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THE PORTUGUESE ARMY FINDS COMBAT COMFORT IN FN SCAR The Portuguese Army, after decades of struggling to get a new ...

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U.S. ARMY ADOPTS B.E. MEYERS & CO. BOARS-M2 OPTICS MOUNT B.E. Meyers & Co., Inc., announced that the BOARS®-M2 optics ...

ALIEN GEAR Rapid Force Duty Holster Alien Gear Holsters, the top-selling, award winning and most trusted American-made brand for civilian ...

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  TRUE VELOCITY INC. True Velocity's ammunition is over 30% lighter than conventional brass rounds. TV's proprietary design innovations reduce ...

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Photo credit: IAN MCCOLLUM/ARES INTRODUCTION Although Ethiopia has produced small-caliber ammunition for at least 60 years (and probably 90 or ...

According to its press release, in 2020 the U.S. Army plans to have soldiers fire at targets using remote-controlled robotic vehicles as ...

FN HERSTAL FN Expert Marksmanship Training System FN has released the new FN® Expert marksmanship training software. Even more intuitive, ...

By Dan Shea June 21, 2019, in the Swiss Alps outside of Montreux: “Smoke on the Water” playing on the ...

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TANGODOWN®, INC. ACRO® Mount for GLOCK® MOS® Models TangoDown®, Inc. is excited to announce the latest addition to its lineup: ...

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About a year ago, back in 2018, the Russian Ministry of Defense officially announced results of the “Ratnik” trials in ...

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In terms of firearm product development, we live in exciting times. Computers, compact circuitry and manufacturing techniques have opened a ...

What comes to mind when you see the word MIL-SPEC listed in a product’s specs? It seems semi-slick marketing executives ...

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Christensen Arms has been awarded contract number 4400021290 by the State of South Carolina to produce a version of the ...

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The U.S. Military acquires millions of rounds of ammunition every year for everything from training to combat. Despite some performance ...

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By Major (Ret.) Walter Christian Håland Staff Sgt Shawn P. Linhares, a Sierra Vista, Arizona native, 25th Infantry Division, surveys ...

Heading Toward the Future There are several companies that offer mobility platforms upon which manipulators are mounted or are gun ...

Modern armed conflicts are of a fundamental different character than cataclysmic wars of the last century. Fortunately, full-scale military operations ...

Diagram and legend of the training facility. Tucked away in the opening plains where the Caucasus Mountains finally meet the ...

The defense and sporting firearms communities are bombarded on a near daily basis with articles and advertisements promoting new “game ...

The trend towards shrinking firearms into smaller and lighter packages is full steam ahead. The recently introduced SIG SAUER MPX ...

It is no secret that Eugene Stoner’s AR platform is the bestselling rifle in the U.S. with numerous manufacturers jumping ...

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FN HERSTAL FN® FCU Mk3 Fire Control Unit The FN FCU Mk3 Fire Control Unit provides a complete sighting and ...

Turkey has a longstanding tradition of manufacturing licensed models, then producing evolved domestic variants. The Canik series of handguns started ...

Fort Worth-based retailer, RW Arms, turned in its entire inventory of bump stocks to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...

Switzerland, long the neutral party of Europe with a deeply rooted gun culture, was recently confronted with a referendum to ...

Mistakes happen. Although one may try to minimize the chance of an error, human nature, miscommunication and plain ignorance can ...

Defense and security companies looking for growth overseas are taking a national approach to international trade events In an increasingly ...

During World War II, the basic weapons of the U.S. infantryman were the rifle, light machine gun and fragmentation grenades. ...

Eighth Year Sees Increase in Visitors The 8th edition of Enforce Tac was again billed as the “International Trade Fair ...

FN HERSTAL FN SCAR®-SC .300 Subcompact Carbine & KeyMod Receiver The FN SCAR-SC® in 5.56x45mm / .223 is now joined ...

Aimpoint, the leading manufacturer and innovator of red dot sighting technology, has been awarded a USD $24 million firm, fixed-price ...

The 1860s marked a period of Renaissance in firearms development. Muzzle loading rifles and revolvers transitioned to cartridge-firing, breech loading ...

Visitors to SOFEX and to the KASOTC Warrior Competition in Jordan now have a new place to visit along with ...

On March 3, 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unexpected statement while visiting the city of Amethi during his ...

REAP-IR has a toggle switch on the right side for choosing between multitudes of options available with the Trijicon optic. ...

By Dickson Ly This year’s IWA show carried on in the turbulent time of industry slowdown and increasing tension between ...

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The next edition of Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) will mark 20 years since the event was first established ...

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In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Ministry of Defense noted an increased need for body-armor-defeating weaponry paired with a diminished sound ...

There has been a resounding boom in popularity of suppressors in recent years. They have become less the stuff of ...

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By Lynndon Schooler The beginning For a brief 200-year period, the Pecheneg Khanate sprawled from Southern Trans-Carpathia across the Dnieper ...

By Christopher M. Rance The red rim of the sun pushes itself over the distant horizon, as a brown haze ...

The ASM Materials Education Foundation By Dan Shea I’m writing this in the first person for a reason; I want ...

ABOVE: A representative from Kodiklatad Polytechnic demonstrates the Indonesian version of the “Corner Shot” device, here equipped with a Glock ...

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New Drone Training Program Botach, Inc. (a drone reseller–drone service provider and distributor of tactical products to the U.S. Public ...

ABOVE: On the range with the Vityaz-SN and a Zenitco suppressor. A High Performance SMG Despite Growing Pains In 1993, ...

International Legal Affairs - Export Reform By Jason M. Wong Draft regulations have been published regarding the transfer of USML ...