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• Staff Sergeant Jack Dempsey

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Gunner decorated for his courage under heavy shelling at Anzio who later became a Chelsea Pensioner
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• New Years Eve Fun

  
  Loving A Soldier Blog — Authority: 128
  So, instead of drowning my sorrows about the fact that my soldier is deployed I joined some family and friends with the kids too (of course) at a fun and exciting place in Weston, Mo…..it is a little ski/tubing adventure……called SnowCreek. It was a 2 and a half hour drive from Fort Riley but definitely worth ...
  2 days ago

• India may buy howitzers from US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) In a bid to hasten the artillery modernisation programme for the Indian Army, the defence ministry is considering buying ultra-light howitzers from the US, an official said Sunday.“We are considering purchasing the ultra-light howitzers through the foreign military sales route,” a senior ...
  2 days ago

• 8-inch Siege Howitzers – Model 1861

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  While the 8-inch Siege Howitzer Model 1841 met specifications, twenty years worth of advances in metallurgy necessitated a redesign.  The change, of course, was not isolated to the heavy howitzer, but rather indicative of overall trends culminating with standards set forward in a new system of artillery formally ...
  3 days ago

• Army explosives not safe to keep as heirlooms, military say

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - A southern Ontario family who kept First World War artillery shells in their home for decades acted responsibly when they chose to relinquish the heirlooms to police, military explosive experts said Friday.
  4 days ago

• Cannons and Artillery: Heavy Weapons Through the Centuries

  
  Interesting Articles — Authority: 147
  The word ‘cannon’ derives from many languages where it was originally defined and can be translated as cane or tube. In modern times, ‘cannon’ is not used so much and words such as ‘guns’ or ‘artillery’ have generally replaced the older word. Sometimes more specific terms can be used and names like ...
  4 days ago

• 8-inch Siege Howitzers Model 1841

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  I featured this type while discussing the 1863 Christmas action outside Charleston but it is time for a more formal introduction.American use of 8-inch howitzers dated back to the Revolution, with examples figuring into the siege operations at Yorktown.  However, by 1812 the Army discontinued the use of the 8-inch ...
  4 days ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  6 days ago

• The Top 40 Albums of 2009 (#11-#25)

  
  Heavy Metal Addiction — Authority: 122
  2009 was another great year for new Hard Rock and Heavy Metal albums and I was lucky to have heard a great many of them. There were hundreds of new albums released by hundreds of bands over a wide range of Metal genres, it was very hard to keep up especially when I’m spending my [...]
  1 week ago

• Indian Army To Upgrade Vintage Ack-Ack Guns

  
  LiveFist - The Best of Indian Defence — Authority: 426
  Thirty-two years after the first lot of them were first inducted into service with the Armys Air Defence Artillery (now the Corps of Army Air Defence), the Ministry of Defence is finally considering an upgrade for the Armys (t)rusty Soviet era ZU-23-2 twin-barrel anti-aircraft autocannons. While a total of close to ...
  1 week ago

• Confederate 12-pdr Field Howitzers – Part 2, Iron Types

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  Under the pressures of war and shortage of resources, Confederate gun-makers often turned to cast iron instead of bronze.  Even though production shifted away from the 12-pdr Howitzers by mid-war, Southern foundries delivered a fair number of the type cast in iron.  As mentioned in the previous post on Confederate ...
  1 week ago

• Gators go to war.

  
  Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid — Authority: 573
  Our first unit was a part of the 25th Infantry Division, back in the mid 1980s. The 25th ID was a “Light” division. Light meant that the division had fewer vehicles than a regular infantry division (to say nothing of a mechanized infantry division). The goal was to make the division as deployable as possible, [...]
  1 week ago

• Fight on to save historic Battle-of-the-Bulge-barracks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Brussels (Belgium), Dec. 26 (ANI): A fight is on to save the historic Bastogne military barracks in the Belgian Ardennes from closure. According to The Telegraph, the campaign follows the Belgian government’s decision to close 23 barracks across the country by 2011, including the so-called ‘Heinz’ barracks at ...
  1 week ago

• Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus!

  
  The Military Observer — Authority: 106
  The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in the New York Sun in 1897: Dear Editor- I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, its so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia OHanlon Virginia, your ...
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• Howitzers for Christmas!

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  Yes, a couple of howitzers for your Christmas!   These artifacts sit today at the Washington Navy Yard.I like to “stay on target,” so allow me to relate a Christmas connection regarding these cannon, in lieu of a traditional holiday greeting.The Navy acquired these two pieces as trophies following an action on ...
  1 week ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  1 week ago

• Confederate 12-pdr Field Howitzers – Part 1, Bronze Types

  
  To the Sound of the Guns — Authority: 121
  While the Confederates made widespread use of any Federal 12-pdr field howitzers which came their way, several manufacturers in the South produced weapons in the class during the war.  The southern 12-pdr howitzers fit into four basic categories:- Bronze copies of the Federal Model 1841 design, with minor ...
  1 week ago

• Defence ministry nod for artillery trials

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The defence ministry has given the go-ahead for trials of 155mm towed guns in which blacklisted armaments firm Singapore Technologies Kinetics is the sole contender in the fray, an official said Wednesday. However, a deal will be signed only after the probe in the corruption case against the ...
  1 week ago

• S.Korea vows to safeguard disputed sea border

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 473
  SEOUL: South Koreas military vowed Tuesday to protect the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea after the communist state threatened to open fire in waters controlled by Seoul. "We are maintaining the usual watertight vigilance against any possible North Korean provocations, to safeguard the NLL maritime ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 weeks ago

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