Prinsjesdag parade

[[R-COM]Glimmerman]

Found these pictures of the Prinsjesdag parade on a Dutch Army thread on militaryphotos.net and just wanted to share the here:

[NyteMyre]

What weapons are on the last picture? With the wooden stocks

[[R-COM]Glimmerman]

That would be the old FN FAL, its the weapon we used before we got the Diemaco.

[162eRI]

Beautiful uniforms! You are lucky, you keep you traditions when our army lost it!
But put Diemaco with this uniforms, it's ugly!!! You don't have old rifles?

[[R-COM]Hauteclocque]

Waow nice pics !
It's great to see foreign parades, our doesn't look like this at all.
There is always something orange on the uniform.
It's weird to see that some hats and even uniforms are similar to British ones, specially hats made of bear skin.

[KingLorre]

I think we use those as long as the British do tho,next to that we do share history together

[[R-CON]DankE_SPB]

Originally Posted by [R-COM]162eRI

Beautiful uniforms! You are lucky, you keep you traditions when our army lost it!

Originally Posted by Hauteclocque

Waow nice pics !
It's great to see foreign parades, our doesn't look like this at all.

so how your parades look like( what you dont like in them?)

Originally Posted by [R-COM]162eRI

But put Diemaco with this uniforms, it's ugly!!! You don't have old rifles?

100% agree on this, our guard of honour and for parades use SKS for example

great pix nonetheless, armies which breed through centuries with old traditions nearly always look good

[162eRI]

It's weird to see that some hats and even uniforms are similar to British ones, specially hats made of bear skin.

Not you!!! xD
It's French, the bloody British stole us these "winnies" during the French First Empire wars...

so how your parades look like( what you dont like in them?)

Well the French parade is still impressive, but IMO, it sucks now. The uniforms are UGLY (we don't use traditional uniforms anymore only for some schools during the parade or for the Garde Republicaine), and we used to have more soldiers for the parades (like in Russia or China, the "avenue des champs élysée" was full of regiments parading). It's a pity. Like the Dutch, we have a great military history and uniforms, but we don't use them anymore.
In Russia, you have nice uniforms too, your parade are impressive as well.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1116/...35462093f3.jpg
http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonza..._9717/539w.jpg (victory day)
http://media.damnfunnypictures.com/p...niforms001.jpg (tests)
http://media.damnfunnypictures.com/p...niforms005.jpg (tests)

[[R-COM]Glimmerman]

Originally Posted by Hauteclocque

Waow nice pics !
It's great to see foreign parades, our doesn't look like this at all.
There is always something orange on the uniform.
It's weird to see that some hats and even uniforms are similar to British ones, specially hats made of bear skin.

The orange is because its our national colour, its also part of the name of our royal family

William the Silent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

House of Orange-Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the weapons, these men are royal guards, same like those in the UK carry a SA80 instead of a musket, they are not re-enacting but on active guard duty, therefore carry a Diemaco C7

[[R-COM]Hauteclocque]

Oh yes, I do know for the orange colour, I just noticed it (I watch too much football to forget that..., well last time Oranjes played against us, it was not a good day...)