The British army are looking for new ways for combat engineers to destroy bridges as the Ukraine war forces a rethink in the West’s ability to fight ‘wars of manoeuvre’ against a major power such as Russia 🔴 Exclusive from cahalmilmo
An MoD briefing notes that it currently takes a troop of up to 30 specialist Royal Engineers to destroy a single bridge, requiring them to inspect the structure at close quarters and being exposed to “a hazardous situation” if, as likely, enemy forces want to stop a demolition. It states it wants to replace this “resource intensive” model and “reduce the number of Royal Engineers needed to perform a bridge demolition”.
In a specification that at first blush appears to have been culled from the script of a James Bond film, the briefing document suggests contractors should be looking to develop “uncrewed cross-domain vehicles” – drones or robotic vehicles capable of operating on land and in air or water. The British Army has devised various ways of deploying bridge-destroying sappers over the decades, including parachuting engineers into Normandy on the night of the D-day landings to destroy bridges likely to be used in German counter-attacks and pioneering the use of helicopters in the late 1950s to fly units behind enemy lines to sever enemy supply lines.
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