Horses, Tanks and a Tale of Two and a Half Fuckwits
Well, what a week. As we all thought and with the inevitability of night following day the MoD will be facing yet more budget cuts. Sir Peter Wall, the Chief…
A Theoretical Construct for UK Defense
Spot the spelling, this is from Jeremy M H, one of our many friends from the USA; Intro The United Kingdom appears to occupy a unique niche in the defense…
Foxhound in Afghanistan
A Foxhound Light Protected Patrol Vehicle on operations in Afghanistan. The Foxhound is at the cutting edge of protected patrol vehicle technology and provides unprecedented levels of blast protection for…
Royal Engineers at Work #Sappers
Whilst browsing Flickr I found this great set of images from John Oram of the Combat Support Boat On a cold, sunny March afternoon, I chanced upon an Army Leyland…
Deception
At this D-Day 'versary time of year I often think about deception. The scale of Op Fortitude was staggering and there's plenty of good stuff to read on the subject…
Terrier, Renown Engineering and D Day
Three seemingly unconnected things came together today. First was me finishing updating the post about Sir Percy Hobart, the 79th Armoured Division and the armoured engineering 'funnies' of D Day. As…
D Day – Sir Percy Hobart and the Funnies of the 79th
Seems it is a good time to dust off and refresh a couple of older posts There are so many aspects of Operation Neptune (the assault phase of Overlord) that…
Army Brown
Did we discuss this, not sure? From Akzo Nobel The Ministry of Defence (MoD) asked AkzoNobel – makers of paints and coatings such as Intergard, Sikkens and Dulux – to…