Javelin was a British man-portable air defence system developed by Shorts as an improved successor to the problematic Blowpipe It featured semi-automatic command-to-line-of-sight (SACLOS) guidance for ...

The MILAN ATGW, a Franco-German system served as a cornerstone of the British Army’s medium-range anti-armour capability from the 1970s until its replacement by the Javelin in 2005 In 1972, ...

The Blowpipe was a British man-portable air defence system (MANPADS) developed by Short Brothers with manual command-to-line-of-sight guidance, entered service with the British Army and Royal Marines ...

The Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled), or CVR(W), family comprised a series of lightweight 4×4 armoured vehicles developed and produced in the 1960s and 1970s primarily for reconnaissance roles ...

Two years after the Javelin entered service, in 1986, Shorts began the development of the Advanced Javelin, later renamed it to Javelin S15. Javelin S15 incorporated a laser beam riding system. The ...

The Sea Skua, a British lightweight helicopter-launched anti-ship missile developed by British Aerospace, armed the Royal Navy’s Westland Lynx helicopters from 1982 until its retirement in 2017. The ...

The Swingfire missile was a British wire-guided anti-tank missile developed in the 1960s, seeing action in multiple theatres. The Orange William missile was cancelled in 1959. Fairey Engineering, with ...

Springer was a short-lived British Army all-terrain vehicle introduced under an Urgent Operational Requirement to support operations in Afghanistan. It was designed to transport up to one tonne of ...

VERDI were significant pieces of research work carried out by the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment (MVEE) and British industry in the eighties and nineties. This document from details ...

The Orange William missile was cancelled in 1959. Fairey Engineering, with British Aerospace, Barr and Stroud, Alvis, Dowty Weapon Systems, Pylon Industries, Royal Ordnance/ Imperial Metal Industries, ...

Esarco vehicles were innovative high-mobility all-terrain vehicles developed in the UK in the 1980s. The unusual ESARCO vehicles were developed by Major Michael Somerton-Rayner as a private initiative ...