Royal Marines Boarding Team Range Day
Pictures taken during a firing range session undertaken by the Royal Marines Boarding Team, Royal Navy Boarding Team and Royal Marine Sniper Team in Souda Bay, …
Parliamentary Answers – to 6th June 2013
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues. In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can …
A German Near Miss
An interesting video and news story about a near miss, it was several years ago apparently and has only just been released onto YouTube Or one without the …
A Powerful Blog Post
Take the time to read this and wait for the sting in the tail at the end Blogging at its best I
Royal Engineers at Work #Sappers
Whilst browsing Flickr I found this great set of images from John Oram of the Combat Support Boat On a cold, sunny March afternoon, I chanced upon an Army …
Terrier, Renown Engineering and D Day
Three seemingly unconnected things came together today. First was me finishing updating the post about Sir Percy Hobart, the 79th Armoured Division and the …
D Day – Sir Percy Hobart and the Funnies of the 79th
Seems it is a good time to dust off and refresh a couple of older posts There are so many aspects of Operation Neptune (the assault phase of Overlord) that are …
Army Brown
Did we discuss this, not sure? From Akzo Nobel The Ministry of Defence (MoD) asked AkzoNobel – makers of paints and coatings such as Intergard, Sikkens and …
Merlins on their way home
After four years flying in Afghanistan the British fleet of Merlin helicopters has completed its final mission and is being readied to leave the country early. …
Redesign and Refresh – The Story So Far
It’s been a few weeks since Think Defence moved virtual house and if you cast your mind back I said things would move forward in steps. Things Complete …
Damage Control on HMS Dragon
HMS Dragon conducted a Helicopter crash on deck exercise. The exercise simulated the ship’s Mk8 Lynx helicopter crash landing onto the Flight deck and …
More FOB Life
This time, at the more luxurious end of the scale
Farewell Scimitar
Was that the least convincing display of ‘putting a brave face on it’
Meet the Challenger 2
A couple of nice videos
Royal Engineers Search Team (REST) at Work
Playing hide and seek with IED’s
An Earthquake in Wales
An old story but still great. Every weapon aboard HMS Montrose was unleashed as the frigate laid on an impressive week-long demonstration of …
Stringbags
Am surprised the aircraft was able to carry a torpedo AND the balls of anyone who flew one of these into the teeth of an enemy ships air defences A Swordfish …
Spitfire 944
Ttake the time to watch this, a brilliant story Dusty in here!