Photo Of The Day: The Norwegian SWAT Team practice boarding on the Norwegian coast guard ship KV Barentshav. The main firearm above is the Heckler & Koch MP5 in 9×19 mm, but note the sand-colored AN/PEQ-15 and the marine finish. In the Norwegian Armed Forces, the H&K MP5 has been replaced by the H&K MP7, which has been the subject in many previous POTDs.

Photo Of The Day: Decorated and Cerakoted by Blowndeadline, we have a Volquartsen .22LR with some hush-hush from Rugged Suppressors. The paint scheme is inspired by a WWII Bomber, then laser engraved and filled. I would love to take this gun to the next Steel Challenge, well perhaps without the suppressor so that the timers can record anything (ask me how I know).

Looking for moments when a great photographer meets soldiers and their firearms? Look no further, TFB’s daily Photo Of The Day article series is where you will find these. Above, and around, you see the Browning M2HB with U.S. Marines with the Ground Combat Element, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin. They have taken a defensive position during the final live-fire range, to be able to destroy simulated enemy forces.

TFB has been running Photo Of The Day for years, sharing great photos from around the world and the world of firearms. Sometimes the selected pictures involve a lot of action, shooting and flying brass. Sometimes there’s another reason behind the choice. Like today. This photo could easily fit into Gardens Illustrated, don’t you think?

Photo Of The Day: When I was a kid, the German Flakpanzer Gepard was my all-time favourite tank. Finland has a similar take on the concept. They moved their existing Marksman turrets, a British short-range air defense system, from old T-55AM chassis to new Leopard 2 chassis. The main armament of ItPsv90 is two 35 mm Oerlikon autocannons holding 440 rounds of fragmentation and 40 anti-tank rounds. The Leopard is powered by a V-12 diesel engine with 620 hp and probably more torque than we can count.

The training to become a member of the Danish Jægerkorpset is described as a marathon with many surprising obstacles that all require something very special to get through. The everyday life will be busy, but full of exciting courses and exercises both at home and abroad. During international service, one can expect to be among the first in the area to handle tasks such as threat assessments and personal protection.

Photo Of The Day: The German Bundeswehr and the Austrian Bundesheer training together in AUTDEUMIL. One rarely sees the Steyr AUG and Heckler & Koch G36 together like this, but above is an excellent exception. Which one would you prefer and why?

It was really hard to select a featured picture for today’s Photo Of The Day since they’re all amazing examples of NATO snipers. The variety of equipment, firearms, lasers, mounts and optics is pretty huge, but what’s really interesting to see is army snipers picking up the “craftmanship” used by Precision Rifle Series shooters and in competitions. I guess it works!

Photo Of The Day: For those civilians who want a Heckler & Koch rifle in their collection there are a few options. In Germany, the home market for Heckler & Koch, and Europe the options are generally the MR223 or MR308. By some strange logic, the models are called 223 and 308 in Europe, and 556 and 762 in the United States. In Europe, these models have been very hard to come by lately, probably because H&K’s production is quite busy with military orders. I have one of the first MR223s, now with some minor upgrades.

The FN Minimi on full-automatic fire is always a pleasure to see in pictures, not to mention in real-life. Developed by Ernest Vervier, it is widely adopted and used by more than 75 countries. The U.S. Army calls it the M249 SAW light machine gun. The Para version, with a short barrel and a telescopic buttstock, is used by the French Army, and here by the 35e régiment d’infanterie.

Rubber ducks or rubber AKs? What did you play with as a kid? I presume diving is the main purpose during this kind of training and using firearms made out of rubber or other kinds of plastic takes any cleaning out of the exercise, which is a nice thing.

The hungriest beast on this blog is our Photo Of The Day. It consumes hundreds of images every month, and it has been doing so for many years. Today we have Swiss Army recruits who blew up a bomb behind them and looked as casual as possible about it. I think they succeeded in looking as cool and professional as possible.

Photo Of The Day: Above a member of the 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment fires an NLAW anti-tank missile. The NLAW is a joint British and Swedish venture, providing a fire-and-forget anti-tank mis s ile system. It’s designed to be used by infantry soldiers and fires from the shoulder, after which it’s disposable. Apart from the United Kingdom, the NLAW is also used in Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden.

Photo Of The Day – TFB is now on its 7:th year of bringing you high-quality photographs from the world of firearms every day. In store today is the Norwegian Home Guard department Sture and their Heckler & Koch HK416s out on a mission to defend and then evacuate.

Photo Of The Day: Today we have some great reference pictures of the SA80 A2, as used by the United Kingdom. Above, pictured in an armoury is the SA80 A2 (L85A2) 5.56mm Rifle fitted with the ELCAN SpecterOS 4x and Close Quarter Battlesight (CQB).

SWESOCOM in our Photo Of The Day, where details of the firearms are kind of secluded. Throwback to November 2020 when U.S. Special Operations Forces were drilling with military responder units in Sweden to rehearse how they would jointly confront an enemy force in the Baltics. Above you can see Swedish Special Forces with U.S. Air Force Special Tactics Operators, assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing, study map overlays on a Swedish C-130H, for an MRZR vehicle dismount training.

Each day a different image from the world of firearms. We call this POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, and it’s our daily article series where we go to great lengths trying to find the most interesting pictures out there for you. If you find the CZ 75 too bulky the CZ 2075 RAMI above might be a better option? The name of the gun, RAMI, comes from the first two letters of the designers’ names, Radek Hauerland and Milan Trkulja.

In each of our Photo Of The Day articles, we bring you work from photographers from around the globe. Today we have pictures from the Russian Ministry of Defence and the RPG-7, which is actually a recoilless grenade launcher rather than a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. It’s portable and reuseable (not the grenade itself obviously) but also unguided, so aiming is entirely up to the shooter. Designed in 1958, it is still going strong.

The Barrett MRAD (Multi-Role Adaptive Design) with a Schmidt & Bender riflescope is how today’s Photo Of The Day is introduced. The sniper is from Norway and you can see a spent .338 Lapua Magnum being ejected. The Norwegian Armed Forces ordered the MRAD already in 2013 and it’s in use by several ordinary and special units, including the Police. Below you can see them running into position, unfortunately, they did not have a good day in the competition. Note the mirage band on the MRAD. Does anyone know who makers it?

The service history of the French FR-F2 begins in 1986. It’s a bolt-action rifle in 7.62x51mm NATO and it’s about to be replaced by something new. Like a lot of European countries, France has been shopping around quite actively in recent years, with purchases from Heckler & Koch, Glock and FN Herstal.

Fantastic photos always have a place here at TFB and our Photo Of The Day. Photos to compare the UZI-lution are always welcome as a reminder of the past. This is the UZI Evolution and IWI are now celebrating over 65 years of it in service. Do you prefer the modern Uzi or the classic one?

Photo Of The Day: Recently Zeiss Optics released a new line of long-range precision riflescopes with impressive features for use in long-range competition or hunting. Here we’re going to take a look at their 5-25×56 version. According to Zeiss, they are first with an elevation of 40.7MRAD or 140MOA. On top of the new Zeiss LRP riflescope, there are also pictures from the Zero Compromise ZCO 527 and the Kahles 525i, all provided by MK Machining.

This Photo Of The Day takes place at night, somewhere in Switzerland. The country is landlocked, so we can assume that they spend more on their army and airforce than their navy. I’m not sure which kind of anti-aircraft guns are used in these pictures, but perhaps the Oerlikon GDF, Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannons? Or do you have a better idea? Oerlikon is now part of Rheinmetall Air Defence AG.

Photo Of The Day and we have a pleasant mixture of firearms from various NATO countries taken at the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia.  Above you have a great image of the SA80 A2 Individual Weapon, with a trigger-happy British soldier.

The first online photograph is said to have been published by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992. It’s uncertain how many were actually able to see the image at that time, but it probably wasn’t too big of a crowd. TFB’s Photo Of The Day is hopefully a lot more popular. Here we do our best to focus on interesting high-quality images with a focus on firearms of all sorts. We have seen the theme before, but it’s certainly worth another look.

We’re used to Cerakoted firearms in all sorts of colors these days, but the Military uses mainly black, FDE or green ones. In our Photo Of The Day, we have an exception, the French orange Heckler & Koch HK416F for training. This version comes with a blank firing device and 3 magazines in yellow, to differentiate them and facilitate instruction.

Photo Of The Day: Does every country have an army? Nope, there are over 20 countries in the World that don’t have an active army. Slovenia is not one of them, and here we can see candidates in basic military professional training. The Slovenian Armed Forces are one of the few armies to use the F2000 made by FN Herstal.

Photo Of The Day: The Heckler & Koch HK433 with the Zeiss ZO 4×30 optic. The barrel looks pretty long, even for a 16.5″ version.Would you prefer a regular black one or the multi-colored version above?

Many of you probably know about the original CZ Skorpion, the Vz. 61. It is a pretty compact and lightweight SMG, however, being chambered in .32 ACP, it’s a rather underpowered gun. Now, I bet not many of you know that there was actually a 9x19mm (9mm Luger) version of this subgun which never entered production though. This experimental bigger sibling of Vz. 61 was dubbed Vz. 68 (a.k.a. ZB 68, a.k.a Skorpion Evo 2) and it is what we are taking a look at in today’s Photo Of The Day.

Photo Of The Day, and it’s time for a rather unusual firearm. At least it’s the first time we have it featured in any of our POTDs. The VCD10 is a semi-automatic precision rifle made by Verney-Carron Defense in France. The design of the VCD10 is inspired by the AR10 and promises a 1 MOA accuracy.