If you like to get to know a country’s ability or equipment a little better, our Photo Of The Day is the right place. Both the FN Herstal SCAR H and L (Heavy and Light) are used by Slovenian Special Forces (ESD) Note the front grip, which I think is a FAB Defense [Read More…]
Welcome to another wonderful Photo Of The Day! It looks like we have some M4A1 URGI among quite a few other units and interesting firearms. Above you see a Green Beret assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), and Swedish Amphibious Raiders conduct a visit, [Read More…]
Lately, there has been a slew of aftermarket support for the SCAR 17S platform. I have documented some of Imperial Arms Co.’s Cypher X and accessories. Well, now there is something new for the SCAR 17S by Lingle Industries. They have a SCAR 17S caliber conversion [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! We only have one image today, but it’s plenty enough. Ever heard of the Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle or the FN SCAR? Here you can see the PDW4 stock on a SCAR 17. It’s made by Otto Arms, an engineering [Read More…]
Welcome to our Photo Of The Day! It’s always a pleasure to present wonderful images like these. Above you see a competitor in the United States Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition as he engages long-distance targets at Fort Bragg, [Read More…]
There’s a huge collection of firearms in TFB’s Photo Of The Day, and if you use the tags, you can search for more FN SCARs – in this case, the French FN SCAR-H PR. Today’s images of this rifle in the hands of French Les Verts Company soldiers are [Read More…]
Those of you who own, or at least have handled the Non-Reciprocating Charging Handle (NRCH for short) FN SCAR may have noticed that the stock version of said charging handle has stuck out from the side of the gun. This can be anywhere from annoying to some, to downright [Read More…]
Good afternoon everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new YHM Turbo T3 rifle suppressor. Last week we took the B&T SQD RBS 9mm rifle suppressor out for a spin on the H&K MP5K [Read More…]
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At SHOT Show 2023, KNS Precision released a new adjustable gas regulator for FN SCAR rifles and pistols dubbed DiSCARder. This is a drop-in and a toolless adjustable gas regulator with 14 settings. It has a nickel boron and nitrided finish on its components for high [Read More…]
If you recall, Imperial Arms Co. makes their own SCAR compatible receivers. I reviewed their CypherX receiver and lowers. Well they have partnered up with Dorin Tech and will be coming out with a CypherX PDW. FN USA has come out with their own PDW but it is chambered in [Read More…]
Photojournalism is the process of storytelling using the medium of photography as your main storytelling device. While a journalist will use their pen and paper to tell stories, a photojournalist will use their camera to capture the visual representation of a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: During a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) in Isiolo, Kenya on July 1, 2022, U.S. Marines assigned to Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) undertake a specialized training exercise alongside Kenyan Army personnel. Above you can see [Read More…]
FN America will be displaying MultiCam SCARs at the 151st NRA Annual Meeting. The rifles are the same as usual – SCAR 16S, 17S and the 20S commercial variants – with Crye Precision’s original MultiCam pattern applied hydrographically to the receiver and [Read More…]
Have you ever wanted to make your own SCAR 17s? Me neither but maybe I do now. The folks over at Imperial Arms Co. have just made their CYPHERX-ZERO receiver available to the public and this receiver requires no FFL to purchase. This “Zero Percent Blank” [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Smoking guns and a lot of action, the way we like our pictures best. Here we have U.S. Naval Special Warfare Task Unit Europe in a bi-lateral training exercise in Limassol (Cyprus), together with the Cypriot Underwater Demolition Team (MYK). You can [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We’re happy to see that the life of exhibitions is going back to normal. FN Herstal are exhibiting at DEFEA 2021 in Greece next week. There are no real new firearms to be exhibited, but FN Herstal attached a few really nice photos to their [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Today we’re sharing some wonderful images from the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operational Training Centre. We’ve seen some other selected images from this event before, and it’s an event that just keeps on giving like a summer [Read More…]
Another Photo Of The Day with an FN Herstal FN SCAR with all the perks. Here it is in the hands of some Belgian Forces, at the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, 2021. The Enhanced Forward Presence (EFP) is NATO’s forward deployed defense in Central [Read More…]
At the end of a long press release about the news that Sweden is buying 200 tracked vehicles (BAE Systems/Hagglunds 410) someone hid this little gem about Sweden and Finland collaborating on a service rifle (machine-translated and edited): In September (2021), a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Above you see a U.S. Soldier with the 102nd Military Police Battalion, New York National Guard speaking with a Supreme Court policeman in Washington, D.C. in January 2021. You can see the policeman has an FN SCAR with a Trijicon MRO. I often [Read More…]
The SCAR rifles from FN Herstal are being used by several French units. For instance, the FN SCAR-SC is used by an unnamed unit and recently the French Army selected the SCAR-H PR with an S&B riflescope and Night/Thermal Vision as their next DMR/Sniper [Read More…]
THE GUNS OF Den of Thieves: Den of Thieves was released to movie screens in January of 2018. This was a while ago obviously but it has been on my brain’s watchlist for two years. Just a little bit ago it made its way onto Netflix and found itself on the top 10 [Read More…]
POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s recurring articles where we go to great length trying to find the best pictures and stories out there. Today we’re looking at French Commando Units, during the night in April 2020, about 40km north of Gorom Gorom [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Today we have some very rare firearms on display and in use as these American soldiers train to employ, maintain and engage targets. The selection consists of a mixture of U.S. and foreign pistols, rifles, shotguns, submachine and machine guns, [Read More…]
Found this on Facebook. Imperial Arms announced their CYPHER virgin receiver. Looking at the photo up top, you can guess what it is. It’s a virgin SCAR receiver!!! Now you can build a SCAR however you want. Pistol SCAR? Sure go right ahead. After years of quiet [Read More…]
Florence Parly, France’s Ministre des Armées / Minister for the Armed Forces has shared a photo of France’s newly adopted sniper rifle via twitter. The new rifle is a 7.62x51mm SCAR-H PR and in French service will be known as the Fusil de précision [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day and we are looking (above) at a Green Beret assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), as he fires an MK17 SCAR-H rifle. SCAR is short for “Special Operations Forces Combat Assault Rifle” and the “H” stands [Read More…]
In today’s Photo Of The Day, we look (above) for a U.S. Special Forces soldier as he fires the Senegalese special forces’ Galil sniper rifle. This was as a part of an interoperability training during Exercise Flintlock 2019, near Po, Burkina Faso, in [Read More…]
Portugal is to replace its ageing Heckler & Koch G3 infantry rifles with FN SCAR-L, and training with the new weapons has begun according to a post on the Portuguese Army’s website last week. The short post described the first light weapons training course [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…]
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