DURING Exercise Spring Storm a separate serial was conducted on Estonia's north coast to practise loading QRH Challenger 2s on to the Royal Navy's amphibious assault ship. HMS Albion. "The ability to manoeuvre tanks around littoral areas is important in order to move heavy armour into crucial regions of any conflict." says Maj George Trypanis, officer commanding of the QRH's B Squadron, whose armour was involved in the drills. "This exercise showed the flexibility we have for deploying these platforms. but this took incredible skill and care as the tanks were up-armoured, which meant they were a little wider than usual. There's a lot more at stake colliding with the side of a ship than there is with a tree on Salisbury Plain."
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