Strike Back on Sky One

[croyde]

Loving this. All action and story wrapped up in 2 parts unlike a lot of those US series.

One question: Do British Special Forces always use American weapons, uniforms and helicoptors?

I know the SAS favoured the M-16 way back as it was more reliable than the UK equivalent.

[Castrol Craig]

was good, a bit adapted for tv, in regards for SF, a lot of it was wrong, but yes, they use M16's, but also use lynx choppers.

[jezwest]

SAS use a Canadian copy of the M16/M4 called the Diemaco C7/7. Basically the same weapon but the Diemeco has a bit longer barrel. SAS used this instead of SA80 because the time it wasn't very reliable and plus you can fit a lot extra equipment on to the C7. The shows pretty good, book was better but they usually are.

[ferrari spider]

Biggest piece of crap i have seen on TV in a while. Soooo technically flawed and tactically FUBAR beyond belief. CR may have wrote it but i am absolutely sure he had no input in its making.
So dammed disappointed that they had not even got 50% of it right.
Yes M4s are used by both special forces units (SA & SB), the MPs are used soly for short work.

[BLUETHUNDER]

Personnal equipment was all wrong in this.And as for the strenth of the entry team gong in it was complete bks!.At a minimum it would have been a 16 strong assault team for a hostage rescue coupled with back up from the SFSG. Not one member of the team was equipped with a M249(Minimi). I suppose to be fair. It was filmed in South Africa. And by the looks of it. They had to make do with a limited budget.

[croyde]

I'm still confused as to why the American helmets, or is that usual for SF?

[becksW]

Probably just as well hubby not wanted to watch this, I'd be oblivious to the inaccuracies but he'd be picking up many if not all of them.

[thatone1967]

Looking beyond the in accuracies... I quite enjoyed it...

[croyde]

thatone1967 said:

Looking beyond the in accuracies... I quite enjoyed it...

And the American kit looks better than ours. Like the German uniforms looked better than ours in WW2.

[parapaul]

Who else has read the book?

I was disappointed that the original storyline was all wrapped up in the first 2 episodes, I felt it could have been padded with a bit more detail and expanded to another couple of hours. I wonder what the rest of the series will hold?

[BlueMR2]

I'm not sure on the Sheriff of Nottingham as the lead. He just doesn't quite have the charisma yet.

[Castrol Craig]

i think he did a good job as porter, after all its a natural progression from spooks.

definately left the door open for another few episodes though, but a dissapointing end nonetheless.

[croyde]

BlueMR2 said:

I'm not sure on the Sheriff of Nottingham as the lead. He just doesn't quite have the charisma yet.

Sheriff was chief spook no1 whilst Porter was no3 after the tall blond fella (no2) got blown up.

Michael MacFayden was sheriff and 1st spook.

[BlueMR2]

I haven't seen spooks, although he was in a few episodes of Ultimate Force until Ross Kemp's character killed him off.

The sheriff i was referring to was in BBC's Robin Hood.

I think he did get better in the last couple of episodes actually.

What's up with 6 episode series though. This, Top Gear, Hustle. US seem to do 23 or so episodes, much better.

[croyde]

Ah! I thought you meant the new movie.

[FUBAR]

Anyone point me to where I can download episodes 2 & 3? I 'thought' I had these on Sky planner, got round to watching it last night, saw episode 1, looked for 2 and it seems my planner has missed off 2 & 3 and jumped straight to 4