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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

LCTairsoft: LK53 Family Launching August 5th

Our friends at LCTairsoft have been in touch with an update to let us know that their high quality HK53 series is going to drop in just a couple of weeks! Coming August 5th, both the A2 (fixed stock) and A3 (retractable stock) models, as well as both the AEG...

Vertx’s Firebase Parabellum Bandolier

The Firebase Parabellum Bandolier is a bandolier of magazine pouches designed by Vertx and developed in conjunction with Firebase Combat Studies Group. The Firebase Parabellum functions as a low-profile, multi-use load-bearing option designed to deal with the weight and space problems sometimes created by the need to pack and load...

New Lightweight Level IV Plates from ShotStop

Consider this an introduction to the new plates from ShotStop Ballistics. It's a line of extremely light ("ultra-light" according to the ShotStop) lineup of individual armor upgrades.  The official name of this plate is the Level IV HA Armor Piercing Advanced Body Armor Plates. ShotStop, an Ohio-based ballistics company, has...

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...

Friday Foto

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...

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...

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...

VFC Releases MP5K-PDW V2 GBBR

The Umarex/VFC partnership continues to set the highest standards in airsoft regarding attention to detail and build quality. Their latest replica of the famous Heckler & Koch MP5K sub-machine gun takes things to an even higher level thanks to its realistic blowback action mechanism. Originally developed in the early 1960's...

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...