#M27InfantryAutomaticRifle

Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features the art of mastering a new combat rifle. Above you see U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Taylor Benson using the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle during Korea Viper 24.1 at Camp Mujuk Range Zero, February 2024.

Welcome to another edition of TFB’s Photo Of The Day! By now we suppose that most of our readers are familiar with the concept – we post photos and you admire them! Exercise Korea Viper 2024 here we go!

Pictures, pictures, pictures. But only pictures of firearms of some kind. That’s how TFB’s Photo Of The Day works. We are off to the Republic of Korea, where U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Julien Kynard with Battalion Landing Team 2/4, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, shoots his M4 service rifle during a rifle range, on March 31, 2023.

If TFB’s Photo Of The Day came with sound you couldn’t hear this post. The subject today is suppressed M27 Infantry Automatic Rifles. Above you see U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Antonio Keifner, a rifleman with Bravo Company, 3rd Littoral Combat Team, 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, as he fires a suppressed M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle during a range acoustic test at Pu’uloa Range Training Facility, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The MCBH’s Safety Department and PRTF personnel were there to conduct an acoustic test, to record and determine the effectiveness of suppressed weapons at reducing noise pollution exiting PRTF.

We’re off to Japan in our Photo Of The Day, to take a look at M4 carbines and the newer M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle in an unknown distance live-fire range as part of Fuji Viper 23.3 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, August 23, 2023.

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 & Koch G36C in the hands of U.S. Marines and Swedish Marines at the Berga Naval Base, Sweden. And as you notice, that’s not the only H&K in these images.

One of the purposes of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to broaden the audience for the excellent work done by professionals from combat photography to still and action photography of firearms. A perfect picture may take everything from a split second to months of planning, and it would be sad to see that kind of work go unnoticed. Considering that these images were taken onboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) in the Atlantic Ocean it makes the challenge to produce high-quality images even harder. Above you can see a really good image of the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle with the Trijicon VCOG 1-8×28 rifle scope. The U.S. Marine is Lance Cpl. Camron Edwards, a rifleman with Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team 2/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Photo Of The Day: Shooting the new M27 IAR, made by Heckler & Koch, from a tripod. Using a tripod as a shooting support isn’t as easy as most people think, but it’s a lot easier than shooting off-hand. The optic is a Trijicon VCOG 1-8×28, which was selected as the USMC Squad Common Optic.

Photo Of The Day – Established in 2014 this is TFB’s way to show carefully selected photographs on a daily basis. As a bonus, you get a short story and hopefully, you’ll learn something new. Today we’re looking at a Kriegsgewehr. Or is it a Sportsgewehr?

If you have a taste and interest in weapons, this is where you’ll find some of the greatest photographers in the world on the subject. Let TFB’s Photo Of The Day be your daily guide. Today we’re looking at a LAW, or Light Anti-Tank Weapon, fired by a U.S. Marine in Kuwait (2020).

Photo Of The Day – Here you get an insight into what firearms, optics, uniforms and equipment soldiers from various units use. In this case (above) we have a rifleman from the U.S. Marine Corps as he participates in military operations in urban terrain (MOUT). This happened during the Supersquad 2020 Competition at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California in August 2020. The competition tests the Marines’ skills and determines which is the best squad within 1st MARDIV, and I’m sure that the units that don’t win get to hear it for the rest of the year.

Late last year we reported that the US Marine Corps had begun fielding the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle as the M38, a designated marksman rifle. The M38 is essentially a standard M27 mounting a variable power Leupold TS-30A2 Mark 4 MR/T scope instead of a standard ACOG.