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New holster from 5.11 Tactical (IWB)

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

There’s a new IWB holster available from 5.11 Tactical. Details here.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier – Team Ghost Member 3: Coco

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Thanks to TG for the link!

Tactical Fanboy Whiskey-5 Over on Soldier Systems

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Who Tactical Fanboy. The Lighter Side of Tactical. An unabashed Look at Tacticool.
It’s a part of the SolSys Group serving much the same readership as Soldier Systems Daily—though more during non-duty hours. Tactical Fanboy is written by a cadre of writers and gamers, including current and former military personnel, battle-hardened FPS game veterans and at least one homeless guy in an alley behind an internet cafe. The team is commanded by the ineffable Tactical Fanboy himself, spawn of the Editor at Soldier Systems Daily.

What
The elite (pronounced eeee-light) fighting blogger team at Tactical Fanboy writes about a wide array of things. From weapon and gear news to life skills, movie reviews and television previews, first person shooter game updates to op-ed pieces on everything that our demographic enjoys. To wit, guns, boobs, gear and intel…

Read the rest of the Whiskey-5 on Soldier Systems Daily.

Trijicon and Warfighter

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

In their quest for realism Electronic Arts and Danger Close the two studios behind Medal of Honor Warfighter have teamed up with real world companies that provide gear for the modern combat solider. What brands you might ask? Trijicon, Surefire, LaRue Tactical, and US Optics.  This video highlights Trijicons contribution to the upcoming game.

Medal of Honor Warfighter hits the shelves 23 October. Per orders are available on the MoH site.

 

 

R2A

BREAKING NEWS! CoD Blacks Ops 2 and Warfighter ads…

Friday, May 18th, 2012

This just came across the transom at the Tactical Fanboy breaking news desk. EA and Activision, the developers of Medal of Honor Warfighter and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 have confirmed that two new trailers will air Saturday, 19 May during the Champions League final.

The two games will go head to head with EA buying air time to offer viewers a first look at Medal of Honor Warfighter due to be released later this year. No details are given at this time, or at least none that I can find.  Activision has announced that the spot for Black Ops 2 will be shown during the games halftime interval and show off new facets of the newest addition to the Call of Duty franchise. What that will entail is anybody’s guess.  Probably more cinematics from the game, but maybe, if we’re lucky, a peek at the multiplayer aspect of the game. Who knows? Turn in and find out.

Speaking of CoD 2, have you read about this professor who got his panties in a twist over it? Relax, professor, it’s just a game.

Now back to your regularly scheduled posts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

R2A

Gratuitous Hawt Tattooed Chick (NSFW)

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Yep. We said NSFW, as you requested. Though it could be argued that by now you’d have figured out when we post a gratuitous hawt tattooed chick, you might want to check six before pulling it up on your monitor.

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Black Ops 2 Interactive Trailer

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

The history of warfare has been one of innovation, trying to keep one or two steps ahead of your enemy in weapons and technology; anything to give your side the edge on the battlefield.  The 20th Century alone saw dramatic leaps in war fighting technology, from the individual riflemen to nuclear weapons. What does the future have in store for the battlefields of the 21st Century?   Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 explores just that with a six part mini documentary embedded in the reveal trailer. At any point in the trailer you can stop the action and have future war expert and author of Wired for War, P.W. Singer  discuss the progression of technology in warfare, its uses, and what happens when the smart weapons a nation uses malfunction or –even worse- are hacked and turned against their former masters. Lt Col Oliver North USMC Ret and Major Alex Brown, U.S. Army Special Forces, weigh in with the current level of battlefield tech, its uses and capabilities. It’s really an innovative and interesting way to learn what the near future holds, not only for warfare but society in general.

Check out the interactive trailer here.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 hits 13 Nov 2012.

R2A

Custom Kitbash Sale at Red Planet Toys

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

The Mad Duo (who have a new Facebook page for Breach-Bang-Clear now by the way) want you to know about this sale on custom figures at Red Planet Toys. The sale runs through Sunday the 20th.

Now, if you’re interested, check out the Duo page:

Updating the Shrike

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Ares is updating their Shrike, a short-stroke tappet gas piston system weapon with an interchangeable barrel system very similar to the M249 and other LMGs. This is essentially another announcement to the previous ARES-16 AMG which has already been available for a while. Features include a folding side charging handle, gas piston system and various railed topcovers.

“We have spent countless hours refining and perfecting the SHRIKE design, ultimately leading to the unique offering available today,” said Geoffrey Herring, President of ARES Defense Systems, Inc. “Our research and development team is confident that the mission-configurable [ARES-16 AMG] delivers on our promise of an innovative weapons system that will exceed the performance standards required by users in the field.”

“The innovative SHRIKE 5.56 upper receiver is designed to fit any MIL-SPEC quality AR-15/M16/M4-type lower receiver and features a dual-feed system, allowing users to configure the SHRIKE 5.56 from magazine to belt fed in seconds without modification to the lower receiver. Created for the tactical professional and the modern sportsman, the SHRIKE 5.56 offers unrivaled functionality and compatibility to meet the needs of any mission.

Durable, lightweight and user-friendly, the military-grade SHRIKE 5.56 provides tactical professionals and sportsmen alike with the firepower of a U.S. M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) at nearly half the weight of the current SAW. The dual-feed design of the SHRIKE 5.56 accepts standard 30-round M16 magazines and M27-linked SAW ammunition in 5.56 x 45mm NATO (.223 REM), and fires at a rate of 625 to 800 rounds-per-minute. Furthering its usability, the SHRIKE 5.56 features a quick-change barrel that allows the user to swap barrels in less than three seconds, and the self-regulating gas-piston system is cleaner and more reliable than the legacy direct-gas system.”

More at http://www.thetacticalwire.com/story/259893 or http://www.guns.com/ares-defense-updates-their-shrike-the-ar-upper-that-uses-magazines-and-belts-7820.html. Check ’em out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/aresdefense.

The Airborne Willy Chronicles: Part One

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

“God loves the infantry and God loves Airborne Willy.”

ALCON: The following is a recently declassified true story. Tactical Fanboy cannot guarantee the safety of anyone reading this. The information contained herein may be too sensitive to prevent everyone involved from compromise and potential elimination. (Mongrel)

The first time I saw Airborne Willy was on the Tactical Fanboy site. It was a funny post of an older black gentleman wearing a cowboy hat and what looked like an old 1960/70’sera Class B uniform shirt both covered in awards, decorations, ribbons – some not even awarded by the U.S. Army- and patches. Above the shirt’s pocket were two white nametapes. AIRBORN WILLY stitched into the material in bold black letters.  I laughed him off.  Just another nut ball that never served a day in uniform or was weeded out in the first weeks of Basic because he couldn’t hack it or was too unstable yet went on to claim that he was this or that and earned award after award.  They are everywhere.    Many apparently can’t spell. He was supposed to be a new hire for the site but as the months wore on I didn’t see anything of Willy, no mention, no posts, nothing. And that got me thinking. What if I was wrong? Could it be that Willy actually is one of those guys that did the missions we, the public, never hear about? But, instead of staying in the shadows he decided to come out into the light. I wanted to know more, to hear his story.  Maybe I was crazy; maybe I was just going to find myself talking to a nutty old coot that smelled of stale beer, cigarette smoke, and urine.  I didn’t know. What I did know was that one way or another I was going to find out.

Who IS Airborn Willy?

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Charlene: CoD Black Ops 2 and PSF Russia

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

I’m a fan of the Call of Duty franchise of games and of FPS Russia, the guy on You Tube with the fake Russian accent and all those wonderful toys, to quote The Joker from 1989s Batman.  Recently I was watching one of FPS Russia’s recent videos on an armed RPV quadrotor  named ‘Charlene’ when I had an ‘ah ha’ moment realizing where I had just seen another armed RPV quarotor  with the name ‘Charlene’ scratched into it. Anyone else think we might hear someone sounding a lot like FPS Russia in Black Ops 2?

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is slated for release on 13 Nov 2012.

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Another look at the Art of War

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Writer Kelly Roman and illustrator Michael DeWeese’s upcoming graphic novel The Art of War uses the Sun Tzu classic as the basis for a “mind-bending thriller set 20 years in the future when Wall Street is militarized and China is the world’s dominant economy.”

Roman wants readers to think about what the rise of China means for international free speech and freedom, as he explained last year in an interview with The Gothamist.

Read more: http://undertheradar.military.com/2012/05/rebranding-the-art-of-war/#ixzz1uysriQUd 

Revolution is coming…

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

…and I want to watch it.

Please let this be as good as the potential. Don’t let ’em screw it up and make it an episode-centric post-apocalyptic teen drama soap opera combo.

Black powder weapons, crossbows, Book-of-Eli type knife-fightin’ in post-apocalyptic Chicago. Honestly, that’s not a whole lot different than some of what’s going on in Chi-town right now, but what they’ve done to Wrigley Field is a travesty! If there is some sort of local warlord there, some petty Cook County despot, he needs to do something to honor them Cubs before there’s a coup.

 

Entourage…

Monday, May 14th, 2012

…not the show. Some new Benchmade/HK Knives are available. The “Entourage”. It’s gonna be damn near impossible to beat the Triage or the Infidels, but I guess they gotta try. Also some good news, the Benchmade “Knife Wizard” is live again: http://www.benchmade.com/products/knife_wizard.aspx.

Follow ’em on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Benchmade.

 


Gratuitous hawt tattooed chick (NSFW)

Monday, May 14th, 2012

This one is particularly delightful.

Wish we could tell you who these women are, and their pages or whatnot to support ’em.

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Originally, there was going to be a picture of a how woman here, but somehow that felt… wrong.

Shooting D.O.P.E.

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Ryan Cleckner covers how to gather and organize D.O.P.E. (Data On Previous Engagements) and how to organize this information to make it readily available in the field. (NSSF Video)

Want a Big Package?

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

Not that sort of big package.

THE LEWIS MACHINE & TOOL “PIG PACKAGE” .308 MODULAR WEAPON SYSTEM NOW AVAILABLE…or so we hear.

Brian “Pig Man” Quaca, Host and Executive Producer of the Leupold’s “Pig Man: The Series” Television Show on the Sportsman Channel, have endorsed the LMT® .308 Modular Weapon System

Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT®), an Illinois-based company that designs, prototypes and manufactures small arms, accessories and tooling components for the military, government, law enforcement, commercial manufacturers and responsible civilians, in keeping with their exclusive endorsement deal with Brian “Pig Man” Quaca’s Sportsman Channel’s television show, Pig Man: The Series, is now making the “Pig Package” available to gun enthusiasts everywhere.
pigman gun
The Pig Package is a LMT® Signature Model MWS .308 with a 16″ chrome-lined barrel in a 1:10″ twist. Other features include a SOPMOD Buttstock, two-stage trigger group, and an ambi-selector and ambi-mag release. Proudly displaying an engraved “Pig Man” logo on the lower, the weapon system also comes complete with an engraved Leupold VX-R HIG 1.25 – 4x20mm FireDot Pig Plex with a Mark 2 IMS mount. It ships with a sling, manual, tactical adjustable rear sight and tactical front sight, one 20-round magazine, two heavy-duty push button swivels, a torque/wrench/driver and three rail panels. MSRP is a piddly $3,488.96.
“I knew straight out of the gate that LMT® folks were serious players,” Brian Quaca commented.  “These are the weapons residing in the hands of our US men and women on the front lines across the world, and if it’s dependable and accurate enough to defend our freedom, I have no hesitation dusting a few dozen pigs with it in the field.”  The Brian “Pig Man” Quaca story plays out on the Sportsman Channel where his rough and tough hunting lifestyle entertains viewers with a different take on a traditional hunting television show.

Leupold’s “Pig Man: The Series“, The Sportsman Channel

Look for Pig Man with his LMT® .308 Modular Weapon system broadcast into 30+ million homes across the country every Tuesday at 2:00 a.m. CST, Thursday at 6:30 a.m. CST, Friday at 11:00 p.m. CST and Sunday at 12:30 p.m. CST and 9:00 p.m. CST.

If you want more, DOWNLOAD the official “Pig Package” Announcement here and the “Pig Package” image here.

Gratuitous hot girl with gun (NSFW)

Friday, May 11th, 2012

Well, truth to tell there’s no gun. But she’s wearing some LBE, that counts right?

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Packy and Botasky out on DVD

Friday, May 11th, 2012

Actually, it may have been out on DVD for a while now but this is the first time it occurred to me to mention it (thanks actually to several of the lads on FB for reminding me).

At first I didn’t care for the anime…then it started growing on me. Now I even have a patch from Orca Tactical (http://www.orcatactical.com/store/products/147-orca-industries-cat-shit-one-unit-patch.aspx)

Get it on Amazon.

Call of Duty 2: Hidden QR Code?

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Nice catch here. We’ll see if anything comes of  it. There’s a QR code on the right side of the butt of the weapon towards the end of 1:53.

Check it out. Let us know if anyone manages to redeem it.

Spoiler: Cops and Zombies

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

The job of coroner has changed substantially. (One must assume this will change all the CSI/NCIS type shows of the day…)

Follow it on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/Spoiler.Movie.

Thank you, Avatar Toy Armory

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

In January Microsoft banned Avatar firearms from XBOX Live. Now with the Avatar Toy Armory on the Avatar Marketplace you can give the digital you a little something to fight the forces of evil with 22 different weapons from Voltron’s Blazing Sword to what appears to be an AK-74 with an M203 grenade launcher mounted on it.  In the mood for some dual wielding action?  The Toy Armory has you covered whether you want to show off your skills with dual Lightsabers, pistols, or Micro Uzis. The only drawback, all the real world weapons are colored like Nerf guns.  Oh, well I suppose if FPS Russia can pull it off, so can you.

The Avatar Toy Armory is available on XBOX Avatar Marketplace. Prices range from 160 to 400 Microsoft points. Don’t bother asking me how much that is in real money because I have no frak’n idea.

R2A

WWPS wants you to help save the Direwolves

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

http://www.bustedtees.com/savethedirewolves

It’s funny…I always thought they’d be more fierce looking than this.

New e-magazines live for May

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

The May SWAT Digest is live:

http://www.swatdigest.com/mag_may_2012.html

as is the new issue of Police Chief:

http://www.theiacp.org/About/WhatsNew/tabid/459/Default.aspx?id=1798&v=1

and lastly, the HALO Harbinger:

http://www.theiacp.org/About/WhatsNew/tabid/459/Default.aspx?id=1798&v=1

 

Good reads; should be something in there for everyone.