Another Look at Towers and Blimps

An article in the Telegraph this weekend from Thomas Harding looked at life in a Patrol Base in the Sangin district of Helmand. A number of things that struck me…

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Haiti and Water

Whilst looking at various sources for the last post in the FDR series, one story struck me as very interesting, enough to warrant a further look. This is absolutely not…

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Non-Explosive Fertiliser

A number of media reports have recently focussed on the use of foreign aid organisation supplied fertiliser as the base ingredient for improvised explosives. Commonly, the fertiliser is combined with…

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Mine and IED Resistant Vehicles

There are many factors which improve the survivability for a vehicles occupants and designers have to balance them. If one starts with a deep V shape hull to deflect blast…

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