Snipers with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division recently got to test the performance of a new combat sniper rifle with a unique challenge: airborne insertion. The Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper ...

The Army recently awarded a contract that will result in the fielding of 250 XM2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle (ESR) weapon systems chambered for .300 Winchester Magnum ammunition. The new chambering ...

The Army is close to scrapping its infamous SA80 assault rifle after years of complaints over its reliability, the Daily Mail has learned. But supporters of the controversial weapon are fighting a ...

He’d just been hit by shrapnel on the battlefield of Hasin Vrh mountain in western Bosnia. Having broken the front lines of the Army of the ... in my automatic rifle, and I was thinking ...

The team was named the Honor Platoon. The name was later changed to the Drill Platoon. In 1958, the Drill Platoon was renamed the Blue Ridge Rifles in honor of the Dahlonega volunteer unit. Since its ...

The rifle has a firing range of 600 m. (Janes/Kapil Kajal) The Republic of China Army (RoCA) will procure nearly 25,000 new 5.56×45 mm assault rifles called XT112 to replace in-service T65 and ...

A 101st Airborne Division soldier fires the XM7 Rifle during a Next Generation Squad Weapons New Equipment Training event at Fort Campbell, Ky. on April 15, 2024. (Jason Amadi/Army) The first ...

Rifle Team members are eligible for Army ROTC Scholarships upon application. These scholarships are quite competitive and additional scholarships may be provided for exceptional Rifle Team prospects.

There are few weapons in the competitive multiplayer realm that can polarize its player base as dramatically as Counter-Strike's AWP (Arctic Warfare Police) sniper rifle. "AWP whore!", ...

His "dissident" activities led him to be expunged from the League of Communists, and he was imprisoned from 1972-74 and then again from 1981-84 ... military groups in Croatia and Bosnia.