POTD: GIOE – Grupo de Intervencao de Operacoes Especiais da GNR

Photo Of The Day: Portuguese Special Forces training aircraft intervention, here just before entering. The unit is called Grupo de Intervenção de Operações Especiais or GIOE for short. In this training event, they had the support of Air Portugal and the Airport of Lisbon. You can see the iconic Heckler & Koch MP5 above, suppressed (B&T) and with the stock collapsed. In terms of handguns, they have been seen using both SIG Sauers and Glocks.

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Retro Vertical Foregrip for the HK MP5 and B&T APC9

Once upon a time, there was this Vertical Foregrip for the Heckler & Koch MP5K.

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New HK MP5 upgrades from Spuhr

EnforceTac is an annual special trade show which only accepts visitors from official agencies, i.e. security agencies, Police and Special Forces and military personnel.

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Heckler & Koch expands in Columbus, Georgia

COLUMBUS, GA – Heckler & Koch, a manufacturer of firearms and accessories, will invest $28.5 million to expand its existing operations in Columbus, Georgia. The new 50,000 square-foot facility in the Corporate Ridge Business Park will be ready in the summer of 2017 at which time HK will consolidate its New Hampshire operations into Columbus.

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Imperial War Museum London – Part II

This is Part II from TFB’s visit to the Imperial War Museum in London.

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