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So when will Blackwater Xe the Crusading Contractors be hired to "assist" the anti-Qaddafi forces?

I vaguely remember BW offering to set-up an intervention force for the UN or something a couple of years ago.

What is the reasoning for allowing guns without safeties to the general public? I know, second amendment etc., but if you're going to have guns, surely safeties should be obligatory? A safety means nothing as far as gun safety goes. Thinking about it that way is just wrong and will lead to more fuc...

evilsoup wrote:What is the reasoning for allowing guns without safeties to the general public? I know, second amendment etc., but if you're going to have guns, surely safeties should be obligatory?

Because even a safety doesn't necessarily mean the weapon is "safe". Like the Remington 700, for example.

The A7+ is described, in various articles and by KMW as having "Non lethal capabilities" (KMW website) - what do those capabilities entail? Using the smoke grenade launchers to launch crowd control agents? Non-lethal ammunition for the main gun (IMI sells a what amounts to a giant flash ba...

@Rabid That is exactly what I was thinking. Or rather, somethign more like the XM25 but scaled up. Thanks for the cool links. Since now I know it can be done the next step is to see how good it would be. Does anyone care to discuss the practicability and effectiveness of such weapons. For example, ...

Quick calc' : It seems that a W79 device could cost $1.25 million per unit. I'll take a conservative approach, and assume that the thing in fact cost four time more, so $5 million per unit. In the precedent scenario, I have have thrown 12 shells in the face of those dirty godless communists invader...

Interestingly enough, according to the article "The Geopolitics of Weapons Procurement in the Gulf States" The Gulf defence market, however, has its limits. The most important of all is its lack of quantitative and qualitative trained human resources to operate and maintain the new, techno...

Another article, from Defense News German Politicians Angered Over Saudi Tank Sale BERLIN - German opposition parties and even some ruling coalition members were up in arms July 5 over reports that the government wants to overturn its export rules and sell hundreds of tanks to Saudi Arabia. This fol...

Looks like the KSA won't be buying any T-90s. Sarah Wagenknecht is an idiotic airhead who glorifies the DDR and has spoken out in support for the Stasi. and its methods of oppression Is that somebody you want to lead Germany, Stas? Isn't that about par for course for Die Linke? Did the sale of Leo2s...

NPR The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion, according to a former Pentagon official. That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage from the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster ne...

Moreover, the consumption of meat is the problem of scale you talk about. Most plant agriculture in the first world is done to support the meat industry. The raising of plant matter for human consumption makes up only twenty to thirty percent of agriculture done in the first world. If we were to cu...

I can remember reading somewhere that most marble (of all things) sold in Israel is from Iran, bought through middle-men.

"Home defence" is itself a depreciated concept in a lot of Europe, however, for the quite sensible reason that a weapon that's easily grabbed in the event of a home-invasion robbery is also easily grabbed by someone breaking in while you're asleep or out of the house. Keep the (home defen...

Isn't Switzerland essentially the perfect place to build nuclear plants? No tornados, no earthquakes, no tsunamis, no chance of invading armies, no terrorism to my knowledge... Seriously, the combination of minimal risk of natural disasters capable of destroying a nuclear plant and security from ou...

Haha, I hope everyone enjoys their even more overpriced electricity, and even more overpriced products (those which are domestically produced). Maybe the those who jumped on the envirochucklefuck bandwagon will be singing a different tune in a few years time. Isn't Switzerland essentially the perfec...

Me thinks who ever wrote this article meant .45 ACP That they did. I have yet to hear of any dog armor which is heavier then level II; though god only knows the Russian have likely patented something by now with auxiliary caterpillar tracks that allows the dog to withstand RPGs and artillery fire. ...

Tritio wrote: War Dogs. Tactical Armour protection against up to 9mm and .45 magnum handguns. Two way audio. Camera feed. It's hard to imagine a more suitable time for this quote:

Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war

Me thinks who ever wrote this article meant .45 ACP

Kojiro wrote:
Presumably similar implants could be made for an ork on a suitably sized human. Remember also this comes from an era when orks weren't the lumbering hulks they are now, but far smaller.

Why are they larger?

United Arab Emirates Confirms Hiring Blackwater Founder’s Firm The United Arab Emirates confirmed on Sunday that it had hired a company run by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, to provide “operational, planning and training support” to its military. But it gave no detail...

Edit: never mind

I don't think its fair to blame the police here. The failure lies with the policymakers. America has this obsession with "war on drugs". The police are merely carrying out the decisions taken in this regard. You cant really have this zero tolerance militant mindset and not not expect this...

I got the impression from the article that they weren't even going after his house, but they reacted negatively to his actions when spotted through a window. I think it is reasonable for police to react to spotting a person with a rifle seen through a window. I'm assuming they did not open fire at ...

The NYT has copy of a contract on their site PDF It's between the General Headquarters of the UAE (represented by Staff Major General Eissa Saif Mohamed Al Mazroui (referred to in the contract as First Party)) and R2. Interesting bits: 2-1 All Personnel intending to work for the First Party must hav...

IMF chief's arrest stirs up anti-Americanism in France Many French object to the handling of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest on sexual assault charges. But their reaction may be based less on loathing and more on a vast cultural divide. It was only a matter of time after the arrest in New York of D...

Forgot to mention in my post above. DSK is charged with: "One count of Sexual Abuse, 3rd Degree, a B misdemeanor, in violation of N.Y. Penal Law. Two counts of Criminal Sex Act by Force, 1st Degree, B felonies, both violating P.L. One count of Unlawful Imprisonment, 2nd Degree, an A misdemeanor...