Section Fire and Manoeuvre part 2.

[@edjones7709]

Alas, I remember it well. (When I was young and fit!)

[@ckolonko86]

Thanks for uploading these videos. They really make understanding section tactics much easier.

[@General.Longstreet]

These vids are alot of fun . The British Army was something special in those days.

[@Jimmyboy1674]

Love these old flims!🇬🇧 takes me back!👍

[@nacholibre1962]

"Two enemy. Both dead." "Both dead. Right. Fine."

[@aj466202]

I have love the concern about the guy who got hit, "blimey, look like her copped it" haha

[@buckplug2423]

was a new guy anyway

[@vwtransportersandmotorcycl3729]

Win the firefight first

[@gibson097]

Tree, to be known as Tree ! quality, Im loving these vids mate

[@CaspianWint]

I carried both the C1A1 and the C7, and preferred the C7 for the obvious reasons (lighter, more accurate, carry more ammo). The FAL series of rifles had inherent accuracy issues because of its construction. The rear aperture sight was mounted on the lower receiver, the foresight mounted on the gas block assembly on the upper receiver. When the rifles body locking screw was removed for cleaning, zero was lost. A good banging around (like rifles get in the back of an AFV/APC/IFV) will also throw it off. Optics are another issue, as the only place would be on the stamped steel body cover, which has a lot of play in it. We did mount the AN TVS 502 starlight scopes on our C1s using a special body cover, accuracy with those was the ability to hit a figure 11 target at night from 50 metres! As a mechanized infantryman, try wrestling a C1 out of the back of the carrier(along with 8 other guys trying to do the same thing). A battle load was 5 magazines (100 rds) and one or two bandoliers, plus maybe another 100 rds in your small pack. You are also carrying grenades (frag and smoke) a liner of 7.62 for the GPMG or a liner of 5.56 for the SAW, 60mm bombs or a pair of 84mm rounds. Everyone is carrying some type of ammo for the support weapons.

[@MrChrisStarr]

'Tree' known as .. 'Tree'. Spoken like a real NCO.

[@nacholibre1962]

The SLR. What a fine weapon that was.

[@Ptp.79]

Hard to master.

[@nacholibre1962]

5:56 "But Father, I don't want land. All I want to do is . . . sing!"

[@georgemorley1029]

No, now stop that, stop that!!!

[@smat2899]

Thank you for sharing. British NCO were good professionals

[@alexwilliamson1486]

None of this would’ve mattered I’m the Cold War…the Soviet Army was a fearsome beast….huge and fast moving…yet these tactics worked in the Falklands in 1982.

[@sambo8812]

RIP James, can we get a F in chat

[@Smegead]

Scout explodes in red mist .... "Contact front"

[@mikeyoung7660]

Brings back memories I joined in 1975

[@TheInsaneduck]

These are great! Thanks for uploading them!

[@stormwell]

Noticed both the section and platoon commanders had personal radiosets, did the platoon HQs still remain a dedicated signaller from their WW2 era organisation?

[@buckplug2423]

Yep. Those are used for company comms. The larger the unit, the larger the distances and the larger the radios.

[@JJWelshSH5]

"grenade chucking distance" haha unofficial or no, that is quality

[@TheIndia21]

Yes. In the 'airportable role, anyway. Sandhurst Tactical Precis 'Tactics 13 - Organisation of the Rifle Company in Outline and of the Rifle platoon in Detail', August 1975, says 'The Radio Operator (listed as a 'Batman/radio operator' in platoon HQ, along with a Pl Comd, Pl Sgt, Runner, and Lt Mortar team, and MAW [Carl Gustav] team) will carry a radio set A41 complete with ancillaiy gear and radio instructions.

[@TheIndia21]

[continued] 'On specific occasions such as advance to contact, and patrols, radio sets A40 may be issued to platoons by Coy HQ which holds a pool of nine'

[@sgtmajvimy]

I remember seeing this in training ... flashbacks !

[@seanmoon2746]

FN MAG as a section weapon? No LMG?

[@buckplug2423]

Nope. They ditched their LMGs with the adoption of the L7 and didn't get anything lighter up until the late 80s - early 90s with the LSW (introduced into the TO&E in 1985). The L4 LMG (the Bren gun) was used by the Royal Marines in the Falklands for their 1 GPMG, 1 LMG fireteam-based section, but that's about it - everybody else used GPMGs. Most NATO members during the mid-to-late Cold War used GPMGs as section-level automatic weapons, only adopting intermediate-cartridge automatics around Desert Storm, while the Warsaw Pact armies were very much LMG/LSW centered.

[@Horizon344]

Well made film this

[@billyponsonby]

Modern tactic is to locate enemies in their general, over there 👉 somewhere position and then sit tight until arty or GR4, Predator it Longbow has done its job

[@sawyermounce1927]

Any thoughts on the rhodesians as i recall they used artillery pretty well without that stuff

[@buckplug2423]

Works for insurgencies.

[@tomsoki5738]

It’s safer for the troops to do that in low intensity conflicts. In a proper near peer war artillery would be used almost 90% of the time, and if it isn’t available, fix bayonets and advance

[@joewilson3575]

"Ammunition?" "Low" "Good"

[@TheIndia21]

Sorry about the spelling, haste and vodka don't mix :)

[@trondog8503]

Anyone remember the film To Fat to Fight!! Lol

[@manassurya2019]

ive been searching very hard for french army cold war footage of this sort, but no success.

[@jhnshep]

Manas Surya I've seen a few back in 2005, though not on youtube, NBC drill videos, patrol, and attacking videos, as well as specialist weapons deployment videos (milan etc), how to get hold of them i could not tell you, good luck with your search.

[@Holdit66]

10:30 "They don't like it up 'em you know..."

[@Wargoat6]

questions: 1) no attending to the man down? 2) no unloading packs during the assault?

[@bpgsontz1072]

Correct, wounded are tended to during the reorg. I don't think they are carrying packs, just the old school H harness webbing and some cam netting/scrim on their backs is what is what i can see. SOP for packs is dump packs at the beginning of a contact unless you are a radioman. these guys would have cached packs before setting off on a combat patrol for sure.

[@velikiradojica]

If you ask US corpsmen, they will tell you that their first priority is to help their unit win the firefight and then tend to the wounded.

[@kingharryannis]

You must maintain the momentum of the attack.Just wear combat webbing. No back packs. Leave wounded keep moving .Each squadie has a compression bandage taped to the front of his webbing for him to apply to the wound as he has trained in basic combat first aid . The Squad assault moves straight through the enemy position shooting, bayoneting the bad guys once clear goes to ground on the other side form defensive position. .Roll call who's alive ,how much ammo. .2 squadies go back to check dead bad guys. . One squadie aims rifles at the dead chaps head the other pulls the body over knee in the back searches the body for any documents .If there is a hand grenade force the body onto the grenade knee in the back onto the grenade. Any bs shot the chap in the head it's the not Hollywood movies it's WAR. Kill or be killed . Try this with a NBC suit on . I did this in the 70's .Live ammo. Tough going ,people got injured ,broken bones. No fancy knee pads, ear plugs ,gloves body amour . Not like today. No women ,no trannies, no snowflakes , SJW's none of that queer BS. And if you can have a quick brew up [cup of tea and a biscuit] .

[@johnmacpherson9629]

Uzi Patrol No Packs on they are in. ASSUALT ORDER

[@mwnciboo]

Apparently this is also available in 720p.... XD

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

lol. If Warsaw Pact forces really had rolled into Germany I doubt there would have been much in the way of moving forward as demonstrated in this video. I would have thought most of our movement would have been to go the other way. Probably like in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "Run away, run away !" heh heh

[@moj6241]

Beeblebrox One I agree but not against, massed tank and Infantry attack

[@patricksullivan7854]

Why stand and walk 10 meters then lie down for a bit? If u can be seen crawl all the way surely ?

[@ozdavemcgee2079]

Why would you not have half the rifle group cover you come in from behind? Tell cover group to keep em low in front of enemy bobs your uncle Ivan looks like mincemeat, or you can get em alive. Dead ment tell no tales, l8ve one is always usefull...

[@willl7780]

Where are the LGTBTQ flags? What kind of army is this😅😅😅😅

[@marksteven6116]

how you should attack, ALWAYS have support just one mortar will do, with plenty of he and smoke, each bloke should carry max ammo, space out , advance to contact, but fight as one, NO running gpmg off as they can be pick off and you will lose the gun.When you come under fire go to ground, locate fire, use only rifle fire, and call mortar fire , do not fire gpmg. and give it away. pepper pot forward and take position,. If you have walked in to much use own smoke, and mortar smoke and pepper pot back out of the fire., if they attack you , as you have be sent in blind , use all your firer power

[@ashleywilliams1660]

mark steven so we should never fire the gpmg ? Just incase we lose it? If we don’t fire it we’ve lost it anyways, at section level calling for mortars will be highly unlikely better off with a 60mm that is rare as sun in Brecon to see

[@marksteven6116]

no you must support it not send it off on its own

[@UncleBoratagain]

Yes mate you are correct, also there were no comms to platoon HQ, however...this clip is about section tactics only.

[@brig.gen.georgiiisserson7226]

Have you served ?

[@johnsalt1157]

The gun group *is* the support, you ineffable pillock. Infantry must be able to fight itself forward using its own resources, not halt on contact and bleat to mummy for fire.

[@derekking8690]

After 2 horrific world wars and now Ukraine you really have be an absolute mug to want to be in the infantry 🤣 ... the PBI as the old timers used to call it 🤣