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16th Regiment Royal Artillery
16 Regiment Royal Artillery is a regiment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery in the British Army. It currently serves in the air defence role and is equipped with the Sky Sabre air defence missile system. One of its Rapier Batteries is always deployed to the Falkland Islands. History The regiment was established in 1947 when 2nd Coast Regiment Royal Artillery was retitled 16 Coast Regiment Royal Artillery. As 16 Light Air Defence Regiment it was deployed to Borneo in 1965. It undertook tours in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1988 and 1993 and 14 Battery took part in the Falklands War in 1982. It was posted to Rapier Barracks at Kirton in Lindsey in 1985, seemingly swapping with 12th Air Defence Regiment Royal Artillery. The regiment was posted in Napier Barracks in Dortmund in 1992 and renamed 16th Regiment RA in 1993 whilst based there. It was relocated back to Centaur Barracks at Woolwich in England in 1995 and 14 Battery was deplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7 Air Defence Group
7th Air Defence Group (7 AD Gp) is a formation of the British Army and part of 3rd (United Kingdom) Division. It is responsible for all the army's ground based air defence assets. All of the organisation's subordinate units are drawn from the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Its headquarters are located at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island. History A large number of light and heavy anti-aircraft regiments accompanied British Commonwealth field armies to the Western Desert (eg 45th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery), India/Burma, and North-West Europe during the Second World War. One of the postwar Army anti-aircraft formations was 7th Army Group Royal Artillery (Anti-Aircraft). 7 AGRA had been established in August 1944 in Italy. Watson and Rinaldi record that 7 AGRA (AA) moved to Germany in September 1961. It became 7 Artillery Brigade (AA) with its headquarters in Gutersloh the next month. Two years earlier, 36 and 37 Regiments RA had become Guided Weapons Regiments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Air Defence Regiment Royal Artillery
12 Regiment Royal Artillery is a regiment of the Royal Artillery in the British Army. It currently serves in the air defence role, and is equipped with the Starstreak (missile), Starstreak missile. History The regiment was established in 1947 when 7th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, was retitled 12th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery. It was deployed to Palestine (region), Palestine that year, to Libya in 1948 and Trieste in 1950. It also saw action in Federation of Malaya, Malaya in 1963 and Borneo in 1964. Units saw tours in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in 1971, 1974, 1977, 1979 and 1988. T Battery and 9 Battery were sent to the South Atlantic during the Falklands War in 1982. T Battery and 58 Battery saw action during the Gulf War in 1991. 12 Battery was deployed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In January 2008, the regiment moved to the Baker Barracks, Thorney Island (West Sussex), Thorney Island, upon its return from Germany. Under Army 2020 Refine, T Battery was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urgent Operational Requirement
An Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) is a system used by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) to obtain urgent equipment for operations. Supplementing the MOD's long term planned equipment programme are Urgent Operational Requirements (UOR), funded by extra Treasury money. Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs) arise from the identification of previously unprovisioned and emerging capability gaps as a result of current or imminent operations or where deliveries under existing contracts for equipment or services require accelerating due to an increased urgency to bring the capability they provided into service. These capability shortfalls are addressed by the urgent procurement of either new or additional equipment, enhancing existing capability, within a time scale that cannot be met by the normal acquisition cycle. Examples of this include; L129A1 Sharpshooter rifle - procured when British Army operations in Afghanistan found that ground units required a weapon platform w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Security For The 2012 Summer Olympics
The security preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics—with the exception of the air counter-terrorist plan, which was a RAF responsibility—was led by the police, with 13,000 officers available, supported by 17,000 members of the armed forces. Royal Navy, Army and RAF assets, including ships situated in the Thames, Typhoon jets, radar, helicopter-borne snipers, and surface-to-air missiles, were deployed as part of the security operation which was named Operation Olympics by the Ministry of Defence. The final cost of the security operation was estimated £553m (pounds sterling). The budget for venue security was being partly funded by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) as well as using the contingency from the £9.3 billion infrastructure budget. Private security firm G4S, enduring scandals regarding training and manpower that emerged mere weeks before the games, provided only about 10,000 staff, instead of their intended 13,700. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
