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Pitch Black 2008

16 June 2008
Defence missile battery

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Gunner Gerard Blundell (foreground) maintains radio communications at an RBS-70 Ground Based Air Defence missile battery manned by GNR Murray Keogh (left) and Bombardier Nicholas Selzer (right).

(Date taken: 10 June 2008)
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Members from 16 Air Defence Regiment provide air defence at Tindal. Gunner Scott Clarke (rear left) maintains watch at an RBS-70 Ground Based Air Defence missile battery manned by GNR Murray Keogh (obscured) and Bombardier Nicholas Selzer (right).

(Date taken: 10 June 2008)
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Members from 16 Air Defence Regiment provide air defence at Tindal. Gunner Scott Clarke (foreground), maintains watch at an RBS-70 Ground Based Air Defence missile battery during Exercise Pitch Black 2008.

(Date taken: 10 June 2008)
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Bombardier Matthew Kelsey (left) and Gunner Lucas Van Bovan from 16 Air Defence Regiment, track a United States Marine Corps KC-130 using an RBS-70 surface to air missile launcher.

(Date taken: 10 June 2008)
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