Shaun_urbanwardev

Soldier and urban warfare enthusiast

[Shaun_urbanwardev @Urbanwardev]

@ChampagneCdo @Stu_Lyle @16AirAssltBCT @RCRBuck @SebastianBae Stu, if your team would like to come down to 16X, we'd be more than happy to give it a whirl!

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@antbruceking One word - paratroopers. 😉

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@Stu_Lyle If you're on 3000 exactly, I'm going to unfollow just to ruin your day.

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@SpencerGuard John, you're a disgrace! Nature?!? Practice what you preach and only holiday in super cities from now on. Urban isn't just the future of warfare!! 🤣

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@SapperGeologist Damn!! I should have gone with soggy...

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My biscuit tin has stopped keeping them fresh. It has done me well but as I now have to buy the 2nd one in my lifetime, I presume that I'm going to die imminently as I have nothing else to look forward to.

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@SapperGeologist Chocolate hob nob. Or jaffa cake. I can't split the two.

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@Stu_Lyle @VincentZephyr At £30 for the book, it might be cheaper for us to club together and just do a live experiment!

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@Banzaitankboy @crispypalmer33 @david_stillwell Following that same logic, maybe an individual should earn a wage commensurate to their level? If everybody is paid more equally agnostic of their role, why would anybody want the high pressure or difficult roles? This isn't just management but also more unpleasant physical ones.

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@RobMalcolm7 @ChasAHKnight @Zarelepotec @antbruceking Couldn't agree more with Rob. We need trg areas that encourage breaching away from doorways, room entry with distraction grenades and a recognition that SF tactics for conventional forces are sound but only once we've made the initial breach.

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@Stu_Lyle A bit like my presentations! Students give up as soon as I start speaking...

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@FennellJW @thinkdefence This is an absolute pig. A drone that carries individual casualties ignores c-UAS, the force protection required, the increased vulnerability to small arms and the lack of capacity. If it's part of a range of caps, potentially, but not as the silver bullet.

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@thinkdefence @EasiBridge There's a requirement for movt like that when the terrain below is impassable. There's however a greater requirement for a ladder that can do vertical and horizontal and be broken down into smaller sections to enable movt on multiple axes/entry points. Helix offer good choice.

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@thinkdefence There's already the 'steed' in use with 82ndAB and trialled here in the UK. I'm not a fan and in its current CONEMP, creates a dependency that affects tactical manoeuvre. Terrible in the urban as well!

[Shaun_urbanwardev @Urbanwardev]

@CBRNEsteve @MilitaryBanter Completely switched off; Not marching between buildings in training while eating a sausage roll which led to being chewed out by a CSM who then discovered that I hadn't shaved that morning. Not a great day and led to a valentines day night in Slough as I had a show parade at 2200

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@ThreshedThought To increase recruitment:
1. Show the military to be a stable size. If we show as reducing, we give a perception of being in decline.
2. Simplify the recruitment msg. Show cool, simple videos to emphasise the collective, not the differences.
3. Mil SNCOs in recruiting offices.

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@Stu_Lyle @thinkdefence For light forces, tethered masts aren't great. Roller masts that fit in a single pouch are an example of meeting the requirement without the weight or cost of a high tech option. This is only for comms masts but tethered drones sound good on paper but are very.heavy.

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@ChasAHKnight @ResearchRonin The psychological suitability angle is interesting because it adds to what @SapperGeologist says above. Along with height, lack of equipment and a hideous threat picture in a channelled environment, it's about generally denying it to the enemy, not using it.

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@Stu_Lyle @jesusfroman Not that intense to be fair! @ResearchRonin makes a great point with the Shanghai acrobats. Not about the choreography but instead the core skills that underpin the ability to operate in that environment. Marksmanship, manoeuvre and coordination far more important than gymnastics