Combat Machines

Examining moments of engineering ingenuity which made the difference between triumph and disaster on the battlefield - beginning with World War I.

Examining the machines used by the iconic military unit, The Desert Rats, in the North African desert campaign of World War Two.

Examining the machines used by the iconic military unit The Desert Rats in the North African desert campaign of World War 2.

Examining the robot that defused bombs both on foreign battlefields and British streets, and an astonishing Gulf War minelayer.

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.