By David Crane defrev (at) gmail.com October 25, 2010 Updated/Modified 10/25/10 A company called Valkyrie Armament has just come out with a Shrike-type (ARES Defense Systems Shrike 5.56 LMG/SAW-type) 5.56x45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO)/.223 Rem. belt-fed AR rifle/carbine/SBR (Short Barrel Rifle) that looks pretty good. The Valkyrie Armament Belt-Fed AR is reportedly basically a modernized, “improved”
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 25, 2010 Updated/Modified on 10/25/10 This one just came in from FNH USA’s (FN Herstal USA) public relations (PR) firm. According to the press release DefenseReview (DR) received, FN Herstal just introduced the FN HAMR (Heat Adaptive Modular Rifle) a.k.a. FN HAMR-16 at AUSA 2010. The
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 24, 2010 “DoubleTapper“, an Israeli blogger, has published a piece on the 4th Annual Israel Defence Exhibition (ISDEF 2010) in Tel Aviv. In that piece, he’s published some photos of the Silver Shadow Gilboa APR (Assault Pistol Rifle) select-fire tactical AR (AR-15) PDW (Personal Defense Weapon)/SBR
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by David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 24, 2010 Back on September 29 (2010), Rob Silvers from Advanced Armament Corp. (AAC) sent DefenseReview (DR), The Firearm Blog, Military Times, and pretty much everyone else (and their mother) an email on the new 300 AAC Blackout (.300BLK) 7.62x35mm supersonic/subsonic rifle cartridge. Unfortunately, we didn’t
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 21, 2010 At least that’s what we took away from it (the program Remington Under Fire). Upon watching the CNBC investigative reportage on the Remington 700 7.62x51mm NATO (7.62mm NATO)/.308 Win. bolt-action rifle (Remington Under Fire), last night, it would appear that–and, again, this is just
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com DefenseReview’s (DR) friend Christian Lowe at Kit Up! just published a piece on the CNBC Investigation “Remington Under Fire”, which deals with a possible design flaw in the iconic Remington 700 7.62x51mm NATO (7.62mm NATO)/.308 Win. bolt-action rifle. Used by military snipers, law enforcement SWAT snipers, and
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 19, 2010 Bushmaster Firearms just issued a recall on the ACR (Adaptive Combat Rifle) semi-auto tactical 5.56x45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO)/.223 Rem. carbine in the form of a scanned image converted to PDF file format, which The Firearm Blog has been kind enough to convert to text
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos and video clips contained in this article were shot by DefenseReview.com (DR), and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos and video clips. The embedded photos and video clips were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 5, 2010 Updated 10/24/10 Marc Krebs of Krebs Custom has to be ALL over this one (i.e. we’re guessing they like it). Dublin AK Systems recently introduced their 2nd-Gen AK Ratchet Charging System (AK RCS) for Kalashnikov AKM, AK-47, and AK-74 series select-fire/full-auto assault rifles and
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By “Fredo” Photo Credit: Desert Tactical Arms (DTA) October 3, 2010 During the prototype development and testing and evaluation of the Desert Tactical Arms (DTA) Stealth Recon Scout (SRS) modular bullpup sniper/anti-materiel rifle system, several configurations of a shorter variant of the rifle were conceived. It became necessary to develop a DTA rifle that could
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