Above you can see a rather unusual Beretta, used by an Italian sniper as he engages targets during the stress shoot event of the European Best Sniper Team Competition at Grafenwoehr, Germany in July 2019. The European Best Sniper Team Competition is a U.S. Army [Read More…]
Some cool photos of ARAS, Lithuania’s Police Anti-terrorist Operations Unit, armed with SIG Sauer MCX carbine were shared on twitter earlier this week. The photos show the ARAS MCX’s configured with a folding visor stock. SIG produce a folding visor stock [Read More…]
We haven’t heard much about the HK433, Heckler & Koch’s latest infantry rifle, for a while. But HK USA’s twitter recently shared a product photo from CON-CAMO featuring soldiers with the rifle. Fields of green and the HK433 Machinepc: CON-CAMO [Read More…]
Monday again – and a great way of starting the week with some Minigun shooting. A month has passed since we started, and this is the fourth edition of the “Photo Of The Day: Minigun Monday”, the time and place where we go wild about pictures of Miniguns in [Read More…]
We’re back to Mopti in Mali, and the Norwegians protecting the United Nations’ C130-J Hercules in this Photo Of The Day. We’re looking at a well camouflaged Heckler & Koch HK417, with a Schmidt & Bender scope in a quick-detach mount. The [Read More…]
It is not often that we get Special Forces captured on images, and catching the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces with Malyuk rifles is very rare, to say the least. The Malyuk or Vulcan is designed and manufactured in Ukraine, by IPI. It looks like they are using [Read More…]
In Today’s Photo Of The Day we go to Denmark for a potential future within the Danish Jægerkorps. The pictures are part of a campaign to get people to join the Danish Frogman Corps or the Danish Jaeger Corps. The rifle is most likely an M/95 Diemaco C8. The rifle [Read More…]
Next week the 2nd IPSC Rifle World Shoot will take place in Sweden. To win, you need to train, and the best training can be had in real matches. The match which is considered as one of the best and hardest IPSC Rifle matches is the Estonian Extreme Rifle. From here we [Read More…]
Long Range Shooting up to 1,800 meters is the subject of this Photo Of The Day. The 2nd Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment (In French: 2e Régiment étranger de parachutistes) posted these pictures from a very nice, long shooting range. The French have some strange [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows a variety of interesting and (relatively) rare firearms. It is not every day we see a Swiss B&T APR308 Sniper Rifle in service, for instance. The APR308 has a Leupold rifle scope attached. In the picture above, you can see a [Read More…]
Three is a magic number – and this is the third edition of the Photo Of The Day: Minigun Monday, where we admire pictures of Miniguns in various places. We are now in California, at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. Or [Read More…]
What could possibly trump our previous U.S. Marine with camouflaged H&K MP7? Well, quite possibly this uncamouflaged but suppressed H&K MP7? The pistol grip says MP7 A1, and the suppressor says Rotex II, made by B&T Switzerland. The suppressor would be this [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – time to go back in time to Operation Iraqi Freedom, where we look at an Estonian Soldier with a Galil SAR in 5.56×45 mm. The Estonian Defence Forces plan to replace the Galil, and LMT Defense won the order as reported by TFB in LMT Defense [Read More…]
Above you can see a High Explosive artillery 155 mm round being fired from an M109A6 Paladin, in a live-fire training at Combined Resolve IX at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. That is the subject of this Photo Of The Day. The updated A6 Paladin version can come from [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – we travel to Al Taqaddum, Iraq, to look at Iraqi Security Forces who practice combat marksmanship with AK-47 assault rifles earlier this year. The range training is part of the development of the Iraqi soldiers’ individual skills and [Read More…]
The theme of Today’s Photo Of The Day is the M40A6 Sniper Rifle. Made by Remington Arms and introduced in 1966 it has seen action in several conflicts. The M40A6 edition has been with the Marine Corps since the middle of June 2016. Just like the H&K MP5, [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – we take a look at a handmade knife and a double rifle. The double rifle is a 450 Express, marked “J Areschougs Malmö” (Malmoe, Sweden), but it is originally a German rifle made before 1892 according to the owner. The knife is a [Read More…]
This is the second article in a series of “Photo Of The Day”, where we admire pictures of Miniguns of various kinds and situations. The series is called Minigun Monday. Miniguns on a Monday – it’s as simple as that! Today we take a look at the GAU-17 [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows a Heckler & Koch G28 DMR, fully loaded with accessories like the Schmidt & Bender PMII 3-20×56, Aimpoint Micro T2 red dot as well with a Hensoldt NSV night sight attachment. To make the installation complete, there is an [Read More…]
Above, featuring TFB’s Picture Of The Day, we see a Polish PTS-M carrying Romanian Marines – all arms forward! – onto the beach during an amphibious assault exercise at Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2019 exercise. During the Distinguished Visitors Day in [Read More…]
Of all modern firearms out there, this is probably the one that is tempting me the most at the moment. So what are we looking at here at Photo Of The Day? It’s the new LWRCI SMG-45. I would, of course, SBR mine, and put a Trijicon MRO on it. Below: SMG in [Read More…]
We’re looking at five German Soldiers stepping out of an Austrian C-130 Hercules of the European Tactical Airlift Program. Today’s Photos show three of the soldiers carrying the standard issue Heckler & Koch G36. The soldier to the far right carries the [Read More…]
If you’ve seen a tractor in a field, you may have wondered how you’d mount a rifle or shotgun to it. Such queries have been discussed in forums for all types of vehicles on occasion. AR15.com member and farmer, Griffin86 posted pictures of how he secures his [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day comes from the Italian company Breda. The photo shows a shotgun barrel in three of its production stages. I thought it was interesting to see how the barrel “grows” from a massive steel rod into a thin barrel which will produce [Read More…]
This is the first in a series of “Photo Of The Day”, where we will admire pictures of Miniguns of various kinds. The series is called Minigun Monday, a name which should require no further explanation. Today we take a look at the Mark 44 Minigun, being fired [Read More…]
Today’s Photo brings us to the Combined Arms Training Center at Camp Fuji, Aichi, Japan. We look at US Marines operating a vehicle-mounted M2 machine gun on a range during Exercise Fuji Viper. Below: Marine Combined Anti-Armor Teams specialize in the operation of [Read More…]
In previous Photos Of The Day articles we have taken a look at the Idaho Army National Guard reference style pictures of the M107 Semi-Automatic Long Range Sniper Rifle and the M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System. Today it is time for the M249 Light Machine Gun.(FN [Read More…]
Picture Of Today is an FN SCAR 20S, being zeroed at the range. This is a great photo. Almost so perfect you would think it is computer generated. Everything is put in place. Even the shooting mat is brand new and unused. I guess that’s what the marketing [Read More…]
Today’s Photo comes courtesy of the U.S. Army Pacific Public Affairs Office and takes us to Camp Barommatrailokkanat in Thailand. We look at a Royal Thai Army soldier as he fires his weapon during basic rifle marksmanship earlier in 2019. Soldiers from both the [Read More…]
Big, heavy guns in Dillingen, Germany, in Photo Of The Day here at TFB. In a traditional manner, the gunmen open the program on the Danube river for the “Day of the German Bundeswehr”. The Danube river (Donau) is Europe’s second longest river, after [Read More…]
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