What happened to most of Saddam’s blinged-out weapons
It’s no surprise that psychotic despots and drug lords who came to power through violence and intimidation would be fascinated with gold-…
It’s no surprise that psychotic despots and drug lords who came to power through violence and intimidation would be fascinated with gold-…
It was 2006, and Army Staff Sgt. Brett Johnson of the 1st Ranger Battalion peered through night-vision goggles, slowly moving with his squad toward a house in Iraq with a high-value target inside. They knew there were armed militants nearby, but the…
U.S. Army Specialist Jay Strobino was with his team in Rushdi Mullah, a small farming village in Iraq’s infamous Triangle of Death, on Feb. 1, 2006. They were there on a mission to grab a suspected enemy insurgent. Everything was going according to…
Master Sergeant George Hand US Army (ret) was a member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. He is a now a master photographer, cartoonist and storyteller.
Our assault team leader, Daddy-Mac, who wou…
Kalashnikov’s AK-47 represents a timeless design and an instantly recognizable icon of warfare, but one thing it cannot do is fly.
But Russian arms maker Almaz-Antey <a href="http://www1.fips.ru/wps/portal/ofic_pub_en/#page=document&type…
The AK-47, as we know it, was created by Russian weapons designer Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov in 1947. Its name is derived from the word ‘automatic’ (A), the invent…
The guided missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham seized an illicit weapons shipment containing 2,521 AK-47 rifles Aug. 28, 2018, <a href="http://www.cusnc.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/1621512/jason-dunham-counts-2521-ak-47s-seized/" t…