Live Firing the HK121/MG5: The German Army’s New Universalmaschinengewehr
ABOVE: A useful comparison of similarities between the 7.62 NATO caliber HK121/MG5 in front, with its predecessor, the 5.56mm MG4 in the background. The 22 poun... Read more.
Machine Guns of WWI: SADJ Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of World War I
ABOVE: Germans with Maxim MG08. Judging from their cloth-covered spiked helmets, this apparently posed photo was taken early in the war when quantities of their... Read more.
Modern Day Marine 2013
Speaking at the invitation-only Report to Industry at MDM Expo 2013, Jansen‘s bleak assessment of the harsh realities facing the Marine Corps in light of drac... Read more.
Modern Day Marine 2012
ABOVE: We first spotted this polymer and brass .50 caliber BMG ammo at MARCORSYSCOM’s display at MDM way back in 2009. We’re pleased to report that it is st... Read more.
USMC Precision Weapons Section
There’s nothing else like it in any of the other branches of America’s Armed Forces. Its uniquely lethal products, the work of a small and tightly-knit gr... Read more.
M27, Part Two: From BAR to IAR – How the Marines Finally Got Their Infantry Automatic Rifle
Friends and foes of the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in the U.S. Marine Corps’ infantry fire teams have been engaged in often fierce verbal firefights dating b... Read more.
The U.S. Marine Corps’ New M27 IAR: Part One
For the past several years SADJ has been following progress of the US Marine Corps’ program to identify and field a suitable alternative to the M249 Squad Aut... Read more.
Devil Dog Days: Modern Day Marine 2011
“…that’s going to require us to replace an awful lot of gear that’s been used very hard over the last ten years or so. We know what we need and we‘re... Read more.
MARSOC, Part 2: Training SOCOM’S Devil Dogs
The focus of our visit to MARSOC‘s Schoolhouse was Special Operations Training Branch, currently housed in an orderly formation of a dozen or so modular class... Read more.
MARSOC, Part 1: Devil Dogs of SOCOM
It defies logic that United States Special Operations Command did not include the Marine Corps until a little over five years ago. All the more so because the... Read more.
