MDT Armor Corporation, a division of Arotech Corporation specializes in lightweight armoring for vehicles, aircraft and their operators. The company unveiled its newest armored vehicle, the Tiger Light Protected Vehicle in AUSA 2009. This mine protected light all terrain vehicle is based on a Dodge RAM platform, enhanced for travelling over rough terrain.
McMillan
McMillan offers tactical sniper rifles and accessories. The company’s TAC-50 offers high power and precision, resulting in effective shooting at extreme ranges. Developed as an anti-personnel weapon, TAC-50 also packs enough power for use in the traditional role as an anti-materiel firearm. McMillan’s TAC-50 rifle is also credited with the longest confirmed successful engagement on record. A Canadian Army sniper executed a confirmed 2,430 meter (2,657 yards) shot in Afghanistan setting a world record for the longest successful tactical
shot in combat.
The TAC-308 is designed for urban tactical scenarios where accuracy andreliability are critical.”McMillan’s TAC-50 is the preferred issue 50 caliber for many government and lawenforcement agencies, including international agencies, as a Long Range Sniper Rifle.
According to McMillan, TAC-50 has become the preferred issue 50 caliber Long Range Sniper Rifle for many government and law enforcement agencies, including international agencies.
Macro USA
MACRO USA develops and manufactures a range of robotic compact platforms designed for homeland security and military use. Some of the company’s prominent products include the Armadillo, a rugged, lightweight, man portable unmanned ground vehicle weighing up to 2.5 kg. Armadillo can carry loads of up to three kg, and operate at a distance of 200 – 250 meters from the operating console. Scorpion is a larger 6×6 robot, weighing 12.7 kg, carrying payloads up to 12 kg of weight. Its multi-mission design and effective obstacle negotiation makes it suitable for operations in caves, tunnels and other underground voids. The Scorpion can be controlled remotely via fiber-optical cable, facilitating ease of use in subterranean and urban terrain.
CAA Tactical
CAA Tactical designed the RONI shell kit to enable the conversion of a standard handgun and pistol into an accurate carbine. With the new kit, standard targets can be engaged at 50 yards and beyond, since the RONI kit significantly improves the shooter’s grip, accuracy and therefore, hit targets at extended ranges. RONI shell kits are available for Glock, SIG Sauer, Springfield and Beretta firearms.
A pistol can be installed in the RONI in 5 seconds, requiring no pistol disassembly or gunsmithing for installation. The design maintains zeroing repeatedly as long as the same handgun is used with the same kit. The weapon maintains the pistol’s cocking handle to operate the weapon, but the RONI’s enlarged cocking handle enables easier operation, and rapid, more efficient clearing of jams, performed in the same way as when shooting the pistol by itself. The shell kit comes with extra safety devices, such as a safety shroud to protect the trigger for pistols without a conventional safety devise. And a forward finger guard, protecting the forefinger from the hot barrel shroud.
50 Degree Company
Producing cooling vests for various applications, including law enforcement, security and military, fire, search and rescue and HAZMAT teams, industrial and personal use. Cooling vests, pads and vests for canines are provided.
Easy Rescue
Easy Rescue develops and markets the BUDDY system, a lightweight, easy-to-use alternative to traditional stretcher and gurneys systems used for casualty evacuation.
Made of durable lightweight fabric and sturdy plastic, the BUDDY was created by individuals with extensive experience in the civilian and military medical field. Folded and packed into the medical / evacuation kit, BUDDY is prepared for action in seconds, ready for immediate evacuation of injured or disabled personnel. Unlike the four-persons required to carry a single wounded person on a stretcher, BUDDY facilitates efficient and rapid transport with only two-persons. It allows hands-free evacuation, maintaining the evacuators’ capability to use of their hands for climbing, balancing or carrying and using weapons.
The BUDDY can be used in difficult to reach terrain like ravines, cliffs, or otherwise difficult terrain, It is suitable for evacuation of many types of injuries not requiring a stretcher.
Technorobot
Technorobot was designed specifically for police work, eliminating some of the risks associated with law enforcement operations, such as riots, prisons, and special operations.
First Light
First Light offers tactical, compact LED lights designed for wearable and weapon mounted applications. The Liberator product line fits nicely with hand wrist wearable, or belt or MOLLE attached. The Tomahawk line uses even smaller casement, featuring a Finger Loop Retention System uses a patent-pending design to securely fit your Tomahawk in the wearer’s hand.
Esc Baz
Esc Baz offers surveillance and communications equipment for security, surveillance and defense applications. The company offers short and long-range surveillance equipment, operated by man-portable remote control unit, for reconnaissance, intelligence gathering and target acquirement. The company also offers a new Hands-Free Radio (HFR) system designed for motorcycles and covert dismounted activities. The system can be paired with any existing Bluetooth communication device, such as motorcycle helmets or helmet add-ons, providing clear, high-quality Bluetooth audio between the 2-way radio unit and the user.
Digital Ally
Digital Ally offers advanced digital video police cameras and law enforcement surveillance equipment including covert, digital in-car video systems integrated into a rear view mirror, an all-weather video system designed for ATV, boats and motorcycles, a wearable body camera, and a miniature digital video system integrated into a flashlight. Other products include LIDAR based speed gun.
Desert Tech
Desert Tech offers the Stealth Recon Scout (SRS), a versatile sniper weapon system designed for highly accurate tactical sniping system for medium and long ranges. Despite its high accuracy, the SRS comes in a package that is shorter than the standard M16 Battle Rifle. The SRS is 11 inches shorter than conventional sniper weapons, because its bolt and magazine are located behind the pistol grip and because it utilizes a collapsible bolt design. This design shifts the weight rearward creating not only a shorter weapon but also a perfectly balanced rifle. The ergonomics and balance of the SRS are unheard of.
The company offers the Hard Target Interdiction Rifle, a compact and portable 50 caliber designed as a multi-caliber platform, allowing snipers to use the best extreme distance sniping cartridges currently available, including the .50 BMG, .408 Cheytac, .375 Cheytac, and .416 Barrett.
Multi-caliber options are also available to the compact SRS, for which the company offers conversion kits for .308 Winchester, .300, to the massive .338 Lapua Magnum, that almost matches the trajectory and effective range of the powerful 50 BMG, at less than half the weight. The SRS 338LM is over 20 inches shorter and weighs just 12 lbs and has proven to be very effective out to 1,800 meters.
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