U.S. Marines with Company A., 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin dismount two MV-22B Ospreys during Exercise Koolendong at Bradshaw Field Training Area, NT, Australia, Aug. 29, 2021. U.S. Marines and Australian Army soldiers worked together to conduct a simulated aerial assault during the exercise. Exercise Koolendong validates MRF-D’s and the […]
A patrol from the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) advance, using a drone quad ‘copter on over watch during training on Shemya Island, Alaska during Exercise Noble Defender 2021. United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) personnel taking part in the exercise practiced maritime infiltration, off-road mobility, special reconnaissance, remote communications, close quarters battle, and medical […]
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 […]
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 […]
The crew of a Danish Seahawk helicopter train with members of the Frogman Corps (Frømandskorpset). Photo credit: Flyvevåbnet (Danish Armed Forces). […]
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 […]
After World War II, it was thought that the power of the atomic bomb would make war too terrible for any country to risk, and international stability and cooperation would be ensured through the new United Nations organization. For a brief while that seemed true, but then the Korean War began. Coincidentally, the conflict on […]
Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Hryhoriy Halahan, Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukrainian Politician, and U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. David Tabor, Special Operations Command Europe Commanding General, sit on the ramp of an MC-130J Commando II assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing during a low-level flight […]
St. Cloud, MN-based Maxim Defense, the US company that describes itself as the “…premiere manufacturer in PDW technologies”, has announced the availability of the Maxim Defense PDX in Urban Grey. The Maxim Defense PDX, is chambered in .300BLK, 5.56 NATO, and 7.62×39, had its genesis in USSOCOM. Born of the SOCOM PDW solicitation, the PDX, […]
“ARKTIS” is a legendary brand name within the UK and northern/western European military and law enforcement sectors. Originally founded in the town of Exeter in Devon by a former Royal Marine officer in 1985, the brand is now owned by Francis Dinsmore Ltd., a 230 year old textile producer in Northern Ireland. ARKTIS was one […]