This is one of those recurring themes that people love to discuss, whether they think it is a yes or a no, and they remain convinced that there are either mountains of evidence, or none. People also assume that no one has ever actually looked
Although engineers had been bundling cables together with waxed cordage and steel wire for some time, the cable tie we know today has its origins back to the late fifties.
As small UAS (drones) become more capable and ubiquitous, there will be a focus on maturing and developing the means of storage, carriage, and deployment
The term gabion comes from the Italian word gabbione meaning ‘big cage’, it is a cage filled with rocks or soil to provide protection against enemy fire or in civil engineering 
Sandbags have existed since medieval times for use as weapons or training tools, but became common as field defences in the early 18th century. 
Javelin is a direct replacement for the Milan Anti-Tank Guided Weapon. By the mid-eighties, thoughts of replacement were beginning to form, despite Milan having its last outing with the British Army in Afghanistan in 2006 
We have a system in limited service, it is British made, the RM have limited over the horizon capabilities, it can do 45kg at 8km range, or trade payload fir more range. Seems quite a low friction way to increase lethality at low cost
The history of the Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile (BVRAAM) dates back to the early nineties, with the requirement to replace the Skyflash AAM on the Eurofighter 2000. Staff Requirement (Air) 1239 was planned to be operational by the year 2000. 
Let's start with paper first. Below is the ISO 216 Paper Size standard, arguably the most elegant piece of dimensional standard setting of our time. 
A fascine is the simplest of gap-crossing techniques, consisting of a collection of pipes or sticks. They are as old as my favourite pulling pants, but much more effective 
We have all seen the images of vehicle counter UAS dropped munitions and FVP cages, and to some extent, the same evolution has happened for fixed field defences. Simple cam nets have been augmented with stronger mesh 
Water supply and distribution is, self-evidently, essential. Distribution is, especially, a difficult challenge. Water cannot be compressed, it is not self containing, is heavy, and can be challenging to move in bulk because of movement in the tank causing stability issues
To view it in simplistic terms, you can't apply any effect unless you are physically there, stand fast all you information operations and air power folks, we get it, no need to constantly bloody well go on about it. 
It meets the required strength and performance characteristics, a given perhaps, but still important to note. It is slighter larger to accommodate the bulkier soldier of the modern era (body armour and load carriage etc)
Selected Precision Effects at Range ( SPEAR) Capability 3 is the name given to a Category A project (>£400m) to deliver a weapon described as 
One of the main influencing factors behind the introduction of the pallet was the desire to replace wooden packing boxes with corrugated cardboard boxes, starting in the 1870's or so
The history of NLAW starts with the weapon it was intended to replace, the LAW 80. LAW-80 was designed with a 94 mm diameter warhead and included a spotting rifle and a five-round magazine that fired ammunition ballistically matched to the main round. 
The RAF describe Storm Shadow as;
There are competing theories for who invented the familiar cloth-backed adhesive tape. The generally accepted version is that in the twenties, a Detroit surgical supplier was providing Johnson and Johnson surgical tape to car dealers for use as masking tape.
Brimstone started out as a fire and forget autonomous killer of Russian tanks. It was designed during the Cold War for a Cold War mission, defending Europe from the massed waves of Warsaw Pact armour. This is now more often referred to as Legacy or Baseline Brimstone 