Hi Guys,
I've done a search on the forum for Luxembourg soldiers and came up with the dress uniform pic and some peacekeeping pics with the Belgians, but does anyone have any detailed pics or shots of cam out there?
Tried Google, but got nada!
Thanks fellas
Source: http://www.armee.lu
Wow, didn`t know they used the Aug.Great pics.
Recently i spend a few days in Luxembourg. Wow, i'm surprised that they have anything close to an "army". The country has 400.000+ inhabitants. I wonder what kind of army they have. Any more infos? Cooperating, contributing to another army and getting protection in exchange? I don't see a country smaller then my hometown (by inhabitants) running a complete infrastructure of bases and hardware. Who is involved in their military? The Belgians, too?
Yeah lol they have Europe's smallest military. It's made up of less than 1,000 people, ~200 of which are civilian employees. What I find amazing is that they have managed to send peacekeeping forces to both Kosovo and Afghanistan.Originally Posted by toki
wow, thanks for posting.......they seem to have a prtty good military !
M1114's in use with a European army sure look awesome!
What kind of sight is that mounted on the .50 cal? In it a red dot kind of sight...
Yeah we co-operate with Luxembourg alot, they're also going to station their A400M here. I think most of their missions are done with the Belgian Military.
Luxembourg has a professional army since the '70s.
It is one batallion strong, and the active part are 2x recce/atk squadrons equipped with Humvee/TOW's.
Officers are trained both in France and in Belgium.
NCO's are trained in Belgium, in Dinant.
Troops are trained in luxembourg off course.
Luxembourg has sent troops as part of belgian contingents to most of the missions the belgians undertook starting with a platoon of infantry in Korea, with squads/platoons in Croatie, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afganistan/ISAF.
Luxembourg bought one A-400M airplane, this plane will be stationned with the belgian 15th Wing in Melsbroek, with a luxembourg crew and technicians.
In the cold war Luxembourg supplied an AMF batallion to Nato.
The only Infantry battalion is in fact strongly understrength with 300+ soldiers serving.
The 1000 man figure is outdated and included the total strength of Army,Police and Gendarmerie Grand-Ducale (the later two have now merged into the Police Grand-Ducale).
Till 1967 we had conscription but since then we have been an all volunteer force. Officers and NCO's are professionals and serve untill the age of 55.
Other ranks engage for three years with the possibility to reengage for several times.
Officers are trained alternately at ERM in Brussels or at St.- Cyr. NCO's in Dinant in Belgium.
Specialized training is done with several NATO armies.
Medical service NCO's in France.
Jump training at Altenstedt for the enlisted, France or Belgium for the Officers (in the 80 s many had the opportunity to get US jumpwings as the LU Army did a lot of training together with 10th SFG)
TOW crew get their training with the german paras in Merzig.
Weapons issued are
FN Hipower 9mm Pistol
Steyr Aug A1
Steyr Aug-HBAR
M2 HB .50 Machine Gun
M-72 A 2 Law
L 16 A2 81 mm Mortar
TOW BGM-71
There is one Garrison in the " Caserne Grand-Duc Jean" barracks Diekirch, a shooting range in Bleesdall, a few miles to the north of Diekirch and an ammo depot (which will be shut down shortly) in Waldhof a few miles outside the capital of Luxemburg City.
It looks like the standard US cam from the 80s - is this true?
They hv got wide range of equipments!
Interesting.
They use US Woodland BDU's, except for the ISAF contingent, which uses Belgium camo fatigues.
They don't have an MP or Provost Marshall unit. It's just the ordinary soldiers who are on guard duty that act as PR (Police régimentaire) under the command of the Duty Officer and Duty Nco.
Alltough any Mayor or the Police can request the help of the Army if there is civil unrest. As far as I know it happened just once, in 1991, when there were several hundred German football hooligans on the rampage ( Lu police did get a tip off from the German BKA, so we were prepared in advance).
Cheers mates
tom
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