I’ve seen a few after-market bullpup stocks come and go over the years, and most of the ones I’ve seen for AK-type weapons have been pretty fugly.So, when I saw this one on The Firearm Blog yesterday I was well impressed. In fact, I found it hard to believe its an after-market stock for Saiga […]
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News from Hyde Definition: new website and Marketing Director
Posted on August 6, 2010 by Strike-Hold UK-headquartered Hyde Definition Ltd. have revamped and relaunched their website – and also announce the appointment of a Marketing Director (someone you all may have heard of *wink*).Check out their News page here. This entry was posted in Camouflage. Bookmark the permalink. ← More camo news! US Navy […]
More camo news! US Navy Working Uniform III
You might remember that back in January Soldier Systems Daily ran a story outlining the US Navy’s further plans with regards to the issuing of camouflage uniforms to its personnel.Just to re-cap, this outlined the Navy’s set-up as follows; Navy Working Uniform Type I – the standard Navy utility uniform in the blue-grey coloured version […]
Yet more camouflage news – ITS Tactical’s Great Camo Comparison, Part II
Posted on 05/08/2010 by Strike-Hold Our friends at ITS Tactical have done a superb job with the second installment of their great camouflage comparison photo-shoot.Check out all the action here. This entry was posted in Camouflage. Bookmark the permalink. ← More Afghan camo: new pixelated pattern for the Afghan Civil Order Police Friday Foto → […]
More Afghan camo: new pixelated pattern for the Afghan Civil Order Police
Posted on August 5, 2010 by Strike-Hold The first thing that struck me about this was that its ironic that the Afghan Army adopted a “woodland” coloured uniform, whilst the police adopted a “desert” coloured one.Then, taking a second look, I noticed that the uniform style appears to be the same as the Army’s – […]
New”Spectre”digital camouflage pattern from SSO / SPOSN
Posted on August 4, 2010 by Strike-Hold In other recent camouflage news, Russian company SSO / SPOSN has announced the availability of their a new family of digital camouflage patterns. According to the information we’ve received, there are summer woodland, autumn woodland and semi-arid versions; known as “Spectre”, “Spectre-Autumn” and “Spectre-S” respectively. A wide range […]
Up Close And Personal: New Spanish Desert camo in Afghanistan
Posted on August 3, 2010 by Strike-Hold Trolling through the ISAF Media Flickr account, I found some photos of the new Spanish desert camo pattern uniforms in use in Afghanistan. * UPDATE *Thanks to the link supplied by Zote, here are some additional, close-up photos of the uniform and camo pattern. As you can see, […]
Tiger Helicopters Achieve 1,000 Flight Hours in Operations in Afghanistan
Posted on August 3, 2010 by Strike-Hold press releaseThe EC665 Tiger HAP (combat support) helicopter received its operational certification from NATO for the Afghan theater of operations in August 2009, just seven months after the final operational standard qualification was issued by government agencies in December 2008.The fleet of three EC665 Tiger HAPs, operated by […]
African Union to Send 2,000 Additional Troops to Somalia
Posted on 28/07/2010 by Strikehold source: defpro.comWith the shocking impressions of the effects of terrorism on their own front porch still freshly in mind, the leaders of the African Union member states yesterday met in Kampala, to discuss the and agree on the future face of the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The meeting in […]
ITS Tactical’s Big Camo Comparison, part 2
Posted on 21/07/2010 by Strike-Hold Our friends over at ITS Tactical have been busy recently going out into the boonies to run their 2nd big camo comparison photo-study. They’ll have the photos processed and posted soon, but in the meantime they’ve posted a story about all the excitement, adventures, shenanigans and mis-adventures they experienced along […]