Israeli Weapon Industries, or IWI for short, is best known in the US for producing guns like the Tavor bullpup, the Masada and Jericho pistols, the elusive Carmel battle rifle, and their new US-manufactured AR, the Zion-15, among others. They are also a key supplier for [Read More…]
Baret Fawbush of the popular Instagram account TRUEXODUSrecently held a public range day in his background shooting gallery just outside the Southern Indiana town of Poseyville. Admission was free as long as folks signed a COVID-19 release form. This wasn’t the [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – A close-in weapon system, or CIWS for short, is a point-defense weapon system for detecting and destroying incoming missiles and enemy aircraft which may have penetrated the outer defenses. It looks a bit like R2D2 in Star Wars when it has its [Read More…]
Winchester Ammunition have confirmed that they have been awarded a substantial $38 million contract to provide frangible 9mm ammunition for close-quarter battle and indoor/outdoor CQB training. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract [Read More…]
As at least five or six out of ten doctors would probably agree, the head is a relatively important part of the human body. It contains your brain, as well as all of the necessary organs and equipment for four out of the five senses. Even less severe head wounds tend to [Read More…]
Have you ever thought about what got you interested in guns in the first place? For me, growing up in a small apartment in a big city with no access to guns and hunting, it was definitely action movies. But when I watch most action movies from the ’80s and [Read More…]
Say hello to the .500 Nitro Express in Today’s Photo. Some people like hard-kicking calibers. I am not one of them, and I notice that my friends’ firearms in these calibers stay home most of the time. Having said that, there are times where a large caliber [Read More…]
Continuing with this month’s edition of Underground Arms Watch, we again report on the global cottage industry for the illicit manufacture of firearms. In Qalyubia, Egypt a police operation busted three illegal gun makers last month. The 12 gauge single shot [Read More…]
Catching up with police seizures from mid-February onward, March’s look into improvised and modified firearms circulating the criminal underworld begins. Firstly it appears that automatic conversion switches have been showing up fitted to Glock pistols seized in [Read More…]
We’re in the NAVY now and they have their own terminology. Therefore this Mark-38 25 mm is a “machine gun“. Please do not blame the messenger on this, instead, we hope you can enjoy another one of TFB’s Photo Of The Day. Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class [Read More…]
In a previous post, I mentioned that the Indian Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) is perhaps the largest firearms manufacturer in the world. But, OFB isn’t the only decision maker when it comes to Indian small arms development – there is also DRDO (Defence [Read More…]
After you’ve been to dozens of defense expos all around the globe, you don’t really expect to see anything new and exciting. The time when “big reveals” of new products were done at exhibitions are almost gone, there is the internet for that. And [Read More…]
The second most famous creation of Michail Kalashnikov, general-purpose Kalashnikov machine gun, had a multitude of names over the last 50 years: PK, PKM, M84 in former Yugoslavia, Konekivaari KK PKM in Finland. In some southern regions of Russia, where shooting at [Read More…]
Welcome to another installment of Underground Arms Watch series where we take a look at criminally made and modified firearms seized throughout the world. Modified suppressed rifle seized by Italian police Pictured is a modified ‘Contender’ type single-shot [Read More…]
A new year brings about the first of January’s Underground Arms Watch installment – a look into criminally made and modified firearms seized by police and security services worldwide. Below are three Locally made pistols seized by Bengaluru City Police in [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We have photos from the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Marksmanship Training Unit (MTU) as they held their annual Pennsylvania State Sniper Match at Fort Indiantown Gap in December last year. The winning team consisted of Sgt. Chavez and Spc. [Read More…]
It has been a while since we wrote anything about MalColMar Firearms (Indiana, USA), but anyone who likes historical firearms, optics and the CETME rifles specifically should continue reading. CETME is Spanish for Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales. [Read More…]
SHOT Show is massive. Last year roughly 2,400 exhibitors showed up to cover 700,000 square feet of space (that equals about 12 football fields) at Las Vegas’ Sands Expo and Convention Center. They set up shop over approximately 12 miles of booth aisles and hauled [Read More…]
About two years ago TFB covered the Russian Sniper Rifle Orsis T-5000 in an article written by Hrachya H called Description, News and Rumors. It’s now time for an update as the company has managed to get a contract valued over $1.5 million, where an undisclosed [Read More…]
Nightforce Optics have been selected by the United States Special Operations Command and Department of Defense to provide scopes to fulfill the Precision-Variable Power Scopes requirement. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth nearly $54 million [Read More…]
Nammo Group, the international aerospace and defense company headquartered in Norway, has announced that they will be enhancing their US manufacturing base by acquiring an ordnance manufacturing subsidiary of UK-headquartered Chemring Group. Chemring Ordnance runs a [Read More…]
Welcome everyone to the 34th edition of ‘Hot Gat or Fudd Crap?’, one of our many series here on TFB. If you’re new to the series, this is where we look at the most obscure firearms that are actually for sale and ask the question – is this Gat a sweet [Read More…]
A look into criminally manufactured firearms seized in recent months continuing from Part 2 of last month’s round-up. First up is what appears to be a shortened homemade copy of the Madsen M50 submachine gun pictured alongside an M16 and AK which was surrendered [Read More…]
Six Point Five Creedmoor – it’s not new, but expect to hear and read more about this caliber as the “Department of the Navy Office: Naval Sea Systems Command” is looking to buy MK110K1 uppers from Knight’s Armament Co. The upper is supposed to [Read More…]
The SIG Sauer P365XL 9mm is no longer “breaking news” since it has been out on the market for roughly 3 months now. It has had an impressive rise to fame though as the original P365 broke the mold for what people believed a carry gun could hold and achieve. [Read More…]
The subject of today’s Photo Of The Day is Helicopters, with a focus on the Bell AH-1Z Viper, or the “Zulu Cobra“. Above you can see one hovering just above the amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha, in the Arabian Sea. The Bell AH-1Z Viper [Read More…]
Recently the US Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapons program moved into its next phase, with three companies down selected, one of these was SIG Sauer. We had the pleasure of sitting down to speak with SIG Sauer’s CEO, Ron Cohen, at the 2019 Defence & [Read More…]
Today we look at photos of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Navy. Above, and the two pictures below show the Lithuanian rotation which takes part in the operation for fighting piracy and armed robbery in the Indian Ocean off the coasts of Somalia from mid-August to the [Read More…]
Time for some action in the Indian Ocean in this Photo Of The Day. Here we see U.S Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Sanders, a squad leader with Kilo Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), as he posts the rear security during visit, [Read More…]
Selecting a good defensive round is one of the most overlooked but perhaps one of the most critical elements of selecting your tools for self-defense. Arguably, ammo selection is just as important, if not more important than selecting the gun itself. However, I would [Read More…]
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