Pocket Rockets — Growth and Summary
To close this series, a look at growth paths and alternative weapons. Growth Paths and Alternative Weapons Growth Paths One of the original requirements was that the complex weapons must…
Pocket Rockets — Towing Vehicles
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 they're needed. Loading and Unloading…
Pocket Rockets — Mobility Options
The limitations inherent with air transport, especially aircraft internal carriage, create difficult mobility challenges. The weight of the payload as a percentage of the fully loaded weight is illustrative. HIMARS…
Pocket Rockets — Requirements and Challenges
A short series that examines options for restoring mobility to long-range ground launched precision weapons Is mobility ever a bad thing? Probably not, but it always results in compromise. Where…
Field Defences — Series Summary
You may have noticed that, in all the posts, are pictures of British Army soldiers and equipment involved with field defences. This was deliberate to illustrate a point that it…
Tube and Clamp Systems for Field Defences
This is the penultimate part of the field defence series before I close with a summary. I have briefly touched on tube and clamp systems, and various forms of scaffolding,…
A Modern Day IPK
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…
Timber and Aggregate Processing
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…