The very phrase "American heavy tanks" can baffle many fans of the history of armored vehicles. Weren't they? And there were many of them? If you ask who, who ...

Until a certain time, Hitler's Germany did not pay much attention to the projects of gas-turbine power plants for ground vehicles. So, in 1941, the first such one was built ...

Since 1945, the Soviet tank construction school has been leading the world in the field of heavy (EC-3, T-10), medium (T-54, T-55, T-62) and main battle tanks (T-64, T -72). But...

The Wehrmacht, in response to the new Soviet T-34 and KV tanks, had their own “wonder tanks” - “Tigers” and “Panthers”. A rare Soviet-Russian film, the series “About War” does without them, or rather, tanks, their ...

The UTZ at the beginning of 1942 was given the task of shipping five standard T-34 samples, two of which were to go a long way by sea - to the UK and the United States to be studied by Allied specialists of this “miracle ...

Self-defense forces are the official name of the armed forces in modern Japan. In accordance with the Potsdam Declaration in 1945, the country's army was disarmed and demobilized. November 30 is the same ...

In 1941, American armored vehicles first encountered the enemy. As a result, it turned out that American cars had poor security. Even before the serial was launched ...

The United States is currently developing the ground combat vehicle GCV (Ground Combat Vehicle). For a new technology, high enough are presented ...

From 25 to 28 in June, the salon of arms and military equipment Partner 2013 worked in Belgrade. The event demonstrated many projects created in different countries. Among others in the exhibition pavilion ...

During the last time, various kinds of images regularly appear, which show the supposed appearance of a promising tank based on the Armata platform. However, all such drawings and ...

A few days ago, the Ministry of Defense published information about a new tender, the purpose of which is to prepare for the creation of a new platform for combat vehicles. This time it comes to holding ...

At the end of September this year. at the XI International Exhibition of Arms, Military Equipment and Ammunition in Nizhny Tagil REA-2013, a private display of a full-scale mock-up of a promising tank will take place ...

Nizhniy Tagil Uralvagonzavod is the parent enterprise of the research and production corporation UVZ. Built in 1936 as a premier manufacturer of freight rolling stock for railways ...

In June 1973, the first combat use of the Soviet BMP-1 took place. This happened in the Middle East, during the fighting of the Syrian army against the Israelis in the Golan Heights. Syrian crews are bad ...

We have written more than once that tanks remain one of the most effective means on the battlefield and why they will not lose this quality in the foreseeable future. However, apart from the outstanding qualities of the domestic ...

Over the past decades, the basis of the armored forces of Romania are medium tanks of the T-55 model and its modifications, built in the Soviet Union or collected under a license for the Romanian ...

The project of the heavy tank EC-6 (object 252, 253) was developed at the pilot plant number 100 in Chelyabinsk in the first half of 1944. The main feature of this combat vehicle was the use on it ...

At the conclusion of the material about the structural vulnerabilities of the Merkava Mk.4, it seems appropriate to consider the capabilities of the main AOI combat vehicle for confronting tanks of potential opponents ....

In recent years, many not very rich countries prefer not to buy the latest military equipment, but to improve the existing one. There are many reasons for this: modern technology, especially airplanes, helicopters and ...

In the past few years, Russian tanks began to appear at armored vehicles exhibitions, equipped with the Shtora-1 optical-electronic active protection system in its new configuration. The first were ...

The Turkish defense corporation Otokar in early May 2013 presented its novelty to the public. In Turkey, in addition to the promising main battle tank Altay, a new combat vehicle was created ...

The T-72 tank, created more than three decades ago, still remains the basis of the tank fleet of many countries of the world; many countries have developed their t-72 modernization programs that can supply ...

In the mid-seventies, the Czechoslovak factory ZTS Dubnica received technical documentation for the licensed production of Soviet main tanks T-72М. Over the next decade ...

In connection with the discussion of the article devoted to the constructive vulnerabilities of the main combat vehicle of the AOI “Merkava Mk.4”, and the raising of questions to the methods of anti-tank combat, ...