Early on 5 January 2020, jihadist terrorists from the Somalia-based al-Shabaab attacked Camp Simba, a joint Kenyan/US facility at Manda Bay, Kenya. Simba, south-west of the Somali border, is a… Continue reading "US SOF Base in Kenya Attacked by al-Shabaab"
US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) have launched a research programchallenging industry to develop a handheld sensor that can be employed to ‘see-through’ walls and intervening obstacles. Rather than science-fiction’s X-Ray… Continue reading "USSOCOM Seeks Technology to ‘See-Through’ Walls"
The USAF Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has added a third Raytheon HELWS (High Energy Laser Weapon System) to their previous order of two HELWS platforms (as reported… Continue reading "More HELWS Counter-UAV Lasers for the USAF"
US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has awarded an initial $86 million USD full-rate production order to L3Harris Technologiesfor their AN/PRC-163 Falcon IV tactical radios under USSOCOM’s Next Generation Tactical Communications… Continue reading "USSOCOM Orders L3Harris AN/PRC-163 Tactical Radios"
Raytheon and Saab have recently completed a series of test-fires of their co-developed Guided Carl-Gustaf Munition (GCGM). The inert missile achieved great results striking 11 out of 11 targets in… Continue reading "Laser-guided Carl Gustaf: Precision Fires for the Infantry Squad"
United States Special Operations Forces drawn from the northern Iraq-based Expeditionary Targeting Force of Task Force 27 conducted a helicopter-borne raid, on October 26, into north-west Syria to kill or… Continue reading "Inside the Delta Force Raid that killed al-Baghdadi in Syria"
The true ramifications of the current US withdrawal from Syria for counter-terrorist (CT) operations will unlikely to be fully realised for some time. What is clear, however, is that the… Continue reading "The Future of Counter Terrorism Operations Against Islamic State in Syria"
UVision, maker of the Hero series of loitering munitions, has announced the opening of a US based subsidiary. This new venture has been named, rather appropriately, UVision USA, and is… Continue reading "Israeli UVision Lands with a Boom at AUSA 2019"
Amidst the controversy of this recent events in Syria, a piece of footage recorded by a journalist for Germany’s Der Spiegel, Alexandra Rojkov, emerged on Twitter. It showed in excellent… Continue reading "Secretive Delta Force Pandur APCs Seen in Syria"
The Royal Thai Army is moving ever closer to receiving eight AH-6i Little Bird light attack/reconnaissance helicopters. The Thai deal is the first to emerge from a US Army request… Continue reading "Armed ‘Little Birds’ for Thailand"