Military branches

After years of being ignored in favour of metals and plastics, wood is getting a high-tech military makeover. WOOD HAS been a military material longer than there's been an organised military, and in a high-tech world of metals and synthetics, it's making a comeback. since the first time our prehistoric ancestors picked up a log to stake a claim to territory against a rival group or to chase off giant predatory birds, humans have used wood to get what they want. Viking longships and Robin hood's longbows, the Russian artillery carriages that inspired Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, Spitfires with their wooden propellers and fairings, and Mosquito bombers were made almost entirely out of wood when other materials were scarce during the second World War.