Armored vehicles
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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The opinions of a number of military experts and leaders that Russian-made tanks are inferior to foreign vehicles in terms of their combat capabilities and characteristics are completely unfounded, said Vyacheslav Khalitov, deputy general director of a research and production corporation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Heavy armored vehicles have shown their reliability in battles with bandits, terrorists and insurgents
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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)
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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