Armored vehicles 2024, November

This is another option for converting old Soviet tanks into BMP. The prototype of the BMPV-64 heavy armored personnel carrier was developed in Ukraine as a private initiative of the Kharkov armored personnel carrier. The first prototype was completed in 2005. This vehicle represents the deepest modernization of the well-deserved T-64 MBT

“Anyone can take their own car and hang armor on it in the workshop. That's what they do. " With these words, the experts evaluated the novelty of the Georgian defense industry, presented at the parade in Tbilisi. The main goal of the innovation is to demonstrate powerful industrial potential

The intensity of modern combat operations, the high level of workload and the experience of using the BMP-3 in the countries of the Persian Gulf made it necessary to refine the vehicle in terms of improving its ergonomic characteristics

The adoption of the Challenger tank by the British Army did not remove from the agenda the issue of the main battle tank, which would replace all Chieftain tanks. The transfer of MBT to the "Challengers" was not intended, and after the arrival of this tank in the troops it became completely impossible. The tank collapsed

An article published on military.china.com by an online writer named Shu Zhongxing in December 2009 was dedicated to a sensational interview with the general designer of the Type 99 tank Zhu Yusheng in the TV show "Great Masters" on CCTV10. A.2

The Russian army may receive the Italian Iveco LMV M65 armored vehicles. SKD assembly of equipment, according to the Ministry of Defense, is planned to be carried out at KAMAZ. But a domestic machine of a similar class - the famous GAZ-233036 "Tiger" - is already in service with the Russian army. By

In the period between the two world wars, Poland created its own tank building industry. State factories supplied the army with armored vehicles, tankettes and light tanks. However, after the Second World War, being part of the Warsaw Pact, the Polish military industry

On April 28 this year, Lieutenant General Yu. Kovalenko, the former 1st Deputy Head of the Main Armored Directorate of the RF Ministry of Defense, speaking about Russian tanks, said that the Russian military industry has a lot to offer even the most demanding customer. So, he noted that it is not so

The permanent scandal shaking the Russian defense industry and the Russian military department in connection with the procurement of new armored vehicles reached its climax after the statement by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Alexander Postnikov about the obsolescence of the samples offered by our industry. After that, the search for a common language

No matter how much has been written about the war that ended 65 years ago, and about this tank - you can't tell everything, much less feel it. But it is also impossible to get away from this topic … The order of the gray-haired, gloomy colonel from the old 1968 film "In War, As In War" somehow engraved in the memory once and for all:

The main battle tank of Sweden under the index STRV-103, also known under the designation "S", is of particular interest, because for the first time in the world history of tank building quite interesting design solutions were applied, in particular, the installation of two different types of engines - diesel and

In the first half of the last century, the "motorized mechanization" of the assault forces was assumed mainly due to cars, off-road motorcycles and small tanks. The experience of World War II forced, if not to change these views, then to slightly shift the emphasis. With all the specificity

Since the appearance of armored vehicles, the eternal battle between the projectile and the armor has escalated. Some designers sought to increase the penetration of the shells, while others increased the durability of the armor. The struggle continues now. About how modern tank armor works, "Popular Mechanics"

Analysis of the vulnerability of the M1A1 / A2 tank during use in Iraq in 2003 The second Iraqi war revealed the weaknesses of the American M1A1 Abrams tanks and finally dispelled the myth of its invulnerability, which had been carefully implanted over the past decade. The frontal armor of the Abrams turret and hull is still

In September 1943, a program for the development of a number of heavy combat vehicles was launched in the United States. Research carried out by the Department of Armaments has shown that such vehicles may be needed in Europe to overcome in advance fortified defensive lines such as the German "Western

The T-64BM BULAT tank is the result of the modernization of the T-64A and T-64B tanks. The purpose of the modernization was to bring the combat and technical characteristics of the tank to the modern level, such as T-80UD, T-84U. It was first shown in 1999. Modernization is carried out in three main

Few people know that it was serial, although the series was small, somewhere around 250 cars, after which it was discontinued. It was all the fault of the excessive weight of the vehicle - about 60 tons. Development of this tank began in July 1943 at the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant under the leadership of L. Troyanov

The modern army needs a new type of armored vehiclesIn the course of the reform of the Russian army, the military department is 20 times reducing the number of tanks in the army (from 40 thousand to two thousand) and does not plan new purchases of armored vehicles. First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said that the modern T-90

Despite the fact that already at the end of the war work was underway on the next-generation Soviet medium tank T-44, attempts to quickly, and at minimal cost, get an effective tank destroyer armed with a 100 mm cannon continued. Still, the disadvantages of the SU-100, which was at that time the most effective

The proposed type of variants of the T-90M is perhaps the T-90AM (drawing by A. Sheps, 2010). Last week in the Russian-language segment of the World Wide Web, information appeared that Russia would still create a new generation T-90AM tank. As it is not difficult to see from the designation, it will be

While the leading tank-building powers are thinking and wondering whether or not they need a fourth-generation tank, a small, and not at all a tank-building country, Jordan, can get off the ground. In this country, a tank with an uninhabited combat module has already been built and is being tested instead of

In fact, this is not a finished model of the tank, but, so to speak, a demo model. At which the Rheinmetall company demonstrated all its latest systems that it offers to the arms market. According to the company's representatives, these systems are intended to be installed on already

XK2 Black Panther is the new MBT of South Korea. The tank was developed under the XK2 program by the South Korean Defense Development Agency and Rotem (a division of Hyundai Motors). According to the developer, the project used only its own South Korean design

As early as January 28, 2004, on the territory of the GDVTs FSUE NTIIM, a demonstration of the capabilities of Russian technology to representatives of Libya took place, and on March 24-25 of the same year, the delegation of Algeria. A big plus of the Russian side was the availability of flexible but comprehensive MBT solutions, a ready-made modernization program

In 1939, in Germany, the Borgvard company developed a prototype of a "heavy charge carrier", which is better known in the domestic literature as the remote-controlled tankettes "Goliath". At first it was believed that the main task of the new type of weapon would be minefield clearance

A modern army cannot exist without constant renewal of military equipment and weapons. This statement also applies to heavy armored vehicles. Despite experts' predictions that in the near future tanks will disappear altogether from the battlefields, at the moment they are playing, sometimes

BTR-4 is designed to transport personnel of motorized rifle units and their fire support in battle. The armored personnel carrier is used to equip units capable of conducting combat operations in various conditions, including the use of weapons of mass destruction by the enemy. APC can

After the start of the US aggression against Iraq, attitudes towards tanks changed. According to the Washington Post, the US Department of Defense decided to send M1 Abrams tanks to Afghanistan. They were not previously used in the war against the Taliban. To begin with, it is planned to transfer 16 such machines, which will

German ground forces have received the first of the ordered Boxer armored personnel carriers, according to Defense Aerospace. Currently, the first 8 armored personnel carriers are undergoing training before being sent to Afghanistan. The vehicles are expected to be shipped to Afghanistan in August this year. Their

After 1945, there was not a single decade in which a slender chorus of army voices did not predict the imminent death of tank equipment as a class of combat vehicles. Their first gravedigger was named nuclear weapons. However, it soon became clear that in the conditions of its use, the tank, on the contrary, shows the highest

Hitler's favorite brainchild, the largest tank ever built in metal (188 tons combat weight), the Maus (also known as the Porsche 205 or Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus) was designed and built by Ferdinand Porsche. The history of the tank can begin with a meeting that

On March 15, the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces of Russia, Colonel-General Alexander Postnikov, attacked the military-industrial complex with criticism, in particular, criticized the Russian main battle tank T-90

The formation of brigades of a new look in the Ground Forces sharpens the question of the role and place of the armored vehicles of the current infantrymen on the battlefield. Mechanical copying of existing approaches to the use of armored vehicles can negatively affect the combat effectiveness of motorized rifle units

Experienced heavy tank "Object 277" was designed in Leningrad, in the design bureau under the leadership of Zh.Ya. Kotina in 1957. Its design used some of the technical solutions implemented in the IS-7 and T-10 tanks. The 55-ton tank had a classic layout. The body had a cast front

The experience of local wars has shown that the problem of self-defense of a tank from tank-hazardous infantry is becoming more and more acute. Meanwhile, the tank has no real means of dealing with it. There is a search for new high-tech schemes for self-defense tank shells. The famous inventor V.A. Odintsov proposed two new

Looking at this car, you will never guess that this is not an independent development, but just a variant of modernizing the T-54/55. If there was a competition for the most beautiful alteration (for this car, the definition of tuning is even suitable), then, probably, it would have won with a clear advantage

One gets the impression that some of our defense industry enterprises are going to endlessly modernize Soviet armored personnel carriers of fifty years ago, not noticing the peculiarities of modern military conflicts. Therefore, although with difficulty, but more and more you begin to understand the position of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The Emirates hosted an exhibition of the latest weapons IDEX-2011. Russia at this exhibition was represented by three pavilions, which were popular with visitors to the exhibition. The Rosoboronexport exposition attracted the most people

The most legendary armored car: Austin 50HP Country: Great Britain Released: 1915 Length: 4900 mm Combat weight: 5.3 t Engine: inline 4-cylinder Austin, 50 HP Maximum speed: 60 km / h Crew: 4-5 people Flame speech Lenin spoke from an armored car, but from which one - a number of disputes arise and

As it became known from the reports of the Israeli media, on Tuesday, during the battle on the border with the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military tested in the case of an active system of protection against anti-tank missiles Windbreaker. According to sources, in the Kibu Oz area, Palestinians attacked an Israeli tank using an RPG