Jump to content

File:Royal Marines on Exercise Serpent Rock 2020 MOD 45167401.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (2,400 × 3,600 pixels, file size: 5.17 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: Pictured is a Royal Marine of P Squadron, 43 Commando using a small drone to bring an edge to training while taking part in an assault in an urban area as part of the final phase of their training on the Rock of Gibraltar.

The commandos used small remotely piloted aerial systems – in other words, drones – to aid decisions made

The drones fed real-time footage back to their Android Tactical Assault Kit, providing useful information for navigation and situational awareness.

This gives the commandos better foresight and a decisive edge when it comes to reconnaissance and patrolling.

Over 80 of these highly trained Commandos spent 2 weeks in early November 2020 on Exercise Serpent Rock honing their skills with a night-time vertical assault and dawn attack followed by an abseil extraction back down ‘The Rock’.

This annual exercise sees the Royal Marines making best use of Gibraltar’s unique terrain, undertaking amphibious and cliff assaults, close quarter battle in urban environments and within the network of tunnels the Rock is famous for, as well as patrolling its streets, thoroughfares and the narrow alleyways and passages that pepper this British overseas territory.

  • Organization: Royal Navy
  • Object Name: BP200031
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental Categories: Training, Royal Marines, People
  • Keywords: Remotely Piloted Aircraft System, RPAS, VIRTUS Helmet, Helmet, Headwear, VIRTUS, Body Armour, Blast & Ballistic Protection, PPE, Personal Protective Equipment, MTP, Multi Terrain Pattern, Camouflage, Combats, PCS, Personal Clothing System, Clothing, Overseas, Locations, Ex, Exercise, Training, Army, Non-Identifiable, Personnel, Electronics, Technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV, Drone, 43 Commando, FPGRM, 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines, 3 Cdo Bde RM, 3 Commando Brigade, RM Units, Royal Marines, Royal Navy, TES, Royal Marine Exercise, Rock of Gibraltar, RM, P Squadron, Gibraltar, Future Commando Force, FRPU E, FCF, Exercise Serpent Rock, Ministry of Defence, MoD, Location, Gib, 43 Commando Royal Marines, 43 Cdo RN, Faslane, ATAK, Android Tactical Assault Kit
  • Country: Gibraltar
Date 07:34:52.59
Source
Author LPhot Daniel Shepherd
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Images are downloadable at high resolution, made available at http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk for reuse under the OGL (Open Government License).

Licensing

Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
This file is licensed under the Open Government Licence version 1.0 (OGL v1.0).
Attribution: Photo: LPhot Daniel Shepherd/MOD
You are free to:
  • copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
  • adapt the Information;
  • exploit the Information commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application.
You must, where you do any of the above:
  • acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence;
  • ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information;
  • ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or its source;
  • ensure that your use of the Information does not breach the Data Protection Act 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

See the Open Government Licence page on Meta-Wiki for more information.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

0.0025 second

24 millimetre

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current22:27, 17 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 22:27, 17 March 20212,400 × 3,600 (5.17 MB)MOD LPhot Daniel Shepherd / http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/fotoweb/fwbin/download.dll/45153802.jpg

The following page uses this file:

Metadata