The future of the UK’s armed forces

The future of UK military power is under question and especially so with the new coalition government ramping up pressure on the MoD by cutting its budget. The UK has the fourth largest annual budget in the World and is heavily involved in Afghanistan as well as having bases in several other countries. The...

The pillars of creation

In 2008/09/10, the first article was created on this website, the article was created about the British armoured vehicle; Challenger 2. With this in mind we have travelled quite slowly and the site was neglected for a period of time where no new content was created and nothing to the site was being done....

Articles being updated

Over this week, I will be updating articles to reflect a higher quality. As you can see in the T-90 article there has been an improvement in terms of depth and information. I hope to reflect this on all articles throughout this site. With this all in mind, all new articles will be setup in the same layout as...

Jackal 1 and 2 (MWMIK)

Jackal 1 The Jackal was ordered by the Ministry of Defence as an operational urgent requirement for the British armed forces in both Afghanistan & Iraq however only saw operation in Afghanistan. It was during July 2007 when the MoD announced the purchase of 130 of the Jackal 1 variant for use in these...

Cougar (PPV)

The Cougar is a vehicle procured originally for the US Army in attempts for an improved patrol vehicle (MRAP) which could handle high explosive blasts from IED’s, mines and small arms fire. The vehicle has a V-shaped hull, which means blasts are deflected away from the vehicle. The vehicle was produced...

Snatch Land Rover

The Snatch Land Rover is a vehicle in the British army which was introduced in 1992 during the conflicts of Northern Ireland, thus this vehicle was introduced for patrolling low threat-urban areas of Northern Ireland. The Snatch is based on the chassis of the Land Rover Defender (110). It has been...

Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAV-7A1)

The AAV-7A1 Amphibious Assault Vehicle is a fully-tracked vehicle (Built by U.S. Combat Systems, now BAE systems) which has a primary purpose for amphibious assault landings. The vehicle was first introduced as the LVT-7 in 1972 to whereby upgrades and life extension programmes began the work on later...

Adding community features to our main website

We are adding new community features to our main website which viewers of this site will soon find out about. Features such as personalised user pages where you can add your own avatar or upload up to 10 images which are your favourite can be saved and hosted on this website. Take my profile as an example or...

ERC 90 Sagaie (GRV)

    The ERC 90 is an 8.3 tonne vehicle mounted with a 90 mm weapon, which is a reconnaissance 6 wheeled armoured all-terrain vehicle. ERC translated from its French meaning to English means ‘Gun-armed Reconnaissance Vehicle’. In December 1980 the vehicle was chosen by the...