At the beginning of the 60-x, on the order of the Main Armored Directorate, several design bureaus began to create a new class of equipment - an infantry fighting vehicle. The competition involved KB from Volgograd, ...

The desire of the population to help the army is understandable and commendable. However, it can give very interesting results. So, in 1940, the militia of one of the Canadian cities, intending to defend ...

EC-2 - Victory tank. On these menacing machines, along with the modernized T-34, our tank crews ended the Great Patriotic War. The armament of the IS-2 allowed it to hit German tanks on ...

Created by the genius of designer Mikhail Balzhi, the tanks grew old for a long time - they were so perfect. Their forms were copied by the developers of combat vehicles throughout the world ....

In recent years, Germany has reduced the number of BMP Rita, which was planning to buy, but geopolitical friction can change these plans upwards ...

In September, a new promising Polish tank PL-2013 was shown at an exhibition in the Polish city of Kielce in September. Perhaps only lazy didn’t write about it, and Western military and couch experts ...

Despite the relatively small number of breakthrough technologies in the field of floating machines, leading manufacturers of final products strive to achieve the optimal balance of capabilities of their products on ...

The United States continues to develop its armored vehicles, and soon the army will have to receive the next updated vehicles. In the near future, ground forces will receive the first main tanks of the M1A2 SEP type ...

“A multi-purpose tractor is lightly armored”, an army all-terrain vehicle-worker adopted by the Soviet army in the 1966 year. The design turned out so successful that MTLB remains in service until now ...

On the eve of the celebration of the Day of the tanker, which fell this year on 10 in September, on the territory of the 33-th military ground, located near the city of Luga (Leningrad region), ...

Israeli Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is one of the companies seriously targeting Eastern Europe as the main armor upgrade market, especially when it comes to upgrading ...

The combat vehicle supporting tanks "Terminator" has long been involved in military equipment exhibitions, but so far has not gone into the mass series. However, soon the account of serial BMPTs will go into the hundreds. Behind...

The only heavy tank that was supplied during the Great Patriotic War in the USSR by the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition was the English Churchill. Americans have heavy tanks ...

Following the politicians, Western journalists are haunted by the idea that Russia was able to create tanks that are superior in quality to their Western counterparts. So, Forbes magazine in a rather voluminous article held ...

It is no secret that the general public likes to compare different types of weapons and military equipment. Publications on this topic always attract attention and become a reason for active discussions ....

Whether or not there were armored personnel carriers in the Red Army as of 22 June 1941 of the year is a terminological question. It depends on what is considered a beterami. For example, now in service (for more than half a century!) ...

For many decades, the domestic armed forces have solved part of the transport tasks with the help of the MT-LB multipurpose armored vehicle or its modified MT-LBu armored vehicle. To the present ...

Currently, several types of modern main battle tanks are represented on the international arms and equipment market. Armored vehicles manufactured by different countries, find those or other ...

Currently, the Russian defense industry, carrying out a number of existing orders, carries out repairs and modernization of cash armored vehicles of several types. One of the results of such work should ...

From the experience of the first cases of combat use of the latest British tanks, it became clear that this technique has great potential and therefore is of interest to all armies. Direct consequence ...

During the visit of US Secretary of Defense James Mattis to "Square" (August 24, 2017), it finally became clear that the supply of lethal weapons to Ukrainian military formations sooner or ...

The combat module for armored vehicles "Epoch", also known as "Boomerang-BM", was developed several years ago, and has since been repeatedly demonstrated at various events ....

By the beginning of the First World War, the armed forces of Canada did not have any armored vehicles. At that time, army mechanization was limited only to the operation of a certain number of commercial vehicles ...

The M8 (Light Armored Car M8), also known by the British name Greyhound (Greyhound), is a lightweight American armored car of the Second World War period. Created by engineers at Ford Motor ...