Displaced Texan

Striker fired?

Not at all scared to bring my bbq to the table!

They BOTH babble incoherently...what’s new about that?

Challenge accepted

I’ll bring real bbq ribs. Don’t cry if no one eats crock pot rib soup though.

I’ll let Zeke bring the crock pot boiled rib soup abomination, and I’ll do brisket. Can’t have you guys going hungry.

Starting to think about what meat(s) to smoke. Brisket? Pork butt? What are y’all preferences?

Mrs Tex sent me this...

I think your concerns are unfounded.

Yep. I don’t know why people think the sky is falling. Colt has always put law enforcement and military contracts first, (and should, as they are primarily a .mil/LEO supplier), but always resume civilian production once contracts are filled. Many people don’t realize that they have one production line for rifles. This means that your Colt 6920 is built on exactly the same production line as a military M4. Just a different roll mark, and trigger group. They build different rifles in batches too, so one production run maybe AR15A4’s, then the next run 6940’s, or 6920OEMs. One never knows production schedule.

I got you covered too, widdle buddy.

Hahahaha!! Deal!! I’ve got a few goodies for you if I die first!

Remember I’ve got dibs on that 6940P!!! Im in your will, right?!

I may have a couple of Colt uppers laying around too.....

I think I’m up to 8 Colt AR’s... I can’t remember

Colt can produce something like 700 rifles per day. Apparently this is a fairly large FMS (foreign military service) order, and they have a deadline to meet. This isn’t the first time Colt has suspended civilian production to meet military contracts, and it won’t be the last. I don’t know why everyone is getting their panties in a wad over this. Civilian production will resume in November.

Yes, Tomahawk does have non HE payloads, including cluster bomblets for destroying runways, for example. This damages doesn’t look like that. I would expect more damage to surrounding areas with that type of payload. Could be a shaped charge, maybe. I’m skeptical. It appears to me from the pics above this is a relatively clean punch hole (or two) in the tanks. I can tell you it wasn’t an HE warhead, that’s for sure.

I can’t see the damage being from a cruise missile equipped with high explosives. I’ve seen what a Tomahawk and a Harpoon does to a target, this looks nothing like the damage they do. If it IS a cruise missile, it didn’t detonate, or wasn’t loaded with HE. Those pictures look like something punched a hole in the tank and didn’t explode. Not sure what to think of all this. Maybe a drone, but not a cruise missile fitted with high explosives.

They are suspending civilian production for 60 days in order to fulfill a contract, which I presume to be military. The sky is not falling.

Mmmmm lox!