Corps of Engineers (Ireland)
The Corps of Engineers (ENGR) is the military engineering branch of the Defence Forces of Ireland. The Corps is responsible for combat engineering, construction engineering, and fire fighting services within the Defence Forces. The main role of the combat engineers is to provide engineering on the battlefield; the Corps has successfully leveraged its skill and expertise in several of the Irish Army's deployments on United Nations operations.
Engineers constructing Camp Clara in Liberia
Detonation of explosives (demolition) in the Glen of Imaal for training purposes
Bridge building
Demolition using Hayrick shaped charges
Military engineering is loosely defined as the art, science, and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and military communications. Military engineers are also responsible for logistics behind military tactics. Modern military engineering differs from civil engineering. In the 20th and 21st centuries, military engineering also includes CBRN defense and other engineering disciplines such as mechanical and electrical engineering techniques.
Military engineer training in Ukraine, 2017
Aerial view of Mulberry harbour "B" (27 October 1944)
US Combat Engineer setting a charge (1944)
Working dress of the Royal Military Artificers in Gibraltar, 1795