Phoenix Legion

British Army Equipment

This list of British Army equipment is in use as of 2030. Much of the equipment is also used by the Royal Navy, Royal Air force and later the Royal Space Force and the Phoenix Legion. It includes small arms, combat vehicles, aircraft, water craft, artillery, and transport vehicles. The British Army is tasked with protecting the interests of the United Kingdom and her dependencies. The UK still supports NATO and its allies but in an unofficial capacity.

Battlebox

The Battlebox is a mainstay of the Legion. Every other nations armed forces live in a base with barracks, training room, parade squares, and vehicle pools. When it comes to deploy the unit it takes many weeks to pack the equipment, and to load it on to a ship or starcraft. It then takes more time to unload the equipment, locate to a base of operation, and unpack the equipment. The base is commonly a building that the force was fighting to return to the people, and now the supposedly conquering force is occupying the same buildings!
Battleboxes are 10m long, 3m wide, and 2.5m high containers. There are also 20m long versions. They can be moved by fork lift, APC, trailer, aircraft, ship, and starcraft, amongst others. They have twist locks on all 8 corners enabling them to be connected together for storage and movement. A Legion Battlebox is based on the 2020 ISO container design providing uniformity amongst cargo movement on ships, rail, and trucks.
Each accommodation Battlebox has bunks for 4 Legionnaires (a standard patrol), storage and lockers, fresh water, power generation, and environments, washing and toilet facilities, Armour deployment slots, and food preparation.
Other Battleboxes are designed as command boxes, storage, maintenance, specialised laboratories and research labs, and medical facilities. They can be readily changed to meet the needs of the legions deployment.
Each Battlebox is armoured and capable of supporting the Legionnaires inside for up to 10 days unassisted. When there is access to sunlight and water this can be increased dramatically.
Battleboxes can be linked together side-by-side, and stacked, forming larger structures. If required portable airlocks can be used to maintain a habitable atmosphere.
Using this Battlebox system means that The Legion can deploy anywhere at a moments notice. All they need to do is pack a few items, shut themselves in their boxes and wait to be picked up. This can take less than an hour in some cases.
On-board the scraft the Battleboxes are used for accommodation allowing the Legion to use a variety of cargo and transport craft.
On arrival at the deployment zone, and once a secure beachhead has been organised the Battleboxes can be deployed to the landing zone and arranged providing protection to the new base. As the teams move out they can take their Battleboxes with them to make their new marching fort. This not only provides the deployed Legion with all of its facilities it needs. But also better protection from any insurgents. Plus by not moving in to any local buildings it causes less stress to the local population.

Personal Equipment

Over the years the British Army has had to carry more and more equipment in to battle. Many old soldiers have complained of bad backs and knees. Not surprising considering the average carried load can be over 80kg on a regular basis. Some countries, such as the US, were developing external powered skeletons and robotic mules to help carrying this weight. The advanced Segomo hard suit can easily carry this weight but extra weight is just an additional encumberment that slows a soldier down. And a slow soldier is a dead soldier! The British Army has much lighter and multi purpose equipment. They also operate a nearly full armoured cavalry modus operandi.