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The difference is that the average civilian commercial battery powered device is in use by their owners for maybe 18 months to 3 years at most.

Most battery powered military devices tend to be...

I'm wondering at the weight of 6 MREs. That's in the wrappers I presume ?

That's 48hrs of food. The equivalent British 24Hr Ration pack is about 2.1kgs packed or 4.6lbs ish. That's a 1lb shaved...

JMA

Bowman is not too bad in the HF, VHF and UHF roles as a radio. Data has been a complete busted flush and has never worked outside Salisbury plain
But. TBH. I suspect that it's mostly MoD's...

so we withdraw the 51mm as no one can see a use for the type, promptly buy a 60mm on UOR as we suddenly discover a use for it and promptly retire the 60mm post Herrick as it doesn't fit some staff...

We were carrying HF as we were struggling with the VHF net, a problem found to be due to a fill for the VHF radios that had become corrupted.

Breakdown

Weapon + 6 full mags ...

It was during a brief spate about 2006 - 2010 when a more robust and forthright editing policy was in place.

The deliberate restriction on expressing a viewpoint that doesn't match the...

None what soever.

The Army only just bought enough large plates for osprey so not enough for training for one Brigade in the UK on MST, getting ready to deploy whilst the Brigade out in theatre...

GPMG in the light role is normally scaled for between 600 to 800 rds per man in the pair, that's about 24 to 32 minutes fire at the normal rate of fire, half that at rapid. Weight between 32 to 43kg...

About 3 litres.

And I would say regardless of what the Army thinks, attempting to carry out the Mission of the Infantry, to close with and kill the enemy, was impossible with the normal weight...

JMA, Yes, those figures include Ospery.

My trip on Herrick 15 started training in January, about 5 months before mobilisation(I'm a reservist) with just ECBA, which is lighter but doesn't have...

Just as an aside. About 20 odd years there was a massive spike in men of about 70 years of age suffering from kidney related problems, some of them quite serious. Every single one of these men had...

JMA

Osprey with the small plate front and rear weighs about 7Kg

Project Payne identified the load of a Section Commander (what we call the Squad Leader) on Junior Breacon, the tactics course for promotion to full Corporal in the Infantry, without any specialist...