On 19 April, the US Army announced that SIG Sauer had won the Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) competition with its 6.8mm hybrid ammunition, MCX Spear and LMG-6.8 selected to equip the US Army’s close combat forces. The Department of Defense held a...
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SIG Sauer Wins US Army Next Generation Squad Weapon Contract
We, here at TFB, have been closely following the US Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon program since it began back in 2018. Today, it has been announced that SIG Sauer have won the contract to provide both the NGSW-Rifle and NGSW-Automatic Rifle. An initial delivery...
POTD: HK416N with Grenade Launcher in front of Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35A
Photo Of The Day and we have a guard ahead of the F-35A aircraft from the Royal Norwegian Air Force at Evenes Air Base during exercise Falcon Deploy 2021. The F-35A is a single-seat, single-engine, stealth, fifth-generation, multi-role combat aircraft ordered by...
POTD: French Snipers with PGM Hécate II
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is where you can discover the world of firearms through a camera lens. Every day we run a new theme, selected pictures, a short story and credit to the person behind the lens. Today we have some HOT images of French snipers and spotters from the...
POTD: M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle in Amphibious Assault
Photo Of The Day: Established in 2014 this is TFB’s way to show carefully selected photographs on a daily basis together with a brief story. Hopefully, you’ll learn something new and interesting. We also welcome comments in the intended section below. Today we go to...
POTD: Mk 14 Enhanced Battle Rifle
Photo Of The Day: TFB’s favorite shots (pun intended) served on a daily basis. We don’t think you have seen today’s selection before, taken on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during a live-fire exercise, in January...
POTD: M4s, Minimi M249, AK-74, AKMS, Vintorez VSS, PKM in Pakistan
Today we have pictures from the Russian-Pakistani Friendship shooting competition from 2018. The results were a draw, but we’re left with images of interesting firearms. Here is a description machine-translated from Russian: According to the results of the...
POTD: The Best Of Defence Imagery in 2021 – SA80
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 special moments like the one above. You can almost feel and hear the...