Photo Of The Day: The location is Camp Shelby, Mississippi, USA, with French Special Operations Forces visiting the U.S. 24th Special Operations Wing. The exercise was called Emerald Warrior. Camp Shelby is the largest state-owned training site in the nation, with a [Read More…]
Welcome to our daily selection of pictures. 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 looking at the U.S. SOF with the Ak5 (FN FNC) below. This is quite an unusual sight, [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 for you out there. Quite often we pick pictures of [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and a story where we can see operators from Forsvarets Spesialkommando (FSK), the Norwegian Special Operation Commandos during an exercise. The photographer is the highly skilled Torbjørn Kjosvold (Forsvaret). Below: Operators from Forsvarets [Read More…]
Fresh and cold pictures of Royal Marines specialists from the Arctic Circle is what’s on offer in our Photo Of The Day. If you can offer some help in identifying the firearms please let us know in the comments below. We think they are Colt Canada C8 SFWs, also [Read More…]
The Firearm Blog was the first ever to report about the Heckler & Koch 417P, as the first pictures appeared together with Concamo almost two years ago. Since then, it has been rather quiet – until now. To the best of our knowledge, the HK417P has now been [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have great pictures where soldiers from the Swedish Home Guard and U.S. Army Green Berets train together. It is easy to lay the eyes on the Swedish Heckler & Koch G3 clone called Ak4. As you can see these have the Aimpoint CS red dot sights [Read More…]
Join the U.S. Special Forces and see the World! Or stay at home and just have a lazy look at TFB’s Photo Of The Day and share the experience from the Latvian Zemessardze and the US Army Special Forces in these pictures. Above we have a Heckler & Koch G36 in [Read More…]
We recently had a look at not so common SG-43 Goryunov Machine Gun. Today it’s time for the more common German MG3 machine gun. Above you can see a student assigned to the U. S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. He is in the Special Forces [Read More…]
Aquila International, LLC have recently completed their delivery of a batch of small arms and accessories to Argentina’s Army Special Forces. The shipment includes Glock pistols and B&T submachine guns. The Argentinian special forces, specifically the [Read More…]
Canadian media outlets have reported that a member of Canada’s elite Joint Task Force 2 was wounded in the leg when his pistol allegedly misfired. The accident occurred last November when the operator was training with a newly purchased SIG Sauer P320. The [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we are looking at an SG-43 Goryunov Machine Gun. It uses the 7.62×54mmR cartridge and was introduced during the Second World War, in 1943, to replace the M1910 Maxim. Here we can see students who are assigned to the U. S. Army John F. Kennedy [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Celebrities with firearms is always interesting and here we see them together with some of the U.S. Special Forces. Above you can see country singer Lee Brice, as he fires a rifle at various targets during the Special Forces Tactical Challenge. The [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we take a closer look at Special Forces soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne). Above you can see them in a Polaris MRZR off-road utility vehicle at the Panzer Local Training area near Stuttgart, Germany in 2020. [Read More…]
In today’s Photo Of The Day, we take a look at the main firearm of the Swedish Home Guard (National Security Forces) in the hands of a U.S. Special Forces Group member. He uses the Swedish Ak 4B during FID training (Foreign Internal Defense) with the Swedish Home [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we go to a snow-covered Russia to look for an operator of the 9K111 Fagot wire-guided anti-tank missile system as well as snipers. The 9K111 can be used either from ground or vehicle mounts. The units are from the special forces of the air defense [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and time for some Russian Special Forces Competition at the Brestsky training ground. This was the first stage of the international competition called “Polar Star”. As part of the first stage of the competition, participants will pass a [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is the place where you can discover the world of firearms through the lens of a camera. Every day we run a new theme, a bunch of selected pictures and a short story. Today we have some fantastic examples of photography from Norway. We have [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day, and the winter has come to Europe. Today we have pictures from the exercise Winter Shield 20 – a Latvian led exercise integrating U.S. conventional & Special Operations Forces. Above we see U.S. Special Forces with 10th Special Forces Group [Read More…]
Aquila International, LLC, a US Defense contractor, have announced that they will provide Daniel Defense rifles to various Argentine military organisations. Aquila are the South American distributors for Daniel Defense and have been awarded contracts to supply the [Read More…]
With India’s armed forces still awaiting a new service rifle, it seems that Indian Special Forces are forging on ahead. Indian media outlets have reported that India’s Para (Special Forces) unit have selected the 7.62x51mm FN SCAR-H along with a number of [Read More…]
Poland’s Jednostka Wojskowa Formoza and Jednostka Wojskowa GROM, both key elements of the Polish Special Forces, are seeking to procure new carbines. JW Formoza are seeking a new modular carbine while JW GROM are seeking an unspecified number of Heckler & [Read More…]
Thanks to an anonymous source for sending this cringeworthy content. On September 4, 2019, the 11 RGK (11th Special Forces Regiment) of Malaysia held a demonstration. This Malaysian body armor demonstration failure resulted in the death of a Major on his way to the [Read More…]
Ed Brown has released another custom 1911 pistol. This time it is a fully-loaded combat-ready gun called SOCOM Edition Special Forces 1911. It comes with all the features that convert the century-old design into a modern fighting tool. Let’s take a closer look. [Read More…]
There are not enough pictures of the NAVY SEALs here at TFB, but today we try to improve with some astonishing pictures of the SEALs in an unusual environment. In case you didn’t know, the abbreviation stands for SEa, Air and Land. Some of these pictures give the [Read More…]
Following the recent terrorist incident in Utrecht, Netherlands, Dutch special forces have been deployed. We’ve gotten some good photos of members of the Dutch Korps Mariniers armed with the SIG Sauer Suppressed Upper Receiver (SUR) in .300 Blackout built on an [Read More…]
On the 6th December, snipers of the US Army’s 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) took part in training to engage targets at long ranges shooting through barrier holes. The session included tripod training using SOCOM’s Sniper Support Rifle (SSR), the FN [Read More…]
During a counter terrorism operation in Newcastle in the UK British counter terrorism police were joined by operators believed to be members of the British Army’s elite SAS. A 33 year old suspect was arrested on the 11 December during the operation. Armed police, [Read More…]
Back in 2012 the Indian Army purchased just over 1,500 B&T MP9 submachine gun after serious equipment shortfalls were highlighted by senior army officers. It’s unclear if India have made subsequent MP9 orders. These were issued to the Indian Army’s [Read More…]
The 10:th Special Forces Workshop 2018 in Güstrow (Germany) was organized by the Baltic Shooters, and contained three action-packed days. The event is by many considered as the best military and law enforcement events in Germany. As could be expected, there are not [Read More…]