(13 Mar 2003)
1. Pan of Challenger 2 tank on the move
2. Soldiers running to take cover in trench, Challenger 2 tanks in background
3. Soldiers exiting Warrior armoured personnel carrier (APC)
4. Soldiers taking cover in trench
5. Soldiers crawling to cover
6. Warrior APC driving past trench
7. View from Challenger 2's turret over gun, driving towards four armoured vehicles parked ahead
8. Close shot from armoured vehicle showing machine gun
9. Warrior APC driving towards camera
10. Commander in turret of armoured vehicle
11. Warrior APCs parked
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Grantham, APC Driver, 1st Fusiliers Battle Group:
"I don't think we're going to have a chance, but we do want to fight. We do want to go in there and do the job as it is supposed to be done. We need to go in there and take over."
13. Troops standing in front of Warrior APC
14. Troops standing in front of Challenger 2 tank
15. Warrior APCs and troops at sunset
16. Challenger 2 tanks at sunset
STORYLINE:
As diplomatic wrangling continued on Thursday, different units of the British armed forces deployed in the Gulf staged a combined exercise on Thursday at a camp north of Kuwait city.
The British 1st Fusiliers Battle Group demonstrated their main battle tank, the Challenger 2, and Warrior APCs manoeuvering together.
The tanks have recently been upgraded with improved air filters to cope with desert conditions.
Other modifications include second, finer-mesh filters on vehicles.
The British military has been the subject of a good deal of ridicule in the country's press after many of its tanks, helicopters, artillery and other equipment broke down during a major desert exercise in Oman in October 2001.
British forces say they have learned lessons from the training exercise in the Oman desert and Britain's Ministry of Defence has insisted that recent upgrades mean they are now well equipped to fight a desert war.
But Thursday's edition of a UK newspaper, the London Evening Standard, shows a front page picture of a soldier whose boots have melted after just two weeks in the desert heat.
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