Armored vehicles
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Mobile and inexpensive In 1957, the General Staff of the French Army (l'Etat-Major de l'Armée, EMA) expressed a desire to purchase a wheeled armored personnel carrier with protection against nuclear weapons, which has the mobility of a GBC truck and is inexpensive. his
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The super-heavy tank "Mouse" was a tracked combat vehicle with powerful artillery weapons. The crew consisted of six people - a tank commander, a gun commander, two loaders, a driver and a radio operator. The body of the vehicle was divided by transverse partitions into four compartments: control
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It would be interesting to go back almost 40 years ago, to understand how our technology was assessed then and to compare the attitude of the West towards the Soviet Union with its attitude towards modern Russia, at least on the example of discussing Soviet tanks. test drive
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The design and manufacture of armored combat vehicles is challenging. The world knows many examples of unrealized and closed programs, when countries bite off more than they can swallow. Many countries are striving to produce their own platforms, and there is significant
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Demand for transportable and portable anti-tank systems grew last year and continued to grow in 2019, with many countries ordering a wide variety of systems. Among the highest priority areas of development are ammunition and reducing the mass of launchers, since the efforts of the developers
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The ability to maneuver and fight at night is one of the capabilities that distinguishes a truly modern army from a technically backward one. Equipping armored vehicles with night vision capabilities means that the most powerful mobile weapons systems can be used, maybe
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The ground forces of European countries are constantly exploring new ways to improve their fleets of armored vehicles in order to ensure the ability of these platforms to withstand obvious threats across the continent, whether it is buying additional new vehicles, replacing existing fleets or
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The British BMP Warrior, equipped with Soucy rubber tracks, is undergoing intensive testing with the aim of confirming the concept of using them on armored vehicles of the middle category by mass
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While the basics of tank ammunition have been known and understood for many decades, the military is currently facing the challenge of improving and improving this technology in order to meet today's conditions of combat use
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The main tank of the Chinese army ZTZ99A produced by the state concern Norinco The willingness to master solid budgets and the development of operational strategies, stimulated by global and regional geopolitical shifts, contribute to the formation of a thriving market for armored vehicles in
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After the cancellation of the contract with Spain for 348 Piranha V vehicles, Denmark and Romania remain the only operators of this platform
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Having considered the advantages and disadvantages of the T-34 pre-war production and the first war years, we expectedly came to the following: the "thirty-four" was a tank with a very powerful and effective for its time tank cannon and anti-cannon armor, which, although it did not guarantee absolute
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In a previous article on the structure of the Red Army armored forces in the 30s and immediately before the war, the author, of course, could not omit one extremely controversial decision of the leadership of the Red Army and the country, which to this day causes a lot of negativity among history lovers discussing it
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In the article "Pre-war structure of the Red Army armored forces" we stopped at the formation of pre-war tank corps, which before the start of the war were gigantic formations, the basis of which was 2 tank and motorized divisions, plus reinforcement and command units. Established
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In the previous article, we examined the general prerequisites for the defeats of the Red Army in the battles of 1941, and now we will try to assess the impact of the design, performance characteristics, and the production culture of the T-34 tank, which developed in the pre-war and early war years, on the unsuccessful actions of tank forces. , about what
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As you know, in the USSR, the T-34 was unambiguously considered the best tank of the Second World War. However, later, with the collapse of the Land of the Soviets, this point of view was revised, and the debate about what place the famous "thirty-fours" actually occupied in the tank hierarchy of the world of those years do not subside and
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First, let's work on the mistakes of the previous article. In it, the author argued that before the war the USSR mastered the production of turning-boring machines capable of processing large-diameter tank shoulder straps, while the first machines with a faceplate diameter of 2000 mm were produced in 1937 Alas, this (at least
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Why did the T-34 lose to the PzKpfw III, but beat the Tigers and Panthers? In 1941, the "thirty-four" has an ultimatum-powerful armor and cannon in comparison with any armored vehicles of Nazi Germany. However, these advantages were largely counterbalanced by the well-known
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Why did the T-34 lose to the PzKpfw III, but beat the Tigers and Panthers? Studying the statistics of losses of armored vehicles of Germany and the USSR in the Great Patriotic War, we see that it is absolutely impossible to compare it "head-on", since the concept of "irrecoverable losses" both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht understood
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Why did the T-34 lose to the PzKpfw III, but beat the Tigers and Panthers? So, we stopped at the fact that by the beginning of 1943: 1. The Soviet industry mastered the mass production of the T-34 - it began to be produced at all 5 factories, where it was produced during the war years. It
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In this article, we will consider some of the features of the organization of domestic tank forces in the pre-war period. Initially, this material was conceived as a continuation of the cycle "Why did the T-34 lose to the PzKpfw III, but beat the" Tigers "and" Panthers "", which would illustrate the changes
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In previous articles, we examined in detail the pre-war history of the formation of large formations of tank forces of the Red Army, as well as the reasons why in August 1941 our army was forced to "roll back" to the brigade level
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Unfortunately, the last article did not "fit" material about the means of monitoring the situation, which provided the T-34, so let's start with it. I must say that the T-34 pre-war production and production of the first war years is often (and absolutely deservedly) reproached in the absence of a commander's cupola
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The Russian-Italian joint venture (JV) plans to produce a pilot batch of light armored vehicles LMV M65 "Lynx" in 2011. This was announced on the air of the Vesti-24 TV channel by the head of KAMAZ, Sergei Kogogin. The armored vehicle will be created on a parity basis by the Russian
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Today, many "experts" (primarily foreign), and some real experts, call the medium tank "Sherman" the best combat vehicle of the Second World War, putting it ahead of the Soviet "thirty-four". This is, of course, a matter of taste, that is, absolutely controversial. Argue which tank was better
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Finally, our eyes were opened to simple truths that for some reason had not been revealed before. And the eyes were not opened, and the truths were hidden in darkness. Maybe from a lack of education, or maybe from some unknown disease of these very eyes. It is not so important, in principle, it is important that among the Russian media
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Defenseless Europe? The attitude of Western European countries towards defense was not criticized only by the lazy. There are reasons for this. Suffice it to recall the "strange" savings of the British on catapults for their new aircraft carriers "Queen Elizabeth" or, for example, the recent rumors that the second of these ships
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First, I would like to touch on why the question of such modernization arose at all. There is a crisis in modern tank building, which, when trying to resolve it by standard means, raises the question of the future of the tank as an independent combat unit. What are the problems with
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In various books and TV shows, I constantly came across the assessment of the Panther as one of the best tanks of the Second World War. And in the program on the National Geographic channel, it was generally called the absolutely best tank, a tank that was "ahead of its time."
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In 1927, a group of designers assembled at the Kharkov steam locomotive plant was tasked with developing a maneuverable T-12 tank. Since this year, "Kharkov Design Bureau for Mechanical Engineering named after A. Morozov”(KMDB) and counts its history. Later, under the leadership of the main
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Tests of the Royal Tiger in Kubinka The heavy tank Pz Kpfw Tiger Ausf B (according to the unified designation system adopted by the Germans, it was also called Sd Kfz 182 - "special combat vehicle type 182") was developed at the Henschel company under the leadership of its chief designer Erwin Anders
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On the uselessness of heavy armored personnel carriers When discussing heavy armored personnel carriers, such as the Israeli "Azharit" or "Namer", usually the argument develops in the plane of their need. Moreover, it develops in a style that is rather aggressive towards opponents. I'll go from the other side and
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After analyzing similar articles on "VO" over the past couple of years, I came to a strange conclusion. For some reason, a discussion on the topic "The best heavy tank of the Second World War" pours out into a discussion, and a comparison, like the one we will touch on, into a holivar. Nevertheless, I "hooked" an article that I reposted on my site
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The farther from the war, the farther from the USSR, the more noticeable is the advantage of Soviet knowledge over Russian. Those who graduated from Soviet schools and universities, over those who studied in all these newfangled educational programs, licked up from their Western counterparts. Knowledge versus computer. Real facts versus
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The one who does nothing is not mistaken (folk wisdom) It is not shameful not to know anything. (D. Diderot) A necessary preface This section, like the above epigraphs, is not the author's desire to get into great literature, but everything only the need to define some initial
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Congratulations are received at the UMMC Museum of Military Equipment, which is located in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Region. A new exhibit has appeared on the museum site - the KV-1S tank. The tank left the assembly line in August 1942 and went to the front during the Battle of Stalingrad. Her "century" did not last long: in Chelyabinsk
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Photo: kyma.com Since last year, the US has been testing a prototype M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle with a redesigned chassis. The standard torsion bar suspension was replaced by a hydropneumatic system with different characteristics and capabilities. The aim of the current tests is to collect data that
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The campaign for the advancement of the promising Russian Armata tank into the troops has recently taken an unexpected turn. Statement by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov at the end of July ("… why flood all the armed forces with Armata, our T-72 is in great demand on the market, everyone takes it …")
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The prototypes of the Boxer, manufactured in 1987, looked more impressive compared to the T-64. The tank was about 0.3 m higher, a powerful cannon above the turret and a high hull with combined armor inspired some respect for it. In appearance, he was more formidable in comparison with
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The implementation of projects for the development of promising tanks is always of interest, since at the same time an attempt is made to apply original technical solutions that allow to get a break from the existing generation of tanks. Promising tanks were developed in the 80s before the collapse of the Union and then