By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com July 27, 2015 Last updated on 7/27/15. While DefenseReview (DR) was looking at Grey Ghost Gear (GGG) combat/tactical products on their boat at NDIA SOFIC 2015 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2015), we also took a quick look at a slick little 1.5″ (1.5-inch) gun belt called the Grey Ghost Gear Son …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com July 23, 2015 Last updated on 7/27/15. While DefenseReview (DR) was at SOFIC 2015 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2015), we got a chance to look at some of Grey Ghost Gear’s (GGG) latest/newest products, including their tactical armor plate carriers/tactical vests and stand-alone multi-hit hard armor plates on their boat (or …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com Photo(s) Credit: Strike Industries (SI) July 18, 2015 While we’re on the subject of new Strike Industries (SI) tactical handguards/rail systems, we should probably also mention the SI VIPER Handguard carbine-length tactical handguard, which is designed to upgrade a M4/M4A1-style tactical AR (AR-15) carbine/SBR with A2 sight/gas block. The SI Viper Handguard, …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com Photo(s) Credit: Strike Industries (SI) July 16, 2015 Last updated on 7/18/15. Strike Industries (SI) recently released the SI Mega Fins XL modular tactical AR (AR-15) rail system in both KeyMod and M-LOK variants, and will soon be releasing dual-interface-design SI SI LINK Rail Sections, which are MIL-STD-1913 “Picatinny” rail sections that …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com July 7, 2015 Last updated on 7/19/15. Thales Defense subsidiary TDA Armaments SAS appears to have designed and developed one hell of a 2.75″ (2.75-inch)/70mm wireless laser-guded rocket called the Induction Laser Guided Rocket (ILGR), also known as the Sub-Metric Precision Rocket (SMPR), or Roquette à Précision Métrique (RPM) in French. DefenseReview …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com July 2, 2015 Last updated on 7/03/15. While making the rounds at NDIA SOFIC 2015 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2015), DefenseReview (DR) ran into Eric Dobbie of MOHOC, who showed us the brand new MOHOC Elite Ops Tactical Helmet Camera system, which is a lo-pro (low-profile), waterproof helmet-mounted camera with full …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com June 27, 2015 Atlantic Signal (AS) recently introduced their brand new Below H2O diveable tactical headset at NDIA SOFIC 2015 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2015) that allows military SOF (Special Operations Forces) combat divers to communicate at a depth of up to 33.3 feet for up to 10 hours. Using a …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com June 24, 2015 Torrey Pines Logic (TPL) recently introduced some of the coolest little combat optics DefenseReview (DR) has seen in awhile at NDIA SOFIC 2015 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2015). They’re all part of the TPL T10 Mini Thermal Imager family, and include the T10-M (50° FOV, 30Hz video), T10-N …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com June 16, 2015 Last updated on 6/17/15. A company called Tactical Revolution has a very interesting lightweight tactical armor plate mounting system for machine guns and anti-materiel/sniper rifles (and possibly other lightweight weapons platforms) called the AJAX Armor System (AAS), and it looks like a winner. DefenseReview (DR) recently got to see …

By David Crane david (at) defensereview (dot) com June 10, 2015 Last updated on 6/11/15. While DefenseReview (DR) was walking the floor at NDIA SOFIC 2015 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2015), we ran into Thomas Walsh of Corporate Arms, who we’d previously met at NDIA Joint Armaments Conference 2012 in Seattle, Washington while he was working for M-Series lightweight …