The world is hungry for visual storytelling, and TFB’s Photo Of The Day does its best to keep the feed live. Today we have the Spanish Heckler & Koch G36E with bayonets, the standard-issue rifle for the Spanish Army. U.S. and Spanish leaders, service members and [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Established in 2014 this is TFB’s way to show carefully selected photographs on a daily basis. As a bonus, you get a short story and hopefully, you’ll learn or see something new. Today the Heckler & Koch G36, a standard-issue rifle for the [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 for us, but also those who stay in the [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…]
Welcome back to the Photo Of The Day! Here is the place where we honor outstanding photos and the person behind the camera. Above you’re looking at a German Army Sniper adjusting his scope during morning shooting rehearsals at the International Specialty Training [Read More…]
Do you love photography? Without images TFB would not be the same. TFB has been running our very special Photo Of The Day series for years, sharing great photos from around the world and the world of firearms onto the screen you’re looking at right now. Today we have [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Ejército de Tierra is Spain’s territorial army. Here we can see the Battalion Zapadores of the Brigade ‘Guadarrama’ XII as they carry out an exercise to cross water obstacles in various ways . They are using the Heckler & Koch [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We take a look at the Spanish FR8 with accessories. A few of my friends have them, but I am more into modern firearms than the ones from the past. Yes, I know, it is my loss. One of my favorite milsurp rifles is the Spanish “La Coruña” [Read More…]
On 23 June, the Spanish government announced that it had approved the production of 348 VCR 8×8 armored fighting vehicles, with the value of the order estimated to be around €2 billion or $2.24 billion. A formal contract signing is expected to take place in [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – The COVID19 Coronavirus certainly changed the world. Today we’re looking at an event from the beginning of this month, held at the Móron Air Base in Spain. Above you see a U.S. Marine with the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task [Read More…]
POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s recurring articles where we go to great length trying to find the best pictures and stories out there. Today we have a mixed menu of Accuracy International, Heckler & Koch G36 and M107 / Barrett M82. Pretty cool multi-cam [Read More…]
It has been a while since we wrote anything about MalColMar Firearms (Indiana, USA), but anyone who likes historical firearms, optics and the CETME rifles specifically should continue reading. CETME is Spanish for Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales. [Read More…]
TFB has reported about the EU Firearms Directive (called the EU Gun Ban) before, and as the directive now slowly is settling around the various EU countries we continue to report about the development. We do this from a firearms legislation standpoint, not a political [Read More…]
The AMELI light machine gun was Spain’s answer to what the Ministry of Defense needed in a squad automatic weapon, as a base of fire for the Spanish Infantry fire team. It was based on the late war German MG45 design, or as we see here, possibly just another version of the Mauser-CETME Light [Read More…]
The Spanish National Police Corps (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, or CNP) have captured a huge number of weapons during a series of raids conducted in the areas of Biscay, Girona, and Cantabria in Northern Spain. The raids recovered about 10,000 firearms including [Read More…]
The M1 Carbine is a lightweight, handy weapon that is well-liked by many. One of its weakest points for many people, however, is its cartridge: The .30 Carbine caliber is regarded by some as being too weak to be a true intermediate caliber round fully capable of [Read More…]
We haven’t done a Historical Intermediate Calibers post in a while, mostly because most of the stuff that’s interesting enough to cover is difficult to find real world examples of. Today, we’ll be looking at one round I had planned to do ever since the [Read More…]
Gizmodo has a nice pictorial roundup of Future Soldier programs from around the world. Its not a comprehensive list, its missing a number of countries, such as the recently announced Sudanese program we blogged about a few weeks ago, but its worth taking a look. The [Read More…]
Over a year ago a Spanish reader emailed me to ask about the strange cartridge he found (pictured above). It had a ~7.62mm sized rifle bullet in what looked like a 9mm pistol cartridge case. Carlos wrote … I recently moved to my grandmother‘s house in Madrid [Read More…]
The below photo is of a Spanish solider carrying a H&K G36 rifle fitted with the Spanish Future Solider program (COMFUT / COMbatiente FUTuro) accessories. The rifle is equipped a huge day/night scope with integrated ballistic computer and camera. For close quarter [Read More…]
One of my readers purchased an antique rifle which turned out to be a rare Spanish needle gun. Needle guns are so named because the firing pin it literally a very long needle. The needle is needed because the primer sits at the base of the bullet. The needle must [Read More…]
This article was published in the June 1934 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine (via. Modern Mechanix) … Weighing 150 pounds and resembling a cannon more than a firearm, a huge, brass-barreled, portable field piece has been recovered from the sea, where a pirate [Read More…]
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