The text below presents a free retelling of some paragraphs of the article “Military Pallets, Boxes and Containers” from www.thinkdefence.co.uk and is devoted to the primary elements of military logistics, ...

The market for combat vehicles that are transported inland is growing, as special operations forces and traditional units are looking for a greater range and better ...

Let's say right away that this is not a combat vehicle - this is a simulator. Its creation at the plant began after the chief designer E. Lenzus arrived from another trip to Moscow ....

The experience of using the Volna machine in the military showed that, having a wheel course, on the swampy, sandy and high banks of the river, it very often stalled. And it required considerable skill driver, ...

118 years ago, 29 April 1899, the car for the first time overcame the speed limit 100 kilometers per hour. And it was a car with electric engines. Belgian race driver Kamil Zhenattsi ...

Ferrying troops across water obstacles is one of the most difficult engineering tasks. The famous military engineer A.Z. Telyakovsky wrote in 1856: “Crossings made in the sight of the enemy ...

It is well known that the timely provision of assistance to the wounded reduces the irretrievable loss of troops. For the rapid evacuation of the victim and the provision of first aid to the army doctors it is necessary ...

In the framework of the Army-2015 forum, for the first time, a new army all-terrain and payload vehicle Tornado-U was shown to the general public. Car with on-board module ...

In case the enemy sets up mine-explosive obstacles, the troops need various means to make passages for equipment and infantry. By now, a large ...

17 March 1936 of the year in the Kremlin, the country's leadership saw the first M-1 cars, which became the most massive military car of the pre-war USSR ...

Despite the fact that the emka turned out to be much better than its American prototype, it was adapted for use in Russian conditions, its off-road qualities left much to be desired. Simpler...

In early March, the domestic industry announced the launch of mass production of the newest multi-purpose machine designed for use by the army and security forces. With the power of a few ...

Uazik, or "goat", is, of course, our off-road automobile history. Today it is the only large and real serious car in the country with unique ...

During the Second World War, a large number of various engineering machines and ammunition of various purposes were developed. For some purposes it was proposed to use self-propelled equipment with ...

The development of remote areas of the country is associated with the need for off-road movement and difficult landscapes. To do this, pioneers and professionals working in such difficult conditions need equipment ...

Long before the end of World War II, the American command realized that the existing semi-tracked armored personnel carriers did not meet modern requirements and therefore needed to be replaced. New ...

We have long been accustomed to towing for parking offenders - they can be found on the streets of any city. But the tow truck for the tank - the car is more exotic and is used primarily for ...

During the Second World War, the American army exploited a significant number of armored personnel carriers and artillery tractors of several models. The technique was very popular during this period ...

In 2002, the Swedish army removed the light tanks / tank destroyers Ikv 91 from service. This technique, created in the early seventies, no longer met modern requirements, which is why the military ...

The soldiers of the International Mine Action Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the spring of 2016, cleared the historical and residential part of the Syrian Palmyra. 825 area ha, 79 km of roads and 8507 have been cleared ...

Military vehicles for the most part remained similar to their civilian brethren since their introduction into the First World War. In most armies, they often did not differ from ...

In the foreseeable future, new fire fighting, chemical protection and camouflage complexes will have to come into service with the fire brigade of the Ministry of Defense. Based on the original new ...

One of the tasks of engineering troops on the battlefield is the destruction of enemy barriers and fortifications. With the help of special tools, military engineers must destroy enemy structures, ...

If you delve a little into the history of American tank building, then sooner or later you will come across the marvelous and iridescent name - “Marmon Herrington”. Not to say that very much melodious, but ...

As it turned out, the British army did not always use the services of manufacturers of heavy military equipment to upgrade its fleet of trucks and all-terrain vehicles ....

TTM-1901 “Berkut” is a Russian snowmobile (the name “snowmobile” is also encountered), which is produced by the Transport and Technological Machinery Plant “Transport” from Nizhny Novgorod. It...

Already in the initial stages of the First World War, all participants in the conflict had to face a number of new problems. One of them was wire barriers, distinguished by ease of production ...

The use of cars in Russia dates back to the 1900 year, and from 1910, the Russian-Baltic railcar plant in Riga started producing cars - with a number of parts and special steel grades ...

Soon after the start of the First World War, the leading countries of Europe intensified work on the creation of promising combat vehicles for various purposes. One of the main problems that required urgent ...

Adaptation of weapons and military equipment for civilian use is always of particular interest from one point of view or another. However, some systems such as ...

The first attempts to create promising armored vehicles, undertaken during the First World War, led to very interesting, though useless, results. Without the required experience, ...

It happens that a person who has become attached to a toy as a child, then retains this attachment for life. The Australian engineer and inventor Louis Brennan has such a toy, apparently ...