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We examine six well-known helicopter movie scenes and grade them for realism.Hollywood loves a helicopter rescue: rotors thumping, a swimmer on the hoist, the ocean trying to swallow the whole frame. Real Coast Guard aviation has the same ingredients, just with fewer speeches and a lot more checklists.To see what movies…
Viridian Weapon Technologies has just unveiled its new Venta Green Dot reflex sight, meant for long guns. The new Viridian Venta Green Dot reflex sight is an unmagnified optic with a 22 mm objective lens that runs off a single CR2032 battery and provides an estimated 30,000 hours runtime. Its…
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The Army’s new acquisition strategy—buy fast, in small quantities, then maybe buy a lot more—is causing headaches for at least one of the vendors working on the service’s new medium-range reconnaissance drone.Anduril is one of two firms working to produce drones that can give Army maneuver companies at least six…
The first 48-72 hours of the investigation into what led to the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis will shed more light on federal training and vetting practices though mixed messages from public officials in the investigation’s infancy are “not ideal,” a U.S. Navy veteran and former law enforcement…
Trump’s Venezuelan oil plan may take years to unfold: American oil executives are to gather at the White House Friday as President Trump looks to develop his plans to extract Venezuela’s oil resources and a U.S. armada continues to stage off the country’s shores. That meeting comes roughly a day after…
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President Donald Trump has warned some of the nation’s most prominent defense contractors as part of his desire to increase the national military budget to $1.5 trillion by 2027, with the Pentagon supporting his efforts.Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday that his decision followed “long and difficult…
Ruth Birch and Julia Currey fell in love with each other while serving in the British Army. But because the U.K. had a ban on same-sex couples until 2000, Currey and Birch’s relationship was shrouded in secrecy until they eventually decided separate and leave the army. While the pain and humiliation…
As shooters, we have never had so much information on firearms, ammunition and the variety of training concepts available to us. We can attend a class taught by a world-class shooter one weekend and the next by an elite combat veteran of the U.S. military. Then there’s online video sources…
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