By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com
All photos contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. The photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability).
March 8, 2010
Recently, at SHOT Show 2010, DefenseReview got to view and handle [...]
By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com
January 13, 2010
It’s the middle of the night, and I’m laying prone in the woods inside a foreign country called Drok as God-only-knows-how-many–5?–10?–20?–armed men search for me with lights and dogs.
If they capture me, I’m in a world of hurt. On the plus side, I’m well hidden, I’ve [...]
By David Crane
defrev (at) gmail (dot) com
September 7, 2009
By Mike Pannone
June 15, 2009
In the early months of 2006 while I was helping to write and refine the curriculum of the Asymmetric Warfare Group’s Combat Applications Training Course (CATC) I took it upon myself to research performance enhancements and reliability upgrades as an integral part of educating the soldier on how to maximize his [...]
By Michael Pannone
This article is the follow-up to the author’s first article on the subject, titled "M4/M4A1 Carbine Reliability Issues: Why They Occur, and Why They’re Our Fault!".
March 15, 2009
If your Explorer gets a flat does that mean "Fords are unreliable"?
If you put bad fuel in your Tundra does that mean "Toyotas run crappy"?
Stay [...]
Why M4’s have reliability issues…and why it’s our fault!
By Michael Pannone
December 24, 2008
I fired 15,000 rounds through a semi-automatic M4/M4A1-type direct-gas-impingement (DGI) carbine in 31 weeks without a single malfunction attributable to anything except bad ammunition or bad magazines, with a grand total of 9 malfunctions. The least number of rounds fired between cleanings [...]
By Chen “SMGLee” Lee
All photos contained in this article are courtesy of Chen Lee a.k.a. "SMGLee", and are copyrighted.
December 22, 2008
Tactical Response Inc. was initially established in 1996 by James Yeager with the sole purpose of providing the best possible tactical training (including tactical shooting instruction) to the people in the Southern States. But as [...]
By GySgt Will Falcon, USMC (res.)
Tampa, Florida
October 16, 2007
One of the primary challenges of MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain) / Urban Warfare Operations (a.k.a. Urban Combat Ops) is how to use the urban surroundings so that the physical environment becomes an advantage rather than a handicap to our soldiers. [...]
by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
This article may be modified/updated with new information in the coming days, so readers might want to check back in (to this article) over the next week.
August 15, 2007
In late February 2006, DefenseReview broke the story on a developmental (but functional) prototype remote-controlled armed/weaponized semi-autonomous/fully-autonomous unmanned mini-helicopter called the AutoCopter Gunship, [...]
by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
I just wanted to give our readers a quick heads-up on my article in the latest issue of Tactical Response magazine on an Israeli anti-terrorism/counterterrorism (and anti-active shooter) SWAT school I attended with several LE SWAT teams and U.S. Army personnel. IMS Security instructed us in Israeli TTP (Tactics, Techniques [...]
