Photo Of The Day and we have some Modern Swedish Vikings in the bayou around the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi (United States). This is a NAVY partnership between the countries, and they are in fact a Swedish special boat unit training on the [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Above we’re looking at a U.S. Marine with the Marine Rotational Force-Europe as he provides cover fire for his squad. This happened during the Exercise Aurora in 2017 in a place called Lärbro, Sweden. Aurora 17 was the largest Swedish national [Read More…]
Welcome to our daily selection of pictures. By this time you know it, it’s TFB’s Photo Of The Day to keep you in a good mood. Get a coffee, take a break and enjoy a few minutes looking at the U.S. SOF with the Ak5 (FN FNC) below. This is quite an unusual sight, [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have great pictures where soldiers from the Swedish Home Guard and U.S. Army Green Berets train together. It is easy to lay the eyes on the Swedish Heckler & Koch G3 clone called Ak4. As you can see these have the Aimpoint CS red dot sights [Read More…]
In previous Photos Of The Day articles, we have looked at Russian Combat Swimmers with the APS Underwater Rifle and US Naval Special Warfare Military Diving Operations. We also had the postcards from the German Kampfschwimmers from a much warmer place than Sweden. Above [Read More…]
As the Swedish Army is looking for a New Multi-Caliber Sniper Weapon System, the snipers are busy using their current issue sniper rifle called PSG 90B (AI AW) in 7.62×51 mm. This is our topic for today’s Photo Of The Day. Below: Hiding in the forest, using [Read More…]
Two years ago Speer Ammunition‘s sister company Federal Premium received a five-year duty ammunition contract from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Speer has now been awarded the joint Nordic Police 9×19 mm duty handgun ammunition contract with their well-known [Read More…]
In 1952 the Swedish Parachute Ranger School was created. Today they host the Parachute Rangers and the Special Operations Group. As you can imagine the focus is to use small and specialized Ranger units which are capable of operating deep behind enemy lines and inside [Read More…]
Sweden’s Spuhr i Dalby AB have announced that the Swedish armed forces have ordered an undisclosed additional number of their adjustable stocks for their G3-pattern Ak 4 rifles. This follows the last order in October 2019. We recently covered the history of Håkan [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Today we have some TFB exclusive pictures of the Swedish M/45BE submachine gun. “E” stands for “Enkelskott” in Swedish, or single shot (semi-automatic) in English, which is quite appropriate for a Law Enforcement [Read More…]
Sweden has still not voted about how and when the EU Firearms Directive (EU Gun Ban) is going to be introduced. Many parties want to use the EU’s minimum requirement, which in many ways already is quite close to the current Swedish legislation. Others want to use [Read More…]
Spuhr of Sweden has had quite some success with various stocks for various Heckler & Koch rifles like the G3 and the MP5. For instance the Swedish and Portuguese G3 upgrade orders as well as the large MP5 upgrade order from the German Bundespolizei. Spuhr now has [Read More…]
It is nice to see the rifles for target shooting develop, as the interest for diopter target shooting is on the decrease as other more modern firearms, optics and other target shooting sports evolve. The 200 PHOENIX from SIG SAUER GmbH (the European arm of SIG Sauer) [Read More…]
Just like the Department of Homeland Security (USA), the Swedish Police Force has now ordered the GL06 40 mm less-lethal grenade launchers made by B&T in Switzerland. I hope this article doesn’t confuse you now, with Switzerland and Sweden in the same [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is a rare sight. Using the Accuracy International L96A1 as a base model, this is one of eight (1 of 8) of the first AI AW (Arctic Warfare) that were ever made. The AW models were improved to withstand colder conditions. These were [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day takes us to the Land Warfare Center in Sweden (Kvarn), where the Guard Jaeger Regiment from Finland found it suitable to do some training. This is Sweden’s largest facility for urban warfare, for fighting in built-up areas.. The [Read More…]
No less than six Glock 17 pistols have been stolen from inside the Swedish Government Offices in Stockholm. This was reported yesterday in Dagens Juridik (Today’s Law), which is a Swedish daily online newspage about matters of the law. (Normally they have between [Read More…]
In TFB’s Photo Of The Day, old meets new, as we take a closer look at a custom EAW twist mount to make a modern Aimpoint Acro fit a Remington 700. EAW was founded by Ernst Apel Senior in 1919 and is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, manufacturer of mounts in [Read More…]
Spuhr in Sweden just released the news that they got a large H&K MP5 upgrade order from the German Bundespolizei. Just a few days later it is time for another positive announcement. On this occasion, it’s another upgrade for an aging Heckler & Koch [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…]
In 2018 Sweden won the European Best Sniper Team Competition. The team later came in at the third place overall at the 2018 International Sniper Competition in the USA. In 2019 they are back in Germany to defend their place on the podium. That’s the subject of [Read More…]
It has been 30 years since the Swedish Police Force last changed their service weapons. But they’re now beginning the search for new duty pistols. The Swedish Police are evaluating several brands and models. In the last few months, the Police have tested no [Read More…]
The Portuguese NAVY joins the Swedish Army and Home Guard in bringing eternal life to the Heckler & Koch G3 by buying the Spuhr Upgrade Kit for their service rifles. The deal is done by the NT Group in Portugal. According to their homepage, their mission is [Read More…]
I’ve had the Aimpoint ACRO P-1 now for a while. I didn’t realize I was one of the first ones to get one, so I took no hurry in my evaluation. On the other hand, there are some benefits with evaluating products over time rather than just over the day. [Read More…]
Location: Löddeköping, South of Sweden. I guess you haven’t been there and wasn’t planning to go there either? That’s fine, to be honest, neither was I until I got an invitation for a Factory Visit to Spuhr, makers of rifle scope mounts and other [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…]
This is Snigel Design‘s first appearance here at TFB (well almost). Where does the strange name come from? The company is located in Sweden and in Swedish a snail is called “snigel”. “The snail is the creature that lives in the forest and always [Read More…]
Hearing protection can be so much more than protecting the hearing. Some use a simple foam for their ear canals and it fits their needs, but some users have increased needs. With the right technology you can combine hearing protection with communication, and the 6:th [Read More…]
Today’s Photos are from this hot summer’s Exercise Archipelago Endeavor. The Swedish Marines of 1:st Marine Regiment aboard the island of Korso, Harsfjarden, Sweden, together with the U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Europe 18.1 conduct an [Read More…]
The European Rifle Championship becomes the IPSC Rifle World Championship 2019. After the devastating forest fires that forced IPSC Sweden to cancel the European Rifle Championship there is now some good news on the horizon. In the recent vote at the IPSC General [Read More…]
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