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Alan O 25-11-21 09:15 AM

New UK Rangers cap badge
 
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2...492ab9e16af5c1

New cap badge design. Not sure about it myself!

leigh kitchen 25-11-21 09:17 AM

Thumbs down from me, but it'd make a good logo for a computer game.

The comment's already been made -inspired by the Selous Scouts?

Keith Blakeman 25-11-21 09:26 AM

Looks Yank to me, horrible.

leigh kitchen 25-11-21 09:31 AM

The more I think about it the more I'm thinking it is very similar to an existing computer game logo.....

Belfin 25-11-21 09:35 AM

Already mentioned in the article, but definitely a strange 'Selous Scouts' copy. Not at all in keeping with the 'British style' of badge either.

mike_vee 25-11-21 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leigh kitchen (Post 565693)
The comment's already been made -inspired by the Selous Scouts?

Telegraph has an article :

Quote:

Fury as new Army regiment’s cap badge ‘identical’ to apartheid terror squad

Officers say design for Ranger Regiment cap matches that of the Selous Scouts, which fought black insurgent armies in former Rhodesia

grey_green_acorn 25-11-21 09:46 AM

So all that I suggested in this post is true! (Confirmed by The Times).

https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/fo...38&postcount=3

Tim

Alan O 25-11-21 10:23 AM

Bearing in mind the Army is smaller than ever I am dubious as to where they are going to draw the 'higher quality' Rangers from? Can you really fill the selection courses for Para, Cdo, SAS, SRR, etc and also fill these 4 battalions with trained soldiers?

Luke H 25-11-21 10:38 AM

Quite easily the worst British cap badge I’ve ever seen.

Alan O 25-11-21 10:42 AM

It even surpasses the much disliked 16 AA Bde eagle patch and that was got rid of as soon as the Parachute Regiment could persuade the powers that be to give them the Pegasus back.

Luke H 25-11-21 10:46 AM

It looks like someone nicked the eagle logo off some fake Armani jeans.

leigh kitchen 25-11-21 10:47 AM

Sticking with the bird badge theme, how about adopting the chaffinch as a badge for the non ranger units as they'd comprise the chaff once the Ranger wheat's been beaten out of them.

Peter Brydon 25-11-21 11:13 AM

Crap, like a lot of things today cheap and nasty !

P.

mike_vee 25-11-21 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luke H (Post 565713)
It looks like someone nicked the eagle logo off some fake Armani jeans.


Thanks Luke , I couldn't work out what it reminded me of , it has been bugging me for hours ! ;)

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Charliedog012012 25-11-21 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luke H (Post 565713)
It looks like someone nicked the eagle logo off some fake Armani jeans.

You have definitely got that ‘Spot on’.
It just looks…….well ordinary and banal. Such a shame


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