Photo Of The Day and we’re back looking at the training and testing of the Army’s new 6.8mm family of Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle (NGSW-R), NGSW-Automatic Rifle (AR) and the NGSW-Fire Control (FC) systems. Above you see an infantryman with the 2nd [Read More…]
It’s because of images like these that TFB’s Photo Of The Day exists. Above you see a Ranger with the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, as he engages targets during squad live fire (blank iteration), while operationally testing the Next Generation Squad [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we’re off to the Republic of Cabo Verde, an archipelago and island country in the central Atlantic Ocean consisting of ten volcanic islands. In these images, U.S. Army Rangers assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group teach the Cabo Verdean [Read More…]
There are too many photographs to keep records of, but there can never be too many good ones. Here we try to collect the best ones and share them, under our tag Photo Of The Day. Above you can see 1st Lt. Michael Singer from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), as [Read More…]
SIG Sauer have shared information and images on the specially built M17 trophy pistols built for the 2021 Best Ranger Competition being held at Fort Benning this month. Built by SIG’s custom works, the pistols have a custom black nitron engraved slide and black [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Another day in life together with some of America’s Special Forces. All of these images were used in a Special Operations Recruiting Battalion Campaign, and I presume they worked well. Below we have U.S. Army Rangers from the 75th Ranger [Read More…]
“It’s Over. Glock Won.” Hognose writes. What did Glock win? Total domination in the US Special Operations world, and (my speculation) possibly the Modular Handgun System contract as well, by extension. Hognose doesn’t explicitly say that the [Read More…]
This photo was posted in a SCAR Owners Group. It is short barreled MK17 caliber converted to shoot 5.56×45. The weapon is used by US Army Rangers and was seen at a Rangers Open House. The selector switch looks quite different to the MK17 and MK16 that [Read More…]
The first new rifles in the prototype batch made by Sako in Finland have been issued to Canadian Rangers, and initial reports are positive. The rifle, which has been designated “C-19”, will replace the venerable but aging .303-caliber Lee-Enfield rifles [Read More…]
This week’s DTIC document is one well worth reading in the interest of understanding the AR-15’s early deployment and subsequent “fall from grace” later in the 1960s. It bears more detailed examination than I usually put into the Weekly DTIC, so [Read More…]
Army.mil reports … Most of the 15 Rangers who participated in the paintball games Wednesday had just returned with him from a deployment only a few weeks ago, Shin said. “Sometimes the transition is tough,” he said. “For a lot of these guys, I [Read More…]
The Army Times (via. Murdoc) report that the 75th Rangers are receiving new FN SCAR rifles: About 600 members of the 75th Ranger Regiment will soon take the Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle into battle. The 600 SCARs are the first of 1,800 that U.S. Special [Read More…]
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