Author: Braxton Taylor
Beretta USA has recently launched a stainless-steel version of the Beretta 92X RDO Vertec model, the new Beretta 92X RDO Inox. For over 30 years, Beretta has always included stainless-steel models, also known as “Inox” pistols alongside its standard Beretta 92 offerings. Besides the white stainless-steel slides over “white anodized” aluminum frames, Beretta 92 Inox pistols generally include contrasting small parts like the triggers, safeties, hammers and magazine catches in a black finish. “The 92X RDO Inox is built for those who want reliability they can trust in any environment,” said Broxton Carlile, Beretta USA pistol product manager. “From the…
Smith & Wesson is releasing a new pistol, the Performance Center Bodyguard 2.0 Carry Comp. The goal when Smith & Wesson redesigned the original hammer-fired Bodyguard pistol was to deliver a new micro-sized platform that packed performance into a small and lightweight package. Key design enhancements of the Bodyguard 2.0 include improved ergonomics, increased capacity and a crisp striker-fired trigger, all of which contributed to its recognition of various industry awards and its role in revolutionizing the micro-category. Now Smith & Wesson builds on the success of the Bodyguard 2.0 series, with the introduction of a Performance Center model. The…
It was a bright, warm January day. I had been sent to the store for printer ink. I strapped on my OWB holster with my Glock 26 in it and put a sport jacket on to cover the gun. I pulled up to the store and parked between two cars, then opened the door and started to get out. Surprise! A guy was running towards me with a tire iron raised shouting, “I need the car!” I swept my jacket back and half pulled the gun from the holster and shouted, “Drop that tire iron!” He stopped at the rear…
The Air Force on Thursday identified the Security Forces airman killed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming by a firearm discharge that led to America’s nuclear missile and bomber bases temporarily banning and investigating the use of the service-issued M18 handgun.Airman Brayden Lovan, 21, was killed by the firearm discharge on Sunday at the base. Following his death, Air Force Global Strike Command issued an immediate order pausing the use of 9mm Sig Sauer M18 handguns as a result of the incident, and widespread investigations and inspections into the firearm followed.”Our hearts are heavy with the loss of…
Sgt. Cole Hoppert perched in the back of a V-22 Osprey earlier this month, zipping through the air somewhere off the East Coast as he dumped little parachutes from cream-colored tubes out of the aircraft’s rear ramp and into the water below.A weapons and tactics instructor with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 162 out of North Carolina, Hoppert had never before employed the nearly 40-pound “sonobuoys,” expendable sensors designed to detect underwater sounds emitted from enemy submarines.His unit’s participation in the naval integration exercise this month — dubbed Atlantic Alliance 2025 — signaled a notable progression in the Marine Corps’ involvement…
The Department of Defense has not been ensnared by a broad intrusion into on-premises versions of Microsoft Sharepoint, its chief information officer said Thursday.“As of right now, no, not that I’m aware of,” Katie Arrington said at the ATO and Cloud Security Summit Thursday in a stage interview. Arrington said she’s been doing daily calls with Microsoft while the department has been conducting forensics investigations since the “zero-day” vulnerability was publicly identified this past weekend.Thus far, several federal agencies have been affected, including the departments of Energy, Homeland Security and Education. And up to a dozen federal entities have been…
The Pentagon says it is reviewing where top military officials can publicly speak as part of a growing move to allow only venues that align with the views of the Trump administration, which could affect attendance at annual military conferences.The announcement comes just more than a week after the Pentagon pulled a host of top military officials from attending a major security conference in Aspen, Colorado, claiming the event promoted the “evil of globalism” and hatred of President Donald Trump.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office on Friday did not say whether the review could mean the end of officials attending annual…
The Defense Department’s sequel to the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract it awarded in 2022 will target more than the four major hyperscale cloud service providers — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle — that won the first contract back in 2022.Speaking Thursday at the ATO and Cloud Security Summit, Defense Department Chief Information Officer Katie Arrington said JWCC Next will “open the door” to smaller cloud service providers and non-traditional companies “that generally wouldn’t be involved in the [DOD] and our world and trying to bring them in and figure out ways we can incorporate them.”“We…
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii—In a few years, visitors to this Army installation northwest of Honolulu will likely see something that today is still in the realm of fiction, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Tuesday. “I think what you will see in a couple of years when you drive back on this base is you’ll see an infantry squad vehicle going out into training with some autonomously led robots beside it, and some drones that are capable of swarming flying above it. And I think you’ll start to see this mixture of human and machine in a way that used to be kind…
The Army has officially begun the process of unloading its not-so-light light tank, the M-10 Booker, following a May announcement that added a list of programs to the chopping block.Officials are sitting down with General Dynamics to work out the particulars of canceling the remaining 93 vehicles they ordered in 2022, the first round of what was to be 504 Bookers across the service’s infantry units.“As we exit these contracts, we go into a negotiation with the company that’s making them, where you work termination fees and things like that, and apparently those discussions are ongoing,” Army spokesman Steve Warren…