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1 week ago | 
thearmorylife.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
May 31st, 2025
7 minute read
While Allied tanks raced across France, a new jet fighter streaked out of Germany in a desperate attempt to defend the Third Reich. Nicknamed the Schwalbe, the Messerschmitt Me 262 was the world’s first operational jet fighter.
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3 weeks ago | 
thearmorylife.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
May 17th, 2025
7 minute read
As World War II ended, the U.S. Air Force (U.S.A.F.) was looking for a replacement for the Northrop P-61 “Black Widow” and North American F-82 Twin Mustang to counter the Soviet bomber threat, which at the time was the “new” Tupolev Tu-4 bomber.
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1 month ago | 
thearmorylife.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
April 26th, 2025
7 minute read
In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corps set out to create an aircraft unlike any the world had seen — one powerful enough to escort bombers at high altitude, carry substantial ordnance, and outmaneuver enemy fighters.
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1 month ago | 
gunpowdermagazine.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
By: Friedrich SeiltgenCopyright © 2025Marvin Richardson, the number two official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE), was forced to retire after being given the option to leave or be fired. Richardson has been the ATF deputy director since 2019 and was the acting director from June 2021 through April 2022. Richardson was a 35-year veteran of the agency.
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1 month ago | 
gunpowdermagazine.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
By: Friedrich SeiltgenCopyright © 2025The war on the Second Amendment in Colorado is in full swing. Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 3 into law, which, starting in August 2026, will outlaw the manufacture, sale, and purchase of certain semiautomatic firearms capable of accepting detachable magazines.
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1 month ago | 
thearmorylife.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
April 12th, 2025
7 minute read
One of the most famous fighters of all time is the P-51 Mustang. Yet, relatively few people know about the North American F-82 Twin Mustang: an operational combat escort fighter that appeared to be a pair of P-51s mated together.
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2 months ago | 
thearmorylife.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
March 29th, 2025
7 minute read
One of the Century Series of aircraft, the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger is one of the great Cold War interceptors that blended speed, new design concepts and modern guided missiles to blunt the danger from nuclear-capable Soviet bombers and other threats.
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2 months ago | 
recoilweb.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
In 1939, international tensions were high, and war was on the horizon. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Civilian Pilot Training (CPT) Act, the mission of which was to train pilots who could be called up for military duty if needed. The CPT was only available to White applicants, and, in 1941, Yancey Williams, a licensed pilot and senior at Howard University, filed a lawsuit.
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2 months ago | 
thearmorylife.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
March 15th, 2025
8 minute read
In 1933, the U.S. Navy noticed Japan’s growing influence in the Pacific and requested designs from manufacturers for a military patrol flying boat with a range of 3,000 miles and a minimum cruising speed of 100 mph to patrol Pacific seas in search of hostile naval forces.
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2 months ago | 
gunpowdermagazine.com | Friedrich Seiltgen
By: Friedrich SeiltgenCopyright © 2025DANIEL DEFENSEDaniel Defense is a family-owned and privately held firearms manufacturer in Black Creek, Georgia. Founded in 2001 by President/CEO Marty Daniel, the company started from Marty’s vision to create custom accessories for his M-16 rifle. An avid sportsman and supporter of the 2nd Amendment, Marty Daniel committed himself to producing a product unmatched in quality and precision.
