A quick look at a couple of recent additions to the TAB Reference Collection: a 1979 dated Colt M203 grenade launcher manual and a 1959 dated Irish Defence Force manual for the Carl Gustaf m/45 submachine gun!

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The 1942 British Thompson Submachine Gun manual. Let's take a look inside. It's essential for soldiers to know how to use and maintain their weapons properly. We've been collecting training manuals, pamphlets and handbooks to give us a wider understanding of how troops were trained and how they u...

A look at some interesting items from the TAB Reference collection. Lots of great photos and some pretty rare manuals. Be sure to check out our accompanying article for this video here - https://armourersbench.com/ If you enjoy our work please consider supporting us via Patreon, TAB is a viewer s...

During the Cold War the British Army on the Rhine was deployed in West German. In anticipation of a conflict with the Soviet Union detailed recognition guides were written for British troops to identify and familiarise themselves with enemy weapons and equipment. A substantial series of these wer...

I was recently contacted by Nigel a viewer who very generously offered some items from his late father's collection. They're now part of the ever-growing TAB Reference Collection, I'm honoured to look after them and share them with you in some future videos. Be sure to check out our accompanying ...

Shoot to Live - British Army Marksmanship Training pamphlet Shoot to kill had long been a British Army slogan, appearing in numerous training films and pamphlets, but in the late 70s a need introductory pamphlet on marksmanship filed it on its head. In this video we take a look inside an original...

During the Second World War the British Home Guard were extensively issued American .30 calibre Browning M1917 machine guns. With so many guns in service there needed to be a way of describing, categorising and identifying the weapon’s parts so an identification list booklet was drawn up giving t...

L21A1 .50 Calibre Machine Gun - 1960s Illustrated Spares List

This month marks the 30th anniversary of what the British Army called Operation Granby, better known as Desert Storm or the Gulf War. So I thought taking a look at a Recognition Guide to Iraqi Ground Forces that was produced by the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC) and issued d...

It's the 1980s and the British Army Of the Rhine is still stationed in West Germany facing down the USSR's forces. The Cold War has gotten hot and the 3rd Shock Army is approaching your dugout but how do you differentiate a BTR from a BMP? This handy British Army THREAT Recognition Guide booklet ...

In this short video we'll take a look at a manual for the FN Light Automatic Rifle 'Competition Model'. The FN LAR was a semi-automatic only commercial export variant of the FAL. This undated manual likely dates from the 1980s when FN began importing LAR's into the US.

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