In May 2025, the then First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Ben Key, produced a ‘hold my beer moment’. It came to light that, as the ...

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The pace of change in the civilian unmanned airborne systems marketplace is staggering, and much like the mobile telephone, it will present both several threats and opportunities for defence and ...

Land Precision Strike is a new requirement from the British Army for a ground-launched precision-guided weapon that can be used at long range, 80 km plus. In response to a written Parliamentary ...

The Mexeflote is a modular pontoon in service with the British and Australian armed forces and is primarily used to transfer vehicles, stores, and equipment from ship to shore. In service since the ...

In the late Nineties, the British Army concluded it needed to develop and field a Medium Weight Capability that would enable it to arrive quicker than a heavy force, but have greater resilience and ...

The RAF operates a fleet of eight Boeing C-17 heavy-lift aircraft, and put simply, they are brilliant, currently doing fantastic work in Operation PITTING, the evacuation from Kabul. However, they are ...

The recent incident in the Suez Canal involving the container ship Ever Given demonstrated just how fast the quality of commercial satellite imagery is improving. What is now freely available not very ...

I have a lingering doubt about all many of these options and their ability to accommodate a 95th percentile soldier and their personal protective equipment, but putting that to one side for a moment, ...

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has rapidly accelerated the development and deployment of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), particularly first-person view (FPV) drones, which have become pivotal weapons ...

Continuing my look at defence shelters, this post looks at larger shelters, both prefabricated, and built in-situ. The defining feature of the MEXE Shelter, in the previous post, was the nature of its ...