The French Army has selected the SCAR-H PR as their new Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle. In French that becomes: Fusil de précision semi-automatique (FPSA). In 2018, the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) – which is the French Government Defence [Read More…]
Our theme for Today’s Photo Of The Day goes in Green, White and Black. The firearm above is possibly a SCAR-H, suppressed and equipped with Night Vision. Due to the limited visibility, it’s a bit difficult to make out what is going on, and with what, but [Read More…]
Today’s Photo of the Day brings more NAVY SEALs with FN SCARs. We love when we can zoom in on a high-resolution image and read “FN Herstal Belgium MK 17 Mod 0. Cal 7,62 mm” on the side of the firearm. It is even possible to read the serial on the [Read More…]
Today, Polish military magazine MILMAG (https://www.milmag.pl/) released pictures of the new CZ Bren 2 308 variant chambered in .308 Win. Source: https://www.facebook.com/TheMilMag2/ In 2016, in Pakistan, when I was first introduced to CZ 807 series, my first [Read More…]
On the April 27 Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division posted a sole source notice announcing their intention to extend the current Combat Assault Rifle (CAR) Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for a further five years. The Combat Assault [Read More…]
The HK433 family is going full power, Heckler & Koch told TFB at the 2017 Association of the United States Army annual meeting. When speaking to representatives of the company about their new rifle which was being shown off in the USA for the first time, I asked the [Read More…]
The US Army’s Program Manager for Individual Weapons has issued a new Request for Information (RFI) to the industry for a new 7.62x51mm Interim Combat Service Rifle, which seeks to bring out the best battle rifles the market has to offer. The RFI, posted at [Read More…]
In recent testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Mark Milley, the Army Chief of Staff, admitted during questioning that the Army is looking at alternative rifle platforms to the current M4 Carbine. Milley’s comments were made primarily during a [Read More…]
Thanks to a recent leak exclusively to The Firearm Blog, we have now become aware of a new tender for rifles issued by the Pakistani government. According to the tender document, the Pakistani Army is looking for 75,000 “modern 7.62x39mm caliber weapons”, [Read More…]
According to a recent article on Soldier Systems, the US Army is considering an “interim” switch back to the 7.62mm caliber in standard infantry rifles. Eric Graves of the site lays out a reasonable overview of the situation on the ground, and what sort of [Read More…]
TFB’s Pete recently wrote about the European Sniper Competition, hosted by the U.S. Army in Germany. The competition included competitors from Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United [Read More…]
One of the vendors at Knob Creek had this piece all neatly put together. We reported on these demilled SCARs back in the summer with a POTD, with a crate filled to the brim with them! These particular rifles seem to have been contracted out by the DOD to a civilian [Read More…]
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, along comes this odd drop in lower receiver for the 7.62x51mm SCAR Heavy platform, turning it into a Bullpup. It didn’t gain much success, as the talk on the internet and the apparent release date was back in 2013, but [Read More…]
This photo was posted in the FNForum.net SCAR17S section which came from Team FNH USA Facebook page. We received the below feedback from one of America’s finest serving overseas right now. The below account is unedited and we share it with you because [Read More…]
After posting the article about the SCAR 17S magazine by Moses Mag, Moses Mag reached out to me to see if I would like to review their magazine. Of course I would, I love my SCAR 17S and I am always eager to find new and interesting upgrades. I received the magazines [Read More…]
In this video, FPSRussia gets his hands on a SCAR-H, the select fire version of the SCAR 17S. It’s rate of fire is a lot slower than I expected, it is still an impressive machine and is one of my bucket list guns to shoot in Full Auto. I would like to have seen [Read More…]
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