{"id":58842,"date":"2025-02-28T21:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58842"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:00:19","slug":"raid-an-excellent-short-film-about-a-royal-marine-commandos-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/28\/raid-an-excellent-short-film-about-a-royal-marine-commandos-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"'Raid', an excellent short film about a Royal Marine Commandos operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Marines Commandos of the British Royal Navy, dating back to 1664, are an elite amphibious expeditionary force.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/19\/the-marine-infantry-forces-of-nato-countries-their-age-and-size\/\">The marine infantry forces of NATO countries, their age and size<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/11\/the-huge-british-aircraft-carrier-hms-prince-of-wales-on-her-visit-to-rota-for-an-exercise\/\">The huge British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales on her visit to Rota for an exercise<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, the Royal Marines released <strong>an excellent short film, entitled \"Raid\", in which they show off their and the Royal Navy's capabilities<\/strong> in carrying out an air-naval operation to rescue hostages and destroy an enemy installation. <strong>The video is of a formidable quality, worthy of a film production<\/strong>, but here the protagonists are real soldiers, not actors:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Commandos - The future of Modern Warfare? | RAID - A short film by the Royal Marines\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhCN7jn4CTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>This video is a great example of how to promote the activity of a military institution today.<\/strong> You can see here some screenshots with notes on what appears in them (click on each image if you want to see it enlarged).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354871528_aef70e0ac8_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354871528_a3b5d6bbbc_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Commando Raiding Craft (CRC)<\/strong>, the Royal Marines\u2019 most modern boat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalnavy.mod.uk\/news\/2024\/february\/08\/240208-commando-raiding-craft\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled a year ago<\/a>. It can travel up to 40 knots and has a range of over 200 nautical miles. <strong>Operated by 539 Raiding Squadron (539 RS), the vessels are heavily armed for their size<\/strong> (9.1 metres in length), carrying two 12mm Browning M-2 heavy machine guns on either side of the stern and a 7.62mm L7A2 machine gun in the bow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54355055420_93c5499d14_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54355055420_310bc4a9d0_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Royal Marines preparing to assault an enclosed compound.<\/strong> They are equipped with the new L403A1 assault rifles, caliber 5.56 mm and fitted with suppressors on their barrels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354647406_d4c90811e9_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354647406_69a33e3b7b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>F-35B fighters on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)<\/strong>. Unlike the older Sea Harriers and other fighters previously operated by the Royal Navy from its aircraft carriers, <strong>these F-35s are owned by the Royal Air Force (RAF)<\/strong> but are operated jointly by RAF and Royal Navy pilots. British naval F-35Bs are assigned to 809 Naval Air Squadron, based at RAF Marham, and fall under the responsibility of RAF Air Command.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354871563_45fad6e280_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354871563_f47f5579d3_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A curious image of the Royal Marines next to two old French fighter planes.<\/strong> It is a Dassault MD 452 Myst\u00e8re II, a 1951 model. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/10\/a-curious-cemetery-of-aircraft-and-military-vehicles-in-the-middle-of-the-british-countryside\/\">In 2022, I showed you this training ground here<\/a>, which also contains military equipment of Soviet origin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354647401_12870ef01f_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54354647401_59a2e200fc_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Royal Navy AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat HMA2 helicopters<\/strong>, carrying out the exfiltration of the Royal Marines after the operation was completed. The Wildcat is based on the Westland Super Lynx, a light and very fast helicopter. The Royal Navy has 28 of these helicopters in service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Marines Commandos of the British Royal Navy, dating back to 1664, are an elite amphibious expeditionary force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11545],"tags":[23868,23867,22814,23865,16389,15041,23866,7072,12790,3097,10678],"class_list":["post-58842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-navy","tag-539-raiding-squadron-539-rs","tag-809-naval-air-squadron","tag-agustawestland-aw159-wildcat","tag-commando-raiding-craft-crc","tag-dassault-md-452-mystere-ii","tag-hms-queen-elizabeth-r08","tag-l403","tag-lockheed-martin-f-35-lightning-ii","tag-royal-marines","tag-royal-navy","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}