Armored vehicles 2024, November

The IS-4 heavy tank is the last of the "Stalinist" kind. Long before the end of the Great Patriotic War, the teams of several design bureaus were developing a promising heavy tank "for the final stage of the war and for the subsequent time." Among them was the KB of the Kirov plant, which

The fact that Russia has long been in need of updating practically any type of weapons is an obvious fact. The country's defense spending has been increasing from year to year. And now from the officials of the Ministry of Defense in the media there is information that in the near future, modernization awaits domestic

The FV214 Conqueror Heavy Gun Tank is the last British heavy tank. The rapid development of tanks in the interwar period of the last century gave rise to many concepts for their use, and many different classifications, but the outbreak of World War II caused a phenomenal pace of development of both ideas and

In recent years, in discussing the situation that has developed in Russian tank building, high-ranking Russian officials and representatives of the command of the armed forces have severely criticized the samples of armored vehicles that are in service and are also being developed. Criticism

Development of this super heavy tank began in early 1941, when Krupp began researching Soviet heavy tanks. In the first months of 1942, Krupp was tasked with designing the PzKpfw VII Lev super-heavy tank (project VK7201). Its design was based on earlier

Protected vehicle "Lynx" (IVECO 65E19WM). The vehicle is intended for use as a means of supporting rolling stock and performing tasks of service and combat activities of various branches of the armed forces and power structures, as well as as a transport base for a carrier of light

Like most of the tanks that were produced on the territory of the Warsaw Pact countries, the Yugoslav main battle tank M84 is a modernized version of the Soviet T-72, licenses for the production of which the USSR transferred to its allies practically free of charge. The first prototype M84

Not so long ago, a foreign publication Defense revue published an openly tendentious rating, where the American Abrams tank was named "the best example of armored vehicles in the history of all mankind." The Americans, as always, are cunning. Our T-90 tank in almost all characteristics is not something that is not

In recent years, there has been a tendency towards a decrease in the development of fundamentally new models on the international markets of military equipment. More attention is paid to upgrading existing systems. This can be understood, since the relatively small purchases of the same type of combat vehicles, which are practiced

It must be admitted that the T-72 main battle tank, created in the 70s of the last century and which is represented by thousands of units around the world, is still the most used today. It has a successful design and is armed with the now popular 125mm smoothbore cannon with full

This article is not new, unfortunately, all work on this direction has been stopped. In September 1997, the first public demonstration of the new generation main battle tank "Black Eagle" (Object 640) took place in Omsk. A tank with a turret carefully covered with a furry camouflage net was demonstrated

In 1982, the Italian military decided on their requirements for the main battle tank. In 1984, the technical conditions for its production were agreed with the industrial enterprises, and they began work on the main subsystems of the future machine. The first prototype of the S-1 tank

On the first day of October 1988, an agreement was signed between the PRC, represented by NORINCO and Pakistan, with the representative office of Heavy Industries Taxila on the design development and joint production of a new MBT-2000 battle tank, according to the technical documentation

Kozak (Russian Cossack) - Ukrainian armored personnel carrier (armored combat vehicle, AFV) for special operations forces. For the first time AFV "Kozak" was demonstrated to the general public at the parade in honor of the Independence Day of Ukraine in Kiev on August 24, 2009. Multifunctional armored vehicle BBM

In 1984, the command of the Italian army formulated requirements for a highly mobile wheeled tank destroyer armed with a 105-mm rifled cannon in ballistics similar to those of the Leopard -1 and M60A1 tanks. The aiming system of the gun was to be unified with the systems

In the early 90s, on the initiative of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Ground Forces for Science and Development, Brigadier General Mir-Younes Masoumzadeh, the main battle tank of the Iranian army, Zulfiqar-1, was created. The name of the tank is rooted in history, as was the name of the legendary sword of the Shiite Imam

Are you accustomed to swearing at "idiots" who prevent you from making a maneuver on the road? Imagine, but it turns out that you are still in luck. After all, you have not come across people who took it into their head to ride a tank! We have selected 8 stories related to theft or purchase of military vehicles. We sincerely wish our readers

The US design community Local Motors has presented its new creation - the conceptual army armored car XC2V FLYPMode, created in close cooperation with the agency DARPA. The history of the project is quite ordinary: the US military decided to compare the research results

The M60 Phoenix, the main tank of the Jordanian Army, is an upgrade to the M60A3. It was designed by order of King Abdullah II by the KADDB design bureau. The morally and technically obsolete M60A3 could no longer compete with modern tanks of other states, primarily this applied to

The program for creating a multi-purpose armored vehicle ARTEC MRAV (Multi-Role Armored Vehicle), like many other European armored vehicles, has a very interesting history. Three countries began to develop a combat vehicle - France, Germany and Great Britain. The first came out later

Since the middle of the last century, the South African army has been armed with the Centurion Mk.5 tanks, called the Olifant Mk.1 (elephant). The first stage of modernization of these combat vehicles began in the late 1970s and was carried out by the South African company Armscor. As a result of the work, a modification of the Olifant Mk.1A was created

The armored personnel carrier "Dozor-B" is an armored vehicle with a 4x4 wheel arrangement, designed for transporting personnel and transporting various cargoes. AA Morozov. "Dozor-B" can be effectively used to equip

In 1972, the command of the Indian ground forces decided on the requirements for a new main battle tank, which was planned to be adopted by the army. By this time, the Indian industry already had experience in the licensed assembly of the British tank "Vickers" Mk1 ("Vijayanta") and the Soviet

National Pakistani military-industrial complex HIT (Heavy Industries Taxila) in early 2010 created the latest modern wheeled armored vehicle Burraq class MRAP. Cristofer F. Foss lifts the curtain for International Defense Review and posts some interesting

Israel began developing its own tank in 1972, and in 1977 the first photographs of prototypes of the Merkava tank were presented to the press. The first public display of the tank took place in 1979 on the Israeli independence day. The specifics of Israel and special design

It would not hurt to buy weapons and military equipment (AME): 1. Clearly imagine where and how this sample will be used. Is there a need for it at all? 2. There should be objective criteria for assessing and indicators of the effectiveness of samples. How much the sample meets the highest

The infamous Jordanian design bureau named after King Abdullah II (King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau - KADDB) continues work begun almost a decade and a half ago to create various types of heavy tracked armored vehicles on a tank chassis. Mainly thought by KADDB

Typically, combat vehicle designers take the following path. First, a light machine is created, and then a heavier one is created on its basis. The Italians from the Iveco-Oto Melara company did exactly the opposite. First, they created a heavy wheeled tank destroyer "Centauro", and only then on its base

The main Chinese battle tank - Type 99 (factory index ZTZ-99) was first shown to the public during a military parade in Beijing on October 1, 1999. The appearance of the 3rd generation tank presented by China caused quite a stir. This tank was a breakthrough for the Chinese tank building. According to their

One of the myths of the Great Patriotic War about "miracle tanks", invulnerable, sweeping everything out of their way, was the myth about the new tanks of the Soviet Union - T-34, KV, in the initial period of the war. It has even been suggested that the German armed forces had to use aircraft to knock them out

“Do tanks have a future or are they out of date? Can they still play an important role on the battlefield, and if so, which one, and what types of tanks are needed? Over the past 40 years, major military experts have repeatedly proclaimed that tanks are outdated or out of date. However, whenever

Germany became the first country in the West to create an infantry fighting vehicle. (The BUM 1 appeared in the GDR after 1966.) BMP "Marder" was developed in 1966-1969 by Rheinmetall AG by order of the Bundeswehr, was adopted by the Bundeswehr in 1971 (2436 units delivered in total)

Heavy armored vehicles have shown their reliability in battles with bandits, terrorists and insurgents

In 1976, Mitsubishi began work on the creation of a new main battle tank, which was to replace the existing Type 61 and 74 machines. In addition to Japanese engineers, specialists from the German companies MaK and Krauss-Maffei took part in the development of the tank. who took part in

For many years, Russian tank crews pinned their hopes for rearmament with Object-195, which was widely advertised, and specialists from the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering (OJSC UKBTM) were close to implementing the project and putting it into production. But in 2010

British tank Mark I In EnglandThe first projectsAn answer to the question how; by what means to break through the front, they were looking for in all the belligerent armies. One of the first to try to answer it was the English Colonel Swinton, who had been in France since the beginning of the war. On October 20, 1914, Swinton turned to the military

The idea of creating a simple and inexpensive armored car on serial "cargo" units is not new. Such designs were especially popular in the USSR in the 1930-50s: take, for example, the post-war BTR-40 and BTR-152 (they were based, respectively, on the all-wheel drive GAZ-63 and ZiS-151). Then our country

The head office of the Merkava program, which is run by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the IDF ammunition corps, are well aware that their tank has reached the maximum permissible mass ceiling, and improving its protection cannot be achieved by increasing reactive or passive protection. And this

The skating rink of war is not a figurative expression. Someone thinks this brainchild of a gloomy American genius is a demining machine, someone is a freeway tank, but it is, of course, first of all - a symbol of a tank breakthrough, heavy, fast and unforgiving. This "roller of war" was originally made for demining

Finally, this semi-Zamorian miracle came into our possession. I will tell you about my impressions of this car after the first trip. To begin with, I will refresh your information about the technical characteristics of SPM-1, so to speak, from the original source - the operating manual: “Vehicle SPM-1