VIDEOS: Contact – Afghanistan + Drills
VIDEO HERE – from 1:30 onwards:
React to Contact – Break Contact – Peel – Rally – Go Again – Man Down – CASEVAC etc.
If you have read my books or been to one of my classes, you will recognize what is going on here.
This is another useful VIDEO HERE
You will go through very similar contact drills, first as a buddy pair, then as a four man team, on my Combat Rifle / Contact Drills course. There are various ways of conducting these drills, very similar based on the principle of fire and movement to break contact, and you will be shown a couple of variations and run through some live fire contact drills.
There are a couple of details left out in the video – but hey, its for a TV show right? – such as the Rally after breaking contact, before moving off.
Live Hard, Die Free.
MV
Did I see Stoner platforms in both videos? And the first video it looked like a lot of multi-cam, are the Brits out of camo?
If you ask me those patrols look like death traps. But thank god Haji is more interested in allah than ballistics. If I were the under gunned insurgent I would form my fire team up as 3 AKs with one DM shooter, take one good shot, break contact and then channel the response into a command detonated ambush. RobRoy
In the Afghan video the Brits have the SA80 A2. This is an improved version of the original SA80 and it includes a rail system. Is that what you meant? I can’t answer for the SAS video, I thought the had M16/SAW but its a TV show with retired guys so who knows where they got the rifles from.
That multi-cam is the new Brit camo pattern. Its’s been around a few years now. It has been adopted as the new uniform to replace DPM, not just as a pattern for Afghan deployments. Its called MTP (multi-terrain pattern) and was designed by Crye to work the same as multi-cam but have a distinctive look to it. I guess the old redcoats weren’t shy about getting decent camo, eh?
For a second I thought the one video was Canucks with their AR platforms, the second video I could not get a good look at the rifle so I guessed on Stoner since for some reason it did not look like a bullpup.
Its been mentioned that the Brit government’s appetite for military intervention is not matched by their willingness to spend so I thought maybe the soldiers were so ragtag they had to rely on American sourcing for supplies.
I all but thought the soldiers in the one video were about to form up a RLI skirmish line, thank god Haj has full auto AKs and allah and not ballistic’s science.
Sportsman’s Guide has DPM in desert, if that helps you.
robroy