Main battle tanks (part 11) Al-Khalid (Pakistan)
On the first day of October 1988, between China, which was represented by NORINCO and Pakistan, an agreement was signed with the representative office of Heavy Industries Taxila ...
BBM "Kozak", Ukraine
Kozak (Rus. Kazak) - Ukrainian armored personnel carrier (armored combat vehicle, BBM) for special operations forces. For the first time, the BBM "Kozak" was demonstrated to the general public at a parade in honor of the Day ...
BTR "CENTAUR"
In 1984, the command of the Italian army formulated the requirements for a highly mobile wheeled tank destroyer armed with an 105-mm rifled cannon for ballistics similar to tank guns ...
Main battle tanks (part of 10) Zulfiqar (Iran)
At the beginning of the 90-s, on the initiative of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the ground forces of Iran for science and development Brigadier General Mir-Younes Masoumzadeh, the main battle tank of the Iranian army -...
Tancomania!
Accustomed to swearing at the "idiots", making it difficult to maneuver on the road? Imagine, but it turns out you are still lucky. After all, you did not encounter people who decided to ride a tank! We...
New army armored car XC2V
The design community of the US Local Motors, presented its new creation - the conceptual army armored XC2V FLYPMode, created in close cooperation with the agency DARPA. Story...
Main battle tanks (part of 9) M60 Phoenix, Jordan
The M60 Phoenix, the main tank of the Jordanian Army, is an upgrade to the M60A3. It was designed by order of King Abdullah II by the KADDB design bureau. The morally and technically obsolete M60A3 is already ...
Boxer Armored Carrier
The program to create a multi-purpose armored vehicle ARTEC MRAV (Multi-Role Armored Vehicle), as, indeed, many other European armored vehicles, has a very interesting history ....
Main battle tanks (part 8) Olifant Mk.1B (South Africa)
From the middle of the last century, tanks Centurion Mk.5, called Olifant Mk.1 (elephant), are in service with the army of the Republic of South Africa. The first stage of the modernization of these combat vehicles began at the end of the 1970s and ...
BTR Dozor-B, Ukraine
The Dozor-B armored personnel carrier is an armored vehicle with a 4x4 wheel arrangement, designed to transport personnel and transport various goods. The developer and ...
Main battle tanks (part of 8) - Arjun, India
In 1972, the command of the ground forces of India decided on the requirements for a new main battle tank, which was planned to be adopted by the army. By this time the Indian ...
T-80 - 35 years in service
Thirty-five years ago, on July 6, 1976, the T-80 main battle tank (MBT) was adopted by the Soviet army. Currently, in the Western Military District (ZVO) MBT T-80 is located on ...
Pakistani MRAP: Burraq
The national Pakistani military-industrial complex HIT (Heavy Industries Taxila) at the beginning of 2010, created the newest modern wheel armored vehicles Burraq MRAP. Cristofer F. Foss ...
Main battle tanks (part 7) - Merkava, Israel
Israel began developing its own tank in 1972, and in 1977 the first photographs of prototypes of the Merkava tank were presented to the press. The first public display of the tank took place in ...
Iveco vs. Tiger. Or how they lie to us
If with a big "stretch" it is possible to recognize the inability of the Russian Federation to build modern universal ships (although no one clearly substantiated the need for the Mistral), then we must admit ...
Continuation of Jordanian heavy armor experiments: MAP II
The notorious Jordanian design bureau named after King Abdullah II (King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau- KADDB) continues the work started almost a decade and a half ago on creating ...
Combat Infantry Vehicle "Fretzia". Italy
Usually the developers of combat vehicles go along the following path. At first, a light machine is created, and then on its base is heavier. Italians from the company Iveco-Oto Melara did exactly ...
Main battle tanks (part 6) - Type 99 (ZTZ-99) China
The main Chinese battle tank - Type 99 (factory index ZTZ-99) was first shown to the public during a military parade in Beijing 1 October 1999 of the year. The appearance of the 3 generation tank presented ...
The myth of the invulnerable "miracle tanks"
One of the myths of the Great Patriotic War about "miracle tanks", invulnerable, sweeping everything out of their way, was the myth about the new tanks of the Soviet Union - T-34, KV, in the initial period of the war. There were even ...
Do tanks have a future
“Do tanks have a future or have they outlived their lives?” Can they still play an important role on the battlefield, and if so, which one and which types of tanks are needed? Over the past 40 years, the largest military ...
BMP "Marder"
Germany became the first country in the West to create an infantry fighting vehicle. (In the GDR, BUM 1 appeared after 1966.) BMP "Marder" was developed in 1966-1969 by Rheinmetall AG by ...
Tanks are returning to the battlefields of modern wars.
Heavy armor showed its reliability in battles with gangsters, terrorists and insurgents World experience shows - the military from different countries of the world, regardless of nationality or ...
Western main battle tanks (part 5) - Japan Type 90
In 1976, Mitsubishi began work on the creation of a new main battle tank, which was to replace the existing 61 Type and 74 type vehicles. Besides the Japanese engineers in the development ...
"Armata" - the tank of the future
For many years, Russian tankmen linked their hopes for rearmament with the 195 Object, which was widely advertised, and specialists from the Ural Transport Engineering Design Bureau (OAO ...