If you have a taste and interest in firearms and soldiering, this is where you’ll find some of the greatest photographers in the world on the subject. Let TFB’s Photo Of The Day be your daily guide and leisure. Above we have U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Dillon, a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We’re actually on a mission to find the “new” M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (and the M38 MDR) in various places around the world. We’ll even follow it into space if it ever goes there! Today’s location is Gabon, or [Read More…]
Ever since photography was invented in the early 1800s it has been a medium of almost limitless possibilities. Today most people have at least a smartphone to capture what’s going on around, and the professionals use even more advanced cameras and optics, like here. [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We have Marine snipers with the Scout Sniper Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), as they provide overwatch during a Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) mission. The snipers are aboard USS New Orleans [Read More…]
The M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle can be seen above, in our Photo Of The Day from the island of Hawaii, at the Marine Corps Base in August 2020. The M27 is based on the H&K HK416. The U.S. Marine Corps soldier is communicating with his fellow soldiers, as they [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. Above you can see a U.S. Marine with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, [Read More…]
When Skynet takes over, the Battelle Drone Defender V2 may become your best friend. Our Photo Of The Day shows U.S. Marines as they operate the Battelle V2 during a training at the Baghdad Embassy. The Marines are assigned to the Special Purpose Marine-Air Ground Task [Read More…]
The Art of Photography – Photo Of The Day here at The Firearm Blog is where we provide a look into the world of some amazing images from around the World. Have you ever been in Norway? I have and these soldiers from the U.S. Marine Corps have as well. The location [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – Above you see a U.S. Marine inspecting his target after shooting the Beretta M9 pistol during his pistol qualification range at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California. This happened in November of last year. He looks rather happy [Read More…]
The iconic scene with soldiers coming up from the sea. Look no further – it’s time for TFB’s Photo Of The Day where you’ll find amazing pictures like these. Here we see a Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman and a reconnaissance Marine [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…]
Above we can see a U.S. Marines with the 3rd Battalion 8th Marine Regiment as he fires the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle (based on the H&K HK416) during a live-fire weapons exercise at range F-18 on Camp Lejeune, N.C. That’s the subject for this Photo Of The [Read More…]
To lighten the load and increase mobility were the main targets as the USMC Systems Command went looking for the next generation of body armor. Of course not at the expense of decreased ballistic protection. In 2018 the US Marine Corps awarded Vertical Protective [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – The shotgun is probably the most violent firearm of them all. But depending on the ammunition it can also be non-lethal, which is the theme in these pictures. Above we see a U.S. Marine as he fires a Mossberg 590A1 12-gauge shotgun during a [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We are looking at an M240 Bravo medium machine gun in action. The photo was taken during a live-fire evolution as part of the LAR Marine course at Range 408, on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. U.S. Marines with Light Armored [Read More…]
Today we take a look at U. S. Marines with the Special Reaction Team, Security and Emergency Services Battalion, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton as they sight in on targets using their M40A6 sniper rifles. The photos were taken during their [Read More…]
Archipelago Endeavor is an annual, bilateral integrated field-training exercise, conducted to promote interoperability, strengthen partnerships, and enhance strategic and tactical cooperation between the U.S. and Swedish Marines. Photo Of The Day, and we take a closer [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows a variety of interesting and (relatively) rare firearms. It is not every day we see a Swiss B&T APR308 Sniper Rifle in service, for instance. The APR308 has a Leupold rifle scope attached. In the picture above, you can see a [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day takes us through frigid water and freezing conditions as US Marines and Norwegian Coastal Ranger Commandos embrace the elements. Recently U.S. Marines with the 1st & 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, as well as Norwegian Coastal Ranger [Read More…]
Today’s Photos brings us to a place you really want to avoid in time of a conflict, the Sniper’s Nest. The pictures are taken during the culminating event, after three weeks of a screening that every scout sniper candidate must complete before attending [Read More…]
Camp Hansen is a United States Marine Corps base located in Okinawa, Japan. The camp got its name after Dale M. Hansen who earned a Medal of Honor, unfortunately posthumously as he was killed by an enemy sniper in 1945. In Today’s Photo Of The Day you can see US [Read More…]
Posing for the camera for Today’s Photo Of The Day here at TFB, is the U.S. Marine Corps’ scout sniper platoon commander and the chief scout sniper with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary [Read More…]
Today’s Photos are of scout sniper team members in the U.S. Marines. Above you can see U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Bryce Hopkins, a scout sniper with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Air-Ground Task Force-6 shooting the SASR M107 Barrett .50 Cal during [Read More…]
Heckler & Koch are on fire on their Facebook Social Media. Their post about “A fresh batch of M27 rifles leaving Georgia headed to the Devil Dogs” currently has over 6,000 comments and 15,000 shares. That’s quite a lot for anything related to [Read More…]
Today’s Photo (above) shows Cpl. Martin Vara, a scout sniper with Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 11:th Marine Expeditionary Unit, as he patrols during a pre-deployment training exercise. The location is at the Marine Corps Air Ground [Read More…]
Today’s Photos are from this hot summer’s Exercise Archipelago Endeavor. The Swedish Marines of 1:st Marine Regiment aboard the island of Korso, Harsfjarden, Sweden, together with the U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Europe 18.1 conduct an [Read More…]
The firearm in today’s Photo of the Day has been around since 1948. The producer, SAAB, calls the Carl Gustaf a “man-portable multi-role weapon system.” This makes sense, considering the wide range of ammunition types that can be used. Just take your [Read More…]
The U.S. Marines were recently in Sweden training for amphibious landings and assaults. The exercise Archipelago Endeavor 2018 was just finished, and was a bilateral exercise with units from the United States Marine Corps’ Marine Rotational Force-Europe and Sweden’s [Read More…]
U.S. Marines have participated in the Swedish Basic Winter Warfare Course. These pictures were taken by Staff Sgt. Marcin Platek in January 2018, located in the North of Sweden. The location more exactly is Arvidsjaur, Sweden, where a lot of car manufacturers torture [Read More…]
This feelgood story is from 2004 and I was sure TFB had done an article about it, in some way or another. I searched but couldn’t find anything, so I blame the search function if it’s a repeat but I beg for mercy and an excuse as there’s now additional [Read More…]
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