Photo Of The Day and we’re visiting the U.S. Marines once again, with an antitank missile gunner with Battalion Landing Team 1/1, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, posting security while conducting military operations on urbanized terrain training at Camp Hansen, [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms, and today we have U.S. Marines with Marine Forces Command (MARFORCOM) as they move through obscuration. They’re conducting Military Operations in Urbanized Terrain [Read More…]
For a very long time, we’ve been looking for images with submarines and firearms for our Photo Of The Day. It seems to be impossible, so we have to settle for a distant view of the Royal Marine Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (SRS), which is an element of [Read More…]
Welcome back to another run of our Photo Of The Day. Today we have a big Ka-Boom in the form of the M3E1 Multi-purpose Anti-armor Anti-personnel Weapon System, otherwise also known as the Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle. Coastal rangers with the Swedish Marines [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we’re in the archipelago outside Stockholm, Sweden, with US and Swedish marines. Two machine guns on each side of the boat, ready to go live if needed. But take a good look at the weapons and sensors turret on top of the boat, that’s [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and today we belong somewhere in the sandbox. The images are almost all-white, there’s not much color at all, and I can only assume these U.S. Marines are praying for some clouds to magically appear. Above: A U.S. Marine with Battalion Landing [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! The way the military is using vehicles is changing, and today we’re going to take a look at some of the vehicles in use by the U.S. Marines assigned to Reconnaissance Company, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. Here you see a [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is the Photo Of The Day you’re looking at right now. It needs hundreds of images each month, and its appetite has been going on for over 9 years. Above is a frame from when the U.S. Marines participated in a pistol [Read More…]
Who doesn’t want a giant Trijicon ACOG sight on their AR? I recently had the opportunity to peek through a Trijicon ACOG 6×48 scope with its bullet drop compensator reticle, and it’s really super bright. The eyebox is super-forgiving. The L129A1 is a [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms. Here we have Force Reconnaissance Marines, commonly known as Force Recon Marines or simply Force Recon. They are an elite special operations unit within the United States [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for over 9 years. Today we have U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 6, during a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and [Read More…]
A new dawn, new possibilities and another Photo Of The Day. Above you see a U.S. Marine Corps with the Marine Forces Command (MARFORCOM), as he shoots off a white star parachute during exercise Intrepid Maven 23.3. These cartridges are designed for illumination and [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms, and what’s better than a few Heckler & Koch HK417 rifles at the sniper range? Above you see a Dutch Marine with Marine Squadron Carib, Netherlands Marine Corps [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day has never been so diversified. Today we have U.S. Marines with the Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, getting their uniforms wet in Japan. Looking above, is this what you imagine Special Forces look like and do every day? [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Life without the Internet, how would it be? How would you make it? You certainly wouldn’t be able to see these images of United Kingdom Royal Marines from 45 Commando, together with U.S. Army Green Berets from the 10th Special Forces Group [Read More…]
The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for over 8 years. Today we have one of the coolest pictures for a while, just look at that NSV machine gun hammering those [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we are off to an island called Gotland. This is Sweden’s largest island, and its location in the center of the Baltic Sea gives it great strategic importance, especially in times like these. The location is very important from a military [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we’re back in Afghanistan, towards the end of 2009. Above you see U.S. Marine Sgt. John Hollingsworth, where he is zeroing his weapon at the shooting range in Forward Operation Base Airborne, Afghanistan. Below we see a U.S. Marine feeding [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Every day we present our readers with at least one photo. The subject is always a firearm of some kind, preferably with a muzzle flash or some action around it. But we’re happy with a perfectly edited still life photo as well. Today we have [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have probably the first images (on TFB) of Brazilian & Ecuadorian Marines. Above you see a Brazilian Marine providing security during an amphibious landing. This happened during an exercise called UNITAS LXIII in Itaoca, Brazil. UNITAS is [Read More…]
It’s time for another Photo Of The Day, and we can’t express enough gratitude to soldiers and photographers who capture moments like this when the shooting range is lit up by the muzzle blast from rarely seen firearms. In this case, we have the Heckler [Read More…]
If you don’t know the distance to your target, it’s not impossible but difficult to hit it in most cases. Above you see U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Robert Rogers, a combat engineer officer with 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Sustainment Group, 3rd Marine [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day tries to push the excellent work done by so many photographers around the world and in the firearms industry. It’s a celebration to those who go in harm’s way trying to catch those special moments, like this MV-22 Osprey taking off during [Read More…]
Our Photo Of The Day daily article series will take you to some very exciting and unusual places sometimes, not to mention showing you some unusual firearms. In 2015, during a Korean Marine Exchange Program in the Republic of Korea, U.S. Marines were given the unique [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we go back to 1982 and the Falklands Conflict with some images from the Imperial War Museums. Above you see Royal Marines with FN FALs patrolling the Argentine submarine Santa Fe. This submarine was in fact built by the USA during the Second World [Read More…]
The Royal Marines have deployed to Norway for their annual winter deployment in the Arctic Circle. This year, Royal Navy ships joined the Royal Marines for a large-scale NATO exercise Cold Response 22. The Commandos refreshed their skills in surviving, moving, and [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Credit for the first-ever color photograph taken goes to the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. At a lecture in 1861, he unveiled what is to be considered as the first durable color photograph. Fast forward over 150 years, and we expect [Read More…]
Location: Okinawa, Japan. 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 a few more, just look at that beautiful machine gun above. Machine guns are [Read More…]