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 ...

Despite the fact that at the end of the war, work was being done on the Soviet medium tank of the next generation T-44, attempts to quickly, and with minimal cost, get an effective tank destroyer ...

Last week, information appeared in the Russian-speaking segment of the world wide web that a new generation T-90AM tank would be created in Russia. As it is not difficult to notice by the designation, this ...

While the leading tank-building powers think and wonder if they need or don’t need a fourth-generation tank, this question can be moved from the dead center by a small, and not at all tank-building country –...

In fact, this is not a complete model of the tank, but, so to speak, a demonstration model. On which the company "Rheinmetall" demonstrated all its latest systems, which it offers on ...

XK2 Black Panther ("Black Panther") new South Korean MBT. The tank was developed under the XK2 program by the South Korean Defense Development Agency and Rotem (a division of Hyundai Motors). By...

Another 28 of January 2004 of the year on the territory of the Main building of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise STIIM held a demonstration of the capabilities of the Russian technology to representatives of Libya, and the 24-25 of March of the same year - the delegation of Algeria. A big plus ...

Russia has the most advanced technologies in the development of space weapons, but what can its army oppose in a ground confrontation? Quite often in various media can be found ...

In 1939, in Germany, Borgward developed a prototype of a “heavy charge carrier”, which is better known in Russian literature as remote-controlled wedges ...

BTR-4 is designed to transport personnel of motorized rifle units and their fire support in combat. BTR is used to equip units capable of conducting combat operations in ...

After the beginning of the US aggression against Iraq, the attitude towards tanks changed. According to the Washington Post, the US Department of Defense decided to send M1 Abrams tanks to Afghanistan. Earlier in the war with ...

Tank troops of Turkey have a very remarkable history. During the entire period of their existence, French, German, British and, of course, ...

German ground forces received the first Boxer armored personnel carriers ordered, reports Defense Aerospace. Currently, the first 8 of armored personnel carriers are being trained before ...

After 1945, there has not been a single decade in which the slender chorus of army voices would not predict a quick death of tank technology as a class of combat vehicles. Their first gravedigger was nicknamed nuclear ...

Hitler's favorite brainchild, the largest mass tank ever, was embodied in the metal (188 tons is the battle mass), “Maus” (also known as Porsche 205 or Panzerkampfwagen VIII ...

On March 15, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Postnikov, attacked the military-industrial complex with criticism, in particular, criticized the Russian main ...

The formation of new-look brigades in the Ground Forces sharpens the question of the role and place of the armored vehicles of the current infantrymen on the battlefield. Mechanical copying of existing approaches to the use of ...

An experienced heavy tank "Object 277" was designed in Leningrad, in the design bureau under the guidance of J. Ya. Kotin in 1957 year. Some technical solutions implemented in tanks were used in its construction ...

The experience of local wars has shown that the problem of self-defense of a tank against tank-dangerous infantry is becoming more acute. Meanwhile, the tank has no real means of dealing with it. Searching for new ...

One gets the impression that some of our defense companies are going to endlessly modernize Soviet armored personnel carriers fifty years ago without noticing the peculiarities of modern military conflicts ....

Looking at this car, you never guess that this is not an independent development, but only an option to upgrade the T-54 / 55. If there was a competition for the most beautiful rework (even for this car ...