mind. But a first generation gun sight for just over $300, you guys. First generation gun sight for just over $300. If you want to talk to me about it, here comes the number again, 231-796-8458. We could talk about, we could talk about generation gun sights because that's a minimalist for a dollar. We could talk up from there, even in first generation something that's... to have a bigger lens. We'll probably live on top of your 7.39. It'll live on top of that. So with that in mind, if you want to talk to me about night vision you guys, we could go to second generation gun sites or viewers or third generation or even thermal. And I'm not going to elaborate here, but one thing I would say during this hour is you guys, the night vision video is still available and Mark you brought up a special to include the second night vision, rather the original, the first, which is basically classroom and chalkboard. You're throwing that in for another five dollars. What are the most you guys you can get the we were offering Night vision, you know field operations training, you know real night vision pictures for $25 a two disc set and I think you said mark for 30 bucks. You can get them both. Yep That's the package and Nancy came up. Oh you guys look at that. You're getting you're getting that It's almost two hours of class in a classroom. There's it's we're gonna do this. You can do this. This is blah blah blah and I don't know dollars more you'll get the complete set the night vision primer and the night vision in the field. Let me think for a moment you'd make that out to us and you know a thirty dollars rapid money order check or whatnot however you want to do it send that to Nancy Cornke the night vision video and you know if you have to double up or trip up on it if three of you get together and make it easier and then you call three sit down and watch it critique it and pick it apart and learn it down three other people and then three other people sample different light levels over a example after the top of the hour you can reach me at two three one seven nine and now that again do we have a caller caller he's been pretty tall or jump in there if we do have one and we have a big man from the patiently listening as possible uh... one of the things i want to touch on here weapons wednesday and i mentioned this earlier but somebody else had brought up uh... drums actually more than once in the last ten days here repeatedly at different times we've kind of touched on them There are three classes or waves of drums for most of the rifles that are out there, guys. Some of them have come and gone and I wish to God we'd grab just one of them. But, in the initial wave, before we could get the Russian, the Chinese or whatever, a company called Mitchell Arms. Most of you might remember Mitchell Arms. They did a lot of plastic. and did a lot of unique ideas but they did it in plastic. One of them was the Mitchell Drum. Now the Mitchell Drum was really unique in that it was a snail drum but it lined up the pod, the snail pod, off to the side of the weapon. underneath but off to the side with the way the thing was built. And the way they built the magazine well fixture down, it would be adapted to either the AR-15 or the Mini-14 depending upon which you chose. Now the basic design worked well. The problem was the types of plastics chosen for the components. The clear plastic back so you could see the ammunition was not a problem, although it again could have been a more malleable chip so that it would not break. But unfortunately, sometimes did. The other problem though was the fact that while the magazine well initially was machined properly, forgive me, not magazine well, the magazine guide area, which was about the size of a 20 round air 15 or mini 14 magazine. When locked in place, unfortunately there was a lot of stress around the little lips that were actually the contact points for the main body of the drum using four screws. Where the screws locked in, typically one point or another, the plastic would be overstressed and it would chip or break. It eventually would snap. It wouldn't break off or it would just be sitting there locked in, but it would allow for the drum to flex. This created tension internally which sometimes caused a malfunction with those mags, but not very often. Amazingly they were quite forgiving considering the damage that could be done to them. Now then the Chinese drumster had to come in and they really undermined the Mitchell because the Mitchells were running a little high even for back in the day, but that's because they could demand a price. Then the $20 AK-47 75-round drums came in and I tried to tell everybody buy cases of them, buy as many as you can get. Buy every drum and get your hands on them and get more. Why? Because they weren't going to be in forever. And guess what? Mark was right. So, those of you who bought the $20 drums and put them on the shelf and kept buying them and filled up 20mm cans with them, congratulations. They're now, you know, they were as high as $150, $200, $300. Hey, if you have sold one back then for $180, you paid for all the other ones you bought and kept. Okay? But, even if all you did was hang on to them, it was a plus because it was a hell of an insurance policy. And the Chinese drums Well, they had to make them work, or they had to work for the most part because they were using them for their own military and for export to other contract, rent a revolution organizations that they had. The two drums that came in from China were the 75 and the 100 rounders. Now the 100 rounder, some people complained, was a little too much. But the 100 rounders typically worked in the initial phase. Now if there was any problem with later drums or any magazines for that matter, it's that the Chinese realized they had a market in America and they were cranking out like there was no tomorrow. So they started to speed up production. Then they had to execute more people behind the plant because they had more failures. So, the Happy Meal toys went out the window, the drums came into the factory to be built, and then people were making mistakes because operator 15 was pressed to the limit running 10 hours or 12 hours a day non-stop and eventually made a mistake and, well, paid with his or her life. There were kidneys being ripped out of her body or his body even before they hit the ground after the bullet was put in their head. Anyway, the other thing that came in parallel with this were East German 75 round drum mags next. Paralleling those next in wave were the Bulgarian, the Bulgarian and then some of the Yugo and at the same time a big block of Russian ones. All of these drums were very serviceable. Most people assumed they could not be disassembled. Most everybody who thought that was wrong. There is a process for disassembling and doing maintenance on all of these drums. It's just that most people didn't know how to read German or Czech or Bulgarian and so down they had a problem trying to understand how to do maintenance on the drums. That's just how it works. Now, that's all been cleared up meanwhile, or in more recent years here, since the mag band was lifted, while the Chinese drums and mags are nowhere to be found, guys. Have you noticed that? They've already made some special suck-up arrangement with the communists in country to make sure we weren't equipped with any more cool stuff like that. The Koreans have started to make, and have been making, a copy of the standard Chinese drum. Pretty cool because they don't really care whether or not they were to violate anybody's patent, especially with the Chinese who cares about Chinese patents. They don't care about ours. And so they started cranking them out, although they're not $20 anymore. Now they're about $89 apiece. I'm not going to mention a particular source. You're going to have to search around because every time somebody gets them, typically they sell out, though not necessarily right away. I will, okay, I will do this. ClassicArms.US has 75 round drums. I believe that those are the Korean. They may be the Bulgarian. There are both types coming in right now, and that's the next wave of drums. However, there was one batch in between, and forgive me, kick me in the rumpus on this one. An ingenious American company looked at the 760x39 drums and said, hey, we can make those in .308. They made them all steel and they made them the M14 and the FN FAL. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the company was right on the edge of the mag band and they went under when the magazine band went into effect. So while there are samples out there, nobody is really nice and wants to be fair and share. We found that to be the case. Another overlapping mag that, as everybody knows, the Breasts of Doom, there are other terms used, I'm trying to be nice. The Breasts of Doom, the Saddletype 223 AR-15 magazine, the Beta mags. are both being made in their original form by the actual parent company and are being made in a knockoff from Korea again. Korea is picking up the pace here and grabbing the niche for unique and wanted mags such as the GEM1 carbine 15 round mag, D-clips for the grand, piles of Glock mags for your standard Glocks that are out there in law enforcement and military operations and 9mm all over the world. 45 ACP mags that are excellent copies of the contract models the government used to make, the DOD, donor to destruction, and then the beta mag drums and also copies of the Chinese 75 round drum. I don't know if anybody is making 100 rounders. Where I would apply both the betas more so than in place else and the 100 round drums would be on vehicle mounts. That's where they really came in handy. Rather than having to worry about a chain fed belt waddling around and getting caught and stuff, a 100 ground drum is a lot more compact. The only thing is you've got to watch to see where the brass is flying and there are some tricks there to deal with that, not the least of which is a brass catcher but there are other techniques, a deflector if nothing else to push it forward and away from the vehicle. That's something that's been done. So it's purely a matter of creativity. But the 100-rounders and the 75-rounders both serve their purpose. The 75s are perfect for patrolling. We have guys who carry the 100-rounders for patrolling for traveling, as I mentioned earlier in the day. When we're traveling, where we don't expect contact is when especially the 75 or 100-round drum should be in the weapon or the largest magazine that you have. That way if you make contact and you're not prepared for it, you're caught unawares, you're busy dumping the first 40 rounds from that big 40 round AK mag or the next 75 rounds into the aggressor. You're not worrying about changing a mag out until you absolutely have to. And when you do change it out, you drop the mag while you're walking. You don't put it in the pocket, you don't try to save it, you drop it. Then grab the next mag and insert your life's at stake. And what you're doing is one of the few times where Mark agrees, volume fire, spit it onto the enemy, dump everything you got because otherwise you're going to be found in the kill zone as a body count number. Instead, the idea is slam them hard, kick them in the head, take the top of their head off, run in, make sure that you continue to engage, engage, engage, neutralize and destroy. Once you engage and perforate their line, turn left or turn right and then grazing fire right down the line of the aggressor. Start suppressing them so that your allies can do the same. Don't just punch through and try to get out or run. That's not going to get the job done. And again, our mission here is first to perforate the aggressor's line, then neutralize their force. suppress with volume fire. Volume fire, volume fire. You can walk over them, you plug them, and maybe you run into something that's bigger and better than the toy you're carrying. Hey, swing that around and turn it on them too. More firepower is better. Anyway, just a solution because we've mentioned these drums for quite some time. Most common mistake is you must do maintenance on the drums. They're sheet steel, they have a very simple finish. The Chinese consider them expendables. Most armies considered them something that you know the troop you know the against quadratic riflemen typically would be carrying The drums were prioritized for the RPKs in the squads But very quickly in most areas as soon as anybody could pill for one for the regular a K The guys did for obvious reasons it gives you a lot more firepower in situation Especially if you're doing convoy defense work that kind of thing so anyway just another creative ideas now another place where the drums really come in handy and aircraft mountings. That 150 round or that 100 round or that 75 round drum means I've got a little snub pocket air gun that can go, especially an air 15 that's recoilless. It can be mounted in a number of different aircraft with little or no stress to the plane itself, especially with the air 15. And somebody's going to go, what's only 75 or 100 rounds? Well, that's better than harsh language in throwing rocks. to see if they are shooting at you. Yeah, exactly. And again, you can do snub, you can do a snub ground attack aircraft. But the thing is you can put multiple racks up or different ways that you can configure the AR-15 for air use as a close, close air support like a snub fighter or like a belly gun. It goes in, it strafes, it leaves. The dimension, the very fact that you can add that dimension to the environment totally mucks with the head of the characters that thought they were impervious to that. See how that works? You're not going to linger. You're not going to stay. The idea is to come in, the lift off is at its moment, out of there. But in this case, it's intentional. The idea is that you, with a snub fighter, small light attack helicopters, personal, gericopters, things of that nature. Remember, again, in patriots we had discussed this. This is something that came forward. It was promoted and it was developed as an idea. It's demonstrated in storybook form and story form in patriots surviving the coming collapse. but just consider the fact that there are drums out there. This changes again the formula with regard to the amount of firepower available to the gun once it's put into aircraft fixture. And think about all things you can peel off of. Right off the bat the Air 15 is a 7 pound rifle. Think of the parts you can take off with little modification to make sure that little pins don't disappear and other parts don't fall off. Once you've taken that into consideration, what can you do to help make that weapon maybe a few ounces lighter and then add more firepower because you have a greater magazine capacity? This is one of those times where it would be kind of handy to capture some M16A1s for obvious reasons. Again, you can even, a neat trick, let me give you a point here guys, you want to create a ventilator that's really cheap for helping to cool the barrel on a weapon, especially with an aircraft gun like that. It's quick, it's easy, and it's so cheap it's ridiculous. Kick plate type heater vents. Heater, you know, water heating systems. copper pipe with an aluminum square ventilating bar made out of sheet metal aluminum stacked side by side by side by side by side by side. It's a radiator. They cut them to whatever length you want. They come in 1.5 inch, 3.25 inch and 1 inch diameter. You can even get them in larger diameters. Now the ventilating square, the radiator squares, are about anywhere from 2 inches to 4 inches in width, and you know, actually 5 depending on how big the pipe is. But consider if you take the hand guards off, you take one of these and mount it around the barrel with the same stand off dimensions. What you have is a radiating system to help cool the barrel more efficiently. What would you do to improve that? Well, you break out, mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm, Mr. Drill, and you waffle the copper pipe that the aluminum leafs are attached to. Now you have air passing through, but you also have, you know, to a degree, a radiating system that allows for more of the heat to be sunk into the copper, which then goes to the aluminum flange, you know, the aluminum plate, and that in turn dissipates the heat, throws the heat away from the barrel, extracting it. a 2010 fall. But, remember, and here's another point that I should bring up. For instance, the SkyMaster. Most military aircraft that were made as counterpart civilian aircraft during the Vietnam War or during World War II or during Vietnam, or forgive me, pre-Vietnam slash the 50s, those aircraft were offered to the civilian market, but they didn't do anything. Once they started cranking something out, it was easier to leave the hard points in place. Rather than take and modify the aircraft yet again. We need a different piece for the frame here in assembly Yeah, no, I just don't never know what it was used for you. Yeah, continue run Frank. Okay. I'll do that. Okay, Don. Yep, exactly. Okay, Frank you ready? Yeah, you just keep going Oh, what color we gonna paint it? Well, whatever civilian color they chose So remember that all of these aircraft typically have the hard points intact which means developing Dropable and when I mean dropable we mean that you can disassemble pull it off and mount another pod with something else on it when the time comes. A variable geometry pylon. That's all you got to think about. That's what most people think is they think fixed and rigid. There's no reason for that. You could actually set it up so that a module does what it's supposed to do, is electronically controlled. When the time comes, it's disconnected and a totally different fixture can replace it as you improve on technology. See how that works? Now, another thing here when people talk about, I know this is an odd angle, but when people talk about aircraft, let me point out that, remember when we bought the A-10 Warthog? Does everybody know that there was one contractor that competed against the A-10? Cessna. Cessna proposed on a turboprop aircraft that was actually just a regular prop airplane that was going to have an all Kevlar body hull. It only had, I think, 14 working body parts. Plates are circulated. Yeah, panels. And the whole idea behind this looked like a P-51 Mustang, to be quite honest. It had the lines of a P-51. They reinvented the wheel. But it had a tremendous, it had the lift capacity and the staying power of the Skyraider that we mentioned earlier today. It had the ability to linger and it had little or no modern thermal signature for air defense, you know, thermal missile tracking. They could buy 14 of these for the price of one warthog. What did they? No. And not only that, it had all the technology on board to do what the Warthog was doing as far as lingering floating around. The Warthog could only linger for one third the time of the Cessna. But the excuse the Air Force gave for not even giving them a second thought was that there's no place for a pop-driven aircraft in a modern Air Force. I still think there would be in a modern army, air aviation wing, would you think? It would be a nice little pocket piece. So it's not that this wasn't developed guys, and it's not that the resources aren't there, and just because you see movies and BS that reinforces the propaganda for a certain part of the arms industry where they are desperately trying to get everybody else locked into the same system, doesn't mean that there aren't other solutions out there that work. There are. Again, I would challenge you, everybody goes, there's no way these aircraft would survive in a modern battlefield. The British went up toe to toe as a modern class A fighting force against the Argentine. The Argentine were still using A20s and A26s, guys. Do you know that every day during the war they fought interdiction and they fought harassment raids, you know, flew harassment raids against the British? Not only did they get in, but they got out. It wasn't a suicide mission. Prompt driven aircraft. They used them all and they used them successfully. You tell me. And this was the age of all of the latest whiz bang, cracker jack missile platforms. You remember the Sheffield got whacked by the Exocet missile in that campaign. But that same Sheffield had all of the latest whiz-bang modern air defense technologies on board. And yet, with the footage they don't want you to see from the Falklands campaign, flash it with the Argentinas with the Melvinas, is the fact that Sky Raiders, Skyhawks, World War II aircraft, every variation you can imagine, were flying combat missions and getting in and getting out and surviving. And here is some phenomenal combat footage showing these pilots coming in right on the waves, right on the deck, dumping their loads, hitting targets, hitting British targets, and fragging. I mean, there's ships in the harbor. It's a classic harbor invasion image where there's burning landing craft, there's burning supply ships, there's other cargo ships and support ships that are already fragged, and a sky hawk comes in, zips a couple of bombs in, and guess what? Smack smack boom boom. Right on out again. Same with the, in fact their video tapes showing the popular aircraft coming in and doing their sortays and getting out in one piece and not only that but escaping. So please tell me all about how there's no place in a modern blah blah blah, oh eat my shorts. The idea is that if you will resist you'll be absorbed BS's what a lot of people buy into on a regular basis because it feels good to do it. It's a great way to find an excuse not to do anything. Anyway, override that. There are some cool ideas. Start to think through what would work. Gravity is a big assist, guys. Always remember that. Gravity, when you drop things from the sky, is a big assist. Oh yeah, the only detriment I could think to having a... You know, time over target is great. That, when you want to interdict armor or personnel on the ground, sometimes they don't come out when you want them to. So, time over target, linger time, just kind of get there and wait for them and then they have to show up. Because, you know, well, they were going to do it anyway. That's kind of planned stuff. And, you know, bombers, bombers go out and bomb cities and fly home. So, time over target for individual targets is imperative. But, going back to plan things, now, when you see the guy running out to this parrot, even a little bit later, the guy running out to the saber in Korea, switches. When the siren went off he could get in the jeep and take that 500 yard drive and say it takes a minute to get there because that jeep driver has a heavy foot and he gets on his equipment and he gets into the plane. As soon as he gets into that jet plane he can put the throttle forward. The thing about a jet plane is that motor is not going to stop cold. You don't have to worry about warming up a piston or a jet motor rather. You have to bring a piston motor to a particular temperature so you can depend on it when it's under full and maximum rich when you're inches off the ground and trying to gain air instead of well now we're coming back down. That's the only detriment of a piston engine compared to a jet engine and in fact are not fast. Sure they're jets but look at the shape of the wing. It's very much like the V51. It's plain. You could probably get it supersonic in a dive. Again, it's not meant to do battle with MiG-25. It has a different mission. Yes, Frank. Tell you what, speaking of missions, our mission is almost over because it's 9 o'clock already. We should be hearing the music any time now. Oh my goodness, how'd the hour fly. I knew we'd hear that. See? We've got Dutch coming up right behind us. By the way, we've Craig on earlier. Boy, spot marking the microphone, forgive me, I was keeping track of the days. I knew it was Wednesday too. Anyway, forgive me for that. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Stay tuned, more live radio here on LTR. God bless the Republic. And the strong and the sun will always
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