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Tafscot
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Fri Sep 26, 2008 4:36 pm |
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The SA80 is capable of firing 700 rounds per minute
An assault rifle and radio equipment have been lost during an army training exercise on Dartmoor.
The SA80 automatic weapon and secure portable radio system went missing on a 42 Engineer Regiment training weekend, the Ministry of Defence (MoD)said.
An MoD spokesman said: "A military police investigation is under way due to a missing rifle and radio."
He added that he could not confirm reports that the weapon was taken after a soldier fell asleep.
"They went missing after a training exercise last weekend on the south side of Dartmoor," he said.
The equipment belonging to the Oxfordshire-based regiment went missing in the early hours of Sunday at Homing Beam, a regular military training area near Princetown.
200 weapons lost
An Army spokesman said the gun was not loaded and investigators were taking the incident very seriously.
He said no ammunition was missing and the MoD Police's special investigation branch was leading the inquiry.
The spokesman claimed such equipment losses were a rare occurrence. However, in 2006 the BBC discovered that more than 200 weapons had been lost by or stolen from the British military over a nine-year period.
The SA80 rifle is one of the British military's standard combat weapons.
It takes a 30-round magazine and is capable of firing 700 rounds of 5.56mm ammunition per minute.
There has been a military presence on Dartmoor for more than 200 years. The MoD has licences for firing on 13,000 hectares of National Park land. |
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gingerjim
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Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:40 pm |
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| i cant recall anyone losing their eating irons let alone their rifle in our days , it would have been at least 3 years in the cells if that had happened, ginger |
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Tafscot
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Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:29 pm |
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| Very true Ginge? I remember many a night curled up in my sleeping bag, out in Kenya or Aden, and I was cuddling my Rifle not my Teddy(or anything else for that matter??LOL) |
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Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:23 pm |
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The one item that is between life and death the stupid sod decides to have a kip and leaves his weapon wide open for a opportunist git to pinch it needs some jail time to lie back and think to what that weapon means to him.
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gingerjim
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Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:11 pm |
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| will he be given a spell in the cells in todays modern army or just be fined, as i say in the old days it would probably be 5 years nick followed by dishounourable discharge, sentence would probably be served in the mallet, ginger, |
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Tafscot
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Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:46 pm |
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| it would be interesting to find out waht happens< as you ay Ginge in the old days it would "hello Catterick" here I come, followed a few years later with goodbye Army?? |
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Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:45 pm |
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I was going OTT in respect in jailing him, but you must admit military personel must be held to account, you cannont allow them to get a slap on the hand or shove it under the carpet as it never happend. I know how it feels to be on exercise for days at a time its bloody hard going.
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Tafscot
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Mon Sep 29, 2008 4:54 pm |
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| All those silly stand To's at the most ridiculous times? and you knew fine it was all play acting? Ah those were the days??LOL |
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