The end of the year is the best time to take stock. So, seeing off the 2017 year, the online edition Defense Blog has decided to evaluate the latest models of armored personnel carriers that appeared in the recent past, as well as ...

At the beginning of the thirties of the last century, Japan began developing its own armored cars. Quite quickly, the industry received an order from the Marine Corps, who wanted to get its own ...

Currently, in Asia and Europe, there are many programs for the purchase and adoption of modern wheeled armored vehicles 8x8 in various versions, including sanitary, armored personnel carriers, combat ...

Half a century ago, Soviet designers worked out various ideas that allowed to improve the characteristics of tanks. Developed and tested in practice new weapons, new protection systems and ...

Soon after the appearance of the first anti-tank guided missiles, the idea of ​​a rocket tank was proposed. Such a machine was supposed to have certain advantages over the other ...

By the beginning of the thirties, the Japanese army had learned all the advantages of modern armored vehicles, which had led to the emergence of a number of new projects. The first armored car, fully developed and built in ...

In the next five years, the US Army plans to begin testing prototypes of remote-controlled equipment, known as RCV. These are drones that are as fast as a Stryker, but possess fire ...

Not all early Japanese projects of armored vehicles were successful. Nevertheless, failures are of great interest from the point of view of technology and history. In particular, a separate review ...

In the mid-twenties of the last century, Japan showed interest in the subject of armored vehicles. First, the army purchased several foreign-made cars, and then initiated the development of ...

T20 (Medium Tank T20) - a series of experienced medium tanks, which were developed in the United States during the Second World War ....

At the beginning of the last century, designers from different countries began work on the first armored vehicles. In 1906, the German company Ehrhardt made an attempt to develop a combat armored vehicle ...

While for the military, the use of heavy armored vehicles is the rule, except for security forces and police. ... Or was it an exception? ...

One of the main military trump cards of the USSR and, accordingly, the entire Warsaw Pact, in addition to the Soviet nuclear missile shield, were armored armadas deployed in the Western Group of Forces ...

Today, when the economy of Ukraine and its entire military-industrial complex is in a state that can be called thermal, its representatives continue to assert that their country is one ...

The first full-fledged armored cars appeared at the beginning of the last century. One of the leaders in this field could immediately become Austria-Hungary, which developed the Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen car ...

In search of an optimal design of an armored car, German engineers created several prototypes at the end of the twenties. The most interesting version of this technique was proposed in the project Büssing-NAG ...

As part of the secret program of Mannschafstransportwagen, German engineers developed several original armored vehicles. Together with other prototypes the car went to the test ...

Despite the limitations of the Versailles Treaty, the Weimar Republic secretly continued to develop weapons and equipment. In particular, the Mannschafstransportwagen program was launched, mainly ...

A number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region choose local production of armored vehicles, as a result there is fierce competition between companies wishing to participate in this process ...

Hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers pose a great danger to light armored vehicles. Designers from different countries are forced to seek an answer to such threats. A curious option extra ...

With all its positive features, early tanks had known problems. In particular, they were heavy and did not differ in high mobility ...

For many years, the American company Holt has been working on projects for early combat armored vehicles. It was she who managed to create the first full-fledged tank in US history - Holt Gas-Electric Tank ...

The companies Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the Research and Development Armored Center are working together on the initial integration of the modular active defense system into the M1 Abrams tank ...

During the First World War, a bold idea emerged. mobile fortress - super heavy armored vehicles with powerful weapons. For a number of reasons, no such project has led to the desired ...