NEWINGTON, N.H., (June 17, 2019) –SIG SAUER, Inc. is honored to announce that the United States Marine Corps (USMC) is set to adopt the M18, the compact variant of the U.S. Army’s Modular Handgun System (MHS), as their official duty pistol. “The Marine Corps announcement to put the M18 in service with the Marines is […]
In conjunction with the U.S. Army’s 244th Birthday, the Army announced a new proficiency badge on Friday, called the Expert Soldier Badge. The ESB is designed to improve lethality, recognize excellence in Soldier combat skills and increase individual, unit and overall Army readiness. The ESB is the equivalent of the Expert Infantry Badge and Expert […]
“The 3 most realistic firefights ever filmed by Hollywood” https://www.wearethemighty.com/military-culture/most-realistic-firefights-hollywood Band of Brothers (2001) – D-Day Jump Scene […]
Program Executive Office Soldier (PEO Soldier) fielded the first personal Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in the U.S. Army to Soldiers of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, April 29 -May 3, 2019 at Fort Bragg, NC. Soldiers did more than just inventory and take possession of the system during the week-long fielding. The Soldiers […]
Rumors have been circulating for some time now that Gentex (under their Ops-Core brand) had won the contracts for the next-gen USSOCOM helmets and headsets, and now its official. On the 16th of May 2019 Gentex posted press releases about both wins – we’ve combined them into one update. The Ops-Core® FAST helmet system has […]
Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen from Special Boat Team 12, stationed at Naval Base Coronado, Calif., with the help of aviators from 4th Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., conducted a Maritime External Air Transportation System training evolution in Moses Lake, Wash., May 21. MEATS is a way to move […]
This is just so awesome that we had to share it – the destruction of Kings’ Landing, set to to the song “Hell’s Bells” by AC/DC. And it totally, scarily, works! […]
Prometheus Design Werx introduces their new collection of Ti-Line Cookware. Light, strong, durable and corrosion-proof, the first three pieces offered in their new cookware collection cover the baseline needs of the solo wilderness adventure and explorer. When it comes to durable performance cookware for the backcountry that will last a lifetime, there is nothing that […]
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SHOT Show and IWA are now well behind us and while there were some cool new airsoft replicas that broke cover this year, am I the only who thinks that airsoft manufacturers mostly just keep churning out yet-another-variation-of-the-same-things? When the biggest news seems to be about a new line of tacticool AK’s or yet another […]