Image of the Day: 25 April 2013 (UK MoD)

Hundreds of servicemen and women from the Royal Netherlands Army and Air Force have been training together in Cumbria. Flying Chinook and Apache helicopters, the Netherlands forces completed a series of airborne assaults on training targets in and around RAF Spadeadam - the only facility in Europe where aircrews can practise the manoeuvres and tactics necessary to prepare for the variety of threats and targets faced in contemporary warfare. Pictured here, air assault troops board a Royal Netherlands Air Force Chinook transport helicopter during a training exercise. [Picture: Sergeant Dan Bardsley RLC, Crown copyright]