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.