MIL SISTEMIKA is a relatively new and small Slovenian company that makes great battle-space management and situational awareness software. I had an opportunity a while back to play around with the Personal Eye System from MIL SISTEMIKA, but I didn’t get a chance to evaluate it extensively or put it...
This story has been all over Facebook the past couple of days – and it does appear to be legit! Check out the full details on All Outdoors Tech.
Direct Action’s expanded line of advanced tactical nylon gear was debuted in the US at SOFIC in late May – now these made-in-Poland products are in-stock and available for purchase through the Direct Action Gear USA webstore. The line-up includes their flagship SPITFIRE™ Plate Carrier, HURRICANE™, TEMPEST™ and TIGER MOTH™...
On 6 July 1917 Lawrence of Arabia captured the port town of Aqaba in perhaps one of the greatest coups of the First World War. He had left the Arab camp at Wejh on 9 May, embarking on an epic expedition across some of the worst desert terrain in Arabia....
Khyber Interactive Associates, a world-class emergency response training, research, consulting company and developer of the annual Lights, Sights, Lasers US Tour, announced that Helikon-Tex® – a leading International innovator in tactical apparel and gear for law enforcement, security and military forces worldwide – has come aboard as a platinum sponsor...
The term ‘assault rifle’ has been a politically loaded term right from the start – as the origins of the German military designation “Sturmgewehr” (assault rifle) shows. Although its commonly repeated that the term was made up by Hitler, Peter G. Kokalis actually did thorough first-hand, primary research into it...
Here’s an interesting piece of WWII history that I saw on Facebook recently… “By May 1945 the war in Europe had finally started to wind down. Yet for the men of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, there was one final mission to complete before they were relieved. Due to increasing...
Following the news that Botswana has taken delivery of 14 of these aircraft to be deployed on air-borne anti-poaching patrols above four major game reserves in the country, we decided to take a closer look at this little plane with the cool name. The ‘Bat Hawk’ is type-classified as a ...
After two years of gathering extensive feedback from field usage all over the world, plus lots of additional hours invested in perfecting even the smallest details – UF PRO® now introduces the new Gen.2 version of their Striker XT BDU system. Since its introduction in 2014, the first generation of...
Hot on the heels of our last article about Natick Labs came this online article from ‘The National Geographic’ about a new book by renowned author Mary Roach: Mary Roach, a self-confessed “goober with a flashlight,” has created a niche for books with one-word titles—Gulp (on the digestive system); Bonk...
