By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com November 23, 2009 A company called VBR-Belgium (Van Bruaene Rik – Belgium) has developed a rather interesting and potentially important pistol-format compact PDW (Personal Defense Weapon) system. While it may look like a futuristic movie prop, the VBR-B Compact PDW is arguably the most intelligently-developed PDW weapon/ammo
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com November 10, 2009 Back in April (2009), DefenseReview has published a short “heads-up”-style article on the FailZero AR-15 Basic Kit, which is a bolt carrier group (BCG) and hammer upgrade kit with a proprietary and patented self-lubricitous/self-lubricating nickel-boron (Ni-B) coating that the company calls EXO Technology. In
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By Chen Lee (a.k.a. “SMGLee”) smglee (at) gmail (dot) com All photos and video contained in this article are courtesy of Chen Lee, writer/photographer. November 2, 2009 For the longest time, I was against the idea of adding a bipod to a tactical carbine or rifle. I thought “why in the world do you need
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October 26, 2009 DefenseReview contributor Chen Lee a.k.a. “SMGLee” recently got a chance to run a FERFRANS SOAR 5.56x45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO) select-fire/full-auto gas piston/op-rod tactical AR carbine and SBR (Short-Barreled Rifle) at the range. In the above video, you can see him perform 90-round full-auto mag dump using an MWG 90-Rounder snail drum magazine.
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 6, 2009 Speaking of silencers/sound suppressors Search terms for the article: surefire, sbr rifle, surefire micro suppressor, surefire micro, surefire mini suppressor, surefire suppressor, surefire mini suppressor review, surefire mini, surefire micro suppressor review, rifle suppressors, surefire suppressors reviews, surefire FA556-212 review, FA556-212, surefire mini review,
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 6, 2009 Well, it’s official, Search terms for the article: advanced armament, kevin brittingham, remington AAC, advanced armament corp, aac suppressors, silenced acr, kevin brittingham aac, Advanced Armament Corporation, Lynsey Thompson AAC, Kevin Brittingham Advanced Armament, suppressor rifle, acr silenced, advanced armaments, assault rifle suppressor, remington
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DefenseReview.com owner/editor-in-chief David Crane demonstrates the FERFRANS Specialties SOAR (Special Operations Assault Rifle) Search terms for the article: ferfrans, ferfrans soar price, ferfrans soar rifle price, grsc scope review, ferfrans soar special operations assault rifle, ferfrans soar vs m4, ferfrans price, special operation assault rifle, ferfrans upper, grsc combat rifle scope, m4-62 reticle, ferfrans soar
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com September 21, 2009 Updated May 31, 2010 Back in June, DefenseReview published an article on the Ruger SR-556 piston AR. Well, it’s now official: Everyone AND their mother is now making short-stroke gas piston/op-rod AR (AR-15) carbines and SBRs (Short Barreled Rifles). SIG SAUER has just entered
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com September 7, 2009 Search terms for the article: brotherhood of warriors, brotherhood of warriors review, duvdevan training, IDF special forces, duvdevan book, idf secret units, idf tank camouflage net, israel counter terrorism unit, israeli special forces duvdevan, sayeret duvdevan special forces, (496)616-30-73, DUVDEVAN WARRIOR, duvdevan unit, brotherhood
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com August 26, 2009 Back on June 7, 2009, DefenseReview published a heads-up piece on the new Ruger SR-556 gas piston/op-rod AR-15 tactical carbine. In that piece I wrote this: “One of the things were going to investigate is whether or not the SR556 is completely debugged, or
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