Military bridging equipment may not be the most glamorous equipment in an Army's inventory, but without it, that Army could find itself on the road to, literally, nowhere.rnArmies have had a need to cross both wet and dry gaps for as long as war has been waged, however, the real need for combat-supporting bridges in the true sense of the term, and in any quantity, did not become a reality until the latter stages of the First World War, and the mechanisation this conflict was introducing arrived en-masse. It could even be argued that it was the Second World War, Blitzkrieg and the allies post D-Day advance across a bridge-devoid Europe that truly brought to the fore a need for a true combat supporting bridging capability.
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