Ranger Regiment soldiers have a blast with plastic explosives training

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  • Опубликовано: 30 янв 2025

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  • @catlee8064
    @catlee8064 Год назад +34

    "The only equation you need for explosives is P....for plenty." That was from my assault pioneer inst in the 90s...we ended up blowing a steel sheet 2 inches thick in half....with 1 half going about 50m's into the air.....

  • @splatoonistproductions5345
    @splatoonistproductions5345 Год назад +17

    Good work lads, keep it up, always need and appreciate you guys 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @TheMVCoho
    @TheMVCoho Год назад +5

    My childhood with firecrackers in the sandbox.....all grown up!!

  • @nathanielwhite8769
    @nathanielwhite8769 Год назад +11

    Great Video, Very interesting to see how this critical and often overlooked capability is taught and perfected. EOD may not seem as glamours as Heavy Armour, Aviation or precision artillery, but it is just as important in achieving combined arms manoeuvre. Anyway who doesn’t love a few explosives!👍

    • @olivermilner1470
      @olivermilner1470 Год назад +2

      It’s not overlooked at all. Sappers do this for a living.

    • @nathanielwhite8769
      @nathanielwhite8769 Год назад +1

      @@olivermilner1470 Good Point, but when I said “overlooked” I was referring to the majority of people who may not have as an in-depth understanding about what combined arms manoeuvre involves, as apposed to someone who is either serving or has a keen interest in defence matters. I probably should have said something along the lines of “less appreciated”. Thanks for highlighting my error in use of language. Cheers.👍

    • @ep6429
      @ep6429 Год назад

      This isn't EOD though, it's Dems. They're practicing demolitions, not the disposal of explosive ordinance.

    • @alexomond5486
      @alexomond5486 7 месяцев назад

      It's not EOD it's basic Royal Engineer skills. EOD only became fashionable when forensic evidence started to become a requirement.

  • @magecraft2
    @magecraft2 Год назад +3

    Some days at work are better than others :)

  • @RobertLewis-el9ub
    @RobertLewis-el9ub Год назад

    I impressed they all still had their fingers!

  • @jacobhenderson6290
    @jacobhenderson6290 Год назад +12

    I remember my combat engineer course 😂

  • @Tyroniusmaximus92
    @Tyroniusmaximus92 Год назад +3

    So after some digging I see plenty of negative comments. The combat engineers course guys and what not, You have to understand there is alot going on behind the scenes with this Regiment. This training is most likely going to be used to conduct unilateral raids alongside partner forces. So Breaching. These guys are doing SFAUC (Green berets advanced CQB) so it does indeed make sense. But as always believe what you would like. Just my 2 cents

    • @Tyroniusmaximus92
      @Tyroniusmaximus92 Год назад +2

      Keep in mind this is all in its infancy.. Needs time to mature.

    • @USN1985dos
      @USN1985dos Год назад

      These guys are basically the equivalent of the US Army's Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFAB) but with a cooler name. Claiming they're in the league of Army SF is a joke.

  • @alanmcmillan6969
    @alanmcmillan6969 Год назад

    Bang on!

  • @glennj6465
    @glennj6465 Год назад +52

    So basically there doing a dems course like assault pioneer do or B3/2/1 Combat Engineers Do 🥴😖🤔😳

    • @furiousscotsman2916
      @furiousscotsman2916 Год назад +27

      Yes a demolitions course, kinda gave it away in the title lad.

    • @hithere3035
      @hithere3035 Год назад +8

      Yes, let me guess you can do it in your sleep?

    • @scottiramage317
      @scottiramage317 Год назад +2

      Still not up to recce mech level though

    • @SodaPrezsing
      @SodaPrezsing Год назад +5

      Okay but what’s with the emojis? Ranger Regiment take those skills and apply them to combat situations I guess, probably behind enemy lines. Unlike combat engineers who have to be supported by other arms if it’s in a combat zone

    • @lokischildren8714
      @lokischildren8714 Год назад

      Yip it's the Dems course on the assault pioneer

  • @bastogne315
    @bastogne315 Год назад

    As an Irish person i find this very interesting.❤❤❤

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 Год назад +2

      Depending on your creed, I either find this comment funny.
      Or extremely worrying 😆

  • @dannykay9221
    @dannykay9221 Год назад

    Alford Technologies test/demo location at Westbury near Draycott, Somerset.
    Nothing secretive
    Well publicised
    UK MOD/Police/Friendly forces (US SF SEALS, DEVGRU etc have used it)
    Incredible location in a worked out quarry.

  • @Growlerinthebush
    @Growlerinthebush Год назад +3

    I taught B2 Combat Engineers a long time ago and it was always taught that you detonated to the face of the target, I am surprised that bulk explosive didn't slide off the target being detonated from the end, however this worked maybe because of the knots in the PE. Get as much as you can from that training people because you never know when you may need it.
    BTW we did carry explosives in Engineer tanks, CET's, AVRE's and Bridgelayers mainly for battle sims.

  • @bigblue6917
    @bigblue6917 Год назад +4

    Bit excessive for clearing a few leaves off the line.

  • @fangslaughter1198
    @fangslaughter1198 Год назад +1

    We made linear charges by nailing c4 to 2x4 boards.
    Shaped charges with wine bottles.
    French Commando Course.
    🇨🇦👍

  • @mwallace2922
    @mwallace2922 Год назад

    I do like a mighty Kaboom. 👍👍

  • @tomhenry897
    @tomhenry897 Год назад

    Nice to have their budget
    We can’t get repair parts

  • @kenw5104
    @kenw5104 Год назад

    4:16 There goes the barbed fence.

  • @benjamintaylor3934
    @benjamintaylor3934 Год назад

    Why was one small area of his chest armour blurred out?

    • @lachlanchester8142
      @lachlanchester8142 Год назад +1

      Name and number I assume, because rangers are kind of special forces but not quite

    • @bastogne315
      @bastogne315 Год назад

      War crimes?

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад

      @@lachlanchester8142- Rangers are not any kind of SF. They're glorified training teams.
      He probably had a "Pork Eating Infidel" morale patch on and Forces News were worried it would cause offence!

  • @spencerburrows3525
    @spencerburrows3525 Год назад +1

    Rdx
    Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine
    Nitration of hexamine blocks.

  • @andrewritchie517
    @andrewritchie517 Год назад

    Could do with not showing what shape and how to prep the charges...opsec

    • @alexomond5486
      @alexomond5486 7 месяцев назад

      It's on You Tube. Not really secret.

  • @jpfarrell66
    @jpfarrell66 Год назад

    The beard with EOD on his sleeve 😂

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад

      His LinkedIn profile says he's an ex Army SNCO ... but it doesn't say with which Capbadge 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @randommadness1021
      @randommadness1021 Год назад

      Not much of an expert when 50% of what was shown on video worked.

  • @joncawte6150
    @joncawte6150 Год назад

    So why is an outside agency doing this training and not RSME?

    • @ridgway460
      @ridgway460 Год назад

      Good question.

    • @Chubby_T0511
      @Chubby_T0511 Год назад

      Could be a lack of slots on RE courses for non RE personnel.

    • @modular7060
      @modular7060 Год назад

      Because this private contractor is much more practical, and own a way better range for dems. And they design and build their own kit for dems

  • @SnakePliskin762
    @SnakePliskin762 Год назад +1

    The army's version of the raf reg,do the new rangers have a 5 miler of death?

    • @geordiewishart1683
      @geordiewishart1683 Год назад +1

      Wise up!
      An SAS team tried to replicate the five miler. They died.

    • @zoiders
      @zoiders Год назад

      They are allowed beards.

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад

      RAF Regiment living rent free in your head for 8yrs. Sad.

  • @colingoldthorpe5918
    @colingoldthorpe5918 Год назад +4

    This ranger battalion seems to be doing all the additional training we did for 24 Air Mobile way back in 1998 in Catterick. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

    • @Abcder-c5z
      @Abcder-c5z Год назад +4

      Because everything the Rangers do gets publicised on forces news 😂

    • @ImaSMACKHEAD982
      @ImaSMACKHEAD982 Год назад

      RE Phase 2 Trade Training

  • @natotvwarjimbo3461
    @natotvwarjimbo3461 Год назад +1

    SLAVA UKRAINI🎺💛💙🔰🔱💪👍🥾💤👀= FREEDOM

  • @drbendover7467
    @drbendover7467 Год назад

    So it had zero affect on that steelgerder 0:08 :)

  • @Pd0177
    @Pd0177 Год назад +2

    No wonder they have to handle this stuff being special forces and all that 😂

  • @alexomond5486
    @alexomond5486 7 месяцев назад

    Yip, always carried plastic formers with copper shapes in my kit. NOT same as the designer door charges etc. Fine for SF but us normal guys just rely on more the better. PE8 and green det cord! Jeez getting old.

  • @groMMit1981
    @groMMit1981 Год назад +5

    She must walk like a duck for days, after returning from one of these interview trips

  • @CallumMcDonald77
    @CallumMcDonald77 6 дней назад

    🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @robertbeattie3988
    @robertbeattie3988 Год назад

    Wasnt this the job for the assault pioneers but then they disbanded them 🤔🤔

  • @mikewinston8709
    @mikewinston8709 Год назад +13

    Nothing clever about this. Just join the Royal Engineers instead…..

    • @Law9652
      @Law9652 Год назад +3

      SAS also do this. It's because they're working behind enemy lines without engineers support.

    • @mikewinston8709
      @mikewinston8709 Год назад +2

      @@Law9652 ….I did it in the RLC. There is nothing special about basic demolition….

    • @johnpixie
      @johnpixie Год назад +8

      Just because it's "nothing special" doesn't mean it's not a skill worth having across the units

    • @mikewinston8709
      @mikewinston8709 Год назад +1

      @@johnpixie precisely my point. I did this in the RLC.

    • @johnpixie
      @johnpixie Год назад +4

      @@mikewinston8709 what is your point may I ask? As it sounds like because it's a basic skill they shouldn't learn it and join the royal engineers, or rlc in your case, interested which has a negative conation yet you support my comments on saying they should learn it. Sending some mixed massages my dude.

  • @gansior4744
    @gansior4744 Год назад

    EB hat spotted

  • @Ed_Stuckey
    @Ed_Stuckey Год назад +1

    _have a blast with plastic explosives_
    I see what you did there...

  • @carlwatkiss4252
    @carlwatkiss4252 Год назад

    I loved DEMS when I was serving .

  • @kekistanimememan170
    @kekistanimememan170 Год назад

    A modern rendition of the old SOE videos.

  • @generalbanastretarleton6578
    @generalbanastretarleton6578 Год назад +1

    No One Asked for the Ranger Regiment to be made. Disbanding Regiments. Not good.

  • @majoreazy4586
    @majoreazy4586 Год назад +1

    Anyone for cuppa char ?

  • @SpeakMusic25
    @SpeakMusic25 Год назад

    Shes brave 😂

  • @arielholtz
    @arielholtz Год назад

    WHY can't they just carry kg after kg with them. Risk of blowing up too much? Militaries carry heavy things all the time?

    • @strippins
      @strippins Год назад

      I’m
      Sure they carry as much as they can! Still would want to know exactly how much is needed for a particular job

    • @Statueshop297
      @Statueshop297 Год назад +3

      It’s heavy. If you were asked to walk 10 miles and there’s a possibility you need to blow something up do u want to take 2kg of explosives or 40kg and bring 38 back.

  • @xusmico187
    @xusmico187 Год назад +1

    military cut backs, creating a "ranger" unit? increase SAS and SBS

    • @meme4one
      @meme4one Год назад +2

      Not that easy! It takes over a year and only 5% ish pass.

    • @xusmico187
      @xusmico187 Год назад

      quality over quanity. what is the vetting and training for rangers? @@meme4one

    • @SodaPrezsing
      @SodaPrezsing Год назад +2

      Special forces selection is way harder than ranger regiment which is just regular infantry units given extra training, as far as I know.
      You can’t really throw money at the SAS and expect more blokes to pass without lowering standards

    • @jarraandyftm
      @jarraandyftm Год назад +3

      Increase the SAS and SBS? Why don’t you join then and help increase it?
      Sure with your skills on COD and as a seasoned keyboard warrior you’d fly through.

    • @zoiders
      @zoiders Год назад

      Let me explain this to you. Britain has an all volunteer army and marine corps. Training standards are high. Professional. There are boring old county regiments who are better trained than some nations so called "special forces". There is also the fact that there is no direct entry into the SF in Britian. Which as it should be, otherwise you end up with money pit units like the SEALs that are filled with steroid using white supremacists who lack prior military experience. Don't confuse our armed forces with the American ones. Different animals. We have higher overall standards and there is less of a need for so called "special" forces.

  • @trapset1539
    @trapset1539 Год назад +3

    When this country is in a civil war with those who don't share our common values/laws, I wonder if the Army would deploy to defend British people or would it stand aside for fear of being deemed racist and let the indigenous be slaughtered?

    • @user-gt5me3nf6b
      @user-gt5me3nf6b Год назад

      calm down nobody is getting slaughtered this isnt 1948

    • @Truthbomb918
      @Truthbomb918 Год назад

      Didn't the army slaughter unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland not that long ago

  • @ImaSMACKHEAD982
    @ImaSMACKHEAD982 Год назад

    Dont be fooled anyone can join

    • @james-nx1ov
      @james-nx1ov Год назад +1

      Guessing u failed then ?

    • @ImaSMACKHEAD982
      @ImaSMACKHEAD982 Год назад

      @@james-nx1ov No i left before all this happened hhaha

    • @james-nx1ov
      @james-nx1ov Год назад +1

      Cheers walt

    • @JammyDodger45
      @JammyDodger45 Год назад

      @@james-nx1ov- so you don't understand what a Walt is.
      Are you a Spam or just Bone?