Military

  "It's fair to say that there are other countries working on this technology. That's safe to say. But I would also say that a lot of what makes this successful came from the way...

FORT BENNING, Ga. - More than 200 Soldiers from around the force competed against each other and Mother Nature at the history-making 2014 U.S. Army Small Arms Championship. Snow, ice and bone-chilling weather, combined with...

The good folks at Gemtech are stepping up their game with their new titanium G-Core silencers.  These solid two-piece cans are the result of tons of research using the latest computational fluid dynamic (CFD) and finite element analysis...

  When the Pope called for peace in the Middle East he wasn't kidding. The region is a swirling cauldron of ethnic, tribal, political and national violence. The so-called "Arab spring" (welcomed by our President)...

Over at npr.org (of all places), Ben Brody offers The (Almost) Definitive Guide to U.S. Military Lingo. We learn the definition of "geardo," which rhymes with "weirdo." It's a soldier who spends an inordinate amount of their...

By Beetle In my article about the Savage Trials Pistol, I discussed how Savage and Colt had a final “shoot off” to see who would win the contract to be the standard issue military sidearm....

Early last year, Advanced Armament made a splash unveiling their Honey Badger PDW. It was a thing of beauty; a custom-designed .300 AAC Blackout rifle that's no bigger than an MP5SD and with looks...

The U.S. Navy's twitter account is reporting that there has been an "incident" near their naval facility in Millington (near the National Guard building). Others are reporting that two people have been shot and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCGNJ98LN1M   The Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II was designed for close air support of ground troops and . . . that's it. It's slow, it's ugly (they call it the 'warthog') and it's a devastatingly effective...

 by Beetle ([email protected]) "If it ain't a Savage, it's a Substitute!" "The Savage 1911, defending America for 100 years!" If these two phrases sound a bit off to you, it’s for good reason. Typically these phrases are...

There are very few truly iconic firearms, ones that the lay public as well as gun nuts can identify at first sight. Not only are those instantly recognizable guns a perfect representation of the...

  Nick saw TrackingPoint's promo vid envisioning some future (or maybe current) sandbox, one with TP-enabled ballistics. Let's say Nick was, well, skeptical and hoped TrackingPoint's Oren Schauble would cut loose with some more deets....