Posted on 04/09/2012 by Strikehold As part of PTS’s (Professional Training & Simulation) continuing growth in the professional training and recreational airsoft category, PTS Management Group has announced a new relationship with Magpul and in turn launched a new website. What began for PTS Management Group as a worldwide exclusive relationship with Magpul Industries airsoft […]
Month: November 2017
UK Royal Military Police Close Protection training
The Royal Military Police’s Close Protection Unit guards ministers, senior military officials and diplomatic staff on global deployments, so thorough training for new recruits is vital. With Army training packages often conducted in the vast expanses of Salisbury Plain or Norfolk’s wooded countryside, it is surprising to see soldiers being put to the test in […]
PenCott-GreenZone in use in Germany
Our friend Florian over at Svensson Tactical Blog posted a series of photos yesterday featuring SABRE’s Gen.III Special Forces Smock and Sniper trousers in Hyde Definition’s PenCott-GreenZone camouflage pattern. The location was “somewhere along the lower Rhine”, and its easy to see from the photos why the pattern is gaining such a growing following among […]
US Marines strike FAST
CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan — As the smoke cleared in the small room, a Marine bellows “Room clear!” With those words, the Marines of Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Company Pacific stacked up on the next door and prepared to engage the next set of targets with speed and aggression. The Marines, with FAST Company Pacific, 7th […]
KITANICA kick some ASP
KITANICA has unleashed yet more awesomeness onto an unsuspecting world – this time its in the shape and form of a deadly serpeant, the ASP (also stands for All-Season Pant apparently). This babies are some new that they’re not even on the KITANICA website yet, so they put them on their Facebook page to start […]
HMS Sutherland crew hone pirate take-down skills
Posted on 22/08/2012 by Strike-Hold Royal Marines aboard HMS Sutherland have been practising their pirate vessel boarding techniques using ‘rapid roping’ from the frigate’s helicopter in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Despite punishing daytime temperatures in the mid-30s degrees Celsius, ‘The Fighting Clan’, as HMS Sutherland is known, continues her mission against international terrorism […]
KITANICA Mountain Shorts
Posted on 18/08/2012 by Strike-Hold I’ve been wearing a prototype pair of these in Hyde Definition’s PenCott-Sandstorm camouflage for a couple of months, and I’m very impressed! These shorts are great – and no, they are not “ladies Capri shorts”! The number, type, and layout of the pockets is fantastic and makes them ideal for […]
Leapfest 30
Posted on 08/08/2012 by Strike-Hold Ice Cube might have taken “XXX” to the next level, but Leapfest XXX took things even higher – and was much more interesting and exciting to watch. In what you could call “The Olympics of Military Parachuting”, Leapfest 30 brought together over 60 teams from more than 20 US states […]
ARKTIS wins contract for Australian Federal Police Tactical Vest
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France replacing the famous FAMAS
Posted on August 7, 2012 by Strike-Hold Known colloquially as “The Bugle” by the troops, it seems that the French military is on the warpath to replace its distinctive FAMAS rifle – which has been around since 1971 – with something newer, and perhaps more standardized with the rest of NATO. It appears that the […]
