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When You’re Going Through AR-15, Keep Going!

April 2, 2010 by Robert Farago

I don’t know how, but this has turned into AR-15 week at TTAG. Right after I’m done here, I’m posting the follow-up to Don Gammill Jr.’s first installment of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AR-15. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, why not? As I pointed out in an earlier post (including a … Read more

Marines Mount Mini-Gun on MV-22 Tilt Rotor Transports

March 1, 2010March 1, 2010 by Robert Farago

After a decade of dithering, the U.S. Marines are equipping two tilt-rotor transport aircraft bound for Afghanistan with the GAU-2B machine-gun. Strategypage.com reports that the Marines will retro-fit the guns to the rest of their Afghan-based fleet of MV-22 aircraft. Just in case you have no idea what this all means—save the fact that this … Read more