Robot swarms, new aircraft fleets to transform Army aviation By Sean Kimmons, Army News Service In future combat, Army units may deploy a large unmanned aerial system that can serve as a mothership capable of unleashing swarms of autonomous aircraft for various missions. With near-peer competitors advancing their anti-access and area-denial capabilities, the Army requires …
It’s Open Season on NRA as 148th Annual Members Meeting Looms April 22, 2019 By Dave Workman As though it were deliberately timed, with the approach of the annual National Rifle Association’s convention—this coming weekend in Indianapolis for its 148th gathering—editorial columns and news stories are filling up with “all things gun.” An editorial in …
PISTON DRIVEN SYSTEM (PDS): A NEW GENERATION OF FIREARMS EMPLOYING RRA’S PATENT-PENDING PDS. WITH PURPOSE-DESIGNED BOLT CARRIER, ADJUSTABLE GAS PISTON AND OVER-THE-BARREL SPRING AND GUIDE ROAD ARRANGEMENT, THE RRA PISTON DRIVEN SYSTEM IS ABLE TO COMPLETELY DO AWAY WITH THE TRADITIONAL RECOIL SYSTEM. CALIBER: 5.56MM NATO CHAMBER FOR 5.56MM AND .223 CALIBER LOWER RECEIVER: FORGED …
Smash Or Flop, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Steps Into Role Of A Lifetime Christopher Miller RFE/RL Check your jokes in at the door. Volodymyr Zelenskiy is about to step into the biggest role of his life. A political novice whose only relevant experience has been playing a schoolteacher who stumbles into the presidency in a popular TV series, …
Army autonomous vehicles dedicated to 88M fallen Soldiers By Mr. Jerome Aliotta, GVSC -Motor transport operators, more commonly known in the Army as “88 Mikes,” drive the Army’s tactical wheeled vehicles that transport cargo on the battlefield. They are the backbone of the Army’s support and sustainment structure, and what they do makes them highly …
Weapons & Spy Gear OSS activities created a steady demand for devices and documents that could be used to trick, attack, or demoralize the enemy. Finding few agencies or corporations willing to undertake this sort of low-volume, highly specialized work, General Donovan enthusiastically promoted an in-house capability to fabricate the tools that OSS needed for …
Special Operations OSS The Special Operations Branch (SO) of OSS ran guerrilla campaigns in Europe and Asia. As with many other facets of OSS’s work, the organization and doctrine of the Branch was guided by British experiences in the growing field of “psychological warfare.” British strategists in the year between the fall of France …
