A Tale of Deception and Two Containers
As any reader of Think Defence will know, I am constantly on the look out for container related stories, but hadn't seen anything interesting enough to write about for a…
HMNZS Canterbury
A ship with a troubled history but interesting concept nevertheless. Read more at Wikipedia some Flickr embeds https://www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4751738543/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tigge_nz/682062742/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/111emergency/4892527103/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/111emergency/4892525157/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/77601153@N00/6204934217/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/77601153@N00/6204943021/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/6969486085/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/77601153@N00/6205459620/
On Strategy – What Is It
A Guest post from Chris.B So, TD is on a drive this summer to turn the debate temporarily away from shiny equipment and things that either blow other stuff up…
On Strategy – East of East of Suez, The UK military presence in the Asia Pacific Region
A Guest Post from Sir Humphrey, author of 'The Thin Pinstriped Line' defence blog East of East of Suez – the UK commitment to the Asia / Pacific Rim. The…
Hawkeye 105mm Weapon System
We have discussed mortars across a number of posts but how about an alternative to the vehicle mounted 120mm mortars that seem to be in vogue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhfbLt4Eno A spot of…
CVF Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment FOI
In a casual perusal of FOI requests this one stood out Dear Ministry of Defence, Were other inovations and designs of catapult considered before EMALS was selected for use on the…
SPHINX and CRAB at Eurosatory
Interesting video from Army Recognition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4LyKkZj_Ro
Generic Base Architecture and FOBEX
In September last year a wrote about the Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) and how it is probably one of the smartest things the MoD has done recently, how it will…