United Kingdom Special Forces - "Britain's Best"
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Special Air Service:
The British Special Air Service is the most well known Special Forces regiment in the world. And not for no reason, from daring night-time raids against the Axis forces in World War II to storming the Iranian Embassy while the world was watching in awe.
These are the types of operations the Special Air Service performs. And in doing so, they have gained a formidable reputation around the world as one of, if not the most elite Special Forces regiment in the world.
Roles:
22nd Special Air Service: 22nd Special Air Service is the regular component under the operational command of the United Kingdom Special Forces. Their roles are Counter-Terrorism, VIP Protection, Covert Reconnaissance, Sabotage, Direct Action, and Hostage Rescue.
Squadrons:
A Squadron (Hereford)
B Squadron (Hereford)
D Squadron (Hereford)
G Squadron (Hereford)
E Squadron (Hereford)
L Squadron (Reserves) (Hereford)
Special Boat Service:
The Special Boat Service is the Royal Navy’s premier Special Forces unit. They conduct some of the most dangerous operations. From retaking stolen ships off pirates to raiding Al Qaeda’s hidden caves in the Tora Bora mountains, they’re the most experienced Naval Special Forces regiment in the world.
Roles:
Special Boat Service: The Special Boat Service is the regular component under the operational command of the United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF). Their roles are covert reconnaissance, direct action, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, maritime counter-terrorism, sabotage, VIP protection and specialised maritime roles (beach reconnaissance, combat diving and planting explosives on ships).
Special Boat Service (Reserves): The Special Boat Service (Reserve) is the reserve component under the operational command of the United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF). They conduct the same roles as their regular regiment.
Squadrons:
C Squadron
Z Squadron
M Squadron
X Squadron
SBS Reserves
Special Forces Support Group:
The United Kingdoms Special Forces Support Group is an elite unit made up of, the best soldiers in the Parachute Regiment, Royal Marines and RAF Regiment. They were made to support the United Kingdoms Special Forces in operations. From being a blocking element in a top-secret SAS/SBS operation to storming highly dangerous terrorist compounds in Afghanistan. These soldiers are some of the best in the world.
Role:
The SFSG role is to support the United Kingdoms Special Forces in operations. From being a blocking element in a Special Forces operation to being a quick reaction force. These are the men the SAS/SBS call on if they need help. A close comparison would be the 75th Ranger Regiment and Delta Forces relationship. Not only do they support the United Kingdom Special Forces missions. They also do direct action operations, reconnaissance operations and large scale offensive operations.
Squadrons:
D (HQ) Company
A Company
B Company
C Company
F Company
G Company
Support Company
Pathfinder Platoon:
Formed in 1985 the Pathfinder Platoon was created to infiltrate hostile territories, gathering vital information and intelligence on the enemy. As well as scouting out safe routes for allied forces, creating Temporary Landing Zones (TLZ) and Drop Zones (DZ). They're the elite reconnaissance regiment of the 16 Air Assault Brigade.
Similar to the SAS and SBS, Pathfinders are experts in Close Quarter Battle (CQB), High Altitude Low Opening (HALO), High Altitude High Opening (HAHO) and Static Line Parachuting. They're capable of being completely self-reliant for months at a time and can perform sabotage, kill-capture and reconnaissance operations deep behind enemy lines.
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Correction, Brecon Beacons is in WALES, not England. Sorry about that.
We get very passionate about that sort of thing in Hereford.
3:11 what footage is that?
Cheek Boy The killing house, RAF Credenhill home of 22 Special Air Service.
@@gangstar8652 do you have a link to the original video
Great Video. Serious Respect for the SAS.
That's my aim in years to come.
I'm American and hats off to the SAS and SBS..I read Duncan Faulkener's book First Into Action years ago loved it. You Brits have got that special forces thing at the highest level in the world.
Good book.
As an American, I got chills seeing that pic of our Delta guy standing in that house with an American and UK flag on his chest. Symbolizes the respect and special bond we have with our UK brothers.
Todd Lanctot you need us we’d fucking swim there if we had to mate 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Thanks pal 🇺🇸🇬🇧
YES WE DO
The British SAS. The godfather of special forces.
@Mike Townsend Yiz, the Father of the special forces!
its harder to get in the sbs
@@itsdogz2775 Not true SAS SELECTION IS THE TOUGHEST IN THE WORLD
@@vincentcushnahan5292 not by most vids on youtube have you seen the sbs vids?
Absolutely Agree
This Is really motivating. I'm 14 right now. And when I'm 18 I'm signing up to the royal marines. My ultimate aim is the SBS. I train hard. Almost every day whilst people break me down say I won't do it, I won't get in. I still believe in myself. I know i will
Good on you mate those people are jealous. Never let them beat you down.
@@Supraboyes I won't thank you man
Make sure you do everything you can to get into the Marines, then progress. My grandfather was a Commando in WW2 at the age of 22. I’m very proud of that. You should be proud of what you want to achieve.
@@traffic71 I am. Thank you for your grandpas service
If you want it enough you will achieve it. Good luck Luke
Not just "Britain's Best", the "World's Best." I have nothing but the highest respect.
No
@Nameless 69 The SAS are already acknowledged as the best special forces unit in the world
Bullet-Tooth Tony by who? The British government?
macfail Taft that’s some bs 😂 you have no idea what the SAS and SBS are doing and no they didn’t start and train every Spec op in the world, they just started the first. That doesn’t mean they are better than everyone at everyone it’s quite the opposite. The United States has the best everything when it comes to the military because their funding is reaching a trillion dollars. So for a small country like the UK to have “the best special special forces” in the world? That’s not possible their funding wouldn’t allow it. Now I’m not saying they aren’t capable, they are, they are incredibly capable and I would trust them to save my life. But compared to the yanks? The yanks would never let another country train their own, that doesn’t mean they don’t work together though.
When you have the largest most powerful military IN WORLD HISTORY. Who do you think will hold the crown for special operations? Especially when you have the money to do anything and everything to make that man super human essentially
And they share things that aren’t classified because if they were classified and displayed to the world than I bet the CIA would have something to say...
I love the SAS they are badass and their accents make them even more badass they are top 10 easy, but the yanks got everyone on this one...
And don’t dismiss other special operations so easy, the German KSK, French GIGN, Canadian JTF2 are all deadly as hell. Btw an American Admiral (forgot the name but I can find it) said If he had to choose one foreign Special Operations task force he would choose JTF2....that’s got something to say.
@@Nameless-vw8wh "Most powerful military in history" Not even close mate the Romans, British and Mongol Empires were the most powerful.
UK and U.S. friends until the end. 🇬🇧🇺🇸🙇🏻♂️
Totally Agree
I love America Trump cant destroy my Home Planet
Vincent Cushnahan China and India are the polluters man.
@@redraider2140 This was not an environmental comment
@@vincentcushnahan5292 so what was it about?
The hardest part of being retired it’s constantly thinking of going back
Yeah, POGS usually live in regret.
The keyboard writes cheques that the ankles/knees/hips can no longer honour ;)
Connor Cook shut it Connor you pathetic shit weasel
@Connor Cook r/woooosh
@Connor Cook I wouldn't say I'm a psycopath but addicted to the danger to the point where I need chaos and conflict just to feel more alive, more human... yes!
The creme de la creme of special forces. The guys that make it through the selection process are super soldiers.
Who dares wins...respect from Italy
Take care of yourself over there brother, you guys got hit bad with the Virus it seems.
Best wishes from the UK.
@bobby ray wtf are you talking about ?
@bobby ray your cliueless mate , a proper bellend
Ben detto!
@bobby ray working class, so close .... cherished .... im still perplexed about wtf you are trying say. Can anyone decipher what this guy is saying ? im at a loss here ....
On behalf of me, my family and my country - WE THANK YOU 🇬🇧
Respect for u Brits. Best allies of America for sure!
❤
Useless
Yes sir! We are
🇬🇧🇺🇸💪🏼
Always respect the US..Thanks
2:07 that solider carrying his wounded dog nearly had me in tears!
The British people are like a battle hardened and humble army. With their reserved attitude, they don't have to brag and are quiet. Gives me a feeling of security. Brits are the ones you want at your side
Unlike the yanks.
Thank you as a brit it does seem as our culture is becoming more americanised some of our best most important qualities are been slowly forgotten for example money has become the most important thing in our sport and entertainment when to be british it was always about earning enough to aquire knowledge and supporting your own family
@@fp5940 If the yanks are on your side they are the ones you want to worry about looking at iraq
@@Jack-lk7wk more americanised minus the pay all the worst bits without the reward
You cant buy British tenacity 🇬🇧
I don't understand how you can dislike this video showing the worlds most elite soldiers. That's my dream goal in years to come
Good luck!
Same m8
I wish you luck bro. 99% of new recruits also have that dream, so when you're training use it to fuel you.
Finntan Doyle Well, those giving a thumbs down, may well have been on the receiving end of this amazing talent🤗
Great video lad! I’m former US Navy. Always good to see our brothers from across the pond. BRAVO ZULU!
Shame in you
Thank you for your service, much love from the UK ❤🇬🇧
Shame on you. Proud of killing innocent people
Pu Bg -Damn skippy! Innocent tangos!
I AM CORNHOLIO!! Hoo fucking yah!
Full respect to everyone in our Armed Forces Special Forces. It's why we Brits have the best trained methods in the world. Always hope everyone comes back home safely.
D J 23 65 🙇🏻♂️🇬🇧🇺🇸
The professionalism The Heroism The Sacrifices...Thank you All our Armed Forces And Families for All you do and the sacrifices you make
God Bless you.....The Greatest 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏
Greatest Country on Earth. Proud to be British.
British isnt a nationality - it's the island inwhich the union of four Countries that make up the UK are situated. The countries are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The reason why the passport says British is because the several thrones of Britian all became one over the course of a thousand years. The cultures and Countries Are still different. And only share defence and monarchy.
The extremely peaceful religion has infiltrated your country by I immigration....wake your politicians up!
macfail Taft lol I like that.
Bob yes in many ways Britain rocks but not in the wheter and the beauty of the country..Respect from Croatia xx
Toffee nose.. True.. Loyal to the crown to be British, but no great love of Welsh, Scots or Welsh! But we club together, forget our hatred and fight thebenemy
All respect to the guys who pass the selection! Best special forces in the world
Respect from m.l, Hereford
The BEST except no Substitute
You guys don't know if they are the best as you don't know shit about them so just stop.
Magnus Rix-Møller
I know. A little.
I live here fucknuts!!!!!'
martin i Well, great for you. You still won’t be able to compare them to for example DEVGRU and Delta as you’ve never been a part of them.
We had a great warrior from Fiji in the SAS. RIP Labalaba. 🇫🇯🇬🇧
One of the things that makes me really proud of UK armed forces is the foreign and Commonwealth Troops that choose to serve within
We thank you 😘❤🇬🇧
Is that the lad who fought in the Battle of Mirbat that manned that artillery gun?
Bullet-Tooth Tony that’s him!
@A B cry me a river, sweetpea 😴
There were and still are a number of superb Fijians serving in UKSF Tek and labalaba from the battle of Mirbet were two of the finest. Laba. should have won the VC for his actions that day a true legend . RIP
British army, the finest and most professional military. 🙏🇬🇧🇷🇺
Nonce
@@KITT691 coward.
@@lemmyraisehell.8669 lemmy nonce
@@KITT691 don't judge me on your standards...
@@lemmyraisehell.8669 nonce
God bless our special forces 🇬🇧
Is it hard to get into the SAS 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
That’s like asking do you die if you jump out a plane without a parachute.
Here’s the one defining factor about SAS and SBS.
they’re the only special forces in the world that most of the other special forces around the world agree are NO1 including most Americans. Before anyone jumps in saying I’m wrong, Delta, not SEALS are the US top operators and EVERYTHING about them from selection, to training, to operational tactics etc is 100% based on the SAS model yet with a higher intake , bigger numbers still don’t have the operational success of the SAS. FACT!!
Can we get the source to your facts? I'm British and served, but I'm interested in how you know all of these facts. Otherwise its opinion.
Yea, it's not 100%, but basically on the same principle. This is my OWN experience.
Kind regards
From a British Veteran
Nope.
I'm American. Never served-but I have deep expertise in military history. The British SF really ARE the best of the best.
Delta was founded by an officer who was on secondment with the Reg in the mid 70's,they apparently do the same training,tactics, sop's etc but have more psychological tests....cos their yanks and need it!!
A book i've got said that if u put a delta and Reg member side by side in their kit,watch them do their thing the onky way to tell them apart would b their accents
Awesome video! Awesome commandos! Love seeing the joint UK/US operations photos. Respect from USA 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I always remember being advised that a doorway is a vertical coffin. Passing through a doorway you are blind for a second or two while you search for the enemy.As far as I am concerned,the courage of these men is beyond measure. They are everywhere,fighting secret battles never mentioned by the media,classified as ultra top secret by the government. Nobody knows where they are,or what they are doing,and quite often the enemy never knows either. But whoever the enemy is,he is terrified of our Special Forces,and with damned good reason!
Thank you you have great respect
@Kevin Reed I Watched it live I will never forget it so proud of the BEST SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS IN THE WORLD
@Kevin Reed I knew a little about them. Dont you think that the UK should also clap our Armed Forces
Yes the UK Should they owe them a debt that can never be repaid
So proud of our Special Forces. God bless them all.
The most realist person I've ever seen. Quiet older guy.
I've nothing to add.
As a 9yr USMC Veteran - 0311/Infantry (1998-2007), I wholeheartedly respect the SAS and their accomplishments! Semper Fi “mates”!
Quality content here my man. Keep it up, smashing video.
Wasn't so long you had 1k subs. Cheers
Much love for our brothers across the pond. Unfortunately I was medically disqualified from service, but to this day I know in my heart of hearts it would have been an honor to stand shoulder to shoulder not only with the brave men amd women of my country, but also our international brothers/sisters-in-arms.
Who's your international brothers/sisters-in-arms?, this video is really about the British armed forces and some Pics with our counterparts being the U.S. No other forces here and why would there be, the British have no equal man for man.
Appreciate the effort you put in mate coz it’s not easy to get some of this footage
This American Citizen of Puerto Rican ethnicity, and a 51 Year Old Prior Service USMC and US Army Veteran, thanks The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, for having World Class Warfighters and Battlefield Badass Shooters and Special Operations Fighters of the Special Air Service Regiment ( SASR), Royal Marines Commando, Parachute Regiment, RAF Regiment, SBS, Special Reconnaissance, SFSC, and all other UKSF, as well as General Purpose Forces Personnel in the 🔥💥 Fight , alongside The United States Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard......!!🇺🇸🦅🗽⚔️🗡️🔫💣💥💀☠️🇬🇧
@Maxi Delevingne 21 and 23 SAS (R) are the SAS reserves, could be where he got mixed up
Rock Apes my arse
The emojis give it away
I agree with what you say but putting the RAF Reg in your comment is a piss take to be honest 😂
@@johncraig4180 , I AM not omniscient on all things Militaria, although I AM Prior Service USMC and US Army. If You know more than I on The British Army, British Coast Guard,and, Royal Navy, Marines and Air Force, to include the Men, Materials, Machines, Weapons, Equipment, Strategy, Tactics, History, Customs and Tradition of The RAF Regiment or Royal Marines Commando, for example, I AM always wanting to know and learn. Thank GOD ( Father, Son, Holy Spirit) for Guys, like Yourself, to educate Me on matters Military Forces, even from Other Nations, when I do not have much gnosis on said Units. Thank You very much and be safe, Sir!!
The uk have the best special forces soldiers in the world dunno how they breed these badass dudes
Because our nation has been fighting for nearly 1000years. It's in our blood
Finally something more meaningful than recycled imagery and badass theme music
What an unbelievable feeling it must be to be a part of such an elite group
Thankyou for your SERVICE . GOD BLESS YOU .GG
As a kid growing up in the 70’s, 80’s my mind was blown watching the SAS breach the embassy and take out hostiles in a fashion I’d never seen, the impact of such an operation meant that SAS action man and or uniforms where really difficult to get hold of, I’d get taken into Belfast every week to the largest, best toy store I’d ever been in, leisure world to try and get it, it took me around 6 months before I got it lol these guys r proper men, I take my hat off to them all who seek the ultimate soldiering adrenaline rush!
That was what made them well known. I think that was the day everyone truly understood how great and elite special forces units are.
That was the day we found out we had the best special forces in the world. Unbelievable, never seen anything like it.
I love this video, Americans and British always argue about who’s better but the special forces put that aside and work together to make the world a better place. (btw Brecon Beacons is in wales)
Big brother littler brother syndrome. I agree mate
One of the better vids. Nice to see 23 get a mention.
This fills me with pride. Love you guys.
WHO DARE WIN. ALL MY RESPECT FOR THE BEST FROM ITALY😊❤💪
My ex-wife's uncle, Major General Dare Wilson, was commander of 22 SAS when he was a Lt. Colonel. He and his team set the record for high altitude freefall parachuting by jumping from 34,000 feet.
Lovely video man, well done!
Thanks to the United Kingdom Special Forces, thanks to the United States Special Forces. You deserve for the highest respect.
Semper Fi. Love
when the former head of UKSF said , some see them as magical . i think its because they are so secret and do missions they we will never know gives the magical effect that along with they are so highly trained and all Brits and everyone around the world know once SAS and SBS go in they are going to get the job done! and also recently with them known to be deploy on uk streets has added to this and the proud all brits feel for their armed forces and especially UKSF knowing they are out there some were doing what we ask of them keeping us safe!
The British SAS no other solider in the world comes close , no fear
Absolute best of the best
There's some cool history you may like to know my British friends:
During IWW there were italian Arditi and Austro-Hungarian Sturmtruppen, they developed in the same period because of the flexibility required for the unusual battleground of Dolomites, they were the firsts shock troops. The tactics in that time had to be changed, keep going with logorating trench war was impossible. During IIWW the world knew how a SF should look like, with british SAS and italian Xa MAS, the SAS were probably first, we don't know who was first in developing the idea, I know for sure that Xa MAS were founded in march 1941 and SAS in the same year but I don't know when (tell me if you know). Both SF tho developed separately with no influence on eachother and they probably never fought directly. After the war Italy had to dismantle this SF but redirecting the naval part of it for the titanic operations of clearing the sea from underwater mines and wrecks expecially near key sites like La Spezia (the Nazis had sunk dozens of ships to block access to ports during the retreat). The Gamma Group which gathered the personnel who, in secret, had kept alive the experience gained with the assault vehicles and equipment that, following some clauses of the Paris peace treaty, the Italian Navy should no longer have.
In 1952 the chief of staff of the Navy, Admiral Pecori Giraldi, commissioned Massarini to begin studying in secret the possible reconstitution of a department of underwater raiders. Some months later, COMSUBIN "Teseo Tesei" was born. Named in honor of the naval rider and inventor Teseo Tesei that sacrificed himself for the success of the attack of Malta port of July 1941 and for developing the slow-running torpedo, which allowed two operators equipped with respirators to fly it by navigating underwater, so that they could head undisturbed under the target to attack it. Before, SAS got reconstituted as a corps in 1950 and in the 70' was the first special force in the world to also specialize in counter-terrorism and hostage rescue. Other nations may say what they want, but that's the history of the special forces, SAS, SBS, COMSUBIN and 9th Col Moschin are second to none in term of history and experience. When a SF need updates on tactics and materials they come to UK or Italy, we both trained US FS and Mossad after all ;)
If you want to see some cool video about some NATO TIER 1 Italian SF like SAS, here you go:
9th Col Moschin (Army) czcams.com/video/qesODNGk8LY/video.html
GOI (COMSUBIN-Navy) czcams.com/video/t0LB9U8vtqs/video.html
GIS (Carabinieri-Army) czcams.com/video/YyjYGWs_pqg/video.html
4th Alpini "Ranger" (Army Alpine troops) czcams.com/video/hIHdVwwO0AQ/video.html
17th Raiders Wing (Air Force) czcams.com/video/FgkdZ7GwAnk/video.html
All those SF have "Incursore" patent (2 years training) without counting the time spent in Army, Navy or Air Force before. After this time they become "combat ready" but for taking part of actual operations they need of course more training. Some recent theaters of operations are: Balcans, Somalia,Congo, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Kurdistan, Afghanistan.
The 3 most famous operations on Italian soil are the liberation of the Trani prison where the Red Panthers, linked to the Italian far-left terrorist organization Red Brigades, took control and where the GIS resolved the situation without firing a single shot, the arrest of the head of "Cosa Nostra" Totò Riina (again by GIS) and the liberation of the US general James Lee Dozier, kidnapped by the Red Brigades thanks to NOCS operators (special police force that can operate only on national soil). There are more operations but you can check for more on Wiki.
If you want EVEN more history there you go: (all information I take come from UK pages of Wiki)
The symbol of the COMSUBIN is the Caiman, why?
[...]Vittorio Veneto was seized the next day by the Italian Eighth Army, which was already pushing on to the Tagliamento river. Trieste was taken by an amphibious expedition on 3 November. The Italian Eighth Army troops which had managed to cross the Piave were only able to communicate with the west bank by using swimmers. The swimmers were furnished by one of the most elite assault units in Italian history - the Arditi Corps, the Caimani del Piave ("Caimans of the Piave"). [...]
Fact check:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vittorio_Veneto
This guy...without him, his steel balls and his friends now my main language should be Austrian, sad he had to leave Italy cuz of fukin Mussolini and fascists dogs. They fuked up Italy in IIWW. Literaly lions led by sheeps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaele_Rossetti
Timeline of slow-running-torpedo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_torpedo
1909: The British designer Commander Godfrey Herbert received a patent for a manned torpedo. During World War I, it was rejected by the War Office as impracticable and unsafe.
1 November 1918: Two men of the Regia Marina, Raffaele Paolucci and Raffaele Rossetti, in diving suits, rode a primitive manned torpedo (nicknamed Mignatta or "leech") into the Austro-Hungarian Navy base at Pola (Istria), where they sank the Austrian battleship Viribus Unitis and the freighter Wien using limpet mines. They had no breathing sets and they had to keep their heads above water, and thus they were discovered and taken prisoner.[9]
1938: In Italy the "1a Flottiglia Mezzi d'Assalto" (First Fleet Assault Vehicles) was formed as a result of the research and development efforts of two men - Major Teseo Tesei and Major Elios Toschi of the Italian Royal Navy. The pair resurrected the idea of Paolucci and Rossetti.
1940: Commander Moccagatta of the Italian Royal Navy reorganised the 1st Fleet Assault Vehicles into the Decima Flottiglia MAS (Tenth Light Flotilla of assault vehicles) or "X-MAS", under the command of Ernesto Forza. It secretly manufactured manned torpedoes and trained war frogmen, called nuotatori (Italian: "swimmers").
26 July 1941: An attack on Valletta Harbour ended in disaster for the X MAS and Major Teseo Tesei lost his life.
19 December 1941: The Decima Flottiglia MAS attacked the port of Alexandria with three maiali. The battleships HMS Valiant and Queen Elizabeth (and an 8,000-ton tanker) were sunk in shallow water putting them out of action for many months. Luigi Durand de la Penne and five other swimmers were taken prisoner. De la Penne was awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valor after the war.
October 1942: Two British Chariot manned torpedoes were carried aboard the Shetland bus fishing-boat Arthur to attack the Tirpitz on Operation Title. They were swung overboard once in Norwegian waters but both became detached from their tow-hooks in a gale and the operation was a total failure.[10]
8 December 1942. An attack by three manned torpedoes from the Olterra against British naval targets was thwarted in Gibraltar. Three divers were killed by depth charges when the British harbour defence "reacted furiously" to the attack. Among the dead were Lt Licio Visintini, commander of the divers unit on board the Olterra, Petty Officer Giovanni Magro and Sergeant Salvatore Leone, from Taormina, Sicily. Leone's body was never found. Sgt Leone was awarded the Medaglia d'oro al Valor Militare and a memorial was erected in the Community Gardens in Taormina on the 50th anniversary of the attack. The memorial includes a rebuilt maiale and a description of the events, in three languages.
1-2 January 1943: British submarines Thunderbolt, Trooper and P311 took part in Operation Principal. P311 was lost en route to La Maddelena but the other two boats had some success at Palermo, launching two and three Chariots respectively. The Ulpio Traiano was sunk and the stern torn off Viminale. However the cost was high with one submarine and one chariot lost and all but two charioteers captured.
18 January 1943: Thunderbolt took two chariots to Tripoli for Operation Welcome. This was to prevent blockships being sunk at the harbour mouth, so denying access to the Allies. Again, partial success was achieved. This was the last operation in which chariots were carried in containers on British submarines, although some others followed with the chariots on deck without containers.
6 May & 10 June 1943: Italian maiali from the Olterra, now under the command of Lt Ernesto Notari, sank six Allied merchant ships in Gibraltar, for a total of 42,000 tn.
September 1943: Operation Source was an attempt to destroy warships including the Tirpitz using X-class midget subs. Of the five deployed, only two were successful. Tirpitz was badly damaged, crippled, and out of action until May 1944.[11]
2 October 1943: A bigger Italian frogman-carrier, 10 metres (33 ft) long and carrying four frogmen, called Siluro San Bartolomeo, or SSB, was going to attack Gibraltar, but Italy surrendered and the attack was called off.
21 June 1944: A British-Italian joint operation was mounted against shipping in La Spezia harbour. The chariots were carried on board an MTB and the cruiser Bolzano was sunk.
6 July 1944: A German Neger-type vessel torpedoed the Royal Navy minesweepers HMS Magic and Cato.[12]
8 July 1944: A German Neger-type torpedo manned by Lt. Potthast heavily damaged the Polish light cruiser ORP Dragon off the Normandy beaches.
20 July 1944: Royal Navy destroyer HMS Isis was mined at anchor in Seine Bay. A German Human Torpedo was believed responsible.[12]
27-28 October 1944: The British submarine Trenchant carried two Mk 2 Chariots (nicknamed Tiny and Slasher) to an attack on Phuket harbor in Thailand. See British commando frogmen for more information about this attack. No manned torpedo operations in combat in any war are known with certainty after this date.
20 November 1944: The USS Mississinewa is sunk by a Japanese kaiten manned suicide torpedo.
Immediate post-war period: The British Chariots were used to clear mines and wrecks in harbours.
For other events, see Operations of X Flottiglia MAS and British commando frogmen.
Some nations including Italy have continued to build and deploy manned torpedoes since 1945.
If you want more just search we are just on the surface XDXD I literaly took infomations from UK pages of Wiki
The SBS will match them easy..
@@alanandconnielast Well I won't argue but comparing the SBS and the SAS is stupid they are both Bloody good at there jobs and Best of the Best, if you want a comparison compare UKSF to the USSF It pisses of so many more people.
So glad you lads keep us safe. Respect.
The SAS have been involved in active combat operations virtually every year since WW2. What so few men in number have achieved in so many different types of climates, terrains , and environments is truly mind boggling. No other SF group comes close.
Aah not quite mate....they did have a retirement spell for a few years after WW2.....then naturally reinstated.
I think they set up the SAS in WW1
@@georgea7022 No mate. Formed during WW2
DavidUKesb oh really lol I’ve always thought they started in WW1 haha least I know now
@@MrThuggery yeah 2 years from 45 to 47
Best in the world 🇬🇧🏴
Proud of SAS 👏 🇬🇧
I was most fortunate to grow up at storey arms breacon beacons watched in ore soilders going up pen y fan in all seasons, An awesome sight Realised as I got older just how special those guys were and always will be such bravery cant never be questioned total admiration and respect for them all
The father of the especial force in the world !
Amazing video mate
The most dangerous person in the British army is an officer with a map, killed more soldiers than the enemy.
Or a gurkha
Amen to that brother, very dangerous, he probably is reading it upside down!!.....
First class. Proud to be British 👍🏼
For Queen and Country lads🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 can’t wait to join these lads. Why dream when you can make it happen.
ET 04 you got it lad make our country proud 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Mike Townsend thank you sir I wish you the best in life also
MGE I’ll do my best sir
THE TWO FINGERED BRUTE actually mate they are all lads because women aren’t allowed in the SAS and SBS as biologically they are not physically fit and strong enough. However in the SRR they are allowed to serve
THE TWO FINGERED BRUTE I’m 16 at the moment but my parents are against my choice of serving so I plan to leave at 19 once I have some money and a car... I’ll get a few years experience and then I’ll go for selection
I'm Proud to be Fijian ....if you don't know about the history of Fijians in the British SAS , don't ask me why ? That's for you to find out , They not only breed great rugby players in those tiny archipelagos in the South Pacific , They also breed special british soldiers. Rest in peace Labalaba & Marofono ( Battle of Mirbat & Diamond War in Sierre Leone) Thanks Tak , Nik , Tim , Ligairi , Twai n Morell for your services to the Regiment .) @ one point in the British SAS history ....14% of their men were from the beautiful islands of Fiji and they still recruit from the islands to these day . 10,000 + men & women from Fiji serve in the British Army . Every calendar year the British Army recruits 250 men n women to enlist in HM Forces. The second highest Commonwealth recruits just below the Nepalese Gurkhas.
For a dot in the World Map , they do breed Lions of Men . God Bless Fiji for evermore
Wasn't Tom Morell the trooper that got hooked up during the Embassy seige?
Good com,Geronimo 783.👍
God bless
For anyone who hasn’t watched Simon Mann’s interview. Do it. Amazing 3 hours
i have it was a great podcast enjoyed simon manns story
Thank you, Brothers !
Salute !
I served 12 years in the Australian military and was really thinking about applying for the SAS, but sadly fate got to me first and I suffered a double shoulder dislocation along with a damaged cervical vertebrae.
I used to see a few of my oppo's go to the carter course and most didn't pass, a few guys I knew just never returned and never heard of them again (I guess they made the cut), i didn't say it at the time, but a lot of the guys ego's were far too much for SAS IMO, but this made my desire that much higher, I knew had a better chance than a lot of the others from that perspective.
I used to run 10kms per day then ride another 40-50kms straight after it 5 days a week and still I thought that I might have to do a little more.
Anyway, it is all gone now, that was quite a while ago and I am still bitter that I never got the opportunity to at-least do the carter course for selection, oh well that is the way it is.
I am out of the military now and lost my career to my injury, it pains me every day that this happened, but I guess it was just not meant to be that way.
I had heaps of mates, damn good times and heaps of running amok in uniform and out, it was still some of the best days of my life and I can't tell you fast 12 years goes when you are doing so many cool things, work hard and play hard, I loved it !!!!
The SAS guys are outstanding, along with a few other SF divisions throughout the military, but the SAS guys are something else entirely, it is all in the lack ego and demeanour, you will be hard pressed to spot em other than they are usually seen and not heard.
Hello sir,
I hope to become a ground defence officer in the RAAF.
I’ve got my second ROSB in September (my first was in March but I won my appeal due to the coronavirus) and I’m wondering if you recall any of the potential SF candidates being rather small in stature? I got told I was rather small for the roll of GDO and I’m working my way up to bulk up. I’m about 5’9/5/10 and 71kg at the moment (planning to reach 74kg by September and 78kg by the years end)
I’m also wondering how was your personal interactions with your commanding officer while serving in the ADF?
Cheers
@@darrenmullan2975 @Darren Mullan hey mate, I am not sure anymore what the BMI is for entry, but if you meet the minimum requirements for height to weight, don't put too much emphasis on bulk, by all means get to a good weight and gain strength, but endurance and fitness will serve you much better.
About the CO's, well some are fantastic leaders and understand how things are run and get the most from thier crews by respecting them, others are more in it for themselves to climb the ladder, most CO's are good.
Looking back now, the one piece of advice I will give is do not get a serious injury that prevents you from being fit for service, if becomes a chronic problem, you get referred to mec review board for discharge.
I won't elaborate here, but I encountered a serious issue in corruption over my injury that I had to fight tooth and nail just to have defence policies and procedures adhered to.
Unfortunately it was a particular base that was systemic in bullying and corruption at the time, I won my case in the end, but it cost me dearly emotionally and I ended up at the minister of defence in the end to quell the lack of professionalism at that time.
It was much worse than that, but I won't elaborate anymore. I essentially I became in inside whistleblower on the matter and it was in need of serious attention and change.
Please don't let that scare you, because every other posting I had was not remotely similar and I will go as far to say, some postings and one particular one, I had the time of my life, some of the best guys you could work with and be around.
The horror posting had a huge 'click' problem and if you weren't in it, you were treated very differently.
I don't do 'clicky' BS, I am my own man and I respect each person the same personally and deal with them professionally as I would anyone else. Teamwork does not happen with people like that around, they want to inflate their ego's and are often not very genuinely confident in themselves and choose to either hide behind rank or ride on the coat tails of thier seniors, you won't see SF boys behaving like this.
I think a lot of that culture has been sorted out these days, but I would not have seen it the way I did if I was never injured 👍
In spite of my injuries and career being destroyed because of the injuries, I had some of the best experiences in my life and don't regret anything, it made me a much stronger person than I already was.
I would have done 22 years this year and still have some good mates who are still in.
Thanks so much for your insight, been a great help 💪
God bless you xxxxx🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Quick update, had my OSB yesterday and got recommended for Officer training. Now it’s just a waiting game
SAS and SBS to me is the most elite forces ever on the planet I have huge mad respect to those men absolute brave and warrior men
The amount of respect I have for these people is indescribable
I recognised the voice instantly! My guy Simon Mann!
Jay Morton at 0:38 is now in a South Korean reality program where they form teams with members from different South Korean special forces and do missions. Its called "The Soldiers".
I watched that show recently, he was the best instructor
The SAS is ancestor of all special forces of the world!
Really nice video. Very well put together to show its about the intelligent warriors. Those different from others
Another great video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤
As Ally as you like, hoofing video!
Royal or matlow?
jodu656481 haha artillery forward observer 🤝
Bule Bolang I’m an old booty myself. Fair play mate
jodu656481 good on ya mate. I’m in Jakarta now and it’s an ex booty that’s putting me through my aff and Wingsuit course, top lad. Rona has put a hold on it just now though as we’re back into full lockdown as of tomorrow. Hope you’re well mate and stay safe 🤝
Bule Bolang and you brother
Glad these hard men are on our side. Respect guys.
To get through selection and then you start training! Toughness yes, but you have to have that particular mindset that makes you different and special.
These sas videos give me chills incredible forces
Being disabled since birth with a spine condition, I have always deeply wondered “what if.”
God only gives people a hard time to let them enjoy what they want in the next life
chris becks what a morally defunct, petty and evil entity this god is.
I hope you’re okay mate 🙏👊
Ive wanted to join the paras or marines but ive got minor autism and adhd it makes me sad thinking that i migjt never get the chance to join
I have the same thoughts buddy and I'm able.
Best of luck.
Olympic level athletes combined with the best soldiering and fighting skills in the world. Proud of our forces but the SAS and SBS are really the jewel in the crown.
Cant comprehend being a soldier, never mind special forces. Truly a warrior subspecies within the human race.
Good evening sweet heart s hope you are keeping very safe and sound at this time and good night and godbless to all the brave guys out there 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
love these boys
nonce
I wish I had the stones to even think about joining something like the SAS when I was younger. Must feel like such an achievement knowing you're part of a select group individuals who can operate like they do. Hats off to you all.
I'd more then likely last less then an hour through the first day of training 🤦
''' Congratulations to all operators of the special forces who fight with honor and bravery giving their lives to make this world a safe place! '''
Damn! You chose the music so well!
God bless them all
Simply the best!
My great grandfather n grandfather n his brothers British army veterans . WW 1&2 respect to all those brave men and women
Very well put together vid, cheers
The SAS and SBS are the world's finest Special forces units, hands down! The torture these guys go through is unimaginable, they make me so proud to be British!
SRR is the younger sister regiment of the 2
not hands down. Delta force is on the way to take the crown, IF not already
@@xo5347 this ladies and gentlemen is an American stuck up who only believes everything America and cannot comprehend that Britain is out doing them.
@@backgroundfella1374 believe what you want lol. Common sense is a choice not a right 😭😂.
@@xo5347 British marines just annihilated American military in a war games..you had to surrender..SAS no doubt better than Delta force
The sacrifice and commitment these guys have is remarkable I respect no one more than what these guys have accomplished as individuals and the job they do 🇬🇧
Thank you and God bless you amazing guys!
It is videos like this that make me proud to be British just because we don’t splatter our special forces all over the news and tv like other countries do doesn’t mean they aren’t there. They will be there when we most need them and they will be gone before we even know it.❤️🇬🇧
Absolutely the best.
S.A.S now guys I tell my 2 nephews about these elite troops ..
My 2 nephews are in the Pakistan Army as SSG elite commandos
Fighting the front lines on the war on terror...
Special Air Service is another level
Unknown legends.Super proud.
Love the respect you show these men
Best special forces in the world. Mad respect. I tip my hat to everyone of them risking their lives for our freedom.
You don't really know if it's the best special forces.
@@magnusrix-mller3353I do. We invented it. We train other special forces techniques. We've had way more experience and are selection is by far the hardest to get in.
Coronavirus Did you pass selection?
@@magnusrix-mller3353 No
Coronavirus Coronavirus Then how would you know anything about their selection? Also I doubt the SAS have more experience than Delta and DEVGRU, do you know how many fights the US get into? It’s crazy.
The father of SAS David Sterling was truly "Mad, Quite Mad"🙏🙏
Well you had the guy who made the SBS also so not sure about that.
Paddy Mayne was reputed to be a total psychopath once his fuse had blown. His ferocity and penchant for destroying enemy vehicles was legendary. He of course always claimed it was controlled aggression, but some who witnessed it doubted it! After the war ended, he found civilian life very difficult to handle. He preferred all out war!
Nobody comes close to the British Special Forces!
Over the years have worked with 3 ex NZ SAS troopers. All very unassuming quiet guys who went / go about their jobs with quiet effeciency. Always looking for ways to improve, succeed and to do their utmost best. An everlasting legacy to who they are as a person and their training. I was told by one of their team members about one guy that when things got tight a whole new person emerged and you were better to take a step back and stay out of the way. One of the others, to look at him you had to ask how he coped with the physical rigours of selection, training and deployment (Afghanistan) which spoke volumes both of his mental toughness and determination.
Brilliant
0:25 if any operators on joint missions can have each other flags on, its respect of the highest degree
Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
thank you sir david stirling for giving us the best fighting force on the world
The SAS & the SBS are the benchmark of every other special forces units from every other country in the world, As a UK citizen, How proud we should be of our armed forces especially of these two regiments, I admire these people so much.