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The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps (Dutch: Korps Mariniers) is the elite naval infantry corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy, [1] one of the four Armed Forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [2] The marines trace their origins to the establishment of the Regiment de Marine on 10 December 1665, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] by the then grand pensionary of the ...
To be replaced by new 120 mm mortars with loitering munitions from 2026 onwards for the Royal Dutch Marines. [30] Hirtenberger Austria: Mortar: 81 mm Unknown quantity for the marines [30] [31] [32] 126 in total for the Marine Cops and the Army. [33] Successor of the L16A2. Hirtenberger M6 C-640 Mk.1 Austria: Infantry mortar: 60 mm
Netherlands Marine Corps Museum (Dutch - Mariniersmuseum) is a museum on the history of the Netherlands Marine Corps. Since December 1995 it has been housed in a building on the Wijnhaven in Rotterdam. Since 2014 it has been one of the four museums managed by the Koninklijke Stichting Defensiemusea (KSD). [1]
The Mariniersbrigade (English: Marine Brigade) was a marine unit set up by the Dutch government-in-exile during World War II, which existed between 1943 and 1949.It was formed as part of the Dutch contribution to the Allied war effort against Japan and more particularly for the liberation of the Dutch East Indies.
M-Squadron, formerly the Unit Interventie Mariniers (Marine Intervention Unit, UIM), and before that known as the Bijzondere Bijstandseenheid (Special Support Unit, BBE), [2] is an elite Dutch special forces unit which is tasked with conducting domestic counter-terrorist operations.
22. Captain A.J. Voet 1 May 1858 – 1 May 1864: "Commandant of the Marine Corps" 23. Captain H. Camp 1 May 1864 – 1 May 1871: "Commandant and Inspector of the Marine Corps" 24. Colonel D. Vreedenburg 1 May 1871 – 1 May 1875: "Commandant of the Marine Corps" 25. Colonel J.H. Stengel 1 May 1875 – 1 November 1881: "Commandant of the Marine ...
The Netherlands Maritime Special Operations Forces (NLMARSOF, also simply referred to as MARSOF) is the special forces unit of the Marine Corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy. It is one of the three principal units tasked with special operations in the Netherlands (the other being the Korps Commandotroepen and 300SQN).
The history of the Netherlands Marine Corps on Marinekazerne Suffisant began in 1929 after Venezuelan Rafael Simón Urbina together with a group of followers tried to take over Fort Amsterdam on Curaçao. The Netherlands sent the Marine Corps to provide external security for the Dutch ABC islands. Another reason was to provide resistance ...