Military engineering
A military engineer uses his skills in construction to build many different structures for warfare. These different structures can be made for either offense or defense. Other jobs include building and taking apart minefields and bridges. In some cases an engineer may have to destroy something that he has built before. This may be to stop the enemy soldiers following them across the river for example. In many armies the military engineers are also called pioneers or sappers.
Today a military engineer that operates during battle is called a combat engineer.
Perhaps the first people who had a special force of military engineering specialists were the Roman army. Roman military engineering was very good in its time. They were able to build a double-wall of fortifications that was thirty miles (50 km) long in total (both walls together) to besiege a city in Gaul, in just six weeks.
The design, construction, and destroying of the works shown would be the task of a military engineer.
Great Wall of China and watchtower (Ming Dynasty)
Replica Trebuchet siege engine
Bourtange fortification
Tarascon Castle moat
World War I trench works and shrapnel shelter
Landmines (modern)
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Military engineer training in Ukraine, 2017
Aerial view of Mulberry harbour "B" (27 October 1944)
US Combat Engineer setting a charge (1944)
French sappers during the Battle of Berezina in 1812
A Bailey bridge being deployed in the Korean War to replace a bridge destroyed in combat.
