American aerospace and defense giant Textron Systems shared an impressive video on its Twitter account showing the next generation of squad automatic weapon systems. Just last week, Textron sent out the Tweet with the short video showing the Next Generation Squad Weapons in action. “When it comes to equipping the modern warfighter – less is definitely more. Our NGSW solution reflects more than 15 years of soldier feedback with improved maneuverability, increased performance and lighter total system weight,” also said the company in Tweet. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) in Rifle (NGSW-R) and […]
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The U.S. Army offered new details about Infantry Squad Vehicle that being tested at the Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona. The latest edition of the Outpost newspaper provides more details of ongoing tests of the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). The new ISV based on the high-performance Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 pickup and features seating for nine. It uses 90 percent off-the-shelf parts, including the Colorado’s 186 hp 2.8-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder and six-speed automatic transmission. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Powered by a 2.8 liter turbo diesel engine with a six speed automatic transmission, the four-wheel drive vehicle carries […]
The U.S. Army currently testing its newest Infantry Squad Vehicles, based on the high-performance Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 pickup, at Yuma Proving Grounds, Yuma, Ariz. According to a recent service news release, the new air-dropped fast-attack vehicle promises to give Soldiers an opportunity to arrive to a fight faster, rested and ready. Also stated that the Army intends to eventually field 59 ISVs to each brigade, beginning with brigades within the 82nd Airborne Division in May. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – Designed to provide rapid ground mobility, the expeditionary ISV is a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier intended to transport […]
The final delivery of the Sig Sauer’s prototypes of Next Generation Squad Weapons systems, or NGSW, designed to replace M249 and M4A1, has been delivered to the U. S. Army. Earlier this week, famed gun maker Sig Sauer has announced that the final delivery of the NGSW systems to the U.S. Army, consisting of the revolutionary 6.8×51 hybrid ammunition, the NGSW-AR lightweight belt-fed machine gun, the NGSW-R rifle, and suppressors. “This historic moment is the culmination of an incredible collaboration between the U.S. Army and SIG. We commend Army leadership for having the vision to undertake this monumental procurement process and […]
GM Defense, a General Motors division launched in 2017, announced that it has started renovations of an existing GM building to support the production of the Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV), a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier intended to transport a nine-Soldier infantry squad. According to the company, the facility, located in Concord, North Carolina, will produce ISVs for the U.S. Army as part of a $214.3 million contract awarded to GM Defense in June 2020. GM Defense celebrated the delivery of its first ISVs to the U.S. Army in October of the same year, just 120 days from contract award. […]
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Police determined that the devices were small audible alarms designed to go off in a bid to prevent the possible removal of the Trump yard signs. The Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal (OFSM) said in a press release that the OFSM’s Bomb Squad “has been busy” over the past 36 hours, “responding to suspicious devices” attached to yard signs, including those pertaining to President Donald Trump’s election campaign. The OFSM reported about at least five such devices that were seen being installed on the campaign yard signs located “in and around” the city of Easton on Sunday and […]
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A bomb squad has been called in to investigate an unattended backpack found in the street during a pro-Trump rally outside the Walter Reed military hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where US president is being treated for Covid-19. Police cordoned off the area and shut down a section of Rockville Pike, diverting traffic and pushing Trump supporters away, after the suspicious bag was discovered in the area near the entrance to the medical facility on Saturday night. The Montgomery County Bomb Squad responded to the incident, with a sniffer dog seen investigating the backpack in multiple videos shared by witnesses online. UPDATE: […]
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A look at the subculture and ethos driving the white-hot DeFi space, which has grown from $2 billion to $9 billion in total value locked in just two months. Today on the Brief: Traditional markets falter, led by tech stocks Bitcoin falls under $11,000 for the first time since July Stablecoins mint $100 million daily since mid-July Our main discussion is about DeFi’s “degens.” NLW talks about: The numbers behind DeFi’s recent run-up What “degen” means in this context Why degen is, in part, a reaction to previous bitcoiner critiques of Ethereum Why degen is (in even bigger part) a reaction […]
As American cities are torched and looted by Antifa and Black Lives Matter terrorists, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) signaled her support for the violence be her fellow progressives, calling for “unrest in the streets” in an appearance Saturday on MSNBC’s AM Joy in comments about the Democrats’ latest attack line on President Trump on the Post Office and mail-in ballots for the November election. Pressley is one of four members of the radical leftist House freshmen group known as “The Squad’ that also includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). Video of Pressley’s comments […]
Norfolk police have established a security cordon around a beach car park and advised the public to avoid the area after a suspected “unexploded device” was discovered. Police received a tip off at approximately 9am local time on Tuesday morning after a suspect device was discovered near the Horsey Gap area. The bomb squad have been called in and the area sealed off as a precaution. We are asking people to avoid Horsey Gap this morning, after we received reports of an unexploded device found at the beach car park. The car park will be closed while the device is safely […]
Scottish Premiership club Ross County lived up to their name when they added a new goalkeeper to their ranks this week, with their loan signing of Ross Doohan meaning they now have FIVE players in their squad named Ross. Remarkably, the loan arrival of Celtic stopper Doohan means County now have three goalkeepers on their books, and ALL of them are named Ross. Doohan joins fellow goalkeepers Ross Laidlaw and Ross Munro in the Scottish side’s lineup, meaning County’s defenders won’t have to learn a new name if the Celtic man ends up taking the starting goalkeeper position. READ MORE: ‘It looks […]
Last month, the U.S. Department of Defense and GM Defense LLC announced an agreement worth about $214,3 million to build, field and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). The ISV program will provide Infantry Brigade Combat Teams an additive lightweight vehicle to move Soldiers and their equipment quickly over complex and difficult cross-country terrain. Designed to provide rapid ground mobility, the expeditionary ISV is a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier intended to transport a nine-Soldier infantry squad moving throughout the battlefield. The total production ISV contract award value is $214.3 million to procure the initial Army Procurement Objective […]
It was the letter that launched a thousand tweets. Maybe even ten thousand—many of them, as happens so often on social media, brimming with insults and recrimination. And that doesn’t even account for several impassioned essays, some pro but mostly con, that the so-called “Letter on Justice and Open Debate” has provoked among the self-avowed intelligentsia—a tiny yet purportedly influential group of academics, artists, philosophers and journalists—since it was released on Tuesday by Harper’s magazine. “The controversy surrounding the letter shows the venom that these anodyne statements produced—statements that wouldn’t have been inflammatory ten years ago,” Harper’s Vice President Giulia Melucci […]
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The U.S. Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal and GM Defense LLC, a subsidiary of General Motors, announced an agreement worth about $214.3 million for build, field and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). The GM Defense’s website said the ISV is light enough to be sling loaded from a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter and compact enough to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter for air transportability. The total production ISV contract award value is $214.3 million to procure the initial Army Procurement Objective of 649, according to a company news release. The approved Army Acquisition Objective is 2,065 vehicles. – Advertisement […]
When Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last September, the small island of Abaco was among the hardest hit. Dorian stalled over the island for two days, unleashing some of the strongest winds ever recorded in the Caribbean. Shortly after the storm died down, and long before Bahamian government aid arrived, an American disaster assistance response team arrived onboard a high-speed super-yacht. Access crews set to work clearing roads with chainsaws, so that survivors could find their way to the team’s medical staff. Their doctors and paramedics ultimately helped triage or treat nearly one in 10 of the island’s population. The team’s […]
Lockheed Martin has awarded BAE Systems a contract to provide key autonomy and artificial intelligence capabilities for DARPA’s Squad X program. Squad X prime contractor Lockheed Martin has awarded BAE Systems a contract to provide key autonomy and artificial intelligence capabilities that aim to advance the effectiveness of tactical robotic air and ground vehicles and create true partnerships between ground warfighters – Soldiers and Marines – and machines at the small-unit level. The goal of DARPA’s Squad X, which is composed of the complementary Squad X Experimentation and (the now completed) Squad X Core Technologies programs, is to design, develop, and […]
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lashed out at President Trump on Friday as “foolish” after he deemed all churches and synagogues and places of worship as “essential.” Lightfoot says President Trump has no power to override her local lockdown on churches and businesses. Chicago police fined three churches last weekend for holding worship services. South Side Churches cheered President Trump’s announcement on Friday. TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Deep State FBI Asked George Papadopoulos’s Wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, to Spy On Her Husband! On Sunday the Chicago mayor defied President Trump and sent an armed police squad to a Black Baptist Church on the […]
Controversial drone footage has emerged showing a UAV just meters away from a formation of US Navy Blue Angels as they performed a flyover in Detroit, risking the lives of all involved and likely breaking the law in the process. Set to a soundtrack pulled directly from ‘Top Gun’, the brief video clip shows six Blue Angel F/A-18 Hornets as they perform a series of dizzying maneuvers over the Motor City. But with the small drone flying perilously too close to the stunt planes, risking a collision, the aerial exercises could have easily ended in disaster. According to the Aviationist, the […]
Press TV: Russian troops are helping Venezuela in its search operation for members of a force, which recently made an unsuccessful incursion attempt there, by operating drones over the Latin American country, according to a report by local news outlet El Nacional. Citing deleted tweets from a military command, known as ZODI La Guaira, the local media reported on Friday that at least eight Russian Special Forces members will be “operating drones to run search and patrol operations” near the northern state of La Guaira. Spetznas now operating inside Venezuela against US special operations forces El Nacional posted a screenshot of […]