Quote:Not unless anyone knows of any pictures of them, besides their mention in Bravo Two Zero I've never seen any pics or mention of them.
umm............the storming of the iranian embassy in london.
heres some history of their known involvment in major battles/ and the places they worked in
North-African Desert 1941-1943
Malaya
Borneo
Mirbat (Oman)
Falklands
Counter Terrorist (CRW)
Embassy raid
Gulfwar
Peterhead Prison
Gibraltar
Ethiopia
Gambia
Afghanistan
Bosnia/Kosovo
South America
Zaire
Afghan Airline Hijacking
Albania
ANd, uh......yeah thats the whole IDEA of the SAS they are very secretive
You got the wrong end of the stick mate. Lilty was talking about SAS Dinkie Land Rovers (ie. stripped down Land Rover Defender 90's with guns attached).
What I think people forget about the SAS is that they're primarily an intelligence gathering organisation. In the Falklands, they spent more time sat in hides watching the Argentine forces than engaging them (but they made up for it with the Pebble Island airfield raid, where the Argies guarding it thought they'd been attacked by a battallion of troops with all the noise and chaos.
Also, people think that they worked in France, Italy, and Germany from 1944 onwards, where they worked with resistance fighters and harrassed the enemy to draw valuable assets away from the front.
I think it's a bit of a waste of time to try and list all the guns that they use too. I've been reading SAS books since I was about eight, and anything about them on the telly I'll watch (apart from that awful film "Who Dares Wins." What a load of horsecrap!), but I'd have trouble with listing weapons that they use outside of the basics such as 203 (although they reportedly prefer the Diemaco over the "proper" Colt versions), Minimis, GPMGs, MP5s for CQB, Browning HPs and Sig Sauer P226s as sidearms. I know that they liked to use the G3 and SLR (license-built FN FAL) in desert combat since they're very reliable and have good long-range stopping power, which is what you need in the desert. Also, I read that they used the HK53 (MP5 rechambered to fire the 5.56mm NATO round) in Northern Island for shooting from inside cars until they deemed the 5.56mm round too weak to stop other cars and went on to using a batch of "liberated" folding stock FALs they brought home from the Falklands until they got their hands on some G3Ks (retractable stock G3). Also, in situations where they need to blend in with regular British soldiers, they've been known to carry an SA80 (interestingly, they tested it in the jungle before the rest of the army got their hands on them, and they said that they were unreliable crap. A few months later, the rest of the army was issued with the SA80
). Also, I've seen a few pictures in SAS books of guys carrying what look like G33/41s (not sure which is the correct designation as the G41 was a WWII rifle, but the modern HK one is a G3 rechambered for 5.56mm).
Of course, OFP won't let us make the best weapon an SAS man can have- his fighting dagger
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