Category: Gear

When an injury halted SFC Verdialez’s training regimen he built himself a robotic sparring partner that hits back. Now you can fight it too.

Salomon Forces boots are great for everything from rucking on rocky trails in everything from soft sand, to mud, snow, and hard-packed roads.

The heads-up display shows a compass and a 3D map where friendly and enemy locations are marked and shared with others in their unit.

Special Forces units have had trouble getting adequate range time. UNIT4 aims to solve this with its new non-lethal M4 carbine.

Rust, like death and taxes, happens. Guns, being metal objects, always run the risks of catching rust. The best finish can scratch and fade over time, and rust can occur almost inexplicably. Carry guns are especially vulnerable to rust due to their proximity to the human body, which, due to sweat, tends to be a […]

Machine guns are tricky beasts. They are entirely necessary for modern combat, but they tend to be heavy, and not exactly easy for Special Operations troopers to wield in their fast-paced environment — especially when it comes to medium machine guns. The current Big Military General-Purpose machine gun is the M240B and M240L. These 7.62 […]

We always get some questions vis-à-vis about passing Selection and most of the questions center around rucking and the land navigation course. While each has their own challenges for the Selection candidate, you’ll have to utilize both together while passing land navigation as you’ll be conducting it with a rucksack on. While we encourage our […]

Precision “The precision of a measurement system, related to reproducibility and repeatability, is the degree to which repeated measurements under unchanged conditions show the same results.” – Wikipedia  The cockpit of an aircraft is a wall of precision dials, gauges, meters and displays. Each one with a specific purpose. Measuring fuel quantity, altitude, airspeed, rate of climb, bank angle, etc. […]

During my tenure on the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Team for Southern California, I had the opportunity to participate in a number of interesting and exciting training revolutions.  I got to learn knife techniques alongside the L.A. SWAT team, vehicle searches with military police units, and to gain proficiency with a number of weapon systems not […]

Way back in 1985, Dr. Mitch Ruda, an optical engineer working on a project for NASA, came to the realization that the very same coatings they were applying to satellites to protect them from the sun’s damaging rays could feasibly be just as useful as a form of protection for the human eye. The coating, […]

In 1989, NATO published a set of requirements that requested a new type of firearm with rounds capable of penetrating body armor. Called the Personal Defense weapon, or PDW, it was meant to replace weapons, such as pistols and submachine guns, whose caliber was found wanting against ballistic protection. Several companies went on to design […]

The AR-15 and its parent rifle, the select-fire-capable M4 carbine, have served the United States Armed Forces and many of its allies for nearly 50 years. Many of us know the history behind its selection and implementation, complete with all its growing pains. Today’s M4 is similar to the original M16A1, but advancements in machining, design, […]