Rumors have been circulating for some time now that Gentex (under their Ops-Core brand) had won the contracts for the next-gen USSOCOM helmets and headsets, and now its official. On the 16th of May 2019 Gentex posted press releases about both wins – we’ve combined them into one update. The Ops-Core® FAST helmet system has […]
Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen from Special Boat Team 12, stationed at Naval Base Coronado, Calif., with the help of aviators from 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., conducted a Maritime External Air Transportation System training evolution in Moses Lake, Wash., May 21. MEATS is a way to move […]
This is just so awesome that we had to share it – the destruction of Kings’ Landing, set to to the song “Hell’s Bells” by AC/DC. And it totally, scarily, works! […]
Prometheus Design Werx introduces their new collection of Ti-Line Cookware. Light, strong, durable and corrosion-proof, the first three pieces offered in their new cookware collection cover the baseline needs of the solo wilderness adventure and explorer. When it comes to durable performance cookware for the backcountry that will last a lifetime, there is nothing that […]
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SHOT Show and IWA are now well behind us and while there were some cool new airsoft replicas that broke cover this year, am I the only who thinks that airsoft manufacturers mostly just keep churning out yet-another-variation-of-the-same-things? When the biggest news seems to be about a new line of tacticool AK’s or yet another […]
Bullpup rifles – where the chamber, firing mechanism, and loading port / magazine are located behind the trigger and pistol grip – haven’t always had a good reputation, or been well-received by users. And to be fair, there are certain inherent drawbacks to such a layout, but dramatic reduction in length and increases in compactness […]
Special Tactics Airmen and members of the Royal Thai Air Force leap from a U.S. Air Force C-130 over a water drop zone during Exercise Cobra Gold on Feb. 13, 2019. (U.S. Air Force Photo by First Lieutenant Renee Douglas) […]
While there has been some chatter over the past year or so about the Canadian’s ditching their pixilated temperate woodland and arid region CADPAT camo patterns for MultiCam®, which is already in use with Canadian Special Operations Command soldiers, it now appears that there will be a new “intermediate” mash-up of the woodland and arid […]
New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel are working alongside their British counterparts to counter the multi-billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade in Africa. Lance Corporal Jed Maskill (left) from 1 RNZIR teaches a tracking tactic to a British Army soldier in Malawi. Special Operations Component Commander Colonel Rian McKinstry said two soldiers — one from New Zealand’s Special Operations Forces […]
