I was a public order instructor and we had the longer shields our old instructor had been in lots of riots and he told us to scrape the bottom of the Shield so that you could jab it into the rioters shins. Primitive but very effective with a well trained shield wall. Thanks for sharing 👍
It's actually made of a high-impact polymer called Makrolon. The same material as the visors on the steel tobys and Cromwells (and in some places on armoured transport).
Very Interesting video, mine slightly differs in that it has a black backing (though that may just be stained). It is brilliantly light too, other riot shields I have are much heavier.
Reading Eamon McCann's "war and an Irish Town" and he recalls when these first showed up on Derry as attitudes shifted between the army and the bogside from optimistic to angry
I was called a liar when I told guys that I served from 1976 to 2002 on Op banner I was home service battalion and I was under threat from the Republican terrorist 's all my life the guys in the Normal battalions couldn't get their head around us that lived in NI AND loved the place still live here
@@cathanmccann1769 my batalion shot no one, the terrorists were not innocent , paramilitary on both side committed atrocitys what I want to know why were men women and children murdered by the provo's in Claudy in county derry, The bomb was planted by the parish priest who was shaped off to Donegal by the Bishop, so he could not pay for such a war crime,, the first time I was fired was by so called loyalists
The smaller metal ones were actually made out of a 1mm thick sheet of aluminium, they're very light and flimsy. They got beaten up very easily so they were replaced by these.
Interesting, thanks for the info, I'd been previously informed they were steel, which I'd accepted, thinking aluminium would be too soft, which seems to have been the case from what you're saying!
Oh I still have my brother's UDR metal if you like one .The fun we had as kids trying to throw wooden blocks as army cadets at training days for the army and RUC . They turn up in nearly all the Airsoft fields here. And am saying nothing of what fun we had in July and August with the the army. Lol. Then the time my brother was in front of me when he was in the UDR. And I all us lot started shouting at him telling him we going to tell his ma on him etc. Oh one really bad winter time. As kids my dad brought a broken one home he was UDR as well. And we used it for going down hill in the park on the snow. So I kinda know about Northern Ireland army stuff lol.
@@harry9392 as far as I remember the Royal Irish Rangers and UDR made the Royal Irish Regiment. In 1992 because brother was 7/10 UDR and he went on to the Royal Irish Regiment etc.
@@thebelfastvikingmartinbrow3603 yes mate I was on the formation parade I was one of the last UDR soldiers to march off the square and one of the first Royal Irish soldiers to march back on
@@jockstrap is that why the UVF UDA tried to kill me or was it I locked a few of these scumbags up, HOW DARE YOU COMPERE A regiment how Lost so many soldiers off duty by cowardly terrorists. I agree there were some bad apples who were thrown out.
The shorter version was mai ly used by the "snatch squad" when the baseline using the larger shields would split the snatch squad would run out to grab 'snatch h" offenders. The snatch squad normally consisted of the more robust members of the unit
My MK6 Visor did the same on the Grovenor Road in '86 when there was a slow motion collision between a brick, my Visor and the small target of the Pigs Vision Hatch. I lost, so did the Visor. I was shaking like a leaf. A full housebrick in the face at 30mph plus thrown velocity, through the hatch then lands in your lap/bollox. ....OUCH was the understatement.
@@66kbm my mate opened a hatch on a pig, the accuracy of the young guy was good got my mate between the eyes with a stone , he had one bad head for a few days.
@Stephen K I was born in Northern Ireland I am a unionist, I am ulster Scots my DnA says I am 65% scots and 16% Irish and the rest id viking , I am as Irish as they come but a unionist, I dont want An argument all I want is to live in peace,
@@harry9392 well my dad's family way back was Scottish my mum's was English. And am Orange.Black.DUP. etc. My dad RUC/ UDR .Brother UDR Royal Irish. Me ACC. Other members of family RUC UDR . RAF. Para. And I have members still serving. But I never got round to checking my DNA. But I think am Ulster Protestant. I have had one family member killed. Dad and brother was shot at . And I had the rest of the British army trying to kill me . And I thought my cooking was alright 😅😅😋😅😋
