Light tank Pz-II L "Lynx"
At the initial stage of the Second World War, armored cars coped well with the tasks of reconnaissance in the interests of the tank and motorized units of Hitler's Wehrmacht. Their use in this role ...
Merkava Mk 4 c Trophy was tested for the first time
The event takes place in the presence of the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Major General Beni Ganz and the Commander of the Land ...
Steel fist of israel
Israel is considered a great tank power: the IDF's tank fleet is one of the largest in the world - it is armed with from 4 to 5 thousand tanks, built on Israeli tank ...
Are our tanks in a real war doomed?
An article was recently published by Colonel Sergey V. Suvorov, Candidate of Military Sciences, “The armor is strong, but the West is dearer to us”, in which the author is from the point of view of the past generation of wars, and from ...
Peru is conducting the first field tests in Ukraine tank Tifon 2
During his visit to Ukraine, the Peruvian delegation led by Brigadier General Juan Mendiz (Juan Mendiz), head of the logistics department of the Joint Committee ...
"Tiger" on the streets of Rio
In early September, the military-industrial company representatives and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport were transferred to the police battalion of special operations of Brazil, stationed in the city of Rio de Janeiro ...
The Ministry of Defense will buy more than one and a half thousand Italian armored cars
Most recently, we were all pleased with one interesting news, namely the fact that the Ministry of Defense of Russia finally decided on the purchase of Italian armored vehicles IVECO LMV M65 for the Russian ...
"Tiger" modernized
The domestic manufacturer intends to interest our military with new models of armored cars. Russian enterprises producing light wheeled armored vehicles are still trying to keep ...
Main battle tank Arjun (Arjun) India
The Indian army developed a tactical and technical assignment for the development of a new tank back in 1972. It was intended to replace the Vijayanta tanks, and the Scientific Research Institute of Combat Vehicles on a new project began ...
How to be a tank
We live in a rapidly changing world. The political situation is changing. Only yesterday there were two blocs aimed at each other, but today one (the Warsaw Pact) is gone, and the other (NATO) has expanded ...
Minefield Leopard: New generation armored vehicles
Ocelot, or Leopardus Pardalis, is a feline predator living in Latin America. Due to intensive hunting in the middle of the last century, the ocelot became a rare animal. His namesake, armored ...
The tank of the future - Type 18 "Dragon Breath". China
Apparently, the machine is alternative, since the Chinese have no technical prerequisites for creating such a machine. Let me give you some technical data, from those who managed to translate. So, the car ...
Tank forge of Russia
SEPTEMBER 12 - TANKIST DAY In the course of reforming the Russian army, one of its priorities is to equip it with modern types of weapons and military equipment. In the field of equipping the Armed Forces ...
Armor is strong, but the West is more precious to us.
August 31 domestic tank building celebrated its 90 anniversary. On this day in 1920, the first production tank, assembled by the hands of Nizhny Novgorod workers and received ...
Many experts consider the Merkava tank to be the best main battle tank in the world.
In the rating of the leaders of the world tank building, annually compiled by the authoritative American military analytical agency Forecast International, the Israeli tank Merkava Mk4 takes the leading ...
The concept of a tank with a combat robot inside
The forum china-defense.com, with reference to an internal Chinese source, discusses a possible concept for a new-generation tank. In the stern of the tank is a self-propelled combat robot equipped with ...
India plans to replace Arjun
India began work on its next generation tank. It is called FMBT (Future Main Battle Tank), the purpose of its creation is the qualitative replacement of the last Indian tank development, ...
T-90 vs. Abrams
Tanks T-90 and M1A1 "Abrams" are typical representatives of the Soviet and Western schools of tank building, which are based on various design and technological ideas. T-90, deep ...
New version of BBM VAMTAC S3 developed in Spain
The Spanish company "Levels" (Urovesa - Uro Vehicules Especiales) has developed a new version of the armored vehicle VAMTAC S3 (Vehiculo de Alta Movilidad Tactico) with the wheel formula 4x4. 8-ton armored ...
Once again about BMPT
A car with a lot of flaws, but still it can be brought to mind First Deputy Minister of Defense Vladimir Popovkin said that the state defense order program, along with some other samples ...
BMPT "Terminator"
This unofficial name was given to the tank support combat vehicle (BMPT). According to the military, the combat effectiveness of one BMPT is superior to two motorized rifle platoons - 6 BMP and about 40 people ...
Supacat completes fabrication of the seventh sample SPV400
The British company Supacat recently completed production of the seventh prototype of the all-new, all-British SPV400 light armored patrol vehicle. With this machine, Supacat hopes ...
"Kugelpanzer", tank ball
The “Kugelpanzer” observer car (“Kugelpanzer”, “tank-ball”) is a light armored car designed in the Third Reich in 1930, allegedly by Krupp. According to the staff ...
T-90 - updated machine for the Russian Army
1 September 1999, VB, began his work as the chief designer of UKBTM. Domnin, Colonel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, a talented engineer, head of a new formation. He had to continue work on the tank ...