Ian D’Costa

SIG designed a single priceless pistol with gilded engravings and custom grips and presented it to the hero SEAL in a private ceremony March 25, in recognition of National Medal of Honor Day.

While some of these gifts may include decorative vases, historical artifacts, paintings, etc., every so often a leader gets it right and brings over something pretty badass.

The H9 began its life as an ambidextrous rework of the popular 1911 platform, designed to give shooters a familiar frame with a few major improvements.

After a relatively short and streamlined testing and evaluation period, the NSPA awarded Belgian arms giant Fabrique National (FN) Herstal an expansive USD $50.3 million contract to be fulfilled by 2022.

These new rifles are just the latest in a massive re-armament program that will see the Indian military consolidating their extraordinarily diverse small arms arsenals into a select number of common weapons that will be standard issue throughout conventional infantry units.

KSK and KSM, which serve similar roles to Delta Force and the Navy’s top-tier DEVGRU unit, will receive a more ergonomic take on the 416 in the A7 variant.

Rostec, the massive state-owned aerospace, defense and technology conglomerate, put forward one design in the form of the Udav, a Double Action Only offering, just last year through its TSNIITOCHMASH corporation.

Kalashnikov’s RPK-16 aims to give Russian infantrymen a gun similar to the Stoner 63 — one that can be easily be transformed to suit the purposes of the mission ahead.