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Is there much difference between a US .5oh ammunition box and a British one? In British Service that size ammunition container is used for boxes of 5.56mm ammunition, typically 900 rounds in cardboard boxes or bandoliers of 150 rounds. Also smaller boxes of 200 7.62mm link ammunition for GPMG's, though these are generally kept in 4 box bulk pallets. They would be painted the gloss brown colour that the British Army uses.
Also there could be extra water usually in black jerrycans or maybe even boxed or plastic wrapped packs, possibly extra rations, batteries of various sizes for the equipment that use them though I imagine they will be in cardboard boxes also. Collapsable ladders or stretchers could be carried or just about anything the Company OC or CSM wanted carrying.
They were also used for offloading supplies from helicopters and transferring casualties to them. Alternatively you could tarpaulin the whole trailer so nothing is seen in there.

...that was the only picture i could find while i was on the net this morning... can't find any pictures of ammo cans or water containers in them...

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...that was the only picture i could find while i was on the net this morning... can't find any pictures of ammo cans or water containers in them...

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I bet there are some ammo cans and water jugs in there somewhere.

Thanks Mike and Frenchy, I was trying to find some Milan or javelin ammo tubes but I am struggling there as well. AA no longer has the Milan tubes and legend does do the whole javelin set up so I might be able to make some copies of the launcher tubes from there.

I was also looking at some of the water containers and brown rectangular metal boxes. there is also an option for drinks in cardboard boxes but I am unsure what brand of bottled water was available to British troops in Afghanistan.

Milan has been out of service for ages, though (2005, IIRC). It’s OSD may be earlier than that vintage quad bike.

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Thanks Mike and Frenchy, I was trying to find some Milan or javelin ammo tubes but I am struggling there as well. AA no longer has the Milan tubes and legend does do the whole javelin set up so I might be able to make some copies of the launcher tubes from there.

I was also looking at some of the water containers and brown rectangular metal boxes. there is also an option for drinks in cardboard boxes but I am unsure what brand of bottled water was available to British troops in Afghanistan.

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Hi if you are looking for Milan tubes you get them in the Italeri support weapons set, I might have a couple spare let me know if it helps also I didn’t know legend did a javelin I thought it was black dog

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Milan has been out of service for ages, though (2005, IIRC). It’s OSD may be earlier than that vintage quad bike.

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i am working beside an agency driver who used to be in the argylls and southern highlanders and he was telling me milan were in afghanistan during his first tour there, so that's the info i have at the moment.

Thanks Mike and Frenchy, I was trying to find some Milan or javelin ammo tubes but I am struggling there as well. AA no longer has the Milan tubes and legend does do the whole javelin set up so I might be able to make some copies of the launcher tubes from there.

I was also looking at some of the water containers and brown rectangular metal boxes. there is also an option for drinks in cardboard boxes but I am unsure what brand of bottled water was available to British troops in Afghanistan.

Camp Bastion had its own water supply and bottling plant. So you won't find any branded water bottles.

My Batalion had switched to javelin by the time of Telic 9, late 2006. But if these bikes were carrying MILAN missiles, they would probably be carrying them in the missile containers, which Accurate Armour still sell.

The water was flown out from Bastion to the FOB's. I was there for 3 months with JHSU sending out underslung and hicks loads on the Chinooks, so we handeled everything that went out.

I have noticed the range reducing, but some of it i put down to plastic kits being produced of some of their kits and other simnply because they did not sell. I got one of their MILAN posts last year for my 432 and when i saw stock was running low i grabbed another for the HB WMIK with MILAN kit. It would be a shame if they were no longer there but hopefully things will pick up as the Covid eases. But i would grab the MILAN boxes while you can.

Is there much difference between a US .5oh ammunition box and a British one? In British Service that size ammunition container is used for boxes of 5.56mm ammunition, typically 900 rounds in cardboard boxes or bandoliers of 150 rounds. Also smaller boxes of 200 7.62mm link ammunition for GPMG's, though these are generally kept in 4 box bulk pallets. They would be painted the gloss brown colour that the British Army uses.
Also there could be extra water usually in black jerrycans or maybe even boxed or plastic wrapped packs, possibly extra rations, batteries of various sizes for the equipment that use them though I imagine they will be in cardboard boxes also. Collapsable ladders or stretchers could be carried or just about anything the Company OC or CSM wanted carrying.
They were also used for offloading supplies from helicopters and transferring casualties to them. Alternatively you could tarpaulin the whole trailer so nothing is seen in there.

They look good, what legend kit are they in.