Where U.S. Special Forces Buy Their Weapons
1st May 2018
The most fun thing about SOFIC is trying to figure out which of its 11,000 attendees can kill you with his bare hands. The second most fun thing about SOFIC is the expo floor: 95,000 square feet of tanks, radios, rovers, ropes, tactical wet suits, parachute simulators, carbon-fiber rifles, search-and-rescue Sea-Doos, underwater breathing apparatuses, “pyrotechnic products” that look uncomfortably like cartoon bombs, and at least one snow motorcycle. It’s like the annual sales conference for James Bond’s Q Branch: The CIA has a booth. So do General Dynamics, Glock, and Raytheon. There are photos of airplanes for sale. Planes!