Simon Orchard

@VeteranIrish My last job was as a rapier FSB2 Nr.1 , the original rapier was so bad it was nichnamed Rarely Active Permanently Inoperative Electronic Rubbish. Or at least it hated being moved. B2 was much better

3/4. A number of years after the Shah was deposed in 1978, during informal contact with senior members of the Iranian army they indicated to a UK support organisation that they had continued to operate the initial batch of 30 launchers that had been delivered prior;

Military History - Iran - Rapier (GBAD) Missile System 🧵 1/4. The first known use of a Rapier in combat was in December 1974 during the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War when it shot down an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to the Iraqi Air Force.

@hw97karbine One of the last victories of the Wehrmacht and last major combat jump of the fallschirmjäger.

Arado Ar 196 floatplanes serving with III./KG 100 flying in support of German landing forces during the Battle of Leros in late 1943

@MichelleDewbs Dead man walking.

🔴 Some good news to start the week…. This vile creature, Nathan Bennett, has just been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The guy was turning up to work in a nursery wearing trousers with a hole in the crotch (wtf?!) and raping/sexually abusing little boys as young as TWO💔 Thank god he was caught (tho I don’t understand how he wasn’t spotted sooner🤔) and is now behind bars. He should be immediately castrated & I’d prefer he never saw the light of day again. But alas, I’m not Home Secretary. When you send your precious babies to nursery, you do so with trust. Never in your worse nightmares would you imagine anything like this would happen. I hope the families involved are as ok as possible 😔🙏🏻

@YstradHistory @amazingmap @DHarrisAuthor The map is wrong, the Germans held the whole of Norway up to the Lyngen line in Troms. The confusion may be related to the sparsely populated and thus occupied parts of the country. Plenty of rural places that will never have seen a German soldier throughout the occupation.

@amazingmap @DHarrisAuthor What are the NOT holding out blobs in Norway - resistance controlled?

A map showing where German forces were still holding territory across Europe on 8 May 1945 as World War II in Europe came to an end

@hw97karbine IV/LG 1 which later became Stg.5

Close air support from a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka danger close on the Finnish front in 1941

@almurray Those are old MFO boxes. Any ex-forces will remember them.

Lanc spares

@MarcherReborn @VeteranIrish I'd speculate, Dragon is more for it's radar and air defence command and control capabilities than it's missiles.

@VeteranIrish Because the RAF Regiment lost their SAM role to the Royal Artillery in 2004. Try and keep up

Good question? Maybe because even the RAF needs heroes? Could be for, out of hours 1700-0900 hrs and weekends? I’m sure you lot have a better answer? 😉😁😁

@MarcherReborn @VeteranIrish We always had an AD role, it'd be wrong to say it was 'lost to' more like it was simply cut, and AD within the RA has been slashed as well.

@almurray @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters @James1940 Always had a soft spot for the Walrus, the engine almost feels like an afterthought add on.

Today's great discovery and new favourite plane: the Supermarine Walrus/Seagull V was known as the Shagbat. @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2headquarters @james1940

@aviationarchive About 20 years ago I knew a place where a dozen or so of these crates were still lying around up in North Norway, both wooden and metal types. Had one myself. All gone now though.

Interesting WWII footage from early April 1945 of U.S. 9th Army troops capturing a German Wurfrahmen 40 Rocket launcher(fires rockets from wooden shipping crates) and using them on retreating German forces, in the Westphalia region, near the city of Münster.🫡

@AntonyRowntree Used to listen to it all the time as a kid

Wish I still had this

@The_Lookout_N It was Preben from Holmenkollen 😂

Seems the Third Gulf War has likely spilled over into Norway. The explosion at the US Embassy in Oslo is deemed a targeted attack by Norwegian Police: "it is natural to view this in the context of the current security political situation." nrk.no/norge/eksplosj…

@Alscalemodels @clark_aviation "No, it's not the f***** network "

@clark_aviation As someone who works in this field, This photo has to be reasonably old, the Cisco switch is a 3850 which are eol, and terribly shit. And secondly, why the hell is he pointing at that server fan, I’ll never know. 🤣

This image has appeared on FB as part of the RAF's Recruitment Campaign. However, not unsurprisingly, it's become the target for much humourous 'banter' from the retired 'erk' fraternity. Perhaps some people here might want to add a 'caption' of their own? 😉

@hw97karbine Trondheim

Heavy units of the Kriegsmarine engaging British aircraft over Norway in 1940

@araghchi FAFO

The U.S. has perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran's shores. Frigate Dena, a guest of India's Navy carrying almost 130 sailors, was struck in international waters without warning. Mark my words: The U.S. will come to bitterly regret precedent it has set.

@RDPHistory Tell him it was an American cruiser. That'll really make him flash 😂

Imbecile Pete Hegseth claims America has just sunk the first ship with a Torpedo since WW2... We think his history is crap... 🙄

@NavyLookout @DeptofWar Tell your boss it's not the first time a ship has been sunk by torpedo since WW2. It's the first time since 1982, and that one was a cruiser.

🇺🇸US @DeptofWar have released a periscope video from a US submarine showing the torpedoing of Iranian frigate 🇮🇷IRIS Dena in international waters off Sri Lanka.

@Dunkirk_1940 And an ex- American cruiser as well

I quote “The first sinking of an enemy ship by torpedo since WW2” Excuse me ?

@DrHelenFry Thank you

If you had one message for the Greatest Generation, what would it be?

@DefenceHQ Not the first time a Typhoon has taken out a drone

Today, a Royal Air Force Typhoon operating from Qatar as part of the joint UK–Qatar Typhoon Squadron, successfully took out an Iranian drone heading towards Qatar.