Many people have seen in films, especially telling about the post-apocalyptic world, gantracks - coarse and not too elegant fighting vehicles, created from ordinary cars or trucks ...

An important feature of modern armored vehicles is the ability to install various weapons or combat modules. All modern armored cars are equipped with a universal shoulder strap, which can ...

Armored personnel carrier BTR-50P was developed in the early fifties of the last century, but still remains in service with several countries. In parts and in storage several thousand similar are listed ...

Infantry fighting vehicle BMP-2, created in the late seventies, still remains in service with several dozen countries. However, over the decades that have passed since the start of mass production, ...

One of the main factors for increasing the combat capability of modern models of armored vehicles (BTT) is equipping them with a more advanced fire control system (FCS), see figure 1. Therefore...

Everything that ever happened in history, despite the secrets of secrecy, as a rule, sooner or later becomes available to the public. There is no such secret, which would not have been discovered years later ....

In recent years, the commander's panoramic sight has become an indispensable element in equipping modern foreign tanks. This device provides all-round observation of the terrain and pointing weapons on ...

We called floating tanks PT-76 into our cadet youth. In those distant 70s in our glorious Guards Tank School each year two platoons of graduates were sent for passing ...

IT 1 "Dragon" (Tank Destroyer, also known as "150 object") is a Soviet missile tank that was put into service in the 1968 year and was mass-produced at Uralvagonzavod. IT 1 is the first and ...

The command-staff vehicle (KSHM) “Svityaz”, based on the BTR-70, is a wheeled, floating, armored vehicle, with all driving wheels, equipped with two powerful diesel engines FPT “IVECO” ...

Object 187 - due to its closed nature, this tank is one of the most mysterious combat vehicles produced by the Soviet industry. Reliable information on the car on the Web is almost ...

11.6.1942, this project was reported to me by the Head of the Armored Troops Division of the Urals Military District, Colonel Evdokimov, the engineers of the department entrusted to him and the Deputy Commander of the Air Force ...

For nearly four decades, military theorists and designers have dreamed of powerful super-heavy tanks. The land-based "unsinkable battleships" were never destined to appear on the battlefield, however ...

At the recent exhibition Russian Arms Expo-2013, several new developments of the domestic defense industry were shown. Among other things, for the first time demonstrated a new model of a combat vehicle ...

One of the modern reasons for pride of the Chinese defense industry is the main tank "Type 99". At the moment, this combat vehicle is the highest achievement ...

The Israelis, whose experience, no doubt, was taken into account by the Omsk designers, in combat clashes in urban conditions have long been widely used heavy tracked armored personnel carriers "Ahzarit", converted ...

By the time the D-2 motorized armored cars were approaching the series, some of their shortcomings were already obvious, but unavoidable within the framework of mass production. Therefore, in 1931 N. Dyrenkov ...

11 September, after several years of waiting in South Africa, a contract was signed for the supply of new armored vehicles for the armed forces. The Procurement Department of the Ministry of Defense of South Africa (Armscor) concluded with companies ...

Light tank - this is one of the possible classifications of tanks, which almost came to nothing with the advent of main battle tanks (the same happened with medium and heavy tanks). Functional ...

In the seventies, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) acquired from the Soviet Union a license to manufacture the main T-72 tanks. Seeing the pace of development of modern armored vehicles, ...

T-54 - Soviet medium tank. Adopted by the Soviet Army in 1946, it has been serially produced, constantly being modernized, since 1947. Since 1958, its modification has been produced under the name ...

In the summer of 2013, the American company Lockheed Martin successfully completed the test program for protecting the new modular armored car Havoc (“Havok”) with the wheel formula 8х8. New BTR ...

The exposition of the recent exhibition Russian Arms Expo-2013 was divided into two parts. Anyone could get acquainted with a large number of samples and developments, and a number of promising projects were shown ...

The M6 series heavy tanks were produced during the Second World War, but since these vehicles did not take part in the hostilities, they were known only to a narrow circle of experts in the history of armored vehicles ...