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Titan and Trojan, the latest armoured vehicles to join the ranks of the Royal Engineers, have really been put through their paces during their first deployment in the Canadian Prairie.
Exercise Medicine Man saw the brand new vehicles deployed to Canada with the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. The huge extremes of weather, going from bright sun to snow in the space of a day, and the pace of the exercise stretched both the vehicles and their crew.
The state-of-the-art battlefield engineering vehicles can overcome almost every obstacle on the modern battlefield – from crossing gaping chasms to breaching minefields.
The two vehicles, affectionately known by their crews as T2, both weigh over 60 tonnes and can travel up to speeds of up 56km. They are the most capable engineering vehicles that the British Army has ever operated.
Major Pete Quaite, Officer Commanding 73 Armoured Engineer Squadron, said:
"The vehicles are so reliable and more than live up to their reputation."
The Trojan can plough through minefields, build trenches and defensive ditches while Titan, as the fastest bridge-layer in the world, can lay a bridge over a 26 metre gap in two minutes, giving operational commanders a potentially battle winning edge.
The speed of the two vehicles also allows them to keep pace with the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank and perhaps, most importantly, they also allow their Royal Engineer crews to operate under well armoured protection, utilising high technology devices such as thermal imagery cameras and night vision to do their job under cover no matter what the conditions.
Trojan, first and foremost a minefield breaching capability, can prepare and mark safe routes using an Obstacle Marking System. It can breach complex obstacles and provide short dry and wet gap crossing utilising its excavator arm and huge articulated shovel to deploy fascines, which are basically a collection of pipes chained together that can be placed over a ditch enabling the vehicle to cross.
One of the crews operating Trojan during the Canadian deployment, Corporal Ned Kelly, Lance Corporal John Gardner and Lance Corporal Paul Pepper were impressed:
"The power and speed of the vehicle is amazing – it's a really versatile vehicle and gives us so many more options on the battlefield."
Titan, as the Royal Engineers new bridge layer, will carry and lay the current range of In-Service Close Support bridges, laying them faster, and in a wider variety of terrain conditions, than previous equipment.
Titan crew, Corporal Andrew Jones, Lance Corporal Scouse Owens and Sapper Daz Bartlett, were equally enthusiastic about their new vehicle, saying:
"It's a big improvement and much more reliable than Chieftain and the enhanced protection is fantastic."
Titan and Trojan, the latest armoured vehicles to join the ranks of the Royal Engineers, have really been put through their paces during their first deployment in the Canadian Prairie.
Exercise Medicine Man saw the brand new vehicles deployed to Canada with the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. The huge extremes of weather, going from bright sun to snow in the space of a day, and the pace of the exercise stretched both the vehicles and their crew.
The state-of-the-art battlefield engineering vehicles can overcome almost every obstacle on the modern battlefield – from crossing gaping chasms to breaching minefields.
The two vehicles, affectionately known by their crews as T2, both weigh over 60 tonnes and can travel up to speeds of up 56km. They are the most capable engineering vehicles that the British Army has ever operated.
Major Pete Quaite, Officer Commanding 73 Armoured Engineer Squadron, said:
"The vehicles are so reliable and more than live up to their reputation."
The Trojan can plough through minefields, build trenches and defensive ditches while Titan, as the fastest bridge-layer in the world, can lay a bridge over a 26 metre gap in two minutes, giving operational commanders a potentially battle winning edge.
The speed of the two vehicles also allows them to keep pace with the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank and perhaps, most importantly, they also allow their Royal Engineer crews to operate under well armoured protection, utilising high technology devices such as thermal imagery cameras and night vision to do their job under cover no matter what the conditions.
Trojan, first and foremost a minefield breaching capability, can prepare and mark safe routes using an Obstacle Marking System. It can breach complex obstacles and provide short dry and wet gap crossing utilising its excavator arm and huge articulated shovel to deploy fascines, which are basically a collection of pipes chained together that can be placed over a ditch enabling the vehicle to cross.
One of the crews operating Trojan during the Canadian deployment, Corporal Ned Kelly, Lance Corporal John Gardner and Lance Corporal Paul Pepper were impressed:
"The power and speed of the vehicle is amazing – it's a really versatile vehicle and gives us so many more options on the battlefield."
Titan, as the Royal Engineers new bridge layer, will carry and lay the current range of In-Service Close Support bridges, laying them faster, and in a wider variety of terrain conditions, than previous equipment.
Titan crew, Corporal Andrew Jones, Lance Corporal Scouse Owens and Sapper Daz Bartlett, were equally enthusiastic about their new vehicle, saying:
"It's a big improvement and much more reliable than Chieftain and the enhanced protection is fantastic."
