Posted on 25/10/2009 by Strikehold Heckler & Koch “real-steel” HK33 and HK53 Basically a G3 scaled down to take the 5.56x45mm round, and designed for the export market, the HK33 came in several variants. The HK33A2 (fitted with a rigid synthetic stock), an accurized variant known as the HK33SG/1 (with a telescopic optical sight and improved […]
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USMC Marine Expeditionary Units become”marine”again
Posted on 24/10/2009 by Strikehold Source: Navy Times Amphibious ops to become default mode for MEUs By Gidget Fuentes – Staff writer Determined to get Marines directly involved with the fight against pirates and other threats at sea, the Corps is reinventing its seven expeditionary units.Major changes, some already underway, will make the MEUs even […]
SCOTS thwart Taliban to recover US Chinook
Posted on 23/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Soldiers from Alpha (Grenadier) Company of The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS), have fought off Taliban attackers in order to facilitate the recovery of a US Army Chinook helicopter.When the helicopter of the US 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade suffered a hard landing on difficult […]
Royal Navy to resume training of Iraqi counterparts
Posted on 22/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Training of the Iraqi Navy by the Royal Navy is expected to resume as soon as possible following consideration by the Iraqi Council of Representatives it was announced today.The Iraqi Government had requested that after the UK concluded combat operations in Iraq on 30 April 2009 continued military assistance, particularly in […]
Taking wargames from the board to the field
Posted on 21/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Here’s an idea…I just happened to find a post on Osprey’s military history blog about Leigh Neville’s “Operation Uruzgan” rulebook for the Force on Force board-based wargame. Leigh wrote the best-selling Osprey books on “Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan” and “Special Operations Forces in Iraq“. In this booklet he provides an […]
Licensed airsoft versions of Magpul”Masada”/ Magpul-Bushmaster”ACR”announced
As I’m sure you all know, there has been a huge amount of interest in the Magpul “Masada” / Magpul-Bushmaster “ACR” saga – and right from the start (ie., SHOT show 2007) Magpul announced that they intended to make an airsoft version of the rifle as well as the real-steel ones. Such forward-thinking and recognition […]
Advanced Tactical Concealment System – no longer secret
Posted on 15/10/2009 by Strike-Hold Seems it took less than a day to rumble the “teaser campaign” for A-TACS. What was supposed to be some super-secret, high-speed, unusual camouflage pattern to be announced at the 2010 SHOT Show has had its cover blown.A quick Google search turned up half a dozen pictures of the pattern […]
Helmand-bound Cavalry test Jackals in the dunes
Posted on 14/10/2009 by Strike-Hold source: UK MODSoldiers from the Household Cavalry, who are normally based at Windsor, took to the spectacular Braunton Burrows 900-acre sand dune system near Barnstaple this week.They put their Jackal vehicles through their paces in tough and demanding sandy conditions which are similar in many ways to the conditions they […]
Beryl gets a facelift – wz.96 Beryl assault rifle that is
Posted on 11/10/2009 by Strike-Hold The kbs wz. 1996 “Beryl” is a Polish 5.56mm assault rifle, designed and produced by the Łucznik Arms Factory that replaced the 7.62x39mm AKM and 5.45x39mm “Tantal” used in the Polish Armed Forces. The Beryl was officially adopted in 1997 as the 5,56 mm karabinek szturmowy wz. 1996 (“assault carbine model […]
Dutch Paras nab quad bike thief in UK
Posted on October 10, 2009 by Strike-Hold Here’s a nice little “human interest story” from The Daily Mail:A quad bike thief who was trying to make a speedy getaway took an unlucky turn – into the path of a crack squad of airborne* soldiers.The Dutch paratroopers caught the suspect, who was being chased by an […]
