TFB’s Photo Of The Day is back with pictures from Exercise Cold Response 2022 that took place in Bjerkvik, Norway, in March of this year. Above you see a U.S. Marine as he provides security while conducting a movement to contact. The Marines are assigned to Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division.

The number of internet users worldwide will soon reach the 5-billion mark. The world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread like wildfire, but the story and the necessary context sometimes gets left behind. In TFB’s  Photo Of The Day we will always accompany the images with a background and credits to the maker, in this case, Lt. Matthew Stroup. Today’s photos are taken in San Diego, CA, at the RIMPAC 2018 exercise. RIMPAC stands for Rim of the Pacific.

Photo Of The Day and while it’s not quite autumn yet, these images are a good reminder of what nature soon will look like. The location is Hohenfels, Germany, and we’re looking at snipers in the Basic Sniper Course at International Special Training Centre (ISTC). This course is one of many offered by the ISTC, which works to provide NATO members with better trained and prepared SOF operators.

Photo Of The Day: The M249 Light Machine Gun is made in the United States by FN Manufacturing LLC in Columbia, South Carolina. Here we can see it in action in the exercise Cold Response, spitting out those 5.56mm bullets at a high rate of fire.

Denmark is pretty flat, as you can see from the shooting range below.

Which is the best carry gun for the people who take the photos for TFB’s Photo Of The Day? The Heckler & Koch MP7 of course! Above we have a Norwegian Army photographer during exercise Trident Juncture 2018 in Norway, armed with his camera and a huge lens, apart from the MP7.

The one and only Photo Of The Day is back and above you’re looking at a U.S.Marine with the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines, 4th Marine Division. He participated in the Mission Readiness Exercise (MRX) in the summer of 2019, in Port Royal, VA, United States. His rifle is fully loaded with about everything except a magazine.

The world is hungry for visual storytelling, and TFB’s Photo Of The Day does its best to keep the feed alive and well. Here we have U.S. Marines with the Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). They were engaging floating targets during an aerial snipers exercise in the Philippine Sea earlier in 2022. The exercise focuses on proficiency in engaging targets from an aircraft.

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 story. In our Photo Of The Day, we have paratroopers assigned with the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. They’re preparing to push forward as they train with their Polish Allies assigned to the Polish 19th Mechanized Brigade during a combined arms live-fire exercise in southeastern Poland, on March 17.

It’s interesting how a simple thing like a bolt can be such a beautiful thing! Don’t you agree that these images would be great as paintings in your living room? Or at least as decoration in your reloading room? TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms, and Knights Armament Co‘s E3.2 bolt is of course worthy. Just look at the shape below!

A new day and a new collection of images to discover in our Photo Of The Day. Above we see U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rachel DeMeis, a 354th Air Expeditionary Wing security response team member (left) and Staff Sgt. Stephen Stipp, 354th AEW security forces flight sergeant. They’re posing in front of an F-35A Lightning II during the Agile Combat Employment training in Japan. The picture was taken on 06.30.2022, in Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day is where you can discover the world of firearms through a camera lens. Every day we run a new theme, selected pictures a short story and credit to the person behind the lens. Today we have images from the Swedish Norrland Dragoon Regiment, also known as K4. This is a Swedish Army unit specialized in arctic warfare and special operations. Located in the province of Lappland, it was historically a cavalry unit that traces its origins back to the 17th century. This time there were competitors  from the Finnish Kainuu Brigade (see above).

Photo Of The Day: John Rigby and Co. with a showroom in London, United Kingdom, create bespoke firearms to hunting connoisseurs. The two .416 No. 2 Rising Bite double rifles shown here were ordered by a married couple and named “The Lion” and “The Lioness”.

Our Photo Of The Day article series brings together some of the most eye-catching and visually appealing images. You won’t find a lot of pictures of sunsets, flowers or touristic landmarks here, instead we focus on masterpieces like this DS9 Open Competition Pistol. It was designed with a lot of influence from well-known competition shooters like David Lyell and Travis Tomasie.

Photo Of The Day: The “cool thing” today isn’t really the picture with the suppressed Heckler & Koch MR223 above. Instead, it’s the merged image below where you can see a mixture of a digital photo from an iPhone with what the thermal riflescope sees (white hot). The riflescope is the brand new Pulsar Thermion 2 XP50 LRF Pro. The box on top of the riflescope is a laser rangefinder, which is very quick in sending the distance to the target back to the user. The distance is displayed on the on-screen display so the hunter can make an accurate shot. You can see in the videos below how it works.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day is where you can discover the world of firearms through a camera lens. Every day we run a new theme, a bunch of selected pictures together with a short story and credit to the person behind the lens. These images are from the Waiouru Military Camp on the central North Island of New Zealand. All New Zealand Army soldiers complete their initial basic training here.

Dutch Marines with Marine Squadron Carib, Netherlands Marine Corps, exit a CH-53E Super Stallion during Exercise Caribbean Urban Warrior.

As part of TFB’s Photo Of The Day, we have today some 2BCT Thermal Night Optics on show. Here we have a Soldier from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, engaged in a night live-fire using the L3Harris ENVG-B at Range 22. The ENVG-B provides unique optic capabilities bridging thermal vision with night vision. Location: Fort Drum, NY, United States.

Each day TFB publishes at least one image from the fascinating world of firearms and, sometimes, from the life of Special Forces. Along with this comes a brief explanation of what’s going on. In today’s Photo Of The Day, we have images from exercise Orion 2022 with one of the coolest off-road buggies I’ve seen in a while. Do you know the make of the vehicle?

TFB’s Photo Of The Day is where you can discover the world of firearms through a camera lens. Every day we run a new theme, selected pictures, a short story and credit to the person behind the lens. Today we’re looking at Australian Army special operations combat engineers. They and other technical specialists from the Special Operations Engineer Regiment at Holsworthy Barracks, Sydney, offer unique and vital technical enablement skills to the Australian Defence Force’s special operations capability.

As usual, TFB has selected a bunch of pictures for you today. By this time you know it, it’s our Photo Of The Day designed to keep you in a good mood. Get some refreshments from the fridge or the coffee machine, take a break and enjoy a few minutes looking at these U.S. Marines assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force. They’re using their M16A4 Service Rifles at a live-fire range in preparation for Exercise Cold Response. This happened in March 2022, in Bodø, Norway.

Each day a different image from the world of firearms. We call this POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, and it is our daily article series where we go to great lengths trying to find the most interesting pictures for you out there. Here we have some .45 Auto for you, in a world where everything seems to circle around the 9x19mm nowadays. The Heckler & Koch Mark 23 had to pass several tests to get the final approvals from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, including for instance a 30,000 round endurance firing test, extreme temperatures, a 96-hour salt spray test plus various sand, dust and mud tests.

Posts from the German Heckler & Koch Facebook account are always an excellent excuse to enhance the German I learnt in school. I mean “Kampfschwimmer im Einsatz” sounds terrific, doesn’t it? It translates roughly as “combat diver in action”. The clearly visible lamp on top of the helmet is an IR illuminator, which can emit visible and non-visible (to the human eye) light or flash to friendlies around and in the sky.

The word photograph is a combination of Greek words and means “drawing with light”. The word was invented by Sir John Herschel, over 180 years ago. When I think of this, I see things like the picture above, where an U.S. Army operator is working that barricade with various drills. The pictures are from an advanced marksmanship drill, during a training event at Panzer Kaserne, Germany. This photo was taken at a month-long Special Forces training event that evaluated team skills and readiness.

One of the goals of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to share treasures from the world of firearms and soldiering, while giving credits to the photographer. Here we can see an Australian Army special forces soldier (on the right) from the Special Air Service Regiment and an Indonesian Army special forces soldier from Kopassus (Group III). They’re preparing to conduct a full-mission profile training activity using an Australian-made Indonesian Army Bushmaster protected mobility vehicle.

Sometimes the purpose of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to share the latest news with our readers, sometimes we present interesting firearms from the pre-digital age like this Mannlicher 1897/1901 carbine with its lovely wooden forend.

Photo Of The Day: We’re finding ourselves in the middle of the action as the Feldjägers of the German Bundeswehr arrest a “Tango” as he’s trying to get away in his vehicle. At least the Tango was wearing his seatbelt.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day has become an impressive gallery with an ever-growing number of images of firearms in all sorts of environments. Today we’re going to add one more. The Heckler & Koch HK433 is a modular platform where the best features of the G36 and the HK416 have been combined. The design is made for both right-handed and left-handed users and the non-reciprocating charging handle can be converted from left to right without the help of tools.

We hope you’re having a fantastic day! Today we’re taking you to Djibouti for some sniping. We have French Forces and Italian Armed Forces, alongside Virginia Army National Guard soldiers assigned to Task Force Red Dragon, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa. They’re conducting a sniper live-fire exercise at the Arta Range Complex.

None of TFB’s Photo Of The Days is the same, and the CARACAL Air Assault Vehicle above is a perfect example. During Eurosatory 2022 in Paris, under the motto “Move – Sense – Strike”, Rheinmetall showcased the new family of Caracal airborne vehicles.