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The Military Engineering Experimental Establishment (MEXE) was established post WWII, until it was merged with the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment to form the Military ...

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 ...

In this guest post, Matthew Ford discusses the British Army and the (new) calibre debate.. It is the lot of the infantry to hold ground and get shot at. This is the everyday history of the infantry, ...

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 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 ...

A recent Wavell Room article from Dave Wimbush considered the options for developing close quarter battle skills and doctrine in the urban environment. It was a brilliant piece that explained the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swingfire was a British wire-guided anti-tank missile developed in the 1960s, seeing action in multiple theatres. Development and testing progressed through to 1969, when Swingfire was formally ...

The Light Mobility Vehicle (LMV) faces some noteworthy payload challenges. In Part 1, I explained the trend towards higher kerb weights in modern vehicles and the hard upper limit imposed by the max 3 ...

I challenge the notion that the British tank and armoured vehicle industry is dead, that we don’t buy enough, and should just jack it all in and buy Abrams or Leopard. Listen to the online doom ...