Chinese J-31 Stealth Fighter Jet made its first overseas appearance at Dubai International Air Show November, 2015. It is expected to make its first flight by 2019 and reach its initial operating capability in 2022. It will have full operational capability in 2024, JDUS2020 reports. The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) plans to perform the …
UK Struggles to Combat Gun and Knife Crime as London Murder Rate Tops New York City NRA/ILA Last week, 17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne was gunned down in a drive-by shooting. According to an acquaintance of the murdered teenager, the young woman was “just chilling with her friends” at the time of the incident and was shot …
Airborne drop tests in progress for potential SOF Ground Mobility Vehicle By Leon Price, Military Test Plans Anaylyst, Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate Testers at the U.S. Army Operational Test Command’s (USAOTC) Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate (ABNSOTD) here recently conducted low-velocity airdrops of the Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 (GMV 1.1). The vehicle …
Held in Ft. Pickett, VA ATF Special Agents attend the Special Response Team(SRT) Basic school. The school is for agents that apply and are accepted to be part of this elite team. The students learn imperative skills such as breaching, covert patrolling, tracking with K-9s, fast roping and much more. The SRT is called in …
ATF Los Angeles Field Division was busy in 2017. Covering California’s Central Coast, from the Mexican border to the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Diego and Imperial, ATF LAFD spent the year removing firearms, drugs and career criminals from these communities. Personnel were also called …
AUDIT OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES CONTROLS OVER WEAPONS, MUNITIONS, AND EXPLOSIVES To ensure that staff have the resources necessary to accomplish its mission, ATF maintains weapons and munitions, including firearms, Tasers, silencers, ammunition, chemical agents, diversionary devices, and explosives. As of December 2017, ATF had over 2,500 special agents and …
AUDIT OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES CONTROLS OVER WEAPONS, MUNITIONS, AND EXPLOSIVES To ensure that staff have the resources necessary to accomplish its mission, ATF maintains weapons and munitions, including firearms, Tasers, silencers, ammunition, chemical agents, diversionary devices, and explosives. As of December 2017, ATF had over 2,500 special agents and …
RAIDER’S VALOR RECOGNIZED WITH SILVER STAR By Sgt. Jessica Pon, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command A critical skills operator with 3rd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Raider Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command received the Silver Star award aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 6, 2018. The Raider received the award …
New Royal Navy operations hub opens in Gulf UK Ministry of Defense “Today there are around half a dozen Royal Navy ships and units deployed in the region and well over 1,200 men and women. This includes the Mine Counter Measures Force that have been located at the Bahrain facilities since 2003. This force of four Mine …