2008 May

Eurofighter Typhoon: Can Thrust-Vectoring and Low-Observability be Added?

by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
May 30, 2008

DefenseReview has been hearing some pretty great things about the Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role combat fighter aircraft’s performance, from its excellent flight characteristics to its pilot-friendly cockpit, to its helmet-mounted display and targeting system. What’s interesting is that it can perform so well acrobatically, even without thrust vectoring. [...]

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Select Controls Shot Counter and Weapon Diagnostics for Infantry Small Arms

by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com

While we were walking around the exhibition hall at NDIA International Infantry & Joint Services Small Arms Systems Symposium 2008, we ran into Ken Brinkley of Select Controls, Inc. (SC), who was discussing one of SC’s systems with one of the vendors. From what we were able to discern, Select [...]

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2008 NDIA Small Arms Systems Symposium Firing Demo: Initial Report

by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
May 25, 2008
Aaaand we’re back. Sorry for the delay in reporting in, but we’ve been fighting the travel demons and illness (minor and temporary) simultaneously. We shot some good video at the 2008 NDIA International Infantry & Joint Services Small Arms Systems Symposium, but we’re not sure how much [...]

DefRev going to NDIA Small Arms Systems Symposium 2008

by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
May 19, 2008
DefenseReview is headed to the NDIA International Infantry & Joint Services Small Arms Systems Symposium 2008, and we’ll be reporting from the show.  If you’re going to the show, look for us and say hello.  We’ll be walking around, making the rounds.
See ya’ there!

 

5.56 Optimized/Brown-Tip Ammo: Enhanced Terminal Ballistics for SpecOps SBRs

By David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
May 14, 2008
Modified on 5/15/08 — Some information has been redacted/removed from this article by the author/editor (David Crane) for OPSEC.
Updated again on 9/11/09 with originally-provided bullet and manufacturer info redacted on 5/15/08.
A number of months ago, DefenseReview was informed by one of our contacts in the U.S. military Special Operations [...]

TDI KRISS Super-V XSMG .45 ACP Submachine Gun (SMG) Action Photos from NDIA

by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com

All photographic images contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com at SHOT Show 2008, and they are the exclusive property of DefenseReview.com. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. All photos were shot with a 7.2-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot digital camera (Model #: DSC-P150).

May 12, 2008

Speaking of photos, I also found [...]

HK MP7A1 PDW/Gemtech ‘Brick’ Silencer/Sound Suppressor Combo at NDIA

By David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
All photographic images contained in this article were taken by
DefenseReview.com at SHOT Show 2008, and they are the exclusive property of
DefenseReview.com. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these
photos. All photos were shot with a 7.2-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot
digital camera (Model #: DSC-P150).
May 10, 2008
While I was going through some of our pictures from [...]

Milkor USA Shorty 40mm Multi-Grenade Launchers at SHOT Show 2008

by David Crane
defrev at gmail dot com

All photographic images contained in this article were taken by
DefenseReview.com at SHOT Show 2008, and they are the exclusive property of
DefenseReview.com. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these
photos. All photos were shot with a 7.2-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot
digital camera (Model #: DSC-P150).

May 5, 2008

Milkor USA has some new MGL-140 / M32 [...]

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Mil-Spec Monkey Tactical Patches and FAST MAGS Rapid-Change Mag Carrier Demo Vid

By David Crane
defrev at gmail dot com

In our recent article on the STRAC Technologies ST-1 FAST System (TM) Model M4 quick-mag-change/weapon-reload system, we meantioned that Mil-Spec Monkey (MSM) had a demonstration video on a competing product called the FAST MAGS Rapid Change Magazine Carrier for AR-15/M16 30-round mags, made by ITW Military Products (ITWMP), which [...]

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FN SCAR Mk16 MOD 0 (CQC config) Firing Demo Video

By David Crane
defrev at gmail dot com
May 1, 2008

Last month (April), DefenseReview received a link to an entertaining FN SCAR Mk16 MOD 0 (CQC config) a.k.a. FN SCAR-Light a.k.a. FN SCAR-L select-fire SBR/subcarbine firing demonstration video via email from a contact of ours at FNH USA. The shooter in the video fires 2-round full-auto [...]

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