The first two questions are: Do they need replacing and do we want to replace them? Because they are relatively simple in construction, they can be maintained for the long term, replacing or adding ...

The first and most obvious option is to stay the course with the current Light Mobility Vehicle (LMV) programme and try to get a single vehicle to meet all the requirements, i.e. the Common Base ...

Euclid’s Army aims to force people to think about how armies should equip, train and organise for land warfare in the 21st Century This should be with equipment that exists today and based on a far ...

Probably the most ingenious and revolutionary bit of ship-to-shore logistics capability that no one has ever heard of, FIPASS was deceptively simple. It was not used until a few years after the ...

The L21A1 RARDEN is a British 30 mm autocannon used as a combat vehicle weapon used principally on Scimitar, Fox, and Warrior. Development of the 30 mM L21 RARDEN Cannon # The 30 mm RARDEN cannon ...

For the Light Mobility Vehicle (LMV), it would seem natural that electric propulsion and alternative fuels would be a component of the wider requirement set. The British Army has completed several ...

The Daimler Ferret Scout Car was a British 4×4 armoured reconnaissance vehicle produced from 1952 to 1971, with 4,409 units built for liaison and scouting roles. The development of the Daimler Ferret ...

Think Defence is a hobby, a serious hobby, but a hobby nonetheless. I want to avoid charging for content, but hosting fees, software subscriptions and other services add up, so to help me keep the ...

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One of the original requirements was that the complex weapons must be in service, for the UK, that meant NSM and GMLRS. But whilst NSM does not seem to have much publicly available information on ...

The idea for the CTS came from my experience in disaster response. Incredibly, on August 17th, I experienced a significant 6.3 magnitude earthquake in my second home in Bogotá, Colombia. When the ...

The Sprung Idler Test Vehicle (SITV) was a specialised experimental platform developed under the auspices of the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment (MVEE) at Chertsey. In the early 1970s ...