Photos British Military Forces

[Fish&Chips]

Looks like some reflective stuff to help the instructors see their troops in the darkness.

 

[DENO]

Chemlight glowtsticks . Made in different colour options. Generally the IR ones are used by special misison units to mark the cleaned rooms and civilians in hostile compounds during the cqb operations.

 

[berkut76]

I know what they are for. I just thought it's new setup. usually it's just one light or marker. This is like Dead Space stuff.

 

[Royal]

Its a live field firing range where you can set up improvised/mobile targets and exercise troops up to company level with support weapons - the chem lights are there so the range staff can see the exercising troops on the ground forward of any support weapons/groups providing supporting fire and so limit the risk of them switching fire into an area that the exercising troops are in or moving into.

Different colours/combinations of chemlights denote different sub units/groups allowing them to be safely ID'd at a distance.

 

[TheKiwi]

Young Royal Marines Commando Officers (YOs) conducting a beach insertion exercise from the HMS Bulwark

I'm not seeing them fall in the mud. What gives? What happened to tradition?

 

[gafkiwi]

I'm not seeing them fall in the mud. What gives? What happened to tradition?

They're YO's, They are learning how to get the OR's stuck in the mud and not themselves

 

[Bombardier]

Check this baby out, gotta love that Vulcan Howl

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[BCNTM]

Check this baby out, gotta love that Vulcan Howl

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I have a feeling that was shot in the valley below where I live - the house is the pilots house - he used to come over quite regularly and drop in over the castle and down the valley
(he used to get the Lancaster, Spitfire or Dakota to do a fly by for the local village fate)
We used to get a lot of A10's over when they were based in the UK - they used to do the same trick - just avoid the cable cars and up and over the castle - they used to come past the window at work that close you could see the pilots

 

[bdpopeye]

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[Fish&Chips]

Check this baby out, gotta love that Vulcan Howl

And there I thought the Typhoons were loud.

 

[uktabber]

Check this baby out, gotta love that Vulcan Howl

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OMG YES, YES, I love the Vulcan and her Howl....Bloody excellent mate, THANK YOU!!!!

 

[Kadir93]

HMS Dragon.

 

[BravoZulu]

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[BravoZulu]

HMS AMBUSH (S120) enters the Magnetic Silencing Facility at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, GA 07SEP14

HMS Queen Elizabeth at dawn

 

[BravoZulu]

HMS Northumberland in waiting station for a RAS after a VIPTAX, September 2019

In grey and wet conditions, HMS Prince of Wales headed down the river Forth and out to sea

 

[BravoZulu]

HMS Sutherland, HMS Hurworth and the Merlin helicopter 'HIGHLANDER' practice defending against swarm attacks, Exercise Joint Warrior 19-2

HMS Forth at Spithead

 

[BravoZulu]

MS Queen Elizabeth arriving NS Mayport on Friday 4 October

HMS Diamond, sporting very effective camouflage for British waters, underway off the Isle of Wight, photographed from the bridge of a container ship, 2018

 

[BravoZulu]

HMS Trenchant and HMS Iron Duke's embarked Wildcat helicopter, Exercise Saxon Warrior 2017

HMS Queen Elizabeth

 

[BravoZulu]

HMS Iron Duke at night

Wildcat and HMS Kent

 

[Gaz]

HMS Dragon.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the current HMS Dragon is the only ship to have had something painted on the side of it like this? I don't recall ever seeing anything else like it painted over the camouflage.

EDIT - Nevermind - https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/welsh-dragon-returns-bows-cardiff-11351214