How an Army Prints Maps
Geographic survey and cartography is about more than just printing maps but despite the plethora of electronic displays available, they still need to be printed
Water Beyond the Shore
Look at any of the marketing material for any new combat vessel these days and there is always a reference to the potable water generation capacity in relation to how…
3D Printing Buildings
Back in the deepest archives at TD Towers is a 2011 post on 3D printing for buildings and field fortifications using a technique called contour crafting. One of the disadvantages of…
Testing the Funnies
The specialist armoured engineering vehicles of the 79th Brigade under Sir Percy Hobart played a pivotal role in the success of the D Day landings, read more here. This video…
Are we losing the art of digging?
In the last decade or more of operations in the Middle East, the enemy's that British forces have faced had not had a great deal of indirect fire capability. Although…
Faun HGMS-IV
Faun have introduced a new product called the HGMS-IV, or Heavy Ground Mobility System - Independent Variant. HGMS is the heavy variant of the familiar trackway system, the Class 70,…
EOD Tasks
This FOI published a few weeks ago really surprised me. It shows the number of EOD tasks carried out by the Army and Royal Navy for the last few years in…
A Pier at La Panne
I have been rather remiss in not writing anything about Dunkirk but with so much great material out there it is hard to produce anything that is interesting. On Twitter…
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