Combat Machines

An examination into moments of engineering ingenuity which resulted in triumph, beginning with World War I.

The Desert Rats, a military unit, use machines to fight the Axis forces in the North African desert campaign of World War II.

An examination of the machines used by the iconic military unit The Desert Rats in the North African desert campaign of World War II.

The robot that defused bombs both on foreign battlefields and British streets; an astonishing Gulf War mine-layer.

Machines are used to capture, transmit, and analyse combat information; stories of SOE agents and their equipment, spies stealing blueprints from the Royal Navy, and a submarine mission.

An investigation of the machines that would have been used if a stand-off had resulted in all-out nuclear war, from the smallest tactical nuclear bomb to an experimental flying jeep.