By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com August 5, 2016 Speaking of 5.11 Tactical products, DefenseReview’s (DR) ben running the 5.11 Tactical Recon Trainer sneaker-type tactical training shoe for awhile now, and we’re pretty impressed with it. The 5.11 Tactical Recon Trainer is not only lightweight, confortable and durable/rugged, it’s also “rope-ready”, at least according to the large “Rope …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com July 27, 2016 While DefenseReview (DR) was walking the floor at SOFIC (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference) 2016, we ran across a lo-pro/lo-vis (low-profile/low-visiblity) blue plaid flannel tactical shirt on a mannequin at th TSSI booth that we really liked called the 5.11 Flannel Shirt, Color: Valiant, Style 72429-716. It’s a really …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com May 19, 2016 Last updated on 5/22/16. While DefenseReview was at the Knight’s Armament Company (KAC) booth at SHOT Show 2016, we ran into our friend Jason Falla of Redback One (RB1) Combat Training Systems, and he took a few minutes to show us an interesting little gun. It’s Redback One’s variant of …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com February 29, 2016 Last updated on 3/02/16. Ashbury Precision Ordnance (APO) has really been kicking ass and taking names over the last year with their APOCS (APO Custom Shop) custom combat/tactical pistol packages with Trijicon RMR mini-red dot sight combat optics mounted on them, and DefenseReview (DR) has covered the hell out …

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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com October 11, 2011 Last updated on 10/12/11. While the rest of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) switched to the Beretta M9 (U.S. military version of the Beretta 92F) high-capacity 9mm Parabellum/9x19mm NATO pistol back in the 1980s, U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance (Force Recon) and other USMC MEU (SOC) units have …

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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com All photos contained in this article were taken by DefenseReview.com, and are copyrighted. DefenseReview.com owns the copyright on these photos. The photos were shot with a Canon PowerShot S90 10-megapixel digital camera (still camera with video capability). December 22, 2010 DefenseReview got a chance to view and handle the KAC SR-25 Enhanced …