BALIKATAN 2007-03: OP Zambo Thunder, the third of the Balikatan 2007 Series organised by FilForce will be held in 11 November 2007... "The Abu Sayyaf and their Al Qaeda-Jemaah Islamiyah cohorts were able to again slip through the Philippine-United States dragnet but with a heavy loss in terms of the number of fighters killed. However, Philippine and US forces were not able to rescue the US soldier captured by the Abu Sayyaf during Operation Sulu Storm.

Point Blank Incorporated and Semper Fidelis Airsoft Team are announcing the Megaball 2007, an annual airsoft fellowship event for Philippine airsoft teams (we think other teams outside of the Philippines are also invited if they can find time to join them). This is a non-competition event, and is more geared towards generating camaraderie and cooperation among airsoft teams. It would be nice to join them there,  with all those raffle prizes, skirmishes, band entertainment, partying....the works.

Airsoft Games, a group based in Central Philippines, is presently organising the National CQB Competition for the 20th until the 28th of October 2007. This year's title is "Assault on Sector 5"... " This coming October 20 up to October 28, 2007, the Airsoft Games Club, Incorporated - Cebu Chapter brings you the 5th National Airsoft CQB Competition dubbed as Assault on Sector 5."

RSOV.com has some advice to its UK customers when ordering AEGs from Hong Kong without violating the VCRA. "To our valuable customers in U.K. We keep on receiving inquiries from U.K. customers asking to ship complete RIF / AEGs to U.K. as they are registered skirmishers and is legal to import RIF / AEGs. If you are really understand the VCR bill and know the terms and condition of the regulation. We are more than happy to ship your RIF /AEG order to U.K.

Another US airsoft event is coming up... "Airsoft Extreme and Gamepod Combat Airsoft have teamed up to bring you the first combined Operation to be held on an active Military Training Base in Northern California. Operation New Dawn! The event will be held Saturday 03 November 2007. Cost for the entire event is only $85.00 and automatically entered for their chance to win awesome raffle prizes!! The operation is limited to the first 250 registered players and promised to be an experience to remember.

The National Airsoft Magazine is organising the 2007 OPERATION BIOHAZARD... "Tired of the same ol' Ops? Want a good excuse to dust off that old gas pistol that's just rotting in your holster? Maybe you're just a zombie freak looking for something that's truly unique and scary to do for Halloween or, say, April. `SURVIVAL HORROR` fans, take it to the next level, right here!

We received an email announcement from Wolf Armouries that they will be open on the 30th of September in the countdown of the VCRA Act... "Due to customer requests, Wolf Armouries will be open on Sunday 30th September 2007 (from 12pm (1200hrs) to 5pm (1700hrs) for customers to get their last orders in before the Violent Crime Reduction Act comes into force on 1st October. IN ADDITION all internet orders can now be placed up until 2pm (1400hrs) on Sunday 30th.

Latest announcements from RSOV.com to its UK-based customers... "To our valuable customers in U.K.: We have cleared all airsoft guns orders to U.K. today which orders were placed before Setember 15, 2007. For orders that we shipped after September 15 we have used express service to make sure they can be sucessfully delivered on time and before the ban.

OPSEC Airsoft Radio has now made available the 13 September 2007 show for download. OPSEC Airsoft radio was put up in September 2005 by a group of airsoft enthusiasts "tired of reading several different websites to remain 'on-top' of the airsoft scene, but most importantly... tired of being out of the loop on local events/games." So they decided to put up something different --- and thus the online radio service for the airsoft world.