Counter UAS nets are not a panacea, and should be considered one (cheap) component of a wider systems approach. The most ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Mexeflote is a modular pontoon in service with the British and Australian armed forces and is primarily used to transfer vehicles, stores, and equipment from ship to shore. In… ...

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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 ...

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 ...