You may have noticed that, in all the posts, are pictures of British Army soldiers and equipment involved with field defences. This was deliberate to illustrate a point that it…

This is the penultimate part of the field defence series before I close with a summary. I have briefly touched on tube and clamp systems, and various forms of scaffolding,…

The Individual Protection Kit (IPK), or KIP, was a Military Experimental Engineering Establishment (MEXE) design from the fifties. Its purpose was to provide infantry with an easily carried method of…

In any conflict, materials for field defences will be required. The main questions are how much is sensible to provision in advance, how will its use be organised, and how…

Most armies are not in short supply of things to dig with, and the British Army is no different. At the heavy end, there is Trojan and Terrier, most well…

Physical barriers (apart from wire and ditches) include concrete blocks, beams, and posts, in addition to various improvised obstacles such as vehicles and logs. Spikes and Caltrops Self-evidently, of little…

Both Ukraine and Russia have made use of small UGV's to attack field defences, it is difficult to see a future where these are not a real future threat. Smaller…

Barbed wire and concertina are highly effective against both vehicles and personnel.