Armored vehicles 2024, November

From 25 to 28 June, the salon of arms and military equipment Partner 2013 was open in Belgrade. The event demonstrated many projects created in different countries. Among others, in the pavilion of the exhibition there was a new armored personnel carrier of its own Serbian design. State association

As you know, when creating the very first Soviet BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, several vehicles were developed at once, differing from each other in layout, power plant and even undercarriage. As a result, a tracked vehicle became a new type of equipment in the Soviet army. However, they competed with her

By the middle of the last century, the development of tank armament reached its peak in the field of calibers. In our country and abroad, several models of heavy tanks have appeared, armed with 152 mm guns. Attempts were made to install a more serious

There were many original ideas in the history of domestic tank building. Some of them were embodied in full-fledged projects that reached large-scale serial production, and some remained at the level of the original idea. However, some of the technical proposals applied

During the reform of the US armed forces in the nineties, the military faced the issue of equipping with armored vehicles. According to the new concept, the ground forces were to be divided into three types of units, depending on their equipment. It was proposed to equip heavy divisions and brigades with tanks

Twenty years before the outbreak of the war with China and the ensuing offensive across Southeast Asia, the Japanese Empire began to form its armored forces. The experience of the First World War showed the prospects for tanks and the Japanese took note of it. The creation of the Japanese tank industry began

At the beginning of the 2000s, Uralvagonzavod demonstrated its new development - Object 199. When creating this vehicle, the goal was to provide fire support for tank formations in various battle conditions. For this reason, "Object 199" received an alternative designation BMPT (Combat

Schwerer Panzerspähwagen 6-Rad - German heavy armored car of the 1930s. In accordance with the departmental designation system adopted in Germany for military equipment, it was assigned the index Sd.Kfz.231 (6-Rad). The armored car was created in 1930-1932 on the instructions of the Reichswehr, which needed

Observation From the very beginning of the development of armored vehicles, the problem of poor visibility arose. Requirements for maximizing the security of armored vehicles impose severe restrictions on survey devices. Optical devices mounted on armored vehicles have limited viewing angles in small

Threats to the tank Throughout the history of the development of tanks as the main striking force of the ground forces (Land Forces), there was an active development of means for their destruction. From a certain point, the greatest threat to the tank began to be posed not by enemy tanks, but by combat aircraft, in the first place

In previous articles, we examined ways to increase the situational awareness of the crews of armored vehicles and the need to increase the speed of targeting weapons and reconnaissance assets. An equally important point is to ensure effective intuitive interaction of crew members with weapons

In the first article, we examined the effectiveness of fire support for tanks, BMPT "Terminator" in the context of the OODA cycle (OODA - observation, orientation, decision, action) by John Boyd. Based on the analysis of solutions implemented in the design of the "Terminator-1/2" tank support combat vehicle (BMPT), no

The use of modern technologies will provide the crews of armored vehicles with the highest level of situational awareness, the effectiveness of the management of reconnaissance assets and weapons. Exchange of intelligence both with the unit's ground combat vehicles and with other combat units of the battlefield more

What the Ground Forces need in the current century An attack on infantry fighting vehicles (armored personnel carriers) is used on the terrain accessible to them during an offensive against an enemy that hastily went over to the defensive, in the absence of organized resistance, and also in the case when the enemy's defense

The history of the formation of the confrontation The experience of the Second World War clearly showed the full power of mobile armored formations. In the considered options for the military confrontation between the USSR and NATO countries, armored formations were assigned the leading role in the implementation of deep breakthroughs through the territory

This material by G. Malyshev is presented as a discussion from the point of view of an ordinary person and does not pretend to have any deep military scientific knowledge. Since some points in this publication look controversial or superficial, we asked an armored vehicle specialist to comment briefly

In parallel with the work on the revision and putting into mass production of the T-72 "Ural" tank (object 172M), the design bureau of the Uralvagonzavod from 1971 to 1975 conducted development work on the Buffalo theme aimed at further improving ob. 172M. The first prototype of the machine was built already in

Upgraded T-72B tank (T-72B3 variant with additional options). The main novelties of the presented tank are the engine (1160 hp with automatic gearshift), a new panoramic sight of the commander with a laser rangefinder (VOMZ), installation of a rear-view television camera on

To begin with: to the delight of the tankers, we will state that the tank is still the most really useful and formidable combat vehicle on a land battlefield. It was and is the main percussion instrument, it is also support for the advancing infantry, and so on. Since the beginning of his combat career in the First World War

Last year, the US Army once again began stirring about replacing the same BMP "Bradley". This is the third attempt in the last 20 years, and it is no wonder, in general, since these BMPs have been in service with the US Army and the National Guard since 1981. That is, almost 40 years. It is clear that modernization

Our military department announced that T-90M tanks will begin to enter the troops. and remember this promise, then the situation is real today

Yes, we continue the theme of "Boomerang". Precisely because, as usual with us, 80% of the commenting masses did not understand anything, and did not particularly bother themselves with reading. However, a common thing. To continue the topic I was prompted by the next Personal Opinion of Mr. Anirala of the sofa troops. In which he so imposingly spoke that

JSC "Special Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering" from the Concern "Tractor Plants" spoke about the current work on one of the promising samples of armored vehicles. After several years of waiting, the company announced the start of testing one of its new developments. This is about

The driver display of the LATIS video system shows one of the options for how Situational Awareness of the Ground Vehicle can be implemented. The image shows a combined front glass surface with three “docked” views: central thermal image

Combat buses. The Type 63 (factory designation of the YW531 model) became the first Chinese armored personnel carrier that was developed independently without Soviet help and without regard to Soviet military equipment. The new combat vehicle was put into operation at the end of the 1960s and is still

Following the tradition formed in the early years of World War II, which consisted in the use of tanks in service to create self-propelled artillery installations on their basis by mounting a larger-caliber cannon on their chassis, German designers saw in the new tank

Armored ambulance vehicle "Linza" On April 27, 2020, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the motorized rifle division of the 58th combined-arms army stationed in Chechnya received new armored ambulances "Linza". New armored vehicles are based on an armored car

BTR Pandur II of the Portuguese army Combat buses. The modern multi-purpose wheeled armored vehicle Pandur II, designed in Austria by the designers of Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeuge, turned out to be a successful solution for the European market. Pandur II released in hundreds of units in

The United States Marine Corps, the rapid reaction force that Washington employs across the planet, will change dramatically over the next decade. Part of these changes will be the 8x8 ACV-P amphibious armored personnel carrier. It is already known that for a decade

The armored train "Baltiets" fires at the enemyArmored trains entered the history of our country primarily as heroes of the Civil War. Both reds and whites actively used the railways. In total, during the Civil War on the territory of the former Russian Empire, the warring parties were built and used in

T-34 tanks of the Guard Lieutenant Pavel Stepanovich Vtorin platoon reach the "attack" line during the exercise, photo: waralbum.ru Exactly 80 years ago, on March 31, 1940, the USSR Defense Committee signed a protocol on the acceptance into serial production of the T-34 medium tank. This decision was of great importance for

BTR-4MV1 with combat module "Parus" Combat buses. In the early 2000s, work began in Ukraine on the creation of a new armored personnel carrier, which was supposed to surpass all the vehicles of the Soviet period, which were inherited in massive quantities after the collapse of the USSR to the former Soviet republics. Work on a new armored personnel carrier

Render of the T-74 tank ("Object 450"), source: ussrbase.narod.ru The famous Soviet tank designer Alexander Morozov, who is one of the creators of the T-34 medium tank, back in the 1970s, proposed his own project of the main battle tank, which, according to all its characteristics should have

The Second World War, which became the first real war of engines, gave the world a huge number of new weapons. Tanks, which began to play an increasing role on the battlefield, turning into the main striking force of the ground forces, broke through the enemy's field defenses, destroyed the rear, closed

CM-32 Clouded Leopard Combat buses. Taiwan, which is separated from mainland China by the Taiwan Strait up to 150 kilometers wide, became the last refuge of the Kuomintang government. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who lost the civil war in China, took refuge on an island that today

Combat buses. Israel is anxious about the life and health of its military. The country, which is located in the ring of unfriendly Arab states, cannot afford to waste trained servicemen, the most expensive and limited resource for Tel Aviv. It is no coincidence that in

Tank destroyer MOWAG Taifun Such anti-tank self-propelled guns were massively used by Hitler's Germany, as well as the USSR, where such successful machines as the SU-85 and SU-100 were created. After

Combat buses. The Chinese love of copying foreign military equipment is well known. And if we are not talking about direct copying, then at least about our own understanding of the concept. So, many Western experts considered that the WZ-551 wheeled armored personnel carrier with a 6x6 wheel arrangement is

Combat buses. After the peaceful collapse of Czechoslovakia, two states appeared on the map of Europe on January 1, 1993: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The countries inherited weapons inherited from Czechoslovakia, including Soviet-made ones. At the same time, the industrial and military potential of the countries was different

A Stryker armored personnel carrier in Mosul, Iraq. 2005 Combat buses. For several decades, the M113 tracked armored personnel carrier remained the main armored personnel carrier of the American army. The car was produced in various versions in a huge series, numbering more than 80 thousand units produced. Take off completely