Royal Marine Commandos, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (SRS) parachuting into northern Norway. Makes me think of "Where eagles dare" and the real life heavy water mission in Vemork (an the far less real "Heroes of Telemark").
The Royal Marines has their own tear round base now in the same village as I served most of my national service. They call it Camp Viking.
In Norway there is a tradition for Home Guard personel to wear their uniform in their regular jobs on one day every year. I think it's a good tradition.
I often get the impression that "looking cool" has avery high priority when designing military hardware these days. That's why it's such a relief to se the new japanese surveilance aircraft Kawasaki EC-1. It's very clear the Japanese didn't think about estetics at all when making this aircraft!. Respect! 😁
HV-17, the home guard unit in the Norwegian county by the Russian border, in training. These soldiers are "weekend soldiers", but their winter warfare skills are probably better than most professional soldiers.
This is a pretty good documentary about Norway, Sweden and Finland and the new cold war. A couple of problems: In spite of the title the program spends a lot of time on a non-Scandinavian country, Finland. The third Scandinavian country, Denmark, is never mentioned. The documentary also mentions Finland and Sweden ending their pacefist past. The two countries never had a pacefist policy, only a neutral policy. There is also a US Marines officers who speaks about the US leadership's commitment to NATO. It's up to you to make up your own mind on this based on what the US leaders actually say and do.
The British defense minister has resigned because the armed forces aren't being strengthened enough. I'm aware the Starmer cabinet are facing economic difficulties, but I still think the defense minister did the right thing.
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I just heard about this remarkable man at the weekend - Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä aka The White Death - who is believed to have killed over 500 enemy Russian soldiers during the Winter War which took place after the Russian invasion of Finland during World War II. he was even shot in the face himself by a Russian soldier but survived the war to die at the ripe old age of 96 in 2002.
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
Yup, truly a legend. FWIW: he did rack up some of those kills with a subgun, but then again he used only irons on his rifle, so I guess it evens out...
"I mean, she almost kills bond...with her ass."
-Mr Arlington Beech
"Fun" fact: Since the Nordic air forces are now integrated under one command, the Nordic air force(s) are now about 60% stronger (in number of fighter jets) than the RAF. The Nordic air forces are marginally stronger than France's, making it the strongest in European NATO.
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It's good to see that there are strange folks in Norway too and not just in the UK! Anything for a bit of attention, eh? 😀
We have (more than) our share of strange people, as you should know by now! 😆
Strangeness is no respecter of seas or borders it would seem. 😉
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Royal Marine Commandos, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (SRS) parachuting into northern Norway. Makes me think of "Where eagles dare" and the real life heavy water mission in Vemork (an the far less real "Heroes of Telemark").
The Royal Marines has their own tear round base now in the same village as I served most of my national service. They call it Camp Viking.
More Royal Marines photos. I think the picture series in the link looks really bondian. https://www.forcesnews.com/services/royal-marines/pictures-royal-marines-tip-spear-go-beneath-waves
In Norway there is a tradition for Home Guard personel to wear their uniform in their regular jobs on one day every year. I think it's a good tradition.
I often get the impression that "looking cool" has avery high priority when designing military hardware these days. That's why it's such a relief to se the new japanese surveilance aircraft Kawasaki EC-1. It's very clear the Japanese didn't think about estetics at all when making this aircraft!. Respect! 😁
HV-17, the home guard unit in the Norwegian county by the Russian border, in training. These soldiers are "weekend soldiers", but their winter warfare skills are probably better than most professional soldiers.
This is a pretty good documentary about Norway, Sweden and Finland and the new cold war. A couple of problems: In spite of the title the program spends a lot of time on a non-Scandinavian country, Finland. The third Scandinavian country, Denmark, is never mentioned. The documentary also mentions Finland and Sweden ending their pacefist past. The two countries never had a pacefist policy, only a neutral policy. There is also a US Marines officers who speaks about the US leadership's commitment to NATO. It's up to you to make up your own mind on this based on what the US leaders actually say and do.
Oh I don't know... the nose reminds me of Concorde, Nimrod and my namesake all at the same time! Nice.
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The British defense minister has resigned because the armed forces aren't being strengthened enough. I'm aware the Starmer cabinet are facing economic difficulties, but I still think the defense minister did the right thing.
I just heard about this remarkable man at the weekend - Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä aka The White Death - who is believed to have killed over 500 enemy Russian soldiers during the Winter War which took place after the Russian invasion of Finland during World War II. he was even shot in the face himself by a Russian soldier but survived the war to die at the ripe old age of 96 in 2002.
Yup, truly a legend. FWIW: he did rack up some of those kills with a subgun, but then again he used only irons on his rifle, so I guess it evens out...
-Mr Arlington Beech
"Fun" fact: Since the Nordic air forces are now integrated under one command, the Nordic air force(s) are now about 60% stronger (in number of fighter jets) than the RAF. The Nordic air forces are marginally stronger than France's, making it the strongest in European NATO.