Armored vehicles

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For a long period of time, Soviet military developments in the 1980s in the field of tank building remained a secret behind seven seals. Only in our days, already in the XXI century, this veil of secrecy is gradually disappearing, and we begin to learn about what amazing projects of combat vehicles

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By the time the Second World War began and up to the German attack on the USSR, the Red Army had only one light armored car - the morally obsolete BA-20 with a 4x2 wheel arrangement. By that time, the Wehrmacht, on the contrary, had traveled almost all of Europe on its wheeled

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In 1985, the BMD-2 (airborne assault vehicle) was adopted by the Soviet Army, which replaced the BMD-1. This tracked amphibious combat vehicle is intended for use as part of the airborne forces and can be parachuted both by landing and parachute with

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If you doubted the existence of real luxury armored vehicles, you can rest assured that they exist. These include the T-98 "Kombat" model - an armored SUV developed in Russia and intended for the transportation of VIPs, including in the combat zone. The car was

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In 1966, a revolutionary combat vehicle, the BMP-1, was born in the Soviet Union. This tracked infantry fighting vehicle was distinguished by the presence of a fairly powerful armament, consisting of a 73-mm smooth-bore gun 2A28 "Thunder", paired with a 7.62-mm PKT machine gun, and an ATGM "Baby". This complex

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At the IDEX-2019 international defense and industrial exhibition held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) in February, the Serbian state defense company Yugoimport SDPR first showed the general public a new tactical (anti-tank) missile system, designated RALAS. This complex

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At the international defense industrial exhibition IDEX-2019, which was held from February 17 to 21 in Abu Dhabi (UAE), the military-industrial group Paramount Group from South Africa presented its new product - the Mbombe 4 MRAP armored vehicle with a 4x4 wheel arrangement. The novelty is positioned by South African

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At the international defense industrial exhibition IDEX-2019, which was held from 17 to 21 February 2019 in Abu Dhabi (UAE), a new armored vehicle from the Nimr armored vehicle family was demonstrated. We are talking about the Ajban Nimr 447A MRAV (Multi-Role Armored Vehicle) armored vehicle with a wheel

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Today South Africa is classified as a country with a developed defense industry. The South African military-industrial complex has achieved significant success in the development of wheeled armored vehicles for various purposes. Both light armored vehicles and multi-wheeled MRAPs, as well as

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Great Britain is a conservative country, the leadership of which has always been adept at counting money. Currently, the army of Foggy Albion is armed with the only tracked infantry fighting vehicle - BMP "Warrior". Serial production of this BMP began in 1985, and in 1987, combat

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The phrase "Hungarian tank building" in itself evokes a smile today. In fairness, it should be noted that in the 1940s, not many European countries could afford to produce tanks. Despite all attempts, Hungarian designers failed to create competitive combat

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Currently, the BMP-3 is the most advanced infantry fighting vehicle in service with the Russian army. Officially put into service in 1987, the combat vehicle still has the potential for modernization and in the future will serve the military for more than a decade. Today

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"Combat buses". Currently, in almost all armies of the world, armored personnel carriers are the most common type of armored vehicles. This is not surprising, modern armored personnel carriers are distinguished by their relative simplicity of design and low cost, in comparison with BMPs and even more basic

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Combat buses. Having offered the world the first armored personnel carrier developed at the end of the First World War on the basis of the Mark V tank, the British designers, joining forces with the Canadians, tried to repeat their trick at a new technological level already during the Second World War. In 1944 the allies

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"Combat buses". By the time World War II broke out, the English view of armored personnel carriers had undergone major changes. If the first armored personnel carrier in history, created in Great Britain at the end of the First World War, was distinguished by monstrous dimensions and was a remake of the first diamond-shaped

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In recent years, Russia has created a large number of uninhabited combat modules: "Crossbow", "Boomerang-BM", AU-220M "Baikal", "Epoch", etc. The new Russian main battle tank "Armata" received an uninhabited tower with the main weapon system. Despite the fact that uninhabited combat modules

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"Combat buses". Before the start of World War II, Sweden favorably stood out among all the Scandinavian countries with a developed industry, which made it possible to create very complex military products, including tanks. It is not surprising that using your neutral status

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"Combat buses". German half-track armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251 is the most recognizable armored personnel carrier of World War II, although more American M3 half-track armored personnel carriers were produced during the war years. The Sd.Kfz. Combat vehicle created by German designers. 251 throughout

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"Combat buses". The most massive armored personnel carrier of the Second World War is not the German "Hanomag", which, in fact, became the first full-fledged ancestor of the genre, launched into mass production just before the outbreak of the war, but the American M3 armored personnel carrier. Like its German counterpart, the American

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"Combat buses". The first Soviet armored personnel carrier, which was put into mass production, appeared in the country after the end of the Great Patriotic War. The designers of the GAZ automobile plant began to develop the car, which already in 1948 were able to present the military with a light

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For many Russians, KIA Motors is associated with Korean passenger cars. But the Seoul-based company produces not only the best-seller of the Russian automotive market - budget cars KIA Rio, but also automotive equipment for the armed forces. Beyond trucks and army vehicles

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"Combat buses". Armored personnel carriers are rightfully called "battle buses". But most of all, this definition fits one of the first Soviet production vehicles of this class. We are talking about a heavy armored personnel carrier BTR-152, which was launched into mass production in 1950, together with

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"Combat buses". The BTR-50P armored personnel carrier has become in many ways a unique combat vehicle. In addition to the fact that it was the first domestic tracked armored personnel carrier, the BTR-50 was also floating. Here his pedigree was fully reflected. This model was created on the basis of a light amphibious tank

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BTR M113A3 of the American army on exercises in Germany, 2015 "Combat buses". The American M113 armored personnel carrier became the most massive armored personnel carrier in history. The tracked combat vehicle, adopted in 1960, is still used in the armies of many countries. In this case, the structure turned out to be

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"Combat buses". The most famous armored personnel carrier of the eastern bloc is rightfully considered the OT-64 SKOT. This combat vehicle represented its own view of the wheeled armored personnel carrier of socialist Czechoslovakia and Poland. At the same time, most of the military equipment in service with the armies of the countries

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BTR-60PA on Red Square Developed in 1956-1959, the BTR-60P became the progenitor of numerous combat vehicles built on its basis, as well as further

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Combat buses. If today there was a competition for the most terrible armored car in history, then Buffel, created by South African designers, would definitely compete in it for first place. Formally, this "Buffalo" from South Africa belongs to the MRAP class - armored wheeled vehicles with

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APC TPz 1 Fuchs The German love to call armored vehicles by the names of various animals did not disappear even after the end of the Second World War. It was in the post-war period that Leopard tanks, Lynx reconnaissance vehicles, and Fox armored personnel carriers were in the service of the Bundeswehr. The last

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Combat buses. The idea of creating an armored personnel carrier based on a tank is not new. The first such machines were created during the Second World War. Great Britain and Canada created makeshift armored personnel carriers using Sexton self-propelled guns, Ram and Sherman tanks as chassis. In the 1980s to a similar idea

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BMR M1 of the Spanish army Combat buses. Today Spain has a fairly large arsenal of armored vehicles in comparison with other European countries. The Spanish army is armed with more than 330 tanks "Leopard 2", this is more than in Germany itself, 84 wheeled tanks "Centauro"

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Elements of the Israeli KAZ Iron Fist In recent years, Israel has been very actively working to increase the survivability of armored vehicles on the battlefield, including through the creation of active protection systems (KAZ). Great success in this area has been achieved by engineers of the Israeli defense company Elbit Systems

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A Stryker armored personnel carrier in Mosul, Iraq. 2005 Combat buses. For several decades, the M113 tracked armored personnel carrier remained the main armored personnel carrier of the American army. The car was produced in various versions in a huge series, numbering more than 80 thousand units produced. Take off completely

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Combat buses. After the peaceful collapse of Czechoslovakia, two states appeared on the map of Europe on January 1, 1993: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The countries inherited weapons inherited from Czechoslovakia, including Soviet-made ones. At the same time, the industrial and military potential of the countries was different

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Combat buses. The Chinese love of copying foreign military equipment is well known. And if we are not talking about direct copying, then at least about our own understanding of the concept. So, many Western experts considered that the WZ-551 wheeled armored personnel carrier with a 6x6 wheel arrangement is

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Tank destroyer MOWAG Taifun Such anti-tank self-propelled guns were massively used by Hitler's Germany, as well as the USSR, where such successful machines as the SU-85 and SU-100 were created. After

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Combat buses. Israel is anxious about the life and health of its military. The country, which is located in the ring of unfriendly Arab states, cannot afford to waste trained servicemen, the most expensive and limited resource for Tel Aviv. It is no coincidence that in

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CM-32 Clouded Leopard Combat buses. Taiwan, which is separated from mainland China by the Taiwan Strait up to 150 kilometers wide, became the last refuge of the Kuomintang government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who lost the civil war in China, took refuge on an island that today

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The Second World War, which became the first real war of engines, gave the world a huge number of new weapons. Tanks, which began to play an increasing role on the battlefield, turning into the main striking force of the ground forces, broke through the enemy's field defenses, destroyed the rear, closed

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Render of the T-74 tank ("Object 450"), source: ussrbase.narod.ru The famous Soviet tank designer Alexander Morozov, who is one of the creators of the T-34 medium tank, back in the 1970s, proposed his own project of the main battle tank, which, according to all its characteristics should have

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BTR-4MV1 with combat module "Parus" Combat buses. In the early 2000s, work began in Ukraine on the creation of a new armored personnel carrier, which was supposed to surpass all the vehicles of the Soviet period, which were inherited in massive quantities after the collapse of the USSR to the former Soviet republics. Work on a new armored personnel carrier