British Military Pictures & Videos

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Here's a slight twist on the subject of British Military, 'MADE IN BRITAIN' and succesfully adopted by others. Our politicians are rubbish, but our designs are world beaters (no harm in a bit of flag waving!)


Flat tops; ARA Idependencia and ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, BNS Minas Gerais, HMCS Magnificent and HMCS Bonaventure,
HMAS Sydney and HMAS Melbourne, INS Vikrant and INS Viraat. Also such British inventions as the Steam Catapult, the Angled Deck, the Deck Approach Landing sight, the Ski-Jump Ramp, the Aircraft Carrier itself!

The Harrier; Indian navy Sea Harrier FRS51, NASA AV-8A, USMC AV-8Cs and Spanish/ Royal Thai Navy EAV-8As

Some more shots of Spanish Navy Harriers, all built in Britain.

The Agusta Westland EH-101 Merlin, rapidly becoming one of the world's favourite helicopters, Even the US President is buying them for his personal transport! Also an artists impression of the proposed AEW variant with stub wings for extended range.

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Nice pictures once again Obi Wan. You are indeed wise as the Jedi Master Yoda has said.

How old is that picture of the Enterprise? 70's or 80's? Since that pic the island was redesigned. And I see A-7's mixed with Tomcats on the flight deck.

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The Melbourne pic with the Enterprise in the background is mid 70's by my guess as Melbourne is in her mid 70's configuration with A-4Gs on deck and American style deck markings. Enterprise had her 'facelift' in 79-81 and Melbourne was decommissioned in 1982, so it would have been before that.

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A few shots of a unique ship in the RN, the sole Type 82 destroyer HMS Bristol. Intended as the lead ship of a class of up to eight carrier escorts to accompany the cancelled CVA-01, only Bristol was built as trials ship for the GWS 30 Sea Dart SAM and the IKARA ASW missile. She served in the Falklands and has spent the last decade as a training ship moored off Whale Island in Portsmouth.

The Hawker Hunter. Last of the British Gunfighters. Seat of the pants flying and no radar, no fly by wire, no RIO, and no missiles. Perfect!

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Obi Wan Russell said:

Oh, and Kampfwagen, as to where we get these pictures, all I can say is Seek and ye shall find. Keep your pics coming, all are welcome here. But please, THUMBNAILS! So the pages don't take all day to load!

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Argh, the system of that is so irritatingly bonkers for me. I can't get it to work. I realize it is a terrible inconvience, but I will try this time anyway, with an 'experemental' picture.



Thar we go. That should work.

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Well done, but don't forget to tick the box that removes the size/resolution bar from the bottom of the thumbnail. Great shot by the way, really unusual angle. You don't see gunners from this point of view often.

A few shots of my favourite aircraft, the Blackburn Buccaneer S2 in it's natural environment, at sea!

And some that are, not.

The final flypast of Buccaneers in 1994 saw the aircraft of 12 and 208sqns repainted to represent all the RAF sqns that had operated the type, but only one Navy sqn (809).

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And here's something for landlubbers, the British Army and the Royal Marines.

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Royal Marines I was stationed on Diego Garica B.I.O T.( British Indian Ocean Territory) from July '85 until July '86. There was a contigent of Royal Marines there. From what I remember most of them seem to be very aloof and not wanting to deal with Americans...The Top sargent was a very likeable guy however..I still never figured out why those fellows were like that...Oh well...

Nice pictures Obi Wan...

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Royal marine not friendly? Surely not! On the other hand, a Rottweiler is quite a fearsome guard dog, but I wouldn't want to pet it...

RMs are usually known as 'Booties', for the same reason US marines are known as 'Leathernecks', apparently a couple of centuries ago around the time some colonnial types were getting a bit uppity, Marines wore very stiff necked uniforms that chafed them so much they ended up with necks resembling boot leather, hence the American nickname leatherneck and it's British equivalent 'Bootneck', which soon became 'Booties' and when all RMs became commandos, 'SuperBooties!'.

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Here's a selection of recent Harrier/Sea Harrier pics:




Good to see High viz markings making a comeback after a couple of decades of drab and lifeless (and very necessary) low viz grey on grey. Also, it's worth noting, as Popeye and Jeff Head have pointed out, how busy and crowded RN flight decks are compared to the Russian Navy's Kuznetzov.