October 8, 2014
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1h 8m
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2014
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Mark Koernke and Don Betcher discussed ammunition and equipment availability on October 8, 2014. They covered ammunition shortages and pricing across various calibers, signaling flares from UNAMMO.com, night vision equipment including first-generation rifle scopes, and reviewed tactical videos of RPG-7 usage and mechanized military operations. The hosts analyzed weapons functionality, compared Hollywood depictions to real-world combat, and discussed improvised weapons platforms and equipment scavenging practices used throughout military history.
- ammunition shortage
- night vision
- first generation rifle scope
- rpg-7
- signaling flares
- unammo.com
- tactical weapons
- ukraine war
- ak-74
- preparedness
- military equipment
- weapons platforms
- donetsk airport
- mechanized infantry
- back blast
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Visit them online today at MainMilitary.com. That's Main, like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that Well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and each God given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch him tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is? Distill the land of the free and home this and good Ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report. I'm Mark Cornty. And I'm Don Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, south, southeast, north. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... Liberty3radio.4mg.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, Ronnie M&M Microstations, CBB Base Stations, and Ultra Net Technologies East and West of the Mississippi, along with Alaska Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, from the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico. Headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Big Chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, 5th, and 5th in our friends in the recall state of the Friday waiting to the left coast where the great state of Jefferson is there and in motion we turn back to the east, sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and land in the Smokies slash the Blue Ridge where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams in the Monabell Grammar Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the Golden Spike. I'll tell you, it's been a very busy, busy week here. It's the middle of the week. Don, what's the day today and what is jumping off the wall up here in your neck of the woods, please? Well, Mark, it is the eighth day of October. Caught that one coming out of the chamber. Year of Our Lord 2014 and it was intermittently a nice day. Sometimes it was raining and, you know, it's not cold. It's not muggy when it's damp and cold. It's just damp and cold. There ain't no muggy about it like when it's damp and hot. One of those days and then the sun came up for a little while and burned off a lot of that cold damp. But again, eighth day of what do you expect? So you don't hear me complain and just describe in this situation. But there is another particular thing or rather action to describe. It goes like this magazine in one hand, 1911 in the other. We introduce the magazine to the magazine well, then we that A lot of companies talking to them today have not been able to restock. Contrary to everybody thought, we have lots of ammo. Yes, it's true. There's a lot more ammo here in Aryan and a wide variety of calibers still. But we are seeing no more depth than we did just before we were hit last year with a wave of interest. and right now there is a quiet wave going on because of people paying attention to the health issues and other things that are happening with the shasters out of washington pulling their scam on the american people interestingly enough several companies have completely exhausted what little they did have in most of their calipers and are starting to consume their core calipers now uh... i should say they are made the customer is but uh... what's happening if they're not able to replace it so I would remind everybody that there are certain companies that still seem to have a pretty good brace of material, but it does go pretty quick. One of those, amoman.com, amoman.com and unamo.com. Both of those companies have done pretty well at providing material support over the last couple of months where they've been digging up stuff in odd corners. But, UNU Princess, both UNM and Amaleman, have been seeing a sweep of material just as quick as they get certain things in. Down the road, kids, just that simple. Nothing we can do about that. It's just the customers now responding. Now, with companies like AIM Surplus and Center Fire Systems, You'll notice they've gone out of certain flavors. They simply aren't replacing them because, well, they can't. They can't get them. So they're picking up what they can find again, much like what we saw a year ago. And again, remember, a year ago, this is, oh, that's right, this is October, guys. Think about that. We're a good chunk of the way through 2014, headed to 2015 now. And because of that, expect things to get pretty interesting to say the least. People are grabbing up or the basic stuff that's especially more reasonably priced. I've noticed in several categories, Don, that what we're looking at here are the more expensive exotic animals being left behind again initially because people are going from place to place like a locust. And they are, you know, scarfing up whatever they can find that makes sense, you know, it's useful for them. It makes sense, again, more for least. Exactly. An interesting thing that did just crop up here, it's in several locations, in most of the major carriers, number one buck. Not double-ought, not ought, number one buck. Now that's kind of an oddball out, but there's a couple reasons for that. Let's think about something. Have any of you bought, for instance, No name brand or even Ritz crackers. You know, Ritz, everything sits good on a Ritz, right? And the little round cracker. Guys, have you noticed that the crackers are the same size around, right? And there's the same basic size box. But have you taken the containers that the crackers are in out of the box and then put them, say, into a traditional container that was originally built for them, like from Tupperware? Have you noticed that the cracker roll has gotten shorter? Wait a minute, and when you look at the weight, it's gone down. But it doesn't appear that way, Don, because, well, Rich has a really nice box. And it counts basically the same. Maybe they're just kind of shorter. They're thinner and more delicate. Yeah, and also a lot crumblier, I'm noticing in general, even for what is supposed to be the upper product. This is something we talked about with breads in the two-hour block. Well, the same is true with, you know, again going to certain shot guys. The smaller it is, they're still only offering nine pellets. And the other thing to remember is it's a, again, typically there's nine pellets in double-op buck. Remember that number one is smaller than double-op. So you're getting nine number one pellets, which means you're saving on lead and, you know, there probably is a little more punk metal in there than just lead. I mean, it's more affordable that way. but they're going with a smaller pellet so that they can shave off that equivalent to the weight of one of those pellets but still appear to give you the same number of pellets which they do but also the same load which they're not. Now it doesn't mean I have a problem number one shot number one buck I don't it's you know like I said I like number four buck that's 22 caliber but this is a couple steps down from the traditional double out load but it's what you're seeing in 20 gauge now in the yellow case and you're seeing it from federal and a couple of the other unique companies that are the, well where the hell that brand come from. So there's just a heads up and an example there where people are starting to apply the same thing we've seen in food products and other products to create the illusion that there's been no change. In other words, the basic numbers when you glance at it, well there's nine pellets, well there's a, oh wait a minute, what did it say? I'm sure they meant double op buck, not number one shot, number one buck. In reality, oh no, they know exactly what they're doing. That's those bean counters kicking in, guys. Now the other thing, UNAMMO.com, UNAMMO.com, I've mentioned these the other day, guys, pyrotechnics are something you're always going to be short, you'll never have enough of. And no way, someone came in and cleaned out all the red flare. No, kidding in fact they're down to from the over 10 stock that they had they are down to three cases Now I get I'm gonna read this again for everybody see understand what I'm talking about if you go to their flares and ordinance Hopefully it's just people realize what we're talking about, but I've pointed this out these are Signaling flares, but they are high lumen signaling flares One minute hand flares, super bright, manufactured by Comet. They are identical in every way to the Payne's Wessex except these are manufactured in Germany instead of Engleland. Each flare is waterproofed, plastic wrapped, and orange instead of yellow. These are out of date signal flares for ocean vessels in distress. Read that. Remember I told you this before guys. These are products from the Pleasure Cruise Lines. They take the stuff out, they move it down the road and sell it. The naval stuff mark is like long-term storage food, isn't it? Compared to just like packaged cheese on the shelf. Oh yeah, this stuff is built to survive in salt water. And we ain't in salt water. You get in the drift. Yeah, I'm going to ignore that. Think about it. So this is a very, very good buy. Really. I mean, these things will burn your eyeballs. Everybody understand that? But they also are great for throwing into other things that might burn. that maybe you need to have them burned. Think of it as a projector. Yes, exactly. Now they don't have the parachute flares yet. These are handheld flares. But they are that bright at 15,000 CD. They are out of date per Coast Guard regs, but they all work. And yes, I'll attest to that. They are great to go camping with and are great to keep in the boat, auto glove box, et cetera. Use them for whatever may what they were made for or for search and rescue or Emergencies also great for camping lighting wood fire wood on fire etc. No matches needed pull open not to extend on the screw the red cap which exposes a pull cord pull the string and hold the burn for they burn for one minute super hot and bright Of course, if you want to make something burn, then you don't hold them. You just pull that cord, drop it down that tube, and you can hear it go clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk towards the fuel, and you better leave. In fact, you better be leaving and not hear the clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk. You're too close already. Again, they burn for a full minute. Larger quantities for resellers available. I think somebody bought them out, guys. Call for more info on larger quantities. Well, they're telling you they only have five cases of the Let's see, they have five cases of the yellow and they have three cases of the orange. We carry three of these per person. We carry three smoke, three parachute flare, three illumination flare, three ground flares. These are, now everybody goes, well what's the price, Mark, what's the price? Okay, well, a crate of 50 of these, a box of 50 of these, are $65 if you go pick them up. But if you have to have them sent to you, they're at $90 shipped to the lower 48. So you're looking at less than $2 a flare and these are, these are not fireworks. This is not fireworks like where it's cardboard tubes and you know, cheapy. We're talking built to, you know, again, to safety equipment standards, guys. So these are very viable. They only have three of the orange crates left and they only have five of the yellow. The red is gone. Remember I mentioned all three colors were there and they stated that they had over 10 crates of each, which initially they actually had quite a few more. But they've gone through and hopefully they'll replace this as quick as possible, cross your fingers and hope it happens right. So that is a solution again. For everybody out there looking for pyrotechnics. Now, right down below, I should say above where those flares are, I was talking about shot shells, for those of you who need 20 gauge, 12 gauges around, you can find 12 gauges in pretty much a number of different flavors. But what's interesting is there's some Eli number six shot. Now I like number six shot, that's a real good anti-people at close to medium range, good bunny bird thing for getting food, and you can cut it and make a poacher slug out if you want to. The 250 round case is $99 delivered. What's interesting is that this says Eli on it. But the box is an absolute federal print. It's a complete recopy of the federal boxes that were built back in the 70s. I have some still on the shelf in 30 caliber cans somewhere else away from here. Wait a minute. Dolphin beer is Patriot beer? That's okay. That's a different joke. But it's the same product, different label. Yep. It's got Eli. That's all it says. E-L-E-A-Y. Everybody's familiar with Eli ammo. But it's the Federal box. It's got the same pheasant, the male and female pheasant. The male's close. The female's in the background. It's the same black and old, two-color print from back in the 70s. remember my bow opened up box after box of this stuff to go hunting bunnies back in the day and fennel so it's interesting but they do have that load in twenty gauge and they do have some twenty gauge slugs also so if you're looking for slugs or if you're looking for some number six shot go to UN ammo dot com the flares are at UN ammo dot com uh... another thing if uh... we've talked about bowling ball mortars remember guys these things can throw something the size of a bowling ball Quite a ways. Hint, hint, hint. And if you take a look at it, I'll give you an idea. You can see that they're made out of oxygen or oxyacetylene tanks, where they've cut them in half. The flat bottom is the bottom of the tank. The round base, which looks more like a traditional colstrom mortar, are the top of the tanks. Price is $750 for the finished product with all the work done for the two flexible mount models. The solid base model which has a flat base and a holding handle for directing it, so it's more like what they call a speed plate on a mortar, $495. Again, if you want to go to YouTube, you can watch them launching bowling balls. Get your idea what we're talking about. Next, from the same source here, again from UNAMMO.com, pistol ammunition. Now they do have a number of different calibers that have come and gone. Some of them they're completely out of again. They do have 22 and the price is right up and down the spectrum for 22. There's no great wild price anywhere for 22 anymore. It's just the way it is. But they do have some 223 in the stripper clips and this is Lake City ammo green tip It is 500 or forgive me correction correction $475 per thousand rounds now the cool thing is is that on the stripper clips and they do come with the magazine guides So you have everything you need to put some bad liers together or to put up re-inventory or again redepo point stock can somewhere where you're going to be having somebody sit there and reload while other people are dumping the mags. You know, there's a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, The other thing with UN ammo is .50 cal ammo. They do have a good quantity in stock of mixed types. You'll have to take a look at it. It's something that makes sense for you. I know that somebody is zeroing in on this .545x39 ammo. I just talked to them today. In fact, they're also going to grab a big pile with the .762x54R ammo. We're going to see some holes in this inventory real quick. I can tell you that. I don't know exactly what they're going to spend and we all discussed the why and it's done. So check it out and again share guys. If you've got anything else, any watering hole, whether there's something unique or special that's showing up, let us know. We are looking for Canik 55 9mm mags, the 17 or 18 rounders. Both are available. The 18s are aftermarket but they'll work. The 17s are the factory standard. We're looking for as many different sources for the Canik 55 9mm mags as we can. There is a very, very pressed interest in that. We want to clear out everything that's out there. There are some people that want to buy a big chunk, but they're going to need to know where they are. Some of you may already have done this, may have picked up what you need, but we're looking for the Canik 55 9mm magazines. 17 factory or 18 aftermarket. Either one's fine. Now, now I know you've got stuff to cover. Jump in there, please. Also, again, tag us on Night Vision for a minute here. We've got a change coming up, possibly with the rifle scopes again. Well, we're going to run out of the first generation rifle scope. That would be the change I'm certain you want me to address. Yep. Go ahead. Now, you guys, we've watched this progressively. We were told about it in January. Within 24 hours, I told you about it. Here we are. The two power gun sites are gone. The three power and five power first generation viewers are gone. And it just seems like yesterday. I use that cliche, but it's true. It doesn't seem like that long ago when we had hundreds of them. We've got, oh, late last week we had 351 of the four power gun sites. I'm certain, yeah, I bet one of my little toes that we have less than that now. It's a gimme. going like hotcakes, so to speak. But if A, if you want to talk about that, 4-Power Gunsite, first generation, it's a green screen device. That's the whole pivot of this conversation, because what will replace it will be white light coming out of the device. And white light certainly attracts the human eye, and white light will attract another piece of night vision in the field in an instant. So we've addressed this many times, so it's one of those, I hear Janice Joplin off in the distance screaming, get it while you can. She might have been talking about something else, but right now we're talking about first generation gun sites. In 4 Power, I can put the 4 Power right in your mailbox for $390. The manufacturer's going to want $449. They might even, if they're feeling kind of brave, ask for $390 is everything the manufacturer puts in the box right in your mailbox for $390 including delivery. My phone number is 2317-968-458. Again, 2319658. Start looking up, we're looking at second generation gun sites or viewers and second-generation gun sight right in your mailbox for one thousand two hundred and forty eight dollars and i thought i heard some music in the distance in the background i don't know i think where there was just probably some noise here is making sure about that i'm pretty brought something up from one of our friends is uh... passed on uh... we probably do have the uh... song the one song from nickelback uh... their latest piece uh... edge of revolution and purple they've got a new album out so not bad for a Canadian band is it yeah as a matter of fact a good stomping beat for an armor track guys especially notes like there's several pieces that are have that pace to them. Yeah, this is a scan, that's like what we call a scan track. You'd be there in the turret, you'd be doing your pan back and forth through the, you know, observing through the commander's cupola optics and you're doing your part while the gunner's doing his. And of course the driver's tracking you cross country and you're on the hunt. You know, it's cool, it's a really cool piece. But also a lot of the work can be done with that. You know, Don, you remember I mentioned a video on YouTube here the other day with the flags on the vehicle, armored vehicles and such, right? Uh oh, did we lose Don? Oh no, there was that mute button in the way. There we go. Guys, I mentioned a video I recommend that you all watch. I put it on our save, our playlist actually too, so I can go right back to it. Well, you know, obviously we're having some fun because it looked like any road America The tanks all had the Confederate battle flag on them. It looked like the old Russian national flag from the Czar era. Not the dual legal. It looks like the Confederate flag. It looks like the battle flag. Not the Bonnie Blue. and what's interesting about it is that every vehicle was flying it off their antenna. So of course the little tongue-in-cheek joke was, yeah, it's a battlefield image of the 2nd Virginia Dragoon mechanized just on the outskirts of Washington DC ready for a little tank battle there out by the CIA headquarters and then there'll be the battle for the Potomac Bridge and I'm telling you guys every, it just clicked, seriously. Guys, not only did they pull the video, the whole channel was pulled. Wow. Now that's really it happens. It does happen a lot nowadays But what's interesting is guys all this was was really clean accurate footage But I planted a seed and I'm hoping that you guys kind of saved that out there because I told you again Whenever we mentioned stuff try to make copies and post it somewhere else again But what was really cool is it's an entire tank? Basically like a tank platoon with the support trucks and the support column were the gas trucks that looked like our GMC standard military deuce and a half guys. And of course the second one had, the whole rear end was full of duffel bags and all the personal gear for the unit. But there was one pressed into service civilian vehicle, there were a couple of other MEC vehicles, you know trucks. Then there was a deuce with a twin air defense gun pointed to the rear and up. Which is kind of cool. They even had air defense, you know, of course attached directly to the unit. And the last thing was a clunker-punker. You know, because you're going to have military vehicles. Now there's a clunker-punker civilian sedan four-door that was bringing up the rear. The interesting thing is, like I said, it looked like a mechanized unit. Second Virginian Dergun along with North Carolina heavy mech unit. Again, get ready to engage just on the outskirts of the suburbs before you get over to the George Washington Parkway. On the way through there, you hit the CIA headquarters on the right side. They could do that with part of the platoon. Meanwhile, the rest make the race for the Potomac Bridge on their way to doing house-to-house land battle in Washington, D.C. proper to route out the regime. There's no fighting, there's no blood, there's no gore. It's just a really, really good example. A lot of the stuff we've talked about on the air where we have imagery from the field and how things really are. Not the propaganda being generated by the Shysters who are manipulating Ukraine and getting a lot of people killed because they have their little skank, New World Order agenda. So, again, pay attention, but whenever you can, copy, copy, copy, and eventually you might have to post it again and share it because they didn't want anybody to see something as simple as just a mechanized forest traveling down a highway that looks like it was on the outskirts of like Jamestown or maybe Richmond. Because even the vehicles on the road, because there's such a hodgepodge on American highways, there are so many off-the-wall Euro vehicles and Asian vehicles, guys, that even the traffic looked correct. The signs were battled up enough, and there are already international signs to the point where they look the same. Seriously, so just something to think about there. And again, they completely deleted even the website itself. So remember, I brought that all up on that website, the YouTube channel. Now there's another video, because it is Weapons Wednesday. I've talked about the RPG-7s, Don, but this is a little fireteam crew of any tank in Grenadiers, grenade launchers. One guy's got a Russian 35. The rest, the equivalent to our US-203 grenade launcher for the AK guys, you've seen pictures of it. The other two men are carrying standard RPG-7s, the egalitarian anti-tank weapon of the planet now. What's interesting is this is fantastic because I've told you before, watch how things are done. Now they goof around a little bit. These guys are firing on the airport, creating again a rocket attack. It's a poor man's artillery battery is what it is. and every once in a while I see the guy with the Grenadier walk over the end of the building and if you pay attention listen to him here and then the RPGs are launched one after another pay attention to the warheads I've told you before about the different warheads that will pay attention to the pictures that you've seen in the past well watch as they bring each of those rockets into service so actually they're not rockets forgive me they are over there Recoilers, grenades. They're recoilously launched grenades. The only difference is the RPG-7 has a second phase rocket assist. Yeah, yeah. Okay. But this is a fantastic video. It shows them undoing the safeties. I've told you before guys, you don't just pick it and plug it up and play. You have to go through certain steps to activate your weapons. And in this case, it shows pulling the safeties on the warheads. While the guys are prepping them real quick and they're launching. I think you launch a total of maybe 10 or 12 RPGs and the guy with the Grenadier he fires Probably half a dozen maybe eight rounds while you're watching this video So just again case in point and I remember pay attention to the recoil the back blast That's another thing that you always seen all these movies Blacklist which is a new series. It's kind of interesting. It's fun to watch. It's a lot of tongue-in-cheek stuff and it's a mind play piece but the kids pick up this RPG they're driving in the back of a jeep firing at another vehicle chasing a humvee and these African child warriors pick up this RPG stick the back of the tube right between the driver's seats right and pull the trigger now guys I want you to watch the video of these RPGs working and how they really work Then I want you to watch plan for failure Hollywood and what they show you and when you watch the back blast of that RPG because it's very well captured in fact the icon picture has a blast of one of the rockets you know act one of the charges activating Think about what that that Jeep would look like after that kid pulled that trigger on that RPG 7, okay? in the vehicle. Number one, and I will point something out, remember this is a solid tube, that's what the RPG 2's and 7's are. They're a seamless high chromoly steel tube that's been tempered. Now part of the blast goes forward and slaps the back end of that grenade. The rest goes out the back and done. That would be kind of like a directed arc welder, wouldn't it? Well, if you wanted a haircut and a blow a hole in something, even steel. Yeah. Okay. So just something to point out. It's why we need to think things through. But remember, Hollywood helps to plan to failure. The way things really work and the way typically they show you are two different things. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So again, we don't want to end up as casualties to do that. We need to do things right. So anyway, go ahead and jump in there, please. Oh, we've got Fluffy, I think, in the background. Do we have a caller? Go ahead, caller. I just had a quick one on that video. You might check Press TV. I think Press TV distributed that. You had a couple of the noises popping up there. Go ahead and repeat that again. Yeah, I think that was Press TV that distributed that video you were talking about, because I saw it too. It was really cool. Yeah, in fact the lead tank, I didn't want to remember everybody, the reason I want everybody to watch it is the lead tank on the front turret glacis on the gun manlet. Guys, the flag was painted flawlessly there. And if you watch it, all you have to do is tell somebody quickly, hey, check out those Confederate troops heading towards Washington. It's what it looked like, didn't it? It was perfect. You could have a commentator with a little bit of a southern accent doing a report on the counter-strike and the invasion and taking to Washington, D.C. It would have been perfect. That was when Ivan goes marching home. Yeah, exactly. Or well, Gornor Dixie. You know, a mile out like Dixie. Now, an example is, and this is where this is cropped up before, there's another version, there's a version of Southern Soldier Boy, the Southern Soldier Boy with Martin Film Company Channel. And it only has one image, but if you pay attention as it fades in, you see it's obviously a Confederate battle flag. As it fades in more, you see, it is a Confederate battle flag, but who are those guys holding it off to the side? One of the guys is spread it out and displaying it. It's interesting that that image is there, but it was a way for them to get a flag that pretty well is the same configuration as the flag in standard that was carried in the past. Not by the Confederacy, by the way. Something to think about if you go through any of the old old litho texts there your images were done back in the pre 1900 You'll notice when they showed czar you know czarist forces both at sea and on the land Pay attention to the configuration of their battle standard. Oh, it's not the double eagle guys That's the imperial flag of the of the actually it's the it's the army's flag, but it's that's the imperial flag of the imperial household as opposed to, oh, wait a minute, there were other national standards, just like the Bonnie Blue and the Confederate battle standards, the different ones, because there was more than one that was in service. Think about it. So anyway, just some cool stuff and a cool video. Anything else, sir? Oh, no, that's it. I think Fluffy's behind me. Yep. Fluffy, jump in there. What do you got, sir? Oh, I was just commenting. I have seen a couple of live action videos of those RPG-7s being shot. Back blast would be at close range akin to a plasma cutter. Oh yeah, it'll give you a haircut right down to your shoulders. That's why you remember in Red Don it was very accurate. Remember the one lieutenant was trying to, the one captain, it was the adjutant to Colonel Bella, just trying to walk out sneaky up behind him and they fire both of those at the same time and the back blast catches him right in the face. What face? Yeah, exactly. Well, that's what it would do. It would take your face right off, it'll take the flesh right off, take the skin right off your skull. If you're close enough, or it'll bore a hole straight through your skull, or it varies depending on how you are to the center of the blast, because remember that tube is focusing that energy to the rear. And that's why always watch your back, and that's why the gunner always shouts out, RPG! Okay, that's where, you know, or grenade! Do you do that so that all your friendlies know that something is coming? I remember a scene from one of the Squint Westwood movies. I think it was the gauntlet where they had an army guard demonstrating an RPG. Or maybe it was a law rocket. And his female partner looked at the back end and was fortunately yanked back by Jody Harry just in time. Right, it wasn't the gauntlet. Which one was it? It was the Dirty Harry movie with the Manson type crew. They take over Alcatraz, remember? Yeah, it was Alcatraz. And he uses the M72 laws to neutralize one of the positions. It's like, oh. But remember, initially his partner stands right behind you looking down the tube like she's going to watch it launch. He kind of moves her sideways as he fires it and it's like, oh, maybe you don't want to do that. Yeah, not a good place to be. Yeah. That's one of the most important things too is that again, and there's another piece, Ukraine War-DPR Militia in heavy fighting with Ukrainian Army for the control of the Donetsk Airport. Okay, that's Ukraine war dash DPR militia in heavy fighting with Ukrainian army for the control of Donax airport. Now this is a distraction unit, but if you pay attention you're going to see everything we've talked about in that video. RPGs being used and activated. An RPG-18 which is their equivalent to one of our throwaway rockets similar to the law. In fact, it looks like they've got a newer one than the 18 there. In one case, it's bigger. It probably counters our Viper. Then main tank gun also. Pay attention. Here's another thing. We haven't mentioned enough of this. Guys, you'll notice something about this battle. The AK-74 is the dominant round in the Russian and in the Ukrainian military, or at least it was supposed to be, right? You might note how many 7.62x39 AKs are fighting this war. Still millions of them out there. Oh yeah. And in fact, even in that picture, I would say, well, I think it's 60% or 7.62x39. And then the rest of the weapons, including the squad gun, the guys carrying an AK-74 RPK. So pay attention to that, guys. Well, listen and pay attention to the report, how they function. and what they're doing to get these things to work. Now also you might pay attention to the age because everybody goes, you're going to be a young guy, you're going to be a young guy. There's a couple guys there with all green beards smiling all the while they're fighting. And you know what that is? It's like what we're talking about here in the U.S. where this is going to happen the same way. In their mind, there's one word going through their brain. You know what it is? Finally. You know what I mean? I'm serious. There's an older NCO there. He has got a white beard, white mustache. He's wearing a full combat tactical rig, combat helmet, and he is not unhappy at all. Yeah, I guarantee you, veterans will be in there. Yeah, it's like finally. Let's get this over with and get on down the road. And that's exactly the situation. The bad guys don't really understand the heart of what's going on here on our side. They can yap all their numbers they want. It's just going to be a nah, now we can get on with things. Good. I'll tell you what, it looks like those older guys are keeping right up with everybody else and creating casualties too. I guess they're probably contributing to the battle. Showing the young guys how to do it, how to expect some cases. Exactly. Again, you've got to remember, they're pressing a lot of equipment into service life. We've said that is older equipment. Those men are the ones that are not only trained, but trained the next generation. They didn't just get trained, they trained. That's what you need. That's one of the things we need to remember. We're going to be seeing equipment. Like I've been saying the last couple of days, guys, you know how much garbage we brought back from Vietnam? You know how much stuff we brought back from Korea? I know guys that were in Vietnam in 63 and they were there until 67, 68. Now, 66 the cutoff, but late 66, up until 1966 and he ended up some location in 67, 68. When you put a box in the post office in Vietnam, do you know where it ended up next? That your doorstep. No checks, no inspections, no x-rays, nothing. Right. And you know what? There's a whole lot of M60s and a whole lot of brownings, you know, BARs and browning 1919A6s and a whole lot of other things got picked up that were laying around in Vietnam and they came home and they're in arsenals all over the place here. And Korea was the same way. Radar Rally wasn't the only one mailing garbage home from Korea. You get my drift? It was funny as one of the sergeants years ago, I remember he said, yeah I had this young captain. We were getting towards the end of the war and a lot of us had these things we picked up from the yellow we dragged back with us, most of them we burned. He came around and said, you're all going to have to get rid of those, you're going to put them in a big barrel here for me. And they all looked at me and said, Captain, the only thing that's going in that barrel, if anything's going in that barrel, it's going to be you head first. After that, we'll put you in the jeep and take you over to the Chinese and you can sit and stew on that for a while. What do you think? Well, the captain figured out he wasn't taking anybody's guns. And they weren't joking when they told him what they'd do. They probably cooked him first and the Chinese had no problem eating him. Since they were always short on rations, you know. I had soy sauce. Yeah, they had red rice. Soy sauce. And don't forget, noodles. Come noodles. American tastes good with noodles. So, just the amount of material and equipment, heavy ordnance, medium ordnance, it's like tanks. There's 27,000 privately owned tanks officially in the United States. That's the minimal number. Does everybody understand how many tanks make up an armored division? You realize now that many? Yeah, and here again everybody goes, well, they're older! Armor doesn't go bad and pretty much as far as the automotive potential of all of those vehicles, Name for me an armored vehicle in the last 50 years that hasn't been able to do 40 miles an hour Or more. There's nothing out there that can't do 40 miles an hour. You can't run that fast, right? So as long as I can put something on it that goes boom, it's still more than serviceable. But here's the thing. It's like I said, the Bren gun carriers, they'll do 50 miles an hour. Just gotta help you if you have to stop because they're steel tracks with no rubber pads. I mean, we have them guys and yeah, we can do 45, 50 miles an hour with them. I don't plan on doing that, but I guess if you're, again, highly motivated to high tail out of something, you would. Just don't tailgate. Not even another friend. Yeah, don't tailgate. He's breaking, he's breaking, he's breaking. And we're going to break too. It's a Rolls Royce engine and a Bren gun, isn't it? Well, yeah, we put a Rolls in the one. Remember, we had the, well, Ed knows there's a picture. I know, I moved it. Yeah. Everybody moved that thing at one point or another. Yeah, Ford Ford power plant typically rolls in some of them diesels we can mount diesels. We got one guy's put These because it's a standard rail motor mount guys and these are all these things can be upgraded If you think you need to be diesel, maybe Make it diesel if you think you need to put a bigger gun on it We're not the army put a bigger gun on it Never like good remember what Kennedy did? What was the famous thing with PT 109 about John F Kennedy and the PT 109? What was he famous for with that boat? He lost the boat but he saved almost all of the crew. No, I'm talking about when he built it. When he put it together, remember, it was a hangar queen. He said, well, he got the 109 but she ain't exactly seaworthy, remember? And he started scavenging for things. What did he put on the arse end of that boat? He scavenged a Japanese anti-tank gun and made a fixer for it and mounted it on the rear end of the boat. He goes, is that a Japanese .45 on there? Hell, yeah, hell, you have a Lieutenant Kennedy and a amount of tank on it if you have this thing, if he could find one. It wasn't exactly standard armament, but it's the old story, anything you could find that dragged more firepower on board, guys, you did. You know how that works, and the same is true of what we're doing now. If I, World War II, let me give you an example. When a plane crashed near the front, do you think that what was on board that plane went to waste? Not so much. No, in fact even the German Army scavenged off their own Luftwaffe. It was real popular. They had a 20mm cannon that they mounted on board that was actually articulated on the HE 219. They would take that and strip that and it would fit perfectly on a Honemag armored cars roof. As a front gun we can place it on the MG34. So instead of an 8mm machine gun, it had a 20mm cannon. And there's more than a few of these that were documented. They got really good at scavenging and finding stuff that they could peel for a steal off wrecks. And if they found stuff like that on the Russians, like the 14.5 millimeter cannon, they did the same thing. We will. Yes, we will. Exactly. Oh, that looks pretty fine. That'll look fine on my Jeep. Well, it's going to be a little top heavy, isn't it? Okay, it'll look fine on my three-quarter ton. I gotta worry, we got more than one vehicle here, we can put it on something. Hell, if we have to, we'll just throw it in the back of the thing and point it towards the rear. I mean, come on guys, look at all these pictures of the garbage you're using in the Middle East right now. What are they putting all those light guns on? Pick up trucks. Toyota pickup trucks. Not even full-size dodges or forts. Yeah, little tiny... Yeah, 14... twin 14 fives. That reminds me, Dad, of the one Jeep with the 20 millimeter machine gun strapped to the front of it. I wouldn't want to be in it when it fires, but it's got one. There were notorious when they put too heavy on the Jeeps, the quarter-toned Jeep guys, they plopped sideways. We can put anything on an MRAP. Oh, that's what I'm saying. I wouldn't use an MRAP so much for my troops. I'd use it as a weapons platform. Exactly. There's two things to be good for. An armored ambulance. Yeah. Or as a weapons support platform. Those are the two primary missions that it would suit, and pretty much everything else, not so much. But to carry something big to put more tooth down range is what it's good for, because you don't want to carry it. Think that way it's like if I did have an RPG gunner I'd mount him I'd put him up there simply because again it gives him a platform Gives it you know it gives him you know mobility. I'm not going to put him up front I'm not going to put him where he's exposed the driver is going to learn to use the role of the terrain Remember when you're taking a tank battle guys you only expose enough of the turret to get that gun operational and the rest of the tank isn't seen that's called hull down and And drivers get really good at that because they find out they don't want their arches shot off. So they try to keep the vehicle under as much cover as possible. Well, you can do the same thing with the MRAP just like you're doing with an M113 or a Bradley or whatever. and carry a lot of RPG rockets in that thing. Oh yeah. Or mount improvised recoilless or mount a battery of say indirect motor fire devices that are black powder launched. Remember guys, here's something to think about, that MRAP's got an armored roof, right? We used to make in World War I what they called trench mortars out of artillery shells because they always wanted more firepower and you can see many pictures of this but most of the times you don't realize what they're looking at. The shells were like the 155s or the 5-inch guns, the 8-inch guns, the 10-inch guns. They would collect up the expended cases. They would make a wooden frame for them and there were several different ways they were built but typically they were muzzle loaders and they were wire fired. Some were fuse fired, they could go either way if they couldn't get wire, but they typically were electronically activated with a 6 volt system. So what they had is a little detonator, a little electronic squib, they put an artillery charge or a black putter charge or an explosive charge whenever they could scrounge up in the base. They would then mount their mortar shell on top, launch it and let it go. We're at the top, Don, you're going to be building in just a minute, guys. Night vision, look outside. What's it look like out there right now? I'll bet your piece of night vision would come in handy, wouldn't it? Wow, here, we're on the edge of a revolution. Do that. We need to fight at night. Don, how can we get hold of you, sir? Hey, my phone number is 2317-996-8458. And again, fire for effect, son. Fire for effect. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march both day and night. We're going to have to fight, fight hard, do it right. Good hunting, men. 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