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Abacot

A nice picture, courtesy of 21 Engineer regiment Royal

November 23, 2012 | News and Information | 7 Comments

Panama City Rollers

No, not some dodgy 70′s rock band but the IED pre-detonating rollers used in Afghanistan, usually mounted on a Mastiff armoured

November 21, 2012 | News and Information | 37 Comments

IED’s and Pakistani Fertiliser

In a previous post on the Talisman route clearance system I made the point that ‘defeating the device’ was a single part of a more complex strategy …

July 16, 2012 | Analysis and Proposal | 33 Comments

IED’s, Mines, Route Clearance and Talisman

Two years ago (almost to the day) I wrote about the Talisman route clearance system of systems that had been introduced with great fanfare in Afghanistan as …

July 3, 2012 | Analysis and Proposal | 21 Comments

Nothing New

Came across these photos on the web and it struck me that military forces the world over face the same old challenges, go some way to solving them, then …

August 1, 2011 | News and Information | 12 Comments

Ocelot – Light Protected Patrol Vehicle

Unless you have been on the moon you will by now be aware that the MoD has selected the Force Protection Europe Ocelot as the preferred bidder for the Light …

September 23, 2010 | News and Information | 27 Comments
Why Things Don’t Happen – RN underfunding

Why Things Don’t Happen – RN underfunding

Out today from RUSI is a paper from Vice-Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham KCB and Gwyn Prins from the LSE that makes a case for spending on the Royal

August 23, 2010 | Analysis and Proposal | 120 Comments

FDR – Land (Logistics and Combat Service Support #1)

The Royal Logistics Corps is not nicknamed the Really Large Corps for nothing; it is the single largest element of the British Army and was formed in 1993 by …

July 26, 2010 | Analysis and Proposal | 13 Comments
Another Look at Towers and Blimps

Another Look at Towers and Blimps

An article in the Telegraph this weekend from Thomas Harding looked at life in a Patrol Base in the Sangin district of Helmand. A number of things that struck …

July 13, 2010 | Analysis and Proposal | 4 Comments

Talisman on Operations

In our earlier posts on the subject we have lamented the timeliness of the Counter IED programme called Talisman and and asked if it is too little too …

July 10, 2010 | News and Information | 0 Comments

Flails and the Pookie

Commenters and my blogging contemporary at Defence of the Realm, Dr Richard North, mentioned some interesting information that I thought worth exploring as a …

July 7, 2010 | History | 1 Comment

Is Talisman Too Little Too Late?

I have held off posting anything on current IED equipment for obvious reasons, but now that the UK’s Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) capability, …

June 29, 2010 | History | 42 Comments

Makes a change from a Vallon

As part of Operation MOSHTARAK the Royal Engineers have deployed an explosive clearance system called Python, towed behind the Challenger derived Trojan …

February 22, 2010 | News and Information | 3 Comments

Actions On – IED

One of my old mates just sent me this and I thought it too funny not to publish, so with due regards for the author. Remember, its just a joke What’s …

February 1, 2010 | Culture | 3 Comments

Experts

I am always wary when experts are quoted as when all said and done, an expert opinion is just that, an opinion. Reported in the Telegraph and on the BBC …

September 18, 2009 | Analysis and Proposal | 0 Comments

Non Explosive Fertliser

A number of media reports have recently focussed on the use of foreign aid organisation supplied fertiliser as the base ingredient for improvised explosives. …

September 16, 2009 | Analysis and Proposal | 0 Comments

On the Subject of IED’s

Generating almost the same level of debate as helicopters in Afghanistan, the issue of protected vehicles and IED’s is perhaps less clear cut. No one except …

August 17, 2009 | Analysis and Proposal | 2 Comments

Mine and IED Resistant Vehicles

There are many factors which improve the survivability for a vehicles occupants and designers have to balance them. If one starts with a deep V shape hull to …

August 17, 2009 | Analysis and Proposal | 4 Comments

The Dangers of ‘Off Someone Else’s Shelf’

One often hears the call for more military equipment to be obtained off the shelf to reduce in service timescales and costs. It is a well trodden path but it …

May 19, 2009 | Analysis and Proposal | 5 Comments

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