To protect against hand grenade launchers and anti-tank missiles, armored vehicles may need some additional funds. One of the curious developments of this kind is "soft armor" ...

At the very end of the war, in February 1945 of the year, the design bureau of plant No. 100, whose branch was at that time in Leningrad, began work on the project of a new heavy tank, which was supposed ...

In August, the 1930 of the year, during the Red Army Air Force exercises near Voronezh, for the first time in our country, a paratroop unit of an 12 manned unit was parachuted ...

For almost two decades, remotely controlled weapons modules have demonstrated their advantages in terms of protection, surveillance, chain grabbing and increased accuracy compared to weapons on ...

The Americans, and after them the Europeans recognized the loyalty of the Russian concept of development of armored vehicles. Russia in tank building, despite the collapse of the USSR and a decade of devastation, was ahead of its ...

A few years ago, the future of armored forces was tied to two promising models. It was supposed to renew the park with the help of tanks "Object 195" or "Object 640". However, from these developments ...

The golden era of wheeled armored vehicles came in the 1930-1940-s, at that time wheeled armored vehicles were actively designed and built in many countries around the world. These countries belonged and ...

In the near future, the Russian army will receive the Armata T-14 serial tanks, and this fact is a natural concern of the foreign military. The response to the new Russian tank should be combat ...

There is a growing awareness that protecting soldiers while ensuring tactical mobility under enemy fire is an important component of success not only in traditional conflicts, but also in ...

If we compare the armored vehicles of two leading countries, we can attract the attention of readers. And if you compare the combat vehicles of the three armies at once, you’ll have a new article from The National Interest. Its author ...

The Russian army decided to return to service artillery caliber 57 mm. New weapons are being created that will have to solve a wide range of combat missions and fight against the goals of different classes. Recently it became known ...

The army of the Republic of Poland, formed at the end of 1918, was not particularly powerful. Understanding the problems, experts began to create their own armored vehicles. The first sample ...

A well-known tank designer Leonid Kartsev about his equally well-known colleague, Joseph Kotin, made an interesting comment in his memoirs: “It was a talented organizer and an outstanding politician. Further...

35 years ago the Israeli armed forces - the IDF was the first in the world to use in combat conditions tanks equipped with mounted dynamic protection systems (NKDZ) ....

For decades the Abrams tank has been considered the number one tank in the world. However, experts say that the Armat’s T-14 — Russia's next-generation platform — may question ...

T-44 (Object 136) - Soviet medium tank, created in 1944, the design bureau Uralvagonzavod under the leadership of A. A. Morozov, was intended to replace the T-34 as the main medium tank ....

As early as the beginning of 1943, the leadership of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army (GBTU KA) and the People’s Commissariat of the Tank Industry (NKTP) agreed that the time of KV-1s was coming to ...

Having entered the First World War, Belgium began to build its own armored cars. A noticeable mark in the history of the Belgian army left the cars of several models. One of them gained fame under ...

At the end of the summer 1914, the Belgian army received its first Minerva-type armored vehicles. Just a few weeks after that, the military began to master the new technology - SAVA armored cars ...

The First World War was the reason for the development of a large number of armored combat vehicles. Shortly after the start of the fighting, Belgium's first own armored car set up. This car has remained in history under ...

Both in the past and in the present, attempts were made to predict the development of armored vehicles and to determine the most successful and effective image of the future combat vehicle. Some estimates of past years may ...

As you know, the Czech industry during the Great Patriotic War made a huge contribution to equipping the German army with military equipment ...

Planning to seize Manchuria and China, Japan built military equipment of new models. One of the means of providing an advantage over the enemy was to become an armored car-armored rubber "Type 91" ...

29 September 2017, the US Army decided to purchase an unknown number of Trophy systems as part of an emergency request. General Dynamics Land Systems is responsible for installing ...