Spec Ops Magazine

10/20/2024

The year was 2002. The call came late in the evening from the head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in the southern port city of Aden. He requested that I grab the first…

10/08/2024

Delta Force C Squadron operators and 1st of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) MH-60 Blackhawk, Super 61, Mogadishu Somalia…1993

10/03/2024

I was driving home from the gym. It was late afternoon on 29 September 2002. The sun, hanging low in the sky, was casting long shadows across the roadway. I generally worked-out in the afternoon after leaving my office around 3:00 PM (my workdays began at 7:00 AM). I had been serving

10/01/2024

ODA 🇺🇸

The Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA, A-Team, SFOD-A) is the operational element of the U.S. Army Special Forces. Unlike the rest of the army, it is designed to conduct operations entirely independently, which has a tactical and strategic operations hierarchy—Operational Detachment...

08/27/2024

If you’re interested in military history, I’ve found an excellent YouTube channel with lots of videos about the Bosnian conflict from 30 years ago. Feel free to check it out—they publish new videos weekly.

Ratni videozapisi od Drine do Une Dobrodošli na kanal VIHOR, posvećen dokumentovanju odbrambeno-oslobodilačkog rata u Bosni i Hercegovini. Ovdje ćete pronaći autentične i nemontirane videozapise s prvih linija fronta i iz svakodnevnog života u periodu od 1992. do 1995. godine, posebno s podru...

08/14/2024

Robo dogs on Ukraine frontlines. Future now!

08/05/2024

The IWI Negev was designed as a light machine gun in the late 1980s. It was produced by developed by the Israeli firearm manufacturer, Israel Weapon

08/05/2024

Spectre M4 submachine gun appeared in 1983 and has several unusual features. The designer set out to develop a weapon that could be used intuitively and

08/04/2024

The Steyr AUG 9 Para rifle was the first “modular” design: the barrel, receiver, and firing mechanism can all be changed to configure the weapon into

08/04/2024

The AKS-74U is a specialized shortened version of the world’s most famous assault rifle. When the Soviets adopted the Kalashnikov 7.62 mm rifle, they

08/03/2024

Steyr TMP is Tactical Machine Pistol made by the Austrian Company Steyr-Mannlicher. It belongs in the emerging group of Personal Defense Weapons –

08/02/2024

Steyr SSG 69 is a sniper rifle produced by Steyr-Mannlicher, and it is chambered for the 7.62x51 NATO cartridge (also known as the .308Win). I have

08/01/2024

The SIG Sauer P220 is an excellent military pistol designed by Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft. It was a revolutionary model introduced in

07/31/2024

IWI Jericho 941 is a pistol made in Israel. Israel is a nation that lives the dramatic feeling of being in constant pre-alarm and, despite having a

07/30/2024

Walther PPS (Polizei Pistole Schmal – Police Pistole Slim) is the most recent offering from the famous German gun-making company Carl Walther GmbH. It was

07/29/2024

The CZ 100 pistol was introduced in 1995. It has a double-action-only trigger mechanism. This means it can only be fired in double-action. The firing pin

07/28/2024

The FN FNP-45 pistol is the next step in the evolution of the FNP pistol line. First announced in 2007, the FN FNP-45 is just one of the many new, modern