9H Podcast

Humans have fought underground for as long as they have been fighting each other, but as combat has evolved with technology, and as humans have built increasingly sophisticated structures underground, there is an emerging next-generation warfare as a subset of urban combat: Subterranean, AKA Sub-T.

Blacked out comms, difficult logistics, overpressure from gunshots, explosives, extremely short distances mixed with intermediate lengt...

He was born blind, so he's technically never actually seen a firearm, and yet knows more about them than the average industry professional.

You see, eyesight is a foundation for many, especially when considering firearms, and shooting sports... and yet one of the youtube channels that firearms industry professionals turn to when they have questions on historical firearm designs... is run by a blind man named William T. (aka Mishaco...

So you're China in the 1980's trying to dig yourself out of poverty. Your industry isn't diverse, are largely agricultural and you just took a hit fighting the Vietnamese. How do you get out of poverty?

The answer: Guns. Sell them to the American market.

In the 1980's China made a lot of AK47 style rifles (Type 56 Assault) and sold them to the U.S. market. These gave the Type 56 a reputation of the best rifles, while they were ...

Henry recalls his trip to Chernobyl, what he saw on ground at the reactor 4 site, surrounding villages, the city Pripyat, and the former top secret DUGA-1 OTH Radar Array used to detect American ICBMs.

Reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant experienced a melt-down, and exploded on April 26th, 1986, causing the largest nuclear disaster to date.

While many cite the unprecedented environmental damage, forced human evacuati...

Fallujah, Iraq was considered one of the most dangerous places in the world. Following the brutal ambush, killing, hanging and mutilations of four Blackwater security contractors, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force kicked off a major assault to cordon off Fallujah.

Young LCpl (Lance Corporal) Brad Simmons was a team leader tasked with a new mission where he would be shot in the back of the head with an AK47 type weapon (impacting u...

Gunfights with criminals wielding Chinese AK47, grenades, capturing illegal immigrants, spies on the high seas, and fighting terrorists... Her Majesty's Royal Hong Kong Police did it all. (as a tiny British Colony before 1997).

Before the 2019 pro-democracy protests and before Hong Kong returned to China in 1997, the Royal Hong Kong Police was renowned as the finest police force in Asia.

We spoke with Police Constable Wong, a forme...