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bd popeye · Oct 22, 2013

[h=2]2 PARA heads for the drop zone[/h]
Paratroopers from B Company of the Second Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) boarded a Hercules at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire, where a joint British-French force was working as part of Exercise Capable Eagle.

Fifty-one soldiers, led by Major Adam Wilson, were in ‘overhead assault mode’ – that means jumping with body armour, webbing and a weapon. Extra equipment, in daysacks, was wrapped and strapped to their legs.

Poor weather, including gusting winds at the Wiley Sike drop zone (DZ), in Cumbria, was a threat to the task and the Hercules had to climb from its low-level approach as cloud threatened the pilot’s visibility. The plan was to find a gap in the weather nearer to the DZ. The ploy worked and while the Paras hooked up their static lines and were checked by a team of four Parachute Jump Instructors the aircraft dropped to jumping height.

Five passes later at 600ft and B Company was on the ground and moving into the next phase of its task.

RAF air loadmaster Sergeant Gavin Livingstone said: “We like working with the Paras. They are very good at what they do on the ground but are happy to place themselves in our care when it comes to parachuting.”

asif iqbal · Oct 23, 2013

Jeff Head said:
Nice pics. I like this one with the Type 45 DDG and the Typhoon.

I'm sure Obi Wan would agree with me that it is just a shame that the Royal Navy cannot put an aircraft like that from a carrier over their own destroyer. Their own jet, over their own destroyer, from their own carrier.

In about 6-7 years they may be able to put a F-35C over their Darings like that...but still not the type of flexibility they could get from a navalized Typhoon using cats.

The reason why Typhoon was never navalised yet navalised version was offered to India was because it has no inter operability with USN

F35B has and that's why it was chosen for the Queen Elizabeth carriers and not Typhoon

I always say the two RN carriers will be like the 12th and 13th carries of the USN, today it's about pooling all resources together and not have independent units, well atleast when USN and RN are concerned

bd popeye · Oct 29, 2013

[h=2]Exercise Black Alligator 2013[/h] Royal Marines from 40 Commando Royal Marines culminated weeks of training and preparation aboard the Combat Center with an assault on Range 210 as part of Exercise Black Alligator 13, Oct. 20, 2013.[FONT=&amp]

They are in the USA to hone their warfighting skills alongside their US colleagues at the sprawling United States Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Centre, which has nearly 1,000 sq miles of ideal training ground.[/FONT]

Charlie and Delta Company from 40 Commando conducting a live firing, FIBUA attack (Fighting In Built Up Area). They were supported by two American M1 Abrams Tanks during the Combined Arms Live Firing Exercise (CALFEX) phase of Black Alligator 13.Image by PO(Phot) Sean Clee CROWN COPYRIGHT

Alpha Company, 40 Commando Royal Marines, conduct a live fire deliberate attack on to enemy positions in the Mojave Desert during Exercise Black Alligator 13.Image by PO(Phot) Sean Clee CROWN COPYRIGHT

Charlie and Delta Company from 40 Commando conducting a live firing, FIBUA attack (Fighting In Built Up Area). They were supported by two American M1 Abrams Tanks during the Combined Arms Live Firing Exercise (CALFEX) phase of Black Alligator 13.Image by PO(Phot) Sean Clee CROWN COPYRIGHT

Alpha and Bravo Company from 40 Commando conducting a live firing, Fighting In Built Up Area (FIBUA) attack. They were supported by two American M1 Abrams Tanks during the Combined Arms Live Firing Exercise (CALFEX) phase of Black Alligator 13.Image by PO(Phot) Sean Clee CROWN COPYRIGHT

Charlie and Delta Company from 40 Commando conducting a live firing, FIBUA attack (Fighting In Built Up Area). They were supported by two American M1 Abrams Tanks during the Combined Arms Live Firing Exercise (CALFEX) phase of Black Alligator 13.Image by PO(Phot) Sean Clee CROWN COPYRIGHT

Royal Marines from 40 Commando Royal Marines commandeer an M1 Abrams tank during an assault on Range 210 as part of Exercise Black Alligator 13 aboard the Combat Center Oct. 20, 2013. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Paul S. Martinez/Released)

Royal Marines from 40 Commando Royal Marines participate in an assault on Range 210 as part of Exercise Black Alligator 13 aboard the Combat Center Oct. 20, 2013. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Paul S. Martinez/Released)

bd popeye · Oct 29, 2013

Royal Marines from 40 Commando Royal Marines participate in an assault on Range 210 as part of Exercise Black Alligator 13 aboard the Combat Center Oct. 20, 2013. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Paul S. Martinez/Released)

Royal Marines from 40 Commando Royal Marines commandeer an M1 Abrams tank during an assault on Range 210 as part of Exercise Black Alligator 13 aboard the Combat Center Oct. 20, 2013. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Paul S. Martinez/Released)

Royal Marines from 40 Commando Royal Marines participate in an assault on Range 210 as part of Exercise Black Alligator 13 aboard the Combat Center Oct. 20, 2013. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Paul S. Martinez/Released)

bd popeye · Nov 20, 2013

[h=2]West Country Reservists on track with Challenger 2[/h]

Forty Reservists from the Royal Wessex Yeomanry have been training on the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank at Lulworth Ranges in Dorset, in readiness for their new role as the only Armoured Reinforcement unit in British Army.

In order to fulfil this high-profile role, the training was designed to test the soldiers to the limit and give them vital hands-on experience with Challenger 2 during a Fire and Manoeuvre Exercise (FMX).

With some of the projectiles being blasted across the range travelling in excess of 1,000 metres per second - nearly three times the speed of sound - each run called for supreme levels of concentration and teamwork from the tank crews.

Four tanks were involved in the exercise... each one crewed entirely by Reservists and commanded by a former Regular soldier - continuing to serve their country in the Army Reserve. Everyone in the crew from the Commander to the Gunner, Loader and Driver were continuously tested by Regular soldiers from one of the units that The RWxY will be paired with in the future.

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Images by Sgt Russ Nolan; Crown copyright

bd popeye · Dec 21, 2013

[h=2]Exercise Wessex Warrior: Irish Guards Complete Training[/h]

Exercise Wessex Warrior is a two-week training event that builds through a series of company exercises in the urban and rural environment, culminating in a full battlegroup exercise. Once the whole package is completed the battlegroup is then ready to deploy operationally for the next three years.

In part of the planned exercise, which took place on the Salisbury Plain Training Area, the battlegroup is tasked to clear a village, which is under the control of insurgents. Leading the attack was Number 4 Company 1 Irish Guards, under the command of Major Tim Rogers.

Major Rogers explained: “One purpose of the exercise was it gave the Irish Guards Battlegroup the first opportunity to work using the Light Infantry role using the new Army 2020 order of battle that has been established as part of the Future Army 2020 reforms.”

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Irish Guardsmen exit the Warrior AFVs at the start of the attack on a village. Photographer LCpl Mark Larner; Crown copyright.

Irish Guardsmen provide covering fire while the first house is attacked. Photographer LCpl Mark Larner; Crown copyright.

Wessex Warrior: Irish Guardsmen use assault ladders to enter a building. Photographer LCpl Mark Larner; Crown copyright/

Irish Guardsmen carry out a flanking manoeuvre to provide covering fire for the continuing attack on a village. Photographer LCpl Mark Larner; Crown copyright.

A machine gun provides covering fire during the village assault carried out by the Irish Guards. Photographer LCpl Mark Larner; Crown copyright.

bd popeye · Dec 21, 2013

[h=2]UK Military Unmanned Aerial Systems[/h]

The Ministry of Defence has, for the first time, opened the doors to its unmanned aerial systems (UAS) control centre, based in the UK.

Pictures and footage released today, Wednesday 18 December, show the high-tech operations room at RAF Waddington, where members of 13 Squadron remotely operate the RAF’s Reaper aircraft in Afghanistan.

Reaper is just one of a range of UAS, including remotely-piloted air systems, operated by UK armed forces, providing vital, life-saving intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance on operations.

Showing this work is a key way to dispel some common myths about the role of the equipment, which UK forces use predominantly in Afghanistan.

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An RAF Reaper remotely-piloted air system at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan (library image) [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster, Crown copyright]

Black Hornet, a nano unmanned aerial system operated by the British Army (library image) [Picture: Sergeant Rupert Frere, Crown copyright]

ScanEagle is an unmanned aerial system operated by the Royal Navy (library image) [Picture: Copyright Boeing Defence UK]

A Hermes 450, operated by the British Army, at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan (library image) [Picture: Copyright Thales UK]

A soldier launches a Desert Hawk unmanned aerial system during an exercise in Kenya (library image) [Picture: Corporal Ross Fernie, Crown copyright]

T-Hawk (Tarantula Hawk), a micro unmanned aerial system operated by the British Army (library image) [Picture: Andrew Linnett, Crown copyright]

A British Army Watchkeeper unmanned aerial system during trials in the UK (library image) [Picture: Peter Russell, Crown copyright]

bd popeye · Dec 21, 2013

The forward end of the fifth Astute-class submarine, Anson, lines up with her sisters in giant hall.

bd popeye · Dec 24, 2013

[h=2]Ex Pashtun Hawk[/h]

British Soldiers from 1[SUP]st[/SUP] Battalion, The Coldstream Guards, on the ranges during the pre-deployment training Exercise Pashtun Hawk in preparation for deploying to Afghanistan as part of Herrick 20

bd popeye · Dec 24, 2013

More photos of the same operation in the previous post.

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