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Future Weapons Sea Ceptor The naval variant of the Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAAMM), which will replace the Rapier and Sea Wolf SAM, and in the longer term the ASRAAM missile. With a significantly longer-ranger than the missiles it will replace and an active-seeker, amongst other features, S...

Torpedoes Sting Ray The Sting Ray (sometimes written as Stingray) is the standard lightweight torpedo in RN service; it can be employed by fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and surface warships. The current version in service is the Mod.1 , which gives the weapon an enhanced capability against smal...

Guns 114mm (4.5 inch) Vickers Mark.8 The standard Medium Calibre Gun for RN surface warships since the 1970s; fitted to all frigates and destroyers (other than the first two batches of the Type 22) up to the first batch of Type 45. Most RN ships now have the Mod 1 version of the gun, which has an a...

Air-Launched Weapons AIM-120 AMRAAM The primary armament of the Sea Harrier FA.2; the navy initially procured the A variant of the missile, sharing its stocks with the RAF. Today it uses the C-5 and C-6 variants. There are currently no plans to procure the D variant as the replacement for the Sea H...

Sea-Launched Missiles UGM-133A Trident II (D5) The Royal Navy’s ultimate weapon and main armament of the four Vanguard class bombers; will also form the main armament of the Dreadnought class. While the missile can carry up to twelve Re-entry Vehicles, in British service the missile will carry no m...

Namibian Air Force H.Q: Karibib Air Force Base Karibib Air Force Base 15 Wing - No. 151 Squadron: HAL Cheetah, HAL Chetak, Mil-8, Mil-24 [NOTE 1] Grootfontein Air Force Base Air Defence Wing - No. 23 Squadron: Chengdu F-7, Hongdu K-8 [NOTE 2] 13 Wing : O-2A, An-26, Harbin Y-12 [NOTE 3] Keetmanshoop...

Namibian Navy H.Q: Naval Base Capt (N) P.N. Sacharia, Walvis Bay Patrol Boat NS Oryx (P01) Note: Formerly a civilian fisheries patrol vessel, the ship was transferred to the newly formed Namibian Navy in 2004. Becoming the navy’s first ship. Was armed with 1 × 12.7/90 mm gun. Imperial Marinheiro Cl...

Namibian Army H.Q: Grootfontein - Engineer Regiment -- Headquarters Squadron -- Construction Engineer Squadron -- Combat Engineer Squadron - Logistic Support Battalion - Military Police Battalion - Recce Regiment - Signals Regiment Air Defence Brigade - 12 Air Defence Regiment: 37mm M1939 - 21 Air ...

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Windhoek, Namibia.

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Namibian Special Forces
- Paratroop Unit
- Commando Regiment
- Amphibious Special Operations Unit

If you want to include something that really shows that DE is a realm of magic, have Scotland qualify for the second round!

The Royal Irish Regiment does have a 2nd battalion. Sure it’s in there. A note on British regimental battalion numbers. In general post 1908 they went something like this: Regular 1st & 2nd battalions* Special Reserve (ex-militia) 3rd battalion* Territorial 4th battalion and above. War Raised Ge...

Jotun wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2024 3:09 pm Don't you DARE have England win the FIFA World Cup again

Can you imagine what they’d be like? There’d be no living with them!

The US and the Heer do seem to have had an absolute f*ckton of AFV & artillery. I’ll try and work out how much 1 & 2 (Br) Corps brought to the party.

NATO’s army groups have always directly commanded corps without any intermediate commands. I suspect it’s because in essence NORTHAG was descended from 21st AG & CENTAG from 12th AG. There were always plans in @ to send at least two extra corps to the NORTHAG AOR to serve as reserves. Also, NATO...

With thanks to Matt W. * D+29 * 1501 hours GMT. SANDF National Command Centre, Pretoria, RSA. While he was, of course, fully reconciled to civilian control, General Smuts did not generally appreciate visits by politicians to what he considered ‘his’ territory. In his opinion, ministers should set b...

People who need that warning shouldn’t be allowed to own guns. Or anything sharp.