How does the Army learn from tanks and military vehicles of the past?

The Tank Museum at Bovington Camp in Dorset has 300 military machines, representing the key battles of every major conflict since the First World War.

Its incredible collection of tanks – in its "vehicle conservation centre" – is not just a museum for the public to visit, though, it is also what museum curator David Willey calls "the national collection or the reference collection of armoured vehicles".

Many of the tanks and military vehicles of the past are still proving useful to the Army today.

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Starting after the First World War as a teaching collection, it has remained so ever since.

As Mr Willey explains: "Even though we are a popular tourist attraction, a lot of the vehicles here, at different times are looked at by the military... because of what we can learn from them.

"Nowadays it's about the threat, how might we defeat that vehicle if we come up against it?

"And, of course, industry, designers, everyone else, having a look again at what we can relearn again from history.

"There's nothing much new under the sun, so are there good ideas in some of these vehicles that could help the British military today?

"And that is why we keep this collection here down at Bovington," he added.