Federal Premium has managed to secure a 5 year long contract with three National Police Agencies over three Nordic countries. The contract includes both the 5,56×45 mm Tactical Bonded and the .308 Win Tactical Bonded ammunition. Read the full press release below: [Read More…]
One of the goals of attending IWA, for me, was to find products or vendors that were not at SHOT Show last January. While Heckler and Koch were at SHOT Show, they had some guns at IWA that were not brought to Vegas. Check out their .308 DMR dubbed the G28Z. H&K G28Z [Read More…]
As I had mentioned in the Brownells HK416 article, I got a chance to visit Zib Militaria and tour their facility while I was in Germany. Normally they do not offer tours to customers. They run a mail order business but they do allow local customers to come and pick up [Read More…]
The HK416 A7 is not even up on the HK homepage, I can only find the A2 version. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. TFB reported about it (as in the G95) already last year, check here for more details. It was also to be found at the Heckler & Koch booth [Read More…]
Solider Systems Daily have shared some exclusive photographs of the latest version of Heckler & Koch’s newest 5.56x45mm rifle. The HK433 was first unveiled back in February last year. The HK433 is still very much in development factoring in feedback from [Read More…]
The Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Estimates Justification Book for the United States Marine Corps procurement gives us some insight into the Corps small arms aims for the next couple of years. The Marine Corps looks set to begin its transition to the M320 40mm under-barrel [Read More…]
The Mountaineering Brigade 23 “Bavaria“, which is specialized in infantry fighting in difficult to extreme terrain. They operate at high altitudes and under harsh climatic and weather conditions and is stationed in five locations in southern Bavaria with [Read More…]
Thanks to my friend and the Royal Malaysian Navy for letting me use these photos. My friend was invited onto the Malaysian Navy base and got a chance to not only photograph this rare gun but also shoot it. The gun is the elusive XM8 Compact. It is based on the XM8 which [Read More…]
BCB International, a British security and survival manufacturer based in Cardiff, Wales, will debut their ingenious FRAMM adjustable and foldable weapon stock at SHOT Show 2018. The FRAMM stock is designed to be used with ballistic helmets with visors. The FRAMM [Read More…]
Some absolutely great new photos of part of Heckler & Koch’s product range have emerged. Taken by German photographer Oliver Louven, a Bundeswehr veteran, the photos feature a plethora of Heckler & Koch’s current range of small arms. Louven, an [Read More…]
At Milipol in France Heckler & Koch exhibited an example of the HK416 F and what it looks like in its different configurations, including the kit that each soldier get with their weapon. All these pictures are unique for The Firearm Blog and have not been shown [Read More…]
Last time The Firearm Blog wrote about Heckler & Koch’s Gray Room we stated we cannot get enough. I for sure can’t either, yet I’ve never been there and probably never will see it, just like most mortals. I own a Heckler & Koch rifle (MR223), [Read More…]
A number of British police forces are considering arming their officers. The move comes in the wake of the UK suffering five high profile terror attack in 2017. Three regional police forces are reported to feel that the large areas they police mean that the current [Read More…]
According to the website Augen Geradeaus (meaning Eyes Straight Ahead) the German-American company Sig Sauer is now out of the competition for the successor of the HK G36 rifle for the Germany Army. Sig Sauer has withdrawn the offer of the MCX rifle. One of the reasons [Read More…]
HK will not ship to HK, that’s the news in short based on the latest development. According to several sources, for instance Asia Times, Heckler & Koch from Germany have refused to sell MP5 sub-machine guns, accessories and spare parts to the Hong Kong Police [Read More…]
If you’re a manufacturer of laser lights you should continue reading, there’s some potential business ahead from the German Special Forces KSK. Your laser module should weigh no more than 180 grams, include two light sources (I guess that’s visible and [Read More…]
The advent of the social media fever in the World Wide Web has brought out countless expected and other not-so results, which range from family members barely talking to each other while at home or in restaurants to outlaws promoting their own images by exhibiting their [Read More…]
Portugal are about to embark on a major new small arms procurement programme. Jane’s reports that Request for Proposals for new infantry weapons will be issued soon. The Portuguese government and military have agreed to have NATO’s Support and Procurement [Read More…]
DefenceWeb recently released a video overview of the new Steyr / Rheinmetall RS-556 assault rifle. The rifle, a sort of hybrid between an AR-15 and a Steyr AUG, was submitted to the Bundeswehr’s System Sturmgewehr Bundeswehr trials, competing against both Heckler [Read More…]
The day before yesterday it was 40 years since the German Special Forces group GSG9 stormed the Lufthansa Flight 181 in Mogadishu, Somalia, and rescued all of the 86 passengers. The legendary German Anti-Terror unit GSG9 (Border Guard Group 9) is now setting up a new [Read More…]
On the 11 October the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) announced the selection of Heckler & Koch’s KH416A7 for Germany’s Special Forces. The new rifle will be adopted as the G95 and will [Read More…]
Die Welt (“The World”) is a German National daily newspaper, and according to their information the tender to replace the current Bundeswehr (Germany Army) HK G36 contains a peculiar detail that the replacement rifle must not contain any ITAR regulated [Read More…]
Representatives of the German gun manufacturing company Heckler & Koch confirmed today that the company has submitted both the HK416 assault rifle and the new HK433 modular assault rifle to the Bundeswehr’s System Sturmgewehr Bundeswehr (SSB) rifle [Read More…]
At the 2017 Association of the United States Army annual meeting, Heckler & Koch brought out a weapon much talked-about but not seen on a US show floor until now: The HK433 rifle. Designed on the heels of the G36 controversy and intended to add a modern, inexpensive [Read More…]
The armed wing of London’s Metropolitan Police have submitted plans for a new £50 million base in Limehouse in the east of the capital. The Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19) already has a training establishment at Hendon in the north of London but deputy [Read More…]
BCB International is a British company manufacturing a huge variety of military and police products. One of their latest products is a rifle stock called FRAMM which was first introduced during the DSEI 2017 arms exhibition. The stock allows shouldering and aiming the [Read More…]
During September 2017 there is a large Military exercise in Sweden called Aurora 17. It’s the largest Swedish military exercise in over 20 years, and there are a lot of awesome photos and videos in the media stream. Almost 20 000 soldiers from the Swedish Armed [Read More…]
In Norse mythology, the valkyries were angelic female shepherds of the dead slain in battle, who chose from among them the warriors who would prepare for the coming of Ragnarok, and and who would whisk the chosen away through the sky to Valhalla. In the late 1950s and [Read More…]
I had the opportunity to examine the brand new Steyr-Mannlicher RS556. This firearm is one of the contenders to become the next service rifle for Germany in 2019, and possibly many other countries. It took me a while, but I realize I am probably one of the few that have [Read More…]
Irfan Z. is a long time friend of TFB, and has contributed tips about various subjects, particularly within Southeast Asia. This is his first guest post entirely written by him, for TFB. Malaysia has just completed Independence Day 2017 celebrations and just like every [Read More…]