Photo Of The Day and this is the third in a series of articles TFB is doing on the firearms used by the Finnish Army. Quite a few of their infantry firearms are manufactured in Finland, but the 7.62 KK PKM machine gun is actually from Russia. The caliber is 7.62×53mmR.

In case you have been longing for some Heckler & Koch content in our Photo Of The Day, the wait is over! Above you can clearly see the Heckler & Koch G36s in the hands of a German Bundeswehr Special Reconnaissance Squad soldiers. In order to remain undetected, whenever possible, only hand signals are used to communicate within the squad. I’m sure they would like some suppressors as well.

Photo Of The Day: Today we have some excellent photos from  TracerX, a photographer, videographer and content creator for the outdoors and firearms community. If you’re looking to build your own pirate-themed ARyou can use the HERA Arms H15GL Grip and IRS-Leather Rail. Just remember to dress up as a pirate!

Photo Of The Day is from Royal Netherlands Army. As you can imagine, everything gets a lot more difficult to manage if you need to wear a gas mask. Have you ever tried it? Just imagine how more difficult it gets to aim correctly. TodayThe firearm above looks like the Colt Canada C8, which is a modernized version of the C8 carbine made by Diemaco.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day is on a mission to collect high-quality photos from the world of firearms. From the Brigade Franco-Allemande (French-German Brigade) we have a nice selection on offer. What a lovely collection of sniper and precision rifles: from FN SCAR-H PR to Accuracy International’s AXMC, G22 and Heckler & Koch G28 and Barret M82s.

Every year Rifle Dynamics does a limited run of magazines to celebrate Halloween. This year the magazine is clearly influenced by the horror/sci-fi movie Aliens. The paint design is heavily based on the iconography of the Colonial Marine Corps. According to Rifle Dynamics, the magazine will give you the added edge when going on a bug hunt. The MagLads Halloween 2022 Drop is priced at $38.99, with only 350 available.

Photo Of The Day: Every day, all year round we at TFB publish at least one photo together with an explanation about what’s going on. We’ve been doing this for a very long time, almost 10 years. Below you can see a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System vehicle unloading from its transport aircraft at the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. The HIMARS were participating in a training event with soldiers assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. I don’t know what the HIMARS are doing in Guam, but the system has played a vital role in Ukraine.

A machine gun going flat out is always welcome at TFB and our Photo Of The Day. Here we have U.S. soldiers with the Lightning Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment conducting a blank practice before a live fire exercise. The location is the 7th Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany.

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 8 years. Today we have one of the coolest pictures for a while, just look at that NSV machine gun hammering those 12.7×108 mm rounds. In Finland, it’s called the 12.7 ITKK 96. Task Force Red Cloud, headquartered by elements of CLB-6, has recently been deployed in Finland to support the Exercises SYD 2022 and Freezing Winds 2022.

Photo Of The Day: If you happen to own a Beretta AR-70/233 Sport, you surely know you’re one of the very few people who have one as it was produced in very low numbers and imported to the U.S. in even lower quantities.

Every day, all year round, we at TFB publish at least one photo together with an explanation about what’s going on. We’ve been doing this for a very long time, almost 10 years. We call it Photo Of The Day and today we visit Camp Yongsan-Casey, the United States Army Garrison in South Korea.

TFB’s Photo Of The Day is here again. Every day we present our readers with at least one photo. The subject is always a firearm of some kind, preferably with a muzzle flash or some action around it. Above you see a Swedish soldier with an 84 mm Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle (8,4 cm Granatgevär M/86) firing a smoke grenade in order to mark targets in the terrain. The photo was taken during Baltic Striker 22 exercise.

This story of Juliet and her Romeo is not a one of woe at all. The Romeo and Juliet of today’s Photo Of The Day bring joy to people behind them and their union allows them to do things that neither could do separately – a perfect relationship, isn’t it?

Photo Of The Day: We see U.S. Marines patrol through strong winds and heavy snow during a comprehensive bilateral field training exercise. This was part of Exercise Forest Light 13-3 at the Hokkaido-Dai Maneuver Area in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan. The FTX began with the Marines and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) patrolling separately on foot and with mechanized vehicles to reach an area where they set up a defensive position.

Photo Of The Day and we’re off to the Republic of Cabo Verde, an archipelago and island country in the central Atlantic Ocean consisting of ten volcanic islands. In these images, U.S. Army Rangers assigned to the 3rd Special Forces Group teach the Cabo Verdean National Guard tactical movements, although the Rangers themselves are not visible.

Photo Of The Day and we are off to an island called Gotland. This is Sweden’s largest island, and its location in the center of the Baltic Sea gives it great strategic importance, especially in times like these.

Today’s Photo Of The Day is from Česká zbrojovka and depicts their recently-released CZ 600 Trail bolt-action rifle on the now-discontinued Land Rover Defender off-road vehicle. These two workhorses are similar in many ways despite one being very young and the other being already retired. The caption of this picture which was posted on CZ’s social media pages reads: “If the word “practical” should be described with a picture it could look like this“.

A great photo is often produced by being at the right time and place and using the perfect exposure. Today the photographer really managed to capture the moment, with U.S. Marines in training. If TFB’s Photo Of The Day came with sound, you could almost certainly hear the sound of yelling from the battlefield, and shots fired from the H&Ks.

Photo Of The Day: Being an engineer in the Army sounds boring, doesn’t it? Well, perhaps not if you join the Special Operations Engineer Regiment in Australia. These engineers look pretty Special Ops if you ask me.

In today’s Photo Of The Day, we have a rather interesting Chinese rifle imported to Canada by  Tactical Imports Corporation. This SVD/PSL lookalike called  Type 81 SR is based on the Type 81 rifle which has a hybrid design that merges the Type 56 (Chinese AK-47 variant) and Type 63 (Chinese rifle based on the SKS) rifle designs. The Type 81 SR is chambered in 7.62x39mm and like the Iraqi Tabuk, tries to push this intermediate cartridge into the DMRosphere.

Photo Of The Day and we’re back in Afghanistan, towards the end of 2009. Above you see U.S. Marine Sgt. John Hollingsworth, where he is zeroing his weapon at the shooting range in Forward Operation Base Airborne, Afghanistan.

Meravigliosamente! In our Photo Of The Day, we have a wonderful flash from an Italian SCP70 rifle. The soldiers are Italians of the 183rd Airborne Regiment, and they’re using their SCP70 rifles to fire blanks at enemy combatants during a decisive action training environment exercise. The images were taken a while ago, during Saber Junction 2012, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.

Photo Of The Day: Photojournalism is the process of storytelling using the medium of photography as your main storytelling device. While a journalist will use their pen and paper to tell stories, a photojournalist will use their camera to capture the visual representation of a story. Above you see a special forces unit member as he provides coverage during an exercise at Melrose Air Force Range, N.M. This happened ten years ago, in 2012, but some photos age well. The range is one of Air Force Special Operations Command’s premier training facilities and is utilized by multiple agencies and branches of the armed forces.

One of the goals of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to find and push the excellent work done by photographers around the world and in the firearms industry. See it as a “thank you” to those who go in harm’s way trying to capture various special moments for us, but also – like today – those who stay in the studio working out the perfect lighting and setting hour after hour. Armed with skills, cameras and sometimes a fair bit of editing here is where their hard work ends up. Today we’re going to have a closer look at a picture by  Holt Works Photography. In the picture above you can see the Mk IV Tactical “Space Blaster”. Could this be the U.S. Space Force’s next big thing?

Photo Of The Day: Some say that the Aimpoint ACRO looks like a miniature toaster, but it did rather well in TFB’s review back in 2021. Did you ever try to attach an ACRO to a handgun like the SIG Sauer P365? If you did, I assume you improved your hit probability by quite a margin, especially at longer distances?

The number of internet users worldwide will soon reach the 5-billion mark. Our world has never been so connected. Great photos can spread like wildfire, but the story and the necessary context sometimes gets left behind. TFB’s  Photo Of The Day, we will always accompany the images with a background and credits to the photographer. Above you can see U.S. Army Spc. Ladarion Banks as he fires blank ammunition from an M249 light machine gun during squad-level training at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany. This happened in February 2013.

Above you see U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Austin Dziubinski, a native of Port Huron, Michigan and an infantry rifleman with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment (V38), 2d Marine Division. The location is the shooting range 400 at Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California. The pictures are from 2020. Range 400 is a company-size attack range meant to produce combat-ready forces capable of performing combined arms assaults in combat.

Looking for moments when a great photographer meets Special Forces and their firearms? Look no further, TFB’s daily article series – Photo Of The Day – is where you will find these amazing masterpieces. The photo above is an exceptional catch, where Australian Army special operations force soldiers from the 1st Commando Regiment rendezvous in a wheat field near the You Yangs, north of Geelong.

With the current situation, things must be rather tense in the Latvian Army, and today we get a look at the second basic military training course for reservists. They’re using the Heckler & Koch G36, without any optics. Typically Latvia uses the G36V which lacks the integrated reflector sight.

To the best of my knowledge, the rifle in today’s Photo Of The Day is a Pușcă Automată model 1965 (Automatic Rifle Model 1965 chambered in 7.62×39mm. It’s made by Romarm National Company / Cugir Arms Factory, established in 1799. If you know better, you’re welcome to correct my error in the comments below.