Infantry fighting vehicle BMP-2 (675 object)
At the end of the 1950-x - the beginning of the 1960-s, the USSR was lagging behind Western countries in creating heavy tracked armored personnel carriers. During this period, NATO armies were adopted ...
Heavy experimental tank SMK
After the light Soviet T-26 and BT-5 tanks were tested in the fire of the Spanish war, it became obvious that almost all the tanks of the Red Army, both light and heavy, needed to be reinforced ...
Tiger vs. Lynx
The Russian-Italian joint venture (JV) plans to produce a pilot batch of light armored vehicles LMV M2011 "Lynx" in 65. This was announced on the air of the Vesti-24 TV channel ...
BMD-4M: from the sky - into battle
The upgraded airborne combat vehicle BMD-4 concentrated in itself all the advanced design and technological solutions. A new combat complex allows for the next decade to provide ...
Heavy tank KV-220 (Object 220)
The KV-220 tank (220 Object) was developed by SKB-2 LKZ under the direction of J. Kotin in 1940 to replace the KV-1 tank. The first engineer of the machine was L. E. Sychev, then B. P. Pavlov. Two experienced ...
T-34: Battle of Plants
On the labor front, there was a struggle to increase the output of tanks. At the end of 1941 - the first half of 1942, the production of T-34 tanks was carried out at three plants: No. 183 in Nizhny Tagil, Stalingrad ...
New old armor
The armored personnel carrier of the 21st century in Russia is not yet available, but the existing one has undergone a serious modernization. Recent statements by the top officials of the Russian military department, including the chief of armaments of the Armed Forces ...
Infantry Fighting Vehicle '' 19 Object ''
The project of this very unusual wheeled-tracked infantry fighting vehicle was carried out in the spacecraft of the Altai Tractor Plant and the Aircraft Defense Agency in the 1964 year. The machine, was named - Object 19. She had a traditional welded body from ...
Triune machine
BMPs should be unified with tanks. World War II showed that tanks without infantry are bad and infantry without tanks is not sweet. And it is difficult to combine them because of the very different speed of movement. Tank...
Intermediate model
In the second half of 1934, the tactical and technical requirements for the new Wehrmacht combat vehicle were formulated. The 6th Department of the Armaments Directorate believed that the German army needed a tank with a mass ...
Heavy tanks KV
At the end of 1941, the SKB-2 based on the KV-1 tank developed the KV-8 flamethrower tank, the KV-12 chemical tank, and also, together with the design office of UZTM, the KV-7 self-propelled artillery unit and ...
Missile and gun tank T-90С
The T-90C missile-gun tank was commissioned in the 1993 year. The T-90 missile and cannon tanks are a new generation of Russian tanks, including original design developments and the best ...
Experienced main battle tank "object 219"
Work on the tank was carried out from the middle of the 70-ies in parallel with the 478 on developing the HZTM. It was supposed to improve the security of the tank to improve weapons systems, installed a new complex ...
Modern protection for combat vehicles (part 1)
After learning the lessons of combat use of equipment, whether it is wheeled or tracked, equipped with the protection of the modern level, is in great demand. In particular, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
Modern protection for combat vehicles (part 2)
After learning the lessons of combat use of equipment, whether it is wheeled or tracked, equipped with the protection of the modern level, is in great demand. In particular, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
МХNUMX "Abrams". Fighting
Unlike its older brethren М48 and М60 М1, it was not possible to fight on the battlefield. For the first time, Abrams sniffed gunpowder in 1982. According to the story of a Soviet military adviser, ...
Aviatank
The essence of the matter is as follows. Someone from our ranks got the idea to equip at least some partisan detachments and sabotage groups with armored vehicles. But how will she get behind the front line? ...
Korea starts serial production of a new tank
Production of the South Korean national main battle tank K-2 "Black Panter" will begin shortly after a one-year delay due to transmission problems. According to TsAMTO with ...
German Armadillos
According to the 170 paragraph of the Treaty of Versailles of Germany, which was defeated in the First World War, it was forbidden to own and build tanks. But already in the middle of 1920's on secret exercises ...
"Tiger-M"
At the upcoming 14-th International Exhibition of State Security Equipment INTERPOLITEX, which will be held from 26 to 29 on October 2010 in Moscow in the territory of the All-Russian Exhibition Center, ...
IP v Tiger
Heavy tanks IS-2 and Pz VI Tiger were a kind of symbol of the military power of the USSR and Germany in 2MB. Naturally, the question of who had the best chances in a tank duel is not without interest. In real ...
Experienced tank Christie M1932
Tests of the tank, carried out in 1932, fully confirmed its high "aviation" characteristics. On wheels М1932 showed a speed of 120 miles per hour (193 km / h), and on tracks "only" 60 miles in ...
While the bosses argue, the army is sitting on a starvation diet
It is necessary to figure out whether the BMD-4 and "Sprut" are needed by the Russian Airborne Forces The topic of providing the Airborne Forces with armored vehicles has already been discussed more than once on the pages ...
The upgraded model of the Russian BMP-3 will be presented at the "Difference-2010"
Various areas of modernization of the Russian infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3 will be presented during the 28-31 period of October in Thessaloniki (Greece) at the specialized exhibition of land, sea and ...