The limitations inherent with air transport, especially aircraft internal carriage, create difficult mobility challenges.

A short series that examines options for restoring mobility to long-range ground launched precision weapons such as GMLRS and ...

This is post 16 of 16 in the series “Field Defences” A Modern Day MEXE Shelter Underground Shelters and Bunkers… ...

This is post 16 of 16 in the series “Field Defences” A Modern Day MEXE Shelter Underground Shelters and Bunkers… ...

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Physical barriers (apart from wire and ditches) include concrete blocks, beams, and posts, in addition to various improvised obstacles such as vehicles and logs. Self-evidently, of little utility ...

Both Ukraine and Russia have made use of small UGV’s to attack field defences, it is difficult to see a future where these are not a real future threat. Smaller devices have been fielded in Ukraine.

In any conflict, materials for field defences will be required. The main questions are how much is sensible to provision in advance, how will its use be organised, and how much can the host nation be ...

Most armies are not in short supply of things to dig with, and the British Army is no different. At the heavy end, there is Trojan and Terrier, most well protected, mobile, and with a collection of ...

The Individual Protection Kit (IPK), or KIP, was a Military Experimental Engineering Establishment (MEXE) design from the fifties. Its purpose was to provide infantry with an easily carried method of ...

You may have noticed that, in all the posts, are pictures of British Army soldiers and equipment involved with field defences. This was deliberate to illustrate a point that it is not ignoring the ...

This is the penultimate part of the field defence series before I close with a summary. I have briefly touched on tube and clamp systems, and various forms of scaffolding, but I thought I would bring ...