UK Military Bridging – Equipment (The Bailey Bridge)
The Bailey bridge was described by General Eisenhower as one of the three most important engineering and technological of WWII, along with radar and the heavy bomber. …one of the…
The Kapok Landing Stage Mk I
As a follow on to the bridging post that showed the Kapok Assault Bridge for use over streams and small rivers. British science made some dreadful bloopers when they were…
Mortars
A guest post from Jed We have a lot of discussion of fire support for mobile (armoured, mechanised) infantry, and touched upon the same subject in the context of light…
40mm or 90mm, or maybe even 105mm
Both FRES Specialist vehicle Scout and the new and improved Warrior MICV will be fitted with the CTAI 40mm cannon. There are a number of debates about this, does the…
2011, Libya and 2012
A bold title for a single post but a trawl through the year reveals a few things worth noting in this disjointed and rambling beginning of year post! It goes…