I’m on the look out for a better sling. Currently I’m using the Spec Ops Wolf Hook sling on my M-4, but I need something different. Mind you, I’m not displeased with the hook, it’s cheap, it’s simple, and best of all, it doesn’t get in the way, but it requires me to wear my […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2009
This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. The U.S. Army’s much-anticipated fly-by-wire Black Hawk UH-60M Upgrade program may be halted after developmental testing so that a pressing need for more baseline M models can be filled. Brig. Gen. William Crosby, head of the Army’s program executive office for aviation, said Dec. 11 […]
Call them “snap HVCPs”… My good friend from Fox News Greg Palkot has landed an embed with US Special Forces in Zabul province Afghanistan and posted some awesome video of their operations. ZABUL, AFGHANISTAN Special Force teams have been in Afghanistan ever since the days after 9/11. Now more than ever, they’re at the “ […]
This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. Positive reports are streaming in from U.S. Marines flying newly remanufactured AH-1Z Cobra and UH-1Y Huey helicopters, but the program office is not losing focus on its substantial legacy fleet. The pace of new aircraft deliveries has been aggressive, with the most recent AH-1Z delivered […]
Network member Ned Conger sent this one along today that caught me by surprise. Turns out the Pentagon has been tweaking the software a bit on the AIM-9X Sidewinder to hit ground targets. Strategy Page reported it but our boy Steve Trimble had it as well — and the StratPage entry calls it the AIM-7x […]
