PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Sept. 4, 2014) — How does the warfighter launch a grenade at the enemy and ensure that it hits the target if the enemy is defiladed, or concealed, behind natural or artificial obstacles? According to Steven Gilbert,…
Military Weapons
.50 cal Gatling Gun
General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems manufactures the lightweight GAU-19/B Gatling gun for application on a variety of air, land and sea platforms, including helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, land-based vehicles, naval vessels and high-speed patrol boats. With a rate of…
Pentagon’s top-secret hypersonic weapon explodes in mystery fireball
(Reuters) – A hypersonic weapon being developed by the U.S. military was destroyed four seconds after its launch from a test range in Alaska early on Monday after controllers detected a problem with the system, the Pentagon said. The weapon…
VIDEO: Marines Conduct Live Fire Attack
Check out this video recently posted on YouTube. According to the user who posted it, it shows Marines from 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment from Black Sea Rotational Force 14.2 conducted their last live fire platoon attack of their deployment…
Engineers developing safer, more accurate tracer round
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (July 28, 2014) — Engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are researching a way to develop a new type of tracer round that not only would perform its function during the day as well as night, but also improve…
New Sniper Bullet Creates Ultimate Accuracy
According to Time, the Pentagon wants the capability of a “smart” bullet for its snipers, making it their goal of “one shot, one kill” more likely. The Pentagon introduced the Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program which, in part, includes…
