teletech Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Interesting to see them still in use. from http://rpdefense.over-blog.com/tag/uk/4 25 mars 2015 Regular and Reserve personnel from 17 Port & Maritime Regiment RLC have conducted a beach landing with 42 vehicles from a military Mexeflote floating pontoon. The vehicles included CVR(T) Scimitars, Mastiffs, Wolfhounds, Stormers and a Terrier Armoured Digger, all belonging to regiments of 3rd (UK) Division. The ‘ship to shore discharge’ of military vehicles at Browndown Beach in Hampshire concludes Exercise Tractable, a divisional exercise moving 1650 personnel and approximately 570 vehicles by land, air and sea, designed to test the rapid deployment of 3 Div’s Lead Armoured Task Force. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulbrook Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Very good to see!!! I am an old 17 P&M hand and it is great to see MEXE continuing. I have some 8mm cine somewhere of us unloading Chieftain over Browndown beach back in the 1980s - there is little difference in then and now. I think we used Maxi-MEXE though (5 cells wide rather than the normal 3). And we were transferring from LSL not RoRo. That exercise was also notable because it was the first time I had ever seen a GS shovel used as a pogo stick (there is some impressive metallurgy in a GS shovel and the point is both tough and springy). Happy days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Grundy Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Subject matter very good but an awful, badly made film and the soundtrack was abysmal..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulbrook Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I didn't put the sound on Bill - were they singing sea shanties? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Truly awful music! But a good vid nonetheless. I wouldnt like to try that in a rough sea! With apologies for thread hijack Bob are you planning on attending YWE at all this weekend? Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Grundy Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Truly awful music! But a good vid nonetheless. I wouldnt like to try that in a rough sea! With apologies for thread hijack Bob are you planning on attending YWE at all this weekend? No, I shall be going to Old Warden, a better class of vehicles.......... Tim No, I shall be going to The Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, a better class of vehicles......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbo Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Well enjoy yourself Bob. Kettle will be on should you change your mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulbrook Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 MEXE can and does operate in surprisingly big seas - when loading at anchor though there is a bit of lee from the vessel ahead and things tend to go up and down together. It can get sporty on the beach though in a big swell as the waves tend to break over the stern of the raft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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