At IDEF 2015, FNSS (a joint venture between Nurol Holding and BAE Systems) presented the prototype PARS 4x4, a kind of rear-engined machine. The total mass of the floating ...

The Second World War, countless times, showed the potential of mine-explosive barriers and confirmed the need to create special equipment to overcome them. Both during the war and ...

At one time, land mines of various classes, designed to exclude the advance of enemy troops or equipment, became widespread. The logical answer to this was the appearance ...

Someone can almost fairly say that a truck is not really a weapon. Or rather, not a weapon at all. Nowadays it is difficult to imagine an army without thousands of vehicles at the forefront, as well ...

She can climb the almost sheer wall, she is not afraid of off-road, on which KamAZ will sit, she will overcome the puddle where the tank will sink. 42.TUT.BY exclusively tested the newest Belarusian ...

Let's return to the company Renault Trucks Defense. Her platform, Sherpa Light, gave birth to a whole family of cars, which includes the following options: reconnaissance, cargo and cargo, cargo and ...

Nowadays, when armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles seek to migrate to the platforms 6x6 and 8x8, and the trends in increasing the levels of protection of the BTR and the fire power of the BMP contribute to ...

Belarusian industry continues to develop promising defense projects in various fields. Particular attention is paid to the new types of armored vehicles. So, last year ...

Today we have a truly Russian technician on the agenda - sleigh. And not simple, but self-propelled, which are equipped with an internal combustion engine with a pushing propeller. That is, snowmobile. And that's all ...

In 2013, a snapshot of a previously unknown car model from the Great Patriotic War was discovered. We are talking about a very famous army car "Dodge" three-quarters "(WC-51), or rather ...

A characteristic feature of recent local armed conflicts has been the widespread use of improvised explosive devices that pose a danger to patrols or troops on the march. To fight ...

The term “Victory weapon” is usually understood to mean planes, tanks, artillery, sometimes small arms, which have reached Berlin. Less significant developments are mentioned less often, and in fact they too ...

Someone might say that the tractor is not a weapon. But this is how to approach this issue. Of course, in the usual time the tractor is a field worker, but if difficult war times come, the tractor becomes ...

Some lovers to speculate about the history of a lot of talk about the fact that the Red Army did not pay attention to the mechanization of troops, relied on horses. One can agree only in the part where it says that ...

The armed forces of many countries around the world have appreciated the advantages of ISO containers. I offer a selection of photographs of some of the systems created on the basis of such containers and available from the British ...

Classic pallets and intermodal containers are used mainly on the sea and on land. In the air, the ISO container is an extra tonnage of 4. In addition, significantly ...

[b] In this article, we will discuss foreign analogues of the Soviet ferry-bridge machine PMM "Wave". But for the sake of truth, it must be said that the Soviet wave-mast “Wave” was an analogue of the French design ...

The entire course of the Second World War showed that not only weapon systems with excellent characteristics, but also fairly cheap, simple solutions can be effective on the battlefields ....

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 ...