The most famous German anti-tank self-propelled guns of the Second World War, on the one hand, owe their birth to the intrigues around the new German heavy tank VK 4501 (P), and on the other ...

An analysis of regional and local conflicts throughout the world over the past twenty years has shown that there has been a sharp increase in the dependence of the survivability of motorized infantry units on ...

Leopard 2 PSO "Peacemaker" - one of the latest modifications of the final German base tanks Leopard 2 Bundeswehr. Large field arrays and steppe expanses are the best place to use tank ...

The Merkava Mk-4 medium tank has been in service with the Israeli army since 2002 and is the main armored vehicle for combat operations. Part of the regular troops in the composition of 401-th ...

One of the main advantages of the very first tanks in front of armored cars was throughput. The machine, equipped with caterpillars, turned out to be less demanding on the surface, on which it was necessary to drive, ...

T-80 tanks began to enter the troops in the late 70s, primarily in the western military districts and foreign groups of forces. The strained thermal resource of the gas turbine made it difficult to use ...

The museum is located in 15 kilometers from Jerusalem and is actually a military base, that is, all the instructors there, soldiers undergoing military service. Fort Latrun, built by the British in the 1940s. AT...

The program for the development of tanks in the DPRK is still a secret behind seven seals. Even a recently released documentary covering the visit of a new leader of North Korea to one of the tank divisions, ...

Before the next new year and at its beginning it is customary to sum up the results of the previous year. Well, if nothing has just happened in the past 12 months, if it is too short a period for determining ...

From the very advent of cars, designers had a certain “idea-fix”. The installation on the self-propelled carriage of protection against enemy bullets looked very tempting. The real high point ...

Israel maintains long-term military ties with the United States and has acquired large numbers of M48 and M60 Patton tanks over the decades. Based on rich combat experience, the IDF modified ...

The history of the KV-5 tank begins with an unexpected decision of the SNK of the Soviet Union and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) under the number 827-345 ss, according to which it is necessary to develop work on the creation of the newest ...

In 1935, the then Wehrmacht Colonel Erich von Manstein, who later became famous as the commander of large armored formations, came up with the idea of ​​creating among the troops ...

The T-72 tank is often criticized for an openly weak fire control system, in fact, on the "seventy-two" (in the series) for a long time it was not at all. The reason for this situation is in general terms ...

The tank was and, apparently, will remain a modern weapon for a long time thanks to the opportunity to combine such seemingly contradictory qualities necessary for combat work, such as high mobility, ...

In 1955, a government decision was made to establish a special diesel engine design bureau at the Kharkov factory of transport engineering and to create a new tank ...

At the demonstration show in Bronnitsy of autotechnical models, for the security forces of the Russian Federation, headed by, the head of the military department A. Serdyukov, such Russian grandees as: ...

The acute shortage of tanks forced Germany to be the first in the world to start mass production of self-propelled guns. Not surprising, given that the SAU is cheaper and easier to manufacture than tanks. Special ...

Unlike its predecessor, the T-64 tank, the combat use geography of which is limited only by the conflict in Transnistria, the "seventy-twenties" had to take part in hostilities in ...

The company "Special Engineering and Metallurgy" proposed the modernization of a floating tank. The tank will receive a new rapid-fire gun, guided missiles and anti-sniper optical equipment ....

In the previous few years and now in various publications, including the "NVO", materials are published on the problems of equipping the army and navy with modern weapons and military equipment ....

We continue to consider foreign armored vehicles for transporting soldiers. Spain In the late 70s, the BMR 3560 was adopted, also sometimes referred to as the BMR-600 or simply BMR. From...

According to the classical definition, an armored personnel carrier is an armored vehicle on a wheeled or tracked drive, designed to transport soldiers and their fire support, equipped with a receiver ...

Iguana FV4 - light armored vehicle, which was developed by the Belgian company Sabiex International, as a private initiative and intended for export. The first experienced ...