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Primary Arms – GLx 2x Prism ACSS Gemini Reticle

Primary Arms Optics has released a brand-new reticle option for their popular GLx 2x Prism Scope: the ACSS Gemini. Designed for 9mm carbines and AR pistols, the ACSS Gemini reticle incorporates all the advanced features of ACSS and adapts it for a Pistol Caliber Carbine (PCC) format. Originally released in...

The Agilite AMAP III – The Assault Pack Evolved

The IDF knows a thing or two about what a soldier needs to carry into combat, and Israeli tactical gear supremos Agilite know a thing or two about how to make great gear for carrying that load. With that in mind, today Agilite revealed the long-awaited AMAP III Assault Pack...

US Army Soldiers Conduct Live Fire With New ENVG-B

Soldiers assigned to 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, recently conducted a platoon live fire using the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) provides the U.S. Army’s close combat forces with the capability to observe...

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French Paratroopers moving towards their assembly area while 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division descends on the drop zone during Swift Response 16. The 'All American' Division will join forces with Soldiers from more than 30 Allied and Partner Nations during Swift Response 21 - an international exercise that...

Celebrate Helikon-Tex’s 38th Birthday With a Sale and More!

Polish outdoor-tactical-EDC-medical-surplus gear and clothing super brand is celebrating it's 38th year of being in business this weekend. But they're doing a bit more than the usual celebratory sale... Of course they are doing a sale across their full range, but it's not the measly 15% that many brands would...

GunMag Training addresses the “hard part”

According to to the recently launched GunMag Training, "...the hardest part of any defensive shoot occurs prior to and after the trigger press." If you consider the totality of what leads to such an occurence, and all that will follow (even when a shooting is clearly justified), that seems like a...

SIG SAUER ‘Best Ranger Competition’ Trophy Pistols

SIG SAUER is honored to announce the creation of the M17 Trophy Pistols for the U.S. Army Best Ranger Competition being held at Fort Benning, Georgia, this weekend - April 16-18, 2021. The custom M17 pistols were designed and built by SIG Custom Works and beginning this year, the custom...

Friday Foto

That Others May Live. It's not just a nice sounding motto... When an injured Airman needs saving from a hostile or otherwise unreachable area, it’s the duty of Air Force Special Warfare, Pararescue (PJ) specialists to rescue and medically treat downed military personnel anywhere in the world. PJs have a...

Product Spotlight: Helikon-Tex US Woodland Camouflage Collection

It has been said that everything that's old becomes new again. It is also true that some things never go out of style, and that style itself transcends the whims of fashion. US Woodland Camo is one of those things that has not only never really gone away, but is...