“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” That’s probably the most common mistake, but we can’t really complain about the image above? Valmets and Aimpoints in the Winter Warfare Training during Arctic Forge 2023, in our [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – A Marine assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) fires an M4A1 carbine during in a live-fire small arms exercise in the hangar bay of the forward-deployed amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA 6), in the Philippine Sea. USS [Read More…]
You may remember our recent “Full-Auto on Pearl River“, and we are back again – but on land! This Photo Of The Day shows international security force professionals from Niger, shooting the M240B machine gun with blank and live ammunition. This [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for over 9 years. Today we offer a bunch of images from the Al Asad Air Base, in Iraq. This military airbase is located in the [Read More…]
Top of the day and welcome to our Photo Of The Day! It’s fantastic to see the M110 SASS in the wild, on a tripod. You see a U.S. Army National Guard soldier, assigned to Task Force Wolfhound, East Africa Response Force (EARF), conducting high angle shooting [Read More…]
One of the benefits of our Photo Of The Day is that you can travel the world without a sweat. Today we’re in Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, located off the coast of Venezuela. You see a beach reconnaissance team member from the Royal [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Finnish Lapland, some 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of the Arctic Circle, and we’re visiting the Sodankylä Garrison, in the middle of winter 2023. Above you see a U.S. Army cavalry scout assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 183rd Cavalry Regiment, [Read More…]
We are in Japan in this Photo Of The Day. Above you see a U.S. Marine Corps scout sniper, from the Battalion Landing Team 1/4, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, as he fires an M40 A6 sniper system during a bilateral sniper live-fire exercise with soldiers from 1st [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have the M500 Shotgun on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60), during a visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) gun shoot. The Paul Hamilton is part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, in [Read More…]
Our daily article series called Photo Of The Day will take you to some very exciting and unusual places sometimes. In this case, the caliber is more of a curiosity than the rifle itself, as we have a Chinese NDM-86 SVD clone chambered in 7.62 NATO. It comes from the [Read More…]
The strangest looking firearm ever on TFB’s Photo Of The Day? Here we see selected soldiers from the units of the 101st Engineer Battalion taking advantage of the opportunity that the Massachusetts National Guard offered. Their battalion coordinated with SARTS [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we’re in the Marina Urban Training Facility (Singapore) together with U.S. Marines looking at the SAR-21 Service Rifle with Round Corner Firing Module. Above you see Singapore Army soldiers with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion Singapore Guards, [Read More…]
It’s the Photo Of The Day o’clock and above we see a Hulk-like Lance Cpl. Matthew J. Zawisky, a Marine with the Guard Company, Marine Barracks Washington as he posts security around a simulated landing zone during a casualty evacuation scenario at Marine Corps [Read More…]
Our Photo Of The Day daily article series will take you to some very exciting and unusual places sometimes. Like today, where we see a Barrett M82 / M107A1 at the Arta Range in Djibouti. Here we see U.S. Army soldiers as they play around with and shoot this sniper [Read More…]
Welcome to Pearl River, South Mississippi! We have some of the coolest images “on board” here at TFB. In today’s Photo Of The Day, we get to know the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS) better, as they train [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Start your day with this collection of images from Riga, Latvia. We have a soldier assigned to the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Company Europe (FASTEUR), aiming an M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System during an embassy security drill at the U.S. [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we take a look at Task Force Red Dragon, Headquartered in Lynchburg, VA, the First Battalion 116th Infantry Regiment. These images were published as the National Guard Soldiers from Virginia and Kentucky ended their Africa mission in 2022. Task [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Above you see a “SkySoldier” with the 2-503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment “The Rock”, as he engages targets with a Beretta ARX160 for weapon familiarization training alongside the Esercito Italiano from the 3rd Alpini Regiment. [Read More…]
Today’s location is the Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We see U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jordan Courtney, 378th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron K9 handler, training with Mirco, her military working dog. The Prince Sultan Air Base is a [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is a special Beretta SO Sparviere over and under shotgun from Pietro Beretta Custom Atelier made for Sylvester Stallone as a “unique tribute to his acting career and to the legendary role of the Italian American boxer he’s been [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day tries to push the excellent work done by so many photographers around the world and in the firearms industry. It’s a celebration of those who go in harm’s way trying to catch those special moments for us, but also those who stay in the [Read More…]
Welcome to another edition of our Photo Of The Day. We’re always on the lookout for the best firearms-related images out there, with the goal to give your eyes something worth watching every day. Cinematic Arms caught the moment with this AR-180. The Armalite Costa [Read More…]
TFB is back with our Photo Of The Day. Every day we bring you a selection of photo highlights, and today’s selection is quite entertaining. These are from the U.S. Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, which is a combat system developed to combine various martial [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Today we’re going to have a look at the SIG Sauer P320-M18 handgun. Above you see a U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt., from the 177th Operations Squadron C2 operations as he fires “his”. The images are from the FAA William J. Hughes [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we join the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Okinawa, Japan. We see U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Damien Layton, left, and Cpl. Carlos Ambrosio, field artillery cannoneers with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, sighting in an M240B machine gun while [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Above you see a U.S. Soldier, assigned to the 2d Cavalry Regiment, engaging an enemy tank during Dragoon Ready 23 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, 2023. Dragoon Ready 23 is designed to ensure readiness and train the [Read More…]
What a fantastic time to be alive! Here we are again with our Photo Of The Day, which seems to be from the future, but from a future that exists already today. Above we have a rare sight. We see a soldier firing an unsuppressed XM-7 Rifle with the XM-157 Fire Control. [Read More…]
It’s Photo Of The Day o’clock and we are looking straight into the barrel of a Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) gunner assigned to 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, as he pulls security. The vehicle [Read More…]
The goal with TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to give your eyes something worth watching every day. Over the years, we have shown firearms and soldiers from North to South, East to West in almost any imaginable situation and climate. For those living in Europe, the almost [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Photojournalism is the process of telling a story using photos as the main way to tell the story. A journalist uses a pen and paper to write stories, but a photojournalist uses a camera to take pictures that show what a story is about. Above you see [Read More…]
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