There is a comfortable lie sold by war movies and video games that a tank survives incoming fire simply by being an absurdly thick wall of solid steel. You take a hit, the hull rings like a church bell, sparks fly into the dirt, and the crew rolls forward without spilling their coffee. Anyone who...
Leonardo DRS has received a $63 million production order from the U.S. Army for its next-generation family of Weapon Sights, Individual, better known as FWS-I. The order sits under the Army's existing indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for advanced, battlefield-proven thermal ...
Team LionStrike has delivered three vehicles, including a new Battlefield Ambulance (BFA) variant, to the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) for the Light Mobility Vehicle (LMV) competition. Other variants include one each of the Tactical Mobility Vehicle (TMV) and the General Purpose Vehicle (...
ZEISS Outdoor has expanded its Conquest Apia spotting scope line with a larger 85mm objective and straight-eyepiece configurations. What’s new The Conquest Apia 85 steps up to a 24-60x magnification range and an 85mm objective lens. It comes in both angled (85A) and straight (85S) configura...
Your medical kit is only useful if you can get it when you need it. That requirement for rapid, logical access has helped shape MYSTERY RANCH medical packs for years. From individual first aid to more complex medical loadouts for frontline medics, these bags are built around access, organization,...
A man who fatally shot Dalton Spaulding in Gray, Tennessee, will not face criminal charges, District Attorney General Steve Finney's office announced October 13. Prosecutors said the man acted in self-defense after Spaulding knocked him down, dislodged his prosthetic leg and continued attacking h...
The era of the electric dirt bike is upon us, with low noise, low maintenance, instant torque, and unbeatable price versus performance ratios. Riding the crest of this wave is Heybike, a leading mobility manufacturer with over 260,000 riders worldwide, and one of the most popular ebike brands in ...
Few experimental aircraft have captured the imagination quite like the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar. Conceived during the Cold War, a time of intense technological competition and geopolitical tension, the Avrocar was a bold attempt to revolutionize vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft design...
Modern armies have drones, armored vehicles and advanced surveillance systems. The British Army is also exploring what a much older platform can still offer: a horse. Soldiers from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment recently took part in a mounted combat capability experiment on the Barossa t...
The Russo-Japanese War was one of the first major conflicts in which two modern industrial powers employed machine guns extensively against one another. Russian forces primarily used the Maxim machine gun, while the Japanese increasingly used the Hotchkiss machine gun. Both armies initially had r...