Armored vehicles
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The T-44M tank was a modernized T-44 tank produced in 1944-1947, developed at the design bureau of plant No. 183 in Nizhny Tagil under the leadership of chief designer A.A. Morozov in July 1944. The machine was adopted by the Red Army by GKO decree No. 6997 of November 23, 1944 and
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For many years, having been researching the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, I periodically come across questions about how many armored vehicles were there in the USSR on June 22, 1941? How many tanks were in the mechanized corps of the border military districts on the eve of the attack by Germany and her
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Tank T-34-85 mod. 1960 was an improved T-34-85 mod. 1944 during the Great Patriotic War, developed in the design bureau of the plant No. 112 "Krasnoe Sormovo" in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) under the leadership of the chief designer of the plant V.V. Krylov in January 1944. Technical
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1. "Who is to blame for this?" "What to do?", That is, if there is a way to catch up and overtake the vigilant foe? "The enterprises of the military-industrial complex are to blame!" - there will be an overwhelming answer, which is fair
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The name implies that we will talk about armored vehicles and tanks at the same time, and this is true, because there is no other way to tell about armored ground vehicles. Unlike other warring countries, Italy had little equipment, less than others. But that doesn’t mean she’s not
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Tank "Little Willie" How do people make inventions? It's very simple: everyone looks at some kind of blatant absurdity, but they believe that it should be so. There is one person who sees that this is absurdity and offers to correct it. This is what happened to the British Colonel Ernst
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As you know, any PR implies a demonstration of success. For this, the Romans kept mercenaries-Klibanarii, who captivated the audience with the glitter of armor, in which they were dressed from head to toe and therefore were called that ("klibanus" - an oven for baking bread). The Germans chased their soldiers
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Tanks are armor. It doesn't matter what - thick or thin, but the armor. Tanks are just iron - not tanks! However, it was also the case that they were made from scrap materials of the most diverse properties and were still called tanks. And sometimes these strange machines were even in service. Plywood
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It is known from the course of cultural studies that every phenomenon, including in the field of technology, goes through five (yes, as many as five!) Stages in its development. The first is inception, when no one is still seriously looking at the subject. The second is when a phenomenon or object is already sufficiently known, but
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Apparently, the T-34 and KV tanks were the first samples of Soviet armored vehicles that the Americans were able to familiarize themselves with in detail. As part of the allied relationship, combat vehicles were sent to the United States for review and testing in the fall of 1942. The tanks arrived at the Aberdeen Proving Ground (state
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In the 80s, not only the Air Force, but the US Army were interested in studying Soviet military equipment, methods and tactics of its use. And also the training of their ground units against the enemy, using Soviet combat manuals and tactics of warfare
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In August 1930, at the exercises of the Red Army Air Force near Voronezh, for the first time in our country, a parachute drop of a landing unit of 12 people was carried out. The experience was recognized as successful, and in 1931 in the Leningrad Military District, on the basis of the 11th Infantry Division, the first aviation
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The termination of the serial production of the BMD-3 in 1997 did not mean the curtailment of work on improving airborne armored vehicles. To increase the combat potential, even at the design stage of the BMD-3, the option of installing a tower with a complex of weapons from the BMP-3 was envisaged. To this topic
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In the second half of the 70s, it was possible to accumulate a certain experience in the operation of airborne combat vehicles. The strengths of the amphibious "aluminum tanks" were considered: relatively low weight, which made it possible to use landing platforms and dome systems for parachute dropping
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This year marks 50 years since the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle was adopted by the Soviet Army in 1966. In terms of its characteristics: mobility, security and firepower, the new vehicle significantly surpassed the armored personnel carriers previously used for
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The fate of certain types of military equipment, like the fate of people, is often unpredictable. Someone dies in the first battle, someone pulls the strap of routine service in a distant garrison and retires by length of service. But some have trials and adventures that are more than enough for ten
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Captured anti-tank artillery in the German Armed Forces. After the surrender of Belgium, the Netherlands and France in June 1940, the German army ended up with numerous trophies, among which there were thousands of guns suitable for fighting tanks. British Expeditionary Force during the evacuation from
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Captured anti-tank artillery in the German Armed Forces. During the hostilities against the USSR, German troops captured several thousand artillery pieces suitable for fighting tanks. Most of the trophies were received in 1941-1942, when the Soviet troops fought heavy defensive battles. 45 mm
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As you know, during the Second World War, it was specialized anti-tank artillery that inflicted the greatest losses on armored vehicles. Although the saturation of troops with anti-tank guns and their armor penetration was constantly increasing, in the armies of most belligerent states until the end of
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During the fighting on the Korean Peninsula, Chinese people's volunteers often encountered American and British-made armored vehicles. Based on the experience of using existing anti-tank weapons, the PLA command came to the conclusion that further
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At the end of the 20th century, the Chinese infantry had anti-tank weapons at their disposal that could successfully withstand tanks of the first post-war generation, which were not equipped with reactive armor. Chinese hand and rocket-propelled grenades were quite able to penetrate in favorable conditions
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Why did the T-34 lose to the PzKpfw III, but beat the Tigers and Panthers? In the previous articles of the series, we analyzed the technical features of the T-34 release in 1942, as well as the staffs of tank units and formations, along with some nuances of the combat use of domestic armored vehicles
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According to the mobilization plan adopted on 03/01/1939, Germany entered World War II with an active army, which consisted of 103 field formations of troops. This number included four light and motorized infantry, as well as five tank divisions. In fact, only they had armored vehicles. Their
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The T-34 tank is considered the most famous Soviet tank and one of the most recognizable symbols of World War II. This medium tank is rightly called one of the symbols of victory. The T-34 became the most massive medium tank of the Great Patriotic War, it was recognized by many experts as the best tank
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The Second World War showed the world a huge number of different tanks, some of them went down in history forever, creating a real historical and cultural code, familiar to almost everyone. Tanks such as the Soviet T-34 medium tank, the German Tiger heavy tank or the American medium tank
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Little-known tanks of the Second World War include the German light reconnaissance tank "Lynx" (full name Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf. L "Luchs"). It was mass-produced in Germany in 1942-1943. Despite the initial order for 800 tanks, the MAN and
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Work on the creation of various multi-turret tanks was characteristic of the Soviet tank school in the second half of the 1930s. One of the most famous and recognizable multi-turret tanks, of course, was the T-35 heavy tank, which was even produced in a small series. But he was far from
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In the late 1960s, the French military decided to get a heavy combat reconnaissance vehicle that could be successfully used in a combat situation, even if it encountered enemy tanks. In fact, we were talking about a full-fledged wheeled tank with appropriate weapons. Of course, to that
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The French "cavalry" tank Somua S35 can be attributed to not the most famous tanks of the Second World War period. Although it was produced in a fairly large series (427 tanks), its active use in combat for natural reasons was extremely limited. Considered the most
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Of course, the American MTLS-1G14 tank, with which a very limited number of people are familiar, can certainly be attributed to the little-known tanks of the Second World War. At the same time, this tank was built in a relatively large series of 125 combat vehicles, which is more than the number of many small-scale
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Concluding the story about the little-known tanks of the Second World War, it is worth talking about the Italian P26 / 40 tank, which was supposed to occupy the same niche in the Italian armed forces as the T-34 in the Red Army. The history of this tank is interesting at least because work on it began back in 1940
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Within the framework of the IDEX-2019 international forum of the defense industry held in Abu Dhabi, a giant Belarusian road train-tank carrier with a carrying capacity of up to 136 tons was shown. At an exhibition in the UAE, the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant presented a three-link model of a road train: an all-wheel drive tractor MZKT-741351 with
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For most of us, Switzerland is primarily associated with banks and the financial system, cheese and watches. Most of the associations are absolutely peaceful, even the famous Swiss knife is a purely practical invention. And the country itself, which has achieved a high standard of living for its citizens
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Written in 1938, the march of Soviet tankmen, which sounded in the pre-war feature film "Tractor Drivers", forever entered Russian life and culture. The line opening the march "The armor is strong and our tanks are fast" became winged and popularly known. This catch phrase has not lost
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Britain, being the birthplace of tanks, for many years produced armored vehicles that could not be called outstanding. Dominating the sea and creating excellent warships, Great Britain in the interwar period and during the Second World War used very specific tanks and armored personnel carriers, with
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Wheeled tanks are now in the arsenal of the armies of many countries. The most famous and one of the most powerful is the Italian Centauro, armed with a 120mm cannon. At the same time, wheeled armored vehicles with a tank-caliber cannon as the main armament are in South Africa, the USA, China, and France. Precisely France
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The love of the German military for assigning the names of animals to armored vehicles, especially representatives of the cat family, did not disappear anywhere after the end of World War II. In 1975, the Bundeswehr adopted a new wheeled combat reconnaissance vehicle, which received the designation SpPz 2
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At the very end of the war, in February 1945, in the design bureau of plant No. 100, whose branch at that time was located in Leningrad, work began on the project of a new heavy tank, which was to become a development of the IS-6 project. By June, a detailed draft design of the future combat was ready
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The golden era of wheeled armored vehicles fell on the 1930-1940s, during that period wheeled armored vehicles were actively designed and built in many countries of the world. These countries included France, which was then still a major European colonial power. Traditions of creation and production
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In the late 1980s, German factories were completing the Leopard 2 A4 main battle tanks ordered by the Bundeswehr, but practical Germans were already thinking about the further development of tank technology, the need for tanks in the future and their intended appearance. Several