UKRN Drugs bust

[hedgehog]

Cheers TP

they look the business

we defitnely have come a long way

[Dogwatch]

Naval Boarding Team Kit


Standard issue Naval boarding kit, the body armour is also a flotation vest.

[pmtts]

Another counter-narcotics success in the Caribbean after the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) landing ship Largs Bay intercepted over half a tonne of cocaine on her first ever operational patrol.

[Nav Trooper]

The basic suit and vest are fine and well suited for the job but not for long term wear due to sweating as most will know from wearing Typhoons.Try climbing pilot ladders with a vest on with rifle or sidearm and backpack and youll get the jist.

Just walking around a ship in fatigues and steyr is constraining enough.

All the gear is being overhauled and the majority is now, or has been replaced.

[Dogwatch]

French Drugbust off Liberia

I know it's not UKRN, but still a drug bust by a European Navy.

Photos from MP.net showing a drug haul by the French Navy off the coast of Liberia.


The ship "Blue Atlantic" on which drugs were allegedly seized. is docked in the port of Monrovia Liberia Friday Feb. 1, 2008. A ship containing 2.4 tons of cocaine was seized off of Liberia's coast, the single largest drug seizure in the country's history, maritime officials said on Friday. The Blue Atlantic, was spotted on the high seas late Thursday night by a French military vessel, which intercepted the ship and then towed it to the port.




French military personnel keep a watch over confiscated cocaine in their vessel at the port of Monrovia Liberia Friday Feb. 1, 2008. A ship containing 2.4 tons of cocaine was seized off of Liberia's coast, the single largest drug seizure in the country's history, maritime officials said on Friday. The ship, named the Blue Atlantic, was spotted on the high seas late Thursday night by a French military vessel, which intercepted the ship and then towed it to the port.

[Dogwatch]

Dutch, US forces seize cocaine in Caribbean





SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Dutch Navy and a squad of U.S. Coast Guard raiders seized 4.6 tons (4,200 kilograms) of cocaine from a Panamanian-flagged freighter that had set sail from Venezuela, Dutch and U.S. officials said Friday.

The Dutch Navy said it is the largest haul of cocaine it has ever intercepted.

"This seizure underlines the excellent cooperation between all our partners in the region and once again confirms the importance of our presence in the Caribbean," said Rear Adm. Peter Lenselink, the commander of Netherlands Forces in the Caribbean.

The Dutch Navy said its regional headquarters in Curacao received information last week that a Panamanian freighter might be smuggling drugs from Venezuela to Europe. A Dutch coast guard vessel, with about a half-dozen members of a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment aboard, was dispatched to intercept the freighter.

At dawn on Sunday, the Dutch frigate and its helicopter approached the freighter at high speed in the Caribbean south of Puerto Rico on Sunday, the Dutch Navy said.

A U.S. Coast Guard team boarded and began searching. Thirty-six hours later, it discovered a suspicious hatch inside the engine room, with bales of cocaine secreted in several compartments.

U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachments have been embedding with forces of allied countries to seize drug shipments through the Caribbean, a major trafficking corridor, said Petty Officer Jennifer Johnson, a Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami.

She said the Americans were still aboard the Dutch ship, along with the detained freighter crew and the seized cocaine.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...rbucQD92NFV601

[hptmurphy]

Try climbing pilot ladders with a vest on with rifle or sidearm and backpack and youll get the jist.

Just walking around a ship in fatigues and steyr is constraining enough

had a good look at the kit yesterday and noticed the actual the bulk of the whole rig.

I would have serious concerns about having to use a steyr in close quarters such as a ship, the pistol would be ideal, should the NS be looking for an MP5 type weapon for this type op. It even occured to ne that a folding stock pump action shot gun would be a good option.. non leathal bean bag rounds could be an option.

As you said and from what I've seen jumping ladders must be a night mare in full kit especailly with a full size rifle slung

[DeV]

BAP was standard weapon for armed boardings (in the public domain), presume it is now USP.

[Sluggie]

Folding stock shotguns were considered when the new armed boarding doctrine was being developed. I was on a ship when some models were being trialed. It was a case of everyone to the afterdeck with a few hundred shells, a heaving line and an oildrum from the galley.

[hptmurphy]

BAP was standard weapon for armed boardings (in the public domain), presume it is now USP.

standard service weapons are in use at the moment and were on display so no big secret there.

Just struck me with all the kit carried that rifle seemed to be far too bulky and long and the barrel could snag on things.

Probably in an ideal world they should have other weapons but budgets etc dictate what is made avaialable.

[marloy]

standard service weapons are in use at the moment and were on display so no big secret there.

Just struck me with all the kit carried that rifle seemed to be far too bulky and long and the barrel could snag on things.

Probably in an ideal world they should have other weapons but budgets etc dictate what is made avaialable.

if i seen those guys boarding my boat with steyrs dont think id be doin too much argueing

[A/TEL]

had a good look at the kit yesterday and noticed the actual the bulk of the whole rig.

I would have serious concerns about having to use a steyr in close quarters such as a ship, the pistol would be ideal, should the NS be looking for an MP5 type weapon for this type op. It even occured to ne that a folding stock pump action shot gun would be a good option.. non leathal bean bag rounds could be an option.

As you said and from what I've seen jumping ladders must be a night mare in full kit especailly with a full size rifle slung

USP is standard weapon for Naval Boarding Teams now, Steyr is no longer used.

All ratings are to be trained up on the pistol.

[hptmurphy]

USP is standard weapon for Naval Boarding Teams now, Steyr is no longer used.

All ratings are to be trained up on the pistol

Finally some one had a good idea...

[damo de muff diver]

Don`t know what you are all complaining about sometimes had to do boardings with an F.N.
Remember one boarding, Seaman (who shall remain nameless) threw the F.N. like a spear and then dived on board boat after it

[marloy]

Don`t know what you are all complaining about sometimes had to do boardings with an F.N.
Remember one boarding, Seaman (who shall remain nameless) threw the F.N. like a spear and then dived on board boat after it

did he have a bayonnet