An SME in Devon has won a contract with DASA to provide lightweight bridging equipment to Royal Engineers. EasiBridge, from Bright Structures Ltd, will provide the military with bridging equipment that is 85% lighter, 80% more compact, and many times cheaper than incumbent Infantry Assault Bridges. The Army Rapid Innovation and Experimentation Laboratory ...
Engineers based at BAE Systems’ site in Telford, Shropshire are testing an integrated Bluetooth and sensing technology which reports the remaining service-life of military bridging systems. The new ‘fatigue monitoring’ technology continuously detects the stress and strain on bridges designed to be used by tanks such as the Challenger® 2, which weighs ...