COLCHESTER’S paratroopers have demonstrated the firepower they could parachute in with during combat missions.
A fast-moving training scenario on Salisbury Plain saw the soldiers tasked to defend a drop zone they had just parachuted on to against an advancing force of armoured vehicles.
The enemy was engaged and defeated with Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missiles, 81mm mortar, grenade machine guns, heavy machine guns and general purpose machine guns.
Major Max Wright, who commands 3 Para’s Support Company, said: “Every weapon system we use can be broken down and parachuted in, either on the man or in a door bundle, to be set up on the drop zone within minutes of landing.
“At the end of the training, these paratroopers will be ready to parachute in and provide the full range of firepower wherever and however it’s required to achieve the mission.”
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