A sniper from 2/1 RNZIR conducting advanced training within the winter wilderness of the Tekapo Military Training Area. Photo credit: New Zealand Army, copyright 2019 […]
Month: June 2019
Old Time Design Company Airborne Forces Beret
Great news for anyone looking to top off their WWII-era British and Commonwealth Airborne Forces uniform. The Old Time Design Company in Nottingham, UK has just announced their new, authentic, reproduction Airborne Forces Beret. Old Time Design Company worked closely with THE Hatters of the British Army, Compton Webb, to make this faithful reproduction – no […]
Impressions of the Steyr STM-556
Has Steyr combined the AUG and the AR to create the ultimate combat rifle? Well, Steyr has been producing military rifles for 150 years, and the AUG gas piston system has been proven in use with numerous armies for several decades now. So adapting an AUG gas system and barrel into an AR-compatible upper receiver assembly […]
Kitanica RAIDER Pants Now In Wolf Grey With Super Fabric
Made from robust 6.5 oz. 50/50 nylon/cotton Ripstop fabric, Kitanica’s RAIDER Pants are also now equipped with Super Fabric® knee reinforcement patches that accept the Kitanica XRD® Poron impact reactive foam padding system. The RAIDER Pant is cut for a comfortable fit that facilitates high mobility cut, and features a total of 13 pockets. One […]
Friday Fotos
ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 29, 2019) – Members of Naval Special Warfare Group 2 conducts military dive operations of the East Coast of the United States. U.S. Navy SEALs engage in a continuous training cycle to improve and further specialize skills needed during deployments across the globe. SEALs are the maritime component of U.S. Special Forces […]
Brewing Good Coffee In The Field
Napoleon once said that an Army marches on its stomach – meaning that food is an essential weapon of war. These days it seems that getting good coffee has become just as important as good food and plenty of ammo. However, despite the happy soldier depicted in the famous WWII poster image, most of the […]
Portuguese Navy Upgrades G3s With Spuhr Package
The Portuguese Army may have decided to ditch its 7.62x51mm G3s in favor of the 5.56x45mm SCAR-L, but the Portuguese Navy on the other has decided to save some money by simply modernizing its G3s instead of replacing them. Based on the upgrade kit that Spur developed for the Swedish Army’s G3s, the Portuguese Navy […]
Next-Gen Steyrs: L9-A2 MF and AUG A3 M1
The AUG (Armee-Universal-Gewehr—”universal army rifle”) was designed and developed by Steyr-Daimler-Puch during the late 1960’s to early 1970’s, and was adopted by the Austrian Army as the StG-77 (Sturmgewehr 77) in 1978. Like the (unrelated) Glock pistol, the AUG made extensive use of modern polymer plastic technology and was particularly revolutionary for its time – […]
US Marine Corps Adopts SIG SAUER M18 Modular Handgun System
NEWINGTON, N.H., (June 17, 2019) –SIG SAUER, Inc. is honored to announce that the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is set to adopt the M18, the compact variant of the U.S. Army’s Modular Handgun System (MHS), as their official duty pistol. “The Marine Corps announcement to put the M18 in service with the Marines is […]
Steyr Arms and Wilcox Industries Team Up to Provide G36 Upgrades
According to a story by Bob Morrison over on Joint-Forces.com, the Spanish Army is planning to upgrade its inventory of roughly 60,000 HK G36E rifles. Steyr Arms of Austria and Wilcox Industries of New Hampshire, USA have teamed up to offer a solution. The STEYR Mod G36 Upgrade with buttstock folded. © Bob Morrison, 2019. […]