As a follow-up to last week’s discussion of the reverse 180, Wyatt goes over the forward 180.
Learn those and other driving skills at Team O’Neill’s Tactical Driving Course at their facility in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This five-day course includes driving under NODS and is available to military and other government agencies as well as civilians.
Warfighters will leverage 1,280 Green Ammo electronic blank kits for realistic training across individual and collective exercises
SKIEN, Norway, Oct. 16, 2024 — Green Ammo, AS, developers of the industry’s only drop-in electronic blanks system for live weapons offering 100 percent integration with tactical training programs, today announced that it has been awarded a total of $5.8 million in contracts with the Department of Defense.
Across two contracts, executed in August and September, Green Ammo will deliver nearly 1,300 units of its drop-in electronic blanks (E-Blanks) training kits to support realistic tactical training exercises. The military-grade, pressure-tested E-Blanks kits offer compatibility with M4, M249, and M240 weapon systems, enabling warfighters to train with the right weapons for the theater-specific threats they may face. The units are expected to electronically fire an approximate total of 325,000,000 rounds (~250,000/each) before any components need to be exchanged, replacing the same number of traditional blank rounds and saving millions of dollars in ammunition costs.
Green Ammo is a Norway-based defense technology company with operations in the United States, dedicated to developing, manufacturing and delivering electronic blank ammunition for tactical training applications. The company’s E-Blanks kit empowers warfighters to train with known weapons through a patented, 100-percent drop-in module that can install and deploy E-Blanks in under a minute for a realistic, safe, sustainable and cost-effective alternative to live or traditional blank ammunition. In preparation for the initial delivery of the E-Blanks kits, Green Ammo conducted an initial train-the-trainer event. Attended by senior trainers and officers, the event introduced the E-Blanks system to the training cadre and supported discussions on implementation and logistical considerations.
“We’ve worked hard to deliver a solution that serves as an alternative to traditional ammunition with the added benefits of time and cost savings, and we’re pleased that E-Blanks can help ensure servicemen can continue to train effectively, even with the impact of the global ammunition shortage,” said Rolf Inge Roth, CEO of Green Ammo. “By providing E-Blanks kits for individual and collective training, we can help the Department of Defense overcome these limitations to support successful pre-deployment training with the additional benefits of simplified logistics and increased safety.”
The delivery of 1000 M4, 170 M249 and 110 M240B drop-in kits will be completed by the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year. To learn more about Green Ammo’s patented electronic blank technology and its applications, visit www.greenammo.com.
CTOMS™, in partnership with Fujita Medical Instruments™, has launched a Japanese version of CTOMS™ Academy’s TCCC/TECC e-training. The course is now available to Japanese service members through Fujita™.
Tactical Trauma Care Essential™ (TTCE) will provide Japanese service organizations with an expedient and consistent means of adopting combat proven casualty response training. With video demonstrations, lab footage, animations (3D), and expert instruction the course material is both engaging and in-depth. The content of the course is complete and will prepare students for effective casualty response in tactical environments. TTCE is ideal for facilitating and being used concurrently with hands-on training.
To create the Japanese version, CTOMS™ first translated the material then used AI to create avatars that would read the Japanese scripts. After some experimentation, creating a natural looking and sounding instructor was straight forward. With this complete, the onscreen text was translated and reedited into the videos. The entire course, over 5 hours of video content, was then reviewed and approved for accuracy by Fujita™.
The entire project has been very exciting for CTOMS™, who has now demonstrated the capability to convert its training programs into most languages.
For more information on our online or in-person training, contact training@ctomsinc.com
For information on accessing the TTCE course in Japanese, contact info@fujitaika.co.jp or visit e-learning.fujitaika.jp/ctoms
For the past few weeks we’ve been sharing a series of tactical driving tips from our friends at Team O’Neill. This week instructor Wyatt gets to the good stuff, the “J-turn” or Reverse 180.
In just a few weeks I’ll be putting these driving tips to good use at the Team O’Neil Tactical Driving Course at their facility in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This five-day course includes driving under NODS and is available to military and other government agencies as well as civilians.
Aerial drones – especially small commercially available drones – have become a unique and ubiquitous challenge on the modern battlefield and pose a major threat to traditional military assets. Such small drones can be used to provide real-time reconnaissance, and/or be rigged with explosives and used as loitering munitions for remote kamikaze attacks.
Such weaponized micro-drones are a relatively new type of weapon, and every military and law enforcement unit needs to learn how to defend against them. “Defense Against Drones” provides the first open-source overview of how to survive and win in the fight against drones.
This book answers the question of what tactical drone defense means, analyzes drone defense tactics and lessons learned from the Russian war against Ukraine, and provides a good foundation for further discussion and analysis.
Topics covered in this volume include the current spectrum of tactical drone defense measures – including protection against micro-drones, the increasing ubiquity of cheap drones as the “Kalashnikovs of the Skies”, experiences from Ukraine, the 10 Commandments of Drone Defense, and an appendix of recommended further reading.
“DEFENSE AGAINST DRONES: Protection Against Threats From The Air” is available now on Amazon.com for $19.99, plus taxes and shipping.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS OF ‘DEFENSE AGAINST DRONES’:
Kristóf Nagy – a former infantryman in the German Bundeswehr who is now a freelance specialist author covering military topics, including unmanned aerial systems and their defense.
Markus Reisner – a Colonel in the Austrian Bundesheer and head of the Institute for Officer Training at the Theresian Military Academy, particularly focused on the use of unmanned systems.
Christian Väth – a former infantry officer and founder of “Light Infantry International“. Author of Black Book 2, “The Tactical Drone”.
Gustav Freimann – a former Sergeant in the German Bundeswehr who is now serving with the International Legion in Ukraine share his practical experience with drone defense in Ukraine.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Lawrence Holsworth – a former infantry Sergeant in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, and an internationally-recognized defense industry marketing professional and tactical gear Blogger.
ABOUT SPARTANAT:
SPARTANAT.com is the leading German-language online magazine covering the tactical market. For over ten years, SPARTANAT has published daily news about militaryforces, conflict zones, weapons, and equipment manufacturers, and more. SPARTANAT also publishes gear reviews several times per week. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, it is almost obligatory for the tactical community to visit SPARTANAT daily.
SPARTANAT also now has a growing international readership andthe creation of the English editions of their popular book series consolidates this position. For further information contact lawrence@strikeholdconsulting.com.
One of the most important functions in mission planning is preparing your equipment. Team O’Neil’s Wyatt reminds of what we need to look for as we prepare our vehicle for a mission.
In just a few weeks I’ll be putting these driving tips to good use at the Team O’Neil Tactical Driving Course at their facility in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This five-day course includes driving under NODS and is available to military and other government agencies as well as civilians.
Last week we gave you a little taste of what Team O’Neil brings to the table in tactical driving training for military and LE as well as civilian drivers. This week we continue the series of videos with instructor Wyatt discussing Off Roading.
As a reminder, I’ll be attending their five-day tactical driving course later this month, at their facility in New Hampshire. These videos are as much for your benefit as for mine. I got a taste of what they teach last fall during an event with SureFire so I’m leveraging my memory as I go over the basic skills I’ll need to succeed during the upcoming course.
Team O’Neil is world renowned for their instruction in rally driving. Several decades ago the Special Operations community discovered this unique training and began to attend Team O’Neil courses to improve their driving skills under varied, arduous conditions. Starting this week we are going to share some of that knowledge via a series of videos produced by Team O’Neil. In this first video, instructor Wyatt offers an overview of high speed driving.
In late October, I’ll be attending their five-day tactical driving course at their facility in New Hampshire. These videos are as much for your benefit as for mine. I got a taste of what they teach last fall during an event with SureFire so I’m leveraging my memory as I go over the basic skills I’ll need to succeed during the upcoming course.
–Eric Graves
