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🚨 THE U.S. ARMY JUST TURNED RIFLES INTO DRONE KILLERS 🚨 The battlefield has changed — and so has the ammo. In Nov 2025, the U.S. Army tested a new 5.56×45 mm anti-drone round that lets ordinary infantry rifles shoot down FPV drones with no weapon mods. Just swap the magazine. 🧠 HOW IT WORKS This isn’t a normal bullet. • Destabilizes after leaving the barrel • Breaks into multiple projectiles • Creates a pellet-cloud kill zone 📏 DESTRUCTION ZONE • 25–35 m: 30–40 cm spread • 40–50 m: 60–80 cm spread You don’t need pinpoint accuracy on a 15 cm drone anymore. ⚔️ WHY IT MATTERS • Works in standard AR-15 / M4 / SIG MCX rifles • Faster + more controllable than shotguns • Cheaper than lasers, EW, or missiles • Effective against 100 mph FPV drones • Up to 90% hit rate in tests Two variants: • “L” – longer range (5 projectiles) • “K” – close range (8 projectiles) 🧨 A mag dump creates a literal wall of lead. 🌍 BIG PICTURE This builds on lessons from Ukraine, where custom anti-drone rounds entered production after drones rewrote modern warfare. The U.S. response? Layered defense: • Infantry ammo • Vehicle systems (JLTV M-LIDS) • Microwaves (Leonidas) • AI sights (SMASH 3000) 🔥 BOTTOM LINE Drones changed war. Now ammo is changing back. The future of air defense may fit in a rifle magazine. 📌 Sources: Militarnyi • Army Recognition • Interesting Engineering
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It’s a late breakfast for me today. I decided to fast a little, so I’m at 16 hours. Now I can eat the whole thing and not feel guilty.
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When you’re just living life on the very edge it is wild and a little dangerous. Also those were mad skills so I give him credit for that. I’ve seen worse which is hard to believe.
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UK Gifts 1,000+ Free Hijabs to Illegal Migrants via Taxpayers’ Funds The tens of thousands of illegal migrants flooding across the English Channel know that on arrival they will be given free accommodation, free food, free phones, free legal aid, free health benefits, and free clothes, all funded by hard-working British taxpayers.
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Build your foundation upon the rock so that it can't be moved by those trying to tear you down.
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🇺🇸Not a Fkn word.🇺🇸
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These corrupt prosecutors claim to be unbiased but are crooked as hell. Deranged Jack Smith wearing his "No Kings" shirt. After prosecuting at The Hague, he was brought back to the U.S. to "get Trump" by the deep state. Today, he runs around as an activist waiting to get back in power. Don’t let them.
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Houston, we brought the caffeine. ☕🏈 Dallas comes in 1–2, Houston is 0–3, and somebody’s leaving NRG Stadium with a much-needed win today. Kickstands & Coffee is set up, the tailgate is rolling, and the rivalry is officially hotter than the coffee. Cowboys, bring the win. ⭐ #AITailgate #DallasCowboys #CowboysNation #CowboysVsTexans #KickstandsAndCoffee
Game day at AT&T Stadium! ⭐🏈 Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders 📍 AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas 🕒 Kickoff: 3:25 PM Central 📺 FOX It’s the Cowboys’ 2026 home opener and an NFC East matchup. Before kickoff, we’re doing it right at Delia’s Kickstands & Coffee with hot coffee, Cowboys football, and plenty of pepperoni pizza for National Pepperoni Pizza Day. 🍕☕️ Come hang out, grab a cup and a slice, and get that game-day energy rolling with us before the Cowboys hit the field. GO COWBOYS! ⭐💙 @dallascowboys #DallasCowboys #AITailgate #NationalPepperoniPizzaDay
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As we continue our journey through all (I mean all, even if barely known) aircraft used by USA during WW2 in chronological order…next is: ➡️ #40 - 1939 — the Seversky XP-41. This was a single prototype which was created from the P35 but making some changes by adding a different engine, a supercharger and better landing gear. This was one of the last planes built by Seversky Aircraft before they became Republic Aviation. She was fast and had a nice canopy for viewing. You can see the future P47 coming when you at her 🙂🇺🇸🇺🇸#WWIIUSAir
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Rolling divider side satisfying😱😱
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This gets more impressive when you realize he’s not standing….
This is grip, core, and shoulders all at once. 😲
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People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits, and their habits decide their future. We never realize how the small habits in our lives drive the bigger decisions we make. When our habits are negative, they can get in the way of the changes we want to make. When our habits are positive, those same changes become a little easier to follow through on.
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15mm thick glass being perfectly cut by a 60w Picosecond CNC laser
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Found my brother’s plaque at Jefferson Barracks yesterday. I am so proud of him for having served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. Standing there with his name on the wall, a few months after we lost him, made the whole place feel smaller and heavier at the same time. More than 237,000 graves across the road. His name is on one of the memorial plaques on the park side. I’m glad I got to see it. 🇺🇸 #JeffersonBarracks #StLouis #USArmy
Good Saturday morning, Patriot 𝕏 friends! Today I plan to visit Jefferson Barracks which is located south of St. Louis. It sits on the river bluff, the old post from 1826 and the national cemetery beside it. First permanent Army installation west of the Mississippi. Grant and Lee both drew early duty here. The stone ordnance buildings are 1850s. The cemetery started as the post burial ground the same year the barracks opened and became a national cemetery in 1866. There is a plaque there now with my brother’s name on it and that’s why I am headed there today. Sadly, he passed away. Few months. More than 237,000 graves across the road, and primar eastern cop smaller memorials on the park side for people the Army and the county still keep on a wall. His is one of them. 🇺🇸
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Brilliant add by Republican governor candidate in California Steve Hilton. Whoever is leading his campaign needs a standing ovation for this one for completely thinking out of the box. Reminds me of Spencer Pratt’s campaign videos. Excellent work!
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This is just more insanity from the land of my ancestors!🙄 Should the left gain control of the US again, we can expect the same here. 😉 The tens of thousands of illegal migrants flooding across the English Channel know that on arrival they will be given free accommodation, free food, free phones, free legal aid, free health benefits and free clothes, all funded by hard-working British taxpayers. Now add something more to that ever growing list – hijabs.
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Now that's a whole new meaning to having a monkey on your back. Besties travel together, or so it seems. Kinda like a kitty Uber, don't monkey around and drive. 🤣🐒🐱
Now that's what I call catching a nice ride! This spider monkey has no fear, and the pony is calm as a cucumber! This is so dam entertaining! 🤩😂🐴🐒
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This black woman says, “I’m not trying to cause violence at all.” Then 30 seconds of “Black people are tired of you,” “we’re not playing,” and “I don’t give a fu*k how you feel, white people. Change the way your race is running.”
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He starts with a rock, and three minutes later every argument with the modern left looks like the same argument. A rock can only sit there and wear down, while anything alive has to take in energy and spend it holding itself together. Marx put the criticism of religion ahead of every other criticism, and the same instinct recast the past and marriage as oppression, motherhood as a burden, cheap energy as a threat, and finally assisted death as dignity. He points out that the left's own word for that work is deconstruction. Decay never needed a movement, because things fall apart for free. What costs something is the marriage that lasts forty years, the congregation that keeps its doors open, the father who shows up, and the crew that keeps the lights on at three in the morning. Nobody has to burn any of that down to win. Tax those people, mock them, teach their kids that carrying it forward is optional, and time does the rest. Each fight sounds small when it arrives alone, and the total only shows up a generation later, as fewer marriages, fewer children, and emptier churches. Most of what is still good in this country is being held up by someone who will never be thanked for it. What is one thing in your life that only exists because you get up every day and keep it going?
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Good Morning & Happy Sunday Everyone from the Islands on the West Coast in SoCal 🤗❤️🔥🇺🇸🦅🦀🐬🌺🏖️🌅 I never get tired of this 👇🏾 Take me home to the place I belong 💯🙌🏾 This is why I will never leave desert or abandon her 👇🏾 Say what you will,CA is a Beautiful State I’ll Never Give Up on Her and will Always Fight for CA ✊🏾 It is amazing view of Ventura,I absolutely Love The Sea ☺️❤️🔥🇺🇸🦅🦞🐟🐢🦐🐠🦀🐬🦭🐋🫍🐳🌅 Sound Up ⬆️ Listening to Music 🎶 Reading Tweets on X 💯🔥 All of you on here especially this guy 👇🏾 his Twin Brother and the ppl on X make me smile laugh make this Spicy 🌶️ Unfiltered Latina want to sing out loud to this song with good singing voice I have where I will crush it all day everyday and get on up and dance to Oldies but Goodiez and fill me up with a lot of Positive Thoughts Vibes and Energy 🌶️💃🏾😏❤️🔥🇺🇸🦅💥 It is going to be a Good Sunday with all you Beautiful Amazing great American Patriots 😊❤️🔥✊🏾💥🇺🇸🦅🔥🤜🏾💥🇺🇸🦅😏🔥🥊💥🇺🇸🦅😌🔥👊🏾💥🇺🇸🦅🔥😉❤️😎🔥☠️💯🙌🏾
Good morning y’all from Hill Country Texas! 🤠
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Yes 💯🔥 This 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Listen to Shawn y’all and take what he says to heart 👇🏾 I had to redo my post, Everyone that is on Main Street America must get out and vote and take your family with you like I’m doing 11.3.26 💯 Do it y’all 💯 I'm voting straight ticket Republican for the Midterms,If I can do it so can you 🫵🏾 Folks you must do the right thing and Vote Red in November or this country is over as we know it and we will end like Cuetá Espaná in Spain in Italy and in the UK 💯🔥 Folks you must do right by you and your family if you want to keep the country that you love do right and Vote Republican in the Midterms,VOTE RED 2 SAVE AMERICA 💯🙌🏾😌❤️🔥✊🏾💥🇺🇸🦅🫡
I'm voting straight ticket Republican for the Midterms
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