Good afternoon everyone and welcome to TFB’s Silencer Saturday brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the brand new YHM 338 Bad Larry Suppressor. Last week Pete discussed suppressors with defined borders. This week I am taking over, in Pete’s [Read More…]
For a very long time, we’ve been looking for images with submarines and firearms for our Photo Of The Day. It seems to be impossible, so we have to settle for a distant view of the Royal Marine Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (SRS), which is an element of [Read More…]
The number of internet users worldwide has passed the 5-billion mark, reaching almost 60% of the global population. Our world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread like wildfire, but the story and the necessary context sometimes get left behind. But not [Read More…]
Time for another Photo Of The Day. Sometimes you stumble on interesting pictures that need to be shared, and we got the owner’s permission to do so. Since winter is soon upon us (yes, unfortunately), it might be a good time to paint a gun or two [Read More…]
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” (Confucius) Or in this Photo Of The Day, life actually starts once you did your first polar plunge AND shot the Heckler & Koch G3 battle rifle. Above you see a member of NOREX 44 (44th [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features a lot of snow and cold, and a furry beast. In terms of firearms, we have the Heckler & Koch HK416N, the SA80 in full winter camouflage and most likely an M4 carbine. From NATO‘s Facebook [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection shows Ukrainian soldiers on the shooting range, with instructors from the Norwegian Home Guard. They are shooting the Norwegian version of the Heckler & Koch HK416 (HK416N). Communication mainly takes [Read More…]
The Royal Marines have deployed to Norway for their annual winter deployment in the Arctic Circle. This year, Royal Navy ships joined the Royal Marines for a large-scale NATO exercise Cold Response 22. The Commandos refreshed their skills in surviving, moving, and [Read More…]
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…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is back with pictures from Exercise Cold Response 2022 that took place in Bjerkvik, Norway, in March of this year. Above you see a U.S. Marine as he provides security while conducting a movement to contact. The Marines are assigned to Lima [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: The M249 Light Machine Gun is made in the United States by FN Manufacturing LLC in Columbia, South Carolina. Here we can see it in action in the exercise Cold Response, spitting out those 5.56mm bullets at a high rate of fire. The M249 with the [Read More…]
Which is the best carry gun for the people who take the photos for TFB’s Photo Of The Day? The Heckler & Koch MP7 of course! Above we have a Norwegian Army photographer during exercise Trident Juncture 2018 in Norway, armed with his camera and a huge lens, [Read More…]
As usual, TFB has selected a bunch of pictures for you today. By this time you know it, it’s our Photo Of The Day designed to keep you in a good mood. Get some refreshments from the fridge or the coffee machine, take a break and enjoy a few minutes looking at these [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 what a nice place to be! The Norwegian Armed Forces ordered the Barrett MRAD already in 2013, so you can call them early adopters for sure. For the United States Army Precision Sniper Rifle contracts, Barrett have now made over a thousand MRAD [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: The Norwegian SWAT Team practice boarding on the Norwegian coast guard ship KV Barentshav. The main firearm above is the Heckler & Koch MP5 in 9×19 mm, but note the sand-colored AN/PEQ-15 and the marine finish. In the Norwegian Armed Forces, [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…]
The Barrett MRAD (Multi-Role Adaptive Design) with a Schmidt & Bender riflescope is how today’s Photo Of The Day is introduced. The sniper is from Norway and you can see a spent .338 Lapua Magnum being ejected. The Norwegian Armed Forces ordered the MRAD [Read More…]
POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s daily article series where we try to find the most interesting pictures out there. Did you know that credit for the first-ever color photograph taken goes to the mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell? Back in 1861, he [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…]
Earlier this summer we were notified that the winner of the first official IPSC Handgun World Champion, Jan Foss from Norway, sadly had passed away at the age of 82 on June 12, 2021. Mr. Foss became the World Champion in practical shooting in 1976 during the IPSC [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…]
Above you see a Swedish infantryman in a firefight with his Ak5 (FN FNC) near the Norwegian village of Drevsjo. This happened during the NATO exercise Trident Juncture, in Norway, in November 2018. Trident Juncture 2018 was NATO’s largest exercise in many years, [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…]
Each day a different image from the World of firearms. We call this POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, and it’s our daily article series where we go to great lengths trying to find the most interesting pictures out there for you. Today we have Norwegian Naval [Read More…]
The World moves faster and faster, and the number of images produced with it. But rest assured that TFB’s Photo Of The Day will keep its focus on firearms. And man’s best friend of course. Above you can see Norwegian Tyri from the K9 unit in the Quick Reaction [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…]
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