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Thoughts on the AK-74
The AK platform is an interesting beast. A simple, intuitive and rugged weapon that was a culmination of its era. In many ways married to the 7.62x39mm M43 round, the Russians sought not just to emulate the German pioneering of an intermediate caliber but the weapon design with it. The Soviets found themselves economically and …
Unkown Distance (UKD) Rapid Rifle Engagement, by JRS
This is a basic rifleman’s guide to rapid engagement on targets at unknown distances out to 500(ish) meters. This approach is modeled on low powered variable optics, using mil based reticles and a 100m zero. This is not meant as a mil relation article but hopefully you can start to pull the beauty of mils …
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The Irish Perspective on Guerrilla Logistics
In the Guerrilla Logistics post from yesterday, one of the comments was absolutely superb in highlighting the challenges and resulting limitations the Irish experienced during the Black and Tan War. The West Cork IRA Flying Column had a terrible logistic problem in the 1919-1921 Black and Tan War with England. The Units commander Tom Barry, …
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A Challenge of Logistics: Ammo in Guerrilla Groups
Almost as predictable as the rising of the sun is the issues of keeping a guerrilla group supplied. In every historical account I’ve read and personal encounters training and patrolling with the Kurdish Peshmerga and even the Afghan Border Police (which is little more than a government sanctioned militia) the number one issue boils down …
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Oh, You Thought They Were On Your Side?
This article originally appeared on American Partisan and is even more important toady than when I wrote it back then. The military, sad to say, is by and large compromised. This was by design. -NCS The past few weeks have been intense on this end. Back to back classes packed over capacity, long hours on …
Century Arms’ VSKA: First Shots
This originally appeared on American Partisan. Both of those VSKAs have been run hard and put up wet, used as training rifles for students in class both in the AK courses and as OPFOR weapons. They're continuing to perform well. -NCS A search for Century Arms online can certainly garner some interesting points. They get …
Training Notes: Fight To Your Feet!
So there you are…caught at the street protest with your boys and the Commies are a little too close for comfort. Unbeknownst to you, you’re all alone in a high threat environment and out of the blue you find yourself knocked on your ass with a handful of thugs looking to make the next Jackson …
Antenna Polarization and COMSEC
So you’re out there on a patrol, the commo window is open and you need to make a Cyril Report back to your TOC. Your RTO sets up the yagi getting ready to make contact, checking and rechecking the azimuth. He glosses back over the transmit and receive frequencies to make sure everything is set, …
Setting Up A Baofeng DM-1701, by Captain Attilla
The DM-1701 is an inexpensive dual-band VHF-UHF DMR/Analog radio. It includes some features that are not legal on the amateur bands such as two different modes of encryption, but overall, it is a nice radio that’s rugged enough for commercial use. If you’ve attended NC Scout’s RTO course recently, you know that he’s picked up …
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