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    Sniper Rifles This is something that I would love to have as well. Just look at the list of all these beautiful things . What else do you want, really.

    Machine Gun This is a nice thing to have, especially if you are outnumbered, like one against a football team or the whole club for example. So let's see. A machine gun is a fully automatic, rifled autoloading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Other automatic firearms such as automatic shotguns and automatic rifles (including assault rifles and battle rifles) are typically designed more for firing short bursts rather than continuous firepower, and are not considered true machine guns. Machine guns can be further categorized as light machine guns, medium machine guns, heavy machine guns, general purpose machine guns and squad automatic weapons. There is also a long list of models available, some go of course from the Ist World War, so it's more for the history lovers. The only question is where to get them and where to get the belts with rounds.  

    Another Commodity Let's look at another commodity the market for which was strongly affected in the last year - natural gas. Similar pattern as with oil, the clear increase over the last year and then some eventual decrease of the natural gas prices, the forces of market worked. It has to be looked a bit differently as it had bigger effect in some regions of the world than the others. Europe probably being the most affected where they had to rearrange all supply channels. But here we look at the prices quoted on futures in US market which is not directly affected, only as much as global market reacts. And the same comment for it as a component of recent inflation. The price on the global scale without looking at regional changes went back practically to previous. And this illustrates again the stickiness of prices that tend to go up when there is an incentive to do so but they don't tend to go back. An occasion as well to learn or to refresh knowledge on different measuring

    Skip Athletics? Without being the best athlete you probably get an interest in grenade launchers, technology is for that, it's only so far you can throw a stone with a hand. Here is a very good summary: " grenade launcher is a weapon that fires a specially designed, large-caliber projectile, often with an explosive, smoke, or gas warhead. Today, the term generally refers to a class of dedicated firearms firing unitary grenade cartridges. The most common type are man-portable, shoulder-fired weapons issued to individuals, although larger crew-served launchers are issued at higher levels of organization by military forces." Grenade launchers are produced in the form of standalone weapons (either single-shot or repeating) or as attachments mounted to a parent firearm, usually a rifle. Larger crew-served automatic grenade launchers such as the Mk 19 are mounted on tripods or vehicles. Some armored fighting vehicles also mount fixed arrays of short-range, single-shot gren

    What Else? With the same idea, we leave the powerful and wise of this world to continue with their strategies of war operations and we continue our small acquaintance with other weapons as if I were to build an army from nothing. Grenades are sometimes useful as well at least it seems like that watching in the films or playing in the video games. To be clear with the terms it does not refer to one type but can mean several types: "a grenade is an explosive weapon typically thrown by hand (also called hand grenade), but can also refer to a shell (explosive projectile) shot from the muzzle of a rifle (as a rifle grenade) or a grenade launcher." Also useful to know that: "grenades work by dispersing fragments (fragmentation grenades), shockwaves (high-explosive, anti-tank and stun grenades), chemical aerosols (smoke and gas grenades) or fire (incendiary grenades)."  Also important, I suppose, to have some training as there are some funny clips going on internet of

    Which Ones Do You Know? I somehow lost the interest to continue with some conclusion of tactics and strategies and arms used and supplied by the greatest armies of this world. I started to think what I know from what I could use if needed. When I ask myself a question "which ones do you know", I am talking about the assault rifles. Today, as probably now for more than a century, soldier who is not equipped with a rifle is not a soldier, unless you use a tank, pilot a plan or use other equipment that is used to do some damage to the enemy. It's a bit surprise to me, what a wide choice of different assault rifles exist. Every bigger and quite many medium size and smaller countries have their own models of assault rifles . Which is your favorite and how well do you master it? For me who has not served in any army, I have quite limited knowledge and using practice of any of the assault rifles.  

    Black Gold At the time we are living in we are still very dependent on traditional energy resources, like oil. Every time there is a country involved who is major producer or consumer of this resource it strongly affects the markets. No wonder it was the case in the recent history. And there is always a talk that prices at the pump change where other prices don't, and they don't go back when they go up. It's true probably in a way prices tend to go up when there is an  incentive to do so but they don't tend to go back. And the oil prices move over the last year and insecurity for the future created this incentive for the price move. Not only that but probably was one of the components.  

    Old not Always Bad Everybody is driven by advancing further technology and having more and more advanced weapons. But it seems to me that it is important to have also a fair stock of relatively old armaments which is not so dependent on technology and can continue function in case of some disturbance or in case of some elements for guidance, targeting, tracking and so on are disabled for some time or eliminated. Old types of weapons which do not rely on this technology would be helpful until the functioning for other elements is restored or other substitue option is found. It could be a good idea to develop some new 'old' weapons. The weapons that would be newly produced and would be modern but would not rely on technology that could be vulnerable to attacks.   

    Air Defenses Already after some examples we had previously with how US is building their attacks it made me think that air defenses are a priority in todays war actions. In principle this was also confirmed in recent events when effective air defense and sufficient capability of air defense became an important priority. Without going into details on types for aircraft defense and missile defense on types of different ranges, it is clear that this is something of absolute importance. Jet fighter fleet presence as a tool of defense from air is also an important point to mention, however it should be evaluated which tool is better to use in each situation and probably also a good idea to have several levels of backups in case one level fails to function or to hit the target organized by operational range and suitability for each object of attack.   

    Watch Out From Inside I was not sure about the title for this article, "hidden war" or "watch out from inside". The idea is about some operations that are going inside the country which is involved in open fighting. And this is much more dangerous. In open fighting there is a danger, there are losses, but it is predictable, it can be planned to respond, to react. In the case of hidden operation, the impact is not known in advance, and it can have important damaging results within the country. This can affect infrastructure, supplies and have negative effect for the country and also open fighting operation if the country is involved in these as well. It's probably not correct to say that there is a bigger risk from hidden operations but certainly this is something very important and at least equal effort should be given to prevent negative impact of these risks.  

    Armements Inventory Stock Nothing special here, no strategy to apply, no new technology, but it appears that in case of intensive fighting military stocks run out after one year of intensive fighting. And it is the case for the country like Russia which is very militarized and has been using a lot of old equipment which was accumulated from the times of cold war when all economy was working for the military purposes. So it is something not to underestimate. What is important as well is to have the possibility to increase the production if necessary. It is the case of some inefficient use of resources, but after action start it may be a bit late to think about it.  It is very important as well to have sufficient resources for production and all other to keep everything functioning as fluent as possible. We are very dependent on electricity, energy resources, water, foods. All that is something to be thought over in advance and the level of stock or substitutes to be defined. Also to