Further to the mini discussion on the Blog here are a couple of closeups of the barge and it's attendant crew transport system lying at Sandbank on the Holy Loch.

Good grief!

They must have been reading, and delivered that lot to order for a photo-opportunity, they could hardly have dumped that lot in a more convenient location.

Interesting too, reminds me of the air transport beds used in heavy engineering, to allow large projects to be slid around the production area, or on machine beds.

Secondary point of interest in the small jointed tracked vehicles they are using. I've never seen anything as versatile in use in such 'friendly' territory as Scotland, and associate their use with hostile location, where not only rough ground, but sinking into unseen waters is also a hazard. I haven't seen such small ones before.

Nup, no special order , this is their base of operations.  Probably chosen for easy access to the "offie" for vodka supplies.

I believe the US military use a small number of those vehicles, but only for use in snowy terrain.

British Marines use this type of vehicle as well for artic warfare, they will be a good number of them over in Arbroth with 45 Commado if its still there.