Developed by ADS GmbH and Rhinemetall, an active protection system, called ADS, was demonstrated during shooting by 120 to experts from 10 countries. These tests were held in the north of Germany in the center ...

The modular wheeled tactical armored personnel carrier ARMA is designed and developed by the Turkish company Otokar. The 6x6 vehicle platform was presented at Eurosatory 2010 in ...

The next modernization of tank technology - the T-55 tank will be equipped with the Kornet ATGM, with new armor protection and made amphibious. The next round of modernization has affected this one that was removed from production and armament ...

The small American company MDT Armor Corporation, which is located in the state of Alabama, is a part of Aerotech corporation and presented a sample of the first armored ...

A multipurpose transporter (tractor) light armored MT-LB was created in 1964 year by the design office of the Kharkov Tractor Plant, which at that time was headed by A. F. Belousov. Serial ...

So, in Russia there are a lot of different rumors about the modernization of tanks, the release of new tanks. You can list models of tanks for a long time, but let's take a modernized T-72BA, we will learn a lot about it ...

At Eurosatory 2008, an Israeli company, Hatehof Industries, demonstrated for the first time two armored vehicles: the Navigator, an 16-ton machine with enhanced anti-mine protection (MRAP) and ...

Spartan (Spartan) - 4x4 armored car, built on the DRW chassis of a commercial Ford F550 SUV by Canadian Streit Manufacturing. This company has extensive experience in booking ...

In my previous articles I touched upon the topic of new generation unified combat platforms: Armata, Kurganets-25 and Boomerang. Not enough for a complete set ...

The creation of armored vehicles capable of moving not only on land and on water, at all times excited the minds of many engineers and designers - tank builders. German engineers, pre-war period ...

Renault Trucks Defense, a renowned French company, introduced the middle-class AMC (Armored Multirole Carrier) multi-purpose armored personnel carrier for use by the armed forces participating in the ...

It is known that one of the signs of the fourth generation tank will be the 152-mm gun. So, on this machine, it was successfully installed. For this, of course, I had to make a completely new tower, ...

The renowned manufacturer of military equipment, the Krauss-Maffei concern was formed in 1931 as a result of the merger of two steam locomotive companies, Krauss & Co., founded in 1866 and Maffei. AT...

It seems that among the Middle Eastern builders of armored vehicles is planned a new "fashion". At the end of 80, Israel began to convert obsolete tanks into heavy armored personnel carriers, and after ten years joined it ...

Most of the modern concepts of armored vehicles, both tanks and lighter vehicles, were formed during the Cold War. At a time when the possibility of a real application was seriously considered ...

Following the general military reform, a qualitative leap in updating the equipment of the ground forces is taking place - new unified combat platforms of various ...

Ten years ago, the "future" of armored vehicles looked like hybrid driving machines. Diesel-electric hybrid demonstrator of technology SEP by BAE Systems Hagglunds was built as ...

At the end of the 60-x - the beginning of the 70-s in the Soviet Union was almost completed staffing the army with light amphibious tanks. Basically it was created in the design office of Chelyabinsk ...

At the end of the 70-x - the beginning of the 80-s after analyzing the combat use of infantry fighting vehicles in Afghanistan, it became clear that the armor protection and firepower of the serial BMP-1 and BMP-2 were insufficient to perform combat missions, ...

Recently, there has been information activity around the mysterious "unified Boomerang platform". Apparently, people understand rather poorly what it is, so they are born ...

Recently, there have been reports in the media that the Russian Army has abandoned the domestic BTR-90 in favor of the yet-to-be-developed Boomerang light armored vehicle, which ...

One of the first post-war tanks, PT-76, embodied the acquired experience of combat operations during the 2-th World War. Almost all technical indicators have increased, combat indicators from them have not ...

Synopsis. Chechnya - 2008. The first Tiger armored vehicles began to enter the Russian army. They immediately ended up in parts of the army special forces carrying out reconnaissance tasks in the territory ...

The T-64 is one of the main tanks of the Soviet Union, the history of creation begins in the 60s in the design bureau of Kharkov, began to be produced in the mid-60s together with other main tanks - T-64, T-62 and ...