Marines Prepare to Field Test H&K M27 IAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzGzeLh3mc
"Marine Corps Systems Command personnel and gun maker Heckler & Koch staff delivered more than 80 M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles Dec. 3 to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment armorers," reports waronterrornews.typepad.com. "The rifles were...
Ronald Rail Gun?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amsea5NgcQM
President Ronald Reagan's fabled Star Wars program included faked demonstrations, designed to force the Russians to try to create their own wallet-draining space defense. Military historians will tell you there's a long history of...
Army Ships XM2010 Sniper Rifle to Afghanistan
The U.S. Army last introduced a new sniper rifle (the M24) twelve years ago. In procurement time, that's about five minutes ago. Enter the XM2010. Some 2500 snipers will be trundling this bad boy...
Book Review: “The Gun” by C.J. Chivers
To some people, history is a big, indigestible lump. When you consider that "history" can be loosely defined as "everything that happened to everyone, everywhere, since the beginning of time" it's easy to...
U.S. Army Deploys XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System
Foxnews.com reports that the U.S. Army has begun deploying its first "smart" shoulder-fired weapon: the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System. Select soldiers in Afghanistan are now blessed with a weapon that fires a 25mm...
Where have you gone, M1911? The Marine Corps turns its lonely eyes to you
Checking in with marinecorpstimes.com,...
U.S. Veterans: Gone But Not Forgotten
Armalite spinmeister Arthur Steadman writes:
Geneseo, Illinois is quite small… just over 6,000 people live here. But, each year, this small town makes a big city effort to mark Veterans Day and to honor our...
QinetiQ Scores $38.4m Contract for Shoulder-Worn Acoustic Targeting System
Heard about gunfire identification systems? As we reported back in July, Newark, New Jersey has one called ShotSpotter. The U.S. Army has a few at forward bases whose location they ain't sayin' (Is there...
Soldiers Who Shoot People Suffer More PTSD Than Soldiers Who Don’t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICqp0bJRu0w
Yes, it's another piercing glimpse into the maybe not so obvious, provided by our friends over at strategypage.com. "Research turned up the fact those who had killed someone in combat, were 40 percent more...
Obama OK’s Child Soldiers for Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and...
"As a senator, Barack Obama supported legislation requiring the United States to cut off military aid to countries recruiting and deploying child soldiers." The Christian Science Monitor reports. "This week as president, Mr. Obama...
So Let’s Just Forget About Clearing the Chamber, Shall We?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk6aNGNKEis