File:A Ridgback Vehicle Leads a Line of Viking Vehicles MOD 45150666.jpg

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English: Moments before a contact from the enemy, a column of Viking armoured vehicles led by a Ridgback Armoured Fighting Vehicle rolls up to checkpoint Yellow 7 on the Shamalan Canal in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

During Operation Panchai Palang 2 (Panthers Claw), the men of 2 Company 1 Battalion Welsh Guards (2 Coy 1WG), occupied a compound overlooking Checkpoint Yellow 7, a volatile bridge crossing which had been denied to the insurgents by the introduction of obstacles and men.

  • Organization: Army
  • Object Name: DMOCCCT-2009-004-I-185 copy
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental Categories: Equipment, Vehicles, Recon, Ridgback, Operations, Theatres, Afghanistan
  • Keywords: Ridgback, Viking, All Terrain, Tracked, APC, Personnel Carrier, Armoured, Vehicle, Royal Marines, Royal Navy, Viking Vehicles, Contacts, Checkpoint Yellow 7, Helmand, 1WG, Afghanistan, Column, Convoy
  • Country: Afghanistan
Date Taken on 28 June 2009, 09:49:11
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Author Cpl Dan Bardsley RLC
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