Vietnam Begins Manufacture of 12.7mm KSVK, Expands Capabilities
Dat Viet, a Vietnamese language news website has reported that the production of Vietnamese made bolt-action, five round magazine-fed12.7x108mm KSVK anti-material rifles has commenced at the Israeli...
View ArticleSavage Arms Offers New Model 10 GRS Chambered for 6mm Creedmoor
Savage Arms recently announced the company was now offering a version of its Model 10 GRS rifle that is chambered for the 6mm Creedmoor cartridge. The company states that rifle is capable of “accurate...
View ArticleLockheed Martin Wins U.S. Army’s Squad X Experimentation Project
DARPA’s Squad X program has recently taken a major step forward with the U.S. Army awarding the preliminary team contract to Lockheed Martin to develop the technological projects within the program, at...
View ArticleDesert Tech MDR Hits Shelves
The day many of you have been waiting for has come (and gone): The Desert Tech MDR has finally been released to the US consumer marlet after more than four years of development. Desert Tech announced...
View Article1/6 Uber Squad Hits Local Range at Camp Lejeune with Updated M27s,Comms, HK...
The 1/6 “Hard” Über Squad that Marine Infantry Gunner (WO5) Wade put into motion some months ago has taken on Golf Six, a live fire range in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. 1/6 is trialing several new...
View ArticleHMG StG-44 Shipping Dates Announced – Coming This Month
Your chance to own a semiauto reproduction StG-44 is coming soon: Hill & Mac Gunworks recently announced that the first of their Sturmgewehr rifles would be shipping before the end of this month....
View ArticleNew Coyote Steel Target From Custom Metal Products
Shooting on steel can be a lot of fun. Hits are rewarded with the immediate feedback that a flat piece of paper simply cannot provide. Sometimes a hit results in a ringing sound, other times a steel...
View ArticleTo Build What Veterans Couldn’t Bring Home
Like many Vets these days, Steve Russell was very frustrated that he or any of the soldiers under his command couldn’t actually bring back captured rifles from their campaigns overseas, unlike previous...
View ArticleImprovised Suppressors Among Syrian Groups
Recent so-called Islamic State propaganda videos and an individual Twitter account within Syria have posted numerous examples of improvised suppressors in use on a wide variety of precision rifles and...
View ArticleFighting With the Kurds in Raqqa, Polish SDF Volunteer “Archer”
“Archer” is the public nickname of a Polish volunteer currently fighting in the highly contested city of Raqqa with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces working right now to take it from the so called Islamic...
View ArticleGone by 2020: G36 Replacement Schedule Released by German Bundeswehr – New...
The timeline for the replacement of the troubled G36 rifle with a new yet-to-be-selected weapon has been announced by the Bundeswehr. The German System Sturmgewehr Bundeswehr (SSB)program was announced...
View ArticleYemeni Rebel Improvised Cannons On Display in Houthi Propaganda Video
Creating improvised firearms is one thing, but a recent propaganda video released by the Yemeni rebel and terrorist group Ansar Allah (better known as the Houthis) threw the spotlight on some weapons...
View ArticleWhat to Expect with California’s New Ammo Laws | Guest Post
In California, one of the 17 Propositions presented to voters on November 8 last year included doling out enhanced limitations concerning magazine capacity as well as transactions and transport...
View ArticleMagpul PMag Adopted by US Air Force
The United States Air Force has become the second US military service to adopt the Magpul PMag as their standard rifle magazine. According to the document USAF AUTHORIZED SMALL ARMS and LIGHT WEAPONS...
View ArticleTFB Interview with Jeff Selvig of Apex Gun Parts
We recently received an excellent opportunity to tour Apex Gun Parts, which you can read about on a recent TFB post here. During the tour we got a chance to sit down with Jeff Salvig and really ask him...
View ArticleSaddam’s Rifles: The Tabuk
Essentially Yugoslavian 7.62x39mm M70B1 rifles, the Tabuk series of small arms were produced in Iraq, with the help of Yugoslavian engineers in the late 1970s, just in time for the Iran-Iraq conflict...
View ArticleTaiwan Introduces New 7.62mm XT107 Designated Marksman Rifle at TADTE 2017,...
Taiwan’s 205th Armory small arms design bureau has unveiled a 7.62x51mm NATO Designated Marksman’s rifle at the 2017 Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition as evidenced by the Sohu news...
View ArticleDetails of New Kalashnikov Pistols MP-444 and PL-15K, and AM and SVCh Rifles...
Kalashnikov Concern recently released a new English language video regarding their PL-15K compact pistol, MP-444 pistol, AM-17 and AMB-17 compact assault rifles, and SVCh semiautomatic sniper rifle. By...
View ArticleUkrainian Special Forces Precision Rifle Competition
Competing elements of the Ukrainian Special Operations Command came together recently to participate in a skill of arms testing precision rifle capabilities, teamwork, handgun marksmanship, care under...
View ArticleImprovised Explosive Laden Magazines in Yemen
A recent news report in Arabic has highlighted the efforts of opposition forces in Yemen to emplace IEDs within Kalashnikov magazines, just above the floor plates of the magazines themselves. The...
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