Just a random thought with regards to Naval and attacking forces...
I watched the Trailer for the new "Red Dawn" movie recently. It looks pretty lame, but I've gotta watch anyways, because it says "Red Dawn" Oh how the young NTTM used to dream of running through the swamps of South Georgia with all of his buddies killing all the evile Communist Russians. In pure Rambo-esque fashion, I also had a recurve bow, and a supply of cedar shaft arrows with M-70 firecrackers attached to them, as well as a genuine hollow handled flea market survival knife. I walked six miles to the flea market to buy that knife one Saturday....
Ahem...but..I digress...I guess in the latest Red Dawn it's..the North Koreans invading this time. First thought to cross my mind was "North Koreans??!! Really?? What the hell are they gunna do, paddle over on used grocery pallets?!"
It seems my homestate of Alaska might would be in that terrible swathe of destruction...perish the thought. I've long since lost my hollow handled survival knife, but I still shoot a Traditional bow.
On a more serious note, I think Putin is gonna be doing quite a bit of needling in the coming years.
A local archery store owner here said that since the movie the Hunger Games came out he has had a run on traditional bows. In the books Katniss takes down several armored hovercraft with a single shot from her bow. Not to mention her arrows were tipped with high explosives.
Hollywood is on a roll right now over deadly archers, just like the Dirty Harry movies where everyone
had to go out and buy a S&W model 29.But if you look now the model 25 in 45lc commands a higher
price. But the traditional hollywood AK can still fire all day long on a single magazine. Take out any ground vehicle with a single shot, and shoot through three inches of armor with no problem 
I can't resist delving farther into a post that mentions Traditional Archery AND S&W Model 25's....
I find myself somewhat surprised by the sudden interest in Archery. On the overall, it's great that in the age of X-Box, i-pads, etc. kids are getting into the archery. The local archery shop, run by one of the greatest ladies in the Archery World has been teaching children's classes like crazy, and presumably making a pretty penny. I've had the pleasure of teaching a couple of my sons friends the basics, etc.
On a selfish note though, it has been rather inconvenient. I hate it when one of my hobbies suddenly becomes the "cool thing" to do in general, just due to my Contrary nature. Also, my family and I have tried to go shoot at the indoor range half a dozen times and had to cancel our plans due to all the kids classes being taught constantly. In the big picture, it's been a wonderful thing. Selfishly, I miss the days of hanging out at the archery range all day and darn near having the place to myself.
I remember the first S&W Model 25 I saw. My father got it for $200 in the mid eighties. a North Georgia PD had just recently dumped all thier .45 revolvers for guns of the "Wonder Nine" genre. A couple months later, they had a shooting, wound up dumping over a dozen rounds into some guy to make him cease and desist, got sued, huge world of trouble....shortly thereafter they went back to the .45's.
Now I often hunt the gun sites searching for a decent S&W 25 or 625, in either .45 Colt of ACP for a price I can afford. So far, the right deal and the spare cash have yet to be present concurrently. Man those things are sweet. They shoot great, do what they're supposed to, and tend to remind me of a wonderful childhood.
Some day, I'll roam the woods with my longbow in my hand, and my model 25 on my side.
