Five years have passed since the US infantry divisions stopped using the M-2 combat infantry vehicle in military conflicts. By the time the machine was abandoned, it was clear that the enemy ...

In the history of tanks, the seventies of the last century remained the time for the creation of third-generation armored vehicles. All leading countries planned to upgrade their armored forces. But apart from the generally accepted ...

The problems that were associated with the preparation, conduct, and support of the landing operation in Normandy, Overlord, the largest operation of the Second World War, required ...

For the first time, the chassis was shown to the public in the 2009 year, at the RUSSIAN EXPO weapons show held in Nizhny Tagil. Ekaterinburg designers gave the name of the new machine E300. This chassis, according ...

Continuing the “10 Best” rating from the Discovery Channel, I would like to draw attention to one more amusing selection. This time, “Armored Personal Carriers” got into the experts' attention - the total ...

This tank was developed by French designers as an export version of the AMX-30. The tank is named AMX-40. The new solution, developed on the basis of AMX-30, has retained a significant part of the aggregate ...

A few years ago, the US military began to talk about the need to replace the army vehicle HMMWV (also often referred to as the Humvee, "Humvee"). When the "Humvee" adopted, he was considered ...

The Croatian M-95 Degman main battle tank, also known as the M-84D, is a further development of the Yugoslavian MBT M-84, which in turn is an adapted version of ...

1947 year. France uses the American M4 under the joint defense program. For the development of its tank building and the replacement of the M4 "Sherman", France, together with Italy and Germany, take the initiative ...

In 2005, the British company BAE Systems acquired the American company Bradley, which is a manufacturer of infantry fighting vehicles, and takes on the GCV program - the creation of a new BMP hybrid ...

The period after the end of the Second World War in August 1945 goals and until the middle of the 50- years of the XX century was characterized by the polarization of the forces of the socialist and capitalist camp, "the buildup ...

Although China experienced Russian and European models in the search for new tactical vehicles (similar to those of the American Hummer), they finally settled on their own Hummer clones. China...

At a time when a lot of people were starting the weekend, Georgian President M. Saakashvili was driving to the Vaziani training ground. The fact is that on Saturday, February 25 an official demonstration of the new ...

The creation of armored vehicles in France went even during the occupation by the German fascist invaders. The liberation of the territory of France, marked for her not only a victory, but also a difficult process ...

Today, the vast majority of modern tank models of the world use smooth-bore 120 and 125-mm guns. The exceptions are Indian Arjun and English Challenger I and II, which ...

The tank was not as massive as BT, did not receive such a war baptism as the famous predecessor of the T-34, did not become the main tank for the Soviet army, as the same T-62, but still it ...

At the international exhibition of armored vehicles (International Armored Vehicles 2012) in Farnborough, one of the world leaders in the development, design and production of combat armored vehicles and ...

That part of the Soviet defense industry, which was responsible for armored vehicles, was always not only among the world leaders, but also regularly issued revolutionary new solutions. So new ones appeared ...

During the finalization of the T-34 tank in the spring of 1941, at Kharkov Plant No. XXUMX, in parallel with these works, the designer Morozov A.A. engaged in the refinement of the project documentation of the tank A-183 with different ...

The armored personnel carrier is based on the PT-76 tank. The main feature is the large capacity of personnel (up to 20 people) and the transportation through water barriers of large enough cargoes weighing up to 2 ...

In the previous issue of the newspaper "Military Industrial Complex" it was told how after the cessation of joint work with the Americans to create a promising tank MVT-70, the West Germans decided on their own ...

At the end of last year, China showed the latest modification of the export version of the MBT-2000 "VT-1A" tank. According to the developers, the MBT-2000 tank is one of the most modern tanks in the world. Modification...

During the fighting, the BMPs were struck with anti-tank weapons. When cumulative grenades hit the sides, combat vehicles were often sewn through. Near one of these machines representatives ...

In 1927, a group of designers assembled at the Kharkov Locomotive Plant was assigned the task of developing a maneuverable T-12 tank. From this year, "Kharkov Design Bureau ...