Superb seeing the @RoyalAirForce Chinook up close, low level in Wales earlier today.https://t.co/4BGwF2oVLO@RAF_Odiham @RAFBenson @NikonEurope pic.twitter.com/2COzqm86rq— The Don Photography (@THE_DON_TOG) October 23, 2019
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Royal Air Force CH-47 close up aerial glamour shot (low level flight over Wales)...
Blast from the past. Operation Compass...when a Reinforced Division crushed a Field Army....
On the eve of Operation Compass General Sir Archibald Wavell could call on only 36,000 troops while facing 215,000 Italians. The British and Commonwealth troops won the ensuing campaign decisively. pic.twitter.com/vOI5nmbbVo— WW2 History Hit (@HistoryHitWW2) October 23, 2019
via Wikipedia.
Operation Compass (also la battaglia della Marmarica) was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War. British and other Commonwealth and Allied forces attacked Italian forces in western Egypt and Cyrenaica, the eastern province of Libya, from December 1940 to February 1941. The Western Desert Force (Lieutenant-General Richard O'Connor) with about 36,000 men, advanced from Mersa Matruh in Egypt on a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the 10th Army (Marshal Rodolfo Graziani), which had about 150,000 men in fortified posts around Sidi Barrani in Egypt and in Cyrenaica.Here.
The 10th Army was swiftly defeated and the British continued the operation, pursuing the remnants of the 10th Army to Beda Fomm and El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. The British took over 138,000 Italian and Libyan prisoners, hundreds of tanks, and more than 1,000 guns and aircraft, against British losses of 1,900 men killed and wounded, about 10 per cent of the infantry. The British were unable to continue beyond El Agheila, due to broken down and worn out vehicles and the diversion, beginning in March 1941, of the best-equipped units to the Greek Campaign in Operation Lustre.
Amazing.
I want to know more!
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Versatile. Lethal. Sustainable. Bell 360 Invictus.
Note. Why is everyone lusting after the big city fight? I have to wonder if this is about INTERNAL SECURITY rather than an external enemy. Kinda makes sense. In the US the NE Corridor, the New York City, Washington DC over to Boston megaplex would overwhelm local authorities if things went sideways.
Additionally everyone seems to have forgotten the drama when the Boston Bombers went on that rampage and how they shut down the East Coast as well as the Beltway Snipers.
I guess the Pentagon is doing due diligence by running scenarios where they have to secure big cities but I still cringe at the idea of doing this as part of an offensive operations against a high tech foe. But I'm off track. Enough of my musing regarding a small slice of this vid that I allowed to take me off on tangent!
1. The vid is nicely done.
2. It does look like the son of Comanche!
3. Bell is cooking with gas. They're on fire lately.
Additionally everyone seems to have forgotten the drama when the Boston Bombers went on that rampage and how they shut down the East Coast as well as the Beltway Snipers.
I guess the Pentagon is doing due diligence by running scenarios where they have to secure big cities but I still cringe at the idea of doing this as part of an offensive operations against a high tech foe. But I'm off track. Enough of my musing regarding a small slice of this vid that I allowed to take me off on tangent!
1. The vid is nicely done.
2. It does look like the son of Comanche!
3. Bell is cooking with gas. They're on fire lately.
Outrage over plans to change Royal Marines’ centuries old ranks and uniforms
via The Sun
ROYAL Marines Top Brass are up in arms over plans to change their centuries old ranks and uniforms.Here.
Under shock new proposals Royal Marine officers will have their rank structures removed and replaced with with Royal Navy ranks.
The potential change will also affect the insignia worn on uniforms as senior Navy officers seek to drive the 6,000 strong Royal Marines further into the Royal Navy “fold.”
While the Royal Marines are part of a the Royal Navy they are seen as a distinct unit with a unique identity.
The proposed changes - hatched by the Royal Navy - sparked immediate outrage.
Former Royal Marines officer Major General Julian Thompson who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War, blasted: “This is an absolute disastrous ideas and it is total rubbish.
“The Royal Marines have been with the Navy serving at sea since 1664 dressed as soldiers – which is what we are.
“We are not sailors who pretend to be soldiers.
“It’s absolute nonsense, it would create a ludicrous situation.
“It is utter rubbish and the idea is totally fallacious.
“They haven’t thought it through, we’ve always looked like soldiers for 350 years. It is preposterous.”
YPG scored two ATGMs hit vs SNA / Turkish Army vehicles
YPG scored two ATGMs hit vs SNA / Turkish Army vehicles (one APC / one M60 MBT ?) near Serêkaniyé /Ras al Ayn— Harry Boone (@towersight) October 16, 2019
Syria - Turkey |borderwarfarepic.twitter.com/zgC1Rvjfsn
Something tells me Turkey's low temp insurgency is going to heat up a bit...
Monday, October 21, 2019
Exercise Iron Spear Tank Gunnery Competition...
On Oct 11 and 12, #eFP BG Latvia hosted Ex IRON SPEAR, the world’s largest tank concentration and shooting competition. Forty-four tanks from 8 countries competed. 🇫🇷's Foxtrot 5 took first place, 🇳🇴's November 5 took second place and 🇺🇸's Yankee2 took third. #WeAreNATO pic.twitter.com/YmY7NkoJIK— NATO eFP Battle Group Latvia (@eFPBGLatvia) October 15, 2019
Turkish Nazi Force?
What the hell is this!?— Giran Ozcan (@GiranOzcan) October 20, 2019
Video is from the #Turkish-uccupied Kurdish city of Afrin in northwestern Syria.
These Turkish-trained Nazi saluters are after the #Kurds in the whole of northern #Syria. pic.twitter.com/9B8OPa1pF6
Weird to see but history is our guide. I'm surprised but shouldn't be. The stain of Nazism is strong in the Middle East.
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