Tag: Royal Marines

Exercise Cold response

| March 17, 2012 | 15 Comments

Looks a bit chilly up North IL120153 by Royal Navy Media Archive Flight Deck operations. Picture: LA(Phot) Dean Nixon Today 12 March 2012 HMS ILLUSTRIOUS ships company and elements of Commando Helicopter Force were on the flight deck preparing the Embarked Helicopters for l day and night of flying. HMS ILLUSTRIOUS is currently off the [...]

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Warthog in Afghanistan

| November 30, 2010 | 14 Comments

Currently in service in hot and sandy places the Warthog has been shown off in a new PR video from the MoD/BFBS This is an earlier video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6REo6t_hI Costing roughly £1.7 million pounds each, no, you didn’t misread that, it would seem from the first video that despite being in production for several years with [...]

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Riverine and Littoral Concepts

| May 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

As I get to the end of the main section on the FDR – LAND section, apart from artillery, combat support, close combat, combat service elements that is, I have started thinking about littoral and riverine concepts for the Royal Marines. As a bit of food for though have a look at these interesting videos, [...]

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