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…
Digging Tools
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…
Physical Barriers
Physical barriers (apart from wire and ditches) include concrete blocks, beams, and posts, in addition to various improvised obstacles such as vehicles and logs. Spikes and Caltrops Self-evidently, of little…
Counter UGV Barriers
Both Ukraine and Russia have made use of small UGV's to attack field defences, it is difficult to see a future where these are not a real future threat. Smaller…