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Joint British and American Forces face the Threat from the EastAfter two years of preparatory work, the field training exercise Spearpoint 80 was conducted as part of the large-scale Exercise Crusader 80 between 11 and 26 September 1980. Since NATo came into existence, this exercise was the larges..

SALISBURY PLAIN TRAINING AREA British Army Vehicles on SPTA - 1970s to Today The Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) is the United Kingdom's largest military training area, hosting live-firing and tactical exercises throughout the year. Salisbury Plain has played an important part in the developmen..

RECCE - The Eyes and Ears of 1st (UK) Armoured Division The Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment carries out long-range, ground-based manned reconnaissance for a larger military formation. The regiment gathers information mainly by armoured reconnaissance, but also by using battlefield surveillance syst..

KEY FLIGHT "89 - The Last Cold War Exercise of the BAoR 1989 made history as the year of the fall of the Iron Curtain. This led to a series of other events that would finally culminate in the disbandment of the Warsaw Pact, the vanishing of the Soviet Union and would also mark the end of the huge NA..

British Military Trucks in Wehrmacht Service Vehicles captured around Dunkirk, in France, Belgium, Greece and North Africa - Service on the Eastern Front, in the West, South and with the AfrikakorpsCaptured Beutefahrzeuge of British manufacture were a significant addition to Germany's military eff..