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U.S. Marines with Company A., 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin dismount two MV-22B Ospreys during Exercise Koolendong at Bradshaw Field Training Area, NT, Australia, Aug. 29, 2021. U.S. Marines and Australian Army soldiers worked together to conduct a simulated aerial assault during the exercise. Exercise...

Tasmanian Tiger 2022 Product Line Sneak Peak – Rucksacks

Hat tip to our friends at Airsoft & MilSim News Blog for the breaking news this morning with the first reveal of two great new products from Tasmanian Tiger for 2022.   First up is the Mil Ops Pack 80 + 24. As its name implies, this is a mid-...

Friday Foto

A patrol from the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) advance, using a drone quad 'copter on over watch during training on Shemya Island, Alaska during Exercise Noble Defender 2021. United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) personnel taking part in the exercise practiced maritime infiltration, off-road mobility, special reconnaissance, remote communications,...

Announcing the New Stratus Down Hooded Jacket From PDW

Prometheus Design Werx introduces their latest state-of-the-art, down-filled, hooded jacket, the STRATUS, for Fall-Winter 2021. The Stratus features a unique stitch-less baffle construction to reduce weight and bulk, a stretch 20D shell, premium hydrophobic 800 fill power goose down, and packs down small for trail to travel. The Dupont treated, water...

Springfield Armory SA-35- The Updated Browning Hi-Power

Springfield Armory today announced their new SA-35 9mm pistol, an updated version of the Browning P-35 - more commonly known as the Browning Hi-Power. Based on one of the most prolific and popular pistols in small arms history, the Springfield Armory® SA-35 features subtle but significant upgrades to John Moses...

Airsoft Replica Carl Gustav M3 Recoilless Rifle

The 84mm Carl Gustav recoilless rifle (aka, "The Goose") is almost as famous as the US Bazooka and the British PIAT - and it also fairly close to those two in age as well. The Bazooka and PIAT were created and used during WWII, while the Carl Gustav was designed...

Saturday Night At The Movies: The American

Some guns, some tactics, some snark...some of it even good. That's some of what you'll find in the Saturday Night at the Movies film reviews from GunMag Warehouse. Interested in an example? Remember Anton Corbijn's The American? Slooow it down and read this perspective of... 'The American' by Scott Waters I do love...

Friday Foto

A rare shot - they mostly come at night...  Location: Bishop Airfield outside of Scottsdale, Arizona. If you know, you know. 😉 Photo credit: Complete Parachute Solutions.

Radical Firearms' RF/22

The RF/22 from Radical Firearms

Something for the weekend Sir? With everything else going on, you may have missed the Radical Firearms RF/22 - a match-grade rifle chambered in .22lr.   Here's what you missed.  The RF/22 was designed with the shooting enthusiast in mind. It's a sleek, solid, well-designed semi-auto you can use to plink,...

Searching For A WWII LRDG Patrol In Modern Tunisia

I recently came across this exciting adventure tale that was published in Land Rover Monthly last year. As my own Grandfather served with the British Army's Light Car Patrol in the Libyan Desert in WWI (a predecessor of the LRDG in some ways), I found it particularly interesting. [caption id="attachment_9940"...