POTD: Royal Australian Navy Sailor Using F88 Austeyr
The number of internet users worldwide will soon reach the 5-billion mark. Our world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread globally in a matter of minutes, but the story and the necessary context sometimes gets left behind. Not in TFB’s Photo Of The Day, we will always accompany the images with a background and credits to the maker. Today we are in Operation Mazurka, where we see a Royal Australian Navy sailor taking part in a weapons practice with an F88 Austeyr on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
Here’s the caption from the Royal Australian Navy:
Royal Australian Navy sailor Leading Seaman Maritime Logistics – Supply Chain Submarines Stephen Grieve, is deployed to the Sinai on Operation MAZURKA as a member of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO).
The MFO is a non-UN organisation established in 1981 to supervise the implementation of the security provisions of the Egyptian-Israeli Treaty of Peace.
The Australian contingent fills key positions within MFO such as military liaison officers, operations, security and logistics roles
Ex-Arctic Ranger. Competitive practical shooter and hunter with a European focus. Always ready to increase my collection of modern semi-automatics, optics, thermals and suppressors. TCCC Certified. Occasionaly seen in a 6x6 Bug Out Vehicle, always with a big smile.
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These are so fricking cool
You would hope they would be available on the USA market soon as they are dropped as the Australian main weapons platform in favor of an AR platform (presumably to join the USA Sig Replacement the Sig 300BO Rattler already announced as the first PDW Australia has fielded).
So they would have not reason to keep virtue signaling by not having guns available in the USA and people perchance using themin shootings and there being a Snowflake response in Australia.
Meanwhile in Australia we develop push button bolt release/ lever release rifles so that we can get as as close to Semi performance without actually being semiautomatic... :(