The missile pod(s) must be towed to overcome air transportability hurdles, the next challenge is how they can be loaded, unloaded, and transported to where ...

A short series that examines options for restoring mobility to long-range ground launched precision weapons such as GMLRS and ...

The limitations inherent with air transport, especially aircraft internal carriage, create difficult mobility challenges.

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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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Physical barriers (apart from wire and ditches) include concrete blocks, beams, and posts, in addition to various improvised obstacles such as vehicles and logs. Self-evidently, of little utility ...

Most armies are not in short supply of things to dig with, and the British Army is no different. At the heavy end, there is Trojan and Terrier, most well protected, mobile, and with a collection of ...

In any conflict, materials for field defences will be required. The main questions are how much is sensible to provision in advance, how will its use be organised, and how much can the host nation be ...

The Individual Protection Kit (IPK), or KIP, was a Military Experimental Engineering Establishment (MEXE) design from the fifties. Its purpose was to provide infantry with an easily carried method of ...