Armored vehicles
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The T-10 heavy tank is the last on the list, but not by value! The initial impetus for the development of a new heavy tank was the fact that by the end of the 40s of the last century three types of tanks of this class were in service with the Soviet Army - the IS-2M , IS-3 and IS-4, but none of them
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As you know, it is human nature to doubt. People who have no doubts, are absolutely sure of everything are stupid by nature. However, in all fairness, it should be noted that a mass, nationwide, if you like, conviction of something in our days is easy to form. For example, if daily
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Experienced and experimental heavy tanks of the USSR.At the time when the heavy tank IS-2 had not yet come to its final form, and was debugging it in series, silhouettes of new heavy tanks appeared on the drawing boards, but not all of them would have a chance to be embodied in metal. Wooden model IS-6. V
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The updated combat vehicle of the Russian army will be presented to the attention of specialists at the international arms exhibition, which will be held in the city of Nizhny Tagil from September 8 to 11, 2011. Experts already believe that the appearance of the modernized T-90S tank at the Russian arms exhibition
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In mid-July, the Israeli military censorship lifted the ban on the publication of information about one of the most mysterious examples of military equipment of the Israel Defense Forces. Thanks to a recent decision, everyone will now be able to learn about the new Peer combat vehicle, which for three decades remained under
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The Kharkovites offered several modernization options at once, as they say, to satisfy any wishes of customers. So, the tank underwent a deep modernization of the fighting compartment
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Experienced and experimental heavy tanks of Western countries. After the adoption of the M103 tank in the United States, and the difficulties associated with this fact, the question arose about a radical modernization of the tank, or about a possible replacement. Quite an interesting solution to this problem "with little blood" was proposed by the company
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Landkreuzer P1000 Ratte and P1500 Monster call the unrealized projects of the giant tanks of Hitlerite Germany
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In the dead ends of evolution - experienced, experimental and small-scale heavy tanks of Western countries (end). Another country that has enough industry for the production of heavy tanks, was France. Immediately after his release in 1944, French politicians decided to prove
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Paramount Group Vehicle Families South African Paramount Group has established itself firmly in the competitive wheeled armored combat vehicle (AFV) market over the past few years, based not only on export deliveries, but also on the development of vehicles based on
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Proposed AFVs of the FCS project. In the center is the base chassis. Slide from the presentation of the US Department of Defense The unification of armored combat vehicles on the chassis and other components makes it possible to significantly simplify and reduce the cost of operation, and also provides an increase in the main technical characteristics. The highest
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Experimental vehicle BHM-800 carries out the processing of the terrain. Photo Aviarmor.net At the end of 1930, the Experimental Design and Testing Bureau of the Department of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army (OKIB UMM), headed by Nikolai Ivanovich Dyrenkov, began work on the topic of chemical armored vehicles
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Full-size model "Object 490", the end of the 80s. Since the end of the eighties, the Kharkov Design Bureau for Mechanical Engineering (KMDB) has been working on various options for promising tanks. One of the most interesting and daring developments of that time was the "Object 490". This project
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Serial tanks of the Russian army of all modifications are equipped with 125-mm smooth-bore launchers and can use a wide range of ammunition for various purposes. A special place in it is occupied by several types of armor-piercing feathered sub-caliber projectiles (BOPS). Soon
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General view of an experienced tank The other day, the British army talked about the success of its new project to modernize existing armored vehicles. In the interests of the ground forces, a new set of updates for the Challenger 2 MBT has been developed. A set of measures called Streetfighter II is intended to increase the combat
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Thunderstorm of the seas, but not of tank ranges. The British have a special relationship with tanks. This is not surprising when you consider that these machines owe their very concept to the Foggy Albion. The first tank in history used in combat was the British Mark I. Although the most advanced tank of the First
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Tank KV version 1939. Photo Wikimedia CommonsOn December 19, 1939, the Defense Committee under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted Resolution No. 443ss "On the adoption of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery tractors for the Red Army and on their production in 1940". In accordance with this document, the armament and supply of the Red Army
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BTR-4 of the Ukrainian army in exercises. Photo by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine the story with the delivery of Ukrainian armored personnel carriers BTR-4E to Iraq made a lot of noise. The customer found numerous defects and refused to accept the products. The Ukrainian authorities, in turn, were going to deal with this