The Army’s two handguns: One shooter’s thoughts on the Glock 19 and the Sig Sauer P320

The Army started issuing the P320 full sized pistol and the P320 compact pistol, referred to by the Army as the M17 and M18 respectively, to the 101st Airborne Division in November of 2017. That said, it goes without saying that the US special operations community has a bit more leeway in their choice of weapons and gear, and in 2015 it was reported that the US Army Rangers, Special Forces groups and 160th SOAR (followed shortly by MARSOC) had chosen to outfit their units with the Glock 19. When the MHS competition was still ongoing, Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, who was base commander of Fort Hood while I was there, elected to allow the SOF community to go with the Glock 19 regardless of the outcome of the competition.

By |2019-10-22T06:00:10-04:00October 22, 2019|Gear Reviews, Grey Man, Weapons|10 Comments

THE FUTURE IS DRONE WARFARE

The small size of attack drones and their global availability makes them especially attractive to non-state actors, or to nations (Iran in the Saudi case) who wish to arm proxies with effective weapons while maintaining deniability.  In the current Saudi (or a potential United States civil war scenario), with Balkanized ethnic or religious groups mixed across the battle space, it will always be possible for an enemy guerrilla team to get within drone-launching range of their targets. 

By |2019-09-15T10:03:58-04:00September 15, 2019|Matt Bracken, News and Links, Tactical, Weapons|18 Comments
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