I recently had the chance to try out one of the newest small arms made in Ukraine – the UAR-15 rifle which was developed for the Ukrainian military. TLDR: These are really well-built AR-style rifles, and it’s a shame they are not likely to go on the [Read More…]
After seeing a considerable number of Colt Canada C7 rifles and C8 carbines being used in Ukraine, I decided to investigate their origins reaching out to various Ministries of Defense to enquire if they had provided the rifles. The Canadian Ministry of National Defence [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have the Special Support Unit (SSU) of Bosnia-Herzegovina State Investigation Protection Agency (SIPA) with the 10th Special Forces Group green berets in an exercise called Brutalist Tornjak. These Special Forces assault their objective after [Read More…]
Photojournalism is the process of storytelling using the medium of photography as your main storytelling device. While a journalist will use their pen and paper to tell stories, a photojournalist will use their camera to capture the visual representation of a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have a very smoky shot of an Army M2A3 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle as it fires its main gun, the 25mm M242 chain gun. The Bradley carries 900 rounds for it. It also has a coaxially mounted M240C machine gun with 2,200 rounds of 7.62 [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Life without the Internet, how would it be? How would you make it? You certainly wouldn’t be able to see these images of United Kingdom Royal Marines from 45 Commando, together with U.S. Army Green Berets from the 10th Special Forces Group [Read More…]
The year 2022 started with a bang and TBF’s Photo Of The Day has never been so diversified. Today we have Lantac UK‘s picture of their Battle Raven LA-M4, which is said to be using completely new alloys that deliver a 14% strength gain combined with an 8% [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day where we once again let the machine gun do the talking. We see a Belgian Armed Forces soldier as he engages the enemy during a dynamic display. This happened during Exercise Iron Wolf 22 at Pabradė Training Area, in Lithuania, in October 2022. Belgium [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Photojournalism is the process of storytelling using the medium of photography as your main storytelling device. While a journalist will use their pen and paper to tell stories, a photojournalist will use their camera to capture the visual [Read More…]
The US Department of Defense has awarded Winchester a cost-plus contract to carry out a manufacturing study to produce tracer projectiles for the US Army’s new family of 6.8mm weapons. The development will take place at the Lake City Ammunition Plant which Olin [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have some rare photos of Republic of Korea Special Warfare Command (RoK SWC) service members together with Green Berets from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne). They’re pulling security after conducting an attack against [Read More…]
Our Photo Of The Day can be anything related to firearms, and sometimes – but very rarely – we extend the topic beyond that. Over the years, we have covered a vast number of firearms, soldiers and armies around the world. Today we have a Rocket Launch on the [Read More…]
The FN F2000 made its debut in 2001. Designed by FN Herstal in Belgium, it is a bullpup rifle chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO. It never looked so compact before as in the Photo Of The Day above. The F2000 S is a version modified for the Slovenian Army, and it has an [Read More…]
Many of you will know the name MIL-SPEC Monkey from our previous work with him on TFBTV’s various morale patches. “Monkey”, as we call him, has been a military gear and weapons aficionado for quite some time with his study beginning within the video [Read More…]
The number of internet users worldwide will soon reach the 5-billion mark. Our world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread like wildfire, but the story and the necessary context sometimes gets left behind. Not in TFB’s Photo Of The Day where we will [Read More…]
Welcome back to our Photo Of The Day! If you haven’t shot the back-to-basics VZ-58 rifle, I can tell you that it sends the brass just as pictured here – kind of straight up, and with brute force to a place far, far away. Don’t try to bump fire one with [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and this is the third in a series of articles TFB is doing on the firearms used by the Finnish Army. Quite a few of their infantry firearms are manufactured in Finland, but the 7.62 KK PKM machine gun is actually from Russia. The caliber is 7.62×53mmR. [Read More…]
In case you have been longing for some Heckler & Koch content in our Photo Of The Day, the wait is over! Above you can clearly see the Heckler & Koch G36s in the hands of a German Bundeswehr Special Reconnaissance Squad soldiers. In order to remain undetected, [Read More…]
Geisslele Automatics won a contract to supply AR-15 rifles to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This new contract includes both complete rifles and upper receiver groups. Let’s take a look at the specifics of this contract, and what it might mean for [Read More…]
When SIG Sauer and SIG Sauer Electro-Optics first announced the introduction of their SIG Spear (M5) rifle they also paired it with a specific trim of the TANGO6T 1-6x24mm LPVO optic. This specific trim was designed and accepted by the U.S. Military and was dubbed the [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day is from Royal Netherlands Army. As you can imagine, everything gets a lot more difficult to manage if you need to wear a gas mask. Have you ever tried it? Just imagine how more difficult it gets to aim correctly. TodayThe firearm above looks like the [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms. From the Brigade Franco-Allemande (French-German Brigade) we have a nice selection on offer. What a lovely collection of sniper and precision rifles: from FN SCAR-H PR [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Every day, all year round we at TFB publish at least one photo together with an explanation about what’s going on. We’ve been doing this for a very long time, almost 10 years. Below you can see a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System vehicle [Read More…]
A machine gun going flat out is always welcome at TFB and our Photo Of The Day. Here we have U.S. soldiers with the Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment conducting a blank practice before a live fire exercise. The location is the 7th Army Training [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for over 8 years. Today we have one of the coolest pictures for a while, just look at that NSV machine gun hammering those [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, James Reeves is with Brian Marshall of the Steyr Academy to shoot and chat about the Steyr G62 – basically, the H&K G36 perfected. The Heckler & Koch G36 is an amazing modern assault rifle, but Steyr – in collaboration with H&K, Wilcox, and Corax [Read More…]
Every day, all year round, we at TFB publish at least one photo together with an explanation about what’s going on. We’ve been doing this for a very long time, almost 10 years. We call it Photo Of The Day and today we visit Camp Yongsan-Casey, the United States Army [Read More…]
The Polish VIS 100 M1 pistol from Fabrika Broni is an upgraded variant of the pistol that is currently issued to the Polish Armed Forces, the VIS 100 (no “M1”) while the primary advantage of the civilian M1 version provides an optics-ready capability. The history of [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is here again. Every day we present our readers with at least one photo. The subject is always a firearm of some kind, preferably with a muzzle flash or some action around it. Above you see a Swedish soldier with an 84 mm Carl-Gustaf recoilless [Read More…]
While researching the Indian small arms procurement program and reading the news from the DefExpo 2022 exhibition, I came across quite an interesting Indian rifle called INDRA (name of a Hindu deity) made by Astr Defence, a private small arms manufacturing company [Read More…]