Plymouth Royal Marines blasted their way through a sprawling 1,000-building town as six weeks of intensive desert training in the Mojave Desert reached an explosive climax.
The men of 42 Commando, along with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corp and the U.S. Marine Corps, led the way through the mock town in a nine-day battle which brought the curtain down on Exercise Black Alligator, the most action-packed live-firing training Royal Marines get anywhere in the world.
Read More: https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/13785Royal Marines of 45 Commando let rip on the range when they hammered away with machine-guns and missiles for live-firing training.
Yankee Company spent a week training at Otterburn Camp in Northumberland, training which climaxed with launches of Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missiles.
Some interesting videos from the exercise on Loch Ness:arfah wrote:539 ASRM training on Loch Ness.
Read More: http://forces.tv/72979878Royal Marine specialists who intercept and exploit enemy communications have been singled out by NATO leaders as ‘outstanding’.
Small but elite, Y Squadron of 30 Commando Information Exploitation group were named the best unit across the 28 armed forces of the Atlantic Treaty organisation in their role of electronic warfare.
Major Robert Thorpe of Y Sqn received the prestigious NATO award at a ceremony held in Washington DC.
Read More: http://www.janes.com/article/58501/uk-r ... or-colt-c8A high-profile UK Royal Marine unit has been re-equipped with the Colt Canada C8 carbine to enhance its ability to protect the Royal Navy's nuclear deterrent submarine base and nuclear weapon convoys.
The move makes the unit the first British non-special forces unit to completely drop the bullpup L85A2 (SA80) rifle used by the rest of the regular forces. Various UK special forces units already use the C8, which is designated the L119 in British service.
Details of the re-equipment effort were revealed by the commander of 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines, Colonel Graeme Fraser, in a briefing document to service members distributed in February.
Doesn't the SBS use the old Sir Tristram in the harbour of Portland for that kind of training? Only defect is that she is completely stationary (i think) and so doesn't fully prepare to boarding a moving vessel, but other than that...shark bait wrote:That's a video of the demo they did at dsei 2015, boarding a French vessel, VN Partisan. A cheap OPV kitted out for aviation, boarding and other naval training activities, rather than using an expensive asset.
Perhaps something the RN could look at. The French have it under a PFI (or their version of), maybe we should joint that.
Yep, permanently sat in Portland, https://goo.gl/maps/iark9mk285B2Gabriele wrote:Only defect is that she is completely stationary (i think)
Cross channel and Western/Northern Isle ferries are used for boarding exercises from time to time.Gabriele wrote:Doesn't the SBS use the old Sir Tristram in the harbour of Portland for that kind of training? Only defect is that she is completely stationary (i think) and so doesn't fully prepare to boarding a moving vessel, but other than that...shark bait wrote:That's a video of the demo they did at dsei 2015, boarding a French vessel, VN Partisan. A cheap OPV kitted out for aviation, boarding and other naval training activities, rather than using an expensive asset.
Perhaps something the RN could look at. The French have it under a PFI (or their version of), maybe we should joint that.
If they don't already, Royal Marines should probably make use of that first of all.
Nice link, very credible since the picture is of RMP CPT, 43 are being issued the C8 due to it being able to fire the frangible 5.56mm round. Possibly due to the role?marktigger wrote:43 cdo are to make the C8 as standard
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016 ... adopt-c8s/
Full article here (behind paywall): http://www.janes.com/article/59519/uk-f ... task-groupA new contingency amphibious task group has been deployed to the Mediterranean by the UK Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
The 150-strong Special Purpose Task Group (SPTG) has been created for "contingency operations in the Mediterranean" according to a Royal Marines briefing document seen by IHS Jane's .
Although not previously disclosed, the SPTG was stood up in December 2015 and then sailed from Marchwood Military Port the following month for the Mediterranean on board the Bay-lass landing ship, RFA Mounts Bay . The task group is formed around Zulu Company of the Arbroath-based 45 Commando Royal Marines.
Additional enabling personnel from 29 Regiment Royal Artillery, 17 Port and Maritime Regiment of the Royal Logistic Corps, 24 Engineer Regiment, and 30 (Information Exploitation) Commando Royal Marines were attached to provide specialist capabilities and expertise.
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-la ... aegean-seaGibMariner wrote:UK forms new marine task groupFull article here (behind paywall): http://www.janes.com/article/59519/uk-f ... task-groupA new contingency amphibious task group has been deployed to the Mediterranean by the UK Royal Navy and Royal Marines.
The 150-strong Special Purpose Task Group (SPTG) has been created for "contingency operations in the Mediterranean" according to a Royal Marines briefing document seen by IHS Jane's .
Although not previously disclosed, the SPTG was stood up in December 2015 and then sailed from Marchwood Military Port the following month for the Mediterranean on board the Bay-lass landing ship, RFA Mounts Bay . The task group is formed around Zulu Company of the Arbroath-based 45 Commando Royal Marines.
Additional enabling personnel from 29 Regiment Royal Artillery, 17 Port and Maritime Regiment of the Royal Logistic Corps, 24 Engineer Regiment, and 30 (Information Exploitation) Commando Royal Marines were attached to provide specialist capabilities and expertise.
