Photo Of The Day – We look at what we think is a Royal Marines sniper with his L115A3 Long Range Rifle on Dartmoor’s training area. It seems there is quite a lot of undergrowth on this range, a perfect place to hide for a sniper. The skills side of the [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and a look at the Royal Marines of 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group. This unit is held at very high-readiness year round, guarding the nuclear deterrent carried onboard the Vanguard-class submarines based at Faslane Naval Base in Scotland. This gives [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day – We take a look at Royal Marines of the 40 Commando and the 45 Commando as they have live firing exercises in the Brecon Beacons, Sennybridge Training Area in Wales. With machine guns laying down fire support, Charlie Company of 40 Commando [Read More…]
Today’s Photo of the Day comes courtesy of the UK’s Royal Navy which has recently unveiled a new uniform and flash for the elite Royal Marines Commando units. The photos feature the new uniform manufactured by US-based Crye Precision. The Royal Marines [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and we take a look at what is going on around the Arctic Circle in Norway. We’re looking at Royal Marines Assault Engineers planting charges to destroy railroads and other infrastructure (been there, done that). Below: In the cold everything [Read More…]
Did you have fun at work today? Before you start complaining check out the working conditions for these soldiers in our Photo Of The Day. These Royal Marines, assigned to 47 Commando Raiding Group, and the Norwegian Army soldiers, assigned to Combat Engineer [Read More…]
Images from a joint European/ U.S. lead paratrooper training exercise named Swift Response in June of 2016 have shown that the Rheinmetall Defense Light Laser Module Mk.3 is being used on operations with the British Paratroopers, aka “Paras”. Initially the [Read More…]
The 43 Commando’s Fleet Protection Group has recently come out in a press briefing that the unit has replaced the L95 service rifle (bullpup SA80) with Colt Canada C8s, which the MoD classifies as L119. This is particularly interesting as this will be the first [Read More…]
The Royal Marines are still rocking the old faithful H&K MP5. This is an advertisement for the Royal Marines and focuses on the S Squadron 43 Commando Protection Fleet. I am surprised they have not been equipped with red dots and flashlights, like the SureFire fore [Read More…]