World War I caused the collapse of several large European empires. Among them was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the former territories of which several new ones were formed ...

The flagship initiative of the Brazilian army, called the Guarani project, is becoming the outline of the largest program for the development and production of ground-based equipment in South America and definitely ...

The weekly "Military Industrial Courier" completes a series of publications devoted to the armored forces of the People's Republic of China. The 34 No. 2013 for the year gives a detailed account of the firstborn Chinese ...

In the Soviet army in the first years of the Great Patriotic War, there were a lot of problems, the main of which was the lack of necessary weapons for effective combat operations. Here...

In the late sixties, the Soviet army adopted the first domestic main battle tank T-64A. Having established the production of this armored vehicle, the defense industry began creating ...

During the Second World War, it was Nazi Germany that had the largest transport aircraft - Messerschmitt Me.323 Gigant. The military with the help of this machine wanted to transfer not only the lungs ...

By 1937, Landsverk’s designers had gained sufficient experience in building armored vehicles and began work on a new project with the code name Lynx (“Lynx”). The aim of the project was ...

KBT-7 is a special commander tank developed in 1937 on the basis of the standard BT-7 light tank under the supervision of engineer Koshkin. Quite an interesting prototype, created on the basis of ...

In the early twenties of the last century, Sweden was engaged in the construction of its armored forces. Due to the lack of experience in this area, the Swedish defense enterprises turned to German for help ...

18 / V-43, we have submitted to you two proposals for tanks, the design of which we began jointly when my son was in Moscow for his work in the Automotive Base of the People’s Council ...

Speaking at the Defense IQ International Armored Vehicles 2013 conference in Farnborough, the commander of the British army, Lieutenant General Adrian Bredsho recognized the usefulness of tanks in ...

Remotely controlled weapon stations are an integral part of the army's armored vehicles, and recent developments have ensured their continued dominance in the theater ...

The Turkish company Nurol Makina Ve Sanayi AS has expanded its line of wheeled armored vehicles, it introduced the latest version of the Ejder 4x4 (Dragon). Nurol Makina started on ...

In many sources, both domestic and foreign, there are references to the E-series tanks, as well as their drawings and drawings. There are plastic models of these combat vehicles. According to ...

The replacement of the Minister of Defense from Anatoly Serdyukov to Sergei Shoigu led to a revision of the weapons procurement system. If the first talked about the inability of the domestic defense industry to create products, ...

The appearance of the Swedish tank building is obliged to the German project of the light tank Räder-Raupen Kampfwagen M28. Because of the restrictions imposed by the Versailles Peace Treaty, Germany could not ...

The twenties and thirties of the last century were a period of active development of armored vehicles. Engineers from different countries studied different layouts and applied different technical solutions, which ...

26 September 1944, the main command of the Wehrmacht ground forces, decided to increase the production of Jagdpanzer 38 Hetzer tank destroyers. The car had good combat characteristics, ...

GDELS ASCOD tracked vehicles are made up of two families in order to meet the basic design requirements. Look at the state of affairs and new developments. Works on armored ...

Skeptics say that their tanks have become obsolete and do not play any role on the modern battlefield, where, in their opinion, all will be decided by precision weapons systems. However, the events of recent years completely ...

Marmon-Herrington is a family of South African armored vehicles from the Second World War. The Canadian three-ton Ford was used as a base for the South African armored car ...

At the end of 1943, the German designers attempted to change the design of the Panther tower. First of all it was supposed to make its front armor sheet narrower to reduce ...

In the UK, the amount of funding for new programs is constantly being revised and adjusted, and therefore the army is trying to bring a heterogeneous fleet of combat vehicles to a common denominator amid ...

VL ("Vladimir Lenin") - a project of a super-heavy tank developed by the USSR in 1940. In the spring of 1940, the designers Popov and Nukhman proposed a series of VL three-tower tanks ("Vladimir ...