3D Metal Printing

Radical Defense M249FVS: Laser Sintering Meets Lewis Gun
Forgotten Weapons

Ian McCollum gives us a real world example of 3D Metal Printing as opposed to people making toys and geegaws just to show off what their 3D printer can do:

One of the problems with using suppressors on machine guns is that suppressors or generally much more susceptible to heat buildup than the guns themselves. In 2019, US SOCOM put out a request for a suppressor that could handle a 600 round belt dump on an M240 machine gun. Radical Defense responded by developing a suppressor specifically designed for use with automatic fir, both in its materials and its mechanical design.

Mechanically, they took the concept of the Lewis Gun’s forced-air cooling and integrated it into their suppressor. The outside of the baffle stack is surrounded by a series of hollow channels running the length of the can. Muzzle blast from firing pulls cool outside air through these channels from back to front, cooling the unit. Interestingly, once the can hits about 450 degrees F, the temperature differential between inside and outside will actually generate this forced-air effect without any firing – dramatically increasing the can’s rate of cool-down. In testing, they found that a 600-round burst will heat the can (a 7.62mm version on an M240, specifically) up to 1565F, but 10 minutes later it will have dropped to 484F. After an additional 20 minutes, the can was down to ambient temperature.

From a materials standpoint, a very heat-resistant alloy was chosen. It is more than 50% nickel, with a significant portion of cobalt. This allows the can to withstand those extremely high temperatures generated by sustained fire. Manufacturing is done via laser sintering, allowing all the complex geometry of the suppressor baffles and cooling channels to be formed without the insanely complex machining fixtures and/or welding that would be required by traditional manufacturing processes. This is a very cool example of 3D printing technology being used to produce geometries that would be unfeasible just a few years ago.

The original design was in 7.62mm, for the M240. What I have in this video is the 5.56mm version, just the same thing scaled down for the M249. A version for the 12.7mm M2 is also in the works. The downsides to its capabilities are significant cost and weight (this 5.56mm version weighs 2lb 7oz). However, Radical is already developing a significantly lightened second generation of both sizes.

Thanks to Radical Defense for the loan of this example for filming! I saw them at SHOT Show and was really taken by the combination of century-old design concepts and totally cutting-edge manufacturing processes.

SOCOM is Special Operations Command

SHOT Show is the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show

Here's a primer on how this 3D Metal Printing works:

Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) Technology
Solid Concepts
3D Printing is slow, it will take hours and perhaps even days to print large part. On the other hand, all you need is the big 3D printer. No machine tools, no welding, cutting or forging required. The alloy they are using can withstand very high temperatures. 1500 degrees Fahrenheit is seriously hot. And it's expensive. On the other hand, I'm not sure you could even build this device using any other technique.

Update December 2024 replaced missing video.

TMAP - The Media Accountability Project

The Media Accountability Project Trailer from The Media Accountability Project on Vimeo.

Looks like we might have an outfit that could step into the shoes that the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) abandoned I don't know how many years ago. Or maybe the ACLU just has their hands full and can't handle the landslide of crap coming down the hill.

Via The Feral Irishman

We Are All Going Crazy

The Feral Irishman got me started:

Quote from Gustave Le Bon

And then we have today's rendition on YouTube:

FASCINATING: How an Entire Population Falls into Mass Psychosis - 3min Vid
Ivor Cummins
Excerpt from a SUPERB 20min short docu vid - watch the whole thing here.

Airplane of the Day - English Electric Canberra

Classic British Aircraft English Electric Canberra
Chuck Pergiel
I've come across the Canberra before, but it never stood out as anything special. However, a couple of days ago I came across a story about a 1953 mission photographing a secret Russian rocket research facility and my interest was piqued. I hope to put up a post about that mission, but you know how things don't always go as planned, so we have this as a stop gap.

I kind of wondered about the name, I mean the English are weird that way sometimes. Here it's kind of prosaic. ". . . it was given the name Canberra after the capital of Australia in January 1950 by Sir George Nelson, chairman of English Electric, as Australia had become the aircraft's first export customer."

Update February 2021 the Canberra has been retired, so this video is at least 15 years old.

Update January 2022 replaced video with one that might be the same. It's from the same guy. The original is available on a Persian channel: Classic British Aircraft English Electric Canberra

Update December 2025 replaced missing video with the original that I downloaded from the Persian channel (Aparat.com) using TubeNinja.

Sugar Mills

Java Sugar Mills in Action - 2004
blackthorne57
This video reminded me of the sugar mill on Maui I saw when I was there two years ago.

HC&S Puʻunēnē Mill. Photo 2015 by Wendy Osher.
Photo taken back when the mill was still in operation.

Current Google Streetview of the same mill.

The mill wasn't in operation when I was there, but I remember looking it up and Google Streetview still showed plumes of smoke coming from the smokestacks. Supposedly, Google Streetview has an archive feature that allows you to pull up older Streetviews, but evidently it doesn't work everywhere as I couldn't find any archives for this location.

Update January 2024 replaced missing video. At the end of the new video there are some views of Mt. Bromo.

Paddle Wheel Aircraft Carriers

Paddle Wheel Aircraft Carriers-Updated
Paddle wheel aircraft carriers? Who'd a thunk it? Certainly not me.

Took the afternoon off. The boys been running me ragged working on the new house so when the opportunity came for me to take the afternoon off, I grabbed it. Took a nap and then pulled up YouTube and this video jumped out at me.

Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City

EL SILENCIO DE LA CIUDAD BLANCA. Tráiler Oficial - Ya en cines
The Silence of the White City (2019) Belén Rueda | Javier Rey | Aura Garrido
Atresmedia Cine
Meticulous serial killer terrorizes Vitoria, Spain. Pretty standard murder mystery with a couple of novel bits: horrific way of killing people with bees, and the killer is closer than anyone expects. There is also lots of running. The lead detective and his boss both run for exercise, which is good, because everytime, everytime, they try to collar someone they take off and we have to chase them down. There was one chase scene across the roof of the cathedral that was pretty cool.

Google Maps 3D Image of Cathedral of Santa María de Vitoria

Digging into the past, our detectives discover an old tragedy where an entire family was killed in a house fire. Through movie magic we discover that the family was killed by poison from the leaves of a Yew tree, the fire was set to conceal the crime. Yew trees are kind of weird. They are almost entirely poisonous, they live dang near forever, they are popular with churches, and they make good bows for archery.

Fresco on wall of old monastery (~45:00 mark)

Chasing down obscure leads, our hero visits an old monastery, just after the 45 minute mark. Could not locate the actual building, if there was one. I supposed it could all be faked, but being as Europe is riddled with old buildings, I imagine it could easily be a real one.

Statue that inspired the killer 

Inside the monastery

Julianne Nicholson as 
Detective Megan Wheeler

Aura Garrido as 
Detective Estíbaliz Ruiz de Gauna

The woman detective reminds me of Detective Megan Wheeler from Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Probably just the hair.

Did not really care for the movie. It didn't really grab me, not sure why. Okay, there were two scenes where the bad guy sneaks up behind a person and jabs them with a hypodermic needle, except! you can hear his footsteps and the intended victim just stands there and waits to be jabbed. Could these two incidents have spoiled the entire movie? I dunno, but it didn't help.

On Netflix, in Spanish with subtitles.

Update August 2020 replaced missing video trailer with a slightly different one.

Update December 2024 replaced missing video. Point and click to get English subtitles.

Ghost Gun

Ghost Gunner 3 Defense Distributed
Looking through my archives for old posts about Thompson submachine guns, I came across an old post about Ghost Gunner. I had posted a video, but it was now missing. That is not too unusual, lots of videos get taken down, usually because of a copyright claim, or because the associated account has been deleted. This time, however, it was because of a 'violation of terms of service'. The Ghost Gunner website has a video, kind of an artsy thing, but it's not on YouTube, and none of video downloaders I tried were able to get a hold of it.

This video is five years old, and there are plenty of other Ghost Gunner videos on YouTube, so I'm not sure what the violation was. Since Ghost Gunner is still in business and there are plenty of Ghost Gunner videos available, I do not care.

Update January 2021 replaced missing video with the 'artsy one' which is now on YouTube. The old video was titled "Ghost Gunner - CNC milling machine makes untracebles semi-automatics". I am getting tired of replacing missing videos. One of these days I will start downloading them and then insert them using Blogger. It's a big pain but it should put an end to this disappearing business.

Chess

Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok "From CHESS" (Official Video)
This song popped up on YouTube recently. I remember the tune from when it was a hit on the radio 30 (!?!) odd years ago. I didn't paid much attention to it at the time, it was a cool tune, it was on the radio and that was enough. Plus it's got some poetry, and don't forget they say "Bangkok" which tittilated my inner reptile (bang, cock, tee hee hee). But now I'm reading up on it and it seems it is from a musical that ran for three years in London. That was enough of recommendation that it was adapted for the American stage but it only ran here for a couple of months, which makes me wonder what the difference was between the two versions and why it was success in London but not in New York. Weird, man. It's back on the stage again. We shall see if makes an impression on America this time.

The lyrics make a couple of interesting references.

"One Night In Bangkok"

The American
Bangkok, Oriental Setting
But the city don't know what the city is getting
The crème de la crème of the chess world
In a show with everything but Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr perform "Shall We Dance" from The King and I

Time flies – doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tyrolean spa had the chess boards in it
All changed, don't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

It's Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings
Or
Or this place!

Company
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky, then the god's a she
I can feel an angel slidin' up to me

The American
One town's very like another
When your head's down over your pieces, brother

Company
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
To be looking at the board not looking at the city

The American
Whattaya mean?!
You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town

Somerset Maugham suite at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel

Company
T-girls1, warm and sweet (sweet)
Some are set up
In the Somerset Maugham suite

The American
Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest:
"I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine"

Company
One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

The American
Siam's gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a muddy old river
Or reclining Buddha

But thank God I'm only watching the game
Controlling it

I don't see you guys rating
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

So, you better go back to your bars
Your temples, your massage parlors

Company
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel slidin' up to me

One night in Bangkok makes the hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can't be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

Update June 2021 replace missing video.

Assassin's Creed

On HBO. Not a great movie, but it had some good stuff. The whole sci-fi genetic memory thing was kind of bogus especially since they started with an executed convict. La Nikita Femme might have started the revive-the-executed-criminal trope, The giant robotic arm was pretty cool though.

Okay, half of the movie is set in the present and half is set back in 1492 in Spain back when the Templars were trying to kick the last of the Moors out of Spain. Naturally the Templars are the bad guys. The Assassins are with the Moors. Whether they actually were ever in Spain is something for people to argue about.

There is a good scene where The Inquistion is putting on a big public show of burning some heretics. The have a huge audience. People can accept anything if they are properly introduced to it. Executions used to be public. Not so anymore. Not quite sure why that is. There is also a good scene of a cathedral under construction, and another of the inside of the cathedral where Christopher Columbus was interred.


The Highest Free Falls in YEARS - ASSASSIN'S CREED Movie [Making-Of]
I came across this video while looking for stuff about the movie. They filmed a guy jumping from 125 feet because they wanted the realism of a real person jumping as opposed to a computer generated character, BUT they didn't do it on the set, which means they had to fill in the background, and they certainly used the computer for that. I supposed they could have taken a picture of the set and then merged the two, but if you have the set why not do the jump there? Which makes me think the background is computer generated. There was a lot of CGI in this movie, but it was very good CGI. Some of stunts in the fight scenes were a little over the top.

High-Speed Ferry Francisco

The Fastest Ship World has ever Seen

“This is certainly the fastest ship in the world,” said Incat managing director Kim Clifford. “Of course there's a few speed boats that could surpass 58 knots, but nothing that could carry 1,000 passengers and 150 cars, and with an enormous duty-free shop on board.”The Francisco is the world's first high-speed ferry that uses liquefied natural gas (LNG) as primary fuel.

I did a little checking, and for its size it may very well be the fastest ship ever. The US Navy built some hydrofoils but they only got up to around 45 knots.

This vessel provides ferry service between Buenas Aires, Argentina and several places along the coast of Uruguay, including Montevideo.

Via Posthip Scott.

Update March 2019 replaced missing video.

Update January 2022 replaced missing video.

Confidence, Part 2

24 Most Insanely Satisfying Ship Launching Ever Recorded
The splash teaser is totally bogus, pay no attention. I excerpted this one clip from from the 24 in this video because of the water. Note how they have stopped the cars on the road to keep them from getting washed away by the tidal way that will appear when the ship is launched. Then note how close the water comes to the cars at the far end and the people on the near end. Cutting it a little close, aren't you guys?

Update March 2019 replaced missing video.

Update September 2024 replaced missing video.

Russians in the Med

International Waters - Russia's Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier passes through W. Med

The Russians have lost a couple of jet aircraft off of their aircraft carrier that is operating in the Mediterranean Sea. They only have the one carrier. A sister ship to this one went to China, and the last of the previous class went to India. So we have three countries in Asia that their own aircraft carriers. Given the recent mishaps, they are still learning how to operate them.

The two planes that were lost off the Russian carrier were lost when the arresting cable snapped on landing. The cable snapped and the plane rolled off the flight deck. Americans don't have this problem because as soon as the aircraft touches down, the pilot gives the engines full throttle, so if the tailhook doesn't catch the cable, or the cable breaks, the aircraft can take off again. Okay, there is something funny going on here. Catching the arresting wire with the tailhook is an iffy proposition, it doesn't happen every time a plane lands. So unless the Russians have figured out a way to insure that every time an airplane touches down it will catch a wire, they need to be prepared to take off so they can go around and try again. So having a wire break should not lead to the aircraft rolling off the flight deck.

I'm thinking the loss of these aircraft is just part of the learning curve for bringing the crews up to snuff. Running an aircraft carrier successfully doesn't leave a lot of room for error, so you need to continuously practice, and practice costs money. If these other countries don't know how expensive it is to operate an aircraft carrier, they are going to find out. (It's about a million dollars a day.)

Update January 2017 replaced missing video.
Update January 2019 replaced missing video.
Update November 2019 replaced missing video.
Update March 2020 replaced missing video.

Update November 2021 replaced missing video. Got tired of having YouTube videos disappear so I  downloaded one.

The Black Tower

I Like It Rough (The Intendant, Deep Space Nine)
papayaninja69 Song is I Like it Rough by Lady Gaga

Earlier this week a memory of Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor) as The Intendant resurfaced in my mind. Kira was a character on Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Normally Kira is normally one of the good guys (girls), but her role as The Intendant takes place in a mirror universe (in Star Trek all things are possible), and in this mirror universe she is a sadistic killer and a sexual hedonist. Watching her it doesn't take long to be both attracted and repelled.

Yesterday I picked up The Black Tower and started rereading it and one of the first things that jumps out at me is Intendant. Did a future event trigger my memory of Kira Nerys? Weird, man.

Napoleon Bonaparte in the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire in Saint-Cloud - François Bouchot 1840.
This was the end of the French Revolution and beginning of Napoleon's rule.
18 Brumaire is November 10, 1799. The French Revolution created their own calendar.

So I'm reading along and Vidocq and Doctor Carpentier take a trip to Saint Cloud, a suburb just across the Seine River from Paris. Everybody says it is ten miles from Paris, but nobody ever says which way, so why did I think it was to the East? In fact, it is West.

Estate of Saint Cloud - Étienne Allegrain 17th Century

In any case the Château de Saint-Cloud is there. It done got blowed up in 1870, but at the time of our story, which is in the early 1800's, it's still there. This is the second time the War of 1870 has popped up this week. The first time occured when Jack tells me he has found the bayonet for his old French training rifle. Weird, man.

Saint Cloud has pretty much always been a hang out for rich people. But back in the 18th century there was a porcelain factory. Start reading about china (porcelain) and there is no end to it. There is soft paste porcelain, hard paste, bone china, Chinese porcelain and fritware. I stopped there, it was getting to be too much.
     It was big business and a big deal. And if you think about it, it kind of makes sense. If you don't have dishes made of china, what do you use? You could use pewter, but that's a metal, and metal back then was expensive. There was no plastic. Surely they had pottery, so what was so special about porcelain? Stronger and lighter? Kind of like having a car with an aluminum body instead of steel? No real functional advantage, but gives your status a little boost and that, as I am slowly learning, can be more important than any real physical advantage.

Update June 2019 corrected spelling errors.
Update July 2022 replaced missing video and removed this line describing the original video:

The last line, spoken in the last few seconds (2:40), sums up the character perfectly.

Girls and Cars

Driving Wheel T Bone Burnett
randall benson
The second season of True Detective has started and we are enjoying the heck out of it, even though it's very frustrating to have to wait a week between episodes. The main appeal of this show is atmospheric, the look and feel. There is a plot and there are characters and they may be very good, but they pale in significance compared to the feelings the show conveys.
     I'm looking for a music video to put in this post and I'm not finding much, some teasers (which are short) and some tunes, but only still images. So I start looking for something by T Bone Burnett on account of he gets credit for some of the music, and I find this. While it may not be a great song, it's got some great shots of cars. I think I've seen some of these scenes before, and here too. Oh yeah, there's some girls in there, too.
    T Bone also produced Man of Constant Sorrow  (for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?) which was written by Dick Burnett. I suppose if you wander around long enough you are bound to cross over the same track.

Update February 2021 replaced missing video.

The Key

Cautious - An assurance class tug similar to the W88 seen in the movie 'The Key'.

Iaman reports:

Watched a William Holden  movie The Key this morning.

Nice gritty oily 1940's  shipboard scenes.

& Sophia Loren.

& Action.

Coincidentally, Comrade Misfit put up a video of a shipboard engine, which looked a whole lot like this clip taken from the movie.

We can't just mention Sophia without taking advantage of the opportunity, now can we?

Recolor of Sophia Loren by Jakob Staermose

Reentry

Bill is... concerned, about this reentry trajectory.

I got to thinking about the Orion spacecraft the other day, in particular splashdown and recovery of the capsule. The US Navy had a ship standing by and they were able to successfully retrieve the capsule, which is good. But then I got to wondering about how accurate was the splashdown? Was it within a few yards of the predicted point of impact, or a few miles? Or should we be talking about hundreds of miles? I mean the thing is traveling 5 miles per second, it wouldn't take a very big mistake to have you end up on the wrong side of the world. Even if you miss your landing site by only 100 miles, it is still going to take the recovery ship hours to get to you, and that could lead to a sticky situation. One way to compensate would be to deploy several ships in the vicinity, but that would raise the cost. Sending even a small Navy ship out has got to be expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if a destroyer cost something like a million dollars a day to operate. Makes that million dollars a year to field a soldier in Afghanistan look like a real bargain.

MX re-entry vehicles over Kwajalein, following their launch aboard an MX missile some 30 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, October 1985.

     So I started poking around, looking for answers, and not finding much of anything. And then, snap, I realized this is probably all classified because of nuclear warheads and ICBM-s (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles). You don't need to be real accurate with ICBM-s because, well, nuclear bombs. Still, you would like to be within a mile or so of your target. You can bet the military has spent billions on this very problem. When I started looking into this from the ICBM angle I found all kinds of information, everything that is except how accurate they are.
    The big factors affecting reentry are the time when fire your retro-rockets, and how much you slow down. You want to be accurate about this because a little too much or too little, too soon or too late, can easily kill you. But after you've fired the retro-rockets there isn't much you can do except pray.
    Except I seem to recall something about Orion being able to adjust it's attitude, which could easily affect it's trajectory, except how can you tell? GPS will be useless as the fireball you generate as you plunge into the atmosphere pretty much ruins any chance to sending or receiving any radio communications. Well, how about inertial guidance? That used to require big heavy chunks of equipment that was marginally accurate and marginally reliable, but I think we've gotten better at it. So it's not inconceivable that Orion was able to steer itself quite accurately.
    Once you deploy the parachutes, you kind of lose your steering capability, but you also become much more visible, so the pickup crew should be able to find you. As if they haven't been tracking you on radar since you appeared over the horizon ten minutes ago.

Minuteman III attacks Kwajalein
This video has some odd bits, but it also has some good shots.

Other posts about Orion. Most of them are about the spaceship, only a couple are about the airplane.
A couple of other posts about reentry.
Some posts about inertial navigation.

Update January 14, 2015. Just received an automated reply from NASA about this issue. As you might expect it contained no useful information.

Whistling Death

60 Seconds Of Awesome: WW2 FG-1D Corsair FighterHistorical Machines TV

The high pitched whistling sound comes from the air inlets in the wings.

Just because the audio track is so fine, but since we're talking about the Corsair, here's a cool pic I found.

Marine Flyers of the Black Sheep Squadron Will Trade Zeros For Ball Caps

Update: It's Saturday night and I'm still wondering why there are air inlets in the wings, so I did a little digging and found this on Conneticut Corsair:

Rectangular openings mounted in the wing leading edge at the fuselage junction supplied cooling air to twin oil coolers, one in each leading edge. Induction air was also taken from the leading edge air intakes, ducted to the first stage of the supercharger. Featuring an intercooler for the two-stage supercharger, cooling air was routed from the leading edge air intakes to the air-to-air intercooler. Flow splitters were an integral part of the air intakes due to the requirement of ducting the air 90 degrees as soon as it entered the air intake plenum. At high speed these flow splitters (six per side) emitted a loud whistling noise, which prompted the Japanese to call the F4U "Whistling Death."

 Update January 2021 replaced missing video.

Dream

Monocoque Aircraft Construction. This one is a Russian Tu-22M3.

    I was at a friend's house and I had just heard that someone was going to build a fully enclosed monocoque motorcycle. They were using plans for a machine that had been in production, but lapsed, kind of like Saab automobiles. I was really excited about this because it meant that the three wheeled machine of my dreams was now a possibility. I leave and I am walking, heading home, when I realize that someone at the house might be able to give me a ride. Since it's an eight mile walk to my house I decide it might be worthwhile to go back and see if I can catch that ride. I'm walking back the three or four blocks and somewhere along the way it changes to a bike ride in traffic. I'm pedaling like mad and not doing a bad job of keeping up with traffic, but it's not enough for the drivers in their cars. They are in full rush hour mode and are bobbing and weaving to get past me so they can rush up behind the next car and start tail-gating them. I'm not sure, but I may have been going through the motions of pedaling and pedaling so furiously that I woke myself up. You don't suppose those fake margarita's I had last night had anything to do with it, do you?


Gyro-X Test Drive
Music City Metalcraft
    The fully enclosed motorcycle was one of my dream ideas. A guy in Portland actually builds (built?) them. I don't think he uses monocoque construction though. Secretly I think three wheeled motorcycles are for people who can't keep their balance. They do have the advantage that they don't fall over when the roads get slick. The fully enclosed bike uses a gyroscope to keep its balance.
    I had been to this city before, at least in my head. It is not a real place, but it was very familiar. My planned route home involved navigating through a downtown area, constricted by a river, railroad tracks and one way streets. There were multiple routes that were all about the same distance and would have taken about the same amount of time, but none of them were what you would call a 'straight shot'.


Gyro-stabilized Electric Motorcycle Hits Road

Some Californians seem to have revived the idea of the gyro-balanced motorcycle.

Update July 2019 replaced missing first video. Don't remember what it was, so this one is probably different.

Update May 2023 repaired broken video link.

Armorers of Kolomna

This video is not all that wonderful, but it does have some good points.

• Unlike most Russian videos I've come across, this one has subtitles in English.
• The short and pointed philosophical introduction (0:30-0:60). Don't hear those kind of ideas much these days.
• The large number of small missile tests.
• The cancellation of a missile program due to Perestroika.
• Current state of the art: advanced anti-aircraft missile systems and point blank anti-missile defense systems for armor.
• The song at the end. It sounds vaguely like an old, historic, war hymn, but given some of the subject matter it must be of more recent vintage.

Kolomna is a small town about 70 miles southeast of Moscow.

Update September 2015: Original Video is lost. Found a couple others that cover a couple of the topics.


Russian Tank Antimissile System
BRAHMOS INDO-RUSSIAN SUPERSONIC CRUISE MISSILE TEST VIDEO

Update June 2022 replaced replacement video and link.