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…]
Photo Of The Day – Do you like cleaning your gun? I don’t so I try to avoid it at almost all cost, apart from stop shooting. Today we take a look at German Mountain Rangers, and what life looks after a long day at the exercise Trident Juncture. Below: [Read More…]
Today’s Picture takes us to the Island of Sardinia in Italy, and the Teulada Training Area. We look at a 2nd season soldier of the 1st battalion of the Luftwaffe property protection regiment, as he secures the area with a Heckler & Koch G28. This was part of [Read More…]
With either a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle or a Suomi KP/-31 sub-machine gun, Mr. Simo Häyhä (1905-2002) reportedly killed 505 enemy soldiers during the Winter War (1939-1940). This is the highest recorded number of sniper kills in any war. According to Wikipedia: [Read More…]
Fantail Fire – the subject of Today’s Photo Of The Day here at TFB. The aft close-in weapons system on the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima reminds me of R2D2 in Star Wars. A close-in weapon system, or CIWS for short, is a point-defense weapon [Read More…]