Armored vehicles
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Still, in these British Isles, not everything is like people. Especially in those times that we are talking about, especially with regard to tanks. Okay, pounds-inches, but there was a classification - you can grab your head and tear it off. People had light, medium, heavy tanks. And the British
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The nationality of our next hero is always hidden. He can be American, British, or Canadian. Or maybe an Australian or even a New Zealander. It can be different. Perform completely different functions in different armies of the world. But at the same time, he is the main armored personnel carrier
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French Army VBL vehicles in Mali during Operation Serval. The French army has significantly increased the armored component of its contingent compared to previous interventions This may seem rather strange when you think about it, but despite the fact that people
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Over the past several years, Russian defense enterprises have continued to work on a universal combat module with a 57-mm automatic cannon. Such a product has known advantages and is of interest to customers. Naturally, the promising concept did not go unnoticed
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The BMD-2 airborne combat vehicle is not novel, but it forms the basis of the airborne troops' armored vehicle fleet. To maintain the required combat potential, this technique needs modernization. Several years ago, a project was launched to modernize command vehicles of the BMD-2K type under
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India has begun work on its next generation tank. Called FMBT (Future Main Battle Tank), its goal is to replace India's latest Arjun in a quality manner, which worries many Indian taxpayers and the military as the government has only recently
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The forum china-defense.com, citing an internal Chinese source, discusses a possible concept for a new generation tank, which houses a self-propelled combat robot equipped with surveillance equipment and missiles (probably anti-tank). To the credit of the debaters, they admit this
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In the rating of the leaders of the world tank building, annually compiled by the authoritative American military analytical agency Forecast International, the Israeli tank Merkava Mk4 takes the leading place, surpassing in its combat characteristics such serious competitors as the German tank
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BMP-2M - modernization eliminated a number of shortcomings of the original model. On August 31, domestic tank building celebrated its 90th anniversary. On this day in 1920, the first serial tank, assembled by the hands of Nizhny Novgorod workers and named "Fighter for Freedom Comrade
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In the course of reforming the Russian army, one of the priority tasks is to equip it with modern types of weapons and military equipment. In the field of equipping the Armed Forces with armored vehicles, the leading role is assigned to the vertically integrated structure of the Scientific and Production Corporation
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Apparently, the car is an alternative, since the Chinese have no technical prerequisites for creating such a machine. I will give some technical data from those that I managed to translate. So, the car is armed with 2 * 3 30 mm electromagnetic rail guns. The crew of this machine is 2 people
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The safest test drive The journalists who tested the Ocelot in April of this year unanimously say that it was not difficult for them to get used to the cockpit of the armored car. The seats are arranged as in an ordinary British car: on the right is the driver, on the left is the commander of the car. Ocelot, or Leopardus Pardalis
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We live in a rapidly changing world. The political situation is changing. Yesterday there were two blocs aimed at each other, but today one (the Warsaw Pact) is no longer there, and the other (NATO) has expanded at the expense of former members of the first and a number of former Soviet republics. The threat of the world
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The domestic manufacturer intends to interest our military in new models of armored vehicles Russian enterprises producing light wheeled armored vehicles are still trying to maintain their monopoly position as the main supplier of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. In particular, for our security officials
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Part 1. Buy weapons. Quite recently, we were all delighted with one interesting news, namely the fact that the Russian Ministry of Defense has finally decided on the purchase of Italian IVECO LMV M65 armored cars for the Russian army, while abandoning the domestic analogue (GAZ-2330
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In early September, the first armored vehicle GAZ-233036 "Tiger" SPM-2 was handed over to the Brazilian special operations police battalion stationed in the city of Rio de Janeiro, representatives of the Military Industrial Company and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport
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During its visit to Ukraine, a Peruvian delegation led by Brigadier General Juan Mendiz, head of the logistics department of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited the testing ground of the plant. Malyshev and KMDB named after Morozov, according to the Peruvian
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The event is being held in the presence of the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Major General Beni Gantz and the Commander of the Ground Forces, Major General Sami Turgeman. Senior Army officers also take part in
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At the initial stage of World War II, armored vehicles coped well with reconnaissance tasks in the interests of tank and motorized units of the Hitlerite Wehrmacht. Their use in this role was facilitated by both the extensive road network of Western Europe and the enemy's lack of
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Various areas of modernization of the Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle will be presented on October 28-31 in Thessaloniki (Greece) at a specialized exhibition of land, sea and air defense systems "Defense-2010" (DEFENSYS 2010). This was reported to the correspondent of ARMS-TASS in
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It is necessary to figure out whether the BMD-4 and "Sprut" are needed by the Russian Airborne Forces this topic seems to be
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Tests of the tank, carried out in 1932, fully confirmed its high "aviation" characteristics. On wheels M1932 showed a speed of 120 miles per hour (193 km / h), and on tracks “only” 60 miles per hour (96.5 km / h). The tank freely jumped over a moat more than 6 meters wide and could overcome a slope
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On September 1, 1999, V.B. Domnin, colonel of the RF Armed Forces, talented engineer, leader of a new formation. He had to continue work on the T-90 tank. The "Indian" contract stimulated work to improve the machine and did not let die
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Observer vehicle "Kugelpanzer" (German "Kugelpanzer", "tank-ball") is a light armored car designed in the Third Reich in the 1930s, presumably by the Krupp company. According to the staff of the armored museum in Kubinka, the vehicle was designed as a mobile observation post for
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British company Supacat recently completed the seventh prototype of the all-new, all-British light armored patrol vehicle, the SPV400, with which Supacat hopes to win a £ 200m tender from the UK Department of Defense to meet urgent
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A machine with a lot of shortcomings, but still it can be brought to mind First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said that along with some other models, the BMPT, which had been created for more than one year, had not been included in the state defense order program. At the same time, the "chief procurement officer"
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The Spanish company Urovesa (Uro Vehicules Especiales) has developed a new version of the VAMTAC S3 (Vehiculo de Alta Movilidad Tactico) armored vehicle with a 4x4 wheel arrangement. 8-ton armored patrol vehicle, designated VAMTAC BN3, equipped with a 6-cylinder diesel engine
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The American Military Channel has published ratings of the most effective weapons that were invented by man in the 20th century. Earlier, the TV channel published a rating of the best small arms of the last century. This time, American and British experts evaluated the tanks. The assessments were made
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What are the main qualities of a scout? The most important thing is a high intellectual level, the ability to respond quickly to a rapidly changing environment, to have good vision and communication, while remaining invisible to the enemy, to be highly mobile, reliably protected
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How to combine the interests of society, the army and arms exporters Greece has suspended the conclusion of a contract with Russia for the supply of 420 BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles to Athens. The deal, which had been in preparation for more than two years and which promised domestic defense enterprises almost $ 1.5 billion, was stuck in obscurity. AND
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Armored personnel carrier TR-1 (TR-26). The TR-1 (TR-26) transporter was developed in 1932-1933. students of the Stalin VAMM on the basis of the T-26 tank. The final revision of the project was carried out in the KB of the Sistzmashtrest Pilot Plant named after S.M. Kirov (plant No. 185) in Leningrad. The prototype was made on this
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The infantry needs a fundamentally new combat vehicle, not a taxi to the front line A number of statements made recently by the top officials of the Ministry of Defense, primarily the chief of armaments of the RF Armed Forces, General of the Army Vladimir Popovkin, regarding the available and promising models of light armored vehicles
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Armored vehicles with "out" weapons: ATGMs on a wheeled chassis are better suited for military operations in urban environments, models based on a tank chassis are less convenient in the confined space of the city, but in open areas they have no barriers. Both types of armored vehicles resemble a giraffe
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The world Internet is discussing with interest the video, filmed last year in Ohio, but has gained popularity only in the past few weeks. The video shows an unknown tank of a rather original design transported by rail. According to many, this machine is a prototype
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If you ask a military specialist to name some of the best tanks created after the Second World War, then among them there will certainly be the Soviet medium T-54. It most fully comprehended the experience of using tanks in the last World War
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Airborne troops were first successfully used in World War II, for example: Operation Mercury (May 20 to May 31, 1941), when the 7th Parachute Division and 22nd Airmobile Division of the Wehrmacht captured Crete. However, World War II showed that what amphibious units need
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An inventor with extensive experience, Anatoly Ukhov, contacted the editorial board of Krasnaya Zvezda. He was twice offered to leave for the United States under the State Department's program, starting in 1987, and five years ago - to Israel. But he refused to leave Russia. Unfortunately, in his home country he has to be patented
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The T-44 was not produced in large numbers, like the BT, or the T-34, did not go through the entire war. Didn't become the main tank for the army. But it is still a worthy representative of Soviet tank building. Its creation began at the end of 1943, in the Design Bureau of the Ural Tank Plant, under
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At the test site near Nizhny Novgorod "Wolf" is being tested. This name was given to a new armored vehicle for the Russian army. In addition to the frightening name, the new armored vehicle is endowed with "intelligence" and a unique mine protection system. Here is what he told about his brainchild
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According to the publication "India Defense", with reference to the representative of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of the Ministry of Defense of India, the main battle tank (MBT) "Arjun" Mk.2 intended for the Land Forces (Land Forces) of the country will go into serial production in 2014 In March 2000, with the Office