Tag: Dan Shea

“Solving the Riddle of Steel” By Dan Shea   “The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. ...

27-30 April 2020, Columbus, GA Advancing Combat Lethality Recently the influential and well-known NDIA Small Arms Symposium combined with some ...

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

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

Thomas B. Nelson The name Thomas B. Nelson is synonymous with the small arms community of the last 60 years. ...

Arrow Tech prodas.com The James Ambrose Award is presented periodically to recognize, in the opinion of the Small Arms Division ...

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

ABOVE: Two 37mm “Pom-Pom” guns- large Maxim water-cooled machine guns with brass jackets, grace the entry to the exhibits. This ...

There have been a number of attempts in the last decade to integrate all of the possible futuristic ideas for ...

One of the most prominent and prolific military bullpup-style rifles in history reaches its 10th anniversary in the field in ...

Many are familiar with industry ammo manufacturers, but who makes and upgrades the machines that produce the ammo? BCN Technical ...

Modern Malaysia is a beautiful country, rich in agriculture and history, with a growing industrial base. It was born from ...

National Defense Industrial Association’s Small Arms Group: NDIA started out in 1919 as the Army Ordnance Association and through various ...

ABOVE: Firing the MGA SAW K in .300 Blackout from an overlook in the badlands of Utah. “Squad Automatic Weapon”- ...

This was the seventh bi-annual PARTNER Exhibition held in Belgrade, Serbia. This regional show is maturing, and gathering some momentum. ...

ABOVE: In another part of the Trust International Group’s booth, Jerry had placed the OOW HCAR in 30-06 caliber with ...

The Kuwait Shooting Sport Federation has its base at an amazing facility on the Sixth Ring Road in Kuwait City, ...

ABOVE: 1939 Lahti 20mm anti-tank cannon, converted to .50 BMG, mounted on FN30 tripod. Note in the inset, how the ...

ABOVE: CZ Engineer Martin Sanda puts rounds downrange and brass in the air during the test of the 5.56x45mm CZ ...

Barracuda Signature Management, a SAAB company, held their Customer Conference on 21-22 May 2014 in Sweden. These conferences are held ...

ABOVE: IWI eLog SADJ has always traveled the world in search of the innovators in small arms and weapons. Sometimes ...

This was the second biannual Gulf Defense & Aerospace show held in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It’s always difficult starting a ...

ABOVE: US team ready to go for Precision Rifle. “We have to understand that it is called “international” terrorism, however, ...

ABOVE: Beretta’s ARX160 5.56x45mm rifle was on display, and has been purchased for testing by Jordanian Armed Forces. Of course, ...

SADJ has known and covered the products from U.S. Ordnance in Reno, Nevada for many years. Their US MK43 Mod ...

Expodefensa in Bogota, Colombia is a bi-annual show that has strong regional attendance. It is heavily attended by the Colombian ...

ABOVE: Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) flagship machine gun, the MG3, is considered to be one of the best made versions ...

Aimpoint has had a lot of success in the individual weapon categories, with their military and civilian programs. After years ...

ABOVE: South Africa’s famous SS77 machine gun from Vektor has a venerable history, replacing the FN MAG as the General ...

SADJ has been in contact with IDEAS Media Manager Ehtesham Bari for many years, planning to attend the IDEAS show ...

The fourth biannual BRIDEX (pronounced Brih-dex) exhibition was another marked success for this small South East Asian nation on the ...

A large group of friends and family gathered today at the front of the old MOD Pattern Room at Enfield ...

This was the fifth year in a row that the ISDEF show was put on in Tel Aviv.  It shows ...

During our last visit, we were able to see the newest offerings from the ST Kinetics Small Arms Division.  The ...

Recently there has been an upswing in interest regarding the weapons of North Korea.  This is due not only to ...

Arms & Security Kyiv is the Ukraine’s yearly military, police, and hunting show. It is a smaller show than the ...

The NDIA Small Arms Symposium is an all inclusive show regarding small arms, ammunition, and related subjects for military use. ...

The 10th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) was sponsored by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation under the auspices of the ...

The fifth bi-annual PARTNER Serbia show was held over the course of four sunny days in Belgrade, Serbia in late ...

The City of Split, Croatia, was an excellent choice for a show in the region. The April weather is wonderful, ...

Chinese submachine gun technology has come a long way in the past 50 years. From the days of chop-shop PPSh-41 ...

SADJ has brought a number of articles on the RPG-7 and its technology and history to our readers.  We’ve covered ...

LAAD Brazil has grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade and today it is a formidable contender as ...

This, the fifth in the series of ISDEF shows in Tel Aviv, shows tremendous growth.  The show has almost doubled ...

Greg Felton of Law Enforcement International (LEI) in the UK, was trying to meet the requirements of a friendly Government ...

19 February, 2011. A small group of firearms community writers from the United States had been invited to the Caracal ...

The International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) of 2011 is a biannual show that has reached its 10th anniversary with ...

The conflicts in the Middle East go on, as they have through the ages.  The shores of the Hashemite Kingdom ...

The fourth bi-annual Partner Serbia show was held over the course of four sunny days in Belgrade, Serbia in June ...

The United States Marine Corps put their best foot forward once again for the 30th annual Modern Day Marine (MDM) ...

With the addition of Romania to the European Union in 2007, the EU stretched from the North Sea to the ...

The 9th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) was sponsored by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation under the auspices of the ...

SADJ was invited to review the Tactical Training Team facility in Serbia, and having known the founder, Dragan Lestaric, for ...

The sixth edition of Expomil Romania was held in the Romexpo Exhibition Center at the Bucharest International Fair in Romania.  ...

We received an invitation to come to ST Kinetics in Singapore and view their newest small arms offerings.  As quickly ...

There is one absolute “Must-See” military museum in the Jakarta area in regard to small arms.  It has amazing dioramas ...

Brügger & Thomet Police Day is held every two years in June in Thun, Switzerland at the Guntelsey Range.  What ...

Over 150 exhibitors from 23 countries gathered in the sunny Singapore Spring for IMDEX 2009.  This was the seventh biannual ...

The strategic placement of elements on the battlefield has been the subject of millions of words, from many sources, both ...

The Royal Thai Army Museum (short name) was designed to cover the history of the army, the wars, the leaders ...

The second biannual BRIDEX (pronounced Brih-dex) exhibition was a marked success for this small Southeast Asian nation on the northern ...

“This award validates our pursuit of new international growth opportunities that are transforming ATK into a world class integrator of ...

The Soviet Union and its current iteration, Russia, have long been known for innovative weapon development; only some of which ...

Indo Defence is the Indonesian military’s third in a series of bi-annual tri-service expositions.  It is a good, solid, Southeast ...

The Code of Lekhwiya (“Lekhwiya” is the name given to the Qatari Special Forces for Internal Security; a well trained ...

Milipol Qatar 2008 was officially opened by H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Minister of Interior of the ...

A lot of readers and deployed troops have asked us about the “Potato Masher” type hand thrown grenade that has been ...

The Soviet era design referred to generically now as the RPG-7 was the fruit of decades of design development in ...

We thought it appropriate to focus and profile one of the exhibitors at Partner 2008, and Kompanija Sloboda from Ĉaĉak, ...

Each year, when MSPO in Poland is announced, there is a “Lead Nation” chosen. This “Lead Nation” is responsible for ...

Every other year, the Ministry of Defence of Thailand sponsors an excellent four-day Defense & Security trade show at the ...

Dr. Philip H. Dater was born in the latter part of April, 1937 on Manhattan Island in New York City.  ...

There are two small arms conferences in the West that this author considers to be the most important in the ...

The War & Peace Show, also called “The Beltring Show” by many, is an incredible experience. SADJ decided to bring ...

The conflicts in the Middle East go on, as they have through the ages. The shores of the Hashemite Kingdom ...