Well, I guess I've committed myself to blogging about weapons systems. Can't have most of them without radar, so let's get this out of the way now.

Most of you probably understand that radar is a device that lets us detect airplanes, ships, and other stuff by bouncing signals off them. While that's true, there's so much more to know.

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Following up from my last blog about jets, I'll now go into the ways to shoot them down.

Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) and Air Defense Artillery (ADA, also called Anti-Air Artillery: AAA) are the biggest reason the United States has lost airplanes in combat.

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One of the more common types of human-in-Equestria stories is pilot-in-Equestria, usually at the controls of some sort of military aircraft. As such, it irks me when people get things wrong. Let's fix that.

So, you want fighter jets in Equestria. Sounds good to me. Let’s make it happen!

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People are fallible. We all make mistakes and for the most part have a hard time perceiving our own. The best way for an author to check what they have written is to get someone else to take a look, revise and edit. Generally, we call a person doing this an editor. An editor's job is to offer advice, and that could take many forms depending on what the author needs. With just a little editing help, the quality of an author's writing can be hugely improved.

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Here is a list of common problems that a lot of stories seem to have.

1. Tense Switching

Twilight looked up as Spike walks down the stairs.

Twilight looked - past tense, something HAPPENED
Spike walks - present tense, something IS HAPPENING

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I'm bored. So I blogged about firearms. Again.

There are a lot of common misconceptions that come up. Having worked in the industry and been around a little, I'd like to talk about a few completely unrelated topics.

Glocks

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Since one of the most common HiE seems to be some kind of soldier, firearms are things that pop up in ponyfiction quite often. Unfortunately, they're also one of the easiet things to get wrong.

I like to think I know a lot about guns. I've owned about a dozen, I used to work in a gun shop, and I talk to military personnel as much as I can. It takes a lot of exhausting effort to become an expert (I don't consider myself a true expert), so what's a poor author to do?

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