There’s some interesting information over at Gwinn Firearms about this 1970s conversion of the M16 rifle by Bushmaster, which was tested by the Air Force to give downed pilots a little more punch and range than a ordinary handgun can afford. Component diagram:

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Additionally, here’s a video link I found, which shows the pistol in operation. […]

This is a promised follow-up for the Soviet tech logos post from a couple of weeks back. Here I’ve redrawn a selection of Western firms from roughly the same period (1960s-1980s). The primary focus here is on electronics, defense and engineering firms which were in some way connected with military contracting during that period […]

The cover of the June 1981 issue of Future life. There’s something about a flimsy NBC suit, the triangular handguard version of M16 and Ray Bans that takes you back to the world of imagined postapocalyptic adventure.

Photograph shot by Jack Lartz (USIA) in Santo Domingo, during the Dominican Intervention of 1965. After waves of bloodshed had buffeted in the country in a seemingly irreconcilable conflict over the constitution, this welcome inversion of the more commonly heard “Yankee go home” message was not an uncommon sentiment in the Dominican capital.

One of my favorite sites is the Museum of Soviet Calculators, which is a vast repository of information about the large quantity of calculating machines the Soviet Union turned out during the Cold War. One of the most intriguing pages there is a gallery of logos for Soviet state electronics firms, that happened to have […]