In 2023, EasiBridge returned to the British Army’s Army Warfighting Experiment — six years after its first appearance at AWE 2017 that launched the system into the military mainstream. AWE 2023 continued to develop EasiBridge’s relationship with British Army capability development teams and demonstrated how far the system had evolved since those first trials on Salisbury Plain.
From a 15-metre bridge launched in 20 seconds at AWE 2017, to a commercially available range spanning from 6-metre Infantry Assault Bridges to 30-metre vehicle bridges with MLC40 ratings, EasiBridge’s AWE 2023 return came as a mature, proven, internationally traded system — no longer a promising prototype seeking adoption, but an established capability being refined and expanded.
For British Army procurement teams, Royal Engineer officers, defence capability developers, and anyone researching the evolution of lightweight portable military bridging, AWE 2023 represented EasiBridge’s most confident appearance on the Army’s innovation stage to date.
Source: EasiBridge / BANAIR Group company history; Army Warfighting Experiment 2023.