The British Army’s Urban Operators Instructors Course was established in 2012 (MOD, 2012). The course is delivered at Copehill Down, Salisbury Plain, and is designed specifically for soldiers who are already instructors, and is the first of its kind to give a formal qualification. The course is delivered to approximately 100 students per year. Although… Read More
Until the 13 June 2018, Germany was the only big Western country not to buy “killer robots”. On this day the German Bundestag committee voted to approve the spending of nearly €1bn ($1.1bn) to lease from Israel five drones which can be equipped with deadly weapons. Unlike the US, Germany’s drones are described as weaponisable not weaponised. A… Read More
A weapon handling test (WHT) is the culmination of learning on a weapon system to demonstrate that the operator is capable of handling it safely. This must be completed before live firing.
Tactical Hearing Protection System is a generic term for Peltor active noise-cancelling hearing protection. This allows normal levels of audio to be heard by the firer (i.e. speech) but blocks out loud audio (i.e. explosions and gunshot).
A Range Action Safety Plan (RASP) is the document that prescribes the safety policy of a range, produced by the Range Conducting Officer (RCO) in accordance with Pamphlet 21. The RCO is the person in charge of a range. A Senior Planning Officer (SPO) is the person with overall responsibility for overseeing the planning of… Read More
Normal Safety Precautions (NSPs) are a set of drills used to take a weapon system from an unknown or unsafe state to a known safe state, for example by removing any rounds contained within the weapon.
ISTAR is a practice that links several battlefield functions together to assist a combat force in employing its sensors and managing the information they gather. ISTAR includes: Intelligence; Surveillance; Target Acquisition; and Reconnaissance.
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