All the recent chatter around the US Army camo controversy got me to thinking of a couple of different approaches. I already laid out my intial thoughts on a common ground combat uniform – and seperate garrison uniform – a few weeks back. An alternative, and perhaps more cost-effective, approach is the idea of matching a […]
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British sniper foils Taliban attack
Posted on 13/11/2009 by Strike-Hold UK MoDA British sniper ended a Taliban attack on his colleagues conducting a patrol in an Afghan village with a single shot, it has been revealed today.The soldier, who can only be known as Corporal Danny for security reasons, shot at the feet of an unarmed man who was apparently […]
Gibraltar Regiment trains with Moroccan Paratroops
Posted on 28/10/2009 by Strikehold UK MOD Defence NewsNow in its tenth year, Exercise Jebel Sahara continues to grow in size, scope and importance, offering British troops the chance to train in the kind of harsh conditions that they are facing on current operations.The exercise takes place in the desert and mountains of Morocco and […]
Classic Army CA33&CA53 (HK33&HK53) mid-capacity magazines
Posted on 25/10/2009 by Strikehold Heckler & Koch “real-steel” HK33 and HK53 Basically a G3 scaled down to take the 5.56x45mm round, and designed for the export market, the HK33 came in several variants. The HK33A2 (fitted with a rigid synthetic stock), an accurized variant known as the HK33SG/1 (with a telescopic optical sight and improved […]
USMC Marine Expeditionary Units become”marine”again
Posted on 24/10/2009 by Strikehold Source: Navy Times Amphibious ops to become default mode for MEUs By Gidget Fuentes – Staff writer Determined to get Marines directly involved with the fight against pirates and other threats at sea, the Corps is reinventing its seven expeditionary units.Major changes, some already underway, will make the MEUs even […]
SCOTS thwart Taliban to recover US Chinook
Posted on 23/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Soldiers from Alpha (Grenadier) Company of The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS), have fought off Taliban attackers in order to facilitate the recovery of a US Army Chinook helicopter.When the helicopter of the US 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade suffered a hard landing on difficult […]
Royal Navy to resume training of Iraqi counterparts
Posted on 22/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Training of the Iraqi Navy by the Royal Navy is expected to resume as soon as possible following consideration by the Iraqi Council of Representatives it was announced today.The Iraqi Government had requested that after the UK concluded combat operations in Iraq on 30 April 2009 continued military assistance, particularly in […]
Taking wargames from the board to the field
Posted on 21/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Here’s an idea…I just happened to find a post on Osprey’s military history blog about Leigh Neville’s “Operation Uruzgan” rulebook for the Force on Force board-based wargame. Leigh wrote the best-selling Osprey books on “Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan” and “Special Operations Forces in Iraq“. In this booklet he provides an […]
Licensed airsoft versions of Magpul”Masada”/ Magpul-Bushmaster”ACR”announced
As I’m sure you all know, there has been a huge amount of interest in the Magpul “Masada” / Magpul-Bushmaster “ACR” saga – and right from the start (ie., SHOT show 2007) Magpul announced that they intended to make an airsoft version of the rifle as well as the real-steel ones. Such forward-thinking and recognition […]
Advanced Tactical Concealment System – no longer secret
Posted on 15/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Seems it took less than a day to rumble the “teaser campaign” for A-TACS. What was supposed to be some super-secret, high-speed, unusual camouflage pattern to be announced at the 2010 SHOT Show has had its cover blown.A quick Google search turned up half a dozen pictures of the pattern […]