At my first RA Regiment - 1990’s - we genuinely did the Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom thing.
We had a UAV det - they went Whooooooossshhhhh….
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The Royal Navy had to do this in 2000.
They won the Ig Nobel Peace prize that year for it:
If the Army get it this time around it does mean that the RAF is the only British armed force who have never been awarded a Ig Nobel prize.