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Military customers scratch their heads looking at it.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Fire superiority” is shooting more bullets at the enemy, accurately, than he is shooting back at you. This gun was designed to achieve that.
The Israeli company Silver Shadow recently attracted attention for its double-barreled AR-type rifle, the Gilboa DBR Snake. For the most part, it’s an AR, uses AR parts, and fires the 5.56-millimeter AR round. Except that it has two separate barrels, two magazines and two ejection ports with two triggers as if two AR rifles had smashed into each other.
The two triggers are to make the Snake legal for civilian use in the United States, as
In the late 1960s, the USSR debuted what appeared to be the world’s deadliest fighter. The MiG-25 (NATO term “Foxbat”) could outrun any fighter in the air, and indeed any military aircraft other than the SR-71 Blackbird.
Bearing a wicked name, a forbidding profile, and some great stats, the Foxbat looked like a world-beater. Combining exceedingly high speed with high altitude tolerance and a heavy weapons load, it looked as if the plane could contribute effectively on the Central Front while also helping to immunize Soviet airspace from U.S. penetration. Combined with the lessons of third-generation fighters in Vietnam, the existence of the Foxbat helped spur U.S. innovation, pushing the development of the F-15 Eagle.
The HK416 Rifle Was the Last Thing Osama Bin Laden Ever Saw
The rifle is still controversial in some circles - but is now generally regarded as superior to the M4 carbine that it replaced for this mission.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Thanks in part to the H&K416’s piston design, the rifle is prized for being highly reliable with a good reputation. In addition, the rifle is regarded as highly accurate, and can reliably hit point targets at a range of six hundred meters.
Heckler & Koch’s HK416 flew under the radar for quite some time. That all changed in May 2011, when the now-famous SEAL Team Six raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where Osama bin Laden and several of his family members had been living for nearly a decade.
Russia’s T-90 Tank Just Got Better: Meet the T-90MS
The T-90MS is a modernized export version of the T-90 main battle tank, Russia’s staple heavy armor solution from the early 1990’s through 2011.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Despite these active measures to maintain market competitiveness, the T-90MS will still come in at 4.5 million dollars per unit, a steep increase over the 2.5-3.5 million dollars per unit of its T-90S predecessor. To capture as many segments of the heavy armor market as possible, the Russians will
continue offering the T-90S and even the original T-90.