Every August, the Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal community assembles for King Crab, a multi-day gauntlet that separates the elite from the merely excellent. This year's third iteration brought two-person teams from across the force to a California training site, where they faced a r...
Beez Combat Systems has introduced the PREDATOR GHILLIE™ SPECTRALFLAGE™ Starlink Thermal Mitigation Kit, a multispectral signature-management system designed specifically for Starlink satellite communication terminals. Unlike conventional thermal covers that place material directly against th...
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center has introduced SixPAC, a polymer and steel ammunition packaging system designed to replace the wood wirebound boxes that have been standard for small-caliber munitions since World War II. The system consists of two light...
American Rheinmetall’s HAMMR is a magazine-fed, semi-automatic 40mm grenade launcher built for the U.S. Army’s Precision Grenadier System competition. Here is how the weapon, ammunition and computerized fire control work together.
“It was scary, you know? The damnedest thing…” The old Marine flicked at a bright yellow tie he was wearing. “We were ordered to take Atabrine to prevent malaria. Most of us did that but it tended to turn our eyes and skin a bright yellow. And then a rumor started that the stuff would Rea...
No need to cut your CP Combat Pants off anymore. The G3.5 RANGE SHORT announced at SHOT Show is fanboy available for order. This lightweight, stretch nylon short was developed for hot-weather training, R&R, and working on your summer tan. Available in SHORT—5″, REGULAR—7″, and...
Bear & Son Cutlery has grown on me as time has gone on. Their factory in Jacksonville, Alabama produces all manner of blades ranging from tactical autos to old-fashioned fixed blades–and everything in between. I have long been a fan of their Bowie knives, which both look the part and pe...
DUKE FIELD, Fla. (AFNS) —   Air Commandos from the 919th Special Operations Wing validated their warfighting capabilities during a Combat Readiness Inspection Aug. 6-9 at Duke Field and Hurlburt Field, Florida. The inspection was formally spearheaded by the Air Force Reserve Command In...
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. — Blending lightweight polymers with a rugged steel shell, the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center’s new SixPAC system marks a groundbreaking leap in small?caliber ammunition packaging, one intended to reshape how munitions are used by So...
For more than a century, infantry units have fought under an unforgiving reality: When you’re humping a ruck through non-cooperative terrain and you run face-first into an entrenched bunker, fortified machine-gun nest or enemy light armor, your options for immediate heavy fire support are painf...