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2024-11-21 Science & Technology

France is going to convert the warheads from old AC58 and APAV40 rifle grenades into drone bombs.

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Posted by 3dc 2024-11-21 03:07|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Unlike our own MIC who would spend billions in research dollars on an entirely new munition that cannot be fielded for 5-7 years.

* “improvise, adapt, overcome” is an unofficial USMC slogan.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-21 03:34|| 2024-11-21 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Not just the military, B. Old story about NASA spending millions to have a pen developed that could write in micro-gravity. The Russians used pencils.

Posted by Mercutio 2024-11-21 08:58|| 2024-11-21 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Fisher Space Pen!

I still have mine.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-21 22:32|| 2024-11-21 22:32|| Front Page Top

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