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 ...

In parallel with the work on the revision and serialization of the T-72 Ural tank (172 object), the Uralvagonzavod design bureau with 1971 to 1975 was conducted by experimental design works on the topic Buffal, ...

At the beginning of the 60s of the last century, with the accelerated development of rocket weapons, tank builders once again turned their attention to the possibility of installing missiles on a tank. As then...

Unfortunately, in the history of the Russian defense industry and the entire industry as a whole, there are many examples of very dubious achievements. Moreover, all of them, as a rule, are the subject of our special ...

For obvious reasons, increasing the vehicle's armor potential always leads to an increase in its mass. This is what makes engineers and scientists look for an alternative to heavy metals. To such materials ...

The Stryker BTR is a family of wheeled armored vehicles, created by the American company General Dynamics Land Systems and in service with the American army. These armored personnel carriers ...

The Military Technical Institute of the Serbian Ministry of Defense together with Ugoimport and Fiat Avto Poland developed a new armored personnel carrier with the wheel formula 8х8, called ...

Emerging military technology left behind the M60 tank. For decades, the armed forces have been looking for a solution to modernize the M60 tanks. Until recently, there were no effective technologies that allow ...

October 31 2011: The US Army has ordered another 177 Stryker with a Double-V Hull (DVH) V-shaped hull. Thus, the total number of armored personnel carriers built or ordered will be 742 ....

By the middle of the twentieth century, the tank layout scheme, recognized as a classic, in which the crew of a combat vehicle (usually 4 or 5 people) was housed in the world was firmly established ...

The publication "Jane's International Defense Review", which contains information about the military potential of countries around the world, in an article by Christopher Foss, for the first time published information about...

Overcoming water obstacles has always been a difficult task for a heavy armored vehicle, given that in combat bridges and crossings are usually destroyed by the retreating enemy. AT...

The experience of the Second World War clearly showed how difficult the task is to overcome water obstacles. Perhaps, the Red Army experienced the greatest degree of difficulty in resolving it ....

On May 20, 1952, a special meeting of chief designers of tank and diesel plants was held at the Ministry of Transport Engineering with the participation of the commander of BT and MB SA Marshal ...

For many years, doing research of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, I occasionally come across questions about how many armored vehicles there were in the USSR on 22 June 1941 of the year? How many...

According to the adopted state armament program, until 2020, the Russian military department is not going to acquire the newest “Rostock”. Although mass-produced BTR-90 can be already this year. Here lies another ...

The new domestic armored car "Wolf", created by Russian engineers, is today one of the first armored cars in modern Russia, assembled exclusively from ...

The company "Panhard", the main manufacturer of armored car series "VBL", was founded in 1886 year and more than half a century engaged in the production of ordinary passenger cars ....

The first prototype of a new domestic police car, based on the well-known "Tiger", with an increased level of mine protection "Tiger-6" and SPM-3 (Special Police Car) ...

Over the past few months, the military contingent of Great Britain in Afghanistan "ISAF" has gradually been re-armed with modernized, tracked combat and auxiliary vehicles ...

In various parts of the world, military conflicts flare up, then die away. And, as usual, during warfare the population perishes. That is why most armies in different countries, where only ...