September 15, 1916 is considered the first day of the use of tanks in battle. And many would be interested to know what they were, these first tanks. How and by whom, they were created. Today I will tell you about the first ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, independent Ukraine received a large number of defense enterprises. Part of the Ukrainian defense industry fell victim to economic and political problems, but ...

From 7 May to 26 June 2002 of the Year in Ukraine, the 2 training exercise of the French mechanized brigade took place at the Wide Lan (Mykolaiv region) training ground. The exercise took place in two stages: from 7 to 26 in May and from 27 in May to ...

During 2014, the fleet of combat vehicles of the Airborne Forces of Russia will replenish 200 with the upgraded airborne assault landing vehicles - BMD-2. It is planned that the machines will get a more perfect stabilizer ...

Domestic corporation "Zashchita" has completed work on the creation of its new armored car under the designation SBA-60K2 "Bulat", which has a 6x6 wheel arrangement. ZAO Corporation Zashchita, ...

Becoming an independent state, India immediately began building its own armed forces. After a series of organizational decisions in the early fifties, the Indian authorities set out to ...

It cannot be said that my previous article caused a flurry of discussions, but once again it clearly showed for me that there are enough people who are not indifferent to the history of the tank forces of the USSR. So. The GSVG was preparing ...

In the early sixties, the command of the airborne troops demanded that industry create a specialized combat vehicle. A combat vehicle (BMD) was supposed to have a high ...

Developed in Nizhny Tagil variants of tank support vehicles cause great interest of the armed forces of different countries. The first country to purchase BMPT in Russia was Kazakhstan. Military...

I don’t really like to write, and, frankly, I often don’t have enough time, but somehow I caught one of the comments: when commenting on an article about the T-64 tank, he called him “unpretentious”. Little...

At the end of the 1950s, the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (in 1961, he and the city received a new name) began several modernization projects for the PT-76 amphibious tank. It was supposed ...

Regarding the emergence of upgrading T-72B to the level of T-72B3, a lot of rumors are circulating. For this car, there is a diverse amount of reviews - from the most enthusiastic to outright abuse. And when in ...

We continue to clarify the upgrade of the T-72B3. Interested in the question of how much attention was paid to the reliable isolation of spent cartridges. As practice has shown, the rupture of the bag and their placer on the AZ conveyor can ...

The T-XNUMHA tank was created in the sixties of the last century and became the first national armored vehicle of the new class. The first Soviet main tank showed high performance, but over time ...

In the thirties, the Soviet Union began work on flamethrowing tanks and by the time the Great Patriotic War began, there were a number of such combat vehicles in the units. After the outbreak of war ...

At the beginning of the sixties, the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union announced a competition for the development of an infantry fighting vehicle designed to transport and fire support personnel of motorized rifle ...

The A39 Tortoise heavy assault tank is a British super-heavy assault tank designed, built and tested during the Second World War, but never put into production ...

In 1951, the floating tank PT-76 was adopted by the army of the Soviet Union. He showed good characteristics for his time, but by the end of the decade it became clear that over the next ...

The Soviet medium tank was put into service in the 1966 year. This combat vehicle, weighing only 36 tons, in terms of protection characteristics, firepower matched or even exceeded the machines more ...

Received from a friend, recently visited one of the training units, photo T-90 obr.1992g. and the newly arrived early T-90A (release 2004-2005gg). Despite the fact that the latest machines are not 10 years old, they ...

The first experiments on re-equipping captured self-propelled guns with domestic guns were carried out at enterprises in Moscow in late 1941 - early 1942. According to the memoirs of A. Klubnev, at the beginning of March 1942 in the 33rd ...

The end of the forties of the last century, among other things, was remembered by a large number of various armament and military equipment projects. Taking advantage of the experience gained during the Second World War, ...

Tank M60 Patton was developed by American designers in the late fifties, but still remains in service with many countries. Nearly two dozen armies in the world exploit several ...

The 195 object, which is also known as the T-95 tank or the 88 Improvement project, was supposed to become, according to the developers, a promising Russian 4 generation tank. Developed a tank engaged ...