The rink of war is not a figurative expression. Someone thinks this brainchild of the gloomy American genius is a demining machine, someone is a freeway tank, but this is definitely the first and foremost symbol ...

An armored personnel carrier (BTR) is a combat armored tracked or wheeled vehicle, which is intended mainly for transporting personnel of a motorized infantry squad to the place of battle, ...

The opinions of a number of military experts and leaders that Russian-made tanks are inferior to foreign vehicles in their combat capabilities and characteristics are completely groundless, said ...

“Anyone can take their car and hang armor on it in the workshop. They do that. ” With such words, experts rated the novelty of the Georgian defense industry, ...

The prototype of the heavy armored vehicle BMPV-64 was developed in Ukraine as a private initiative of the Kharkov BTRZ. The first prototype was completed in 2005 year. This machine is the deepest ...

The intensity of modern combat operations, the high level of workload and the experience of using the BMP-3 in the countries of the Persian Gulf have made it necessary to refine the machine in terms of improving ...

Interview of the Chinese MBT designers According to the designers of the Type 99 tank, at the stage of choosing weapons there was a serious debate, using the 120-mm or 125-mm gun, many of the participants in the discussion ...

Adoption of the Challenger tank by the British Army did not remove from the agenda the issue of the main battle tank, which would have replaced all the Chiefen tanks. Transfer of OBT to "Challengers" is not ...

The Russian army may receive the Italian Iveco LMV M65 armored vehicles. SKD assembly of equipment, according to the Ministry of Defense, is planned to be carried out at KAMAZ. But domestic ...

In the period between the two world wars, Poland created its own tank building industry. State factories supplied the army with armored vehicles, tankettes and light tanks. But...

The first serial tank М1 Abrams left the factory assembly line of the tank factory in the city of Lyme (Ohio) in February 1980 of the year. The M1 Abrams was the first American tank developed after the end of the Second ...

28 of April of this year, Lieutenant-General Y. Kovalenko, the former 1 of the Deputy Head of the Main Automobile and Armored Directorate of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation, speaking of Russian tanks, said that the Russian military ...

The permanent scandal, shaking the Russian "defense industry" and the military department of the Russian Federation in connection with the procurement of new armored vehicles, reached its apogee after the announcement of the commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces Alexander ...

For the holiday, they were allowed to exhibit a car that had previously been "closed", but had already flashed at an exhibition in Abu Dhabi. The machine will be on display in a static display at ...

Currently, the Indian army has almost 3500 tanks and several thousand infantry fighting vehicles of various brands. Most of this technology, as well as special ones created at its base ...

No matter how much has been written about the war that ended 65 years ago, and about this tank, you cannot tell everything, much less feel it. But it is also impossible to get away from this topic ... The order of the gray-haired, gloomy colonel ...

In the first half of the last century, the "mechanized mechanization" of assault forces was assumed mainly at the expense of automobiles, off-road motorcycles and small tanks. The experience of the Second World War made ...

The main battle tank of Sweden under the symbol STRV-103, also known under the designation "S", is of particular interest, because for the first time in world history tank building was used on it ...

Vulnerability analysis of the М1А1 / А2 tank during its use in Iraq in 2003. The Second Iraq War revealed the weaknesses of the American tanks МХNUMXА1 “Abrams” and finally dispelled the myth of its invulnerability, ...

Since the advent of armored vehicles, the eternal battle between the projectile and armor has escalated. Some designers sought to increase the penetrating ability of projectiles, others increased the resistance of armor. Wrestling...

In September 1943, a program for the development of a number of heavy combat vehicles was launched in the United States. Research carried out by the Department of Armaments has shown that such vehicles may be needed in Europe ...

The T-64BM BULAT tank is the result of the modernization of the T-64A and T-64B tanks. The aim of modernization was to bring the combat and technical characteristics of the tank to the modern level, such tanks as T-XNUMHUD, ...

A modern army needs new type of armored vehicles. During the reform of the Russian army, the military department in 20 reduces the number of tanks in the army (from 40 thousand to two thousand) and does not plan new ones ...

Few people know that it was serial, although the series was small, somewhere around 250 cars, after which it was discontinued. It was all the fault of the excessive weight of the car - about 60 tons ...