In regards to Operation Nimrod, the hostage taker hiding among the hostages in the back garden wasn’t immediately thrown into a police van. The SAS grabbed him and attempted to bring him back into the building to make sure they had neutralized all of the hostage takers until they were reminded about the number of cameras recording them, at which point he was begrudgingly brought to a police van.
@@doktorsmiles2034he was. You should watch the Shaun Ryan show episode #92, where he interviews Christian Craighead, aka Obi Wan Nairobi. The man is an absolute legend. Great interview.
@@slake9727 because national pride in the UK is considered a bit racist, it's not and people know it's not but it's how the public view it. Simon has said before if you so much as wave a British flag especially the King George flag people think you are are racist.
One of the (many) genius parts of Operation Nimrod happened while the SAS were doing their recce. To cover the noise of their drilling through the embassy walls to install listening devices, they had the flight path of the planes approaching Heathrow airport moved so they flew over the embassy. The noise from the planes overhead covered the sound of the drilling, and thus the hostage takers weren’t alerted to the ongoing operation. Genius.
@@damienslade it's not fiction, it happened, the government called up the gas board and asked them to start drilling like they were doing roadworks and requested all departing flights from Heathrow (which approach goes over Central London anyway) to lower their altitude on departure and arrival, the result was a racket.
Dutchie here: I can remember the actions at the Iranian embassy very clear when I was young. This was a superb operation! It started my interest in the Special Forces. And now, long after a short term of service in the Dutch Special Forces, I know what they went through but also what they had to do to become a part of this special family.
@@m33p0 there are a multitude of British officers, but there is a vast difference between an officer in the RLC one in the Life Guards and an officer in the SAS. There is also a large difference between an officer in the Parachute regiment and a trooper in the SAS.
Fun fact: During the Iraq War, SAS Operators were dispatched during a patrol to deal with a factory that was making self-unalive vests. One of the SAS Operators was armed with a M1014, aka the L128A1 shotgun, and when he entered the room, he immediately took out the heads of 3 enemies, and as another 2 came down, their heads got blown off by the same shotgun as well. The enemies saw this, and with the fear of getting their heads blown off, all surrendered. All of this happened with 5 enemies downed in 7 seconds
@@kevaunclayton2963 Obviously no, but there's plenty of sources out there for you to search up. I tried posting some links here but it just made my comment disappeared so you're going to have to search it up yourself
It's simply amazing that Shackleton navigated that little row boat from Antarctica and got to that tiny Island of South Georgia on the Endurance expedition, and further amazing that South Georgia Island was where he died of a heart attack many years later. I think South Georgia Island is considered the most remote inhabitated place on earth.
I think that's St Helena bud or Tristan da cunha can't rember which, south Georgia is (relatively) close to the Falkland islands or it would definitely win.
The westside boys story has an extra interesting dimension, Phil Campion mentioned on his podcast (he was there) that the negotiation team left several crates of booze for the westside boys the day before as a token of goodwill. This meant many of the men the next day were horribly drunk or hungover
Then the helicopter he landed in, bailed out and killed everyone. Thought it was fairly easy then realised the chopper had landed backwards :D I love Phil Campion and how he describes the events
@@jaysongabler591 crazy ops dude not against all odds Plus i dont know if your ex military but do you understand what an Op is ??? The "Battle" of Mirbat wasnt an Operation it was a battle
Little remembered fact, famous British actor David Nivon was an Officer in the Long Range Desert Group during WWII after returning from Holywood immediately on the declaration of war to volenteer
Sir Christopher Lee was running around North Africa as a “commando” at the same time as a polyglot and general smart guy if he wasn’t sas he was sas “adjacent “ rip to both
A more recent SAS incident was during the DusitD2 complex attack in Nairobi Kenya. While this didn't involve a whole SAS team it did involve SAS member Christian Craighead also known as Obi-wan Nairobi. Awsome story.
It was definitely a reaction... That's what modern SAS is for........ Respect and love to all of you serving.... and to those served previous..and to all fallen whomever they may be under any flag 🫡
IT WAD COMPLEATLY UNFAIR one against 50 at one stage he surrounded them l expect nothing less by british special forces best in world delta said they where second to none sign at sas hq just said none
@@Estolcles: Yes, it reminds me of the George Bush Jnr anecdote when he inquired of an aide, "where is the airport in Africa located?". It certainly colours your judgement of the masses that elected the last few Heads of State, and will probably do so again. God help us all.
@@jedaaa They didn’t do that to the last guy found among the hostages outside, by two of the terrorists were executed in the embassy after they surrendered. This was in the previous version of the video.
I went there (Recce Platoon, Royal Hampshire Régiment), 1982 after 1 Para relieved us is Fermanagh. We did a spot of climbing there. Had very little kit but on coming summer made things easier. I think it was Mt. Hodges about 6 of climbed during rest phase. The other thing we did which nearly turned disastrous was to take an old clinker built whaler. 6 out of 8 of us boarded the rowing boat. Got out of the kelp and into the sea. The boat was leaking terribly and going back was now awkward. I cannot remember from which whaling station we set off. We were on our way back from having patrolled out to all of them. (Patrols phase; defences phase; rest phase). I was patrol commander got a bollocking from our boss. That was hairy but made the Regimental journal. My old COP boss from the Fermanagh tour was impressed. That was good enough for me. Great tour.
The old gag used to be in bad.taste,but went like this .the subjects have lit up more Embassy's than hurricane Higgins embassy being an old brand of cigarettes
Let’s mention the ones who don’t get mentioned. The SBS. Who train American Navy Seals in survival in Artic conditions. Who work in two or three man teams and have pulled off attacks and rescues we don’t necessarily hear about until later. Can you hold your breath for 3 minutes in freezing water? That’s what they train to do. As yet a U.S. Navy Seal managed 2 minutes just. The closest being a Norwegian soldier who lasted 2mins 38 seconds.
A year or so earlier than the Iranian Embassy task a train was hijacked in Holland and it was mentioned in the news that British Forces helped the Dutch, that was definitely an SAS job, there must be some info on it somewhere.
When I think of the SAS two sayings come to mind, 1st is "play with fire you get burnt" the 2nd more modern version is "f*ck about and find out" These guys do not mess about. Big respect to these men, heroes that slide through the shadows swiftly and leave as fast as they appeared.
There was an SAS trooper who lived with the Afghan Army by himself as far as we could tell. We lived with the Gurkha quite a bit and the trooper would stroll up to the checkpoint in the mornings for breakfast.
The motto Who Dares Wins is often associated with the British Special Air Service (SAS), but its origins actually trace back to ancient Greece. The concept itself resonates with the Greek spirit of bravery and strategic risk-taking, commonly seen in literature, philosophy, and military thought. One of the closest ancient parallels is the Greek phrase, "Τολμῶν νικᾷ" (Tolmon niká), meaning "He who dares, wins," which captures a similar sentiment. Greek writers like Homer, as well as philosophers like Heraclitus, often emphasized courage and audacity as vital traits for victory. It’s fascinating to see how this idea has continued to inspire generations, from ancient Greek warriors to modern special forces!
Those AI depictions are hilarious. Rifles with sideways optics, and double front sight frames As for the last mission, SAS: Rogue Heroes does a pretty good job of depicting it
Operation Nimrod is also famous for the largest number of people ever to crowd onto the balcony of any embassy anywhere in the world. According to self-reporting after the action was long over, an estimated 43,879 people were on the balcony that day even though only three were visible to the BBC's cameras.
R U really ,that thick as 💩that you don't understand the figure you're quoting that particular number as a means to a ruskie false flag plant for that's what it is. ! It would help. if you are old enough to have been alive at that time? I had not reached the age of 5 , yet remember it vividly as it dragged on for 6 days and was the top news story of that era until the (Challenger 86) disaster anyway back to the point,that figure you're on about is a reference to the number of people who were in and around the intire world's press corps
Regarding Operation: Nimrod, there was an excellent Mark Strong movie called 6 Days. To my knowledge, they got most of the main points of both the operation and the events leading up to the seige mostly correct.
'Paraquet' is an alternative spelling to 'parakeet', that I have never heard of before. And I live next to the great Parakeet country of Australia. No-one calls them 'Paraquet' down here. And 'Paraquat'..... good one boys...... that's funny.
A friend of mine was actually one of those captured by the West Side Boys, something he explained was purely down to the arrogance of his patrol leader who was looking for a little action. Having survived that, he got shot in the arm by a pellet gun driving a bus in Wolverhampton. Needless to say I do wonder if he carries a target on his back! The operation was informally known as Operation Certain Death by the way!
It's just as crazy being family. My father Terry Jickells was A Sq 22 SAS for over 20 years and my Uncle Pete was G Sq. Trust me the families can be unhinged. Yeah, we got to hear some of the stories too.
Fun fact - the one terrorist who was captured and imprisoned was released, given citizenship, welfare, and a property. One of the SAS members around the same time lost everything and was denied housing and welfare. That's how far the uk has fallen.
Fun Fact. The SAS member who lost everything (through bad business decisions long after he left the army) was offered housing, but turned it down. He's now happily settled.
6:20 Wow, this AI depiction has some wild lighting. For a moment I thought it was a stock photo with some cheapo "close enough" gear and non-specific balsa wood helicopter.
During the incident in Africa the day before the attack there had been a face to face meeting to hear the demands of the captors which ended with the British sealing the deal with a lot of booze to take back and celebrate the talks and promises made on both sides....... just to make sure they were not fit the next morning...... The south Georgia story is full of action and a bit of a shock for the Argentinian forces right from the beginning, and the story of the SAS attempts is covered by the helicopter pilot that flew the only surviving helicopter ( which also very nearly crashed in a white out) back to safety. The pilot tells of having to fly by the instruments because everything was totally white and zero visibility, the blue fox radar was the same as the harriers and designed to follow the contour of the sea to keep as low as possible, but unknown to the helicopter crew the radar had taken them into a cravas that wasn't very wide, it was flying them up and down the contours of the cravas and was only realised when one of the crew saw the blades chopping the cravas wall.
Please do a video of talaisai labalaba, dipprasad pun or the rescue of Corporal Mathew Ford (Royal Marine). Legendary stories...ideal for your story telling manner.
Genuine question, as I'm not expert on such matters... Are US Navy Seals not considered to be the pinnacle of special forces? Are SAS more trained than Seals? Who wins in a head to head?
Delta are considered the best in the US. When talking about the SEALs then it really depends. DevGru which is SEAL team 6 are what the UK would call special forces. The other SEAL teams are what the UK would call elite, so more akin to the Paras (infantry battalions of the parachute regiment) and the Royal Marines. Same goes for the US Green Barrets and the Rangers, they'd also be considered elite. So to join the UKSF then you've got to have served already for 5 years if I remember. Delta force is the same. They're both Tri forces as well as in you can join the SAS from the navy or join the SBS from the army ect. The SEAL teams you join as a civilian unless it's DevGru (the Bin Ladan lads) in which case you have to have served with the regular SEAL teams for a number of years. My understanding is that SEAL team 6 only took on from the other SEAL teams. Whether that's still the case I wouldn't know. I heard that team 6 lads have gone to Delta but Delta have never gone to the seals, so I assume it's at least open to Delta, assuming that was true ofc
We had one of the troopers come to talk to us at work and he told us about the West Side Boys operation. He said that they had a guy called Mad Tony came up with the plan. He then said that every organisation needs a Mad Tony. At that moment, all eyes in the room turned to look at me. Their own Mad Tony.
Are you the same 'Mad Tony' that carried out that Haribo robbery where two sherbet fountains and a couple of liquorice sticks were taken ? You're a hard man 'Tony'
Just out of curiosity, a question about the Operation Nimrod. Who authorized the SAS to go into what is effectively a foreign country, the Iranian embassy? Was it Thatcher’s (plus the cabinet) or did they ask the Iranian government for permission?
@@pooooornopigeonI think the way it worked was that the Police Commissionaire requested approval from the Whitelaw to hand over control to the military. This was given then the ranking police officer at the embassy then officially signed over control to the army. A similar process when the RUC requested the help of the army in the sixties in Northern Ireland.
The Iranian government gave permission. Their people were inside as hostiges. Though whether the permission was given before or after we will never know.
There's another 2nd world war story floating around, about the sas hijacking a train in Italy.. drove it 50 miles into enemy territory and rescued 180 people from a concentration camp ... btw i think this story has now been confirmed ... truly amazing!!
I really enjoy the Megaprojects and Sideprojects videos! The variety of topics keeps things interesting, but go into enough detail to understand and learn something along the way. One thing I have noticed is that the narration doesn't seem to be as clear as it was in older videos, so TH-cam's closed-caption tool seems to have quite a bit of trouble parsing what's being said. I know that Simon talks quite quickly, especially during the intro & outro of the videos, but in previous videos his enunciation is clear enough that the generated captions are reliably legible and coherent. In this video and other recent uploads, however, even the slower-paced portions are difficult to parse, and as a result the captions don't always make sense. I don't know how important accessibility is to Simon as a content creator, but as a viewer that leans on these text-to-speech captions to fill in the gaps where hearing lets me down, I do wish that either the voiceovers were more clear, or that accurate transcripts were available. (I understand that this is a niche issue, and that creators are under no obligation to adjust their content for the benefit of what I assume is a relatively small cohort of viewers, so I hope this comment doesn't come across as a criticism: I just don't love the idea of missing out on the information that Simon clearly works hard to gather, prepare, and present!)
Fun little story with thermal trivia too: About 3 months ago after a nice weekend skiing at our cabin, Sunday afternoon when packing up to go home we found out that the engine heater had crapped out overnight. So we made a call and got help from the fine folk at the army base a couple of km down the road, that came and towed the car to the base where it could sit inside one the mec maintenance halls to taw out for a couple of hours. At the base entry gate they have 2 fairly large temperature displays, one showing Celsius and one Farenheit. Looking at those was when I learned that the intersection point between Celsius and Farenheit is exactly -40° :)
Small but important points on Op Barras. The Lynx were Army helicopters NOT RAF. They didn’t use missile pods they utilised the.50 Cal MG operated by Army Air Corps doorgunners
I mean some of the ones on the glacier the guns are completely stupid. If you’re going to use AI generation at least QA it so it looks decent. The one at 10:48 is so bad.
FYI, there's a BBC series ROGUE HEROES, about the founding of the SAS in WW2 and their operations in North Africa. One of the most expensive series ever made by the BBC. EXCELLENT production values, but they did take some dramatic license. Still a great watch.
It wasn't a great mission, everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Only one guy made it out, the others died or were captured and the mission failed in its main objective. It is a great story of endurance, suffering and heroism, but not of a brilliantly executed operation.
It was the one known Operation where anything that could go wrong for the Patrol actually happen. It was total Murphy Law cluster. They were given Radio Channel to use didn't work properly in the AO they were assigned. The failure of noticing an Armored Division that garrison in the AO. Prime example to reinforce if you going to conduct an operation, one should send in recon team before hand, which was fore gone due the nature of the many mission that this Patrol and others had to conduct. The again the Weather turned out to be much worse than forecast for the duration of the operation. Then their were the children who herding some farm animals that just happen to come across the outcrop that looked directly in their 'perfect' hiding spot. The list in much longer, but most of which, are factors that these type of mission have plans to deal with if it happens. These guys remember the 5 P's, Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. Just the assigned Radio Channel, the unknown Armored Division, lack of proper recon of the AO, the shitty weather, and bad luck that the local kids finding the one spot to look into their Hiding spot. 4 out of 5 factors would take a normal Patrol mission to become the Nightmare Patrol mission. The only one of those 5 was the kids, they had two choices is to abduct or kill the kids, that eventually someone would come out searching for them, or letting the kids slip away and pray they would tell they were their. The Patrol Leader I believe the right call based on what the other alternative would of eventual led to them being hunted down by active Iraqi Military Patrols unknowingly much sooner.
I appreciate that the real footage of the Iranian Embassy Siege is used. There is actual footage of the Faulkland Island war, too. Those AI dipictions are beyond brutal.
A small group of sas men were once surrounded by hundreds in siege.a stressed sounding young one turned to another airman and worriedly stated they have us surrounded.the senior airman replied ' those poor bastards'
Great video!! Now I'm going to request another one.... Same video, but with the SBS!! Picture and Link this video in the description of the other one, that way we can compare and contrast the two forces....
@@Gav_80085 You said the vidro was about SAS and the OG comment is about not mentioning the PARAs Yet in the video in south georgia he mentions the bootnecks supporting the SAS but doing mention the PARAs in SL ? Do you understand noe
You have to give it to Margaret Thatcher with Nimrod. She was itching to send in "her boys" she called them. After it was all over, she went to see the lads back at debrief and stayed with them while they were celebrating with beers.
There’s an argument that one is better than the other; out of the SAS and SBS but I don’t want to get into it. “Quickly, there’s no time”! ~Bryan Mills
No, it's the SBS. The SRR seem to be the most impressive of British Special Forces. I find it weird to have the SAS listed as the best special operations in the world when groups like the SAD, the Sayeret, and so on exist and based on known accomplishments are of a level greater than the SAS though likely very nearly peers with the SBS.
@@nochannel1q2321SRR are purely recce. It's just 14 intel corps. It was created during the restructure of SF which was done to take the load off SAS because they did everything. So 1Para went to SF command, the SBS were brought up to the level of SAS which is when they did the joint selection and opened the SBS up to the tri force as before then only Royal Marines could join them. Even army Commandos couldn't join, so SAS got the infantry but also all the sappers, signals, reme, artillery ect. The SBS just had maritime infantry. They also started to cross pollinate, so the Paras started to work more with the SBS and Royals more with SAS. As for the SBS being better now however then there's absolutely nothing to indicate that. There's a myth knocking about that they go on continuation training after being badged but all SF do. SBS and SAS boat troop go off together, SAS mountain troop go off and do advanced mountain and arctic warfare training ect. Civvies think that SAS just gets badged and then magically know all their specialties but as great as they are, they're not magic. Regardless the SBS do a deep sea diving course which unless you're fighting mermaids isn't much use. Even then during Herrick they weren't doing continuation training because there was no point learning to deep sea diving in a war in a landlocked middle eastern country. I know Paras who were penguins for a year because again they just needed soldiers out there so didn't bother until they got back. The only difference between SAS and the SBS is sas take lead on ground ops and the SBS take lead on maritime. In terms of the best ever then no one knows because they never go up against each other. All we do know is other SF seem to say "the Brits".
@me5969 based on difficulty of admission and then number of those passing the training the SAS is like the regular UK army, the SBS is like the SAS and the SRR Re like the SBS. It probably should've been an indicator of how much of an explanation of them I needed. E: Ego aside no one ominously calls any UK special forces unit the "anything." That probably sounds like a cool thing, but it's not something that happens in reality. If there's a close local relationship there'll be nicknames and without a close local relationship no one says anything as the commanders issuing the orders aren't going to be submitting their orders with that kind of stuff.
@@nochannel1q2321is English your first language? I don't know what you're trying to say. SAS and the SBS do a joint selection. I was in 2Para (Parachute Regiment). I know lads who've been on it. They're both a tri force, so you can join from any branch (at least from the Iraq days). You volunteer and then either get signed off or don't. usually they keep you at battalion if there's a tour coming up. So for example I went out to Sangin in 08 so if I put a request in (not that I'd been in long enough to be allowed by that point. But say I'd been in for 5 years) then they wouldn't have let me on SF selection until after the tour. Anyway you all end up in it together. Royals, Paras, sappers, reme ect. It's joint run by the SAS and SBS. You can even change midway. So you can put a request in for the SBS but decide during selection that you want to join SAS instead. You see what I mean? They literally do the same thing until they get what's referred to as "badged" and then they go on and do continuation training. That's where the SAS and SAS boat troop go off and do deep sea diving, SAS Mountain Troop go off and do their thing. SAS Air Troop and Mobility Troop go off and do their training ect. What you're doing is basically comparing 2Para to 3Para. There are no separate figures for pass rates with the SBS and SAS because it's a joint selection. They literally do it together. SAS are not like the green army or regular army as you called it. SRR as ally as they are are purely recce. It is literally 14 Intelligent Corps. I don't mean they're similar. I mean it is literally the same but renamed. They're the best at recce but they don't do all the door kicking and raids, hostage rescue, black kit (counter-terror) ect that the SAS and the SBS do
RIP, Warrant Officer John Thompson who passed away on 31 Aug 24 at the age of 82., John was in on operation Nimrod aka the Iranian Embassy siege, part of the front abseil team that went in through the windows and operations in the Falklands war , gone , but never forgotten
The battle of Mirbat should be on this list, it’s a crazy story. One guys actions that day were so heroic they built a statue of him at Hereford barracks to commemorate him and his sacrifice. Look it up if you don’t know the story.
@@Tactical_Hotdog No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion. The name was used before Stirling’s unit was formed. There doesn’t seem to be any link to the modern regiment, rather it’s just an oddity of early war unconventional warfare that the name an earlier use. It’s the SAS, just not The SAS. Edit to add- Originally No. 2 Commando, No.11 Special Air Service Battalion was renamed 1st Parachute Battalion and was part of the formation of the 1st Parachute Brigade, and hence first airborne after the operation.
the LRDG traversed the desert a lot and became very good at it, so much so, they became known as the ghost patrol by the italians, sadly im pretty sure a lot of them died at the raid on tobruk that failed when only 2 boats made it through into tobruk and the royal marines who were meant to land near by never made it because the frigate got sunk iirc
You Scot’s have your own regiments in the British army like the black watch, very valuable to the British army. We may be from different countries but we are still the same great nation. Much love brother
That last hostage-taker served some time in prison and is still living, presumably in comfort, in London today. He's had occasional mention in Daily Mail.
Haha, when I was a kid, the Winter Rules were, if it is -20C, I had to have parental supervision. If it was -40C, I had to play inside. Anything lower than that and it was time to batten down the hatches. Then we moved to Australia, in the middle of June, so, Winter. People thought we were crazy for going to beach when it was 14C. That was like a warm Summer's day to us.
On the Nimrod front, they only used flashbangs, which give off smoke but no tear gas. The guy on the stairs was relatively silent. Rusty Firmin ID'd him, couldn't shoot him as the bullets would go right through him so pushed him down the stairs where 3 guys shot him. 78 bullet wounds in total which is approx 2 seconds from each gun pointed at him.
10:50 Operation Paraquet Radio Chatter "It's cold enough to freeze our bloody Jacobs off, sir. Permission to attack Mother Nature, sir!" "Negative! Make your way to the evac point, sharpish!!"
re the fourth account, The SAS were to launch attacks and conduct operations, the LRDF were the "bus drivers". As time progressed, they all cross trained and became skilled at both units specialties. The Deset Rats.
"The Desert Rats" was the nickname given to the 7th Armoured Division which was part of the British Army it mustered up to about 15,000 men with around 350 tanks. The nickname came from the fact that in 1940 the Division started to use an in insignia of a Jerboa on its vehicles. The Jerboa is known as the desert rat.
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In regards to Operation Nimrod, the hostage taker hiding among the hostages in the back garden wasn’t immediately thrown into a police van. The SAS grabbed him and attempted to bring him back into the building to make sure they had neutralized all of the hostage takers until they were reminded about the number of cameras recording them, at which point he was begrudgingly brought to a police van.
That is very true. If those cameras were not watching that guy would not be around today. They would have just eliminated him, no doubt!
Fowzi Badavi Nedjad the last surviving hostage taker, now lives in London under a different identity after coming out of prison.
Major Sterling noted you could multi tax jeeps, 😅 steering and firing a vickers, choice. 👌
Yeah, probably just a let’s not get into operational “details”…Standard Operating Procedure. No prob
@@johngamble967Much better than my eating pizza and watching television. M
And let's not forget Obi One Nairobi..not an operation but a single operator showing the full capability of the SAS by his lonesome.
The battle of Oman/Mirbat 1972. RIP Labba!
Christian creaghead
I think i heard about this. Wasnt he off duty and helped the authoritys to clear a building and rescue hostages on his own?
it was not an sas operation.
@@doktorsmiles2034he was. You should watch the Shaun Ryan show episode #92, where he interviews Christian Craighead, aka Obi Wan Nairobi.
The man is an absolute legend. Great interview.
Simon tries to hide it but he is so proud to be an Englishman
Lol I didn't think he was trying that hard to hide his utter joy at being British
Why would he hide it?
Englishman? According to an army buddy around half of the SAS in Welsh, Scottish, global recruits! Englishman.....tw*t
@@slake9727 because national pride in the UK is considered a bit racist, it's not and people know it's not but it's how the public view it. Simon has said before if you so much as wave a British flag especially the King George flag people think you are are racist.
The sas isnt english
One of the (many) genius parts of Operation Nimrod happened while the SAS were doing their recce. To cover the noise of their drilling through the embassy walls to install listening devices, they had the flight path of the planes approaching Heathrow airport moved so they flew over the embassy. The noise from the planes overhead covered the sound of the drilling, and thus the hostage takers weren’t alerted to the ongoing operation. Genius.
lol BS
@@keithday3658 no, the government literally did that.
@@keithday3658 It ain't
This is absolute fiction and popular myth which weirdly stems from Alan Partridge of all things. I mean, think about the logistics of that. 😂
@@damienslade it's not fiction, it happened, the government called up the gas board and asked them to start drilling like they were doing roadworks and requested all departing flights from Heathrow (which approach goes over Central London anyway) to lower their altitude on departure and arrival, the result was a racket.
Dutchie here: I can remember the actions at the Iranian embassy very clear when I was young. This was a superb operation! It started my interest in the Special Forces. And now, long after a short term of service in the Dutch Special Forces, I know what they went through but also what they had to do to become a part of this special family.
As Lofty Wisemen said 'Did he take part in the Iranian Embassy siege? No, but he knew 120 guys that did'
I am member 2,341 of the 3rd Man on the Balcony Assn.... :-)
I was no 56 and how the balcony didn't collapse I yam surprised
"We haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner. Sorry."
"Was there anything else?"
That was the Parachute Regiment, not the SAS.
@@calibrazxr750 british officers. the major was even carrying an umbrella in battle.
Greatest line in cinematic history. Well, for me anyways.
@@m33p0 there are a multitude of British officers, but there is a vast difference between an officer in the RLC one in the Life Guards and an officer in the SAS. There is also a large difference between an officer in the Parachute regiment and a trooper in the SAS.
Fun fact: During the Iraq War, SAS Operators were dispatched during a patrol to deal with a factory that was making self-unalive vests. One of the SAS Operators was armed with a M1014, aka the L128A1 shotgun, and when he entered the room, he immediately took out the heads of 3 enemies, and as another 2 came down, their heads got blown off by the same shotgun as well. The enemies saw this, and with the fear of getting their heads blown off, all surrendered. All of this happened with 5 enemies downed in 7 seconds
Were u there
@@kevaunclayton2963 Obviously no, but there's plenty of sources out there for you to search up. I tried posting some links here but it just made my comment disappeared so you're going to have to search it up yourself
The Fat Electrician Special.
Surely that unlocked some kind of perk
Must have been cool hearing the trophy unlock sound when that happened
It's simply amazing that Shackleton navigated that little row boat from Antarctica and got to that tiny Island of South Georgia on the Endurance expedition, and further amazing that South Georgia Island was where he died of a heart attack many years later.
I think South Georgia Island is considered the most remote inhabitated place on earth.
Shackletons dogs weren't real happy about the outcome of the expedition.
@@NelsonZAPTM yeah, poor dogs 😢
I think that's St Helena bud or Tristan da cunha can't rember which, south Georgia is (relatively) close to the Falkland islands or it would definitely win.
@@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510 "Poor dogs" is why Robert Falcon Scott starved to death in a tent like a bitch.
@@NelsonZAPTM In those days the animals were there for emergency food as well as pack animals.
Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba, the Battle of Mirbat. Amazing heroism.
Should have got a VC
RIP Laba
That wasnt an Operation pal
Huge difference
Between an operation and a battle
Civvies wouldnt know that
Theres a film about about the Battle of Mirbat in or about to go into production apparently.
@@RoughWalkers duly noted. I didn’t know that. Hope no offence was caused
The westside boys story has an extra interesting dimension, Phil Campion mentioned on his podcast (he was there) that the negotiation team left several crates of booze for the westside boys the day before as a token of goodwill. This meant many of the men the next day were horribly drunk or hungover
Then the helicopter he landed in, bailed out and killed everyone. Thought it was fairly easy then realised the chopper had landed backwards :D I love Phil Campion and how he describes the events
Man, Big Phil is such a cracking storyteller and an all round great bloke. Would absolutely love to have a pint with him
These are the 5 craziest SAS missions we know about...🤫
yeah, it's basically the only 5 missions we know about lol. silent professionals.
@@danoconnor7864
Well of course, they aren't the "Hollywood Seals".😂😂😂
I only counted four.
@@calibrazxr750 Yup. Only 4. Maybe wanted to keep one quiet.
You never hear about the effective ones......South America, SE Asia etc etc!
You forgot the Battle of Mirbat in 1972, surely that would be their greatest action?
Thankyou much appreciated
I am sure there are many more we don't hear about. In fact, I know there is!
I dont think that oman op would be considered crazy (although i know it was) RIP Laba
Are you serious? 9 men fending off over 300 enemy soldiers - I'd rate it higher than at least a couple of these stories.
@@jaysongabler591 crazy ops dude not against all odds
Plus i dont know if your ex military but do you understand what an Op is ???
The "Battle" of Mirbat wasnt an Operation it was a battle
Little remembered fact, famous British actor David Nivon was an Officer in the Long Range Desert Group during WWII after returning from Holywood immediately on the declaration of war
to volenteer
yes, Mr Niven was very much 'active duty' and in the thick of things and not in the records dept or other safe refuge during WWII
Sir Christopher Lee was running around North Africa as a “commando” at the same time as a polyglot and general smart guy if he wasn’t sas he was sas “adjacent “ rip to both
A more recent SAS incident was during the DusitD2 complex attack in Nairobi Kenya. While this didn't involve a whole SAS team it did involve SAS member Christian Craighead also known as Obi-wan Nairobi. Awsome story.
Wasnt an operation
It was definitely a reaction... That's what modern SAS is for........ Respect and love to all of you serving.... and to those served previous..and to all fallen whomever they may be under any flag 🫡
His name is Curtis Morton not Christian Craighead lol - my brother in law knows him. He is also indeed the legend that follows him around
@@daniboy0812 it's obviously a pseudonym for a reason.
IT WAD COMPLEATLY UNFAIR one against 50 at one stage he surrounded them l expect nothing less by british special forces best in world delta said they where second to none sign at sas hq just said none
You promised five, I only count four.
I feel shortchanged.
Probably lost in the re-upload.
We demand a refund!
The SAS turned up at his house and said we dont want people to know about that one! So, its redacted.
@@torpex9126 stranger things have happened.
@JAmediaUK especially whenever you're online ? Wonder why @
"Now, you probably haven't heard of South Georgia before."
'Course I have. It's where you run to to get away from Florida.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The sad fact here is that there is a population who don't appreciate that as a joke and believe it to be probable fact.
@@stuartmccall5474 that's what I'm actually kind of afraid of...
@@Estolcles: Yes, it reminds me of the George Bush Jnr anecdote when he inquired of an aide, "where is the airport in Africa located?". It certainly colours your judgement of the masses that elected the last few Heads of State, and will probably do so again. God help us all.
Look up Paddy Mayne, there is a doc about his exploits. Legend.
John McAleese too
Absolutely 💯
I wonder what was wrong with the previous video which lead to reuploading 🤔
They cut out a few details of Operation: Nimrod on how some of the hostage takers were put up against a wall and shot by the SAS.
@Jobe00 They wanted to do that but they didn't, there were news helicopters overhead .
@@Jobe00 Why lie?
@@jedaaa They didn’t do that to the last guy found among the hostages outside, by two of the terrorists were executed in the embassy after they surrendered. This was in the previous version of the video.
@@THE-X-Force I’m not lying. The previous version of the video mentioned this part.
The South Georgia raid highlights Ernest Shackleton trek what a legend 👏
One adze and 50 ft of rope! For 3 men. The SAS troopers had much more gear and couldn't make it !
I went there (Recce Platoon, Royal Hampshire Régiment), 1982 after 1 Para relieved us is Fermanagh. We did a spot of climbing there. Had very little kit but on coming summer made things easier. I think it was Mt. Hodges about 6 of climbed during rest phase. The other thing we did which nearly turned disastrous was to take an old clinker built whaler. 6 out of 8 of us boarded the rowing boat. Got out of the kelp and into the sea. The boat was leaking terribly and going back was now awkward. I cannot remember from which whaling station we set off. We were on our way back from having patrolled out to all of them. (Patrols phase; defences phase; rest phase). I was patrol commander got a bollocking from our boss. That was hairy but made the Regimental journal. My old COP boss from the Fermanagh tour was impressed. That was good enough for me. Great tour.
The old gag used to be in bad.taste,but went like this .the subjects have lit up more Embassy's than hurricane Higgins embassy being an old brand of cigarettes
And also the old sponsor of the world championship snooker so it works on 2 levels
Let’s mention the ones who don’t get mentioned. The SBS. Who train American Navy Seals in survival in Artic conditions. Who work in two or three man teams and have pulled off attacks and rescues we don’t necessarily hear about until later.
Can you hold your breath for 3 minutes in freezing water? That’s what they train to do. As yet a U.S. Navy Seal managed 2 minutes just.
The closest being a Norwegian soldier who lasted 2mins 38 seconds.
Stop with the BS the SBS don’t train to hold their breaths. That would be a serious waste of time
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Operation nimrod
4:50 - Chapter 2 - Operation barras
8:35 - Chapter 3 - Operation paraquet
12:20 - Chapter 4 - Raid on sidi haneish airfield
4? I thought there was suppose to be 5
Can confirm, Paddy Mayne is too cool to look back at the explosions.
A year or so earlier than the Iranian Embassy task a train was hijacked in Holland and it was mentioned in the news that British Forces helped the Dutch, that was definitely an SAS job, there must be some info on it somewhere.
Funny thing that the yanks think seals and rangers are badass... SAS are the elite.
When seal team 6 or delta need to sharpen their skills, they do indeed head to Hereford
When I think of the SAS two sayings come to mind, 1st is "play with fire you get burnt" the 2nd more modern version is "f*ck about and find out" These guys do not mess about. Big respect to these men, heroes that slide through the shadows swiftly and leave as fast as they appeared.
Happy Monday everybody! Have a great week
There was an SAS trooper who lived with the Afghan Army by himself as far as we could tell. We lived with the Gurkha quite a bit and the trooper would stroll up to the checkpoint in the mornings for breakfast.
You should do an episode about their operations against the IRA. The Loughgall and Gibraltar incidents were big news at the time
The motto Who Dares Wins is often associated with the British Special Air Service (SAS), but its origins actually trace back to ancient Greece. The concept itself resonates with the Greek spirit of bravery and strategic risk-taking, commonly seen in literature, philosophy, and military thought. One of the closest ancient parallels is the Greek phrase, "Τολμῶν νικᾷ" (Tolmon niká), meaning "He who dares, wins," which captures a similar sentiment. Greek writers like Homer, as well as philosophers like Heraclitus, often emphasized courage and audacity as vital traits for victory. It’s fascinating to see how this idea has continued to inspire generations, from ancient Greek warriors to modern special forces!
Those AI depictions are hilarious. Rifles with sideways optics, and double front sight frames
As for the last mission, SAS: Rogue Heroes does a pretty good job of depicting it
Was just about to mention that series. Glad to say that season 2 should be on our screens this year.
Hoping for Season 2. And Operation Tombola.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re How about season 3 , operation do nothing , as UK is overrun and our childrens future destroyed ?
Operation Flavius and Operation Judy were carried out by SAS. But people aren’t so keen to talk about that stuff anymore.
Simon got that visit from MI6 and had to censor a few things
Was it MI6? or a quite word from The Regiment?
@@torpex9126 more likey Special Branch. Besides SIS don't (normally) work inside the UK
Simon lives in Prague iirc@@JAmediaUK
Operation Nimrod is also famous for the largest number of people ever to crowd onto the balcony of any embassy anywhere in the world. According to self-reporting after the action was long over, an estimated 43,879 people were on the balcony that day even though only three were visible to the BBC's cameras.
R U really ,that thick as 💩that you don't understand the figure you're quoting that particular number as a means to a ruskie false flag plant for that's what it is. ! It would help. if you are old enough to have been alive at that time? I had not reached the age of 5 , yet remember it vividly as it dragged on for 6 days and was the top news story of that era until the (Challenger 86) disaster anyway back to the point,that figure you're on about is a reference to the number of people who were in and around the intire world's press corps
Actually I am member number 2,314 of the 3rd Man on the Balcony Assn.... :-)
Regarding Operation: Nimrod, there was an excellent Mark Strong movie called 6 Days. To my knowledge, they got most of the main points of both the operation and the events leading up to the seige mostly correct.
The BBC doc made years before is far better than 6 Days if you want to know more of the truth about what went on then.
@@RJM1011 Name?
Finest lance corporal ever
@@THE-X-Force John
@@onevastanus lmao .. name of the BBC Doc, please? Is it "John"?
Can you do the Canadian special ops? As a Canadian we were never taught about them
"Operation Paraquet", an alternative spelling of parakeet, it was known among British troops as "Paraquat", after the induatrial weedkiller.
'Paraquet' is an alternative spelling to 'parakeet', that I have never heard of before. And I live next to the great Parakeet country of Australia. No-one calls them 'Paraquet' down here.
And 'Paraquat'..... good one boys...... that's funny.
I love his understated tongue in cheek narration.
A friend of mine was actually one of those captured by the West Side Boys, something he explained was purely down to the arrogance of his patrol leader who was looking for a little action. Having survived that, he got shot in the arm by a pellet gun driving a bus in Wolverhampton. Needless to say I do wonder if he carries a target on his back!
The operation was informally known as Operation Certain Death by the way!
That's Wolverhampton for ya!He was probably safer in the jungle! 😊
@@shaundavenport621 Probably!
any chance a dive in the fusilier? i believe there were 9 regiments that distinguished as fusiliers.
Best side projects video for a whole. Everyone loves a good SAS story 😁
It's fun hearing about how they are second place to the Navy SEALS.
@@RonaldReaganRocks1 how have you come to that conclusion? 🤔
It's just as crazy being family. My father Terry Jickells was A Sq 22 SAS for over 20 years and my Uncle Pete was G Sq. Trust me the families can be unhinged. Yeah, we got to hear some of the stories too.
Fun fact - the one terrorist who was captured and imprisoned was released, given citizenship, welfare, and a property. One of the SAS members around the same time lost everything and was denied housing and welfare. That's how far the uk has fallen.
Not even slightly surprised by this, SADLY!
Fun Fact.
The SAS member who lost everything (through bad business decisions long after he left the army) was offered housing, but turned it down. He's now happily settled.
In 92 I was on SG for 5 months, seen the crashed choppers and the weather can be a bloody rough coldest I have been
6:20 Wow, this AI depiction has some wild lighting. For a moment I thought it was a stock photo with some cheapo "close enough" gear and non-specific balsa wood helicopter.
During the incident in Africa the day before the attack there had been a face to face meeting to hear the demands of the captors which ended with the British sealing the deal with a lot of booze to take back and celebrate the talks and promises made on both sides....... just to make sure they were not fit the next morning......
The south Georgia story is full of action and a bit of a shock for the Argentinian forces right from the beginning, and the story of the SAS attempts is covered by the helicopter pilot that flew the only surviving helicopter ( which also very nearly crashed in a white out) back to safety.
The pilot tells of having to fly by the instruments because everything was totally white and zero visibility, the blue fox radar was the same as the harriers and designed to follow the contour of the sea to keep as low as possible, but unknown to the helicopter crew the radar had taken them into a cravas that wasn't very wide, it was flying them up and down the contours of the cravas and was only realised when one of the crew saw the blades chopping the cravas wall.
You forgot to give the paras a mention in the Sierra Leone mission.
The video's about what the SAS did, Einstein.
One Para 💪💪💪
@BarbaricAvata he mentions the bootnecks are they SAS?
"Itchy eyes curtesy of the tear gas" Tell me you've never been tear gassed without telling me you've never been teargassed.
Please do a video of talaisai labalaba, dipprasad pun or the rescue of Corporal Mathew Ford (Royal Marine). Legendary stories...ideal for your story telling manner.
Genuine question, as I'm not expert on such matters... Are US Navy Seals not considered to be the pinnacle of special forces? Are SAS more trained than Seals? Who wins in a head to head?
Delta are considered the best in the US. When talking about the SEALs then it really depends. DevGru which is SEAL team 6 are what the UK would call special forces. The other SEAL teams are what the UK would call elite, so more akin to the Paras (infantry battalions of the parachute regiment) and the Royal Marines. Same goes for the US Green Barrets and the Rangers, they'd also be considered elite. So to join the UKSF then you've got to have served already for 5 years if I remember. Delta force is the same. They're both Tri forces as well as in you can join the SAS from the navy or join the SBS from the army ect. The SEAL teams you join as a civilian unless it's DevGru (the Bin Ladan lads) in which case you have to have served with the regular SEAL teams for a number of years. My understanding is that SEAL team 6 only took on from the other SEAL teams. Whether that's still the case I wouldn't know. I heard that team 6 lads have gone to Delta but Delta have never gone to the seals, so I assume it's at least open to Delta, assuming that was true ofc
We had one of the troopers come to talk to us at work and he told us about the West Side Boys operation. He said that they had a guy called Mad Tony came up with the plan. He then said that every organisation needs a Mad Tony. At that moment, all eyes in the room turned to look at me. Their own Mad Tony.
What a terrible attempt at bragging.. so cringe..
Jesus dude... delete this.
If you know you are mad you are not.
Are you the same 'Mad Tony' that carried out that Haribo robbery where two sherbet fountains and a couple of liquorice sticks were taken ? You're a hard man 'Tony'
@@leejenkins245 I think that this Mad Tony was that guy who ate the black jelly beans first....
'Then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wasn't having any of it. She decided a good shoeing was in order'.
🤣
I've watched entire documentaries about each of these missions... but man Simon, your narration brings back all the excitement.
Kudos man!
Craziest SAS Operation is allowing the UK to be overrun .
Shame some of the details where wrong or omitted.
The embassy one survivor that made it out was going to be dragged back into the embassy, and the SAS trooper’s then noticed the cameraman.
Annoyingly he now lives in a council flat in SE London and gambles with the taxpayer's cash.
@@pooooornopigeonDox?
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re Try using English words.
@@pooooornopigeon I did.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re No that is a non word, time for you to grow up.
Just out of curiosity, a question about the Operation Nimrod. Who authorized the SAS to go into what is effectively a foreign country, the Iranian embassy? Was it Thatcher’s (plus the cabinet) or did they ask the Iranian government for permission?
From memory it was from the police chief ( my mate's dad ) authorized to the military by Willie Whitelaw via Maggie.
@@pooooornopigeonI think the way it worked was that the Police Commissionaire requested approval from the Whitelaw to hand over control to the military. This was given then the ranking police officer at the embassy then officially signed over control to the army. A similar process when the RUC requested the help of the army in the sixties in Northern Ireland.
@@TheGiff7 Regardless my mate's dad signed it over, years later I saw the note in ' the kremlin '
@@pooooornopigeon That's going to confuse a few people, tovarisch. :-)
The Iranian government gave permission. Their people were inside as hostiges. Though whether the permission was given before or after we will never know.
“I have a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel”. Proud geez !!
The SBS the far less celebrated but at least if not more highly trained brothers to the SAS.
Not more or less but just a different emphasis
There's another 2nd world war story floating around, about the sas hijacking a train in Italy.. drove it 50 miles into enemy territory and rescued 180 people from a concentration camp ... btw i think this story has now been confirmed ... truly amazing!!
How many channels is this cat on?!? Dude is EVERYWHERE 😮
I really enjoy the Megaprojects and Sideprojects videos! The variety of topics keeps things interesting, but go into enough detail to understand and learn something along the way.
One thing I have noticed is that the narration doesn't seem to be as clear as it was in older videos, so TH-cam's closed-caption tool seems to have quite a bit of trouble parsing what's being said. I know that Simon talks quite quickly, especially during the intro & outro of the videos, but in previous videos his enunciation is clear enough that the generated captions are reliably legible and coherent. In this video and other recent uploads, however, even the slower-paced portions are difficult to parse, and as a result the captions don't always make sense.
I don't know how important accessibility is to Simon as a content creator, but as a viewer that leans on these text-to-speech captions to fill in the gaps where hearing lets me down, I do wish that either the voiceovers were more clear, or that accurate transcripts were available. (I understand that this is a niche issue, and that creators are under no obligation to adjust their content for the benefit of what I assume is a relatively small cohort of viewers, so I hope this comment doesn't come across as a criticism: I just don't love the idea of missing out on the information that Simon clearly works hard to gather, prepare, and present!)
Fun little story with thermal trivia too: About 3 months ago after a nice weekend skiing at our cabin, Sunday afternoon when packing up to go home we found out that the engine heater had crapped out overnight. So we made a call and got help from the fine folk at the army base a couple of km down the road, that came and towed the car to the base where it could sit inside one the mec maintenance halls to taw out for a couple of hours. At the base entry gate they have 2 fairly large temperature displays, one showing Celsius and one Farenheit. Looking at those was when I learned that the intersection point between Celsius and Farenheit is exactly -40° :)
Small but important points on Op Barras. The Lynx were Army helicopters NOT RAF. They didn’t use missile pods they utilised the.50 Cal MG operated by Army Air Corps doorgunners
Am I the only one who isn’t a fan of all the AI generated images? I’d rather just watch Simon talk than look at them. Might be a ‘me’ thing 🤷🏻♂️
I mean some of the ones on the glacier the guns are completely stupid. If you’re going to use AI generation at least QA it so it looks decent. The one at 10:48 is so bad.
yes i hate AI
I'd much rather have stock images with watermarks than AI generated images.
Yeah, it’s you
The weapons made me laugh
FYI, there's a BBC series ROGUE HEROES, about the founding of the SAS in WW2 and their operations in North Africa. One of the most expensive series ever made by the BBC.
EXCELLENT production values, but they did take some dramatic license. Still a great watch.
What about Bravo 20? I mean, a book, a movie, much debate???
It wasn't a great mission, everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Only one guy made it out, the others died or were captured and the mission failed in its main objective. It is a great story of endurance, suffering and heroism, but not of a brilliantly executed operation.
It was the one known Operation where anything that could go wrong for the Patrol actually happen. It was total Murphy Law cluster. They were given Radio Channel to use didn't work properly in the AO they were assigned. The failure of noticing an Armored Division that garrison in the AO. Prime example to reinforce if you going to conduct an operation, one should send in recon team before hand, which was fore gone due the nature of the many mission that this Patrol and others had to conduct. The again the Weather turned out to be much worse than forecast for the duration of the operation. Then their were the children who herding some farm animals that just happen to come across the outcrop that looked directly in their 'perfect' hiding spot. The list in much longer, but most of which, are factors that these type of mission have plans to deal with if it happens. These guys remember the 5 P's, Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. Just the assigned Radio Channel, the unknown Armored Division, lack of proper recon of the AO, the shitty weather, and bad luck that the local kids finding the one spot to look into their Hiding spot. 4 out of 5 factors would take a normal Patrol mission to become the Nightmare Patrol mission. The only one of those 5 was the kids, they had two choices is to abduct or kill the kids, that eventually someone would come out searching for them, or letting the kids slip away and pray they would tell they were their. The Patrol Leader I believe the right call based on what the other alternative would of eventual led to them being hunted down by active Iraqi Military Patrols unknowingly much sooner.
Wasnt an operation fella
I worked with a Guy who was 2 Signals and when i worked as a security officer for The M.O.D And guarded the SAS who never talk about their missions.
I appreciate that the real footage of the Iranian Embassy Siege is used. There is actual footage of the Faulkland Island war, too.
Those AI dipictions are beyond brutal.
A small group of sas men were once surrounded by hundreds in siege.a stressed sounding young one turned to another airman and worriedly stated they have us surrounded.the senior airman replied ' those poor bastards'
The world’s best special forces team is one you haven’t heard of and likely never will.
Great video.... would like to have seen the battle at Mirbat in there!
Great video!!
Now I'm going to request another one....
Same video, but with the SBS!! Picture and Link this video in the description of the other one, that way we can compare and contrast the two forces....
They have have the same training, only difference is the SBS are under the home office and SAS are under the foreign office .
Great video nice one 👍🏻👍🏻
The sas was unmuzzled lol
Cry Havoc....
Was the fifth one about how they came after a TH-camr who said too much so they made him censor a video?
You did not mention anything about the Parachute Regiment being involved in Operation BARRAS. They played a big part.
The video was about the SAS.
The SBS were the ones who did the initial reconnaissance too.
@@Gav_80085 Oh right so are Royal marines SAS now?
@@RoughWalkers did you watch the video? Do you think I made the video?
@@Gav_80085 You said the vidro was about SAS and the OG comment is about not mentioning the PARAs
Yet in the video in south georgia he mentions the bootnecks supporting the SAS but doing mention the PARAs in SL ?
Do you understand noe
You have to give it to Margaret Thatcher with Nimrod. She was itching to send in "her boys" she called them. After it was all over, she went to see the lads back at debrief and stayed with them while they were celebrating with beers.
There’s an argument that one is better than the other; out of the SAS and SBS but I don’t want to get into it. “Quickly, there’s no time”!
~Bryan Mills
No, it's the SBS. The SRR seem to be the most impressive of British Special Forces.
I find it weird to have the SAS listed as the best special operations in the world when groups like the SAD, the Sayeret, and so on exist and based on known accomplishments are of a level greater than the SAS though likely very nearly peers with the SBS.
@@nochannel1q2321SRR are purely recce. It's just 14 intel corps. It was created during the restructure of SF which was done to take the load off SAS because they did everything. So 1Para went to SF command, the SBS were brought up to the level of SAS which is when they did the joint selection and opened the SBS up to the tri force as before then only Royal Marines could join them. Even army Commandos couldn't join, so SAS got the infantry but also all the sappers, signals, reme, artillery ect. The SBS just had maritime infantry. They also started to cross pollinate, so the Paras started to work more with the SBS and Royals more with SAS. As for the SBS being better now however then there's absolutely nothing to indicate that. There's a myth knocking about that they go on continuation training after being badged but all SF do. SBS and SAS boat troop go off together, SAS mountain troop go off and do advanced mountain and arctic warfare training ect. Civvies think that SAS just gets badged and then magically know all their specialties but as great as they are, they're not magic. Regardless the SBS do a deep sea diving course which unless you're fighting mermaids isn't much use. Even then during Herrick they weren't doing continuation training because there was no point learning to deep sea diving in a war in a landlocked middle eastern country. I know Paras who were penguins for a year because again they just needed soldiers out there so didn't bother until they got back. The only difference between SAS and the SBS is sas take lead on ground ops and the SBS take lead on maritime.
In terms of the best ever then no one knows because they never go up against each other. All we do know is other SF seem to say "the Brits".
@me5969 based on difficulty of admission and then number of those passing the training the SAS is like the regular UK army, the SBS is like the SAS and the SRR Re like the SBS.
It probably should've been an indicator of how much of an explanation of them I needed.
E: Ego aside no one ominously calls any UK special forces unit the "anything." That probably sounds like a cool thing, but it's not something that happens in reality. If there's a close local relationship there'll be nicknames and without a close local relationship no one says anything as the commanders issuing the orders aren't going to be submitting their orders with that kind of stuff.
@@nochannel1q2321is English your first language? I don't know what you're trying to say. SAS and the SBS do a joint selection. I was in 2Para (Parachute Regiment). I know lads who've been on it. They're both a tri force, so you can join from any branch (at least from the Iraq days). You volunteer and then either get signed off or don't. usually they keep you at battalion if there's a tour coming up. So for example I went out to Sangin in 08 so if I put a request in (not that I'd been in long enough to be allowed by that point. But say I'd been in for 5 years) then they wouldn't have let me on SF selection until after the tour. Anyway you all end up in it together. Royals, Paras, sappers, reme ect. It's joint run by the SAS and SBS. You can even change midway. So you can put a request in for the SBS but decide during selection that you want to join SAS instead. You see what I mean? They literally do the same thing until they get what's referred to as "badged" and then they go on and do continuation training. That's where the SAS and SAS boat troop go off and do deep sea diving, SAS Mountain Troop go off and do their thing. SAS Air Troop and Mobility Troop go off and do their training ect. What you're doing is basically comparing 2Para to 3Para. There are no separate figures for pass rates with the SBS and SAS because it's a joint selection. They literally do it together. SAS are not like the green army or regular army as you called it. SRR as ally as they are are purely recce. It is literally 14 Intelligent Corps. I don't mean they're similar. I mean it is literally the same but renamed. They're the best at recce but they don't do all the door kicking and raids, hostage rescue, black kit (counter-terror) ect that the SAS and the SBS do
@@nochannel1q2321in terms of other SF teams, I'm referring to interviews with US and Canadian SF on things like Shawn Ryan ect. No lads down the pub
Thatcher issued the order for a “Shoeing”….and said “shoeing was issued!” 🤣🤣
The RAF don’t fly Lynx, that would be the Army Air Corps 👍🏻
and in fact it was Wessex that were used in Op Paraquat.
RIP, Warrant Officer John Thompson who passed away on 31 Aug 24 at the age of 82., John was in on operation Nimrod aka the Iranian Embassy siege, part of the front abseil team that went in through the windows and operations in the Falklands war , gone , but never forgotten
I was only 7 when #1 happened. It's what i always think of when SAS is mentioned.
The battle of Mirbat should be on this list, it’s a crazy story. One guys actions that day were so heroic they built a statue of him at Hereford barracks to commemorate him and his sacrifice. Look it up if you don’t know the story.
The Battle of Mirbat.
How about a video on Operation Colossus, the SAS raid that happened before Stirling formed the SAS?
Wasn't the SAS then, was it?
@@Tactical_Hotdog I believe it was the LRDG (Long Range Desert Group) prior to the SAS. My knowledge is a bit rusty.
@@cushionmonkey9535 Colossus specifically was First Airborn
@@Tactical_Hotdog No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion. The name was used before Stirling’s unit was formed. There doesn’t seem to be any link to the modern regiment, rather it’s just an oddity of early war unconventional warfare that the name an earlier use.
It’s the SAS, just not The SAS.
Edit to add- Originally No. 2 Commando, No.11 Special Air Service Battalion was renamed 1st Parachute Battalion and was part of the formation of the 1st Parachute Brigade, and hence first airborne after the operation.
😂😂😂😂🤦♂️
Who dares ,wins.
Rodney you plonker
Iroquois Pliskin??
the LRDG traversed the desert a lot and became very good at it, so much so, they became known as the ghost patrol by the italians, sadly im pretty sure a lot of them died at the raid on tobruk that failed when only 2 boats made it through into tobruk and the royal marines who were meant to land near by never made it because the frigate got sunk iirc
Ai sucks
So much of what spec ops do is just nutty. Even PJs, special forces medics, get into some wild situations.
Judge to SAS trooper; why did you shoot him 32 times?
Sas reply; because I ran out of ammunition." 😅😂
Kills me everytime. 😂
That was the job in Gib.
He might be proud to be english,i am proud to be scottish and british
You Scot’s have your own regiments in the British army like the black watch, very valuable to the British army. We may be from different countries but we are still the same great nation. Much love brother
That last hostage-taker served some time in prison and is still living, presumably in comfort, in London today. He's had occasional mention in Daily Mail.
The fifth crazy operation was stealthy entering this video and removing the fifth operation from it.
Haha, when I was a kid, the Winter Rules were, if it is -20C, I had to have parental supervision. If it was -40C, I had to play inside. Anything lower than that and it was time to batten down the hatches. Then we moved to Australia, in the middle of June, so, Winter. People thought we were crazy for going to beach when it was 14C. That was like a warm Summer's day to us.
When I moved there in Appril it was the same thing, shorts and tee shirt, I told the Aussies these are British summer temperatures.
What happened to Bravo Two Zero...
Link to the original video?
On the Nimrod front, they only used flashbangs, which give off smoke but no tear gas. The guy on the stairs was relatively silent. Rusty Firmin ID'd him, couldn't shoot him as the bullets would go right through him so pushed him down the stairs where 3 guys shot him. 78 bullet wounds in total which is approx 2 seconds from each gun pointed at him.
oh, that would be sore. You'd need a few sticky plasters for that many holes.
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Operation Paraquet Radio Chatter
"It's cold enough to freeze our bloody Jacobs off, sir. Permission to attack Mother Nature, sir!"
"Negative! Make your way to the evac point, sharpish!!"
re the fourth account, The SAS were to launch attacks and conduct operations, the LRDF were the "bus drivers". As time progressed, they all cross trained and became skilled at both units specialties. The Deset Rats.
The Desert Rats were the 7th Armoured Division of the British Army, nothing to do with the SAS or LRDG.
"The Desert Rats" was the nickname given to the 7th Armoured Division which was part of the British Army it mustered up to about 15,000 men with around 350 tanks.
The nickname came from the fact that in 1940 the Division started to use an in insignia of a Jerboa on its vehicles. The Jerboa is known as the desert rat.
The info on Operation Baros is incorrect regarding recon. You've left out a huge chunk of how they really did the mapping.