The May 2012 NATO Summit confirmed the commitment to withdraw ISAF personnel by 2014, together with the conflict in Georgia/South Ossetia a few years earlier, rising tensions in Ukraine and…
The Iraq Enquiry was to lay bare some of Army’s dirty laundry, a new government, budget black holes to fill, a defence review, transfer of many areas in Helmand to…
The next point in the story is the change in emphasis from the wheeled Utility Variant to the tracked Reconnaissance Variant and the subsequent change in name. This was then…
Between the issues of the Technology Demonstration Programme contracts at the end of 2004 to the infamous Trials of Truth in 2007, the MoD and Army were trying to deliver…
Work ceased on FFLAV but its various studies informed the creation of two new programmes, TRACER and MRAV. Although both started and finished at different times they are peers in…
Although the previous section looked across the broad span of FCS and FRES, this section will take a more linear timeline approach in order to examine how activity from around…
To say the nineties were a somewhat busy period in the story would be a significant disservice to the word busy. Replacement programmes came and went, operations in the Gulf…
Operations in the Balkans throughout the nineties would prove to be pivotal in the story of the British Army’s search for a medium weight capability as defined by FRES and…