Author: Jack Bogart

The white cross with red surround has long been a sacred badge in the world of knives, indicating the timeless dependability and versatility of the Swiss Army knife. The latest multifunctional pocket knife to float onto our computer screen isn’t a white cross-badged Swiss Army knife, but it wears an equally proud badge of origin and heritage. The newly released Böker Treebrand Camp Knife is a purely German design, its roots winding back hundreds of years to the 17th century. Boker isn’t just older than Victorinox, it is one of the oldest knife companies in the world. But it is…

Tiberius Aerospace, the modern defense technology company building next-generation weapon systems and AI-powered defense solutions for the United States, United Kingdom and allied nations, today announced that Invictus is moving from early laboratory investigation to prove the concept into formal engineering Test & Evaluation (T&E) development, marking a major step towards fielding its next-generation long-range precision strike system. Invictus is a tube-launched, multi-mission system designed for integration across multiple platforms and domains. Its architecture is intended to support launch from vertical launch systems and autonomous vehicles operating across land and sea, giving warfighters greater flexibility in how long-range precision effects…

SOFWERX – UxSAI Mission Autonomy Systems Assessment Event SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM Program Executive Office SOF Digital Applications (PEO-SDA), will host a series of events to identify and evaluate decentralized and collaborative mission autonomy solutions for heterogeneous, multi-platform, multi-domain unmanned systems in support of the Unmanned Systems Autonomy and Interoperability (UxSAI) program.  Fielding and sustaining autonomy on unmanned systems requires mission autonomy software capable of executing diverse missions within complex, rapidly changing environments and traditional vertical-stack autonomy is constrained by proprietary, vendor-locked software architectures and is highly vulnerable to communications denial in contested electromagnetic environments. Decentralized mission autonomy addresses…

By Yamil Sued Posted in #Gear Editor’s Note: This EYV Hybrid holster review is based on testing of the holsters that were provided to the author by the company. All impressions regarding comfort, retention, concealment, and drawstroke are based on the author’s experiences of daily concealed carry and range time with the holster paired with a Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro. As someone who carries a handgun concealed every day, I am always searching for safer, more comfortable ways to carry. Over time, I’ve found that hybrid holsters tend to increase overall comfort and, more importantly, encourage me to keep the…

Approximately 150 American companies, many of them veteran-owned, are joining forces to create the IWE to help solve the defense industrial base crisisPAYSON, Utah, Aug. 21, 2026 — Utah Governor Spencer Cox and former Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller today participated in the launch of the Integrated Warfighter Ecosystem (IWE). The IWE is a coalition of approximately 150 predominantly small to midsized American companies, many of them veteran-owned businesses, that have joined forces to close capability gaps, bridge the defense industrial base’s ‘Valley of Death,’ and deliver integrated solutions to the warfighter faster. CenCore, an Utah-based company, is the integrator and founder…

Every loadout has gear that doesn’t fit neatly into a magazine pocket or a radio pouch. The FirstSpear GENERAL PURPOSE POCKET family is built to handle exactly that, providing durable, modular storage solutions that mount cleanly to any 6/9™ or 6/12™ compatible platform and adapt to whatever the mission requires. Whether you are organizing medical supplies, tools, admin essentials, or mission-specific gear, the GP Pocket family gives you a purpose-built solution in three distinct configurations, each designed around a different capacity and use case. Features 6/9™ AND 6/12™ ATTACHMENT — MOLLE COMPATIBLE THREE SIZE-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATIONS DUAL ZIPPER AND G HOOK…

Trying to understand kinetic energy can be confusing, but here we break down how it affects terminal performance.When shooters seek information about the performance of handgun ammunition for personal protection they most often look at bullet caliber and weight, plus muzzle velocity and muzzle energy. Of those four metrics, bullet caliber and weight and muzzle velocity are the easiest for us to wrap our heads around. We can see the size of the bullet, feel how much it weighs, and we are intimately familiar with speed. What shooters find difficult to comprehend is kinetic energy due to a lack of…

Another new TOPS model to talk about: the Silent Hero 4 Tanto. It’s more than just a new blade shape here, with alterations across the board to fit the Silent Hero concept into a tactical use category. There is an interesting history behind this new Silent Hero 4 release. It originates in the Silent Hero, a fixed blade designed by Anton du Plessis to be the all-purpose fixed blade tool for his work in the field against poaching operations in South Africa. The original TOPS Silent Hero had a blade length of 6.38 inches, and eventually it spawned the Silent…

Yesterday’s topic of discussion was the TOPS Silent Hero 4 Tanto, a full-sized tactical knife (albeit scaled down from its outdoors knife predecessor). Today we’re looking at another fixed blade, but one that is much smaller, and with a much different use category: the Boker Plus Li’l Friend Micro. With a name like that, we don’t need to tell you that the Friend is not a tactical knife, nor a hard use one in the broader sense. No, this one is a EDC fixie, and one on the smaller side with a 1.38-inch drop point blade. That being said, the…

PICATINNY ARSENAL, NJ  – Despite public speculation and online misinformation regarding the pistol’s safety, Project Manager Soldier Lethality (PM SL), the Department of War’s official lead for the Modular Handgun System (MHS), confirms that there has never been a mechanically-caused accidental discharge. All investigated incidents of alleged “uncommanded discharges” have been traced back to the trigger being pulled. Rigorous Testing and Safety by Design The MHS, comprised of the M17 (full-size) and M18 (compact) 9mm striker-fired pistols, is a thoroughly tested, safe, and reliable weapon system for the modern Warfighter. Since the first systems were fielded to the 101st Airborne Division…