My main question after who they are & what their experience is and why they are doing this is: "What are your test protocols?"
For testing TQ's, are they just checking for occlusion and lack of distal pulse? Are they checking themselves, is someone else, and / or are they using a medical device to confirm?
Or are they assessing, providing intervention, transporting casualty, and re-assessing the effectiveness of their intervention when at a CCP?
For testing magazines, how many rounds are they putting through them? Are they marking each magazine to isolate issues? If magazines have certain features (fully sealing magazine well, windows for ammunition) how are those features being tested, evaluated, and validated? What are their tests - drop tests from what height, onto what surfaces, and how many times? How are they measuring effects?
For weapon systems - I want to see groups. Saying a weapon system performed "MOA / sub-MOA" isn't good enough - seeing is believing. By the same token, I don't want dudes to sit at a range testing a match grade barrel weapon system at 25 meters with a 5-25x variable power optic just to be more accurate.
I run a small business where I T&E various items for the purposes of determining whether they will work for warfighting. I do this entirely out of pocket in order to be completely objective. My only interest is increasing the lethality and Survivability of the good guys. However, this also makes me "an enemy of the industry" in some circles as I don't hold back if I believe there are deficiencies in items and how they are marketed. This isn't something I make money off of. If an article I write is selected for inclusion into a magazine (Full disclosure - I've only sent one which was subsequently published) that payment is invested into further materiel solutions and training courses.
