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Military Defense News: USMC Turning V-22 Osprey Into A Gunship

Posted on 14 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Corps officials told Scout Warrior weapons for the Osprey could include 2.75inch rockets, missiles and heavy guns. The U.S. Marine Corps is progressing with a new project to arm its MV-22 Osprey aircraft with new weapons such as laser-guided 2.75in rockets, missiles and heavy guns – a move which would expand the tiltrotor’s mission set…

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Military Defense News: US Military Relearning Conventional Warfare

Posted on 13 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Forces relearning conventional warfare after 15 years of fighting terrorists TWENTYNINE PALMS (California) • Kilo Company of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines was deep in a simulated firefight on a recent morning in the high California desert. A group of Marines on the aptly named Machine Gun Hill unleashed live fire as another group of…

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Military Defense News: The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Disaster

Posted on 12 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The key part of this story is the linked phrase below “CANNOT EXPECT TO SURVIVE”. Boy, that is exactly the phrase I want to hear when talking about the Next big thing in Naval Military Hardware with China getting more and more froggy by the day! -SF In the late 1990s, the U.S. Navy became…

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Military Defense News: Special Operations Command Looks to U.S. Companies for Homemade AK-47’s

Posted on 11 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

U.S. Special Operations Command, which oversees some of America’s most elite forces, is exploring the possibility of having American companies manufacture Russian-designed weapons, such as the AK-47, that are ubiquitous in war zones. First reported by the Tampa Bay Times, Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, posted a “sources sought” solicitation for non-standard weapons on a federal…

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Military History: InfoGraphic of Combat Vehicles of the U.S. Military

Posted on 3 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Pop Chart Lab has created this nifty print, presented here as an infographic, of every U.S. military combat vehicle currently in service. Want a copy for your office? Click here. Read the Original Article at War on the Rocks

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Military Defense News: “Virtual Eye” Gives Soldiers The Edge in Urban Warfare

Posted on 2 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

DARPA’s VirtualEye program could change the way soldiers maneuver on the urban battlefield. In just a few years, American soldiers might have the ability to see what’s inside a room before they ever breach it. And while it may not sound like much, that ability could transform the way combat operations are conducted in urban…

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Dose of Truth: The United States Has No War Strategy

Posted on 2 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

It is About time Somebody laid it Out Plain with no Bullshit, and no better person to do it than Retired Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich. His latest book, Americas War For The Greater Middle East: A Military History is a must read. -SF A multi-trillion-dollar bridge to nowhere in the Greater Middle East By Andrew…

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Military Defense News: Army Issues 18 Weapon Improvements to Make the Infantry Soldier More Deadly

Posted on 2 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Soldiers should not hold their breath on any of these, some of this tech has been “in the pipeline” for years.-SF 1. M4A1 The Army has looked at several ways to improve the M4A1. (Photo: PEO Soldier)  What does it do? Long-distance hole-punch. (It’s the latest version of your M4 carbine rifle.) How heavy is it?…

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Modern Warfare: The Infantry Squad for the 21st Century

Posted on 31 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Since the firearm’s creation, firepower has aggregated at increasingly lower echelons in armies with each century, allowing smaller number of soldiers to dominate larger amounts of terrain and inflict greater amounts of damage on enemies. Today, a pair of soldiers handling a 20th-century machine gun can exceed rates of fire achievable only by an entire…

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Espionage Files: The Man Who Seduced the US Navy’s 7th Fleet

Posted on 27 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

  He tempted his targets with the high life; whiskey, cigars, prostitutes and cash. His moles fed him bundles of military secrets and law enforcement files. All so he could rip off the Navy on an industrial scale for years and years. Now, the depth of the corruption is being exposed as the investigation reaches into the highest…

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