When it comes to pistol shooting, consistency breeds precision. In the latest video and blog series from UF PRO, former U.S. Marine Rick Crawley (and now CEO and chief instructor at Achilles Heel Tactical in North Canton, Ohio, U.S.A.) discusses seven fundamentals of pistol shooting and offers advice to help you become a more proficient […]
Category: Modern Forces and Operations
FN FAL: The Right Arm of the Free World
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 […]
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Troops leaving work on a Friday afternoon in the summer. Not really. This is actually a Finnish Army rocket battery sending love notes to Putin… Well, practicing at least. Photo credit: Maavoimat – Armén – The Finnish Army […]
US Army Awards Billion Dollar Contract For Conformal Batteries
They might not be as sexy as new guns, or as controversial as new camouflage and uniforms, but these days batteries are just as much an essential part of a Warfighter’s equipment as food, water, and ammunition. Carrying your body armor weight in spare batteries has also become the new normal, and when those batteries […]
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U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa move forward into a blocking position for Portuguese forces at Campo Militar de Santa Margarida, Portugal, July 1, 2016. The Portuguese military invited distinguished visitors from various countries for a demonstration from Portuguese and American forces to conclude Exercise Orion 16. Photo by Staff Sgt. […]
B&T Advanced Police Carbine Series – Real-Steel and Airsoft
B&T is a small but well-respected company from Switzerland that has equipped numerous European police and military forces over the years. In the US they are probably best known for having won a (small-scale) contract in 2019 for their APC9K sub-machine gun to be used as the US Army’s sub-compact weapon (SCW) in close protection […]
The History and Legacy of US Woodland Camo
Until the early years of the Global War on Terror, woodland camo (i.e. “M81 Woodland”) was by far the most commonly used camouflage pattern used by US military personnel during the Cold War. Head on over to House Morningwood to learn the story behind this iconic camouflage pattern, that is still going strong… […]
Royal Marine Commandos Raid Lithuanian Coast
The UK Royal Marines’ recent Baltic deployment reached a dramatic climax with commando training raids along Lithuania’s coast and on a radar station inland. 45 Commando have been deployed since the start of May at the heart of the Littoral Response Group (North), a newly-formed task group designed to position commando forces closer to where […]
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Members of the Romanian Special Forces boards a vessel during a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) evolution as a part of Trojan Footprint 21 off the coast of Mangalia, Romania on May 7th, 2021. Trojan Footprint 21 is Special Operations Command Europe’s annual exercise to demonstrate proficiencies, assess the readiness and lethality of our […]
Picatinny Arsenal Optimizes M110A1 Marksman Rifles
U.S. Army Soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division in Fort Carson, Colorado, have optimized new marksman rifles – thanks to a team of small arms experts from manufacturer Heckler & Koch and the Army’s Project Manager Soldier Lethality from Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. The team spent June 15-16 at Fort Carson optimizing 234 of the […]