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GA-ASI Continues Longshot Support

Friday, March 10th, 2023

Selected by DARPA to Continue With Phase 2 of Program Development

SAN DIEGO – 06 March 2023 – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is pleased to continue supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) LongShot program. LongShot changes the paradigm of air combat operations by demonstrating an unmanned air-launched vehicle capable of employing air-to-air weapons.

Current air superiority concepts rely on advanced manned fighter aircraft to provide a penetrating counter air capability to effectively deliver weapons. It is envisioned that LongShot will increase the survivability of manned platforms by allowing them to be at standoff ranges far away from enemy threats, while an air-launched LongShot unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) efficiently “closes the gap” to take more effective missile shots.

After a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in February 2022 at the end of Phase 1, GA-ASI was selected by DARPA to continue into Phase 2 in March 2022. During Phase 2, detailed designs are being completed and ground tests conducted to decrease program risk.

A key test event completed early in Phase 2 was multi-body wind tunnel test, characterizing the LongShot air vehicle and air-to-air weapon separation. Critical Design Review (CDR) for the program is planned for early 2023, which will complete the Phase 2 portion of the program. GA-ASI is currently generating a proposal response for the third phase of the program.

“GA-ASI is committed to the successful flight demonstration of the LongShot air vehicle,” said GA-ASI Senior Director of Advanced Programs Michael Atwood.

Upcoming Phase 2 ground tests will demonstrate the viability of key subsystems. Phase 3 would initiate the prototype manufacturing and flight testing phase of the program. Flight testing would begin in 2024.

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Ventum Gear – Burrito Multi Pouch

Friday, March 10th, 2023

One pouch – every mission! The burrito multi pouch offers versatility.

www.ventumgear.com/en/p/burrito-r-multi-pouch

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RCBS Adds Die Sets for Popular New Rifle Calibers

Friday, March 10th, 2023

Dies Now Available for 7mm PRC, .360 Buckhammer™ and .338 Weatherby® RPM

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – March 8, 2023 – RCBS®, the leading manufacturer of ammunition reloading equipment for rifles and pistols, has added three new cartridges to its collection of full-length die sets: 7mm PRC, .360 Buckhammer™ and .338 Weatherby® RPM.

Announced late last year, the 7mm PRC is the hottest new rifle cartridge to hit the market for long range shooters and hunters, joining the ranks of other popular cartridges in the PRC family like the 6.5 PRC and .300 PRC. As more riflemen switch to the new 7mm cartridge, demand for handloading equipment is also increasing.

The .360 Buckhammer is a new straight-walled cartridge for lever-guns that’s aimed at the big woods whitetail hunter, while the .338 Weatherby RPM combines fire-breathing magnum performance with modern, heavy-for-caliber bullets.

All three of these two-die sets come with a full-length sizer die with an expander-decapping unit and a seater die with bullet seater plug. Each die comes with standard 7/8″-14 thread and the sets come in a green die set box.

The 7mm PRC die set has an MSRP of $42.99, the .360 Buckhammer die set has an MSRP of $58.99, and the .338 Weatherby RPM die set has an MSRP of $75.99. To learn more about these die sets or to see the full lineup of RCBS reloading gear, head over to RCBS.com.

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Jungle Boots In Stock at McRae Footwear

Friday, March 10th, 2023

McRae Footwear has manufactured a run of Green Jungle Boots with Panama Soles. The only cosmetic difference between these and the ones issued from the 60s through the 90s is the inclusion of barrel lacing rather than traditional eyelets.

This is the only U.S. made olive drab jungle boot on the market manufactured with the same equipment used during the Vietnam War.

They have most sizes in stock at www.mcraefootwear.com/product/vietnam-era-jungle-boot/7189, but they’re selling fast! More sizes are coming in the next 2 weeks.

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Imminent Threat Solutions Introduces Next-Generation Pouches

Friday, March 10th, 2023

All featuring the patent pending 4-Way Mounting System™

Imminent Threat Solutions is proud to introduce our next-generation pouch lineup, including the ETA Trauma Kit™ Pouch, TourniQuick® Rapid Deployment Pouch and Slimline™ Pouch.

Each pouch now features our patent pending 4-Way Mounting System™, which facilitates mounting to PALS/MOLLE, vertically or horizontally to a belt or even wrapped around pack straps. The laser-cut and rear loop-lined back panel of the system facilitates easy removal and replacement of the included hook and loop attachment strips.

The next generation of the ITS ETA Trauma Kit Pouch takes advantage of the smaller vacuum-sealed form factor on our updated ETA Trauma Kit, while still offering the rapid-access medical pouch feature of the original. A simple pull of the handle filets the pouch open, providing immediate access to your medical equipment.

The patented TourniQuick® is the first-ever tourniquet pouch designed as a system to rapidly access and deploy the two most common CoTCCC (committee on tactical combat casualty care) recommended tourniquets on the market. This revolutionary tourniquet pouch deployment system reduces time from deployment to application, saving valuable seconds.

The all-new ITS Slimline Pouch is perfect for storing pocket-sized items like our EDC Trauma Kit, compasses, cell phones and other electronics. The fold-over cover of this GP (General Purpose) pouch features a webbing pull tab, a 1.5” square section of loop material for affixing hook backed patches and the ability to adjust for items of varying height. Durable elastic is also used for the pouch body to ensure items stay retained inside, no matter how the pouch is mounted.

Imminent Threat Solutions provides indispensable skill-sets and products to explore your world and prevail against all threats.

For more information on these new ITS products, please visit store.itstactical.com

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FirstSpear Friday Focus: Siege-R Optimized

Friday, March 10th, 2023

After collecting and analyzing years of valuable feedback from users about our popular Siege R, we designed the Siege-R Optimized.

The standard shoulder pads are padded and fully adjustable, including two sets of Tubes in the front and back for rapid switch-out to the enhanced MASS Shoulder System.

The front and back plate pockets are internal to the vest, making the system slimmer and better suited for confined & tubular spaces.

Our quick-drying airflow mesh is utilized on the interior to reduce overall weight and shed water quickly. This iteration of the Siege-R truly is Optimized for all missions and conditions!

Ballistic Armor Inserts, complying with NIJ Category IIIA.06 or Military Specification requirements, are available separately, please contact us for armor options and pricing.

Visit FirstSpear to find America’s premier tactical gear and equipment.

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DARPA, Services Demonstrate Battlefield Airspace Deconfliction Software

Friday, March 10th, 2023

Tools enable planes, helos, missiles, uncrewed aircraft to operate simultaneously in contested airspace

DARPA’s Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) program recently demonstrated new automated flightpath-planning software that successfully deconflicted friendly missiles, artillery fire, and manned and unmanned aircraft while avoiding enemy fires in a simulated battle in contested airspace. In a demonstration held at the U.S. Army’s Mission Command Battle Lab, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in late 2022, the ASTARTE software seamlessly integrated with the Army’s Integrated Mission Planning and Airspace Control Tools (IMPACT) software suite. IMPACT is managed by the Aviation Mission Systems and Architecture Project Office in the Program Executive Office for Aviation.

The ASTARTE Program, which began in 2021, is a joint collaboration between DARPA, the Army, and the U.S. Air Force to enable efficient and effective airspace operations and de-confliction in a highly congested anti-access/area denial, known as A2/AD, environment. The program’s goal is to provide an accurate, real-time common operational picture of the airspace over an Army division, enabling long-range fire missions, as well as manned and unmanned aircraft operations, to occur safely in the same airspace.

“The demonstration showed that complex route alternatives could be created in seconds, leveraging available permissive airspace to avoid airspace where conflicts would potentially occur,” said Paul Zablocky, ASTARTE program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office. “There are many reasons this integration helps the warfighter. Coordinating and consolidating services at the user level greatly reduces procedural burden, which speeds the enterprise. ASTARTE also increases accuracy by automating tasks and reducing inherent human error. Most importantly, the ASTARTE and IMPACT integration forms a foundation of artificial intelligence-enabled services that will interact with other service component AI tools such as the Air Force’s Kessel Run All Domain Operations Suite (KRADOS) for planning and the All Domain Common Platform (ADCP) for operations.”

ASTARTE performer Raytheon Technologies developed an automated flightpath-planning capability for fixed and rotary wing aircraft, which includes the capability to deconflict airspace use by routing through or around defined airspace coordinating measures, commonly called ACMs, in both space and time. General Dynamics Mission Systems (GMDS) developed the Army’s IMPACT suite, which adds a Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) class of data-enabled, over-the-horizon tools to existing airspace management systems to form a multidomain capability supporting the Army’s 2030 Multi-Domain Operations vision.

During the demonstration, GDMS and Raytheon identified the interfaces allowing the ASTARTE flightpath planner to receive flight path requests with associated constraints from IMPACT (e.g., timing, altitude range, start and end points), and returned complete deconflicted flight paths back to IMPACT on demand.

The ASTARTE-IMPACT demonstration also illustrated a novel approach for transitioning cutting-edge microservices and software components developed by the science and technology community very quickly into military service programs of records.

ASTARTE is currently wrapping up Phase 2 integration efforts and is scheduled to begin Phase 3 live testing this summer.

– DARPA Public Affairs

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T.J. Clark International Assigned National Stock Number for New 600 Gallon Per Minute Tactical Fuel Pump

Thursday, March 9th, 2023

Pump Systems to be fielded by the US Army

Delaware, OH (March 2, 2023)

The Defense Logistics Agency has assigned T.J. Clark International, LLC National Stock Number (NSN) 4320-01-707-6951 as the manufacturer of record for the US Army’s new 600 Gallon Per Minute (GPM) Fuel Pumping Assembly.

These 600 GPM pump systems are utilized by Combat Support elements of the US Army to distribute fuel in the forward operating battle space. The systems are designed to operate in a broad range of environmental conditions and temperature ranges from the Arctic to the desert.

T.J. Clark’s CEO, Eric Jenkusky, stated, “We are pleased that our team’s efforts to de- sign and manufacture the market leading tactical pump and distribution systems for our nation’s warfighters is being recognized by the US Department of Defense. There are three primary logistical items you need to fight. Those items are fuel, water and ammu- nition. Our systems deliver two of those to the tactical edge.”

www.tjclarkintl.com

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