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Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:24 – World War 1
3:14 – Interwar
3:27 – World War 2
6:05 – Malayan Emergency
8:08 – Ad
9:07 – Cold War
16:27 – Modern
Main Sources:
[1] Field Service Manual, 1914. Infantry Battalion. (Expeditionary Force.) W.O. 2061. Dated 1st October 1914.
[2] Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action. SS143. Dated February 1917.
[3] Frederickson, Lewis (2015) “The Development of Australian Infantry on the Western Front 1916-1918: An Imperial model of training, tactics and technology”
[4] Rankin, Adam (2014). “Montbrehain, 5 October 1918: A case study in tactical operations and battlefield integration”
[5] Section Leading 1923
[6] Section Leading 1928
[7] Infantry Section Leading 1938
As reported by https://bayonetstrength.uk :
[8] WE II/1931/12B/3, Dated 6 April 1938
[9] WE II/1931/12F/1. Dated 10 April 1940.
[10] 26 Nov 1940 amendment
[11] WE II/1931/12F/2. Dated 4 June 1941.
[12] The Infantry Training, 1937, Supplement (Tactical Notes for Platoon Commanders), dated February 1941
[13] WE II/233/2. Dated 30 April 1943.
[14] Infantry Training, Part VII, Section and Platoon Tactics. Dated 1944.
[15] Infantry Training Volume IV—Tactics—Infantry Section Leading and Platoon Tactics. Dated 22 December 1950.
[16] Lt. T.A. Gibson, The Wiltshire Regiment. “The Malayan War: 1948-?” in Australian Army Journal No. 27, August 1951.
[17] Infantry Training Volume IV—Tactics—The Infantry Platoon in Battle (Provisional). Dated March 1960.
[18] Provisional Pamphlet for The General Purpose Machine Gun, Dated 1962
[19] Film: SECTION FIRE AND MANOEUVRE (1971)
[20] Pamphlet No. 6B, The General Purpose Machine Gun (Sustained Fire) (All Arms). Dated 1968.
[21] Pamphlet No. 45, Part 2. The Infantry Platoon. Dated 1980.
[22] Ford, Matthew (2008). “The British Army and the politics of rifle development, 1880 to 1986”
[23] Pamphlet No. 45, Part 2. The Infantry Platoon. Dated 1975.
[24] Infantry Training Volume IX, Pamphlet No. 45 Part 2 The Infantry Platoon (Basic Tactics). Dated 1986.
[25] Pamphlet No. 1, The Infantry Company Group (The Fundamentals). Dated 1998.
[26] Conversations with Servicemembers
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And………. as I joined the British Army at 16 as a junior leader, we had the L1A1 SLR and I absolutely loved her. Accurate, powerful and generally, if you hit someone with the SLR they wouldn't get up. When we switched to the 5.56mm SA-80A, I wasn't impressed at all. Yes, you can carry more ammunition but in my personal opinion, I'd still go for the SLR all day long. 🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌
The MOHAA theme slaps
Gmpg. The weapon that won the falklands war !!!
We are actually swapping over to the Canadian C8 well at least the royal marines will be
16:30 Stafford's 🙂
I hope your wife is doing better and you are doing well! I know medical situations can be difficult, but don't forget to take care of yourself too during this! Love your videos, some of my favorite on YouTube, great work!
Fun Fact: The BREN gun is weapon originaly from Czech (Czechoslovakia that time) that was manufactured in UK. The weapon is even carrying the shortcut of the name of armory which designed the gun in Czechoslovakia – BRno ENfield => BREN. (Brno is Czech city located in Moravia region)
Did you just use MoH:AA music as the intro music?
When I join in 2023 I'll be back to tell you what I get issued to see if britain can get those A3s out by then
Make a video about how useless were the British in ww2 plz 🥺
Gotta give you a thumbs up for this (very rare). Good job
I think you can say we’ve evolved when we get rid of the SA80🤣🤣🤣.
jokes aside great video pal thanks 🤘🇬🇧👍
Sir,
Could you do a comparison of modern armed forces squad structures? I find it hard to understand why some squads are growing while some are shrinking.
Kind regards
4:25 it would be another six months before Lend-Lease was enacted. At this time it would be Thompson's bought on the commercial market from Auto-Ordnance or retailers.
Medal of honor vanguard soundtrack
+100 year and the cameraman still alive… What's a legend!
Anyway that's a really impressive work you got there. Really need someone to post such information these days
I was lucky enough as a cadet to fire the LE down ranges, back in the day, both cadet rechambered 22 and the full whanger (you could …. er… know the difference).
I think my dodgy old right shoulder is probablty related to this 🙂
It's interesting (I have no dog in that fight) that my uncle who WAS a bren gunner,and others like him considered the bren TOO accurate, and ideally they wanted it LESS accurate in the suppress roll, and now they complain the squad mg is TOO accurate:) I'm not saying they are wrong, they know better than me, I'm an armchair idiot, they are probably right, but it's funny 🙂
I think the constant of all time is soldiers will always complain 🙂
interesting given the volume of equipment they carry they are not running 2x teams of 5 or even 2x teams of 6
Sick production, great info
Interesting how new what I consider modern is.
First video of yours of seen, great information, but at 2 mins in I am already ready to skip it due to the AWEFUL need to put in the frikken screen shake with every transition. Stop with the screen shakes, screen distortions and other unnecessary special effects. To quote Jurassic Park, just because you can do something doesn't mean you have to.
9:56 only given 60 rounds?! The poor buggers!
(I mean, that's not much time in a heavy fight….)
Gotta tip my hat to that medal of honor theme used at the beginning of the video…
Those were the more innocent times..
By world war two it was mostly Lee Enfield no 4 not the SMLE from the start
6:50 this is Australian not British, the Owen was an Australian weapon and by 1950 the British were using the exceptionally popular Stirling.
7:48 conscription didn't exist until World War 2
I hate that the title says "squad"
Does not matter, the British army are fucked now, not enough men, not enough ammo, not enough support, if the British army had to go to war now, they are dead, this is from an 18 year veteran.
Fantastically done.
Meanwhile in Canada, we are stuck in a weird middle ground of 80's tactics, 60's weaponry and 2020's values.
Major encoding errors in the Korea section lol. While very effective in compression, YT's encoding isn't quite perfect yet. Great and informative video otherwise though!
Carbean
I think our Indian army structure should be modified like the British one.
was alright until you got to 2018 you missed the shotgun lol each battalion has recon platoon singnals platoon javalin platoon sniper platoon guns platoon assault pioneers platoon motors platoon thats mostly D company that gives the guys in A B C platoons to have more specialized arms when needed so a platoon can get cover fire from guns or mortors depending on the job at hand. improvise adapt and overcome thats the motto and the royal marines are now using new tactics thats not been fully disclosed but they wiped out a full company od US Marines so doing something good
It would cool if you could do a video on Serbian or Croatian infantry platoon or any other Balkan country
L85A1 is not gun
Would of been interesting to see from 1500 a.d till ww1
Having served in the Singapore army (former British colony), I found the modern infantry squads very similar to the British. During my time around 2010, a section comprised of one Sargent, two saws (lmg), 2 sharpshooters (marksman), and two M203s (grenadiers). The only difference was that the 2IC would be a M203 (I was one of them). So a section would be 7 men instead of 8.
“As ally as 2 GPMGs might be” it’s not pronounced ally like you’re a compatriot, it’s alley like alley way, even if it’s spelt ally.
6:20
Owen Gun
Carl Gustaf are swedish and im swedish
I would like to see a mech version of this. The Warrior only carry 7 dudes has always confused me.
Fascinating. I've wondered about these details for years.
6:09 now THAT'S camouflage!
6:45 Tom hardy?
Please do ISrael's ! glowing puppy eyes