The British Army has selected several Aimpoint optics solutions for various heavy weapons. According to Aimpoint, the FCS13-RE Fire Control System with TH-60 thermal clip-on has been selected to fulfill the SWESS-Heavy Mature Project requirement for optics for support [Read More…]
Imagine loading your M2 Browning .50 caliber heavy machine gun, as you hear the rotors of the heavy CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter increase in intensity as you take off above the South China Sea. You’re the door gunner! Sometimes it might be worth getting [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Once upon a time we used to run a mini-series called Minigun Monday. Well, this one isn’t a Minigun and never made it to our series, but it’s easy to get fooled. Upon closer look, it is a Browning M2 .50 BMG Heavy Machine Gun with a blank [Read More…]
Above we have a U.S. Marine AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter flying over the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California earlier this year. It uses a 20 mm M197 3-barreled Gatling cannon in an M97 turret with a 750 rounds ammo capacity, plus [Read More…]
Today we have some really nice pictures from France, and the 35e Régiment d’Infanterie. This is all about the .50 BMG heavy machine gun called M2HB Browning, as the sun sets at a military shooting range somewhere. It’s almost romantic! The M2 Browning is a [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s own Photo Of The Day. As the name says, this page is dedicated to rare and unique pictures which are updated daily. Today, we get a closer look at the heavy weapons of the Austrian Armed Forces, or the Bundesheer in Austrian. In Austrian service the [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Today we look at the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards with NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland, in Bemowo Piskie, Poland. The British soldier above is manning an L21A1 12.7mm heavy machine gun mounted on a Jackal armored [Read More…]
Today’s Photo brings us to the Combined Arms Training Center at Camp Fuji, Aichi, Japan. We look at US Marines operating a vehicle-mounted M2 machine gun on a range during Exercise Fuji Viper. Below: Marine Combined Anti-Armor Teams specialize in the operation of [Read More…]
Today’s Photo of The Day is a silhouette of a French Leclerc Mk2 Main Battle Tank (MBT), shrouded in smoke after firing during the live fire element of a joint UK/French exercise. The aim of the exercise, which took place in Estonia, was to give troops from both [Read More…]
As TFB reported last year, Norway has been looking to procure up to 1,300 M2 Heavy Machine Guns (HMGs), including tools and spares for a seven-year contract. The HMGs are to be mounted in existing Vinghog NM152 soft mounts as well as the Kongsberg Protector Nordic and [Read More…]
A combined operation between Australian Border Force and the Western Australia Police has arrested a man for having more than 20 illegally owned firearms, including a .50 calibre machine gun. Australian Border Force officers intercepted a package from Slovenia carrying [Read More…]
We’ve got another guns seized in Brazil post, but this ones a real doozy! Police in Barra da Tijuca, a neighborhood in the west side of Rio de Janerio, Brazil recently found and seized an M2 Browning machine gun chambered in .50 BMG. We’ve posted about gun [Read More…]
The US Army Materiel Command has shared an interesting behind the scenes video filmed at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama. Ever wonder what happens to the US Army’s tired small arms? All the M4s, M240s and M2 Heavy Machine Guns which have seen decades of [Read More…]
WWII warbirds have always interested me since I was a kid, I used to build model kits of P-51 Mustangs, Mitsubishi Zeros, Spitfires etc. A while back I posted a pretty cool video of the Twilight Tear, a P-51 Mustang test firing her six .50 caliber M2 Browning machine [Read More…]
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