Sometimes the cost alone make it worthwhile. The UK has used M548 (M113 derivative) for the Tracked Rapier, M993 (Bradley derivative) as well as another M113 derivative (carrying the Spike NLOS, binned after a couple of years with a trailer version replacing it) briefly rather than mating the systems to their own…

To be honest it seems a bit of a lash up. Whats the point of the turret if you don’t retain the gun? And carrying the MICLIC onboard....????

An M-9 isn’t really in the same class as Terrier though or for that matter the Combat Engineer Tractor that it replaces. It’s just an armoured bulldozer, no backhoe or other attachments.

Armoured D-9's also couldn’t keep up with the advance of an armoured unit. Terriers and Trojans are designed to be able to keep up with Challengers and Warriors and not slow the advance down. Imagine getting to an obstacle then having to wait a day for a D-9 to roll up...

Mine flails are still around. Lots of armys still have them including the UK and US. But they’re slow....this ones a Minewolf with UK forces in Afghanistan. It’s remote controlled for obvious reasons...

That was the L9 165mm demo gun. It was also used by the US in the M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle (an M-60 variant).Last used on the Centurion AVRE.

True. What many people forget is that thinking about health and safety also leads to thinking about processes in general, when you apply thought to health and safety you always tend to think about other parts of the process. It leads to greater efficiencies and productivity. When you look at the agenda’s of those who…

Its perfectly sensible. Wearing Hi-Vis on a road march in peacetime is the smart thing to do. As it is when constructing a bridge in peacetime. You wouldn’t expect to see a building site worker without the proper PPE so why should a sapper do without? Are their lives worth less?

Well the US Army didn’t have a great day on D-Day, Omaha was always going to be tricky but had to be taken to link the sectors. The planners thought that Sword especially and Gold and Juno were better defended. Utah was a cakewalk in comparison but those operational failures made that almost farcical as well. The less…

It was one of those days when not much went right, either through bad luck or in the main poor training or execution by others than the men who actually landed. The DD’s which could have madethe difference were lost as a result of poor training and poor leadership. The majority of the DD’s used on D-day were dropped…

It’s got a BV though and that trumps a leatherman or Swiss Army knife!

Not in the line of fire they don’t. They have M9's and seem to be pretty impressed with this JCB back hoe..

The timelines were pretty short and Utah didn’t really have the defences that the 79th would have been useful for, Omaha beach’s steep bluff at the back may have negated some of their usefulness, though something would have been better than nothing. The US Army made a lot of questionable decisions for D-day like…

Here you go...it’s predecessor the Combat Engineer Tractor...only £18,000 barely used...

The UK invented the mine clearing line charge with some being used in the later stages of WW2. They were very dangerous in the early days however, being hoses that were pumped with Nitro Glycerine once the hose was laid. One prematurely detonated and caused over 60 deaths. Giant Viper was the version in use for…

See my post above. It’s actually not including the aircraft in the pool. These are operational, ready to go aircraft.

To be fair we dd have the assault lift in the Falklands. It just got destroyed. There was enough on the Atlantic Conveyor to do the entire lift. But we had a plan B thank god, and there was no other light infantry on earth who could have done that in 1982.

Used for training Harrier pilots before, but also used to simulate ASM’s and for other Naval warfare exercises.

Actually that graphic is fairly accurate. But is a little disengenuous. Only operational squadron allocated aircraft are depicted. Aircraft in the pools are not counted. There are at present for example:

Given that the Eurofighter was designed to defeat the Su-27 and all it’s successors you’d be right. The Typhoon would have an SU-35 for breakfast. In fact it will beat anything bar an F-22.