A rare shot – they mostly come at night… Location: Bishop Airfield outside of Scottsdale, Arizona. If you know, you know. 😉 Photo credit: Complete Parachute Solutions. […]
Author: Strike Hold
Searching For A WWII LRDG Patrol In Modern Tunisia
I recently came across this exciting adventure tale that was published in Land Rover Monthly last year. As my own Grandfather served with the British Army’s Light Car Patrol in the Libyan Desert in WWI (a predecessor of the LRDG in some ways), I found it particularly interesting. The article tells the story of […]
Helikon-Tex Introduces Night Desert Camo Line
Set the wayback machine to the early 1980’s, 1983 to be precise, and the US Army and US Marine Corps began issuing an overgarment set printed in a unique grid-and-spot camo pattern designed to defeat Soviet-bloc night vision equipment. Copying the design of the M1951 “fishtail” overwhite parka, the set also included over-trousers, and […]
KITANICA Bag Lab presents the Envoy Attaché
Compact and streamlined, yet spacious, the Envoy attaché from KITANICA’s Bag Lab features a three-compartment design to organize and protect your official business. The electronics compartment has armored sleeves to secure a laptop and a tablet with 6lb. closed cell foam on all four sides, and two expandable interior mesh pockets organize your cables and […]
PDW Raider Field Pant EC T-Fit
Prometheus Design Werx introduces their best-selling Raider Field Pant in their cool weather weight, 9 oz Expedition Cloth (EC) soft-shell fabric and new tailored fit (T-Fit). According to the Design and R&D Team at PDW: “We took our bestselling pant, tuned it for fall/winter wear and are introducing a new tailored, trimmer fit. For those […]
IWI Announces ACE-N 52 7.62mm NATO Member of ACE Family
IWI – Israel Weapon Industries – a member of the SK Group – is launching the new ACE-N 52 assault rifle at MiliPol Paris. The latest model in the ACE family, the ACE-N 52 has an improved ergonomic design that is suitable for use with standard 7.62x51mm NATO (AR-10) magazines. Based on the reliable and […]
Friday Foto
The crew of a Danish Seahawk helicopter train with members of the Frogman Corps (Frømandskorpset). Photo credit: Flyvevåbnet (Danish Armed Forces). […]
The British Army Special Operations Brigade – Rangers, Rifles, and More
The UK Ministry of Defence published a tender a couple of months back for a new “Army Special Operations Brigade Rifle Procurement and Support of an Armalite Rifle (AR) platform Alternative Individual Weapon (AIW) System”. What that means in plain English is that the British Army is looking to equip its new Special Operations Brigade […]
KITANICA VESPID 30L Backpack
The new The VESPID 30L backpack from combines the kind ingenious design, practical functionality and ergonomic comfort you would expect from Kitanica. Kitanica is of course renowned for their kick-ass practical and tactical garment designs, but never ones to sit on their laurels or to follow the herd its great to see them now applying […]
UF PRO Delta ComPac Compressible Tactical Winter Jacket
UF PRO has released a new, highly compressible, tactical winter jacket—the Delta ComPac—just in time for freezing winter weather. A key feature of the Delta ComPac jacket is its ability to easily fold into its own pocket so that when stowed in a backpack it consumes very little space. This makes it convenient to stow […]
