Impressive take of the live firing of the spike in NZ.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28199380@N05/3314704479/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28199380@N05/page6/

how come she is so involved in military affairs?

A female soldier and MP.

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She (Heather Roy) is the Associate Defense Minister for NZ, and has also had some training with their regular army and Territorials.

I'm quite curious as to which unit was there for live firing, since we have a few units with that capability.

We'll not discuss it as it falls under OPSEC.

Heh, I thought someone might say that. Note, however, that I wasn't particularly asking which unit, but just curious about it.

The kiwi military badly needs an advocate like her after the what the last 'liberal' govt did.

lovely place to be having live firing ex :P

This year's thunder warrior involved 21SA, 24SA, 3SIR, 1MI Bn (reported in 90cent newspaper) so the unit firing the spike would have been 3 SIR. Same thing with 7 Gds SIB last year who also did the spike live firing (reported in mindef website).

The interesting news is that this year's thunder warrior was the first to involve a motorised infantry exercise.

can see that it has sniper team.

Ah, I was wondering if 1MI was involved, as there was the shot of the UAV.

Thanks, I don't really have access to the 90 cent paper here. :)

any details? :D

Noted the official news release from Mindef as well.

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/imindef/news_and_...21jan09_nr.html

"Besides artillery training, the SAF is also conducting infantry training, supported by M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers, Primus, weapon-locating radar and mini-unmanned aerial vehicles."

2010 Exercise Thunder Warrior, New Zealand

Flickr photos from NZ MP Heather Roy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heatherroymp/page6/

Quite surprised to see the arty guys carrying M16s, thought they would be using SAR-21s.

If it isn't broken...

is there mono-intake for Arty? I can't imagine how a PTE fresh from Tekong and being trained on SAR21 would look when he gets posted to Arty and gets told to 'downgrade' to the M16 :P

Yea, there's mono-intake, but BMTC grads are also sent over.

AFAIK, the BMT trainees will undergo M16 and SAR21 training.

The infantry and guards units are all SAR21.

HTH.

armour's sar21 even during my time.

bmtc recruits only train in SAR21. except infantry , guards, armour the other combat support units use m16 of which the new bmtc recruits have be retrained in.