Royal Marines Retake Kuwait Embassy - Marine reacts
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- It's always cool checking out older footage, but seeing Royal Marines fast rope onto an embassy roof is super hype!
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This is why I couldn’t do CZcams. I would have redone the intro another 10 times before I got my words out 😂
🤣 I redo it so smooth I can't find it in editing 😂
@@CombatArmsChannel that really was such a smooth ‘Take 2’
@@CombatArmsChannel that redo was smoother than the delivery in some marvel movies
@@CombatArmsChannelif you Google search RAF Chinook Gulf War 1, you'll find a few examples of the camouflage scheme. D
I was with 53sqn Royal Engineers part of 39 Engineer regiment. We moved into the embassy shortly after this. We were told SBS had cleared it.
Our immediate job was to resupply water and electricity and basically clean the place up it was a right mess.
I remember Iraqi soldiers turning up at the gate dressed in civilian clothes with their weapons and uniform hidden in bags.
They had been in hiding and thought it would be safer surrendering to us rather than the locals.
The locals were so happy for us to be there, all cheering and taking photos with us and their families.
I still have a British flag that I found in the embassy.
A surreal experience for a 19 year old British Royal Engineer.
I was at Gib Bks.
"You're all off to war"
The beastings we got... 😂😂😂
The Canadian Embassy was cleared in a similar way by Canuck Sappers, I think?
Legend 🇬🇧
@@patlittle4642 Canadians are great blokes. I trained with them at Suffield.
@@Stand663 It was always fun and great training with the R.Es and British army! Chimo!
1:39 the real hero is the Marine who absieled down first and set up the camera, tripod, and lighting.
it was the SBS and members of 148 BTY who carried out this op
148 Bty the most understated under reported force in the world. Absolute monsters, AACC, P Coy plus a ton of other training, we had one onboard with us, absolute gent.
The First Helicopters were Royal Navy Seakings HC Mk4 of 846 Naval Air Squadron. I know because I was there with the squadron when this happened. I had to reconfigure one of our fitted radios to work to frequencies with three decimal places to enable the aircraft to communicate with the American aircraft that were doing the same thing with their Embassy at the same time .
It's a Royal Navy Sea king Mk4 commando helicopter. I work on the Mk5 sea king in Portland, Dorset Uk
Anywhere else? I was at Culdrose on 2s, 5s and 6s. I was on 845 for Op Granby.
@@markhaughton9563 Portland for flying, we have a simulator at culdrose and a storage facility in Yeovil. Take a look at Helioperations
Was that at the helicopter base before it was shut and turned into that eyesore now, i loved the navy days in may watching from my Nans house next door to the holiday park on portland road.
@mikesgamingcox1331 yes it is, a few years after the navy base closed it became a heliport for the coast guard but that closed also. Now it is home to Helioperations, we operate the sea king helicopter to train crews in search and rescue
@@markconnell, always like watching the helo operations still ongoing at Portland. A little while ago we saw two Matt black, unmarked choppers land together, refuel and depart in short order - I wonder what they could possibly have been 🤔😉🚁🪖🗡️🇬🇧
Sea king which is used for search and rescue on land and at sea. It has an auto hover feature which holds it still in harsh weather, ideal for winching up casualties, and fast roping.
The SBS conducted this operation. My father was in the SAS at the time and went along to make the numbers up!
Lies
It makes tactical sense that the SBS would've been embedded with Royal Marines for this OP.
Fast roping an embassy! Everyone looks the same in camo.
I was told once that they only found the janitor inside. When the bombs had started going off, he had decided to lock himself inside for the duration:')
The SBS did take the building first. These Royal Marines in the video are securing the building after the SBS cleared it out.
@@TheWolfRidge RMC literally do fast roping they're like one of 6 units in the armed forces trained to do fast roping, thats including UKSF.
I think the chopper is a Sea King, a very widely used helicopter in Britain
It’s a great bit of equipment.
The RAF Chinook is 7 Sqn, which performed special operations support duties during the Gulf War (kinda similar to the US 160th SOAR). The camo pattern was improvised in theatre.
Damn man, your channel has grown so much, I still remember when there was only 100k subs. Success couldnt have come to a more down to earth dude
Their embassy is just across from the Arabian Sea on a highly visible street near to the Kuwait Towers. At the time, the US Embassy was located nearby but after the war they relocated inland to an area that is now residential. A strategic move no doubt. The war, while quick and without large numbers of casualties for us, was the opposite for Kuwaitis, who with their small population, ended with almost every family having lost a relative, and after being occupied for 7 months, they finally came out of their houses to freedom, until the black smoke overtook the air. It took an international force of firefighters 10 months to put out the 700 plus oil fires Saddam's forces had set as they exited the county. God bless all the troops who fought the war and the fires of Kuwait! 🇰🇼🇺🇲🇬🇧
Many respects 🇰🇼 from 🇬🇧
No-one can retake an Embassy like we can.
Are you British? Do you like the USA and Americans?
The first Sea King VK is now a gate guardian in Bardufoss Norwegian airforce base northern Norway.
I remember this being shown on TV back in 1991 and the news said it was the SBS who took the embassy back.
The helicopter is a Westland Sea King and could float on water if it went down into the sea. The Royal Navy had trouble sinking one back in 82 during Operation Plum Duff, after dropping off the SAS into Argintina and then had to fly to Chile, the aircrew tried to land it in the sea and sink it but they couldnt....
The SBS likely did I think this is just a rapid reinforcement of the embassy.
Are you British? Do you like the USA and Americans?
@@TheIceman567 Yes I am British and Yes I love the US and American people and consider them to be our cousins from across the pond. I envy Americans have a freedom of speech something I believe is in danger with the wokeism sweeping across the West and I would love for the British government to give the people of Britain a constitution similar to what you guys have in the US
@@johnny71c Cool, I’m American and love the UK. My fiancé and twin daughters are British. I used to lived in Salisbury in Wiltshire for 5 years. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
I like how he noticed The Shotgun. A Remington 870 Wingmaster. One of the most popular Shotguns produced.
The AR 15 was used by British Forces before the American. My father used it in Malaya as a Royal Marines officer. It was used on Op Banner NI by section commanders and platoon sergeants for extra firepower before the L85 series was fully deployed. Its always been use by SF.
Same as the STINGER first used by a SAS trooper in the Falklands he took down a Pucara jet with it
@@johnny71c nearly everything the Americans have, we gave them lol
@@Enhancedliesgoes both ways they gave us the sidewinders that allowed 20 harriers to dominate 150 or so argentine jets
@@teddypicker8799 i agree
We didn't make it. It was made by Armalite, a US company.
I'm English and I've never even heard about this...pretty interesting!
Sea king is the chopper
That's what I was going to say
The helicopter is the Westland Sea King, it saw deployment in the Falklands, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, both Gulf wars and Afghanistan.
The RAF special operations squadron Chinooks are painted black for mostly night ops, it looks like the camo job is an ad hoc in theatre improvisation in a theatre where the aircraft can't be hangared under cover. The Sikorsky sea kings speak of Royal Marines, (only operated by the Royal Navy except for a few bright yellow air sea rescue units operated by the RAF in the UK only) and the Chinooks with the black paint on the underside shouts of UKSF.
My uncle who
Sadly not long passed away was SBS. He was a gentlemen but a fuffin tough one at the same time.
From memory, the RAF had two chinooks, reserved for SpecOps painted like that.
@Combat Arms Channel I was there, what do you want to know? I still have some great original pictures that some are already online. I really thought this was a forgotten part of history. It’s great to hear your words & some of the clips that even I haven’t seen. Oh, the chopper that u don’t know the name of is a Westland Sea King, it’s the main rotary choice even today of the Marines, lastly just for the record I’m not an actual marine but I’m an ex British Army Airborne JTAC.
It's a licence-built version of the Sikorsky S-61. The latter was replaced by the Sea Hawk in the US Navy in the early 2000s.
@@GrumpyOldGit-zk1kw The Exact full name of this helicopters & all others used by The Royal Marine Commandos (very recently disbanded) is a Westland Sea King, designed & built by Westland helicopters. The design was sold by Westland to overseas & Augusta was the company that built the USA variant’s.
I’m sure that Prince William used to co pilot a Sea King Mk3 helicopter as a search and rescue pilot.
At the time this happened the news were telling us that it was the SAS or the SBS that carried out this operation, with specialist Royal engineers to clear IED and obstacles. The helicopter is a sea king,basically a uk built version of the very famous US sikorsky helicopter, its more than likely a commando variant . As for them having m16 rifles, more than likely as sbs used them, as did sas. The Chinook helicopter look like they are from special forces aviation wing, they had weird cammo during operation granby for desert operations, think its supposed to break up the silhouette while sitting on the deck.
I bet that was a short meeting... "What are we going to call this new commando variant? Ideas?"
@@Shoomer1988 it's actually called the commando variant, with some technical numbers before it? It has a stretched cabin to hold marines
@@guywilloughby3383 Yeah, it's known as the Westland Commando - it does have a proper technical designation but I can't remember what it is.
SAS operation Nimrod on the London Iranian Embassy had some good absieling action if you havnt seen it.
Nice bit of FIBUA early in the morning brings victory!!
The camo pattern on the Chinook, is very reminiscent of a 'stone wall' camo pattern i've seen on photo's of Matilda tanks in Malta during WWII.🤔🤨
In the UK there is little to no information this ever happened! Google has only one mention of it and even then there is zero information on this happening
Go back to ITN NEWS. It was on the 10 o'clock news. Later that day.
The rifles are likely the Diemaco (now Colt Canada) C7
Thanks for the uploads and video searching, Dw about the intro hope your well
Oh you are born about year after I finished my military service in Finland 😃
The first helo is a Westland Sea King!
Remember this well. Amazing operation. Takes me back. Thanks fir shiwing this. Would have liked to see more of the operation.
As an aside: The dark shirt (Navy blue or black?) looks very nice on you.
Really cool selection of gear. Folding stock Remmington 870, Diemeco C8's and C7's (?I think?) FN Minimi (SAW). You might to start putting a 'vibe' counter in the corner of the videos 😆
The helicopter is a sea king, not to be mistaken with the Goliath. As far as I remember it was an SBS operation and 40 and 42 were engaged elsewhere. Most of the SFSG and SF units are equipped with ‘better’ weapons. Got a feeling that you’re seeing the Canadian Rifle used as a nice CQB firearm. The L1A1 had been out of service for some years at this point. I worked my arse off to get to sharpshooter, took ML2 as a fall back to avoid the donkey that was the SA80. Rumour is that Enfield created it for a 7.62 nato round and then got told, halfway through production, to make it 5.56.
I was a sun-shiner, spent most of my career between desert and jungle. 26 years, honorable discharge - medical stopped me completing my last stretch.
Very professional deployment by the Royal Air Force, well done. I do remember that this was a terrible time with high tension throughout the Middle East.
Theo congrats on getting into a sorority that's such a VIBE!!!!
I never saw this news footage at the time !
I think the SLR (British-variant of the FN FAL) was still used by ship-borne Royal Marine units at this point because of the extended ranges at sea
The Finnish Border Guard released a short video of their special operations jaegers about a week ago, would be awesome to see you react to it!
That’s a Westland sea king helicopter. It’s a British variant of the American sea king helicopter used by the president (Marine One)
"Phantom Fighters - The Big Picture", there's a historical vibe. It's one of those black and white videos about the Green Berets featuring Larry Thorne himself.
Fascinating!
That chinook skin is badass
Rory, missed your output,
Makes me feel safer - it's mad in London at moment and heroes will be needed soon,
Stay safe.
Just praising.
That looks badass
Hey dude, nice shirt, i wear that smartwool all the time here in western WA cause it's cool and damp 9 months out of the years. yeah, good stuff
The paint job is something called camouflage.
🤯
I think he knows that !!!! Maybe think before you write !!!
I was in the Falklands War and 1st Gulf War Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
The helicopter employed might be a Sikorsky S-61
Take a shot everytime he says "Such a vibe". You'll prob be 20+ shots deep before the video ends. 🍻
Back when Britain was British and proud
Nice video! Nice video!
The British Troops are so professional....but what does stand out compares to the US Troops is the British mish mash of camouflage and their boots...where the US have all the same camo and desert boots...I think the Brits just make do with what they have at hand and absolute kudos to them
Are you British? Do you like the USA and Americans?
@TheIceman567 who doesn't like the USA, and Americans?. Granted we take the piss sometimes. But that's all it is.
Exiting the chopper in a ski mask, construction hard hat, sonneti puffer jacket and snow shoes 👍
@@dannydinneen1498 Cool, I’m American and love the UK. My fiancé and twin daughters are British. I used to lived in Salisbury in Wiltshire for 5 years. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
The camouflage reminds me of what's used on cars that are being tested on track. It's something to do with not being able to notice certain details on the car it could be similar to that 👍
Also known as disruptive camouflage.
Are you British? Do you like the USA and Americans?
@TheIceman567 strange question but yeah americans are ok
@@TheIceman567 strange question but yeah americans are ok
@@briwood6328 Cool, I’m American and love the UK. My fiancé and twin daughters are British. I used to lived in Salisbury in Wiltshire for 5 years. 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
Pretty sure it's a Sea King Helicopter.... Old school chopper made by Westlands I think... Made and fixed near my Home City Portsmouth UK In a town called Gosport.... There was one parked on the lawn outside the gatehouse.....
Commando variant of it
Actually made in Yeovil at Westlands. They were repaired at Fleetlands though.
I was 'fast roping' from Wessesx in the 1960s in Germany. That was a nightmare. The rope was at least five feet out from the chopper, so you had to 'jump for it'. If you didn't wrap your legs around the very thick rope, you would have burnt your hands after the sixty-foot drop. The Wessex was a beast, but it was an all-around experience for my ten-year career.
Well this was a vibe ; )
I believe the helicopter is a: westland sea king, I think the model is HC4 if your interested to know.... the paint [on the chinook]from what i could figure, is related to 7 squadron of the RAF... might need to do some research on it.
yes as stated below it was a Sikorsky Sea King used by US Navy, but these one could be the Wessex version built under licence from Sikorsky, also here in the UK they were used for SAR at sea, looking at these they were kitted out for this as you can see the equipment bag being lowered on the winch they use for SAR at sea.
its an AR based on the Canadian colt
The Chinook is one from the SF flight of 7squadron.
The sas are based near me and use factory roofs in the area usually 3-4am to for rappel practice I believe its a blue thunder chopper
It look to nice for a combat chopper guess it just used for training
To answer the question about SLRs still being in use, sort of but not really too much. This we during the phase out period, and was fully retired in 1994. There is a documentary on youtube called "The Gulf War: How Did The British Army Prepare? (1990 Documentary) | Forces TV" during the buildup in 1990 and I was surprised when I watched it that most of the soldiers in it were still using SLRs, Sterlings, Brens, 58 webbing and some were even still wearing OD rather than camo. By the time of the invasion in 91 I'm pretty sure that all the infantry were using L85A1s and only support units still had SLRs.
That's a Sea King helicopter, the same type Prince William flew on rescue missions. 🚁🇬🇧
Edit: the larger one is a Chinook. One of my family members used to fly those back in the Gulf war. 🎖️
Something in thd back of my mind about this one and the debate about which unit this actually was. Sure i read this was the SBS and 148bty RA.
I guess no one had rpg's yet... very little resistance if any at all. Really interesting video
The camo pattern is unuque to every chinook. Its less expensive than you might think . Its created by 1 paintbushe 3 colours and 1 aircrew member. Its amazimg what you can do with a mark 1 paintbrush in a wartime situation.
Good old Victor kilo❤
wel,l i did some research and found something talking about sand and black disruptive camo put on chinooks used for special ops in the 1991 Gulf War. i wish i could show you a more clear photo but you can just reaserch it
Westland Sea King.
As menntioned by others, the chopper is a sea king. Often used for SAR because of its excellent ability to hold a steady hover as you also noticed in the video
That helicopter is a British sea king they were used mainly for search and rescue my uncle was a member of the search and rescue teams in the Falklands
The guys with m 16s are SBS…the main rife used by just about every body else was the brand new ish at the time SA 80….the RAF regiment still used the FN SLR if i remember right.
Royal Marines used FN Fals and Diamaco C7 and 8 in Gulf War 1
It'd be great to see if you could react to the story of Operation Moonshine in 1982, the story of Radio Atlantico del Sur - a clandestine radio station. It's covered in a video called "My Secret Falklands War: When Britain's Military Took To The Airwaves" by Forces News.
They are Westlands Commando (troop csrring version of the Sea King) they dont have the sponsons that the SAR choppers do plus not so much of the SAR avionics so you can get more troops on board.
That cammo on that chinook is special forces. If it's Marines its definitely SBS. I've never seen this footage. pretty good.
This episode is sponsored by "it's a vibe" 😂
I could set my watch to when your videos come out. Same time each day. Good military training. 🫡
That's a cool basket lol
Free blooper 🤙
Seaking Commando configured helicopter Royal Navy
Amongst the various weapons, the guy in the compound by the car at 13:20 still had an SLR (L1A1), I suppose it was still superior to the disaster that was the initial SA 80's.
As a left hander, back around this time, I couldn't hit anything with it right handed, so I had to revert back to 9mm Browning and the SMG.
Westland Sea king helicopters. Good reliable workhorses for the forces, your president and have only recently been retired from our search and rescue missions in their yellow livery.
Flown in them loads of times and always returned safe, which is good enough for me.
The helicopter looks like a sea king. My understanding is they are an amphibian helicopter they used to use them for marine one when I was young
The guys are in desert camouflage as opposed to the usual green jungle camouflage you generally see.
When uk had an army!
Ssssssshhhhhh just watch the professionals at work
Fighting up is left handed fighting down is right handed. It's why castle stairs were built the way they were defence. Works in modern times as well
SBS.
Looks like a building in BF2.
That chopper is a Westland Sea-King (I think the "HC-4" variant) My dad was a military helicopter electrician specialising in the Sea-King so I can spot them a mile away. An awesome chopper.
They're Marines so that makes it a Navy deployment, and the British Royal Navy pilots are amongst the best in the world.
4 of the Royal Navy's sea king mk4's were given to Ukraine last year.
Sappers will go in and start clearing everything! Royal Marines do have a Royal Engineer unit.
The standard rifle was the SA80 , a real pos but it went bang when required.
They use FN Fals and Diamaco C7 and C8 too.
Chinooks sound on a different level!!
Pretty sure this was the SBS