Last year, the Polish FB Radom VIS 100 M1 pistol made its debut in the United States thanks to Arms of America working with FB Radom to import it for the U.S. market. VIS 100 M1 pistols are still for sale at Arms of America and Atlantic Firearms, but they also recently [Read More…]
Poland’s FB Radom have celebrated their 100,000 MSBS Grot coming off the production line. The Grot was developed in the mid-2000s and entered production in 2017, with it entering service with the Polish armed forces in 2018, first with the Polish Territorial [Read More…]
Our Photo Of The Day article series brings together some of the most eye-catching and visually appealing images. You won’t find a lot of pictures of sunsets, flowers, or tourist landmarks here, instead, the photo selection spans from soldiering, firearms, special [Read More…]
About five years ago we published an article telling about a 19th-century 8-bore muzzleloading percussion shotgun designed by a gentleman named Moses Babcock. What sets this firearm apart is its extremely simple and ambidextrous action/lock mechanism. Marek, a TFB [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we’re in BPTA, Poland. BPTA is a NATO base located in the eastern part of Poland. Above you see the machine gun doing the talking, as U.S. soldiers assigned to Chaos Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
The Polish VIS 100 M1 pistol from Fabrika Broni is an upgraded variant of the pistol that is currently issued to the Polish Armed Forces, the VIS 100 (no “M1”) while the primary advantage of the civilian M1 version provides an optics-ready capability. The history of [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: We’re in Poland looking at troops with the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Their Bradley fighting vehicle is firing the M242 Bushmaster 25mm autocannon in order to zero the vehicle’s weapons systems at a range. Below: [Read More…]
Two years ago, we reported that the Polish FB Radom VIS 100 M1 pistol had begun its red tape process of being imported into the United States. After a longer than expected journey, the VIS 100 M1 pistols finally arrived and are available through Arms of America, and [Read More…]
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. In [Read More…]
Each day a different image from the world of firearms. We call this POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, and it is our daily article series where we go to great lengths trying to find the most interesting pictures for you out there. There’s a lot of fire, flames and [Read More…]
Above we have Polish mortar systems, called M120 Rak, providing indirect fire support for U.S. and Polish forces during a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise at Nowa Deba, Poland April 8. The 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division is deployed in support of the [Read More…]
Welcome to TFB’s own Photo Of The Day. As the name implies, this page is dedicated to rare and unique pics which are updated daily. Behind the Heckler & Koch 40mm Grenade Machine Gun (GMG) we have British Army Pte. Warren from Poacher Troop waiting for a firing [Read More…]
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, probably not that many. TFB’s Photo Of The Day is a lot more popular for sure. Here we do our best to [Read More…]
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. Different faces [Read More…]
Another day with TFB’s Photo Of The Day sharing great photos from around the world and the world of firearms. Today we have Polish soldiers with MSBS Grot and PM-84 Glauberyt, not exactly the most common firearms around. The FB Radom MSBS Grot is Poland’s [Read More…]
POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s recurring articles where we go to great length trying to find the best pictures and stories out there. Today we found these Polish Sharpshooters from the 15 Giżycka Brygada Zmechanizowana (Mechanized Brigade). In addition [Read More…]
Precision Rifle Series (PRS) can best be described as a mixture between long-range and precision rifle shooting and practical shooting. TFB recently reported about the plans for a Precision Rifle World Championships in 2022, and hopefully, it will happen. I don’t [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Above you can see some left-handed shooting with the UKM 2020 machine gun. As Poland changed teams and joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1999, the challenge to adapt their firearms to common NATO ammunition arose. The PKM machine [Read More…]
The location in this Photo Of The Day is Poland where we take a peek at the U.S. Army 2nd Cavalry Troops as they offer support by fire during an evaluation exercise at Bemowo Piskie Training Area in November last year. The 2nd Cavalry is a vital part of the enhanced [Read More…]
Today we visit Poland and the 15 Giżycka Brygada Zmechanizowana (Mechanized Brigade) again. In this Photo Of The Day, we follow them on the training facilities in Giżycko. Caption – machine translated from Polish: Intensive end of the month! On May 28, in # [Read More…]
Today we visit Poland and the 15 Giżycka Brygada Zmechanizowana (Mechanized Brigade). They’re warming up the Orzysko training ground with a variety of toys. We have a cocktail of RPGs, anti-tank missiles and Main Battle Tanks in this Photo Of The Day. Zawiacy [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we have lots and lots of pictures of Polish Sniper Teams to share. The pictures are from the Orzysz Land Forces Military Training Center and the Polish 15 Giżycka Brygada Zmechanizowana. We get an insight into the tactics of a sniper team – [Read More…]
Each day a different image from the World of firearms. We call this POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, and it is our daily article series where we go to great length trying to find the most interesting pictures for you out there. Today we visit Poland and the 15 Giżycka [Read More…]
The 16th Pomeranian Mechanised Division has traditions from 1945, but has been active since 1990 and forward. In our Photo Of The Day, the highlight is the Romanian AIMS-74 which you can see above. It uses the 5.45x39mm round, and the AKM gas block is the giveaway [Read More…]
Hi there, and welcome to our Photo Of The Day! Yesterday we hade a well-earned brake, but now we are back! This is the place where we honor outstanding photos from the World of firearms. It’s not easy to capture a picture like the one above, you need a combination [Read More…]
TFB’s Photo Of The Day is back sharing great photos from around the World and the World of firearms. Today we look at pictures from NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group Poland and their Operation Masurian Lightning from a few weeks ago. This was a [Read More…]
FB Radom’s newest military sidearm has gone by several names, such as “Ragun”, “PR-15” and most recently, upon it’s official adoption by the Polish armed forces, the “VIS 100”. Followers of the development of this double action/single action [Read More…]
POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s recurring articles where we go to great length trying to find the best pictures and stories out there. Today we found them in Poland, from the 15 Giżycka Brygada Zmechanizowana. We’re looking at the life of soldiering [Read More…]
Poland’s Jednostka Wojskowa Formoza and Jednostka Wojskowa GROM, both key elements of the Polish Special Forces, are seeking to procure new carbines. JW Formoza are seeking a new modular carbine while JW GROM are seeking an unspecified number of Heckler & [Read More…]
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