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Springfield’s 10-8 Performance Master Class 1911

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To readers of The Armory Life and many 1911 afficionados, Hilton Yam is going to be a familiar name. In the company of the many great gunsmiths and competitors who have built their professions around the construction or use of 1911 pistols, Yam offers a very unique perspective. Excepting, perhaps, a dwindling corps of old-guard military armorers, few have amassed more experience using, maintaining, and improving real-world, hard-use duty 1911’s than Hilton Yam. The Springfield Armory 10-8 Performance Master Class combines Hilton Yam’s decades of FBI duty experience with Springfield Armory’s 1911 manufacturing capabilities. Image: Carson McDaniel The late 1980s and early 1990s…

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Heinkel He 111 — Germany’s Jack of All Trades

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Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Dr. Will Dabbs examines the versatile Heinkel He 111 in World War II. The German medium bomber became one of the most recognizable Luftwaffe aircraft of the war. Originally designed as a civilian airliner, the He 111 evolved into a versatile combat aircraft that participated in every major campaign. Lt. Mikhail Petrovich Devyatayev was a Russian P-39 Airacobra pilot during World War II. The peculiar mid-engine P-39 offered fairly poor high-altitude performance and was subsequently relegated to second-line duties by the US Army Air Corps. However, the Russians desperately needed a nimble ground attack plane.…

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First Look: H&R CLET 9mm AR

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Harrington & Richardson has just announced the CLET 9mm AR, a tribute to the iconic Colt SMG DEA model.In the 1980s, the MP5 was still the gold standard of police and military submachine guns, and Colt wanted a piece of the pie. This resulted in the Colt 9mm SMG which boasted a familiar manual of arms and some parts compatibility with standard AR-15s. The plan didn’t go as well as Colt had hoped, with most SMG users opting to stick with the venerable MP5, but it did result in a few very interesting designs that were adopted and used by…

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