New Russian Pistols Vie for Military Adoption
Despite their diminutive size, pistols still are important military firearms, and they are even more important as law enforcement weapons. ...
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S&T Motiv Ready for Global Stage Small Arms Featured at DX Korea
This article presents some S&T Motiv’s small arms at the trade fair for the Defense Industry, Defense Expo Korea, held ...
Filling the Gaps in Small Cal Ammo Needs Nammo Specialty Small Caliber Ammunition
The U.S. Military acquires millions of rounds of ammunition every year for everything from training to combat. Despite some performance ...
UAV Tech and Drone Warfare Highlighted at ISDEF 2019
Welcoming sign to the show. Israel Defense and HLS Expo is the country’s largest biennial defense show that is held ...
Back in the Saddle Again Subcompact Guns—Protecting Army Senior Leaders
By Major (Ret.) Walter Christian Håland Staff Sgt Shawn P. Linhares, a Sierra Vista, Arizona native, 25th Infantry Division, surveys ...
ROBOTICS & SMALL ARMS DEVELOPMENT
Heading Toward the Future There are several companies that offer mobility platforms upon which manipulators are mounted or are gun ...
Russia’s Threadcutter, the VSS Vintorez A Call to Defeat Body Armor [OR–Russia’s Threadcutter Answers the Kremlin’s Call to Defeat Body Armor]
Modern armed conflicts are of a fundamental different character than cataclysmic wars of the last century. Fortunately, full-scale military operations ...
A Journey Through Russian Special Forces’ History and Future Grozny’s Russian University of Spetsnaz
Diagram and legend of the training facility. Tucked away in the opening plains where the Caucasus Mountains finally meet the ...
NATO Interoperability Trumps Advanced Firearms and Ammunition
The defense and sporting firearms communities are bombarded on a near daily basis with articles and advertisements promoting new “game ...
SIG SAUER MPX Copperhead Bites with SMG Potency A Revival of the SMG
The trend towards shrinking firearms into smaller and lighter packages is full steam ahead. The recently introduced SIG SAUER MPX ...
.308Win Power in an AR-15 Package : The POF-USA Revolution DI Packs a Punch
It is no secret that Eugene Stoner’s AR platform is the bestselling rifle in the U.S. with numerous manufacturers jumping ...
ORDNANCE ODDITIES The Early Days
In the course of decades of research in various military and museum archives, Robert Bruce has acquired a treasure trove ...
Reviews: New Products
FN HERSTAL FN® FCU Mk3 Fire Control Unit The FN FCU Mk3 Fire Control Unit provides a complete sighting and ...
Canik TP9 Elite Combat—The Value-Priced Defensive Pistol
Turkey has a longstanding tradition of manufacturing licensed models, then producing evolved domestic variants. The Canik series of handguns started ...
INDUSTRY NEWS: RW ARMS Surrenders Bump Stock Inventory
Fort Worth-based retailer, RW Arms, turned in its entire inventory of bump stocks to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...
Why Swiss Gun Laws Matter : The Fight for Second Amendment Rights
Switzerland, long the neutral party of Europe with a deeply rooted gun culture, was recently confronted with a referendum to ...
The World is Buying. Where are You Selling?
Defense and security companies looking for growth overseas are taking a national approach to international trade events In an increasingly ...
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