Sandbags and gabions form an essential and enduring component of field defence capability. Think Defence is a hobby, a serious hobby, but a hobby nonetheless. I want to avoid charging for content, but ...
The Military Engineering Experimental Establishment (MEXE) was established post WWII, until it was merged with the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment to form the Military ...
Continuing my look at defence shelters, this post looks at larger shelters, both prefabricated, and built in-situ. The defining feature of the MEXE Shelter, in the previous post, was the nature of its ...
The unusual ESARCO vehicles were developed by Major Michael Somerton-Rayner as a private initiative in response to lessons identified by the British Army in the 1982 Falklands Conflict, namely, the ...