In a surprising move, it appears that Singapore’s Army may have selected the Colt IAR as its new squad/section automatic weapon, replacing the ST Kinetics Ultimax 100. The news comes from a 10-minute video shared on the Singapore Army’s [Read More…]
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg will equip its armed forces with the HK416 A7. Luxembourg will replace the Steyr AUGs currently in service with weapons from Heckler & Koch through a contract worth 8.4 million Euros ($9.2 million). HK416 @ TFB: German Army One Step [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day has become an impressive gallery, with an ever-growing number of images of firearms in all sorts of usual and unusual places. Today we’re going to add a few more to the collection, and above you see a member of the Morocco Armed Forces [Read More…]
Our Photo Of The Day can be chosen for a variety of reasons. It may be because of its aesthetic qualities, its newsworthiness, its emotional impact, or its technical excellence. Above you see a U.S. Marine, a rifleman with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st [Read More…]
The Estonian Defence Forces have selected their new 8.6mm (.338) precision rifle. Following the recent news of Finland and Sweden’s selection of a raft of Sako firearms, Estonia has signed agreements to procure the M10 as their new precision rifle. Sako @ TFB: [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have some of the coolest pictures in a while available. Have you ever seen the meme “This is a Panzerfaust. It fausts Panzers“? This is a play with that meme, as The Netherlands Marine Corps (Dutch: Korps Mariniers) we see them [Read More…]
A new kind of face appears on the battlefield, as soldiers use the ENVG III night vision device. It’s interesting to see it mounted outside a gas mask, but train as you fight I guess. This Photo Of The Day was taken at the Goldmine Training Area in South Korea [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Do you remember the superhero The Hulk? A green-skinned and quite muscular humanoid, due to exposure to gamma rays. Here we have U.S. Marines with the 2d Combat Engineering Battalion, 2d Marine Division (MARDIV) together with Dutch Marines. The [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day with some fresh and interesting images from the exercise Flintlock 2023 in Volta, Ghana. An AK and an AR captured in the same picture, with soldiers in the water. I don’t know the air temperature, but I have a sense that a swim could offer some [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms, and what’s better than a few Heckler & Koch HK417 rifles at the sniper range? Above you see a Dutch Marine with Marine Squadron Carib, Netherlands Marine Corps [Read More…]
Speer Ammunition have announced that they have been awarded a new contract to provide ammunition to the New York Police Department. Speer will supply their 9x19mm 124-grain Gold Dot which will be the department’s service and training ammunition for the next five [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and these soldiers are carrying the ammunition belt to the Browning M3M on-board the AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat helicopter. How long do you think the belt is? How much do you think it weighs? The AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat, previously known as the [Read More…]
One of the purposes of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to broaden the audience for the excellent work done by professionals from combat photography to still and action photography of firearms. A perfect picture may take everything between a split second to months of [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Start your day with a collection of interesting pictures at the beach. This isn’t Baywatch, so here we have a fully dressed operator with the Jordanian Maritime Counter Terrorism Team, as he conducts Over the Beach operations during Exercise [Read More…]
The world is hungry for visual storytelling, and TFB’s Photo Of The Day does its best to keep the feed live. Today we have U.S. Army Soldiers from across the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, as they compete for the title of Best Warrior during the Pistol Qualification [Read More…]
The world is hungry for visual storytelling, and TFB’s Photo Of The Day does its best to keep the feed live. What made you click to see more is probably the picture above, where a member of the Ghana Armed Forces holds his position while other team members climb up a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have a Cameroonian Rapid Intervention Brigade sniper aiming down the scope of his Dragunov SVD (more likely Zastava M76 or 77) sniper rifle, as his squad moves through a field during a patrol for Flintlock exercise in Daboya, Ghana, 2023. [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and above you see U.S. Army Private 2nd Class Michael Sturtz as he fires at his target from the prone supported position. Standing, prone unsupported and kneeling unsupported. Those are the three positions you need to go through at the Range [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and this is the first time we have the M110 SASS and the M110A1 CSASS side by side here at TFB. We see soldiers from the Washington Army National Guard’s 3-161 Infantry Regiment on the range during an Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise or EDRE, [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is here again, and today we’re going to let Artificial Intelligence do some of the work. Above you see a U.S. Marine Corps engineer equipment mechanic with the 2d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Division, fire an M4 [Read More…]
Welcome back to another edition of our Photo Of The Day. We’re always on the lookout for the best firearms-related images out there, with the goal to give your eyes something worth watching every day. Today we have pictures of paratroopers. Above you see an AA [Read More…]
TFB has been running our Photo Of The Day for almost 10 years, and the archives keep growing every day. Thanks to the database, you can search thousands of modern and historic photos of soldiers and firearms. Today we’re looking at German Spezialeinsatzkommandos [Read More…]
Stay frosty with TFB’s Photo Of The Day. Above you see a rather cool image, with a special tactics airman, as he provides security while an Alaska Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter lands behind him. This happened during an arctic training exercise at Camp [Read More…]
With the on-paper legality of pistol stabilizing braces in question here in the United States, it appears that other countries and their militaries are taking advantage of the same equipment at a firesale price. According to a source within the pistol brace industry, [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – have you ever tried shooting like this? If you’re one of TFB’s readers, you probably own at least 20 firearms, but no skis? We’re in Finland (where else?) where a soldier from Charlie Troop, 3-71 Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade [Read More…]
Back in 1963, the British Army adopted the M2 Carl Gustaf 84mm recoilless rifle. It served with various units right through into the 1990s when it was replaced by lighter, single-use munitions. The British Army replaced the M2 with the LAW 80 which has since been [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day cares about pets. In fact, any pets. Here’s the unmanned ground vehicle in the form of a semi-autonomous “dog” at the Cape Cod Space Force Station. This pet named “Spot”, is there to enhance the base security [Read More…]
More bullpups in this Photo Of The Day, where soldiers from the Burma Company, 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment conduct a demonstration for Jordanian officers during exercise Olive Grove. British Army soldiers from Burma Company, 1st Battalion The Duke [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: The silhouette of this Steyr AUG almost looks like an airsoft rifle. We’re in Daboya, Ghana, in Africa, and it looks rather hot outside – even without fur. The image portrays an Austrian dog handler, working with Ghanaian soldiers during an [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and everyone will get their share of the American Flag in these images. We’re located in the Port of Djibouti, with the U.S. Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron Eleven (MSRON-1. The Gulf of Tadjoura is a body of water located in the Horn [Read More…]
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