In addition to the M240L these will also go on the M240B.
Archive for May, 2012
M240L Collapsible Bipod MWO
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012M240L Reset
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
These M240Ls just came out of reset. Notice the new collapsible stock and MWO for adjustable bipod legs.
Thanks AJ!
BHI Foreign Weapons Course – Day 1
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012Yesterday was day one of Blackheart International’s five-day Foreign Weapons Course. Bottom Line Up Front – Excellent. Once we got going, I quickly realized that this is not only a great course for trainers, advisors and shooters, but also for intel guys (both collectors and analysts) to acquaint themselves with the weapons in order to prepare more accurate reports.
Blackheart offers a very comfortable bunkhouse for students with full facilities including kitchen. Upon arrival, I settled right into my room. In the morning we arrived at their training facility and grouped up into Army and Navy tables. This is a class of mixed units so it is small. Usually, unit classes are much larger. Everything was very organized yet casual and you could tell that the instructors are well versed in their craft.
Right off the bat, we started off the course with a quiz, identifying weapon and associated caliber as well as a visual ID test of our knowledge of ammunition. Remember, this is a Foreign Weapons Course so for several of us (me included), the quiz was challenging. While I knew most of the calibers, I wasn’t familiar with what some of them looked like, particularly when paired next to each other.
We then set about going over pistols and SMGs, discussing origins, characteristics, loading, unloading, and maintenance. Each of us had our own weapons to practice with right along with the lecture. Remember those Army and Navy tables? When the primary instructor brought up the SIG family, the Army table hadn’t handled them much and when the subject turned to the Beretta, the opposite was true.
After a working lunch we hit the 50m range and got to familiarize ourselves with the various guns, demonstrating proper handling from the morning’s classroom portion of training. During the range work, instructors would quiz us on handling and caliber of the various weapons which included the Tokarev, Makarov, PPSh-41, PPS-43, and Sten, among others.
Here’s a clip of me firing the PPSh-41. I don’t know if I enjoyed it or the Sten more but I can tell you, anyone who carries a Sten into battle has big brass ones and string thumbs. Sten mags are a chore to load. Although it was rainy, the temperature was comfortable and it let up for much of our two hours of shooting.
After the range we headed inside for weapons maintenance and were afforded the opportunity to break them down and give them a good going over (including magazines). Once all of the weapons and magazines had been squared away we each took our turn in the barrel with an end-of-day quiz. The instructors took all of the weapons apart and placed them in a pile along with dummy rounds corresponding to each weapon. One-by-one, we then had to assemble the weapons, answer any questions during reassembly, find the associated ammunition, properly name it and complete a function check. All of this repeated hands on helped really sink the material in. Today is a big day…AKs. I can’t wait.
Due to the duties of my fellow students there were few opportunities for pictures.
Juggernaut Defense Helping Army Get Stronger With Droids
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Check out Juggernaut Defense’s latest designs and products for ruggedizing smartphones (EUD’s) on the battlefield in this article from Fox News. And then see them in person next week at SOFIC. Of particular note is the Atrix4G Juggernaut.Case(tm) which provides a Mil-Spec interface and hands-free/flip down armor mount for the Soldier. It enables the use of Android smartphones (EUD’s) in the battlefield environment for a fraction of the cost of a customized solution and in a fraction of the time.
Centurion Arms Front Sight
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
After seeing this image by Stickman of Centurion Arms diopter front sight we realized we don’t get to tell you often enough how awesome they are (both of them).
Ghost Recon Alpha
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012Here’s another little tease after our previous coverage of Tom Clancy’s latest addition to the Ghost Recon saga. Ghost Recon Alpha is a prequel to the upcoming video game releasing 22 May.
Make Ready with Bill Rogers – Reactive Carbine Shooting
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Panteao Productions has just announced a follow-up video to Bill Rogers’ Reactive Pistol Shooting. Bill is a former FBI Agent and inventor of the first Kydex Holster in 1972. He started the Rogers Holster Company in 1973, later purchased by Safariland in 1985. To this day he continues to develop cutting edge technologies for the shooting industry. Bill developed a training program and a high speed moving target system. The program replicates the minimal amount of time a shooter will have to successfully neutralize an adversary. Reactive Carbine takes you through carbine setup, proper stance and grip, engaging multiple targets, moving, transitioning to a pistol, how to zero your carbine, shooting steel and alternative targets, shooting from different positions, and much more. Also included with the video is the the In-Brief by Bill Rogers covering his training program.
Peltor ARC Mount
Monday, May 14th, 2012We’ve talked about the 3M Peltor ARC mount before, but this too good to pass up.
This photo from Japan’s Aggressor Group shows how the Peltor ARC kit integrates their comms headset directly with the Ops-Core Accessory Rail Connector.
