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Category: Historical
First Robin Sage Exercise of 2024 Begins This Week
The U.S. Army Special Forces qualification course culmination exercise code-named ‘Robin Sage’ begins later week and will continue until early February. During Robin Sage, Green Beret candidates operate as advisers and trainers for resistance forces in the fictional nation of Pineland. Robin Sage is the final test for soldiers going through the Special Forces Qualifications […]
Winter Combat Course – Finnish Style
In April of 2023 Finland officially became NATO’s 31st member – ending a journey away from full neutrality that began in 1991 when Finland joined the European Union. However, although Finland’s economic neutrality was already a thing of the past, militarily the country had been officially neutral since 1949. Besides having the longest shared border […]
Who Dares Wins: The Final Option
Three helicopters swoop menacingly into view, black-clad figures standing on the skids. As the TV news crews swing their cameras around, the choppers hover over the large embassy building while the men rappel swiftly onto the roof. Those same men descend the building’s face a moment later. Grenades blow out windows and the men disappear […]
The M1907 Cuban Winchester
This man in the image below is William Morgan, aka the “Yankee Comandante.” During the Cuban Revolution, he was a pro-democracy soldier of fortune who was ultimately killed by a firing squad. The strange weapon you see there is a much-modified version of the Colt 1907 called the “Cuban Winchester.” The following information was posted […]
Friday Foto
“You have reached your destination.” Philippine Marines secure a beach landing after inserting from a UH-60 Blackhawk during a bilateral amphibious landing during Balikatan 22 at Claveria, Philippines, March 31, 2022. Balikatan is an annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation […]
Saturday Snapshot
US Special Operations Forces in Europe training with members of Italy’s ‘Folgore’ parachute regiment. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney Hughes […]
Next Generation Squad Weapons Program and True Velocity
The US Army’s “Next Generation Squad Weapons” (NGSW) Program has certainly been an interesting project to watch, and despite the delays in publishing the promised final announcements, it has also progressed much quicker than many expected. Of course, many (including myself to be honest) were rather skeptical to begin with that the program would in […]
Friday Foto
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR – YEAR OF THE TIGER! Members of the Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol unit of the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne Division listen to a briefing from the brigade commander, Brigadier General Willard Person. General Person expanded the use of long range reconnaissance patrols by the brigade, and authorized the use of the […]
LCTairsoft SVD
Our friends at LCTairsoft helped us ring in the (Western) New Year with their first new product drop of 2022 – their stunning steel, wood, and polymer SVD AEG! The Soviet SVD-63 (Snáyperskaya Vintóvka sistém’y Dragunóva obraz’tsá 1963 goda) is probably the first modern example of a designated marksman rifle. This means that it was […]