After watching this video some years ago, I finally got around to trying to recreate some oatmeal blocks from the British WWII 24 Hour Ration pack, but I've run into some issues with it. Since the instructions are rather vague and are written within the context of someone living in the UK with acces...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210621043 ... ~phototec/

Does anyone know what happened to this ration site? It no longer loads and the only way to view it is to use archive.org. It looks like it went down for a few years and came back up in 2020, but it's gone again.

In Steve's two videos on the Manot Krav, he mentions IDF soldiers either could or do prepare the items included in different ways to avoid monotony; I was wondering if any of these are recorded somewhere or could be verified as employed methods by real IDF veterans or some form of recorded word/vide...

I don't think this has ever been asked before, but has anyone gotten an MRE cracker to actually break on the perforations that are baked into the cracker? This of course assumes that the cracker is more or less intact when you get it. I personally never have despite trying numerous times, it makes m...

might give these guys a look: https://freezedrywholesalers.com/

Also of note, I noticed on some detailed pictures of the PIR cartons, you can see: "Packed by Yogi Shokai" which incidentally is also the company that made the first run of the SOG knife that Baker developed.

https://www.specialforces78.com/wp-cont ... tter-1.pdf

On page 3 there's a picture of Baker with a box of PIRs.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/124519379157 Out of stock but the photos show a Serbian style mess kit with a woodland camo pouch, all-metal as opposed to mostly plastic containers as seen on most Serbian mess kits, even the canteen appears to be made out of metal except for the cap. Does anyone have detai...

How much was those civilian 3M M40s, I hear that he civilian ones cost a lot more money than a military surplus M40. Mine was 150 bucks which is unheard of for a new in box M40. My military surplus M40 was 80 bucks with a new filter and lense outserts Mine came in factory packaging, very clearly un...

Ever since the pandemic started I've been increasingly interested in respiratory protection products, and went from having a surplus Drager M-65 (as a novelty and more of a joke than anything else), to proper Avon FM12 and 3M M40 respirators with P3 filters How much was those civilian 3M M40s, I he...