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16 Air Assault Brigade demonstrates its Swift Response
Image shows Chinook and Apache helicopter.
Apache attack helicopters and paratroopers from 16 Air Assault Brigade have taken part in the largest multinational airborne exercise in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
3 Regiment Army Air Corps and C (Bruneval) Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment are on Exercise Swift Response 15 in southern Germany. The training has brought together 4,800 soldiers from 11 NATO countries to improve the ability of the alliance’s high readiness forces to operate together.
The combined force - built around the US Army’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division - was challenged with a simulated mission to restore stability to a troubled region.
3 Regt AAC, based at Wattisham Flying Station in Suffolk, commanded a Joint Helicopter Force of 12 helicopters. It planned and executed strike missions by four Apache attack helicopters from its 663 Squadron, as well as moving troops and equipment with three Chinooks from the RAF’s 18 Squadron and five US Army UH-60 Blackhawks.
Colchester-based 2 PARA was partnered with the Italian 183° Reggimento Paracadutisti Nembo. They parachuted in to the Hohenfels Training Area from two RAF C-130J Hercules as part of a mass drop of 1,300 paratroopers from 13 aircraft. The troops secured an airfield to carry out a non-combatant evacuation operation and then, as the security situation worsened, launched offensive operations against insurgents.
16 Air Assault Brigade demonstrates its Swift Response
Image shows Chinook and Apache helicopter.
Apache attack helicopters and paratroopers from 16 Air Assault Brigade have taken part in the largest multinational airborne exercise in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
3 Regiment Army Air Corps and C (Bruneval) Company, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment are on Exercise Swift Response 15 in southern Germany. The training has brought together 4,800 soldiers from 11 NATO countries to improve the ability of the alliance’s high readiness forces to operate together.
The combined force - built around the US Army’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division - was challenged with a simulated mission to restore stability to a troubled region.
3 Regt AAC, based at Wattisham Flying Station in Suffolk, commanded a Joint Helicopter Force of 12 helicopters. It planned and executed strike missions by four Apache attack helicopters from its 663 Squadron, as well as moving troops and equipment with three Chinooks from the RAF’s 18 Squadron and five US Army UH-60 Blackhawks.
Colchester-based 2 PARA was partnered with the Italian 183° Reggimento Paracadutisti Nembo. They parachuted in to the Hohenfels Training Area from two RAF C-130J Hercules as part of a mass drop of 1,300 paratroopers from 13 aircraft. The troops secured an airfield to carry out a non-combatant evacuation operation and then, as the security situation worsened, launched offensive operations against insurgents.