Under a curtain of wintry rain last Friday, the Army put on a bravura performance of the lessons and tricks it has picked up from 18 months of war in Ukraine. Their spirit of make-over and make-do seemed to owe more to the spirit of Jay Blades and The Repair Shop than great reformers in uniform such as Montgomery or Wellington. “We have learned to get old weapons to work in a new way with the addition of small bits of brilliant technology,” said the Army’s genial boss General Sir Patrick Sanders.
On cue, a lone sniper shot out of the woods on a high-powered e-bike and hoisted a CarlGustav anti-tank rocket launcher, smacking the turret of a marauding Russian T-72 tank, conveniently borrowed from the Tank Museum at Bovington for the occasion.
