POTD: Norwegian SWAT Team with Heckler & Koch Guns
Photo Of The Day: The Norwegian SWAT Team practice boarding on the Norwegian coast guard ship KV Barentshav. The main firearm above is the Heckler & Koch MP5 in 9×19 mm, but note the sand-colored AN/PEQ-15 and the marine finish. In the Norwegian Armed Forces, the H&K MP5 has been replaced by the H&K MP7, which has been the subject in many previous POTDs.
Can anyone identify what this SWAT member is carrying on his back?
Heckler & Koch MP5 with a lot of upgrades on it. Blue magazines for training.
Below: Possibly the Heckler & Koch P30 semi-automatic pistol, as used by the Norwegian Police Service.
If any of our readers can provide some insight into the “marine finish” of the MP5, please come forward in the comments below. There was no information online to be found.
Photo source: Peder Torp Mathisen / Forsvaret. Norwegian Defense.
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In the spirit of speculation... Maybe, the POTD is showing guns used solely for training. The pistols have blue frames and the MP-5 mags have blue tape on their mags.
I would bet blue denotes the use of simunitions. Seeing the pistols makes me wonder if the MP-5s are just dedicated training guns. IIRC, simunitions muck up guns, so maybe someone sprang for a batch of MP-5 or sequestered off some older ones for use solely in training.
My benchmark for ths is a Glock course some friends of mine took where they said they carried blue training guns to get used to carrying concealed - blue signified the guns were inoperable. For the force-on-force training they said the course used dedicated Gen 2 G17s; that's the part where they used simunitions. So, real G17s for range firing, inoperabel blue-framed G17s for carrying around, and Gen 2s for force-on-force.
Possibly supplemental air tank on the back, given the other maritime survival gear they're carrying and what looks like a regulator over the left shoulder in some other pics.