SHOT Show: Gyro-Stabilized Firing Platform to Go

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dai78rCyZTU Military sales only? Where's the fun in that?

Shepherds of Helmand

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpLS1r0OaHk&feature=player_embedded

Kneel Arm Strong Fires a .50-Caliber Barrett Sniper Rifle

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXrfvTq7Zcg

Swiss Conscript: “I Would Never Shoot A Person in Real Life. I Would Run...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jwSTriPAag

Finland Adds 18 AMOS (Advanced MOrtar System) Guns to Its Arsenal

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6umbRWvzhs Back in the day, Russian despot Joseph Stalin noticed that Leningrad was only 32 clicks from the Finnish border. Sensibly enough, Jo worried that the Germans would invade Mother Russia from the west, through...

Marines vs. Army: SOST vs. “Green” M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round

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Inter-corps rivalry isn't all football games and bar fights. When it comes to strategic integration on the battlefield, getting all the military's playas on the same page is a life and death business. Good...

North Korea Salutes You! Well, Kim Jong Ill

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75yKoxD0jnk

Marines Prepare to Field Test H&K M27 IAR

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzGzeLh3mc "Marine Corps Systems Command personnel and gun maker Heckler & Koch staff delivered more than 80 M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles Dec. 3 to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment armorers," reports waronterrornews.typepad.com. "The rifles were...

New Marine Training: Three Guns to Rule Them All

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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

Ronald Rail Gun?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amsea5NgcQM President Ronald Reagan's fabled Star Wars program included faked demonstrations, designed to force the Russians to try to create their own wallet-draining space defense. Military historians will tell you there's a long history of...

Army Ships XM2010 Sniper Rifle to Afghanistan

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The U.S. Army last introduced a new sniper rifle (the M24) twelve years ago. In procurement time, that's about five minutes ago. Enter the XM2010. Some 2500 snipers will be trundling this bad boy...

Book Review: “The Gun” by C.J. Chivers

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To some people, history is a big, indigestible lump. When you consider that "history" can be loosely defined as "everything that happened to everyone, everywhere, since the beginning of time" it's easy to...