#combat engineering

When soldiers in Spielberg’s D-Day masterpiece shout “Bangalore!”, they’re calling for one of history’s most ingenious — and lethal — pieces of military engineering. If you’ve watched Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan — and if you haven’t, stop reading and fix that — you’ve heard it. Amid the deafening chaos of the Omaha Beach landing sequence, a soldier screams “Bangalore!” and a moment…

Introduction The Engineer Basic Officer Leader Course (EBOLC), formerly known as the Engineer Officer Basic Course (EOBC), is a training course for new commissioned officers selected for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Outline It is run at the US Army Engineer School in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, United States and lasts nineteen weeks and four days. Once a United States Army…

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What is Tunnel Warfare?

Introduction Tunnel warfare is a general name for war being conducted in tunnels and other underground cavities. It often includes the construction of underground facilities (mining or undermining) in order to attack or defend, and the use of existing natural caves and artificial underground facilities for military purposes. Tunnels can be used to undermine fortifications and slip into enemy…

What is a Sapper?

Introduction A sapper, also called pioneer or combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, preparing field defences, as well as working on road and airfield construction and repair. They are also trained to serve as infantry personnel in defensive…

Sappers will now be able to choose combat engineering as a specific career stream, the Royal Engineers have announced.

Previously, members of the corps were trained in the role in addition to their main trade but thanks to a requirement for more specialists they will now be able to focus exclusively on this field, a move that could improve promotion prospects and the variety of jobs open to…

New Robot Could Change Infantry Warfare In Tunnels

In recent years we are experiencing a change in the way armies do battle around the globe: there are no more tanks-on-tanks clashes and no more dogfights, but a mostly micro-tactic centered, urban and close quarters warfare. Because of that change, vast resources are invested in preserving

HL5172 – Bomb Disposal (Answered)

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in Project Starter to acquire explosive ordnance disposal unmanned ground vehicles. Earl Howe Project Starter passed Initial Gate in October 2014 and is currently in the Assessment Phase. from Filtered Feed for Question and Answers: http://ift.tt/1OSa07x