Protection of armored vehicles is designed to withstand various damaging elements, primarily kinetic projectiles, shaped charges and strike nuclei, each of which has its own unique ...

The main weapon of the war in Southern Rhodesia can be considered not machine guns or machine guns of various models, but mines. Until now, a large number of unexploded ordnance remains in Zimbabwe, ...

Modern tank building has one interesting feature. All or almost all aspects of the appearance of a promising tank are either the development of old trends, or were invented long enough, but ...

An interesting, but unfortunately low-volume sample created in the homeland of Jan Hus. ShM vz.85 PRÁM-S self-propelled mortar was developed in Czechoslovakia. The development of SHM self-propelled mortar began in ...

At the end of last week, another controversial article spread in the Russian-language segment of the Internet, “exposing” the alleged problems of Russian tanks. In the material with loud and even ...

MLVM was developed in Romania specifically for use in the highlands. The car has a good angular body, the body and the tower are made of all-welded rolled armor with anti-bullet and ...

The illustration shows the most famous wheeled giant of the First World War, the “Tsar-tank” designed by Nikolai Lebedenko. Quite a lot has been written about this ambitious and initially unviable project ...

Two stories that the most advanced weapon in itself is not a guarantee of victory in battle. When faced with a tactically competent and morally stable enemy, it will be successfully destroyed ...

Today it is difficult to imagine an efficient army without armored vehicles: without armored personnel carriers, self-propelled guns, tanks. Who also came up with the brilliant idea to use a well-protected machine for combat operations ...

Simultaneously with the development of new types of military equipment is usually carried out modernization of the old. Using the modernization potential of this or that military equipment, the designers create a large ...

For five years, China has been developing a modification of the tank Type 99А2 based on the main battle tank Type 99, according to cnwnews.com. Currently the works are at the final stage ...

I hasten to make a reservation right away: I am not an "expert on armored vehicles", moreover, I do not even have the desire to become one. The fact is that among the so-called "experts" who write about "how bad our BMP is" ...

Tank as an engineering structure is a complex of weapons, armor protection, bearing bases, power plant and chassis. The tank must provide the ability to move both outside ...

There were times when the designers believed that the best defense of a tank against a cumulative projectile is ... an umbrella! Yes, yes, do not be surprised, it was in the form of an umbrella, worn on the barrel of the gun, was made ...

Victory Day over Japan did not put an end to the battle biography of the best medium tank of the second world war. The military career of T-34 was continued in various parts of the world, not ...

Germany was one of the first to start the formation of airborne troops and was the first to use them extensively during combat operations in the 1940 — 1941, but for a long time remained outside the “mechanization” of the landing parties ....

In October, the 1944 of the year in the design bureau of plant No. 183 began to design a new tank, which externally differed from the T-44 in the main tower of several large sizes and armament, consisting of 100-mm ...

Recently it became known that the “Military Industrial Company” has created and tested a new armored vehicle. Experimental wheeled chassis, created in the framework of the research work "Krymsk", ...

By the beginning of the seventies, it became clear that the main battle tanks of the Chieftain in their present form would be able to remain in the lead only if they were constantly improved and improved. Development...

In the late sixties and early seventies, the English main battle tank Chieftain ("Leader") was considered one of the best cars in its class. This tank combined all the latest achievements ...

Discussing the new Russian tank “Armata”, we focused on the question of how it would fit the conditions of the modern battlefield and combat operations of the foreseeable future. But at the same time - how much ...

At present, the number of models of modern main battle tanks equipped with automatic loading of tank guns (T-90, Leclerc, K-2, Tip-90 and Oplot) exceeds the number of models ...

From time to time, the designers of armored vehicles had the same idea: to create a huge invulnerable supertank, a kind of land battleship capable of hitting any target. More...

In Sweden, they took into account the experience of using armored vehicles. In Afghanistan, areas of modernization of armored vehicles in all countries are developed today, based on the experience of local wars and military conflicts ....