Combat Forces
Infantry Fighting Vehicles protect soldiers from bullets, shrapnel, and IEDs, showcasing modern armor technology and battlefield innovation.
Infantry Fighting Vehicles protect soldiers from bullets, shrapnel, and IEDs, showcasing modern armor technology and battlefield innovation.
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Allied forces train together to build teamwork and coordination, ensuring success in combat zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Reconnaissance units operate behind enemy lines, using elite training to gather vital intelligence and expose an enemy's strengths and weaknesses.
Infantry Fighting Vehicles protect soldiers from bullets, shrapnel, and IEDs, showcasing modern armor technology and battlefield innovation.
The US Army Ranger School hosts a 3-day competition to find the best Ranger team, testing elite soldiers in strength, skill, and endurance.
Combat fitness builds soldiers' strength, endurance, and resilience, teaching skills crucial for survival, sometimes adapted for civilians.
Basic training transforms civilians into soldiers, sailors, and airmen through intense physical and psychological tests.
We're in Scotland for Unmanned Warrior, the key international military exercise using unmanned underwater, surface and airborne vehicles. We visit the Italian textile manufacturer who's kitting from a revolutionary new form of wool.
With an increasing terrorist threat to ports and shipping, the Swedish manufacturer SAAB has developed the Sea Wasp, an under-water robot for detecting explosive devices.
We visit NATO's Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation in La Spezia, Italy. We learn how the world's oceans are one of the last places that military technology can be hidden from prying eyes.
We reveal an experimental sensor, monitoring and targeting system developed for troops by the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and Roke Manor Research. The iXblue Marins navigation black box guides navy ships.
We're at Royal Air Force station Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, where we've been given an exclusive look at the RAF's ground-breaking, multi-role refuelling and transporter aircraft, the Voyager.
We have rare access to the German Aerospace Center outside Munich where scientists are using new forms of radar for surveillance and detecting land mines.
European manufacturer MBDA give a hands-on demonstration of their state-of-the-art missile, the Spear 3. Learn how scientists are using a virtual reality headset to see the battlefield in a revealing new way.
The Military Tech Show captures the moment when BAE System's radical new pilot helmet, the Striker II, goes operational for the first time in a Typhoon fighter aircraft how interactive technology is helping train military combat medics.
It is a deadly war in the desert, one we know barely anything about. Once the heart of the golden Mali Empire, home to the richest man of the 14th century, the northern town of Timbuktu has become the victim of political instability and terror.
In the 1980s, El Salvador and Nicaragua were fighting vicious civil wars that claimed killed at least 100,000, saw 8000 people disappear, and left hundreds of thousands displaced. Still spearheading a global fight against communism, the US engaged.
In efforts to remove the Communists, the US conducted a devastating military operation, making Laos the most bombed country per capita - ever. The Laos Civil War has often been called America's “secret war.”
With Kashmir's special status removed in early August 2019 and terrorist attacks plaguing the region since earlier in the year, the India/Pakistani border-conflict has escalated once more.
On the 3 March 1992, Bosnia Herzegovina gained its independence from Yugoslavia. Immediately, the Serb-led military units took over large slabs of land and suppressed the other ethnic groups.
On the 3 October 1993, an elite battle unit of the US army began a fairly straight-forward mission in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Within minutes of reaching their destination, the situation descended into chaos and the mission turned into a battle.
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