The Photo Of The Day can be chosen for a variety of reasons, and bullpups are always popular. This baby is now 47 years into service, which is quite remarkable in itself. The StG 77 (Sturmgewehr 77) denotes the Austrian Armed Forces’ adoption of the Steyr AUG in [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We visit the Austrian Jägerbattalion of the Bundesheer. These soldiers are on the next step of becoming squad leaders, in one of their rounds of cadre candidate training. Their main firearm is of course the Steyr AUG bullpup rifle or the StG 77 [Read More…]
The Self-Defense Photo Of The Day. Above you have it, an Austrian Glock pointed at an attacker armed with a knife – way too close for comfort and bound to leave a mark or two somewhere, somehow, at least on someone. Luckily this is only melee training for the [Read More…]
In Today’s Photo Of The Day we get some fresh air from the Austrian Mountains. We are looking at soldiers with the Sturmgewehr 77, the Steyr AUG (from Armee-Universal-Gewehr) which is a bullpup design in 5.56×45 mm NATO. The pictures are from a multi-week [Read More…]
The AUG, short for “Armee-Universal-Gewehr” (universal army rifle), was designed in 1977 and was adopted by the Austrian Army as the StG 77 (Sturmgewehr 77) in 1978. Time flies and to honor the 40:th Anniversary, Steyr Arms Inc. are releasing the STG77 for [Read More…]
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