Welcome to a new episode of this very irregular series. Again, we have the chance to take a look at the highly unique brainchild of a talented inventor. The Wildebeest is, to our knowledge, the only semiautomatic pistol marrying a low bore axis architecture with a [Read More…]
Back in October 2022, the Australian Defence Force selected the SIG Sauer P320 XCarry Pro as their next sidearm. The P320 XCarry Pro will replace the venerable Browning Hi-Power under Australia’s Lethality System Project LAND 159. The Australian Defence Department [Read More…]
The number of internet users worldwide will soon reach the 5-billion mark. Our world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread globally in a matter of minutes, but the story and the necessary context sometimes gets left behind. Not in TFB’s Photo Of The [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Being an engineer in the Army sounds boring, doesn’t it? Well, perhaps not if you join the Special Operations Engineer Regiment in Australia. These engineers look pretty Special Ops if you ask me. The Australian Army special operations combat [Read More…]
Looking for moments when a great photographer meets Special Forces and their firearms? Look no further, TFB’s daily article series – Photo Of The Day – is where you will find these amazing masterpieces. The photo above is an exceptional catch, where [Read More…]
The Australian Department of Defence has selected the Accuracy International AX-SR as the Long Range platform for the sniper capability of the L159 contract. The rifle will be introduced into service as a multi-calibre system, capable of being configured to .338 Lapua [Read More…]
On 30 September the Australian Defence Department announced that it had selected a raft of new weapon systems as part of the first tranche of its major Lethality System Project (LAND 159) project. One of the weapons selected was the Benelli M3A1 which will become [Read More…]
The Australian Department of Defence has announced that under its Lethality System Project LAND 159 project a raft of new small arms have been selected for the Australian Defence Force’s dismounted combatants. The news was announced at the end of last month [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we take off to the Combat Training Center, Baturaja, Indonesia. We see soldiers from Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and the United States conducting a multinational field training exercise as part of Exercise Super Garuda Shield. Super Garuda [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…]
RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) is the world’s largest international maritime exercise, and the 2022 edition is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. Above you can see Australian Army reconnaissance team members moving into their position during an [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Above you see (well, kind of) an Australian Army soldier from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. He patrols through bushland during a simulated reconnaissance operation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise. From June 29 to August [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is where you can discover the world of firearms through a camera lens. Every day we run a new theme, selected pictures, a short story and credit to the person behind the lens. Today we’re looking at Australian Army special operations [Read More…]
One of the goals of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to share treasures from the world of firearms and soldiering, while giving credits to the photographer. Here we can see an Australian Army special forces soldier (on the right) from the Special Air Service Regiment and an [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. Above you can spot an Australian Operator with the 2nd Commando Regiment, Special Operations Command. He [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: While the rest of this blog is stacked with new product releases and reviews, you can just enjoy the tranquility and the historical picture above. Today, from the Vietnam era, we have the X3F1 Sub-machine Gun made by the Lithgow Small Arms Factory, [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: The new Australian Navy Nordic Skiing and Biathlon Associations (NNSBA) ECOAims laser biathlon rifles are here! Above you can see Lieutenant Commander Heather Bundy shooting from the standing supported position. I think it’s interesting to study [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day and we’re looking at Seaman Boatswains Mate Hayden Sleath as he fires the line thrower projectile from HMAS Anzac to HMAS Sirius, during a replenishment at sea. The rifle used is an Austeyr F88 and the photographer managed to catch [Read More…]
As usual, TFB has selected a few pictures for you. By this time you know it, it’s TFB’s Photo Of The Day to keep you in a good mood. Get a coffee, take a break and enjoy a few minutes off. Here we have Australian Army soldiers together with U.S. Marines with the [Read More…]
Australia is an amazing country for many reasons. Aside from nearly every living thing in the island nation trying to kill you, it is also full of interesting people and firearms history. History nerds will no doubt know that firearms were a large part of Australian [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: The SL40 grenade launcher is made by Steyr Mannlicher and was selected by Thales Australia as the preferred choice when the EF88 assault rifle was under development by the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Note that the soldier aims through what is most [Read More…]
The FGC-9 is a 3D-printed firearm designed by JStark1809 of Deterrence Dispensed that is easily made even in countries where firearms gun control is extreme. A recent “crackdown” from New South Wales (NSW) Police resulted in two Australian FGC-9 guns being [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We take a look at the Australian F88 Austeyr, which is of course easy to misinterpret as an Austrian Steyr AUG STG-77. The pictures are from the 2020 Army Skill at Arms Meeting Champion Shot, a competition to test the skills of shooters [Read More…]
Without Warning is an Australian company run by BJ who is a Precision Rifle competitor and enthusiast as well as an avid hunter. His invention – the TMB-S (Tuner Muzzle Brake – Standard) is designed to integrate both a self-timing muzzle brake and a locking [Read More…]
I consider myself quite lucky to either have hands-on experience with a few uncommon firearms or at the very least talk with people who own them. From a one-off tool-shop prototype of a spring-assisted straight-pull bolt-action Lithgow L1A1 to a very recognizable [Read More…]
Police in Sydney, Australia have seized a partially 3D printed Glock 19 pistol after a raid on a Newtown home, the gun believed to have also been assembled with illegally imported parts. As only the slide, barrel and trigger components need to be smuggled in through the [Read More…]
In a baffling bit of twitter news, I came across this curious post in which a Tasmanian resident received a letter that his Gel Blaster was considered a firearm and would have to be confiscated because the owner did not possess a firearms license. The owner of the Gel [Read More…]
Australia’s history of indigenous small arms production begins with the opening of the Lithgow small arms factory in the eastern part of the country. Starting with Lee-Enfield production before the First World War and ending with the Self Loading Rifle before the takeover of Australian Defense [Read More…]
Evelyn Ernest Owen (15 May 1915 – 1 April 1949) designed the Owen machine carbine or Owen Gun in 1939. This is the topic of our Photo Of The Day. TFB wrote about it already in 2013, in the article: Made In Australia: The Owen Submachine Gun. As I’m sure [Read More…]
At TFB we’re devoted to finding the best and most interesting firearms-related photos together with a short story. You’ll find them here, every day. In today’s Photo Of The Day, we’re looking at Royal Australian Navy clearance divers from 2nd Commando [Read More…]
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