Marines Ordered Disarmed Before Panetta Speech in Afghanistan
Earlier this week, Leon Panetta, the current SecDef, paid a visit to Afghanistan. He chose to address a contingent of U.S. Marines at Camp Leatherneck. Citing an incident earlier in the day, when an...
DARPA Denies New Laser Weapon Will Feature SkyNet Interface
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYxZycmk-3c
DARPA's announced the development of a new laser that will take down drones and other small flying objects. But what's made the new zapper more practical is what every male fears most: shrinkage. The...
ATF Death Watch 138: A Day in the Life
Remember the ATF's Fast and Furious scandal? You know: the revelation that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives supplied some 2000 U.S. gun store guns to Mexican drug thugs. That American-supplied criminals...
Coming Soon To A Battlefield Far Far Away: Israeli Selective-Fire LMG
7.62mm LMGs aren't typically employed as precision battlefield implements, but IWI aims to change the way armies think of these middleweights with their new Negev NG-7 machinegun. The company claims that theirs is the...
Ask Foghorn: Primer Sealant? What’s Up with That?
JeffD asks:
I picked up two boxes of Winchester 9mm bulk at my local Wally World and found five of these red primers.
Any ideas?
I've got one possible explanation, and it's all about how bringing our...
Happy Red Army Day!
TTAG has Russian readers. One of them (hey Hyperprapor!) sends me links to Rodina Mat, tipping us off to the latest Russki advancement in firearms technology. Today's Red Army Day, when the country honors...
QOTD Response: Women Shouldn’t be Grunts
The following was written by TTAG reader Josh Grabow:
Yesterday's TTAG question of the day was "Why Shouldn't Women Be on the Front Lines?" This is a poor question because short answer is, they already...
Corps Refuses to Discipline Marines for Nazi Flag
The U.S. Marine Corps isn't particularly bothered by rifle-toting Marines posing next to a flag emblazoned with the insignia of Germany's Waffen SS. In fact, you could call them the Holocaust deniers amongst us....
Shock Horror! UK Sells Arms to Repressive Regimes
Did you know that arms sales are the UK's number one export? Without its military industrial complex footing the Bill, The Land of Hope and Glory's socialist economy would collapse. No wonder the left-leaning...
Who’s SARy Now?
C.J. Chivers reads TTAG. TTAG reads C.J. Chivers. When the New York Times war now pirate correspondent got all hot and bloggered about a Somali-owned SAR 80 machine pistol thingie, we had to link. For those...
Navy SEALs Rescue Hostages, Snuff Somali Kidnappers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XafGgftqyg&feature=fvst
Nick and I felt privileged to be invited to the special advance screening of Act of Valor, one week ago today. The Navy SEALs in the film weren't portrayed by drug-addled Hollywood action heroes....