British Military Pictures & Videos

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Further to my 'doodling' in the Aircraft carriers thread, here is a 'then, now and soon' picture of the RNs carrier force.

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Can't leave anything alone for long... must be the engineer in me. Tweaked the above picture a little:

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Ark Royal enters indian territory! Some pics of recent trials of Army Air Corps AgustaWestland WAH-64D Apache Longbow from 667sqn aboard HMS Ark Royal showing the new folding rotor blades for ease of stowage aboard ships.

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HMS Dauntless last month. She's the second in the Daring-class and is scheduled to be launched in two weeks!

The photographer in question gets some great shots of ships on the Clyde - shame he doesn't have a website that hosts his pictures.

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Indeed. The Vulcan was one of three 'V-Bombers' developed for the RAF in the late 40s /early 50s, the others being the Vickers Valiant (the first in service in 1955 and the only British Bomber to drop live nuclear weapons during A-bomb and H-bomb tests), the Handley Page Victor (in service 1958, retired after the Gulf War in the early 90s) and the Avro Vulcan itself which entered service in 1957 and was in the process of being replaced by the Tornado when the Falklands war gave it a last chance for glory. The Valiant was withdrawn from service in 1965 shortly after being switched from high level to low level bombing after cracks were discovered in the airframes. The Victor was already in the process of being refitted as tankers and the Nuclear Deterrent role was handed over to the Royal Navy's Polaris Submarines in 1969. A single Vulcan (XH558) was kept flying for display purposes until the early 90s when it was retired for financial reasons, but a private organisation is trying to raise funds to complete the refit of the aircraft to restore it to flight worthy condition. Fingers crossed...

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thanks to all those who upload RAF and UK airforces images,
I have never seen all UK military hardwares before surfing this forum.
Burma airforce got 2nos/ B2n islanders aircraft via India airforce.,I think that Burmese want to use these planes for offshore survilliance /B2N Islanders were produced in late of 1960...UK warns to India not to transfer these aircrafts because of sanction &embargo to burmese is still running.

For UK made aircrafts are poor in design but best in performance and very effective.Eg;Vulcan bomber DESIGN is very bad to see but its funtion may be better than russian bombers.

British are always becareful in safety ,comfort,performance,these are UK pratices...Eg:Taxi in UK are old design but passenger with baggages or family
can be ride very comfortable.!st I think that UK taxi are why so poor before I had not been to UK .I like verymuch after ride only one time,it was from waterloo station to ecesslton square hotel.Amazing...I love london taxi and
english girls?????????? :rofl: :rofl:


So.i believe that UK weapons or aircraft must be perfect in funtions....
I'll never decide without study in practically for UK products and the design or good looking are not important for UK products.


But,German products are not only in design but also in performance.
So If I am director of procurement(defence ministry) I will choose germany and england made Tanks,some bombers,blowpipe SAM,germany made rifle,artillery,tanks to airdefence system.

let me see more UK germany weapons images.....thanks

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The most up-to-date picture I have seen so far - launch on Tuesday!

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Some more Type 45 under construction pics.

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1) A British Royal Air Force (RAF) GR-4 Tornado fighter-bomber aircraft takes off from Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska (AK), (Released to Public) Location: EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, ALASKA (AK) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) DoD photo by: SMSGT CHRIS DRUDGE, USAF

2) Three Royal British Army (UK) Soldiers armed with 5.56mm M16A2 rifles, assigned with the British Royal Gurkha Rifles, monitor activities around the Coalition Provisional Authority compound in Baghdad, Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Pictured left-to-right are Mr. Tej Bahadur, Mr. Gopal Gurung, and Mr. Chitra Bahadur Chhetri. (Released to Public)
DoD photo by: SSGT QUINTON RUSS, USAF

3) Armed with Enfield L85A1 automatic rifles, members of the 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment, British Army, demonstrate vehicle checkpoint security for the Marines at landing strip Viper, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. (Released to Public) DoD photo by: SGT MAURICIO CAMPINO, USMC

4) A British Light Armored Field Radar Vehicle Transportpanzer 1 Carrier sits at a Living Support Area (LSA) belonging to Regimental Combat Team 5, in Kuwait (KWT), during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (Released to Public)
DoD photo by: SGT KEVIN R. REED, USMC

5) A British FV432 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) visits Camp Coyote during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. (Released to Public) DoD photo by: SGT PAUL L. ANSTINE II, USMC

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HMS Daring fitted out, heading off for sea trials.

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FuManChu said:

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HMS Daring fitted out, heading off for sea trials.

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This is awesome to see HMS Daring going to sea. Fair winds and folling seas to the RN. I pray this ship lives up to the hype...Unilke the USN USS San Antonio LPD-17 which is beset by problems...