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…
Two decades on one page, the start of the story. The Fifties – Saladin and Saracen Reconnaissance and Light Armour By the close of WWII Germany remained convinced that wheeled…
At the beginning of the seventies, both CVR(T) and CVR(W) were coming into service, as the production of FV432 completed. Protected mobility would be a feature of a number of…
MCV-80 Makes Progress and Industrial Revolutions In response to General Staff Requirement 3533 Sankey was awarded the main development contract in 1980. By this point, GKN had already completed one…