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 for us, but also those who stay in the [Read More…]
Looking for moments when a great photographer meets soldiers and their firearms? Look no further, TFB’s daily Photo Of The Day article series is where you will find these. Above, and around, you see the Browning M2HB with U.S. Marines with the Ground Combat Element, [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: I guess everyone wants and needs a suppressed Barrett M107A1? If you’ve never seen a suppressor for a .50 caliber rifle, I can tell you that they are huge. If I had the chance to fire any of these systems, I’d probably go for the H&K [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and yet another great photo by Hille James Combat Photographer. Today we’re looking at a photo he named “Out In The Cold“. We have a soldier in Multicam and an M2HB .50 Cal equipped with a Leupold scope and lots of other goodies. Just [Read More…]
As usual, TFB has selected a nice collection of pictures for you. By this time you know it, it’s TFB’s Photo Of The Day to keep you in a good mood. Take a break and enjoy a few minutes with a cup of coffee while you look at what’s going on. The message from [Read More…]
In our Photo Of The Day, we take a look at the U.S. Army’s Family of Weapon Sights-Crew Served (FWS-CS) made by BAE Systems. The system is designed for integration with the M2 .50-caliber machine gun, MK19 grenade launcher or the M240 machine gun. It has a laser range [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – The location is the Pacific Ocean and we’re on-board the USS Chancellorsville looking at the muzzle flash from a .50 BMG Machine Gun. The ship was launched in 1988 and is named after the Battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil [Read More…]
Today we are looking at a pretty cool image of a Norwegian gunner, with braid, in front of the Statue of Liberty, as the ship HNoMS Thor Heyerdahl sails out from New York City. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France? Anyway, you can see the M2HB [Read More…]
Flash forward to the Kadena Air Base in Japan in Today’s Photo here at TFB! Here you can see U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Keon Miller, special mission aviator assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron, as he fires a GAU-18 machine gun aboard a Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk. [Read More…]
Today’s Photo of The Day is a silhouette of a French Leclerc Mk2 Main Battle Tank (MBT), shrouded in smoke after firing during the live fire element of a joint UK/French exercise. The aim of the exercise, which took place in Estonia, was to give troops from both [Read More…]
Texas company True Velocity, LLC, has released the first images of their advanced lightweight polymer composite cased ammunition design via Instagram. Training company BAT Defense sent out an image of what appear to be 12.7×108, .50 BMG, and 5.56mm rounds made by [Read More…]
Being a defense show rather than a firearms industry show, there are a bunch of interesting products to see at AUSA that one might not get a peek at elsewhere. An example of this kind of product is the Modular Interlocking Ballistic Barriers from KF Armory. These [Read More…]
At the 2017 National Defense Industry Association conference on small arms, US Army ARDEC presented a brief on new technologies for enhancing the longevity of machine gun barrels, using 3D printing techniques. The project’s goals as stated in the presentation were [Read More…]
The US Army has begun a program to create a lightweight .50 caliber machine gun to replace the venerable M2 Browning. The program will, like the M240L machine gun, use titanium to reduce weight by 20-30 percent. Scout.com and NationalInterest.org both have stories on [Read More…]
The Browning M2 Machine Gun is the the stuff legends are made of. This gun was designed in 1918 and has been in continuous service since 1933. It is used by 100 nations and few improvements to the system have been made (new versions sport a spiffy flash hider and a QD [Read More…]
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