In the first part of this cycle, we reported that the Germans, after the French campaign of May-June 1940, got a huge amount of trophy equipment, of which around 600 are armored vehicles. Of which...

Remotely controlled combat modules have been installed on armored combat vehicles for many years, but remotely controlled towers are currently being installed on a number of platforms. Look at ...

We have already discussed more than once the materials of the American magazine "The National Interest". Funny publication, something like the Russian "Military Review". But for the Americans ....

Since the late thirties of the last century, Japan seized more and more new territories in the Pacific Ocean. Over time, this led to real risks for the most southern states of the region - Australia and New ...

From 1917 to 1923, the Civil War raged in Russia. Many have heard of the heroic armored vehicles of the Red Army units that took part in the hostilities against the forces of the White movement —...

By the end of World War I, the French had seized the world leadership in the development of heavy tanks. For a combat debut on the fronts of the Great War, their FCM 2C machine lacked quite a bit of time ....

The T-14, better known as the Armata, is the only tank of the third post-war generation in the world. This is a unique development of Russian specialists, which has no analogues abroad. It is noteworthy that ...

Each person who is “keen on armor” has his own “favorite tank”, or an armored vehicle, to which they admire long and hard. Who has it, but for me this BA, I emphasize, is BA, and not ...

As for military vehicles, it is obvious that everything that happens in the United States always has an impact on the world market and the new tactical armored car JLTV (Joint Light ...

In this new cycle, which we started with our Belarusian colleague from Brest, Alexander Prokurat, a man who tenderly and anxiously adores everything that has caterpillars, I would like to tell you in detail about the following ...

Surprising and strange sometimes you meet the attitude to this or that news. Just recently, it was reported that the T-72 and T-90 will be equipped with electronic systems designed for ...

A floating version with a smaller mass of Tulpar-S was shown by Otokar in May 2015 of the year in order to “stake out a place” in the tracked segment of the STA program (Silah Tasiyici Arac - armament transporter), ...

In the UK, two tracked vehicle programs are currently being implemented. One of them, known by the abbreviation WCSP (Warrior Capability Sustainment Program) ...

Military operations in Syria were the first where the Russian T-90 was baptized in combat ....

Heavy fighting on the Soviet-German front in 1941 – 1942 largely negated the advantages of light tanks. Equipped with relatively weak weapons and having mostly bulletproof armor, ...

The largest customer of the Armored Modular Vehicle (AMV) modular armored vehicle developed by the Finnish company Patria is Poland; A total of 997 has been ordered in several batches ...

We were on the new / old training ground of the 10-I Guards Tank Ural-Lviv Order of the October Revolution, the Red Banner, the Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov of the volunteer division named ...

The 25-th anniversary of the beginning of operation of the first original Centauro cars is approaching, moreover, since at the beginning of 80-s, a draft of requirements for the 8xXNNXX armored car was issued, ...

Miraculously, the human brain is built. After an article about the decision of the United States to supply the lethal weapon to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, readers had a lot of questions about the booking of equipment. In particular,...

One of the most actively developing areas in the field of armaments and equipment is currently remotely controlled combat modules. Such products have a number of obvious advantages, which ...

Perhaps nowhere ideology had such an impact on the processes of creating armored weapons, as in the USSR. Moreover, everything, in general, was good until the “black Thursday” of October 24 1929. Exactly...

The concept of installing a 152-mm cannon on a tank is not new, attempts to install this type of gun were made in the middle of 1980's, but technical difficulties, excessive power and the crisis in the country were not ...

The global market for armored vehicles is more dynamic now than it was after the 2008 crisis of the year. Despite the economic difficulties, growing tensions in the world and the growth of military conflicts ...

Due to the lack of armored vehicle production capacity in the UK, local applicants for the LEP project (Life Extension Project) to extend the life of the British main ...

Due to the nature of their work, some types of armed forces need special equipment that differs from other existing models. In particular, the marines in need of landing ...

There are various types of special weapons in the armament of the troops of radiation, chemical and biological protection of the armed forces of Russia, which are absent in other branches of the army. In particular, it is the troops ...

At the recent international military-technical forum "Army-2016" domestic defense industry enterprises have demonstrated a large number of the latest developments in various fields. AT...

The history of this tank, which may well be considered the grandfather of the T-34, for me personally began a long time ago. While still a boy, I am in the Science and Life magazine in the small pictures at the bottom of the page, ...

Anyone who first entered inside a dark metal box, be sure to hit his head on the ceiling. This then the narrowness of the tanks became the talk of the town, but everything was new here. Even this ...

Currently, the defense industry of Kazakhstan is preparing to deploy production of several new models of armored vehicles intended for delivery to the army and security forces. Not this way...

100 years ago, 15 September 1916, the first tank attack in the history of world wars took place. The tanks were used in the course of a large-scale offensive by the Anglo-French forces (the battle on ...

An indispensable attribute of a truly modern military equipment is a remote-controlled combat module with machine-gun, cannon or rocket weapons. Such equipment allows ...