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17 July 2007
The Antiarmour Platoon, 2LFG, spent much of June revising its break contact drills using Javelin under the watchful eye of a former reconnaissance platoon section commander and sniper.
Javelin was introduced into service last year, with the weapons issued to units in December.
The Army has 24 Javelin medium-range anti-armour weapons to provide troops with protected mobility and enhanced fire power to 2500 metres, day and night. The “fire and forget” warhead provides enhanced intelligence, tactical situational awareness, surveillance and reconnaissance capability.
Anti-Armour platoon commander Lieutenant Brad Taylor said the exercise was designed to allow soldiers to revise their break contact drills while they were carrying the equipment, pieces of which weighed up to 15 kilograms. They completed a series of drills from mounted and dismounted platforms, and with and without specialist kit. The training was conducted to establish section level SOPs for the newly-formed platoon - in preparation for supporting Exercise Wolf 2 and 3.
Reconnaissance knowledge was used to develop the anti-armour –specific training for the platoon.
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