Armored vehicles 2024, November

But the British approached the work in the design of the appearance of their new tank with all due seriousness. On the Christie's tank, the bow was most like a ram. This shape was intended to facilitate bullet ricochets, but a very strong front beam was required to install the sloths

For the first time I learned about W. Christie's tank in my distant, distant childhood from the magazine Science and Technology in 1929, in which it was written about the tank-walker that appeared in the USA, which developed on wheels a speed of 119 km / h on the highway and 86 km / h on tracks. Then I read that W. Christie transferred his tank to the USSR from

The armored vehicles that appeared during the First World War immediately began to develop in many areas of design thought. The dam of public mistrust collapsed, the military (about whom the saying “how I put on a sword belt, I’m getting dumb and dumb” is not in vain!) Finally understood Lenin’s thought

For well-known reasons, the further development of tanks is currently attracting special attention of specialists and the general public. The announcement of news about plans to create certain projects becomes a reason for excitement, and the appearance of a new model can become a real sensation. V

In the early sixties, the Soviet defense industry was working on new projects for infantry fighting vehicles of one kind or another. The most successful development of this class was the Object 765, which later entered service under the name BMP-1. Other examples of armored vehicles turned out to be less

Type 10 is the most modern Japanese main battle tank (MBT). This vehicle was developed as a cheaper alternative to the Type 90 MBT by deeply modernizing the hull and chassis of the Type 74 tank and installing a new turret on it. The prototype of the new tank was for the first time

The original EFV prototypes were found to be unreliable after testing in 2006. In January 2009, the Pentagon approved subsequent revisions by contractor General Dynamics and issued a permit for the manufacture and testing of new prototypes. However, for financial reasons, the EFV project in 2011 was

According to Ukrainian and Russian media reports, on the evening of July 13, the Ukrainian armed forces attempted to bypass the city of Luhansk and break through to the troops encircled at the Luhansk airport. The 1st separate tank brigade, armed with armored vehicles, was thrown into battle

The new confrontation in Europe, sparked by the aggressive actions of the United States, took most NATO countries by surprise. During the relative lull that followed the collapse of the socialist camp and the collapse of the USSR, the European members of the alliance not only radically reduced military budgets, but also significantly

In the mid-thirties of the last century, Nazi Germany began to build its armed forces, and was also actively engaged in the development of new weapons and equipment. In just a few years, a wide range of different armored vehicles for various purposes was developed, primarily tanks. In 1936

For BMD, the ability to hit targets at a distance, hit from a distance and hit first is important. Therefore, in Tula, in the Instrument-Making Design Bureau, which is part of the High-Precision Complexes holding, a special, fully automated combat module was developed, which was named "Bakhcha-U"

The modification of the T-72 main battle tank for street fighting was first presented by the Uralvagonzavod corporation abroad. The debut of a combat vehicle designed for battles in urban areas took place at the KADEX-2016 exhibition in Astana. As noted, interest in the new version of the T-72 tank, which

Several years ago, the domestic defense industry first presented a prototype of a promising heavy wheeled infantry fighting vehicle. In the future, the development of a new project was stopped due to economic and political problems, but later it was continued

Continuing the theme of Soviet armored trains, the authors faced a problem that, in principle, was already voiced in the previous article. This is a variety of trains. Each PSU is unique in its own way. It would be a stretch to talk about the identity of even two armored trains of the same series, especially considering that

Which tank is better, the T-90 or the M1 Abrams? This question appeared simultaneously with a newer car and still remains relevant. He has already managed to get a lot of answers, including diametrically opposite ones. The continuation of the disputes, among other things, is facilitated by the gradual development of two armored vehicles

Some countries are armed with heavy infantry fighting vehicles, built on the basis of serial tanks of various models. Typically, such projects involve a major overhaul of the base machine with a complete change in functionality. A different approach was proposed in the Ukrainian BMT-72 project. So heavy

As you know, a number of the latest Russian-designed armored combat vehicles - including the T-14 Armata main tank - are equipped with the latest Afghanit active protection system or its individual elements. Armored vehicles of older models may also need similar means of amplification

The Tractor Plants Concern and the Russian Ministry of Defense have completed tests of a new unique infantry fighting vehicle with the working name BMP-3M Dragoon. This was reported by the Izvestia newspaper. BMP-3, which because of its characteristics was once called the "Queen of the Infantry", despite its already

Currently, tests of the promising multipurpose armored vehicle K4386 Typhoon-VDV are being completed. This machine was developed taking into account the requirements and wishes of the airborne troops and is intended to solve a wide range of tasks. The armored car in its original configuration is protected

The epic of the re-equipment of the airborne troops, which had been dragging on for several years, has finally come to an end. Numerous disputes between the command of the branch of the armed forces and all the armed forces ended in victory for the opinion of the first. In the near future, the Airborne Forces will begin to receive new equipment corresponding to their

These tests have been going on since the beginning of the year, right after the Israel Defense Forces armored department began installing a new active protection system on the Namer. It is noteworthy that in this case we are talking about the Namer infantry fighting vehicles, made on the basis of the latest Israeli Merkava Mk4 tanks, and this

The dynamic protection of armored vehicles was created difficult and dramatically Soviet developers of dynamic protection in the late 70s - early 80s conducted research at the Research Institute of Steel, relying on developments made long before that by domestic scientists B.V. Voitsekhovsky, A.I. Platov and others .WITH

In June 2015, the Argentine Ministry of Defense, after lengthy delays and delays, nevertheless concluded an agreement with Israel on the modernization of part (74 vehicles) of the TAM (Tanque Argentino Mediano) main tank fleet. The $ 111 million agreement provides for the supply of

The ground units of the People's Liberation Army of China are successfully mastering the ZBD-04A infantry fighting vehicle. This BMP, according to many military experts, can currently be considered one of the best in the world. According to some reports, the troops could already receive about 400 vehicles of this

Despite many years of success in the market, the car remains unique in its class: building on the previous hit BMP-2, the developers have radically changed the layout. The V-shaped 10-cylinder engine is located in a tank manner, above the rear axle. This allowed for better balancing and visibility

The anticipation is also influenced by the stories about the mighty heroes-tankers of the Great Patriotic War, turning the T-34 with levers without hydraulics, and an episodic ride by a "passenger" on a lumbering BMP. In principle, the reasoning is correct: the outside of the tank really cannot and should not be clean, good

In the "Independent Military Review" was published an article entitled "New after a bright presentation. It is unacceptable to hide the objective shortcomings of weapons systems under a layer of jingoistic patriotism "(" NVO "No. 3 of 01/29/16). The author is Sergey Vladimirovich Vasiliev. How he signed - reserve colonel

The required survivability of armored vehicles in modern conditions can only be ensured by the complex use of various means of protection. On

At the MSPO-2011 defense industrial exhibition in Poland, the Polish association Bumar presented a new version of the modernization of the T-72M1 tank, specially designed for operations in urbanized areas and zones of local conflicts, and designated RT-72U. Direct developer and

The project of the unified heavy tracked platform "Armata" is one of the most interesting topics of recent years. Until recently, experts and the interested public could only discuss fragmentary data published in various sources. However, a few months ago

The Turkish company FNSS offers the Kaplan platform as a tracked component of the program for a mobile complex of weapons In recent years, the military in Europe and the United States have witnessed the failures of many of their projects, but now the program for armored vehicles has received a second

Very few people know that in the yellow building behind the Kremlin wall, closer to the Spasskaya Tower, the Commission of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on military-industrial issues was located, which was commonly called the military-industrial complex. 1967 to 1987 in the military-industrial complex, Yu.P. Kostenko

Over the past decades, the global defense industry has come up with many new types of weapons. Among others, the idea of installing relatively powerful weapons on a relatively light wheeled chassis with appropriate armor is of particular interest. Such military equipment

Over the course of a relatively short history of armored vehicles (BTTs) of the ground forces, which is about a hundred years old, the nature of the conduct of hostilities has repeatedly changed. These changes were of a cardinal nature - from "positional" to "mobile" warfare and, further, to local conflicts and

Already in October 1941, it became clear that the new light tank T-60, the serial production of which began a month earlier, was almost useless on the battlefield. His armor was freely penetrated by all anti-tank weapons of the Wehrmacht, and his own weapons were too weak to fight enemy tanks

On December 23, the Pentagon summed up the results of the next tender, the purpose of which is to develop, build and supply new armored vehicles for the ground forces. Over the next few years, it is planned to replace the outdated M113 armored personnel carriers and vehicles based on it in a number of divisions

1935th year. The T-37A, the first Soviet amphibious tank, is still being produced, but the thoughts of the Red Army leadership were already aimed at improving this very peculiar machine. During operation in the troops, it turned out that the T-37A had a lot of shortcomings: the transmission and chassis were unreliable, often subside

The beginning of the First World War was the reason for the intensification of work in the field of promising armored combat vehicles. A few years later, this led to the appearance of the first full-fledged tanks suitable for use in the army. The first in this area were British designers. Later on trials

The previous article talked about the T-27 tankette. In the flaws that were identified during the operation of this vehicle, and attempts to eliminate them, a new class of small amphibious tanks was born as a continuation of the ideas of a lightly armored tracked reconnaissance tank

"The armor is strong, and our tanks are fast …" - these words of the march of Soviet tankers, of course, are true. Armor protection, maneuverability and speed are indeed very important for any combat vehicle. But for a tank, they alone are not enough. Obviously, he cannot do without artillery weapons. About