WWIIs Big Guns, Big Ships and The Citizens Defense Industry TREX LABS 2025-10-03 | When you look some of the equipment that was built for WWII, both the scale and the precision are staggering. The USS Alabama has both massive firepower and massive ballistic computational power. It is an incredible example of what American manufacturing was capable of in the 1940s, and the size of industrial base that Americans had built up over the decades before.
Start Learning Digital Radio Modes with APRS TREX LABS 2025-09-26 | Using digital encoding for radio messages can increase range, efficiency, and even security. But it can also increase cost, complexity, and has a steep learning curve. The BTech UV-Pro gives you built-in APRS capability for a pretty small price, letting you access one of the most widely used digital networks in amateur radio. It also gives you aaccess to Bluetooth modem that supports all kinds of software, making this radio far more versatile than anything else in its price range.
Why You Might Need to Join Your State-Level Gun Rights Organization TREX LABS 2025-09-19 | We talk a lot about building community, but where should you start? How do you find like-minded people? The events of last week about make it clear that our focus should be on building these kinds of community networks, and the best way to start is to find existing groups. People with a visible track record, people who are engaged and involved, and people who are physically nearby. This is a fantastic place to begin.
This Week Should Inspire You to Greater Courage, Not Fear TREX LABS 2025-09-12 | Unrest has been growing over several years, but the events of the last two weeks have reached new heights of brutality and evil. Worse, they've exposed deeper rifts and evils in our nations than many suspected. How will you respond?
Our Next Suppressor Video Cant Be on YouTube TREX LABS 2025-09-05 | YouTube has a kind of schizophrenic relationship with the law. Some things that are illegal are allowed on YouTube, and some things that are completely legal are banned on YouTube. In preparation for changes to the NFA taxes next year, we're going to be doing some DIY projects, but despite their completely legality, manufacturing his devices cannot be shown here. We will have to post this content somewhere else.
The Best Digital Night Vision vs Gen3 Analog Tubes TREX LABS 2025-08-29 | As we wait for the next evolutionary leap of digital night vision tech, let's look at the best current affordable product, and compare it to a solid Gen3 Elbit tube. We are still experimenting with the best ways to document, test, and quantify night vision performance, but here is a lot of raw footage from all three devices, direct from the eyepieces.
Digital Night Vision is Inevitable. How Do We Know When Its Ready? TREX LABS 2025-08-22 | It's been a few years since we last tested the best affordable digital night vision devices, and as there have been changes in prices and markets, it's time to resists a few things before the next wave of technological developments - and we need your help! What tests should be running before next week's video?
Best Lessons from the 2025 Gun Owners of America Conference TREX LABS 2025-08-15 | GOAs annual event is rapidly becoming the largest and most influential gathering of second amendment advocates... But it's more than that. It also represents a growing collection of firearm companies, educators, and multiple generations of families. It is becoming perfect example of how the gun community can build relationships and work together across many different areas of responsibility.
How the ModRetro Chromatic Hopes to Fix American Manufacturing TREX LABS 2025-08-08 | The Retro Gaming community has been skeptical of the Chromatic handheld because it is attached to Palmer Luckey. However, the things that Luckey (and Anduril) might bring to the table are exactly what makes it interesting… and capable of
Modern Captive Piston Ammo Could Enable Silent Handguns TREX LABS 2025-08-01 | With all the upcoming changes to how suppressors will be taxed and registered, it's time to dig out an old concept ammo and invent a new weapon for it. Soviet spies used captive piston or "pressure sustaining" cartridges to get small handguns very quiet, but this is an area that could be revisited with modern materials and manufacturing techniques.
Why We Need Serious Study of Contemporary Arms TREX LABS 2025-07-25 | As great as the explosion of internet content on firearms has been, and as effective as social media networks have allowed gun videos to be, there is still a very important place for printed books and careful scholarly research. Armax is the publication for peer-reviewed, highly documented, and wide ranging articles on arms and ammunition.
Why We Are Doing Our Own Injection Molding TREX LABS 2025-07-18 | When T.REX was a tiny company, we innovated very quickly, and improved products very quickly... but after ten years of expanding production tooling and testing requirements, it gets hard to maintain that kind of agility. Fortunately, the more tools and skills we can bring in house, the faster we can iterate, the faster we can test, and the faster we can improve products today.
