“When we mean to build we first survey the plot, then draw the model..which if we find outweighs ability, what do we then but draw anew the model in fewer offices, or at last desist to build at all?” #ShakespeareSunday

It's nice that the C-17 has a perfect viewing window to get this type of shot.

"Stop! In the name of Love"

Today's #TipOfTheDay

Iron Duke. Another one gone. #ThursdayThought

Too late, you had your chance #WednesdayWisdom

It's #TankTuesday.

"The dismounted infantryman is the ultimate precision weapon and the core of all land warfare..." Wilf Owen #DefencePhotography

Someone's got to do it #DefencePhotography

Good moaning folks #MondayMoaning

"What rub or what impediment there is, Why that the naked, poor, and mangled Peace, Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births, Should not in this best garden of the world, Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?" #ShakespeareSunday

Apparently British Boxers will have no dedicated Recovery variant. The current recovery vehicle (pic) can't do it (weight). So what then? CRARRV? How about the Warrior recovery variant or have they all gone...? Ajax variant? I need to go to another trial!

The British RCH hulls are getting a unique modification in the future - a side hatch and 'tunnel' as an escape route for a conscious or unconscious Commander. Might need a ladder too, it's quite high? Not seen one yet, look forward to being the first to photograph it in the wild.

Maybe there's a better way of delivering a section of infantry directly onto an enemy position. But I feel certain it's not in a Boxer APC or an Ajax variant unless I've missed something? Or maybe I'm asking the wrong question?

So the British Army will have a Boxer APC with limited variants, Challenger 3, wheeled artillery, Ajax and Apache E. Where's the IFV?

"One sees more devils than vast hell can hold" #ShakespeareSunday

I love demos.

Can do Britain #ThursdayThought

Welding AFVs. Harder than it looks. #ThursdayThought [this is the first CVR(T)Mk2 being welded at Wolverhampton]

Happy memories