Armored vehicles
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The previous article looked at German tanks in the interwar period. The Soviet Union did not have its own school of tank building, during the First World War in Russia there were only exotic experiments by Lebedenko and Porokhovshchikov to create a tank, which did not lead to anything. Russia also did not have its own
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The previous article reviewed the first light and amphibious Soviet tanks developed in the interwar period. Developed on the basis of the French FT17 tank during the First World War, the Soviet light tanks "Russian Renault" and T-18 (MS-1) in the second half of the 20s began to seriously lag behind
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In the interwar period, light, medium, infantry and cavalry tanks were developed and produced in England. Light tanks were represented by Mk.VI with light armor and machine gun armament, medium - Medium Mk.II with light armor and a 47-mm cannon, cavalry - Mk.II, Mk.III, Mk.IV
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The history of Soviet tank building in the pre-war and war years had both serious achievements and impressive failures. At the first stage of the war, with the appearance of the T-34, the Germans had to catch up with us and create samples of tanks and anti-tank artillery that could withstand the threats posed by
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The tank is a universal combat vehicle of the battlefield and is designed to conduct both independent actions to develop breakthroughs in enemy defense, operations for operational and strategic encirclement and defeat of enemy military groupings and actions in its rear, and for use in
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The development and testing of the new Armata tank is being delayed for various reasons. There is no tank in the troops yet, in this regard, some exotic ways are beginning to be proposed to speed up the issue of introducing a tank into the troops. One of these methods is the publication, in which, due to possible problems
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Photo: Vitaly Kuzmin Something incomprehensible has been happening with the promising Russian Armata tank recently, there are no promised supplies to the troops, references to the lack of funds to finance this program look unconvincing. Enough time has passed since 2015, but the tank has not
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The creation of a robotic tank (RT) has always worried the minds of tank builders, such an opportunity was also considered when developing the last Soviet tank "Boxer / Hammer", but the collapse of the Union made such projects to be forgotten for a long time
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The desire to put a more powerful gun on a tank has always been: along with protection and mobility, firepower is one of the main characteristics of a tank. From the history of the development of tanks, it is known that with each new generation, the caliber of the gun increased more and more. Western tanks today have
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In the second half of the 1920s, the Red Army was armed only with light tanks "Russian Renault", developed on the basis of the French FT17 and its further development, the light tank T-18 (MS-1) "small escort" plant "Bolshevik". At the end of the 20s
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On the night of July 12, offensive operations near Prokhorovka practically ceased. The parties began to gain a foothold on the achieved lines. After so many years, many versions have been put forward about the victory or defeat of our troops in this battle. For such an assessment, not all documents were promptly opened and
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In the previous materials, the types and characteristics of tanks developed by Germany, the USSR, England, France and the United States in the interwar period were considered. France and England, based on the experience of using tanks in the First World War, adhered to a defensive concept, providing for the suspension
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Recently I came across an article by Kirill Ryabov on the website "Voennoye Obozreniye" "The promising tank" Object 477A1 ": reality versus dreams" with links to the materials of a certain "expert" named Sergei Zgurets. I was amazed at the illiterate and ridiculous assumptions about the history of the creation of this tank, oh
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The development of the last promising Soviet tank "Boxer" has always been of interest to many, since in Soviet times this work was seriously classified. Little is known about her. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, everything remained in Ukraine. The groundwork for the tank was not transferred anywhere, while a lot of different
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On the Ukrainian Internet resource "Apostrophe" there was an interview with the director of the Kharkov plant. Malysheva "Will there be a" tank of the future "in Ukraine: what kind of combat vehicles are being created for the army", as if revealing the state and prospects of Ukrainian tank building. The interview talks about
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The article "Object 490" has been published on the site. The USSR could create the most powerful tank in the world. " I read the article and was surprised: how could this be written? Morozov in the 80s, a two-turret tank with two engines and four tracks was developed and
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In the development of tanks, the main attention was always paid to its creation as an independent combat unit, and for the interaction of a tank as part of a unit, except for a radio station, practically nothing was laid
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The American edition of The National Interest, in an article posted in January 2019, rated the Russian T-90S tank as "deadly" due to the fact that it combined the best developments implemented in the Soviet T-72 and T-80, and became one of the best examples of value for money
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A few days ago, the Russian Ministry of Defense published extremely interesting news. From Laos, 30 T-34-85 medium tanks, taken from the service of this Asian state, arrived in our country. This means that another country still abandoned armored combat vehicles created back in
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Since the mid-1930s, the German military, in accordance with the concept of warfare adopted by them ("blitzkrieg"), when determining the requirements for the development of tanks, the main emphasis was not on the firepower of the tank, but on its maneuverability in order to ensure deep breakthroughs, encirclement and destruction
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Since 2017, Israeli defense enterprises and the military department have regularly reported on the progress of the promising Carmel project. It is part of the larger RACIA program and is intended to test fundamentally new ideas and solutions in the field of ground armored vehicles. Until recently
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As part of the creation and development of equipment for the airborne troops, a new modification of the Sprut-SD self-propelled anti-tank gun was developed. By now, the updated machine called "Sprut-SDM1" has entered trials and is undergoing all the necessary checks. For the foreseeable future, this
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Ground anti-aircraft missile-gun system Pantsir, intended for the UAE army, the article provides an overview of the current state of affairs in the market for 20-57 mm guns, corresponding ammunition and gun mounts
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Everyone wants the truth on their side, but not everyone wants to be on the side of the truth. - Richard Watley Contrary to popular adage, the truth never lies in the middle. Under the pressure of irrefutable evidence, it shifts in favor of one point of view or another, often dissolving somewhere in the fourth
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Continuing the "Top 10" rating from the Discovery Channel, I would like to draw your attention to one more amusing selection. This time the experts' attention was paid to "Armored Personal Carriers" - a general designation for all types of armored vehicles intended for the transport of personnel. Into the overview
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Constant attempts to bury the idea of a tank do not find their realization. Despite the rapid evolution of anti-tank weapons, there is still no more reliable means of covering soldiers than heavy armored vehicles
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A loaded tank is not looked down the barrel of the Lords of the battlefield … Since their first triumph in 1916, hundreds of thousands of armored tracked vehicles have blazed their deadly path on the battlefields. Today it is impossible to imagine any military conflict without the participation of tanks - despite the continuous progress
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The main road is the one on which the tank goes. 5th place - Centurion Medium tank. Combat weight - 48 tons. Frontal armor thickness: 76 mm, rational angles of inclination of the sheets. Turret armor: from 165 mm to 200 mm (gun mantlet). Armament: 83 mm rifled gun, 2 machine guns. Engine power 640 HP Speed
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The spirit of the tankman is stronger than steel! The rest is all bullshit! Comrade Stalin taught us that our armor is strong! Armored tracked vehicles have always occupied a special place in Soviet society. Tanks in the USSR knew how to make, and they were proud of them. Nimble and agile "fast carts" BT, chasing samurai at
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The previous article on the prospects of a heavy armored vehicle caused a heated discussion among the readers of the Voennoye Obozreniye portal: a lot of interesting opinions, questions and suggestions were voiced in the heated dispute. I thank everyone who took part in the discussion of this important and interesting topic about
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“BMD-4 is a version of BMP-3, no protection, again everything is on top, but it costs more than a tank. We haven’t looked at this machine, and we are not looking at it”Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation General of the Army N.Ye. Makarov What happened and what they came to
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In December 2011, a citizen of Ukraine Serhiy Serkov got into big trouble - his too, so to speak, frivolous treatment of a Singapore Airlines flight attendant ended in a trial and public beating with bamboo sticks. Serious article "Insult to the dignity of a citizen
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Private Rezun! I order you to take a seat at the anti-tank gun. You will take the place of the third number. - What? - Rezun was surprised, peering into the face of the captain standing in front of him, blackened with soot. He did not immediately understand where he was. Instead of the walls of a London mansion, an aspen grove hummed around
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The phrase "to win by filling up with corpses" was invented by idiots. You cannot win a war by throwing poorly armed soldiers to the slaughter. So you can only lose. In military history, there are no examples when "cheap and massive", that is, weak and flawed, weapons could successfully withstand an ultimatum combat
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In a previous article, the author described the measures taken by the German military and industrial leadership to stop the threats posed by the T-34 - a tank with anti-cannon armor and a powerful 76.2 mm cannon. It can be said with good reason that at the beginning of 1942 the Germans did not have a single
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The collision with the latest Soviet tanks forced the Germans to radically revise their tank building programs. As you know, the largest tank that the Wehrmacht had at the beginning of World War II was the T-IV modification F (not to be confused with the F2!) Weighing only 22.3 tons, and
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This article will examine some aspects of the combat potential of the German T-V "Panther" tanks. About armor protection As you know, German medium tanks during the war years received differential booking. On the battlefields, it quickly became clear that the 30mm armor was completely
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In the interwar period in the United States, the main emphasis was on the development of light tanks, and only from the mid-30s did they begin to pay serious attention to the development of medium tanks. However, by the beginning of the war, the US Army did not have a fleet of light and medium tanks of the appropriate level. A total of 844 were produced
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Decree of the State Defense Committee No. 4043ss of September 4, 1943 ordered the Experimental Plant No. 100 in Chelyabinsk, together with the technical department of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army, until November 1, 1943, to design, manufacture and test the IS-152 self-propelled gun based on
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ISU-152 of 1945 (Object 704) is an experimental Soviet heavy self-propelled artillery installation (ACS) during the Great Patriotic War. In the name of the vehicle, the abbreviation ISU means “self-propelled unit based on the IS tank” or “IS-installation”, and the index 152 - the caliber of the vehicle's main armament