The Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing is seeking active duty military volunteers for a collaborative study with NASA to evaluate the impact forces astronauts could experience while standing during a lunar landing. The Wing’s Biodynamics team needs 10 to 12 active du...
SOG (Studies and Observations Group) crafts brutally tough knives, blades, and tools that have been around for years. Trusted by civilians and the military factions alike, their quality is unquestioned. Most recently, SOG Knives has revealed a new 250th Anniversary, Limited Edition SEAL FX Fixed ...
B&T USA (Brügger & Thomet) is a favorite brand for many TFB readers for their precision, quality, and incredibly cool firearms that they produce for both military and civilian sales across the globe. Now, they have announced that their USA facility in Utah has expanded for more emplo...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a true piece of Cold War Americana, packaged for a spy movie. This is an SWD M11/Nine, a 9mm submachine gun, and it comes tucked into a working “briefcase gun” rig. The lineage runs back to Gordon Ingram and the famous MAC-10 of ...
It’s finally happening, boys. The CMP has just announced that it will begin selling surplus M14 rifles . This has been a hoped-for but unlikely step for many years; however, it seems like it is coming later this year.
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Army data scientists designed an experimental AI-powered platform that could transform the military decision-making planning process, to compress planning timelines from days or hours to seconds and&...
The Supreme Court’s “common use” test provides powerful protection for AR-15s and other widely owned firearms. Second Amendment plaintiff Charles Nichols argues, however, that the doctrine lacks a genuine historical foundation and makes constitutional protection depend on modern ownership n...
Virginia is defending its firearm and magazine ban by reviving the collective-right theory and claiming the state right to keep and bear arms is tied to militia service—not an individual guarantee.
B&T USA says its expanded Herriman, Utah, facility has increased production to as many as 7,000 suppressors per month while adding skilled American manufacturing jobs, machinery, customer service, and quality-control capabilities.
In the summer of 1918, a new fighter ascended in the German Air Combat Forces, or Luftstreitkräfte, boasting a level of performance that would outpace any of Anthony Fokkers’ famous designs. The Fokker E.V parasol monoplane, eventually known as the Fokker D.VIII, demonstrated tremendous combat...