Today’s Photo Of The Day comes from the Heckler & Koch Instagram account as a reminder to all gun owners to be really careful when shooting. I count 13 bullets in that poor barrel. Am I correct or do you count less or more bullets? On the other hand, there [Read More…]
Today’s Picture is from a demo with the Norwegian Special Operation Commando. We’re looking at Norwegian operators on a Supacat HMT Extenda vehicle as they secure the area while a Bell 412 SP helicopter flies over the area. As TFB reported in February 2019, [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows some fine products Made In Europe. We have a Glock 17, in generation 4, the Aimpoint ACRO and a B&T Impuls-IIA suppressor. The weapon light is a Streamlight TLR-1s. I think the combination is a great example what a moderns [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day takes us to Europe and Bulgaria, where the exercise Strike Back 19 has been ongoing. Novo Selo is the major Bulgarian military training facility established in the early 1960s, and where the US Army invested to develop the infrastructure [Read More…]
We got to Austria for Today’s Photo Of The Day, to have a look at some new firearms and systems that have been introduced. In the Spring of 2018, TFB reported about the new modular Steyr Mannlicher SSG M1. Recently, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the [Read More…]
I have to admit that ever since the introduction of HBO, Netflix and iTunes I do most, if not all, of my movie watching in my home sofa. Today’s Photo is a Glock 34 with inspiration from the Marvel Universe. Austria Arms posted this in their social media, with [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day brings us back to the sea. We watch from the super-carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), one of the largest warships in the World, as they conduct various machine gun live-fire exercises. The Nimitz is now the oldest U.S. aircraft carrier in [Read More…]
Today’s Picture of the Day is of the Norwegian Air Mobile Protection Team (AMPT) as they protect a United Nations C130-J Hercules in Timbuktu and the Bamako Airport. The team came from Camp Bifrost to meet the Hercules at Bamako airport. The airport can be seen [Read More…]
Our firearms are supposed to go Pew Pew and not Bang. Previously at TFB, we have discussed a number of solutions how to separate – for instance – .300 BLK magazines from the ones in .223 Rem / 5.56×45 mm. We’ve looked at using labeled or colored [Read More…]
The Dillon Super 1050 is the most advanced reloading machine in the Dillon Products line. It will accommodate the common cartridges from .32 ACP up through .30-06, but the one in Today’s Picture is normally set up for 9×19 mm or .38 Super Comp. Here you can [Read More…]
Today’s Photo shows two very American products, but the photo comes from Switzerland. This Yin and Yang styled photo shows the American Felling Axe made out of 5160 American alloy steel, fine grain Appalachian hickory and comes with a bridle leather sheath in a [Read More…]
While browsing my social media feed, I came across the images of this AK-74 pattern rifle dressed in period correct bell bottom jeans. These photos were published in one of my favorite Facebook groups (AK-47) dedicated to AK rifles by Dennis Martin, the man known for [Read More…]
As this is The Firearm Blog it’s easy to focus on the firearms, the Heckler & Koch HK433 and the G95K (Heckler & Koch 416 A7) in this case. However, as Concamo supplied all the photos, the subject of Today’s Photos is actually their camouflage [Read More…]
Recently, I took the family to a Civil War reenactment in Bradford, Iowa. There were several cannons present, but the crew of this mountain howitzer were happy to share information about the gun. The owners of this reproduction mountain howitzer, Al and Allison, [Read More…]
Today’s POTD features a US Marine with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division taking part in immediate action drills during exercise Platinum Ren at Fort Trondennes, Harstad, Norway, on May 13, 2019. Exercise Platinum Ren is a theater security [Read More…]
Today’s photo of the day is a blast from the recent past. It features Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines Regiment, with a Weaponized Multi-Utility Tactical Transport vehicle. The MUTT has been mounted with an M2 .50 calibre heavy machine gun [Read More…]
It’s not the first time that we see a 1911 dedicated to US President Donald Trump, a connection which is made fairly obvious by the fact that we are talking about the 45th President. Again indeed we see here a .45 ACP 1911 carrying a direct reference to the 45th [Read More…]
Today’s Photos brings us to Russia and Patriot Park outside Moscow. Last year, The Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the center to experience the latest developments of the Russian Concern Kalashnikov. The Patriot Park can best be described as a Disney [Read More…]
In Today’s Photos, you can spot a rather unusual B&T BT-96k (HK MP5 clone) with either the Shield SMS 4 MOA or the Shield SIS. Since this clone was built Brügger & Thomet have changed to the shorter company name B&T. The Shield SMS can be seen above [Read More…]
Know your enemy and your enemy’s weapon systems. This is the topic for Today’s Pictures, as the NAVY SEALs show off using Kalashnikovs in a very, very wet environment. Above, notice the water running out of the barrel and the magazine, and down the [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day displays a British Army Soldier using his SA80 for covering fire in Afghanistan. You can see his fellow soldiers in the background. The SA80 has the SA80 Underslung Grenade Launcher (UGL) mounted, which consist of a Heckler & Koch [Read More…]
Today’s Picture shows an interesting and discrete solution for Every Day Carry. Austria meets North Carolina. I could have taken my own pictures of the WK Pick and a Glock 43, but none of mine has a threaded barrel like this one. The minimalistic holster seems [Read More…]
Today’s Photos brings us to a place you really want to avoid in time of a conflict, the Sniper’s Nest. The pictures are taken during the culminating event, after three weeks of a screening that every scout sniper candidate must complete before attending [Read More…]
Unfortunately, a lot of the firearms we show as Picture Of The Day are unobtainable for a variety of reasons, so it’s always satisfying to find great pictures and be able to say to yourself “I own that“. I bought my first B&T from Switzerland many [Read More…]
Today’s Picture Of The Day shows a Heckler & Koch SFP9 (VP9), ready with optics. I think the red dot sight is a Leupold Deltapoint Pro. The HK has “SFP9 OR 9mmx19” typed on the side, to be exact. The laser-light module is called LLM-PI and made by [Read More…]
Polymer Of The Day, as there’s a lot of it in today’s Photo from FN Herstal which was released as part of their promotion around SOFIC 2019 (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference) held in Florida, USA, between May 20 – 23. We see a soldier with [Read More…]
There are not enough pictures of the NAVY SEALs here at TFB, but today we try to improve with some astonishing pictures of the SEALs in an unusual environment. In case you didn’t know, the abbreviation stands for SEa, Air and Land. Some of these pictures give the [Read More…]
Today’s Picture shows a Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank charging down the road, propelled by 1,200 horses from the V12. Unfortunately, the picture doesn’t come with any sound effects. The picture was taken during the Land Combat Power Visit rehearsal at [Read More…]
Catching the muzzle flash from a Machine Gun is always a welcome bonus as a photographer, and for today’s pictures, we have a few. The pictures are from the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia (eFP). The eFP Battlegroup in Latvia describe themselves [Read More…]
Today brings an excellent studio picture of the VOERE X5 bolt-action rifle in caliber .50 BMG, painted in Flat Dark Earth. The color suits the rifle very well. The barrel length is 813 mm (32″) in 1:15″. As most .50 BMG rifles it’s a beast in terms of [Read More…]
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