Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: AS90 self-propelled guns of 3rd Battalion the Royal Horse Artillery undergo test firing at Basra Air Station.
Description: Company of the Royal Horse Artillery gather by a Snatch Land Rover in the desert outside Basra. One of them gives coordinates and orders the firing of AS90 gun. The gun can be heard firing in the distance, and the camera follows the shells as they "splash" in the desert. (Guns can not be seen as they are some distance away at Basra air station. Further shots and "splashes" (sand is thrown up in the desert as the shells impact). Targets can be seen indistinctly in the far distance: one of the shells hits the target. Further shells are fired.
Night shot (available light) showing illuminating rounds being fired from (unseen) AS90. This is followed by image intensifier shots of the spotter crew and of further illumination rounds.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 1424
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2008-01-10
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Holmes, Andy (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Horse Artillery, 3rd Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra International Airport, Basra, Iraq (geography)
British Operations in Iraq from 2003 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
