I got a chuckle from this, I am part of the "Monster Hunter Nation" on Farcebook, I am a fan of the ILOH A.K.A. "Larry Correia" I didn't link Wiki like I normally would, Wiki don't like Larry, he tends to give serious heartburn to the people on the left side of the aisle and they do "wiki" edits.
I Clipped this from "Art OF Manliness"
Monsters have plagued our imaginations since the dawn of humanity, and over time we’ve developed some fairly specific ideas about how to deal with them. A wooden stake for a vampire, a silver bullet for a werewolf, a well-aimed blow to a zombie’s head. But where did these rules come from? Some have roots in centuries-old folklore, while others have been popularized by the decisions of authors and depictions in pop culture.
You never know when the dead might rise, the full moon might bring trouble, or something lurks above in an empty attic. Consider this your field guide to dispatching the supernatural.
Werewolf. The idea of humans transforming into wolves goes back to ancient mythology, but the silver bullet is a more recent convention. European werewolf lore offered various ways to identify or defeat a wolf-man; for example, according to retellings of the story of the Beast of Gévaudan — a wolf-like creature that killed dozens of people in 18th-century France — it was brought down by a hunter using silver bullets. The idea of silver being a werewolf slayer was incorporated into 1941’s The Wolf Man, whose screenwriter, Curt Siodmak, made up much of the werewolf lore we take for granted today.
Vampire. Centuries ago in parts of Eastern Europe, people feared that the dead would return to feed on the blood of the living. Driving wooden stakes into their corpses would prevent them from rising again as vampires. It has become the go-to method for killing Drac in popular vampire stories, with sunlight later added as a method (that rule started with Nosferatu in 1922) and garlic and crosses becoming part of the toolkit for keeping them at bay. The exact rules vary, so it pays to come prepared.
Mummy. Sadly, ancient Egyptians didn’t leave any instructions in their Books of the Dead on how to battle a mummy that has reanimated. But most modern depictions of monster mummies agree that burning them with fire probably works. Those suckers should burn pretty easy since the wrap is dry and resin-covered. Bonus points for using an Indiana Jones torch.
Zombie. While zombies have existed in Haitian mythology for centuries, the zombie as we know it in popular culture originated with George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). From that classic horror flick, we learned that destroying the zombie’s brain is the clutch method of dispatching the undead.
Ghost. Ghosts are trickier to deal with because they’re not made from physical matter. An ethereal spirit is a slippery thing; you can’t drive a stake through it or light it on fire or shoot it with a silver bullet. So whaddaya do? In most traditions, the solution to dispatching a ghost is to discover why the dead spirit remains among the living and help it resolve that issue. That might mean addressing an injustice that occurred when the spirit was living or reconciling with a mortal loved one. If you can help the shade find peace, it may finally move on. If that doesn’t work, I think you know who ya gonna call.
I pulled this off Quora, I saw it taking a "Microbreak" at work surfing the phone. so I shamelessly clipped it.
In 1974, surviving WWII commanders wargamed Hitler's invasion of Britain and made a darkly comedic discovery: the Royal Navy wouldn't even need to fire its guns to sink the German fleet.
The highly detailed simulation of Operation Sea Lion was held at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and featured actual combat veterans making the decisions, including Luftwaffe General Adolf Galland and Kriegsmarine Admiral Friedrich Ruge.
The wargame yielded several unexpected insights, starting with the initial assault. Most historical assumptions suggest the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy would have crushed the invasion fleet before it ever reached the beaches. Instead, the Sandhurst simulation showed that the Germans would have successfully landed around 90,000 troops in Kent and Sussex. Because the British Army had abandoned most of its heavy equipment during the evacuation of Dunkirk just months earlier, the coastal defenses were too weak and disorganized to stop the initial beachhead. The German army quickly pushed inland, capturing their early objectives.
But the success was short-lived, largely due to the fatal flaw in German logistics. The Kriegsmarine lacked purpose-built landing craft, forcing them to commandeer hundreds of flat-bottomed river barges from the Rhine to transport men and supplies across the English Channel.
Once the British realized a full-scale invasion was underway, the Royal Navy unleashed the Home Fleet from Scapa Flow. When the British cruisers and destroyers arrived in the Channel, they found that they did not need to rely on their main guns to destroy the German supply lines. Simply steaming through the invasion flotilla at high speed would generate enough wake to swamp and capsize the flimsy, unseaworthy river barges.
With the Channel completely severed by the Royal Navy and the RAF, the 90,000 German troops who had successfully landed were suddenly trapped. Cut off from food, medical supplies, and artillery shells, their advance ground to a halt. The Luftwaffe suffered massive losses attempting an improvised aerial resupply. Facing a fully mobilized British defense and completely out of ammunition, the entire German invasion force was compelled to surrender within six days, proving that without absolute naval and air supremacy, Sea Lion was a guaranteed trap for the German army.
German invasion barges, many of them commandeered river vessels, waiting at Boulogne Harbour in France during the Battle of Britain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
I was reading my "American Rifleman magazine, and saw this and was thinking *wow*, If you wanted something that you could stick into a regular backpack or a briefcase and not really draw attention to yourself, this would do it. Most of the Normies would have no idea what it is and it would allow you to take it to places that wouldn't draw attention to yourself and give you options on defending yourself incase the people with bad intentions show up in places where they are not supposed to be. The possibilities are intriguing.
I with absolutely no shame clipped it from "American Rifleman"
Photos by Forrest MacCormack
How do I even begin this article? On the one hand, a straight-up history of various folding firearms would be a place to start, given that “FDP” stands for Folding Defensive Platform. We could start with some of the flintlock and percussion-cap pistols of the 18th and 19th centuries that had folding triggers. There’s the Burgess folding shotgun of the late 1800s (a design we’re seeing coming back around in the Pak 12 introduced at SHOT Show 2026). There’s also the Russian PP-90 or the Ares FMG, and even more recently, the KelTec SUB2000, folding Glock G19 and Smith & Wesson FPC. Guns that fold are really not all that novel or new.
What about discreet firearms? There’s the Heckler & Koch MP5K Operational Briefcase or the Military Armament Corporation MAC 10 and 11 briefcase designs. The Lifecard looks like an oversize credit card until it is folded out to a single-shot pistol. We could even toss the belt-buckle-riding North American Arms mini-revolver in the mix if we use the “hiding in plain sight” method of (non)concealment. These options are fewer and farther between than straight-up folding guns simply because of Any Other Weapon (AOW) considerations; basically, if a firearm doesn’t look like a firearm when it is capable of firing, it is considered an AOW and therefore falls under NFA regulations. Even some wallet-style pocket holsters can run afoul of this burdensome regulation if they allow the holstered gun to fire when in the holster itself (in addition to not being exactly safe for carry).
In its folded configuration, the FDP certainly doesn’t look like a traditional firearm • Even in the open position, the FDP has an unconventional profile • The trigger also folds as part of the mechanism, and it includes an automatic firing-pin safety • The position of the extractor serves as a loaded-chamber indicator • Its unconventional appearance extends to the muzzle due to the polymer enclosure • Standard 17-round Glock magazines will fit flush in the grip, while the included 21-round magazines are slightly extended.
It’s the rare confluence of folding design and discreet nature that make the FDP so interesting. Looking at the folded firearm, it looks like—well, it looks like a tool kit you’d see on “Star Trek” or something. It doesn’t look like a firearm, which was the original intention behind the predecessor to the FDP, the FMG-9.
Drake Clark, Magpul’s sales and business development manager, walked the floor of SHOT Show with a folded FMG-9 stuck in his back pocket (with the carry handle removed), taking time to show it to folks he knew who would be interested (which should be everyone, because it’s just that darn cool). Per Clark, as a matter of fact, “Really what we wanted was the Russian folding gun, the PP-90, but that wasn’t happening. You can’t easily get your hands on an Ares folding gun like in Robocop [2] either. If we can’t get the cool thing we want, we build it. We like cool s**t and we like tinkering, key ingredients of the Magpul recipe.”
The funny part, though, is that the FMG-9 wasn’t even Magpul’s first foray into firearm prototyping. Two years before the FMG-9 caused a stir at SHOT Show, Magpul had unveiled the PDR, a futuristic bullpup that looked like the love child of a PS90 and an M4. Around the same time as the FMG-9, the Masada—the rifle that would turn into the Bushmaster/Remington ACR— was also revealed, aiming at the piston-driven market dominated by FN’s SCAR and LWRCI’s M6. Magpul reiterated with the FMG-9 that, while not a firearm company, it could certainly produce cool prototypes.
As mentioned, the FDP started life as the FMG-9, introduced at SHOT Show 2008—yes, that’s right, if it were a human, it would be old enough to vote now. In 2021, the project transmogrified into the FDP, which is finally hitting store shelves some 18 years after the first prototype wowed us. It’s been a long road, but the Magpul (and Zev) folding pistol-caliber carbine has finally moved past the cryptid-like status of other firearms like the revitalized Bren Ten or the resurrected AutoMag.
But, it hasn’t really been in production purgatory for 18 years, mind you. When the FMG-9 was displayed at SHOT, it was fully intended to be a “look what we can do” sort of thing, not a “we are going to have this for sale.” After returning from a vacation abroad in late 2007, Mike Mayberry (the designer behind the PMag) took inspiration from the Ares FMG, sat down at his design table and whipped up what would become the FMG-9. Some late-night hustling with an early 3-D printer, and prototypes were ready for SHOT Show in January 2008.
Controls are centrally located—as expected—on the left side of the FDP, with the magazine release, thumb safety and slide release all accessible from a firing grip • Two 21-round Magpul PMags are included with the FDP.
Having the FMG-9’s likeness displayed in an extremely popular video game series in 2011 only intensified the mystique of Magpul’s folding carbine—but remember, it was never intended to go into production. Think of it like the fantastic concept cars that GM and Ford roll out to drum up interest, but are never going to make, like the Cadillac Sixteen revealed in the early 2000s with four-wheel steering and a 13.6 liter, V16 engine. The Sixteen was never produced, but the four-wheel steering made it into production vehicles.
What jump-started the project and turned the corner into reality was a partnership with Zev Technologies in the late 20-teens. Zev’s OZ9 pistol and its chassis concept became the basis for the FDP, the successor to the FMG. Magpul would make the polymer bits, the stock, mags and carry handle/sight array; Zev would make the barrel, slide and fire-control assembly. In 2021, the FMG-9 morphed into the semi-automatic FDP, and the folding firearm project was officially underway.
Yes, it took a little bit of time for the concept to become a reality. Zev Technologies president Taylor Goode explained, “Inno-vation doesn’t happen overnight. The FDP is literally a gun that folds. Not a chassis—a true folding gun. Getting it from concept to production took a lot of engineering, both on the “go-bang” internals and the folding shell from our friends at Magpul. We know folks waited a long time to see this one come to life, but we set out to create an entirely new platform that exceeds expectations, not a novelty. That requires a lot of due diligence. The result has been worth the wait.”
Opening the FDP involves holding it with the hinge pointed downward, depressing the charging handle slightly and letting gravity unfold it into position. Ensure the stock cover and grip levers are locked.
So, with all this information about the work that went into the design and eventual production of the FDP, what does it boil down to? It might be tempting to dismiss the FDP as a gimmick; after all, the party trick of the unfolding is pretty showy and attention-getting. To be fair, that’s not a bad thing; as Tamara Keel has made the case—repeatedly—in her “From the Counter” column in this very publication, that shooting is and should be fun. Bring the FDP to the range, and I guarantee you will raise the interest of your fellow shooters. It is most decidedly different; no question about that.
More importantly, it is not a one-trick pony. It offers a lot more than just the novelty of “hey, this toolkit-looking thing turns into a pistol-caliber carbine”—it’s actually a quality, capable firearm as well. Granted, when you see the names “Zev Technologies” and “Magpul” as the two companies behind the FDP, it’s tipping your hand as to how the gun can be expected to work. Neither company is any slouch in the excellence department; combined, the result should be spectacular.
And the FDP really is great. While recording some video for social media, we ran a number of magazines through the FDP quickly (slow-fire, when recorded in slow-motion, is about as much fun to watch as paint drying). Not only were there no malfunctions, but the accuracy (even with the … ahem … rudimentary sights) was top-notch. At 25 yards, I think maybe a half-dozen rounds left the C-zone of a standard IPSC target—and I was not taking my time with a solid shooting stance and focusing on the basics.
The folding component is definitely more than just an attention-getting device, too. The careful, clever engineering that goes into the FDP allows it to look rather innocuous—if you were to transport it in a messenger bag, should someone peek inside, they’d see a nondescript black case. It’s not like a large-format pistol that will immediately alert others to the presence of a firearm. Also, it takes standard Glock magazines, so if you carry a Glock-based 9 mm handgun, you’ve got the added convenience of double-dipping in your feeding devices.
Taking down the FDP for cleaning follows the same procedure as most striker-fired handguns, with the added step of removing the top cover first • Integral to the carry handle are the black front and rear sights • The folding trigger guard and molded hand stop are visible underneath the FDP • The lever on the top of the stock and on the back of the grip need to be depressed to close the FDP.
There are some drawbacks, to be sure. If you, like me, prefer red-dot sights on your defensive carbine, while it’s certainly easy enough to add one to the FDP, you lose the element of surprise. It will still fold, of course; however, when it is in the folded configuration, the red-dot sight will be clearly visible, thereby diminishing the “hiding in plain sight” aspect of the folded FDP. It’s also an SBR, which in and of itself isn’t a huge issue with the tax reduced to zero thanks to the efforts of your NRA. However, there are certain rules currently in place with SBRs that make ownership less convenient than for suppressors—namely the requirement to alert ATF if you’re taking it to a different state. Efforts are underway to change this, but at present, it remains a consideration.
If you want to accessorize the FDP, it’s not as easy as a traditional carbine. There aren’t any M-Lok slots to add lights or lasers. There’s no section for accessories, nor any ARCA rail or sling swivel studs for a bipod mount. But again, that’s not why you’re buying the FDP. It’s the “foldy-boi” aspect, not the ability to trick it out, that gives the FDP its appeal.
Let’s talk about the folding part. It’s both ingenious and simple. To unfold the FDP, simply grasp the carry handle with the fold facing the ground. Depress the charging handle slightly, and the gun unfolds into its usable form. Make sure that both the pistol grip and the cover plate at the top of the buttstock are locked into position, then insert a loaded magazine and use the charging handle to load. To fold it up, make sure it’s unloaded (check twice, just to be safe) and close the slide. Push the lever on top of the stock cover plate as well as the lever on the grip to unlatch both, and then the FDP can be closed.
Operationally, it’s basically an overgrown handgun. The magazine inserts in the grip, the barrel tilts up during firing (which makes it look odd when shooting with a suppressor attached, but I digress) and the controls are where you would expect them to be on pretty much any polymer-frame, striker-fired handgun. The magazine catch is reversible, and the charging handle (which, of course, also folds) is mirrored on the right and left sides; the safety lever is right-hand only, as is the slide-release lever. There’s a vestigial loaded-chamber indicator built into the extractor that is flush with the slide when a round is inserted for additional peace of mind, too.
Since it uses a short-recoil-operated, locked-breech system rather than simple blowback, recoil is quite light, even for an already-gentle 9 mm SBR. The sights are functional and adjustable, and accuracy is about what you’d expect from such platforms. You’re not going to win bullseye competitions with the FDP, but it’s certainly accurate enough for home- and self-defense scenarios, even those at more extended distances. At close ranges, the type you’d see for typical self-defense engagements, it’s easy to put rounds right where you want them pretty much as quickly as you can pull the trigger.
More critical is reliability—I wanted to give the FDP a workout, so more than 500 rounds were fired (It’s also crazy fun on the range, so I might have run a few more magazines than usual). One single stovepipe was experienced, toward the end of testing when the FDP had gotten both rather hot and pretty dirty. I’m not terribly concerned, as it happened with a magazine of questionable vintage (a “pre-ban” Glock 33-round magazine I’ve owned for almost 30 years). One lone failure out of 500 rounds isn’t a dealbreaker in my opinion, especially if you clean and lubricate properly.
It’s hard not to love the FDP. Combining “cool factor” with a gun that actually functions well and can be used for defensive purposes is a fait accompli; there’s definitely cachet to having an eye-catching firearm that also serves a useful purpose. Even if the FDP wasn’t great for self-defense—and it is great for self-defense—it would still be an important addition to the firearm market; the engineering that goes into the folding characteristics will almost certainly be carried over into future projects.
Useful, cool and reliable? That’s a trifecta of awesome in my book. If you want it because it’s neat, it certainly is. But, if you want it because it’s neat and you can actually use it, that’s its true beauty, because it simply works and works well.
The French have this habit during joint ventures of kinda crapping on their partners. I do know that when the French and British were doing the Concorde, the British really believed in the plane, the French were paying lip service to the same. basically both oxen were not pulling the same weight. And when it came time to either kill or save the concorde after the "Paris Fire", the French voted to zap the airplane and the British wanted to keep it. According to British sources, it was the belief that the French wanted to get away from the concorde and this was the perfect excuse.
Apparently the Gaullic thing is to zap another partnership, you notice the french went alone and everyone else stayed together, makes me believe that the French were the problem children in this.
I pulled this from Aviation week.
France wants its ACF to lean on technologies delevoped from the Rafale and the failed FCAS initiative
The three countries behind Europe’s fractured Future Combat Air System are beginning to chart different paths toward their next-generation combat aircraft, reshaping the continent’s fighter development landscape
France is drafting plans to develop solo combat aircraft
The UK is open to Germany joining GCAP, but Italy and Japan would need to approve the move, too
France is laying the groundwork for a national fighter program, echoing its decision four decades ago to leave the Eurofighter project and develop the Dassault Rafale independently. Germany is mulling joining Italy, Japan and the UK in the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP). Spain, having aligned itself closely with Berlin, could face a different set of choices following elections scheduled for late November.
The Spanish Air and Space Force has launched its Astra initiative to explore a future combat aircraft with national industry (AW&ST Aug. 10-30, p. 33). But a change of government in Madrid could prompt a rethink. Current plans foresee reliance solely on the Eurofighter until a replacement emerges, but the air force does not want to be dependent on a single platform.
One option could be to reexamine a potential Lockheed Martin F-35 buy—dismissed by the current administration—to replace Spain’s McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets. That would buy the country time to weigh its longer-term options.
Development of the next-generation fighter pillar of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) ceased in June after France and Germany failed to resolve longstanding industrial disagreements between Dassault and Airbus over leadership and control of the aircraft’s development.
Paris has not ruled out international partnerships for its new effort, but after eight years of cooperation failed to produce a path forward for the fighter, the country is unwilling to make the success of its next aircraft dependent on foreign partners.
France’s proposed Future Combat Aircraft—referred to in French as the ACF—would build on technologies being developed for the Rafale F5 upgrade, French Air and Space Force Chief of Staff Gen. Jérôme Bellanger said on Oct. 14. Speaking before the National Assembly’s Defense and Armed Forces Committee, he stated that the aircraft would need to perform conventional missions in the 2040s before taking over the airborne component of France’s nuclear deterrent in 2050.
France is reusing the ACF acronym previously associated with the development of a Super Mirage, including the G8 version with variable-geometry wings pictured. Credit: AW&ST archive
The Rafale F5 would provide the “initial building blocks of this future aircraft,” Bellanger said, with advances in propulsion, sensors and onboard systems potentially carrying forward into the new design.
Bellanger did not say whether the ACF would need to operate from aircraft carriers, although that had been envisaged for the FCAS Next-Generation Fighter.
He emphasized that eight years of cooperation with Germany and Spain had not been wasted. Industry had made “real progress” across the FCAS’ other development pillars, including on uncrewed aircraft and low-observable technologies, he said.
Bellanger also advocated for continued cooperation with Germany on combat-cloud networks to connect crewed combat aircraft with supporting platforms, uncrewed systems and effectors. Such cooperation would be essential for interoperability, he said, allowing allied air forces to fight “together” rather than “merely side by side.”
The ACF has yet to receive formal development funding. However, French Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin told lawmakers on Oct. 8 that work had been commissioned to establish the “critical path” toward developing a national combat aircraft.
Dassault Aviation CEO Éric Trappier said in July that his company had begun discussions with the French government on a post-FCAS fighter program and was planning a demonstrator for the early 2030s.
The national approach would leave France reliant on the Rafale well into the 2040s. By then, many European air forces will be operating fifth-generation fighters, and some might be preparing to introduce sixth-generation aircraft.
France hopes to bridge that gap through the Rafale F5 upgrade and uncrewed adjuncts, including a combat air vehicle for deep-strike missions and autonomous collaborative combat aircraft (CCA). Paris has announced plans to test a CCA alongside a Rafale or Mirage fighter in 2028 under its HypAIRion initiative.
While France is still defining its path forward, GCAP is moving through the early stages of aircraft development, which could complicate entry of new partners such as Germany. Although UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has expressed openness to Berlin joining the program, that would also require agreement from Italy and Japan.
Marco Zoff, CEO of GCAP industrial prime contractor Edgewing, has warned that the existing partners might need to make “trade-offs” if additional nations join the program. Officials from the GCAP Agency, which represents the three founding governments, have also suggested that new partners should not expect the same influence on the program’s direction as the original members.
GCAP is developing a next-generation fighter to replace the Eurofighter Typhoons operated by Italy and the UK as well as the Mitsubishi F-2s flown by Japan.
Edgewing, the industrial joint venture of BAE Systems, Leonardo and Japan Aircraft Industrial Enhancement Co., opened the first of three planned international engineering sites in Turin, Italy, on Oct. 9. Engineers from Italy, Japan and the UK will work there on systems and subsystems for the new aircraft.
The company’s UK headquarters has been operating in Reading, England, since last year. A second engineering site is expected to open in Nagoya, Japan, in early 2027, followed by a third in Warton, England, later that year.
All three locations have long-standing associations with national combat aircraft development and production. They could eventually play roles in manufacturing, although decisions on aircraft final assembly and flight testing have yet to be made.
Edgewing is working to finalize the aircraft’s conceptual design, including its external configuration. The upcoming system requirements review will assess whether the proposed design and system requirements meet the three nations’ needs before moving toward detailed design. Current plans call for the GCAP aircraft to make its first flight in the early 2030s, Zoff said.
Despite the potential complications of expanding the partnership, Edgewing and the GCAP Agency remain confident that the program’s demanding timetable can be maintained.
The GCAP Agency said it has begun a “dialog” with Canada, which became an observer to the program this summer. Observer status allows Canadian officials to gain a closer understanding of GCAP as Ottawa considers potential participation or procurement.
The implications of admitting another partner depend on the extent of that partner’s desired involvement and the willingness of existing members to revisit industrial arrangements and possibly the trilateral treaty underpinning GCAP.
Airbus has said it is open to cooperation, but not at any cost, stressing that any partnership would have to come with meaningful workshare.
Although Germany’s potential entry has raised concerns about delays, Zoff insisted that protecting GCAP’s schedule remains a “priority for everyone.”
“No one of the three countries—and believe me, I say no one—is allowing for scheduling to shift to the right,” he said.
Leonardo CEO Lorenzo Mariani tells Aviation Week that German participation would be welcome and “industrially beneficial” in the long term but could be “disruptive” in the short term.
I had a busy Sunday, will post about it tomorrow, but here is a taste..
And Yes I had a good time :)
Jo-Jo Boxer was part of the what I call the 2nd British Invasion/New Wave that hit in the early to mid 1980's that gave the 80's that unique musical sound that to me made it my favorite decade, besides having Ronald Reagan as President and I had joined the Army and we had real pride in our country and I went to Germany and my adventures were starting if y'all know what I mean. Good Times, I don't begrudge my time now, I have a good job, blessed with a good family, good wife, fairly good health for my age I am truly blessed.
JoBoxers was a predominantly Britishnew wavegroup formed in 1982, when former Subway Sect members Rob Marche (guitarist), Dave Collard (keyboardist), Chris Bostock (bassist), and Sean McLusky (drummer) teamed up with American singer Dig Wayne (born Timothy Wayne Ball, 20 July 1958, Cambridge, Ohio). Wayne had previously fronted the New York based punkabilly band, Buzz and the Flyers as Buzz Wayne.
Like Gangbusters is the first studio album by British new wave band JoBoxers, first released in 1983[and featuring five chart singles.
The first single "Boxerbeat", the group's anthem, worked its way up the UK charts while the group were the opening act on the Madness 'Rise and Fall' tour,reaching number three. It was kept off the top slot by David Bowie's "Let's Dance" and Duran Duran.
Their next single, "Just Got Lucky", became an international hit. This single sold over 250,000 copies, made the UK top 10, and cracked the U.S. top 40, reaching #36 during November 1983, and has been featured in a number of films including Just My Luck and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
The third single "Johnny Friendly" is a homage to the Marlon Brando film On The Waterfront. British boxer Frank Bruno appeared in the promotional video for the song.
"Jealous Love"/"She's Got Sex" was released as a double A-side. "Jealous Love" was performed on the UK TV show Loose Talk introduced by the actress Diana Dors in one of her last TV appearances,while "She's Got Sex" was covered on Samantha Fox's double platinum selling album Touch Me (as "He's Got Sex"
The band's debut single, "Boxerbeat" found success in Britain, peaking at number three in the UK Singles Chart. However, it was their next hit, "Just Got Lucky," that truly broke the band internationally. This single also sold 250,000 copies, made the UK Top 10, and cracked the U.S. Top 40. It remains the band's only American top-40 hit to date, and the group are often branded as one-hit wonders in the U.S.
Subsequent singles "Johnny Friendly" and "Jealous Love" did less well. JoBoxers' debut album, Like Gangbusters, featuring all of the abovementioned hits, reached the Top 20 of the UK Albums Chart. The band released another single "Is This Really The First Time" and a second albumSkin and Bone in 1985, but then split up, with McLusky joining Marche and Paul Wells in the indie-dance band called If? and Bostock joining Dave Stewart's post-Eurythmics group, The Spiritual Cowboys. Meanwhile, Wayne remained in London and briefly attempted a solo career, releasing the album Square Business in 1987, featuring fellow former JoBoxer Dave Collard on keyboards. One single, "Mastermind" was released from this album. After his solo efforts proved unsuccessful, Wayne began pursuing an acting career. He would go on to appear in several stage productions (including a starring role in the successful West End musical Five Guys Named Moe) in the UK. In 1995, he returned to the U.S., settling in Los Angeles, California, to continue pursuing his acting/television career.
