Battle trenches and fighting positions for small groups of individual soldiers, crew served weapons, or vehicles, are ...

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 ...

Sandbags have a fairly long history, and remain a flexible and effective means of creating temporary barriers and means of protection. Whilst hessian may have given way to woven plastics in some cases ...

Above ground protected shelters are used for rest areas, medical facilities, HQ and CP functions, storage, and equipment care ...

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 ...

During the early sixties, MEXE developed a multipurpose buried shelter system called the MEXE Shelter, or Field Shelter Mk2 ...

Having just entered service as an interim capability, Archer is eventually planned to be replaced by the Boxer RCH 155. No one is making an argument to double down on Archer. Archer Self-Propelled ...

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 ...

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