UK SF Exercise – Chameleon 23-1
By Pat Carty. I wish I had a globe which enabled me to look into the future. There again, I guess if I had paid more attention to the current weather charts, and used them to predict the future weather, […]
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Exercise Chameleon 22-1 – UK SF
Story by Pat Carty. Due to the ongoing situation in Ukraine, I doubt if there were many in the military, especially NATO, who did not expect their training to be either delayed or postponed, due to the necessity to prepare […]
Happy Birthday Puma – UK’s Versatile Helicopter
Story by Pat Carty. A formation of Royal Air Force Puma helicopters has made a nostalgic national flypast, to mark 50 years of service for the type. The ten Pumas; acknowledged and respected as the workhorse of many tactical and […]
Exercise Chameleon 1-21 (UK Special Forces)
By Pat Carty. UK Special Forces have just completed their latest and longest Chameleon Special Force exercise when Chameleon 1-21 came to an end on March 19, 2021. Run bi-annually, Exercise Chameleon provides the opportunity for Special Force units from […]
Brecon Beacons Casualties – UK SF “Fan Dance”
By Pat Carty. Following an official “Freedom of Information” request made to the British Government in December 2020, the Ministry of Defence has released the total number of British Armed Forces personnel, who have lost their lives in the Brecon […]
Exercise Faraday Field 19-2
By Pat Carty. Whilst the news that UK Royal Navy is currently escorting British-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz seems to have disappeared from world headlines, also the latest situation regarding the increased diplomatic tensions in the Gulf, not […]
Black Swan 19 – SOF Exercise in Europe
Special Force troops were assisted by a Hungarian Air Force Gripen multirole fighter, Mi-17, Mi-24, Cougar and American Special Forces CV-22 Osprey helicopters, all of which played a vital part in Exercise Black Swan 19 Distinguished Visitor Day (DV Day). […]
Exercise Faraday Field 19-1 – UK SOF
Despite SOF aircrews having recently taken part in an actual SOF insertion onto a ship where SOF troops captured illegal immigrants holding the crew of a ship captive, UK Special Forces aircrew have just completed yet another major week-long SF […]
Grande Tema – A SBS Success Story
Four stowaways, who threatened the crew of the an Italian cargo ship with armed bars, have been detained after a successful assault was conducted by the British Special Forces in December 2018. The 71,543-ton Ro-Ro Container Carrier “Grande Tema” (top […]
Armistice Day Poppy Drop by SAS – November 11, 2018
By Pat Carty 11 November saw nations celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the signing of the Armistice – an agreement between the Allies and Germany, which required the latter to leave all occupied territories in Western Europe within two weeks, […]
Night Hawk 18 – SOF Exercise in Denmark
By Pat Carty Danish air force base Aalborg was once again host to this year’s Special Operations Night Hawk 18 (NH18) exercise, which ran from 17 to 27 September 2018. Nighthawk is a multinational exercise, led by Danish Special Operations […]
Army 2018 Defense Expo and Russia’s SOF
Army 2018 – Russia has just held its largest arms fair and conference at Park Patriot, located to the west of Moscow and whilst members of their SOF were not very conspicuous, they could be seen if you knew where to […]