Welcome to another Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features the courage and sacrifice of soldiers around the world, the brave men and women who risk their lives to defend their countries and protect their citizens. Above you see a picture of a Hellenic special forces soldier, as he reloads an AXSR advanced sniper rifle. This rifle is made by Accuracy International and retails for around ten grand. The rifle was originally developed for the USSOCOM Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) program. The riflescope is from Steiner Optics.

Photo Of The Day – U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division provide suppressing fire during exercise Combined Resolve 18 at Hohenfels Training Area, Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Germany, May 12, 2023. Combined Resolve 18 is a U.S. Army exercise consisting of over 4,000 service members, allies, and partners from 15 countries, and is designed to assess units’ abilities to conduct combat operations effectively in a multi-domain battlespace.

The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for the past 9 years. A rifle not seen too often, here’s the Colt Canada C20 DMR.

One of the product lines of Italian firearm accessories manufacturer ROME (Rottigni Officina MEccanica) is a family of suppressors called Signum. The one we see in today’s Photo Of The Day is a big-bore can with an interesting fluted front design.

Welcome to another Photo Of The Day! Today’s selection features the hard work of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia, during exercise Spring Storm in the town of Kadrina in Estonia.

For today’s Photo Of The Day, we have these cool images from the Pilsen Liberation Festival (May 6, 2023). U.S. GI Reenactors recreate iconic scenes from the liberation of Pilsen. The Liberation Festival is an annual event that brings over 50,000 spectators to Pilsen for the Liberation Parade, which consists of U.S. GI reenactors from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, and the United States to commemorate the 16th Armored Division’s liberation of Pilsen on May 5th, 1945, three days before VE-Day.

The goal of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to give your eyes something worth watching, and your brain something to think about every day. Over the years we have shown firearms and soldiers from North to South, East to West in almost any imaginable situation and climate. Above you see Slovak soldiers assigned to the Slovakian 22nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion patrol during Exercise Combined Resolve 18 at Hohenfels Training Area, Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Germany, May 11, 2023.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms. Above you see Washington National Guard Staff Sgt. Chris Smith, a sniper employment officer with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 161st Infantry Regiment, 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, as he identifies targets with a thermal optic (an L3 CNVD-T).

These images gave me quite a lot of “Apocalypse Now“ feeling. If you haven’t seen the movie, then you certainly should! In this Photo Of The Day you see U.S. Army AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment (Attack Battalion), 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as they fired 15 Air-to-Ground Missile (AGM) 114R Hellfire II’s at Karavia Range Complex, Greece.

The hungriest beast of them all on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for over 9 years. Here we see U.S. Army Spc. Jackson Shlef, a sniper assigned to the East Africa Response Force (EARF), as he observes a position during training at Arta Range, Djibouti, earlier this year. What do you think of the improvised shooting position?

It’s because of photos like this that TFB’s Photo Of The Day exists. Above you see a competitor in the United States Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition, as he runs to a firing position prior to engaging targets at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on March 22, 2023. Running For Victory? Let’s hope so.

Our Photo Of The Day can be chosen for a variety of reasons. An offensive muzzle flash from an M240B machine gun operated by Special Forces is always a good reason. Above you see a soldier assigned to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School during tactical skills training as part of the Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC) at Camp Mackall, North Carolina in January 2023.

To my knowledge, this is the first and only time we had the Royal Bahamas Defence Force in our Photo Of The Day. Above you see one of their members, as he provides security with his M4 carbine during a realistic training event with Green Berets from the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in The Bahamas in May 2022.

Photo Of The Day:  If you want to find ways to express yourself the Cerakote company Primal Finish has a lot of solutions available. Like the one pictured here, which won’t go unnoticed anywhere.What do you think of it? Too much? Would you rather go one-tone, two-tone or some kind of traditional camouflage solution?

The Photo Of The Day can be chosen for a variety of reasons. It may be because of its aesthetic qualities, its newsworthiness, its emotional impact, or its technical excellence. Some Photos Of The Day features have a specific theme, such as nature, architecture, or portraits. Can you guess today’s theme? Well, here it is! The Beretta M9A4 with Steiner eOptics DBAL-PL (and without). What do you think about it?

Welcome to our Image of the Day feature! Except we call it Photo Of The Day here at TFB. Each day, we showcase at least one (stunning) image that captures the beauty of our world of firearms. Join us as we take a look at Romanian soldiers assigned to the 30th Mountain Battalion, as they provide security during Exercise Combined Resolve 18 at Hohenfels Training Area, Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Germany. These images are relatively fresh, from May 5, 2023. The firearm above looks to be a Romanian Paratrooper RPK chambered in 7.62×39.

SIG Sauer AG, the Swiss small arms division of SIG Sauer, still produces the SG 550 series of rifles. The company shared this picture of an SG 553 R rifle on their social media pages. The main difference of this model from other SG 553 rifles is that it is chambered in 7.62×39 and is fed from AK-47 magazines. There is also a civilian 7.62×39 version of these rifles called SIG 556 R.

Today’s Photo Of The Day is by Detonics, a Czech company specializing in designing and manufacturing break-action multi-barrel firearms. Dubbed 6×9 Grim, this derringer/pistol is their newest product. It will be available in Europe chambered in 9mm Flobert, 6mm Flobert, .22LR and .32 S&W Long. The lack of popular handgun cartridge options and the choice of obscure ones like the Flobert cartridges is probably driven by the local gun laws. The Detonics 6×9 Grim is still in development with the production estimated to start by the end of the summer.

Today’s Photo Of The Day depicts a firearm with a very unusual combination of operating and feeding mechanisms. The pictures of this belt-fed lever action rifle were shared by FightLite Industries on their  social media pages. The gun is apparently made by combining their  Herring Model 2024 Modern Lever Action rifle’s lower receiver with an MCR Dual-Feed upper receiver.

Let’s congratulate Schrombo on his new IWI Tavor X95, equipped with a Meprolight M21 sight and Manticore Arms port cover and other parts. I have the same rifle, but in Olive Drab and I can relate to the long wait and anticipation before I got it. Here’s what he’s got to say:

Most of the My Friend knuckleduster wheelguns produced by James Reid were pepperboxes of various sizes and calibers. However, there is a very rare version of this 19th-century concealed carry gat that was fitted with a 3-inch barrel, which makes it a revolver. This particular My Friend knuckleduster revolver is consigned to the upcoming May 2023 Rock Island Premier Firearms Auction. It is chambered in 32 Rimfire and because it has a barrel, its cylinder is shorter compared to the 32 caliber pepperbox My Friends.

Photo Of The Day: Anyone with the slightest interest in modern warfare is sure to have seen various types of drones in use, both in passive and active duties. The DroneGun Mk4 shown above reminds me of what the future looks like, yet we’re already here. The DroneGun Mk4 claims to be useful against a variety of drones and can interfere with the control, navigation, and video of numerous models.

Today’s Photo Of The Day is from the catalog of the upcoming May 2023 Rock Island Premier Firearms Auction and depicts a pair of damascened Orbea Hermanos pinfire revolvers. Damascening is a surface decoration technique of inlaying metals into one another, in this case, gold and silver into steel. This set of wheelguns consists of a 6.5″ barreled 11mm caliber Lefaucheux Model 1854 pattern single action revolver and a 7mm caliber rifled double action pepperbox. Both guns have a similar grape motif of damascene and ebony grip carvings. The set comes in a custom-fit case.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day has become an impressive gallery, with an ever-growing number of images of firearms in all sorts of usual and unusual places. Today we’re going to add a few more to the collection, and above you see a member of the Morocco Armed Forces clearing the upper deck of a naval ship. These images were taken during exercise Flintlock in Volta, Ghana, in 2023.

Our Photo Of The Day can be chosen for a variety of reasons. It may be because of its aesthetic qualities, its newsworthiness, its emotional impact, or its technical excellence. Above you see a U.S. Marine, a rifleman with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, as he fires his M4A1 carbine at a notional enemy. This happened during a small boat raid course hosted by Expeditionary Operations Training Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, in 2023.

Photo Of The Day and we have some of the coolest pictures in a while available. Have you ever seen the meme “ This is a Panzerfaust. It fausts Panzers“? This is a play with that meme, as The Netherlands Marine Corps (Dutch: Korps Mariniers) we see them getting combat and shooting instructors training in Curaçao.

A new kind of face appears on the battlefield, as soldiers use the ENVG III night vision device. It’s interesting to see it mounted outside a gas mask, but train as you fight I guess. This Photo Of The Day was taken at the Goldmine Training Area in South Korea last month. The caption reads:

In addition to being a source of inspiration and entertainment, TFB’s  Photo Of The Day feature can also be educational. Just look how the photographer played with the art of photography on this clean Noveske Gen4 SBR – you should try it yourself sometime!

Photo Of The Day – Do you remember the superhero The Hulk? A green-skinned and quite muscular humanoid, due to exposure to gamma rays. Here we have U.S. Marines with the 2d Combat Engineering Battalion, 2d Marine Division (MARDIV) together with Dutch Marines. The Dutch Marines are on a visit due to the Exercise Caribbean Urban Warrior, on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in March 2023. This exercise is a bilateral training designed to increase global interoperability between 2d MARDIV and Marine Squadron Carib.

Photo Of The Day with some fresh and interesting images from the exercise Flintlock 2023 in Volta, Ghana. An AK and an AR captured in the same picture, with soldiers in the water. I don’t know the air temperature, but I have a sense that a swim could offer some refreshment.