Floating wheeled vehicles have always been among the priorities of the national design school. The Likhachev plant at the time was at the peak of these trends ...

In the armies of NATO countries, wheel cranes of the German company Liebherr have long been in demand. The latest developments of G-BKF and G-LTM in technical complexity can argue with the latest examples of European ...

For sixty-two years, the legendary Loaf lives on the conveyor of the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant. Hope for a successor flashed thirty years ago with the advent of the Wagon pilot program ...

The French company Arquus is postponing the official presentation of the new family of army trucks ARMIS. However, some information about this technique has already been disclosed ...

The ZIL-135 rocket carrier, the brainchild of the Special Design Bureau, has become one of the most popular production cars of a real off-road vehicle guru - Vitaly Andreyevich Grachev ...

The car wheel is simple and effective, but they are constantly trying to improve it. A radical way to modernize this unit is the so-called airless tire ...

The phrase "military truck" is associated with the machine Kama automobile plant. A machine that was used in almost all military branches, passing the fiery roads of Afghanistan ...

Fifteen years ago, probably the most controversial domestic cars drove to Red Square, designed to remind us of the glorious military past. But it turned out the other way around ...

By the beginning of the 131s, the deserved ZIL-90 even for the military turned out to be a morally and technically obsolete machine. The army needed new developments, the top of which were the machines of the Kalam-1 family ...

The tradition of using majestic convertibles in parades has been around for more than half a century. During this time, machines for the celebration have undergone major changes, many of which seem now ...

During the Great Patriotic War, the medical service of the Red Army had a large fleet of vehicles, in which a special place was occupied by ambulance transport. Specialized vehicles for the transport of wounded and ...

The first appearance of Iveco armored vehicles in Russia was in 2009 ....

For several decades now, more than one military parade on Red Square has been complete without open limousines. On the eve of May 9, we recall the main machines of the Victory Day ...

The steam engine was invented in the XNUMXth century by the Dutch physicist Denny Papen. The product was improved in the XVIII century, at the same time a steam wagon of the French engineer Kunho appeared. With time...

A series of Moscow trucks under the index 135 had a considerable variety of variations and forms of execution. One of the first was an experimental floating missile carrier ...

A number of robotic complexes of different classes are already in service with the Russian engineering troops. In the near future, the appearance of new samples with one or another advantage is expected ...

From the point of view of quantity and share, the bulk of the Lend-Lease equipment supplies were automobiles, mainly trucks. Such supplies seriously helped the Red Army and the national economy ...

For decades, the special design bureau of the Likhachev plant has been at the forefront of domestic engineering. One of the most significant achievements of the development team was ...

In 1964, the Minsk Automobile Plant handed over the documentation for the assembly of its four-axis hero in Kurgan. But this was preceded by difficult years of production development on the Belarusian land ...

The Minsk Automobile Plant has become the cradle of several production lines of heavy equipment of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, the production of many models was transferred to third-party factories. I did not escape this ...

In France, there was a Berliet company, whose trucks were in serious competition not only to Renault, but to the world’s grandees of the automotive industry. A landmark car for the company and the French ...

Among the variety of the Soviet military automobile industry, a special place is given to Minsk cars. The description of such a technique is not complete without stamps such as "having no analogues in the world." Firstborn in the Pleiad ...

With the loss in the early 90s of two suppliers of engines, Nizhnekamsk and Kustanai, the Miass plant launched a new family of Motovoz into the series. Under the hood of these army trucks was ...

Machines of the Ural family, originally developed as typically military off-road vehicles in the best traditions of the national engineering school, were in demand everywhere. Number of modifications and ...

Throughout its history, the army "Ural" has been one of the symbols of military equipment of the Soviet, and later the Russian armed forces. The fighting became one of the powerful incentives for further ...

In the thirties, automakers took a course on improving aerodynamics. In our country, the first results of this kind were obtained in 1934 as part of a project called GAZ-A-Aero ...

The traditional harsh appearance of the Ural family machines could have been noticeably ennobled back in the late 70s, when Miass engineers worked on the secret Susha project. However, the project fell victim ...

The installation of a high-speed diesel engine played the most important role in the life of army trucks of the Ural family. Largely for this reason, the famous bonnet cars are produced before ...