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Yet another great installment on Francis Marion. Our hero.

Nathanael Greene proved a military genius, and the contributions of Dan Morgan cannot be overstated. He tactically lost most engagements in order to achieve strategic victory.

And never forget that during the battle of Kings Mountain, only one British fought that day. The families of the south bore a heavy burden for liberty.

Francis Marion. Patriot and father of Robin Sage.

First, the Army is intending to deploy tank rounds intended for drones. See here.

The U.S. military is thinking about drones. Doctrine usually doesn’t survive first contact, but at least it’s a start. I especially approve of the shot shells for tanks.https://t.co/HOGeDehsWE

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) July 13, 2025

Second, Big Country Expat has been doing some thinking about the more quick and easy to develop stuff.

Now, as far as (and I know this’s going to go over like the proverbial lead balloon,) but I have a COTS idea that could be implemented right here, and right now… As I discussed with Herschel last evening or the night before…

My Idea utilizes pre-existing stuff… In this case it’d be the M7/M243 LVOSS or Light Vehicle Obscuration Smoke System to dispense an anti-drone package. The anti-drone rounds would be new, but easily and cheaply made/manufatured.

I make my own ‘timed/fused’ fireworks legally here for holidays for my 37mm Launcher… If -I- can make them here, utilizing a glue gun, some black powder, and learning how to time my visco?

So easy, even an Airborne Infantryman can do it LOL.

As it is, currently, the LVOSS is/was used to ‘throw mad amounts of smoke’ in Iraq and Afghanistan during ‘negative crowd issues’ i.e. protests and/or riots. The launchers themselves individually look like this:

Each tube on a M7 launch tube is 66mm in diameter wide round, and about 5.75 inches (the round itself) in the pic above long… meaning the overall length is about 7.28 inches long, but the Boomy-Boom part of the round itself is about 5.75 inches by 66mm which is 2.6 inches wide. The round has the capacity in that picture of having a 19oz payload…

Remove that Red Phosphorous/Butyl Rubber Smoke Composition?

Replace that and Load the shell with #4 Turkey Shot?

Well the payload for the above-stated round is 19 ounces.

The math said a comparable 19-ounce load of #4 lead shot would contain approximately 2,584 pellets. #4 lead shot contains about 136 pellets per ounce. Therefore, 19 ounces * 136 pellets/ounce equals roughly 2584 pellets.

Finally, there is the extremely high tech.

🚨 Here’s What Leonidas, the U.S. Army’s New Microwave Defense System, Is Capable Of.

No bullets. No missiles. No sound.

The Leonidas system uses high-powered microwave bursts to instantly disable enemy drones mid-air by frying their electronics — not jamming, but physically… pic.twitter.com/rG2gT7KMJM

— Defence Index (@Defence_Index) July 15, 2025

So for microdrones, if you want to be capable of defense in a real-time big war, this has become a rich man’s game.

Source.

One company to have sprung up since the conflict began is Himera, which makes electronic warfare-resistant walkie-talkies.

Its products include the G1 Pro — a tactical handheld radio — and the B1 repeater, which extends communication ranges.

Despite only having launched in 2022, the company has quickly caught the attention of the defense tech industry, as well as the US military.

The product’s major selling point is that it offers a potential solution to one of the defining challenges of the war in Ukraine — electronic warfare.

Its products include the G1 Pro — a tactical handheld radio — and the B1 repeater, which extends communication ranges.

Despite only having launched in 2022, the company has quickly caught the attention of the defense tech industry, as well as the US military.

The product’s major selling point is that it offers a potential solution to one of the defining challenges of the war in Ukraine — electronic warfare.

The G1 is EW-resistant, using frequency-hopping technology to help evade electronic warfare interference, which seeks to disrupt and jam certain signals like GPS, radio, and video.

Reticulate Micro, which supplies Himera’s radios in the US, announced the first US delivery of G1 Pro radios to the US Air Force in October 2024.

The company said the Air Force would test the G1 Pro alongside Reticulate’s Video Assured Secure Transmission (VAST) technology, which delivers real-time video streaming.

“We take the best from both worlds,” he said. “We provide all the tactical relevant functionality like low probability of detection, low probability of interception, and low probability of jamming, which you don’t find in commercial spec solutions.”

Cool. When do I get to buy one? Here is the web site. It’s not clear whether this would be import-controlled.

My last day in Vietnam.

Eyewitness account of the Alamo.  I had not actually know how brutal, bloody, and awful that battle was, with no quarter given or asked for.

The siege of Bastogne.

Operation Market Garden.

I hope to give you a number of stories and videos I found interesting. Not all of the study of warfare is about the current state of drones in the skies.

Operation Wandering Soul – Vietnam War

Rare Photos of the Vietnam War

Saratoga – The Victory that Changed the American Revolution (although I really think the battle of Cowpens should take that honorific title)

A Stolen Plane Crash that Almost Ended WWII

Hitler’s House

Hitler’s Personal Train and its Fate

The First POW to Escape the Vietnam War

History’s Most Infamous Double Agent

The Nazi Spy Chief Who Brought Down Hitler

Inside the B-17 Flying Fortress

The Architect of the Final Solution

The Battle of Midway

None of these are documentary level stuff like you would find over the Military Channel, but they’re fit for a few minutes of watching.

Patrick Lancaster, an American journalist embedded with Russian troops, films an insane getaway from an armed drone as they take it down with shotguns. pic.twitter.com/HdwaLgZ90Y

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 26, 2025

I’ve brought this up before and most readers were less than enthusiastic. In fact, my suggestion was pretty much panned. It wasn’t a suggestion that was supposed to fix everything all of the time, just another option.

Well, it would appear that sometimes, that option works.

Although I would have chosen a semiautomatic design, probably something with a long barrel like the Beretta 1301 Comp Pro with a magazine extension.