You may have noticed that, in all the posts, are pictures of British Army soldiers and equipment involved with field defences ...

The Individual Protection Kit (IPK), or KIP, was a Military Experimental Engineering Establishment (MEXE) design from the ...

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 much can the host nation be ...

So what I thought I would do in this part of the series is look at a handful of niche digging tools, just to add to the mix ...

Physical barriers (apart from wire and ditches) include concrete blocks, beams, and posts, in addition to various improvised ...

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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 devices have been fielded in Ukraine.

Barbed wire is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It typically consists of two or more strands of steel wire twisted together, with ...

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Any physical obstacle can be breached, they are not force fields. Anti Tank Ditches are no different to any other obstacle. The reason they exist is to delay, frustrate, divert, shape, influence, ...