The “crisis” program for the release of tanks, adopted in October 1944, envisaged leaving the production of the “Royal Tiger”. About any of his replacements for at least the next year, we are not ...

The Ukrainian edition "Mirror of the Week. Ukraine" published an interesting article by Dmitry Mendeleev "I remember all my cracks ...", dedicated to the scandalous ups and downs of today ...

In armed conflicts of the last decades, tanks often had to work in urban conditions to which they were not adapted. Shelling from all sides, short distances and difficulty ...

Work on the creation of infrared devices that could provide driving combat and transport vehicles at night, as well as the possibility of aimed shooting from guns and small arms in the ...

As in the other branches of the German armed forces, the main command of the ground forces, who developed tactical-technical ..., served as a customer in the development of a particular type of tank (SAU) ...

The tank era, which began a hundred years ago on the margins of the First World War, today seems to be close to its end. "The Israeli Defense Ministry decided not to continue work on the creation of a tank ...

The King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) has developed the STALLION II multipurpose armored vehicle, the name of which translates as "Stallion". Development is underway in ...

In March, the 1940 of the year in Leningrad, the design bureau of the Kirov plant, developed a light tracked wedge “Object 217”. The development of tankettes was started in the winter of the year 1940, in the midst of the Winter War, ...

The tank support combat vehicle (BMPT) was developed and presented at weapon exhibitions more than ten years ago. Her appearance did not cause negative feedback from experts, which already by ...

The tender for the creation of a modern tank for the Turkish armed forces was announced in February 2000. It was perceived as one of the most attractive in the field of weapons and attracted attention ...

Recently in the Swedish museum of military equipment Arsenalen, I bought there, on the occasion, a curious book - "Swedish armor. 90 years of development of Swedish military equipment" (Svenskt pansar. 90 år ...

The Vietnam War has become a testing ground for testing new weapons and military equipment. Among the other equipment "tested" in Vietnam was a light airborne tank M551 Sheridan. Active fighting ...

US forces are considered the strongest army on the planet. At the same time, they still use some equipment developed even before the outbreak of the war in Vietnam (1965 – 1974). Question about...

In the fifties, the Soviet T-10 heavy tank was adopted by the Soviet armored forces. Subsequently, the circumstances were such that the T-10 machines and their modifications were the last ...

Dear Joseph Vissarionovich! I bring to your attention an invention that gives an exceptional opportunity to maneuver the energy resources of our country, allowing especially fast ...

Tank T-54 has become one of the most common post-war machines in its class. It became the basis for a large number of modifications, including the T-55 tank, which was built with an even larger series ....

the end of 1944 of the year by the joint efforts of the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization named after Stalin, plants No. 627, ChKZ, Elektrosila and Dynamo on the basis of the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and SNK from 07.04.1941 ...

In the seventies, Soviet troops received more than twenty thousand modern tanks annually, which, according to many experts, significantly exceeded the standards by technical level ...

I thought about the creation of this article for a long time, and yet I thought about it. In my opinion, the T-72 is the best tank in the world. As you already know, Western experts think differently: “they say, your bank is outdated and cannot be compared ...

On the electronic pages of the Military Review, very often there is a dispute about the advantages of various tanks of the “Soviet school”, and each of the parties gives different reasons. And as a result, one of ...

A long period of the absence of heavy type tanks in the Royal Tank Corps (Royal Tank Corps - RTC), caused by an acute financial crisis, ended only at the end of the 1930-s. Availability...

At the end of the 20-x-beginning of the 30-ies of the last century, tank design developed rapidly in the USSR, the Red Army's tank fleet was replenished with both domestic development and new machines ...

In this article we will talk about the first draft of the super heavy tank, which went down in history as the "Mendeleev tank." Vasily Dmitrievich Mendeleev (1886 - 1922) developed the design of his super-heavy tank in ...

As we know, after World War I, the First World War passed into the phase of positional warfare, better known as the “trench warfare”. Break through the enemy's defense in depth ...