CVR(T)’s operational service in the seventies had demonstrated the vehicle’s exceptional mobility and ease of deployment. This meant it was to find a role in the Falklands Conflict in 1982, although ...

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 ...

The DragonFire laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) represents a pivotal advancement in the United Kingdom’s defence capabilities, marking a transition from traditional kinetic munitions to high-energy ...

It is impossible to tell the tale of CVR(T), and by extension, FRES, without understanding the role of the ‘Tank Factory’ At Chobham Common, or more commonly, Chertsey. The area had been used for ...

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 ...

This section spans a number of years, outside of the chronological structure of the document. One cannot understand the origins of FRES without examining the military transformation movement of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trailers, storage, and stowage are essential parts of any quad bike ATV replacement and as an integrated solution, they should ideally be acquired jointly under a single programme. Quad bikes are not ...

Poor retention. Low recruitment figures. And what sometimes seems like a never-ending succession of scandals hitting the tabloids. Throw in the consequences of decades of the peace dividend, chronic ...

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 ...

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 ...