Combatives is the modern term for hand-to-hand fighting. It is something that has been formalised and widely adopted by some ...

The British Army’s 11 Brigade is currently transitioning into a specialised tactical recce-strike role, often described as the Army’s first ‘drone brigade’. After a period as the Security Force ...

OK, so I realise RORO ramps and link spans aren’t a secret, or even interesting, but how many people have heard of them? In any expeditionary or disaster relief operation, the likelihood is we will be ...

Probably the most ingenious and revolutionary bit of ship-to-shore logistics capability that no one has ever heard of, FIPASS was deceptively simple. It was not used until a few years after the ...

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 ...

Is the 12.7 mm/.50cal Heavy Machine Gun (that will arm UK Boxers) enough firepower for a vehicle that will form the vehicular backbone of the British Army? The M2 ‘Fifty Cal’ is an enduring design ...

I challenge the notion that the British tank and armoured vehicle industry is dead, that we don’t buy enough, and should just jack it all in and buy Abrams or Leopard. Listen to the online doom ...

Mulberry and Pluto are often unfairly characterised as a British-only inventions, but US forces also brought a couple of their important innovations to D-Day logistics. The Rhino ferry consisted of ...

Continuing the Light Strike concept series, this post focuses on the introduction and strategic context of the Cold War era 24 Air Mobile Brigade. 6 Airmobile Brigade and the Transition to 24 ...

Fibre Optic Guided Missiles (EFOG-M, Polyphem, and others) Anti-Tank Mortar Bombs (Merlin, STRIX and Bussard) Merlin, STRIX and Bussard were, like EFOG-M and Polyphem, a class of weapons that started ...

The British Army (Royal Engineers) maintain an extensive GEOINT and survey capability, centred on the fine folks at 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic). 41 Regiment is a hybrid Regular and Reserve unit ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the British Army, alongside NATO partners, explored airmobile forces as an operational reserve. 24 Airmobile Brigade formed the British core of the Multi-National ...