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The Army’s Individual Carbine Competition: What’s Next?
The project to replace the current M4 Carbine, the Army’s standard infantry rifle, started in 2011 with a request for...
Read morePLA Type 95 Rifle: Breaking with Convention
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) returned to China’s bosom on 1 July 1997. As troops of the People’s...
Read moreCorner Shot
In the movies, the scary music always gets louder just before they go around the blind corner. For operators, worrying...
Read moreThe 300 AAC Blackout
Over the last several years many new calibers have been introduced to the AR-type platform; from the .204 Ruger, 6.8mm...
Read moreSOST: A Way Forward in Contemporary Understanding of the 1899 Hague Declaration on Expanding Bullets
In 2006, the U.S. Special Operations Command’s Special Operations & Technology (SOST) office tasked the Crane Division, Surface Warfare Center,...
Read moreProtector: Norwegian Remote-Controlled Weapon Systems
There are many hundreds of vehicles across the world in international peace making/peace keeping operations that are not equipped with...
Read moreSturmgewehr: Hitler’s Only True Wunderwaffe
Many years before WWII started, small arms designers of the world noted that in the real world the power of...
Read moreThe SIG 716
At SHOT Show 2010, SIG showed their new Model 516 and 716 rifles to the industry. The 516, a short...
Read moreThe K14 Sniper Rifle
In December of 2012, the Korean company S&T Motive received a contract with South Korean DAPA (Defense Acquisition and Purchase...
Read moreStormy Paraguay
Early last June 2012, news from Paraguay indicated that 321 police agents had been dispatched to Curuguaty. The police officers,...
Read moreInternational Legal Affairs: Volume 5, Number 3
“May you live in interesting times…” supposedly a Chinese curse, the U.S. arms export trade is currently facing unprecedented challenges...
Read moreIndustry News: Volume 5, Number 3
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. reported that third-quarter sales were up 39 percent compared to the same period last year. ...
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