Army medics demonstrate state of the art desert OT

The Army has unveiled a new rapid reaction field hospital that can be flown anywhere in the world and then be put up to start operating on battlefield casualties in only 16 hours. The vanguard hospital fits in the back of two transporter planes and provides the same level of care as an NHS trauma centre. Medics have practised setting up the new hospital as part of a logistics war game in the Jordanian desert to test if the Army could still deploy a fighting force of up to 30,000 troops to anywhere in the world. More than 1,400 troops and hundreds of vehicles have spent six weeks in the desert outside the port of Aqaba for Exercise Shamal Storm. Troops have also practiced night fighting, bomb disposal, intelligence gathering and chemical and biological warfare drills.