A GUEST POST FROM JED It appears to this humble arm chair general, that the British Army has a fundamental problem, or three. After over a decade of constant deployment and action in a counter-insurgency role, there appears to be…
I have recently looked at both the brigades of the U.S. Army and the German Heer on my blog. It's an interesting thought experiment to do the same to about the army of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Moving Forward It would be easy to bemoan the lost opportunities but if the British Army is to move forward, it must look forward. This means first asking whether we need a specialist air manoeuvre vehicle or could we make…
In the previous post, I looked at personal transport and load carrying for light role forces; hand carts, bicycles, motorcycles and quad bikes (ATV’s). I tend to think their utility is limited to fairly niche roles but essentially, well worth…
This section is not about personal load carrying as in bets, plate carriers and rucksacks, but wheeled devices that can take the load off the soldiers back and means of improving mobility. History An oft-overlooked but important requirement during WWII…
Does anyone know what they will look like? I ask because there seems to be a dearth of released information, this doesn’t, of course, mean the information is not there, it means it has not been published. That hasn’t stopped…
The current Life Extension Programme (LEP) for the British Army’s 227 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks has been failing to deliver anything for some time. It started as an ambitious programme but as industrial capability and financial reality has dawned,…
Now there is a headline that didn’t seem possible only a few years. Remember, SDSR 2010 effectively closed down BATSUB in Belize, but it would seem, it has been quietly regenerated. More good news.
Vehicle convoys have been conducted around Latvia and Lithuania to bring the masses of equipment and vehicles to their final destinations for the exercise. The convoy destined for Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, arrived late in the afternoon as onlookers stared bemused.…
The British Army’s on, off, on again, well maybe off(ish) programme to replace the various UOR and protected mobility vehicles is called the Multi Role Vehicle (Protected). One of the themes that I have seen mentioned often in online commentary…
