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Vehicle of fire (Part two)
Part one. Picture note: I ran into a bit of a problem hunting for pictures today... the Us didn't name the weapons, but the British did. Seeing as the document I was reading was British, it failed to...
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Battle of the Yarra
HMAS Yarra was the second ship to bear that name. She was a Grimsby Class sloop, a tiny ship was lightly armed with only three four inch guns and a three inch gun along with a small compliment of...
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At the heart of the labyrinth
On a couple of occasions I have been to the Defence Capabilities Centre at Shrivenham (both times the visit was organised by Ed Francis). Some of the models they have are curious jobs that no-one has...
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First and Only
The story of Finnish tanks during the Second World War isn't exactly a happy one. From a manpower point of view they did extremely well, with tank crews showing high levels of skill and courage. On the...
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Back to the Future?
Throughout the last few years I've seen a great many projects related to armoured warfare. Nearly every single one of them was scuppered by technological considerations. Either the technology was...
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Holiday
I'm on Holiday this week!A few months ago the Wife suggested that we hire a cottage and go away or a week with the dogs. To which I replied "I hear Dorset is nice." (For those of you who don't get it)....
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Huge hills, Huge Spiders!
As last week I was on holiday I failed to get an article written. That's mostly due to climbing mountains in Dorset (the wife claims they weren't mountains, however they fit the Oxford English...
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Broken History
In the First World War the Dover Barrage was a series of anti-submarine nets with attached mines stretching across the narrowest point of the Channel. Its aim was to hinder, if not prevent German...
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Mourning the Monmouthshire
Note: Imgur and Blogger are playing silly buggers this morning, so if the images aren't appearing that's why. I've spent the last 20 mins trying to insert images. Occasionally the two websites randomly...
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Thinly Veiled
Every year the Royal Armoured Corps holds a conference to update their officers on things that are happening or soon to happen within the Corps. It also features some data on emerging threats. I've...
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Ivanhoe's Fire
DISCLAIMER!I will now issue the largest disclaimer I have ever used on here. First I am am not a nuclear physicist (AKA: “Magician”). So a lot of numbers have been gotten from the fudge'o'matic, as I...
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Friendly Fire
Today is Remembrance Sunday in the UK, and keeping with tradition I'll be writing about something a bit different from my normal fare.When Finland managed to claw itself to freedom from the mess of the...
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Early Invasion
You'll remember some years ago now I mentioned Jack Churchill, and his special brand of madness. Well when I heard of this chap I immediately knew I had to do this article, although material on him is...
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Building a Better Boxtank?
The following video came out a few weeks ago, and upon seeing it several of my friends (including a German) accused me of writing the script for it. Upon challenging this claim they pointed out that...
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Krupp Stehlen
Following on from last week's article I'm going to talk about armour once again, this time Krupp Steel! Now this has probably been discussed on just about any forum you care to name at such great...
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Hangor On
Forty five years (and two days) ago a part of a naval war led to the first sinking of a ship by submarine since the Second World War, one of only three to date. The other two being the ARA Belgrano...
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Will the real Americans please stand up?
At the start of the Battle of the Bulge on the 16th of December 1944 several freezing, scared, ill-supported engineers were manning a roadblock at Malmedy. The sounds of war had picked up over the last...
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Felixstowe
At 0430 on the 14th of May 1917 Zeppelin LZ-64 (Formerly LZ-22) was cruising about over the North Sea near Terschelling. She was engaged on her 31st reconnaissance flight, in preparation for a...
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Deadly Pancake
In the last few years I've talked about the battles of Nomonhan several times, and today I'll be returning to that battlefield. First I wanted to talk about why we keep ending up there. For such a tiny...
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Not Enough
We left the Ioki Detachment as the Soviet bombardment lifted on the 20th of August 1939. As the men of the lead platoon raised their heads they could see Soviet troops moving to their front, these were...
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