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In response to General Staff Requirement 3533 Sankey was awarded the main development contract in 1980. By this point, GKN had already completed one static and two mobile test rigs as part of earlier ...

LCVP Foxtrot 7 is on display at the Royal Marines Museum.One of the LCU’s ended up being purchased by the Barclay brothers to transport construction supplies in the Channel Islands. Landing Ship ...

The RGM-84 Harpoon is a ship-launched, all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile that is carried by Royal Navy Type 23 and Type 45 vessels. It is due to be replaced with the Interim Surface ...

[EDIT: After the publication of this post, the MoD awarded an extension contract to Summit Air for parachute training]. Light Transport Aircraft — Single Engine. Single-engine economy, ease of ...

Multi-Role Vehicle Redefined. The Multi Role Vehicle – Protected (MRV-P) was a large project from 2012 to bring into service two protected-wheeled vehicles that would replace many UOR vehicles.. A ...

A simple question, was the British Infantry more effective with the 51 mm lightweight infantry mortar than it is now, without it? In an age of swarming drones and artificial intelligence, it is easy ...

To end this long series of posts, some discussion points on helicopter transportable vehicles and equipment. Who would use these types of vehicles and equipment? Joking aside, the likely user group ...

The Thales Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) is called Martlet in Royal Navy service. It is described by Thales as; LMM is a low cost, lightweight, precision strike, missile, which has been designed ...

These are four random vehicles from the list. Can Outlander: 3 vehicles, 24 seats, 0.9 tonnes of stores. Polaris MRZR Alpha D2: 3 vehicles, 24 seats, 1.9 tonnes of stores.

Brimstone is a potent and precision-guided anti-armour missile that arms RAF Typhoons and Protectors. The RAF describe Brimstone as; Brimstone is an advanced, rocket-propelled, radar-guided weapon and ...

In the post-Afghanistan contemporary operating environment, we are likely to see the lost art of digging in, field defence building and using timber, rediscovered. All these need substantial ...