Jump in the fire Let me start by saying: I enjoy the use of explosive targets, APIT rounds, tracers, etc as part of range time when appropriate. Blowing stuff up, setting things on fire, and streaming tracers downrange are always highlights of big shoots like Knob [Read More…]
Jerry Miculek shows off a rather rare pistol. It is a S&W Performance Shop over run production 5906 that was made for an overseas contract. According to the video title it may have been made for Mexican Special Forces. According to Jerry, it’s hand made and [Read More…]
Do not ask "why", instead as "why not?". Our door friend Andrew takes a Serbu BFG-50A, loads it up with .50 BMG Armor Piercing Incendiary rounds and sees what kind of damage it can do to a large engine.
Wow, another billet lower. It seems like every week a new company pops up with an AR-15 lower offering. At this point I think most of us are starting to experience lower fatigue. You are now probably wondering, why should you care about this one? I stumbled [Read More…]
Good afternoon everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the brand new YHM 338 Bad Larry Suppressor. Last week we discussed the purported criminal use of suppressors. This week we take a look at [Read More…]
Teledyne FLIR has a new HISS-HD thermal optic that allows shooters to view standard rifle rounds like tracer bullets, as they travel to the target.
Those of you who follow the 3D printing and DIY antics of Jonathan Wild (AKA Wild Arms Research and Development) will no doubt have heard of his recent efforts to produce a replica M202 FLASH recoilless launcher. While we have heavily covered the test launches and [Read More…]
Wildfires have long been a feature of life in the western states. Unfortunately, target shooting starts some of those fires. The good news is that target shooting fires are preventable, so let’s discuss how we can keep them from happening. Public lands make for [Read More…]
The M202A1 Flame Assault Shoulder Weapon (FlASh) is a lightweight multishot reusable rocket launcher designed and developed in the United States in 1972. Although most people will inevitably recognize it from the 1985 film Commando starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the [Read More…]
Former Sparks, Nevada Chief of Police Steve Keefer has taken to heart his role in police survival, even in retirement. He understands the value of training, in particular “reality-based training,” which for many agencies refers to role play with inert munitions. Its [Read More…]
The Cadex CDX-50 Tremor is designed to deliver the massive .50 BMG payload with extreme accuracy. The newest variant to the Tremor lineup is the compact 20″ barreled one that’s designed specifically for Law Enforcement and Military applications. [Read More…]
Over the past couple of months, the Ukrainian MAYAK arms plant has been quite active on their social media pages publishing information on a variety of new and prototype firearms. Last week we talked about their KalashNash rifle, an AK variant that has a barrel change [Read More…]
Last week, deputies from the Alexander County North Carolina Sherrif’s Office recovered a modified weapon during the course of a search of a vehicle during a traffic stop. Jennifer Lee Haun, the driver, was soon arrested for felony possession of a controlled [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we go to the training grounds of Węgorzewo in Poland to see some hot and smokey training in cold-air temperature. The soldier above probably has a FB Beryl with an EOTech sight. I remember doing similar training as a conscript when we weren’t [Read More…]
With the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo just around the corner, the news is already beginning to fire up about the big summer event. One major event, the lighting of the Olympic flame and its journey to the host nation for the Olympic Games. A Gold Medalist from the 2016 [Read More…]
MAC, LLC, the Mississippi-based lightweight polymer tech specialists, have won a $10 million indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity contract to provide the US Marine Corps with uptp 2.4 million rounds of hybrid polymer/brass-cased .50 calibre ammunition. The contract [Read More…]
TFB’s Top 10 Sci-fi Movie Guns PArt II Welcome back to our Sci-Fi Movie guns series where we explore and discuss various weapons used in sci-fi movies and TV shows. This week we’re going to dive deeper into the weird and interesting movies ranging as far [Read More…]
The current sniper rifles in the Swedish Army are the PSG90 and the AG90. The AG90 is the Barret M82 in .50 BMG and the PSG90 is made by Accuracy International in .308 Win. The M82 is more of an anti-material rifle than a sniper rifle. After a lot of testing the [Read More…]
A new set of US Department of Defense solicitations has been published on the website of a US government program called SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research). While browsing the list of projects, I came across a USSOCOM (United States Special Operations Command) [Read More…]
In the picture above we can see FN Herstal’s new full range of cartridges in the 5.56x45mm NATO caliber, these will be shown in London, at the Defense and Security Equipment International Exhibition. In total, four new FN Herstal cartridges will be unveiled at the [Read More…]
TFB has reported about the EU Firearms Directive (called the EU Gun Ban) before, and as the directive now slowly is settling around the various EU countries we continue to report about the development. We do this from a firearms legislation standpoint, not a political [Read More…]
Today’s photo features a California Firefighter firing what looks a lot like an X-Products Can Cannon. In fact that is a flare launcher, the Large Format Launcher (LFL) from fire fighting equipment company Firequick Products. Like the Can Cannon the launcher is [Read More…]
The following is a brief history of the Chinese Type-70 Anti-tank Launcher, a weapon that was never effectively deployed in combat, falling in between other weapon platforms. During World War 2, Chinese Military Command found out that the forward troops lacked infantry [Read More…]
After a long break, Jerry Miculek resumed creating and publishing videos on his YouTube channel. There is no doubt that most of our readers know who is Jerry Miculek and that the content he creates has an overwhelmingly high level of coolness. In the latest video [Read More…]
About a year ago, Professor Afsaneh Rabiei of North Carolina State University developed composite metal foam (CMF) armor plates. In a test conducted in 2017, the 1″ thick plate performed impressively against small arms bullets and managed to get NIJ Level IV [Read More…]
A hearty welcome to Deviant Ollam, of The CORE Group, as he contributes a 3-part series about “Flying with Firearms”. As a well-known security lecturer, trainer, and gun aficionado, he brings the most complete knowledge dump you will find anywhere on the web [Read More…]
A warning against romanticism in military planning. In the early 1940s, the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) made a fateful decision that would affect the lives of tens of thousands of men over the next decade. Two years prior, the Army had just begun testing her newest [Read More…]
Being a defense show rather than a firearms industry show, there are a bunch of interesting products to see at AUSA that one might not get a peek at elsewhere. An example of this kind of product is the Modular Interlocking Ballistic Barriers from KF Armory. These [Read More…]
In the coming decades, it is likely that one of the biggest challenges facing small arms ammunition designers will be solving the problem of how to deal with advanced body armors. The problem is already percolating to the surface, as Level IV body armor – which is [Read More…]
The A-10 “Warthog” attack aircraft is beloved by pilots and gun enthusiasts alike, and not the least because of its powerful 30mm GAU-8 Gatling cannon. On the other side the Cold War, though, another aircraft was developed with matched an equally rugged and [Read More…]
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