Royal Marines Stole My Ride

[CMNot]

Not overly exciting but a nice piece of kit.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/rchovercraft/videos/marineshover.WMV

Could do with one of them to get out of the traffic in the morning and dart across the bay.

Used to have a video of one of these being engaged by another RM unit with some form of AT weapon. Unfortunately one of the Marines on board was killed.

[welshmann]

nice vid m8,i rember what u on about being on telly on a program following troops in iraq,the camras bbc i think were onboard in another boat/hovercraft,think it was a blue on blue contact with a milan!!!!

[PaulClift]

Yeah it was a milan from a sbs unit upriver, there was a contact nearby and they mistook the rm boat for an iraqi one.

That episode of that series was good, they had a camera crew onboard an assault hovercraft that went and found a rm that had gone overboard in the same incident I think.

[welshmann]

Yeah thats the 1,they returned to base and heared that the men had gone overboard and returend to find him hiding in the weeds,i belive the sbs unit was on abandoned boats,sad eposode was that

[CMNot]

Having looked around a bit I think it was members of 539 Asslt Sqn being engaged by 40 Cdo...

[Royal]

Having looked around a bit I think it was members of 539 Asslt Sqn being engaged by 40 Cdo...

Absolutely correct.

The SBS had nothing to do with it.

[Chops]

Yeah it was a milan from a sbs unit upriver...

Wasn't SBS mate- reg RMs

cheers

C

EDIT- sorry guys didnt read full thread before posting