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@ampikine the British Army has not used white phosphorus (WP) in artillery and mortar rounds for the last 10 years instead they use red phosphorus (RP). WP smoke is typically very hot and may cause burns on contact, it was used as an incendiary and for smoke generation. RP is less reactive, doe...

@DominionOfTheSword That's the worst scouse accents in the history of scouse accents and Daniel Craig may have been born and raised in Cheshire, but no way does he talk like that in real life., if he did every scouser in the world would take the piss out of him. His real accent is a sort of cock...

I would strongly suggest you stop manufacturing your own drugs, as your last batch appears to have fried your brain. Your grasp of what is going on in North Africa and the Middle East and more importantly, why it is happening is staggeringly poor. Drawing a few circles and crosses on the map sh...

Exclusion zones have no military purpose, they are designed to prevent civilian ships from being attacked by accident. The location of the Belgrano when attacked was irrelevant. It did not matter if she was sailing towards or away from the Falklands or if she was tied up in port, she was a legi...

@fallschirmjager0000 British parachutes used the "Canopy Last" principle in which the canopy deploys from the pack in a sleeve, and only fully deploys when all the rigging lines are deployed, thus giving a smoother opening experiance for the paratrooper, also they could fully control and steer th...

@1cheescake It was Support Company 1 Para at Bloody Sunday, not 2 Para, but don't let that ruin a good insult? Me ex 3 Para Mortar Platoon 1975-1999, then 4 Para 1999-2008

@angrydoug They are firing on a range in the UK you throbber and have had a misfire on the No 2 Mortar and are carrying out the Immediate Action (IA) drill to clear it and get the mortar back in action, unlike the US misfire drill which is for all the firers to move back away from the mortar whil...

Great work proud to have served loyally

@Desperadounico Most MPADS (Man Portable Air Defence Systems) can be jammed or decoyed with flares, chaff, IR jammer's etc that most helicopters are fitted with. Also most modern helicopters are designed to present a low heat signature to prevent missile lock on. However some dude fires an RPG ...

As an ex mortar man (MFC) of 32 years service I would like to congratulate you on posting a stonking (pun) clip. Outstanding drills guys and good control from the CPO/Sect Comd. Well in keep it up.

It looks like it has been Photoshopped by a 4 year old, get a grip throbber

@puppetmaster532 what is strange you would expect a unit of SS Paratroopers to have a mix of SS Nazi idilogy mixed with the Para's ethos and esprit de corps to be a formidable fighting force? In reality the SS Para battalion achieved nothing of tactical significance during the limited number of...

@Creamer617 I think not? Normally above the tail fins of the mortar round are "augmenting cartridges" that look like donuts and give the rounds extra range. They are highly flamable and at the end of of a mortar range shoot when we burn the unused ones they burn with an intensity that you could ...

soldiers at 0.20 and 1.48 are British. Those at 1.40 are British SBS at the Qala-i-Janghi fort uprising in Afghanistan in 2001

@fester702 Those little yellow things are called BFA's (Blank Firing Attachments) and they don't block the barrel. They divert the gas produced from the firing of the blank round up and backwards to re-cock the weapon exactly like a live round would. They are painted yellow so soldiers know t...

@jkamstra1 let me have a wild guess on that one then? errrrrrr maybe they were from the US Army? I know I know it's a crazy idea, but maybe given the fact that there was 100,000 American servicemen deployed in Vietnam at the time and over 5,000 helicopters i am betting that those nice American...

They are British soldiers firing the L16A1 81mm Mortar

@champ4sho1 It was never a war about race? black against white, it was always a war against communism. On external operations Rhodesian forces killed more Russian, Cuban, Angolan Chinese "tourists" than you can count, but the Rhodesian forces were always portrayed as exclusively a white force,...

@Spark280 yes is stupid IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) are not mines, mines are commercialy made in general, IED's are homemade, also the Taliban used what is called "low content IED's, these are devices that have little or no metal content and are very hard to detect with mine detectors, the...

@s2117774 Little David was a mortar not a gun, different weapon system, designed for different purposes?

@mac6460 I am in total agreement with you, although the more correct spelling of Corbeen is Caubeen? and yes the major difference between the Scottish and Irish pipe is the Highland chanter is always open at the end and thus the melody is continuous. The Irish chanter operates principally in a c...

@carroj9 You appear to be confused? 1st Special Service Force (The Black Devil Brigade) formed with Canadian and US soldiers took part in operations in the Aleutian Islands, Kiska Anzio and the invasion of Southern France "Operation Dragoon" not the invasion of Normandy "Operation Overload". Th...

Thanks for posting this tribute as an ex QLR myself (1975-2000) i enjoyed looking at the old regimental photos and the 'old and bold'

God not seen 'lips' Tommo for years. Mortar Platoon 1 QLR happy days