Airsoft Digest Magazine

Guns Recognition Guide, Jane's 5th ed. - Media Review

Guns Recognition Guide, Jane's 5th ed. - Media Review
Richard D. Jones & Andrew White - Smithsonian
464 pages - paperback - 2008
397+ firearm identifications

The Games - Medic!

The Games - Medic!

The drop had been the worst he had ever seen. Those re-entry pods that hadn’t scattered in the thick atmosphere of the planet had been subject to withering ground fire. Only sixty-percent of the battalion had reached the ground. It was a wonder, thought the Corporal Barnes, that he’d survived at all.

Now, crouched in a narrow alleyway, he wondered how long that would last. The city around him had grown up haphazardly, thrown together by successive waves of colonists using whatever materials they had available. Unplanned, unmapped, it was a rat’s warren of used cargo containers, recycled deep-space tug hulls, gutted drive housings, and every size and shape of metal and plastic scrap imaginable. It is also, he reflected, a friggin' deathtrap.

Lipo Alarm

Review of the ProjectWolfDragon.com Over-Discharge Protection Circuit Board for Lithium Polymer (LiPO) Battery Packs by GovCheese

Most airsoft enthusiast have had to make several important decisions in the past several of years as more and more innovative products have made it into the market to make the game more enjoyable and affordable. Tokyo Marui or ACM? MARPAT or Multicam? AEG, Spring or Gas Powered? NiCAD, NiMH or LiPO?

In terms of technological advances, airsoft has lagged behind other hobbies using similar technologies. Radio controlled enthusiasts have known about LiPO batteries for years, but they have only been recently endorsed and utilized by the airsoft community, with somewhat mixed feelings. Many of these feelings are due to misconceptions, but some are based on prior experiences and what people read online or see on youtube. You don’t have to search far to find a video clip of a LiPO battery violently exploding or catching on fire and spewing toxic gas.