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 ...

Before the 1982 conflict, aviation on the Falkland Islands was increasingly important to the health, wealth, and well-being ...

Ajax is a family of tracked armoured vehicles that will enter service with the British Army to replace the seventies era Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) family. It is derived from ...

You already know about the British Army’s problems. Polemics that point fingers and state the obvious are easy to write and even easier to find. Proposals that advocate for increasing budgets are ...

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 ...

LMM is a low cost, lightweight, precision strike, missile, which has been designed to be fired from tactical platforms including fixed or rotary winged UAVs and surface platforms. The system is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Storm Shadow is the RAF’s long-range stand-off precision-guided cruise missile used against high-value and hardened targets. The MBDA describe the Storm Shadow Conventionally Armed Stand-Off Missile ...

Having just entered service as an interim capability, Archer is eventually planned to be replaced by the Boxer RCH 155. No one is making an argument to double down on Archer, but, I am going to make ...

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 ...

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 ...