Swedish engineers have developed a new defense technology that allows the tank to fool the enemy by simply disappearing. As reported by Sky News, created by specialists of the Swedish unit ...

Another country with enough industry to produce heavy tanks was France. Immediately after being released in 1944, French politicians decided to prove their ...

Landkreuzer P1000 Ratte and P1500 Monster are called unrealized projects of giant tanks of Nazi Germany. So it was always that the opposing sides in the process of military actions ...

After the adoption of the M103 tank into service in the United States, and the difficulties associated with this fact, the question arose about a radical modernization of the tank, or about a possible replacement. Quite an interesting solution to this ...

Kharkiv residents offered several options for modernization at once, as they say, in order to satisfy any wishes of customers. So, the tank has undergone a deep modernization of the fighting compartment will allow ...

In June, 1944 of the year, the design bureau of the plant No. 100 was presented in GBTU a draft design of a heavy tank EC-6, the feature of which was the use of electric transmission. Consideration of the project is not ...

The updated combat vehicle of the Russian army will be presented to the attention of specialists at the international arms exhibition, which will be held in the city of Nizhny Tagil from September 8 to 11, 2011 ....

As you know, it is human nature to doubt. People who have no doubts, are absolutely sure of everything are naturally stupid. However, in fairness, it should be noted that the massive, ...

The initial impetus for the development of a new heavy tank was the fact that by the end of the 40-ies of the last century, three types of tanks of this class — the EC-2M, ...

Long before the end of World War II, the teams of several design bureaus were developing a promising heavy tank "for the final stage of the war and for the subsequent time." Among them...

The fact that Russia has long been in need of updating almost any type of weapon is an obvious fact. National defense spending rises year by year. And from the officials of the Ministry of Defense in ...

The pedigree of the American heavy tank M103 can be traced from the self-propelled assault gun Т28, the end of the Second World War. When the need for an assault clearly emerged ...

The rapid development of tanks in the interwar period of the last century gave rise to many concepts of their application, and many different classifications, but the outbreak of World War II led just ...

In recent years, in discussing the situation that has developed in the Russian tank building industry, high-ranking Russian officials and representatives of the command of the armed forces have subjected ...

The armored wheeled vehicle for border troops BPM-97 (KAMAZ-43269) was developed by the open joint-stock company Kama Automobile Plant together with LLC Center for Technical Cooperation ...

The development of this super heavy tank began at the beginning of 1941, when Krupp began to study Soviet heavy tanks. In the first months of 1942, Krupp was assigned to start designing ...

In 2008, an agreement was reached between the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, KAMAZ OJSC and IVECO (Italy) on joint work on determining the possibility ...

Like most tanks that were produced in the territory of the Warsaw Pact member countries, the main Yugoslav battle tank M84 is a modernized version of the Soviet T-72, a license for ...

Not so long ago, in the foreign edition, Defense Revue published a frankly tendentious rating, where the American tank Abrams was named “the best model of armored vehicles in the history of all mankind” ....

In recent years, there has been a tendency in the international markets for military equipment to reduce the development of fundamentally new models. More attention is paid to upgrading existing systems. It's possible...

In September 1997, the first public demonstration of the Black Eagle’s main battle tank (Object 640) took place in Omsk. A tank with a tower, carefully covered with a shaggy camouflage ...

It must be admitted that the T-72 main battle tank, created in the 70s of the last century and which is represented by thousands of units around the world, is still the most used today ...

In 1982, the Italian military decided on their requirements for the main battle tank. In 1984, the technical conditions of its production were agreed with industrial enterprises, and they ...

As it became known, the command of the ground forces of the Indian army by the end of this year plans to place an order for 248 modernized tanks - Arjun Mark II. The decision on this issue has already ...