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100 Royal Marines defeat 1500 conventional US troops in exercise

Couldn't see this posted anywhere else as a topic so thought I'd add it.



At an urban warfare exercise last year in California, the British say, nearly 100 marine commandos defeated 1,500 of their US counterparts because of help from the situational awareness technology.


“The normal assault rules are completely inverted,” said Dan Cheesman, the chief technology officer with the Royal Navy. “It’s not three or four to one that’s needed, it’s one to four.

Other military technology he highlighted included a DefendTex “flying grenade”, a drone carrying an explosive he described as having the mobility of a “snitch” from the Harry Potter books, and a larger Malloy drone used to dump supplies and possibly one day ferry wounded soldiers from a battlefield. There are also plans to test jetpacks in Portsmouth harbour later this year. - Guardian


Our Future Commando Force attacked in the urban warfare exercise. Conventional tactics suggest they would need to heavily outnumber the defending Americans.

But working in eight teams of 12, they outmanoeuvred their rivals and used helicopter drones linked to screens on their chests to pinpoint weak spots.

The £400million drill in California had to be cut short because the British victory was so swift and unexpected. - The Sun



Well done to the Royal Marines, perhaps new tech is the way forward?
 
I dare say a troop of AS90 would have had similar effect
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Couldn't see this posted anywhere else as a topic so thought I'd add it.



At an urban warfare exercise last year in California, the British say, nearly 100 marine commandos defeated 1,500 of their US counterparts because of help from the situational awareness technology.


“The normal assault rules are completely inverted,” said Dan Cheesman, the chief technology officer with the Royal Navy. “It’s not three or four to one that’s needed, it’s one to four.

Other military technology he highlighted included a DefendTex “flying grenade”, a drone carrying an explosive he described as having the mobility of a “snitch” from the Harry Potter books, and a larger Malloy drone used to dump supplies and possibly one day ferry wounded soldiers from a battlefield. There are also plans to test jetpacks in Portsmouth harbour later this year. - Guardian


Our Future Commando Force attacked in the urban warfare exercise. Conventional tactics suggest they would need to heavily outnumber the defending Americans.

But working in eight teams of 12, they outmanoeuvred their rivals and used helicopter drones linked to screens on their chests to pinpoint weak spots.

The £400million drill in California had to be cut short because the British victory was so swift and unexpected. - The Sun



Well done to the Royal Marines, perhaps new tech is the way forward?

How timely. It happened last year but the results are published in the wake of the IR.
 
In shock news, positive news story about FCF, and at the expense of the Americans, natch. Well done “our boys”, best of British and all that...
Hmm. Reading between the lines, it may be that the Sun, the Guardian and Nick Carter can't be entirely trusted to be accurate or honest. Does a 1 to 15 ratio for offensive urban clearances not sound a little unlikely to anyone here? I don't care how good your tech is, you lose that on mistakes and luck alone.

Royal Marines participating in an exercise in which the UK was partnering with a fictional African nation wore mobile phones clamped open on their chest.

Not 100% clear they are talking about the same exercise, but an informed guess might suggest that the 100 / 1500 has conveniently omitted that this exercise was basically Operation Get Behind The Darkies, and the actual ratio of troops was nowhere near that.

I think @stacker1 and @TamtamPWRR have got the right idea. This sounds like RMA MK3. It's been 20 years since Afghanistan now - time to start jettisoning all those unnecessary lessons we're carrying around!
 
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