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10/07/2026

The 'German' British NBC Scout That Made Saddam Hussein's Chemical Weapons Useless In The Gulf War

The German Fuchs NBC vehicle made Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons useless by driving into nerve agent kill zones and sampling them in real time.

Built by Thyssen-Henschel in 1979, this 6x6 amphibious CBRN scout carried a Bruker MM1 mass spectrometer and sampling wheels that lifted chemical agent off the ground at speed. When Britain faced Saddam's chemical arsenal in 1991, the Fuchs neutralised the threat that was supposed to break the coalition advance.

This video covers the Fuchs full story. The secret transfer of 11 vehicles by Helmut Kohl. Operation Granby in the Gulf War. Operation Telic in Iraq 2003. And Falcon Squadron hunting Novichok in Salisbury in 2018, where nine of the original eleven still serve the Royal Tank Regiment today.

10/06/2026

France's Replacement For The AMX-10RC Ukraine Made Famous Is Finally Here

France is replacing the AMX-10RC, the 'light tank' it sent to Ukraine in 2023, with the EBRC Jaguar R3. The DGA says 21 were delivered by 4 September 2026.

The AMX-10RC was never built for a war like this one. Designed from 1970 for French rapid intervention in Africa, it carried a 105mm gun on a welded aluminium hull, rode on six wheels instead of tracks, steered by braking one side like a bulldozer, and in its original form could swim. 457 were built. France took 337, Morocco 108, Qatar 12. The first vehicle went to the 2e Regiment de Hussards at Sourdun on 20 December 1979.

It fought the wars it was designed for and won them. 96 crossed into Iraq with the French division on 24 February 1991, up-armoured at King Khalid Military City and driving on the airbase at As Salman. In Mali in 2013, 25 of them ran a raid of over 500 kilometres from Gao to Tessalit and fought through the Tigharghar massif and the Ametettai valley. Corporal Alexandre Van Dooren was killed on 16 March 2013 when his vehicle struck a buried charge in the Ifoghas.

Then came Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron announced the transfer on 4 January 2023, the first Western-designed tank pledge of the war, and it unlocked the Challenger 2 and Leopard 2 decisions that followed. 38 had been delivered by May 2024. Ukrainian marines of the 37th Marine Brigade and the 505th Marine Battalion took them into the counteroffensive south of Velyka Novosilka and found out what the French label did not tell them. Crews with the callsigns Kasper, Spartanets, Filin and Rapier described thin armour, gearboxes failing in mud, and road wheels shredded by artillery fragments. They also described a gun that was accurate once zeroed. So they stopped using it as a tank and started using it as artillery, firing across the Dnipro and later near Pokrovsk. Oryx has visually confirmed seven lost: four destroyed, two abandoned, one captured. The captured vehicle was repainted and displayed in Moscow from 1 May 2024.

The EBRC Jaguar replaces three vehicles at once: the AMX-10RC, the ERC-90 Sagaie, and the VAB carrying HOT missiles. The R3 standard was qualified on 8 April 2026 and authorised for use on 20 July 2026. Every earlier Jaguar is to be retrofitted by the end of 2027, with all 300 vehicles planned by 2035. Its 40mm CTA cased telescoped cannon is the same weapon carried by the British Ajax, built by the BAE Systems and KNDS joint venture CTA International. It fires up to 200 rounds a minute with 64 ready in the turret, including an airburst round built for drones. The Akeron MP missile reaches out to four kilometres.

Whether that answers the lesson Ukraine taught is the open question. The Jaguar carries no hard-kill active protection system. In April 2025 General Pierre Schill told the French armoured cavalry it had to reinvent itself, warning that within 20 to 30 kilometres of the contact line any armoured grouping is struck by fires, down to cheap drones. America took the opposite road with the M10 Booker and cancelled it on 11 June 2025.

Sources include the Direction generale de l'armement, KNDS France, Janes, Army Recognition, Opex360, Forbes, Defense Express, Militarnyi, Kyiv Post, France 24 and the Oryx equipment loss database.

10/05/2026

Why This 'Secret' British Machine Crawled Out Of The Somme And Changed Warfare Forever

The Mark I tank was the world's first combat tank — built in secret, funded by the Navy, and sent into battle at the Somme before it was ready. This is the full story.

September 15, 1916. Forty-nine Mark I tanks rolled toward the German trenches at Flers-Courcelette during the Battle of the Somme. Most broke down. Some were destroyed by artillery. But those that made it through changed the course of military history forever.

In this video, we cover the complete story of the Mark I tank — from Winston Churchill's secret Landships Committee and the desperate prototype tests at William Foster & Co. in Lincoln, to the terrifying crew conditions inside the hull (50°C heat, carbon monoxide poisoning, chain-mail face masks), the chaotic first deployment at Flers, and the vindication at the Battle of Cambrai where 476 tanks smashed through the Hindenburg Line without a single preparatory shell.

You will learn why tanks are called "tanks" (a deliberate British deception), how a tractor company built the weapon that broke the deadlock of trench warfare, what the German soldiers actually saw when the first tank appeared, and how the Mark I's legacy led directly to Guderian's Panzer divisions and the Blitzkrieg doctrine of World War II.

Only one original Mark I survives today, at The Tank Museum, Bovington.

10/04/2026

Ukraine's Top Western MRAP Isn't American — It's Canadian

Roshel Senator: how a Canadian bank-truck and VIP armouring firm from Brampton, Ontario ended up building more than 2,500 armoured MRAPs for Ukraine on a commercial Ford F-550 pickup chassis.

Before 2022, Roshel made cash-in-transit trucks for banks, police vehicles and executive protection cars. In 2020 a pair of its Senators escorted NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch pad. It was a security product, not a weapon of war.

Then came the invasion. Founder Roman Shimonov had built the Senator around a simple idea: a commercial Ford frame underneath, a welded V-hull armoured capsule bolted on top. Because the chassis is sold at truck dealerships worldwide, a broken part in Kharkiv can be replaced from a commercial catalogue instead of waiting on a defence contractor. That decision let a company of around 500 workers reach up to 140 vehicles a month, at roughly 600,000 dollars each.

The result is the most numerous Western MRAP-class vehicle in Ukraine. Roshel has delivered more than 2,500 Senators, more than every American MRAP of all types sent to Ukraine combined, which the US Department of Defense lists at over 1,000. They serve with border guards, National Police brigades, special forces, medics and demining crews, and soldiers call them the Roshelka.

This video also covers the honest side. Yuriy Fedorenko, commander of the 92nd Brigade's Achilles unit, told CBC that his Senators broke down off-road with snapped springs and were really built for asphalt. Roshel's answer was to send engineers into Ukraine and strengthen the axles and suspension.

It ends at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, where on 16 June Roshel unveiled a new-generation Captain on the Ford Ranger Super Duty and signed a memorandum of understanding with Daimler Truck, alongside export orders including over 100 vehicles for Moldova.

10/03/2026

There is a branch of the U.S. military with fewer people than the New York City police, a $71 billion budget, and no rockets of its own. If it stops for one second, your phone, your bank, and the power grid stop with it.

This is the United States Space Force — the youngest, smallest, and fastest-growing military service in America, and the one whose biggest programs do not have public names. It does not explore space. It guards the layer the entire modern world stands on: the satellites that see a missile leave the ground, the GPS clocks that stamp every bank transaction in the country, and the links the military talks through. On the night of April 13, 2024, when Iran fired about 300 missiles and drones at Israel, this force saw every one of them launch — and 99 percent were stopped.

In this episode: the windowless room in Colorado where that night was watched live; the squadron that tracks 45,000 objects in orbit and gives the list away for free; a spaceplane that stayed up for 908 days carrying cargo nobody will explain; the Chinese satellite with a robot arm that towed another satellite away; the Russian nuclear weapon designed for orbit; the $30 jammer in a pickup truck that shut down an airport landing system; and where $71 billion actually goes.

Light Tank Mark VI — The British Tank That Fought Every Opening Battle of World War Two

Britain's armoured regiments in 1940 were going to war in a tank with fourteen millimetres of armour and no cannon. A tank so outclassed that a single German anti-tank gun could destroy it at five hundred metres. The crews knew it. The officers knew it. They climbed in anyway.

Built by Vickers-Armstrongs, over 1,600 Mark VI light tanks were produced across all variants — the most numerous British tank when the Second World War began.

From the fields of France to the Libyan desert. From the mountains of Greece to the jungles of Java. How 331 Mark VIs were destroyed or abandoned in France in a single week. How sixteen light tanks on Crete convinced the Germans they were facing an entire armoured division. How the last crews stripped their guns, pushed their tanks into a ravine, and walked into years of captivity.

10/02/2026

Ukraine's Canadian 'Super Bison' Has No Cannon — Why Canada Ordered 190 More

The 'Super Bison' has no cannon and no anti-tank missile, yet Ukraine relies on it and Canada just ordered 190 more. This is the LAV 6.0 ACSV, and why support vehicles decide attrition wars.

On 16 July 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced nearly C$2 billion over four years for 190 more Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSV), taking Canada's fleet from 360 to 550. They will be built by General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada in London, Ontario, which the Prime Minister's Office named Canada's first Strategic Partner under the Defence Industrial Strategy's Strategic Partnership Framework, launched in February 2026. The total programme is C$4.0 billion including taxes, and the PMO says the partnership will create or sustain more than 6,000 jobs across Canada every year over the next eight years.

This armored combat support vehicle carries stretchers, radios, spare parts and tow cables instead of firepower. As an ambulance, command post, recovery vehicle and repair vehicle, it decides whether a brigade can keep fighting. Canada has committed 89 ACSVs to Ukraine: 39 announced in June 2022 and since delivered in full, and 50 more announced by Justin Trudeau on 22 September 2023 with a C$650 million, three-year investment. At least 59 of the 89 are confirmed delivered. Canada pledged 35 more at the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, for a total commitment of 124, and those will be built alongside Canada's 190 before the end of the decade.

We follow the Super Bison's combat record in Ukraine, from the first confirmed loss in December 2023 to the FPV drone strike at Matrosivka in the Kherson region, and separate confirmed losses from unverified Russian claims.

The lineage runs from the Swiss MOWAG Piranha to Canadian licence production in London, Ontario from 1977: Cougar, Grizzly and Husky, then Bison and Coyote, then the LAV III, the vehicle the US Army's Stryker is derived from. Then comes Kandahar. Operation Medusa in September 2006 and more than 1,600 recorded lessons drove the LAV 6.0 rebuild, with its double-V hull and blast-attenuating seats.

We also cover the Canada-led NATO Multinational Brigade in Latvia at Camp Adazi, and Canada spending C$63.4 billion on defence in 2025 to meet NATO's 2% of GDP target, which Mark Carney called the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Finally, we look at why Russia's failed 64 km Kyiv convoy of 2022 shows what happens to an army without recovery vehicles.

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10/01/2026

The 'Broken' British Vehicle That Made Its Own Crews Sick Before Firing A Single Shot

The Ajax armoured fighting vehicle was declared combat ready. 16 days later, 31 soldiers fell violently ill.

Britain spent £6 billion on a vehicle that never fired a single shot in anger. It vibrated so violently that crews walked out with permanent hearing damage. It was restricted to 20 mph. It could not fire on the move. It could not reverse over a 20cm kerb. Over 300 soldiers were medically injured before it ever faced an enemy.

Then came the parliamentary fury. Then came the Sheldon Review. Then came the withdrawal of Initial Operating Capability and Britain left without a single deployable reconnaissance vehicle, unable to meet its NATO obligations.

This is the full story of the Ajax AFV — from the FRES programme and the General Dynamics UK contract to the noise and vibration scandal, the suppressed safety reports, and the most expensive procurement disaster in British Army history.

09/29/2026

Why The US Army Keeps Buying A Chevy Pickup With No Armour | Infantry Squad Vehicle

The US Army stopped buying Humvees but keeps buying the Infantry Squad Vehicle, a Chevy Colorado ZR2 pickup with no armour, no roof and no doors. Here is why.

In September 2026 the US Department of War added a $697.7 million modification to GM Defense's Infantry Squad Vehicle contract, taking its cumulative face value to $915.6 million. The money covers engineering changes to the ISV-Utility variant and its winch kit, including a windshield, heater and defrost system, plus an optional full crew enclosure kit.

The M1301 Infantry Squad Vehicle is roughly 90 percent commercial off-the-shelf parts. A 186-horsepower 2.8-litre Duramax turbo-diesel. Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 axles and locking differentials. Multimatic DSSV dampers derived from Formula One. And a chrome-moly roll cage built by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports. It carries a nine-soldier squad, weighs under 5,000 lb so a UH-60 Black Hawk can sling-load it, and fits inside a CH-47 Chinook.

But the Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation found in its FY2021 report that the ISV was not operationally effective for combat against a near-peer threat, and noted it has no ballistic armor. Over 60 percent of soldiers were dissatisfied with the ride. So why, in the age of drone warfare and after cancelling the Humvee and the JLTV, is the Army buying thousands more unarmored trucks?

We trace the story from the Long Range Desert Group's stripped-down Chevrolet trucks in the Western Desert in 1940, through airdrop testing at Fort Bragg, to the 82nd Airborne, the 101st Airborne, the 75th Ranger Regiment and Canada's NATO battlegroup in Latvia, and ask whether speed can really replace protection.

Why This 'Monstrous' British 78-Ton Tank Was Built to Smash the Siegfried LineThe A39 Tortoise heavy assault tank was Br...
09/23/2026

Why This 'Monstrous' British 78-Ton Tank Was Built to Smash the Siegfried Line
The A39 Tortoise heavy assault tank was Britain's most powerful WW2 weapon — and it never fired a shot in combat. Weighing 78 tons with armour thicker than a King Tiger on every surface and a 32-pounder gun that outpenetrated every other Allied anti-tank weapon of the entire war, it was built for one purpose: to smash through Germany's Siegfried Line. No bridge in Europe could hold its weight. Two tank transporters were needed just to move it from one field to the next. Six were built. The war ended before a single one reached the front. The fortifications it was designed to destroy had already fallen.

This video covers the complete development story of the A39 Tortoise — from the original 1943 War Office brief through 18 design revisions that grew a 45-ton proposal into a 78-ton behemoth, to the devastating post-war gun trials at Hohne Ranges where it destroyed captured Panthers at close range. We also trace the fate of all six surviving prototypes, including the one still running at the Tank Museum Bovington today.

We compare the Tortoise directly against the Jagdtiger, the Panzer VIII Maus, and America's T28 super-heavy tank in a full armour and firepower breakdown — and answer whether it could have broken the Westwall and shortened the war if it had arrived in time. If you know the Tortoise from War Thunder or World of Tanks, this is the complete real history behind it.

09/23/2026

Why This 'Monstrous' British 78-Ton Tank Was Built to Smash the Siegfried Line

The A39 Tortoise heavy assault tank was Britain's most powerful WW2 weapon — and it never fired a shot in combat. Weighing 78 tons with armour thicker than a King Tiger on every surface and a 32-pounder gun that outpenetrated every other Allied anti-tank weapon of the entire war, it was built for one purpose: to smash through Germany's Siegfried Line. No bridge in Europe could hold its weight. Two tank transporters were needed just to move it from one field to the next. Six were built. The war ended before a single one reached the front. The fortifications it was designed to destroy had already fallen.

This video covers the complete development story of the A39 Tortoise — from the original 1943 War Office brief through 18 design revisions that grew a 45-ton proposal into a 78-ton behemoth, to the devastating post-war gun trials at Hohne Ranges where it destroyed captured Panthers at close range. We also trace the fate of all six surviving prototypes, including the one still running at the Tank Museum Bovington today.

We compare the Tortoise directly against the Jagdtiger, the Panzer VIII Maus, and America's T28 super-heavy tank in a full armour and firepower breakdown — and answer whether it could have broken the Westwall and shortened the war if it had arrived in time. If you know the Tortoise from War Thunder or World of Tanks, this is the complete real history behind it.

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