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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, of the brave. You vie 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's 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 trade it in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seemingly farm and keep our country deep and dead. 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 of their children. 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 will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great republic and eat God-given right. We prayed at God, freedom burning, as I awoke he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample, eat God-given right. We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer? He called out from the grave. Build the land of the poor. Report, I'm Mark Kearney. And I'm Don Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters. And behind the lines in occupied territories West, Southwest, North, Northeast. Gentlemen, you're listening to us on... Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio dot com, and we are on AML FM Microstations, CB, Base Patience, and Ultra Net. Hallmark and Golden Spike Technologies, East and West of the Mississippi, along with Alaska. Good morning to our friends. Over in the Crimea, the Black Sea, and let's not forget, Romania, and That's all yes, right Serbia. There's people over there in Serbia listening right now. Anyway, also on the other side of the planet our side Good afternoon to our friends in the Aleutians, Alaska, and of course Jefferson. Well, Dom, it's been clear. It's been gray, steely gray, blue What's it like in your neck of the woods? What's today? Today, what's jumping off the wall, please? Hey, it's a beautiful wonderful day Sun's going down now, but it was rather bright through the day on this the 22nd day of March, year of our Lord 2017. And it is a particular day, you know, strike down the middle of the week and also 1911 in one hand with an empty magazine. Well, you know, you can look right through that gun. But you just put the magazine, the magazine well and solve that problem and oh gee whiz. Drop that magazine out because there was a major failure on that. And I'm gonna lock that slide back. I'm going to drop that mag out, but hey, that was a drag to... I'll tell you that. We're going to cycle that, we're going to do this again. And that took a little bit longer than expected, and I got another failure on that. We're going to tell you it is a weapons Wednesday lock that slide back, drop that mag, I don't know what's going... Hey, remember I was telling you about those short bullets? Immediate action drill. Immediate action drill. Yeah. At any rate, I could see part of the problem there. Another one in and oh man, I'm gonna have to get rid of those short bullets I was talking about them earlier in the day and apparently they do not wish to cycle You have to take them out and shoot them We talked about that earlier in the day So we're two bullets down into this magazine now and that one did not cycle I got a quick I got a quick stacking those in there. You know that I'll tell you what I've changed my scenes. There's nothing in the chamber We're three bullets deep in that magazine now and it did not cycle. There's four magazines in front of you. There's four magazines in front of you. I know. I'm just... Drop the mag. Question the animal. Change. The zombie is now four steps away, but don't worry. He's dragging his hind end. He's growing. He's ahhhhh! And that cycled. That's closed. And we can tell you it is a fresh magazine. One in the chamber. It is a weapons Wednesday. Boy, it took a while to get there. I'm going to shoot these bullets tomorrow. I promise you. They will not offer me that problem again. But it is a weapons Wednesday. Hey, if you keep acting like that, there will be problems with the perimeter. It's unquestionable. I'll tell you. That's where the fighting knife was in hands reach, right? Yeah, but you're right. There's one over your shoulder, there's another one over your shoulder. And... Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Yes, but then you have greasy green zombie goo on your guns. So that's, you know, again, remember, that's why you always want to buy that white samurai sword that everybody has to have nowadays. Well, that worked perfectly. You thought that, didn't you? And so again, it is Weapons Wednesday. We can all offer equal opportunity, course, before us, in all directions. Take a direction. You mean like my crusty, rusty old machete won't work anymore? Oh, it'll work just fine. Even if it's got a little green on it from chopping the grass and the weeds in the back for it, it'll work just fine. In fact, I keep lots of those around in zombie time. Even not in zombie time. They're everywhere. The big thing here again is we've talked about ammunition availability up and down. Right now it's not deep, but it is wide. There's a greater selection, I think, probably we've seen in five, six years. In terms of selection and options, certain categories, others, well, in the last six, seven days, as several people have mentioned that we've talked to, I've called them, it turns out that there's been a bit of a run on certain calibers. Why? Because everybody's taking a little concern and interest in the fact that it's the third month into 2017 and not that much has changed. The bad crazy people are still there being bad crazy people and they've got an attitude. So, it's a good thing we just kind of kept the pressure up and nobody's going to get caught flat-footed. Now, on that note, with regard to the weapons technology available, there's a couple of really cool things out there. I don't know how many people have seen the Next step, and well, if you wanted to try to conform to all the rules and regulations, but you wanted some firepower, Don, have you seen the 6 AK Gatling gun? Oh, no, I haven't. Well, uh, please repeat that. Well, it's 30-round magazine in each AK. Basically, what the guy did is made a U, and he made a pedestal mount, kind of like what you see on a naval vessel. It has a broad multi-armed base, although the Navy typically just makes it one big solid conical. And then the pinball is on top of that. There's a yoke, a U. And then inside the U, there's another fixture. And that's the first U is for pivot left and right. In other words, horizontal motion. And then there's a second fixture inside that for pivoting up and down, up and down. Well then the guy made another frame and he put six standard AKs, semi-auto of course, and basically reinvented the idea of the accelerator. Remember that he used to put on the trigger guard? Yup. Well how about if instead you just put it on, you have this thing set up so that it thrusts and fires, apparently the way this thing works, it thrusts and fires, pulls the trigger, progressively as you crank it. So here you have this gaggle of AKs at 12 o'clock and at the 6 o'clock and then the other two are at like, you know, 2.30 and what would it be, 4.30 and the other one is at like 7.30 and the other one is at like 9.30 and they all face from the center out, top to bottom, in other words the top of the AK is in the middle of the carousel. The mags are all around the outside. Now what's interesting is then for controlling the gun itself, controlling that inner yoke, which of course allows you to turn left and right as you choose, or to, you know, again, push on this armature, just a little bit of big arm that comes out the back. He put some padding on it too. Why? I don't know. I don't think there's any recoil. It's just for comfort in whatever way. Yeah, it makes him feel good. Anyway, it demonstrated the test fire was with 60 rounds, 10 rounds in each gun. And that was quite successful. So apparently the next step is to do a video with lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of ammunition. Now, my first thought is 75 round drum for each one of those AKs times 6. I don't think I'd be running out of ammo right away, number one. And the cool thing is, the first thing I can see about this is for air defense or again for air coverage or quick deployment in all directions. It gives you the air defense capability up. and lots of firepower horizontally. So anyway, neat little fixture. You guys might want to check it out. Go to YouTube. There's a number of videos. There's the original, and there's somebody's posted a remake of it with some music and a few other cool things. And this is just the first fun phase. Now, hopefully, it's got to go farther than the member of the guy that we had. I played every once in a while. He had the M16 belt-fed shotgun upper. OK? It's a browning. Basically, it's a browning upper. plopped onto an A or 15 or M16 type lower receiver. Now the thing worked except he was so excited about playing, you know, showing the gun and playing the video, or I should say recording the video, because he forgot the first rule of all belt-fed guns. Your assistant gunner, or if you're all on your own, that left hand does one thing. Keep the belt straight. That's a rule, everybody better understand that if you can't do anything else, keep a belt straight. Even if you can't get the rounds down range perfectly, if you always keep smattering in the general direction with an area gun, you're doing your job. But you want to keep it firing. So guys, that was the only problem was occasional malfunctions. And it was because of failures to keep the belts straight. It's a 12 gauge shotgun. So it doesn't take much to kick the belt when you look at these thumb size shells, right? Think of that left hand as an extension of the feed tray. Yeah. In fact, that's the next thing I had done since the 12th gauge. I would have done what they originally did back before World War I. Most all the belt fed guns had a bronze or brass cast feed tray that allowed for guiding the belt so it didn't bind. They weren't really oversized. It was about the length of your thumb away from the gun, a little bit of an angle, and it had a little bit of a horn angle to the trough itself so that it would guide and drag the stuff in without binding anything. With a 12 gauge shell, because it's a straight tube shell especially, it's critical that you keep the belt in line. Anytime you're using a stove type, type round, remember, there's a reason for tapering the case. That's why the Russians do tapering cases, because it's crude, rude, and very forgiving. you know, the angled wedge going into the tapered chamber is a lot easier to get cooperation from than something that's very straight and very narrow and, well, it's kind of tight. So that's typically the case with anything that's modern nowadays. Now, just a heads up on that, there's some really cool solutions there. Another thing, and some of you may have seen the article on FromTheTrenchesOnRollReport.com, we're in all guns. Rail guns are back in the news and oh, oh, it's the latest thing, it's sliced white bread and it's so modern it's from like 1960. Yeah. Oh, did I say that? Actually, it's so modern it's from 1928, 29. Let me mention somebody who understood rail guns before anybody else. He invented things like the fluorescent light bulb. He actually came up with, well, other technologies that we use today that Well, like neon lighting, okay? You know who I'm talking about? Mr. Kesseler. Mr. Kesseler knew about death rays. Of course, he didn't really want to pass that out to the Rockefellers. Or JP Morgan. But the rail gun, the biggest problem with the rail gun, this is why you see right now they're talking about it. They're not really explaining that this is not The rail gun in its original configuration, some people have said, well you know, in fact in the articles from the currency, they said, well rail guns were traditionally the size of Titan cars. No, no, they could be any size. The thing is, if you want to throw something really big, you have to make the rail gun bigger because it's basically just a bank of magnets coordinated so that, because even like a magnetic xylophone, okay? The problem is, the very nature of the physics of firing the thing dictates that whatever you do, when you fire it, it's a one-shot blast because it collapses on itself as the projectile passes through the array. It compresses on itself. So everybody said, well, this is always expensive. It's always really pricey. It's like this is really, not really functional. Except that nobody was thinking the way we do with tank ammunition or artillery ammunition. Do we throw the gun tube away every time we fire? Or do we make a bracket... This is what really is going on right now. It's still a cartridge kind of weapon. But what happens is the arrays, made by communist Chinese slaves, actually are like a single shell that fires, it ejects the array, loads the next array, and boom, fires again. Or one fires again. Now, the big thing about this is they were saying, well, this will be old, this rail gun will be firing projectiles, 4,700 feet per second. Guys, okay, let me chime your memory about something here. Because there was a comment also about old cartridge guns are so inferior. Guys, we can build cartridge guns that will project, in fact, shoulder fire, dirty caliber cartridge guns, would say both. And with a tungsten dart or a steel dart in the SABO cup that will do just about 5,000 feet per second. The key here is not to use lead. Can't shoot lead that fast. There's a thing about friction. In fact, even with rail guns, one of the things you remember, the rail gun has to be able to take the projector, you know, missile and be able to lock onto it with the magnetic field and then shove it down that array and then squeeze it down range. Now when you do 5,000 feet per second, it doesn't make any difference if it's just air. There's a very quick accumulation of thermal energy because of a word called friction. So the neat thing is with rail guns of course, they're using tungsten carbide with iron or steel in case you're slash a wrap around almost like a tube. But with projectiles guys, you just cast solid steel. You just cast, if you want to go fancy expensive, you can go tungsten. But we don't need to. Of course you could be really wicked evil like US government also go to put uranium. Oops, yeah they've already done that. In fact, depleted uranium is, by the way, is typically encapsulated or held stable with what? Iron. So what do you want to bet that the rounds that are being fired by the rail comes? since they're already an iron... oh, they're probably depleted your radio. Yeah. So we can build a cleaner, ecologically sound gun that is still gonna just nail your hind end at 5,000 feet per second without all that other nonsense and, amazingly enough, is relatively quiet. Except, no matter what, when you're pushing 5,000 feet per second, you might notice the hypersonic crack. Yeah, just... bullet crack just is unavoidable. Silencers do you no good. Right. Let's just understand that. So we're looking at a situation where yes, we can load and in fact load 30 caliber rounds and let's not forget we already have the Sable technology. It's been developed for 20 plus years, actually longer than that, but private circles started building both 30 caliber and 50 caliber Sable more than 20 years ago now guys. And it's all been developed, it's all been perfected. The issue is simply projectile. What do you want to put down range? How far do you want to go with it is based on how heavy do you wish to make the projectile while still offering reasonable penetration and killing power at the other end. Where you're going to get killing power no matter what. There's another thought to be mixed into that at such speeds that crack of the bullet going overhead if it goes over the head of one and impacts into the next target. That's not going to be a reliable judge of distance, is it, Mark? Because you can count that bullet crack in the air without the moment of talking as fast as you can. Time to target is almost zero. Right. In other words, whoa. Wait a minute. Do that again. Whoa. What did he do? There's no estimate of how far that shot came from in any standard index. In fact, that was the thing that's always been talked about with rail guns is it would be like a laser gun. Well, we can already do that with the existing technology that we have off the shelf. And it's interesting that they're trying desperately to get everybody into the electronics. Let's remind everybody about something. If you pull the trigger on a chemically generated projectile, chemically propelled projectile, EMP doesn't affect that firearm. On the other hand, if you get everybody into electronics and then you play nuclear marsh gas mushrooms, well, all of a sudden, you're no ticky no washy. How can this be? Oh, that's right. I guarantee that if they've developed a rail gun, what do you want to bet the fire control system has lots of, lots of computer processors. Lots. Oh yeah. And not only that, but let's not forget that, you know, there'll be plenty and plenty and plenty of other components that will require lots of very expensive support technology that really didn't necessarily need to be there. But if you're the guy building the thing, sure as hell want to charge the government, don't you? When you can see them coming, you suck them for whatever you can. So on the one hand, we can generate the same effect. With virtually any size firearm, remember, stable technology came from tank gunnery. It came from tanks, guys. It's just everybody looking and saying, well, hell, we've got small machinery. We've got technology in scenes here. Molding and plastics, we understand. So the problem was simply picking the polymer, making the, in fact, remember this, sables could be made out of aluminum. The symbol would be a dissimilar metal. We only want it to shear away. We don't care about what happens to it. But it can be mounted on plastic. The symbol can be made out of wood. It can be made out of whatever you've got in the way of a destructible-slider-weight material dissimilar to the projectile. Yeah, I mean, I want that red moon to die cast in existing. Yes. In fact, yeah, you could actually, any number of different materials, once you have that sable, whatever you set in it, remember, it's the sable disengages, the butterflies open up, or the clamshell separates, and the projectile proceeds at a much higher velocity because you're using the conventional powder charges you're familiar with, But you're looking at a much lighter weight, smaller, you know, a smaller projectile, a lighter weight, but out of the same bore. The math formula is pretty straightforward. We were pushing on a .30-06 back in 1989. We personally loaded stuff up too, and Crown loaded it at 4,800 feet per second. Not any problem at all. And again, we were perfecting that technology through the 80s just as fun, I mean, just for the sake of, what can we do with this? How can we accomplish this? And so it's not that it can't be done. It's already been proven. It's just, and in fact, the rail gun thing, it's like, I've never mentioned this before, the rail gun garbage comes up every 10 to 15 years. You don't think so? Go back to your popular mechanics year after year, day after day, month after month, decade after decade, and go, oh, I saw that before. Then you go back a little farther and, oh, I saw that before. Oh, they got better graphics this time. Oh, this is really pretty. Aw, look, they got really computer graphic than this one. I feel so much more confident that they won't build it this time. Just like they didn't build it the last time, or the last time, or the last time. Aren't we supposed to have the lasers already too? Yeah, we do, I'm sure. Because they told us we did. Because I saw some CG graphics that showed them using a little... Oh man. I was watching Star Wars. I'm sorry. They were shooting missiles down? Yeah, right. Well, yeah, actually, no, they were terminators and they were killing humans. Oh. Oh, it was from a movie. I'm sorry. I keep watching those. Anyway, it's not that the technology, understand the technology is out there, yes, it's painful, let's try to avoid it, but also remember we can fire tit for tat. Whatever they're putting down range, we can shove right down their throats at the same velocities and with the same market accuracy. This is something else that I want to get into, I was kind of discussing with somebody last night, late last night, and it has to do with going back and forth, we were just asking some questions about optics. Well guys, optics have caught up with, and again, with all the other neat technology, off the shelf optics, it's purely a matter of what do you want to spend, and also what do you really want to do, because you can take your weapon out to its maximum range and count dimples. You can count freckles. You can count hair follicles, okay? You can look at it at night. You can look out across the battlefield at night as if it was day. You can look across the battlefield through the fog and the smog and you can identify a thermal signature. I think you can pretty well do almost everything the government's doing in how big you can do it. It's purely a matter of what you're going to be willing to build, you know, to be able to project something down range. But for instance, our half inch guns. All of our half inch guns now can perform as well, if not better than anything that the government presently has. Why? Well, there's nothing that the government has that didn't start out in the private sector. Where did that barrack come from? Yeah, in fact, they mean that woodworker? Yeah, that carpenter. Yeah. That carpenter. Yeah. That's a master tool in my head. Oh no, when he drew it up, he drew it up in fractions of an inch. He had to pay somebody to convert it to death because he was a board beaver. Yeah, cut it twice and it's still too short. So here again, consider that virtually everything, in fact even many of the ideas you're seeing right now which everybody considers Hypertech, like I've said, started out in the garage somewhere guys. It may have been a simple house garage with two cars in front, a workbench in the back. It might have been a garage with a workshop and the guy invests a little money in a four-man CNC unit and play with a few other things. But bottom line is if the basic concept can be laid out and can be built in light production mode by a private individual or people without any complications whatsoever. The big thing is bells and whistles. But here's the thing, and this is kind of like a discussion somebody just had here the other day talking about some imagery they saw of them training our people to go into jungle warfare. All of a sudden out of the blue what pops into everybody's hands? M16A1 type rifles. Now guys, I would point out that that's not an accident because, well, yep, you can throw all kinds of bells and whistles on the system. The problem is those bells and whistles bump out here, stick out there, angle up in this direction, throw the weight over in that direction, and by the way create a wider, taller signature for mobility purposes that can drag and drag and drag. So lo and behold, Going into a certain environment, what do you see? You're seeing a streamlined firearm. All the bells and whistles disappearing. Now, it doesn't mean that every last one will be gone. For instance, in South Wales, they're going to dump thermal. I mean, gone. It's kind of handy, right? Oh, yeah. U.S. government, all the boots will eventually have thermal instead of green screens. So the only issue is, how can we adapt into that particular weapon system? And again, since we already know that the M16A1 was, in fact, fully adapted to all of the best of technologies, It is not a big deal to add on or slap on something onto that carry handle even. If they left the carry handle on, I didn't see the imagery so I'd have to look at it to evaluate it, but the bottom line is that again, after you add a lot of these things, you know, the electric can opener, the coffee grinder and the stock, The spit you can in the front just beyond the foregrip so you don't even have to take the gun away from your shoulder. Just angle your head sideways, spit, and then actually there's a chew dispenser right there. A chicken chew dispenser. Yeah, and then that double whammy flash hider with wire cutter and it also blows up balloons selectively in different colors as you choose, diverting the gas, special diverters and everything. By the time you're done, all those neat bells and whistles, well, there's not anything new. In fact, I brought up some things here. The Confederates talked about this at Bull Run. When the battle, first battle for Bull Run took place, the Confederates came across the battlefield pretty well, trim and as they would fight the majority of the war. Lean and already ready to fight. On the Union side, every imaginable gimmick had been sold to the soldier. It was, in fact, a humbling experience for the Confederate soldiers to start picking up the recently fallen muskets and finding coffee grinders built into the buttstocks. First you're thinking this must be some kind of new weapon system. Then they realize it was simply a frivolous expense that somebody was able to sell the government and or the people or the carpetbagger did in the field and many people bought into it. Did it serve any real purpose with regard to the function of the rifle? Nope. Nope. Did it make everybody feel good because they could have coffee? Sure. But I think you could have kept that in the backpack, couldn't you guys? Right? But instead it showed up on the weapon. There's a lot of other ideas that, in fact, very early on, the Union, with more money, was willing to spend money on, or somebody was, which very quickly disappeared as the reality of combat operations eventually became, well, shall we say, known to the participants. On the Confederate side, disillusionment did not have to take place. They were a lean fighting force from the get-go. On the other side, it took time to grasp the idea that a lot of what was going out there wasn't necessary. In fact, it may have even hindered operations. You mean you're not going to issue me a rifle with a coffee grinder? Well, son, only one in ten get the coffee grinder, and it's the old guy who's going to be to the rear. That way we don't lose the coffee grinder. What do you mean? You mean the other nine are fully spendable? Yeah. You just have to make it through today. Come home and there's coffee. And you get coffee. So again, there's an example. There's all kinds of interesting ideas. But you know, and again, you've got the other issue of batteries, battery support. Why will things disappear in the interim in a modern battlefield? Lack of spares. If realistically we accept the idea of what a lot of you guys learned when you were in the military about World War III, for instance, the discussion was always, it would be pretty safe to be infantry for the first week or two because nobody would be shooting at you. Everybody's priority target was something else, okay? Radio operators, radar control personnel, missile launch teams. You could stand there and watch, well, hell boil over, but it'd be passing you by every minute until finally they start running out of targets. And they'd probably turn their attention towards them. Got to get to those guys that run those predators. That's right. In fact, it's like they say, if you see one of these, shoot it first. Yes. Exactly. Remember those posters on the wall on all those office buildings when you're in the military. You see this? Kill it first. Or kill that one first or more. Well, shoot one of them. Okay. But don't worry about the infantry. He'll be there waiting for you. Okay? So the fact of the matter is that, you know, again, yeah, you're relatively safe, per se, in that as long as you maintain some semblance of intelligence from the get-go, and then are ahead of the curve, chances are not only you're going to do well, but you can be relatively victorious on the battlefield for a reasonable price. This is why we talk about the idea of getting at least on the table in every category possible and talk about this. So I guess we're going to do before we go any farther as well, one of those subjects is night vision, Dom, and thermal technology. If we're going to get out on the table, what can we do? How can we get hold of it? And what do we have available? And how do we use the web page? Well, if you go over to yptoe.us, you'll see viewers and binoculars and binoculars, but you'll see gun sites. That's the major portion of digital green screen and the thermal variety, you know, gun sites and three different technologies. on a number of different abilities. If you look at the digital, you can use it throughout the day and into the dark. By into the dark, it's daylight. You're using the gun sight. It's getting darker. It's getting darker. It's going to get so dark that you're going to want to turn on the illuminator a little bit before you'd want to turn on the illuminator on the first generation earlier available green screen. If you look at it like that, well it's great to move into the dark or move like it's dark and it's getting light and you want to turn off the green screen, well you don't have to turn off the digital. Now it'll do other things like it'll record for you and some of the new stuff will do other things, but if you scroll down you'll be into the green screen. There's more of a standard there. you're not going to get the bells and whistles, you're going to get the standard way to see in the dark. If it has a ranger, it's a step ranger in the view screen. You know, like a ladder or something similar to dots like a mill red ranging system. If you continue to scroll down, you'll be into the thors. Now, you've moved through the digital into the green screen and passed that into the thermal. And Mark was referencing that just moments ago. You guys, the thermal isn't light dependent. It doesn't care if you've got a full moon or no moon. If it tells you that it will register a person at 700 yards, it will do that whether it's light or not. All you have to do is have that basic line of sight. It's not like you're going to see through a mountain. It's not like you're going to see through 17 cars or a whole bunch of glass or somebody walking around on the other side of a wall. And health stuff just plain won't do that. If you get into the big stuff that's cooled, you can see through glass. You can see someone leaning up against a wall on the other side of the wall. If someone's leaning up against a wall long enough with a Thor, you'll be able to look and see that, well, there's somebody there. But if you get into the big stuff, the heavy stuff that's generally moved with a machinery, that ability comes quicker. When you move down to something as light as a rifle scope, you give up some abilities. We've talked about the different lenses that are available on a Thor from 19 to 25 to 50 to 100 millimeter lens. Now each of those increases as you go up in the number increases its detection range. If I have a 19 millimeter lens on a Thor and I focus at maybe 50 feet in front of me, that's going to be in a detection range that's maybe from 20 feet in front of me to about 70 feet in front of me. as far as the depth of field. Now, I'm not going to see a whole lot beyond that 70 feet, but that doesn't mean the device won't see out to like 300 yards. So if I turn the lens, as I turn that lens forward, my field of view is going to march out farther into the, again, the field of view I'm looking at, linear, away from me. If I'm focused on something that's 150 yards and it's clear focus, All I'm going to say is that something walking in front of me between me and them is just an occlusion. Now I'm going to see that something moved in there. I'm not going to see anything like this. I'm just going to see that it's between me and what I am looking at. When you move into the thermal world, this is what happens with that lens. You're going, as example, if I want to look at something at 300 yards, I turn the lens until I'm focused on that person at 300 yards. I don't make anything out at 50 yards. I've got a depth of field there at about, oh, at 300 yards. I'm looking at something about 280 yards and 300 yards and about 320 yards in that narrow field there. A lot of people that have received the Thor, if I pick up a piece of green screen and focus it at like 300 yards away, I can make out the things between me and that 300 yards and a good portion beyond if there's enough light. But again, this goes back over to training or rather using something of different technology in the same arena. It's going to act different. But if I've got that 19 millimeter lens, I'm going to be able to detect a person to about 300 yards. If I've got that 100 millimeter lens and double down on the pixel side, I'm going to be able to detect a person at 1500 meters. Now if you do the math, that's like three hops and a skip and four jumps away from the mile. So when Mark talks about deploying a 50, well there's something that you'd want on top of your 50 rather than the 19 millimeter lens. You might think, well I might never take that shot at a mile, you know, 1,750 yards. Good to acquire the target before you can hit it with any ability that you have, right? We've talked about that also. That gives you the ability to determine its speed. Once you've done that, you can determine if it can overtake you or you can outrun it. Now, if you can outrun it, conversely, you can overtake it, right? But if you can see the target long before you have the ability to hit it, you know, shooting at it, it might be moving in a different direction. Now you have the ability, if I can see it, it's way over there. I might be able to position myself in such a way that I can hit it when there's no way over there, but I've moved to a place where I will intercept its path, right? We look at, well, I can shoot out from about 800 yards. Why would I want something that, a piece of thermal that will allow me to see a mile? There's good reason for it right there. The farther away you can acquire a target, The better off you are for a number of reasons. As Mark points out many times, you know, I'd much rather send .308 towards the guy carrying that .223 or send .50 caliber towards that guy carrying that .308 because I can work him at my arm's length and hopefully he never gets to the point where he's inside my arm's length or my ability of range. You know, be it 800 meters I feel comfortable with. I don't really want to take a shot at 1000 yards because I've never shot that far before. Why limit yourself like that? If you're hitting something at 800 meters, 1000 yards is only 25% farther. Right? Only another 25% of what you're already hitting. We've got some background noise there that needs to be... I'm not certain where it's coming from, but it's not exactly contest to Don, but it's background noise. We need to cut that out, right? You know who we are. At any rate, if you're looking into the thermal arena, you guys, that 22, that 19 millimeter front lens works real good on a 22. I wouldn't hesitate to put it on a 223 of the M16 type pattern if I was working in an area like Michigan where my sight ranges might be anywhere from 25 to 150 yards. And if I know my area, I can continue to work in areas where I am strong, right? Instead of getting caught with that device that allows me to detect people out to about 300 meters in an area where Gee, there could be people at 600 meters or 700 or 1000 yards and they've got direct line of sight on me. Why would I want to move into an aerial like that with a piece of thermal that will allow me to see 300 yards? So we take the tools that we have available and apply them to the best of our ability and use them in the right venue. It can be a what one would call a successful venture. That's one way to see it, right? The other thing is overreaching. That's the opposite of, you know, many times we ask you to compare an inch to a mile. And you don't want to take that 19 millimeter lens out onto the prairies, do you? Where you can see for miles and miles. Why would you move into an area where you obviously present weaknesses to your opponent? I could ask again, why? And one more time, just because it's biblical, not three times. Why? At any rate, if you go over to the website, ydtoe.us, you'll see digital, you'll see the green screen mentioned, and the thermal too. There are a number of variants of the green screen and the thermal. If you have any questions about what will this do or what compared to the next upgrade in the thermal, be it the next front lens up or doubling the pixel, really worth it. If you have any questions like that or again, what's the real price, give me a call. My number is 231-796-58. Again, the website, ydtoe.us, you know, Yankee, Delta, Tango, Oscar, Echo. us, you know, us, U.S. And the phone number, help you reduce the prices over there is 231-796-8458. And I appreciate that absence of the background noise. Thank you. And I yield to you, Mark. Real quick, one of the things that, as Don pointed out, if we can see one mile out, but we can only engage 800 yards, let's say that that is the load of the formulas. that we're looking for. Being able to see a mile out means I have wool at sea about twice the distance of my range plus to think about how I'm going to effectively engage and neutralize the threat. It's kind of like an issue that we actually have discussed many, many times. Why would you carry a light rifle into an environment where you can see where farther than you can shoot no matter what? In other words, if I knew that I was going into open terrain and I have to be forced to fight under those conditions, why would I want a light bullet firearm that limits my engagement range and reduces it quite dramatically when I can carry an MBR, category of firearm, a main battle rifle, twice the effective distance, twice the effective energy available, reaching farther and I can actually take now, as I said before, with the optics of the technology, I can take that weapon to its maximum range and actually engage beyond. Now why would I want to do this? Well, I was looking at something that somebody sent us today and Don, lo and behold, there's that Quad-Eye night vision helmet. And then on top of that there's the new armor. And then there's the new exoskeleton, you know, molded to your butt, you know, super skeleton, right? And the first thing I had to point out to everybody is, so what you're telling me is, I need a weapon that has a bigger bullet. that can reach farther away and choose the standard of exoskeleton components, right? Because I want to blow a guy's leg off with that one exoskeleton point. See, think about all the things you can do. You don't go after the torso. You don't, and I'll go a headshot. Nah, nah, nah, nah. You might want that night vision. But if you shoot somebody in the, you take one of those suckers and you blow the leg off of a quadra pack, whatever they want to call these things, okay? Is he going to bounce around like a pogo stick on the battlefield? For a little while. Or is he going to do it like he's seen a plop? Yeah, how many things can we see happen here? Well, A, he tries to bounce along like a pogo stick. That's kind of embarrassing because he broke his leg into, he's got a compound fracture on an angle, and every time he hops, that Well, it works like a knife and traps arteries and muscle tissue and then it pokes out to the top of the uniform and that's always so embarrassing psychologically, right? Not very efficient either. Or, here's the really mean one. The machine got kind of hit. The electronics of the gimmick electronics always do have a tendency to screw up in strange ways. The guy gets a compound fracture and a chunk of his leg blown out, but the exoskeleton keeps working, but now it doesn't want to stop because it doesn't know how to take any orders. So he's running around in a circle and every time he steps, this bone is poking three inches out of his leg and then it lifts down and lifts up and goes down and lifts up. You're watching bleeding death while he's running around in a circle groping at the equipment trying to figure out how to stop it. It took me three hours to get into it. It's gonna take me how long to get out? Oh, less than that some, because I'm just gonna cut you out of it. Oh, oh, did I say that? I'm not gonna really even take the exoskeleton. I just want the goodies you brought with you. You're just a mobile resupply pod. You realize, think about how many ways, when you're looking at, how many ways stuff fails. Have you ever been around robotics when they fail? They're the most entertaining thing you can possibly imagine. They just roll and roll and go and go, but the broken part doesn't work well. So it's kind of like these machines they used to make for art back in the 50s and 60s. Anybody remember that? I mentioned these many times. It's called a kinetic energy machine. There's this artist who would build these machines that were the size of houses. And when he turned them on, do you know what the one purpose of the machine was? To destroy itself. It would flail itself to death. It would beat itself to death. It would rock us sideways and crush another part, which would start another flailing, which would crush another part, which would start another... That's what it would be like with a guy wearing this piss-poor hydraulic piece of garbage when it gets shot partially, but he still thinks he can function, or here's the bad part, the machine thinks it can function and doesn't care what he says. Have you ever thought about that? Now here's the other thing, like I said, optics and technology to deliver the bulleted range have caught up with our ability to reach. We don't need smaller. Now I still, how many times I'm telling you, the M16 is the gladiest of our day. There's lots of them out there, there's tons of them, we're gonna build more, we're gonna build more tomorrow, we're gonna build more next week. Why? We want piles of them. But they're support weapons. People who can't carry a gun normally need a rifle they can carry all the time. And 16 is great for that. They're so cheap, and yet there's lots of parts. Government makes lots of parts for them. Government makes ammo. Plenty of people are familiar with them. Yeah, so again, now here's the thing. They were built for shooting people that weighed about 110 pounds soaking wet, that didn't have any body armor, that were eating rice every day, and wearing sandals and black pajamas. It was not meant for the classic AAA battlefield where everybody is equally armed and equipped with something that's pretty mean. Now, if somebody goes bigger and you would want to go bigger, first of all, you're showing me this guy with the exoskeleton and all this other fun stuff, I now need to bust things up more. That means I do not want to go smaller. I want to go bigger. You see how that works? I want to put a projectile downrange at the exact same velocity as that M16. Oh, by the way, I can do that without 6. I can do that with 308. But I want an AP incendiary round. I want an AP incendiary tracer round. I want a frangible AP round where it goes through, punches through, and then all of a sudden dissects itself and trials in all directions. Oh, imagine what that might do to a piece of electronics or even just the wiring. In fact, how about flail? A.P. incendiary. Oh, that's kind of mean. Because all that thermite going in has 10 seed weld things as it passes through and sits there, right? See, so I can't do that with a .223, but by God I can do that with a .30 caliber rifle, because we've already done this, guys. Everything I just described was available 70 years ago to the U.S. military. Isn't that amazing? 70 years ago. Well, what's our improvement? Well, you get ball and you get a real WMPAP. What? No, what about what about all those other things? It's only slightly bigger than a squirrel shooter. And here's the problem is again, like something else, you know, why would you fire on a tank? In the past, The tank had the ability to basically back up to back up to back up and its backups were pretty well compatible or comparable with the weapon system in terms of performance. No matter what you went to, the weapon continued to function at basic expected performance levels. Today, any weapon, any intermediate or light weapon, air defense, even light any tank, if you can optically observe and target the critical optical components on a tank, and there are only two, You have utterly destroyed the tank's ability to fight effectively, guys. This was not true in World War II, it wasn't true even in World War I, but in this modern 21st century battlefield that they don't want to talk about. In fact, if you pay attention, some of the videos that were made 30 years ago and 25 years ago, they were trying not to show those electronic bread boxes on the turrets of all these vehicles. And by the way, the Russians are in the same boat now. They've committed to the same concept. Everybody's gone to the same design idea. What does this mean? Well, you've only got, you've got an Abrams and I've got a Schmidlap 402 with a ZSU-23-2 gun on the roof. Well, but I've got optics that reach the same distance you do. I can count your, I can count pimples on your nose at 2,000 yards or 3,000 yards with my gun. I'm not going to try and eat through your armor. Well, what I do? I'm going to aim for that bread box and I'm going to blind you like a big stinking dinosaur and you're going to waddle around on the battlefield and you're going to hope to stick your head. Do you know what the solution for Abrams is if you do that? No, I'm not lying about this. You ask a tread head. Do you know what they make for the Abrams? They make a big set of iron sights. You're supposed to get out of the tank under fire, you're supposed to put the blade on the front and the wedge on the rear and act like you've got a big muzzleloader, okay? Like you've got a big squirrel gun. Estimate the range. Yeah, by the way, this is far diminished from that bread box everybody told you was the next best thing to slice white bread. Until that guy with the air defense gun who targets aircraft at Mach 2, Mach 1, and Mach 2 with radar and can physically see the target with crackable optics, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, and 6,000 feet. So when you swing that 23 millimeter or that 25 millimeter or that 30 millimeter gun down horizontally, this is like my barber used to explain about the Germans using the 88 for a sniper rifle. Wow. Okay, think about it. You turn the gun down, the optics, okay, what was the, okay, think about this. The original mission of the, I believe you can't hear, the FLAC 41 or the FLAC 38, okay, how do you look at it? It's the 88-millimeter gun. Remember, there's a man that made them turn the guns down. Who was that? Well, it was in a battle for France in 1940. It was a guy called Erwin Rommel. His armor got in trouble, so he said, spigot, big guns down. Cleanse them at the tanks and put holes in them. You know what? He wiped out an entire French armored battalion, basically, with the 88s that were supposed to be there for air defense. by swinging them down. These are the big guns you see, the big flak. Later on they smoothed out the gun and made a little shorter silhouette. But the basic 88 that was used for most of the AT work was an air defense gun that was designed to engage targets tens of thousands of feet in the air. With optics that could count the rivets on the aircraft. So when you turned and swung it down, it didn't have to reach, but one down. Now just think, we've gone to that point but with smaller technology. This is also true of pretty much the Barrett for instance. We now have optics and a weapon with ammunition. I'll bet. Now remember, you gotta go with the Hypertech new stuff because there's a lot of new projectiles that are solid shot, aren't there Don? Or you go with M2AP and you focus on that bread box on the top of that armored vehicle. I don't care if it's a Bradley, I don't care if it's a Leclerc, I don't care if it's a British tank or whatever marker model. Take your pick. Aim for the bread box, fire her ass up. Because now you've got a big juicy dinosaur waddling around trying to figure out what to do about life and life doesn't look too pleasant when everybody's hunting you. And you know those guys inside there? They really don't want to stick their heads off. Right. By the way, that is a story unto itself because remember the most common, well, during the Vietnam War, during the Korean War, and during World War II, and even Today, tread heads, the tank commanders try not to, but they still like the idea of being able to see with their conventional panoramic vision. So they have a tendency to stick their little noggin out that little commander's hatch. This is why during Vietnam, tank commanders were the most commonly replaced individuals during the war in armor units. Why? Well, if you're an ambitious, you know, aggressor, wouldn't you be aiming for that pumpkin that's trying to stick its head out of the hole that you're... It's like trying to whack them. So he can shoot you. With a sudden really big. Yeah. So whack them all really is... It really is applied here. Okay, now think about being able to do that farther out so that the aggressor can't return fire. Yep. Hey Mark, we're talking... This is Kentucky. If you were one mile away, 1760 yards, and all you had was an AR-15 16 inch barrel, would you take a shot at the enemy that was out in the open? If it was an open... Here's the issue. Am I supported by other people? If I were, for instance, wanting to suppress my enemy, but not necessarily expecting to do great damage to them, I would fire on them, golf balling around in, because there is something we've talked about here which is called expensive energy. When an aggression was forward, they have a logical course, step by step of actions that they take, to be able to optimize whatever firepower they have. Remember that the moment you pass the FIBA, the forward edge of the battle area, whatever you have that you're carrying is all you have to fight with. So if I were up against a company strength unit, I would not just have myself, but three, four, five, or a fire team would engage. They would go forward as forward pickets. They would engage at a maximum range. In other words, would it be necessarily effective? Would it be knocking people down? Well, I'm hoping it's someone. But the idea here is that what's the response of the target that you're engaging? Number one, they take to ground. Number two, they always return fire. Now, you forced the enemy to engage prematurely in advance of their original ambition, which was to reach an optimal range for their engagement. You've now engaged them far in advance of what they considered their contact range. From that point forward, as long as you continue to engage them with some fire, they will return fire and the Tic-O-Meter goes down every time they pull the trigger. So what you've done is changed their formula for engagement. If they do continue and proceed to their original plan of action based upon their suspected, you know, their estimate of where your primary force is, by the time they get to the point of contact, they've consumed the lion's share or at least a good percentage of the ammunition that was supposed to be used for the assault. On you, yeah. On you. And instead, you've forced them to, they've consumed the munitions. So would I take that shot? It would, well, I'd like to be able to choose certain ammunition. I would preferably not do it with that 16 inch barrel gun, but as we've said, you know, there is something that Rumsfeld said that's true. You fight with what you got. The idea is to make it work to the best of your ability. Would you, would you, you know, for instance, let me give you an example. I try to close the distance, but I close the distance forward of my primary defensive lines, or even my first echelon defensive lines, and I would pick terrain so that I would fire, fall back, fire again, fall back, and always fall back under cover of terrain. That's how I teach that. That's my question. Like Washington did. He hit and he run. He hit and he run. In other words, does my enemy have confidence if my enemy perceives that I'm equally armed? Well, they know that they have superiority in number, at least in their perception they have superiority in number, and this in and of itself usually creates ambition on the part of the assault force. This is a technique for bringing them into a killing zone. Example, you engage with nothing but .223 type weapons, light weapons, even some machine guns or pistols just to create the illusion that that's all you have to fight with. At a given point, your screening force breaks contact and alleviates the pressure on it so that it can withdraw from the field and your primary fighting force engages with a very different dynamic strength. Now the Otz 6's kick in, now the bolt action riflemen kick in. Then all of a sudden there's that chug, chug, chug, chug with the 50 calibers farther back still, but engaging at optimal range. Every shot of placement shots. Yeah, all of a sudden there's no spraying and praying anymore. Now all of a sudden, in fact, there's a very different demeanor, you know, there's a different seal to the battlefield and it's going to be felt mostly by point of impact. If we use our brains, this war can be over in two weeks time. Well, lion's share of the critical fighting, I think the problem is, remember, we're fighting this in waves. In phase one, the secret police, foreign forces that are here, other individuals, like we've been talking about, these creatures, I think they're going to start this, quote, unquote, revolution up against the American people in May. Yeah, the Tories. Step one is that we're going to beat them down, so what they'll do is they're going to call in the second string. And the second string doesn't like any of us, but here's the comical part. They also don't like the ones that are coming to hell. Right. That's right. You know, think about, you know, the Germans don't like any of us. The Brits don't like any of us. Not for the Germans. I'm talking about the Germans. The ones that are raised by the OI voice hate us. The ones that are in Britain. Brits are terrible as allies. I'm going to tell you that right now, and I know we've got British listeners, but historically we've trained with British troops over the years. And everybody in this listing right now, they're friends that I worked with in the military, myself included, we knew that they were buggers. And they thought that we were somehow like pushovers. What's interesting is in every case, typically because we didn't play fair when they thought we were thinking there were rules. Well, they thought that we thought there were rules, we knew there weren't. We kind of changed the environment on them. But we can expect them to act the same way in a real battlefield situation faced up against us. Now their logic is it's like the Canadians. The Canadians brag how they're going to come here and take our guns. Yeah, we're waiting on that one. Yeah, the Canadian military and the RCMP, they're bragging up that they're part of this international UN garbage. They've been here and have bragged up to a National Guard personnel that they're going to get the guns. And it's like, yeah, well, you will get small parts of them. The fast moving part. Yeah. Yeah. You'll get some, you won't get much, you'll get just the part that you deserve. And maybe a man head after that if you're still twitching. Maybe. Maybe. And I'll hang a red coat on the wall above the man-pole. Yeah, look, I got one of those Canadian braids to go along with those other braids. But you know, see here's the thing, like with the Canadians, there's two different fighting forces there. There's the Defense Forces, which even include actual militias still in Canada, how much of that's left I'd have to look. And then there, when I say militia, I mean that there actually is provincial militia. They're still there. They're the equivalent to the National Guard. And then there's the UN forces that are the ones, you know, the Canadian UN forces are the ones that like, you know, tortured and were raping people in Haiti. Remember, they're the ones who got caught roasting the guys in Africa. Remember the ones of the 55 gallon barrel where they were, they put fire in the barrel and they were holding guys by the arms and legs and they were roasting them on the 55 gallon barrels to death. They think they're gonna do that here. So, well, I hope they try. I mean, I wouldn't want to be go find a hidey hole and disappear. Would you guys? I think those kinds of people need to be dealt with. That's just me. They would be real stupid to try that. Oh yeah, but I think they are. I mean, come on, think about this. Look at what you've seen on national television with these hairballs.