Norway’s Armed Forces have been using the FN Minimi Light Machine Gun (in 5,56×45 NATO) since the late 80s. Recently they awarded FN Herstal another contract to supply up to 4,000 FN Minimi 7.62 Mk3 Light Machine Guns, a movement up in caliber as you can see. In this [Read More…]
Photojournalism is the process of telling stories 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 story. [Read More…]
A Norwegian soldier with the FN Minimi in Bamako, Mali. One of the purposes of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to broaden the audience for the excellent work done by professionals in combat photography. A perfect picture may take everything from a split second to months of [Read More…]
Some use reindeer and some use K9 Belgian Malinois to travel in the snow. In our Photo Of The Day, we have Norwegian Coastal Rangers conducting an air mobile operation together with the Royal Norwegian Air Force 339 Squadron. This happened during exercise Arctic Hawk in [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have a guard ahead of the F-35A aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force at Evenes Air Base during exercise Falcon Deploy 2021. The F-35A is a single-seat, single-engine, stealth, fifth-generation, multi-role combat aircraft ordered by several [Read More…]
In today’s Photo Of The Day, we have some photos of Norwegian Navy EODs, US Navy EODs Mobile Unit 8, and Danish Navy EODs training together with the Norwegian Army and Air Force during the Exercise Arctic Specialist. Above you can see some Heckler & Koch [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: In 2008 the Norwegian government selected the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter) as a replacement for their fleet of F-16s. Almost ten years after, in 2017, the first aircraft arrived at the Ørland Air Base and this is still the [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – TFB is now on its 7:th year of bringing you high-quality photographs from the world of firearms every day. In store today is the Norwegian Home Guard department Sture and their Heckler & Koch HK416s out on a mission to defend and then evacuate. [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Soldier from His Majesty The King’s Guard standing in front of the Storting, the Norwegian Parlament, during the opening of the 166:th Storting. They are carrying the Heckler & Koch HK416N with Aimpoint sights, made for Norway. It seems they [Read More…]
The Norwegian Army and their Home Guard must be among the most well-equipped armies and forces in the world, and they have plenty of good combat photographers as well. It’s only natural that we see them quite often in TFB’s Photo Of The Day. Above you can [Read More…]
Usually, the photos we show on our Photo Of The Day are assembled and fully functional. Today we’re looking at a (partially) disassembled Heckler & Koch HK416. The picture was taken at the Norwegian Armed Forces Cyber Defence day, for the cyber engineer [Read More…]
FN Herstal recently announced a new Ultralight Machine Gun called EVOLYS. But the focus of today’s Photo Of The Day is the FN Minimi (seen above) and the Heckler & Koch HK416. The Minimi has been in use with Norway’s Special Forces since the late 1980s. [Read More…]
The Norwegian Army and Home Guard are possibly some of the best-equipped forces with a variety of modern firearms from Heckler & Koch, Barrett, Glock and FN. The Norwegian Home Guard continues phasing out the old AG-3 (Automatgevær 3), which is the Norwegian [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day, the top photos from around the World, and today we look at a Norwegian Army CBRN specialist on an exercise in Troms county. The Norwegian Armed Forces use the Heckler & Koch. They use versions like the HK416N, HK416K as well as the HK416S which is [Read More…]
Did you have fun at work today? Before you start complaining check out the working conditions for these soldiers in our Photo Of The Day. These Royal Marines, assigned to 47 Commando Raiding Group, and the Norwegian Army soldiers, assigned to Combat Engineer [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – we are now on our 7th year of bringing you high-quality photographs from the world of firearms every day. Today we have the pleasure to join Norwegian Soldiers from the “Jegerkompani”, during practice before their Night watch. This is [Read More…]
I admit it, these Norwegian Heckler & Koch 416 carrying soldiers is just an excuse to show a lof of excellent pictures of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter). We hope you like them! Below you can see soldiers from Force Protection as they [Read More…]
In this Photo Of The Day, we take another look at Camp Bifrost in Bamako, Mali: A cold name for a hot place. We’re looking at the Norwegian Force Protection during one of their exercises. Above you’re looking at a Heckler & Koch HK416N (for Norway one [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…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day takes us through frigid water and freezing conditions as US Marines and Norwegian Coastal Ranger Commandos embrace the elements. Recently U.S. Marines with the 1st & 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, as well as Norwegian Coastal Ranger [Read More…]
Today’s Picture is from a demo with the Norwegian Special Operation Commando. We’re looking at Norwegian operators on a Supacat HMT Extenda vehicle as they secure the area while a Bell 412 SP helicopter flies over the area. As TFB reported in February 2019, [Read More…]
Knock-knock – is anybody home? Here is a string of photos of the Norwegian Naval Special Operation Commando in Kabul, Afghanistan. Below: This image has a lot of interesting things going on. Apart from the explosives, there are Heckler & Koch HK416s with short [Read More…]
Did you know that the The Norwegian Armed Forces were the first customer to adopt the HK416 in the year of 2007? Norway now has an added appetite for firearms from Heckler & Koch, a hunger they share with many other European countries. The Norwegian Defence Materiel [Read More…]
The Barrett M82 in .50 BMG isn’t the first firearm I think of to be used in urban sniping for a number of reasons, but the Soldiers from the Norwegian Homeguard seem to be on a limitless budget. The effective range of the M82 is around 1 800 yards, if not longer. [Read More…]
Today’s Photo(s) of the Day are taken by Jakob Østheim at the Norwegian Defense (Forsvaret). These are gunmen at HNoMS Roald Amundsen during an exercise called Dynamic Mongoose in 2017. You can see both a .50 BMG Heavy Machine Gun as well as short HK416s. The [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day is from Norway. The Norwegian Home Guard (in Norwegian “Heimevernet” or just “HV” for short) works as a rapid mobilization force in the Norwegian military. It was founded in1946 and has land, sea and air defense [Read More…]
Earlier this year the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced they will be switching from the G3 7.62mm rifle to the HK416. The Turkish government owned arms and ordnance manufacturer MKEK will be producing the rifle under license from Heckler & Koch. The H&K G3 [Read More…]