Loren B. Thompson of the Lexington Institute makes an excellent case for “Buy American” in a recent editorial on defpro.com. But there are actually two excellent “Made in the USA” planes that the USAF should be considering, the Beech AT6 (pictured below) and the North American / Boeing “Super Bronco” (that we’ve featured before). Sadly, the […]
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Pssst, wanna see some SEAL gear?
Posted on 04/07/2011 by Strike-Hold A good friend of Strike-Hold! recently gave us a look behind the secret door and a chance to get a grope of some genuine high-speed SEAL gear… Mystery Ranch rucksack Unidentified Chest Rig (replica LBT 1961?) Beyond Clothing Level 9 combat uniform Crye Precision AOR1 […]
US Navy seeks the wisdom of online gaming crowds
Posted on 11/05/2011 by Strikehold “The Wisdom of Crowds” is a concept developed by James Surowiecki while he was a business columnist for The New Yorker. Not to be tainted with bad connotations like “group think”, “blind faith” or “bunker mentality”, the wisdom of crowds actually refers to the process of a diverse collection of […]
How to stop a Nazi glider – 1940 UK defence pamphlet
Posted on 11/05/2011 by Strike-Hold Our friends at Military Times have published a rather interesting extract from their current issue about how the peaceful English countryside was transformed by anti-glider defences in the summer of 1940. http://www.military-times.co.uk/articles/how-to-stop-nazi-a-glider-1940s-pamphlet.htm?newsletter=email&dm_i=6NM,EQY0,2OW6U9,16KGL,1For more on Operation Sealion, the Nazi invasion that never was, read the latest issue of Military Times magazine. […]
Tactical Tailor Fight Light Preview
Posted on 06/05/2011 by Strike-Hold Our friends at Soldier Systems Daily have posted a preview of Tactical Tailor’s new “Fight Light” series. First out of the blocks is this great looking “Battle Belt”.Get the gouge here. This entry was posted in Individual Equipment. Bookmark the permalink. ← Friday Foto Royal Navy clears Libyan mine → […]
Royal Navy clears Libyan mine
Posted on 06/05/2011 by Strike-Hold HMS Brocklesby, one of the Royal Navy’s mine countermeasures vessels, has destroyed a mine laid by pro-Gaddafi forces in the port of Misurata on the Libyan coast.Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi have made repeated attempts to close down the port to limit the flow of humanitarian assistance to the population […]
Top 10 Special Operations Raids
Posted on 05/05/2011 by Strikehold Nice piece on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13287133What you nominate for your Top 10 (successful) special operations raids / assaults of modern times?Off the cuff, mine would be:WWII1. Eben Emael2. Bruneval3. The SAS airfield raids during North African campaign 4. Gran Sasso5. Pegasus BridgePost-WWII1. Brazzaville2. Kolwezi3. Entebbe4. Mogadishu (GSG9 – not “Black […]
The Blackest of Black Ops Black Hawks?
Posted on 05/05/2011 by Strikehold The internet has been ablaze with speculation, rumour, innuendo and sheer fantasy following the publishing of this photo of part of the wreckage of the helicopter that was deliberately destroyed following its crash-landing on the Bin Laden raid.Well, it seems that it is in fact a secret “stealth” version of […]
MTP mania in Combat&Survival May issue
Posted on 22/04/2011 by Strikehold Out now, in both hardcopy and digital formats, the May issue of Combat & Survival magazine has extensive coverage of the UK’s new Multi-Terrain Pattern camouflage (MTP). As you’ll remember, MTP is a derivative of MultiCam that was developed by Crye Precision under license to the UK Ministry of Defence – the […]
What’s really going on in Libya?
Posted on 21/04/2011 by Strike-Hold Only one way to really find out – read C.J. Chivers Blog.http://cjchivers.com/post/4776811390/guns-consequences-in-libya-ii This entry was posted in Hotspots, Libya. Bookmark the permalink. ← PenCott™ Multi-Environment Camouflage is in production Female officer died defusing daisy-chain of bombs → Comments are closed. Search for: Recent Posts UF PRO P-40 Camou Pants reviewed […]