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 […]
“They mostly come at night.” Photo source: Complete Parachute Systems […]
As Exercise Forager 21 continues, more than 500 Paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division jumped into Indonesia yesterday. The Falcon Brigade flew direct from Guam (6 hours / 3,000 miles), rigged in-flight and parachuted in with their Indonesia Airborne partners. Exercise Forager 21 is a U.S. Army Pacific exercise designed to test and […]
In the dying days of World War Two, well before the invention of the AR10 or AR-15, when the M1 Garand was king of the hill – and laser beams and night vision goggles were the stuff of science fiction – a rifle was conceived in Belgium that would come to be known as “the […]