Armored vehicles 2024, November

BMR M1 of the Spanish army Combat buses. Today Spain has a fairly large arsenal of armored vehicles in comparison with other European countries. The Spanish army is armed with more than 330 tanks "Leopard 2", this is more than in Germany itself, 84 wheeled tanks "Centauro"

Combat buses. The idea of creating an armored personnel carrier based on a tank is not new. The first such machines were created during the Second World War. Great Britain and Canada created makeshift armored personnel carriers using Sexton self-propelled guns, Ram and Sherman tanks as chassis. In the 1980s to a similar idea

APC TPz 1 Fuchs The German love to call armored vehicles by the names of various animals did not disappear even after the end of the Second World War. It was in the post-war period that Leopard tanks, Lynx reconnaissance vehicles, and Fox armored personnel carriers were in the service of the Bundeswehr. The last

Combat buses. If today there was a competition for the most terrible armored car in history, then Buffel, created by South African designers, would definitely compete in it for first place. Formally, this "Buffalo" from South Africa belongs to the MRAP class - armored wheeled vehicles with

BTR-60PA on Red Square Developed in 1956-1959, the BTR-60P became the progenitor of numerous combat vehicles built on its basis, as well as further

"Combat buses". The most famous armored personnel carrier of the eastern bloc is rightfully considered the OT-64 SKOT. This combat vehicle represented its own view of the wheeled armored personnel carrier of socialist Czechoslovakia and Poland. At the same time, most of the military equipment in service with the armies of the countries

BTR M113A3 of the American army on exercises in Germany, 2015 "Combat buses". The American M113 armored personnel carrier became the most massive armored personnel carrier in history. The tracked combat vehicle, adopted in 1960, is still used in the armies of many countries. In this case, the structure turned out to be

"Combat buses". The BTR-50P armored personnel carrier has become in many ways a unique combat vehicle. In addition to the fact that it was the first domestic tracked armored personnel carrier, the BTR-50 was also floating. Here his pedigree was fully reflected. This model was created on the basis of a light amphibious tank

"Combat buses". Armored personnel carriers are rightfully called "battle buses". But most of all, this definition fits one of the first Soviet production vehicles of this class. We are talking about a heavy armored personnel carrier BTR-152, which was launched into mass production in 1950, together with

For many Russians, KIA Motors is associated with Korean passenger cars. But the Seoul-based company produces not only the best-seller of the Russian automotive market - budget cars KIA Rio, but also automotive equipment for the armed forces. Beyond trucks and army vehicles

"Combat buses". The first Soviet armored personnel carrier, which was put into mass production, appeared in the country after the end of the Great Patriotic War. The designers of the GAZ automobile plant began to develop the car, which already in 1948 were able to present the military with a light

"Combat buses". The most massive armored personnel carrier of the Second World War is not the German "Hanomag", which, in fact, became the first full-fledged ancestor of the genre, launched into mass production just before the outbreak of the war, but the American M3 armored personnel carrier. Like its German counterpart, the American

"Combat buses". German half-track armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz. 251 is the most recognizable armored personnel carrier of World War II, although more American M3 half-track armored personnel carriers were produced during the war years. The Sd.Kfz. Combat vehicle created by German designers. 251 throughout

"Combat buses". Before the start of World War II, Sweden favorably stood out among all the Scandinavian countries with a developed industry, which made it possible to create very complex military products, including tanks. It is not surprising that using your neutral status

In recent years, Russia has created a large number of uninhabited combat modules: "Crossbow", "Boomerang-BM", AU-220M "Baikal", "Epoch", etc. The new Russian main battle tank "Armata" received an uninhabited tower with the main weapon system. Despite the fact that uninhabited combat modules

"Combat buses". By the time World War II broke out, the English view of armored personnel carriers had undergone major changes. If the first armored personnel carrier in history, created in Great Britain at the end of the First World War, was distinguished by monstrous dimensions and was a remake of the first diamond-shaped

Combat buses. Having offered the world the first armored personnel carrier developed at the end of the First World War on the basis of the Mark V tank, the British designers, joining forces with the Canadians, tried to repeat their trick at a new technological level already during the Second World War. In 1944 the allies

"Combat buses". Currently, in almost all armies of the world, armored personnel carriers are the most common type of armored vehicles. This is not surprising, modern armored personnel carriers are distinguished by their relative simplicity of design and low cost, in comparison with BMPs and even more basic

Currently, the BMP-3 is the most advanced infantry fighting vehicle in service with the Russian army. Officially put into service in 1987, the combat vehicle still has the potential for modernization and in the future will serve the military for more than a decade. Today

The phrase "Hungarian tank building" in itself evokes a smile today. In fairness, it should be noted that in the 1940s, not many European countries could afford to produce tanks. Despite all attempts, Hungarian designers failed to create competitive combat

Great Britain is a conservative country, the leadership of which has always been adept at counting money. Currently, the army of Foggy Albion is armed with the only tracked infantry fighting vehicle - BMP "Warrior". Serial production of this BMP began in 1985, and in 1987, combat

Today South Africa is classified as a country with a developed defense industry. The South African military-industrial complex has achieved significant success in the development of wheeled armored vehicles for various purposes. Both light armored vehicles and multi-wheeled MRAPs, as well as

At the international defense industrial exhibition IDEX-2019, which was held from 17 to 21 February 2019 in Abu Dhabi (UAE), a new armored vehicle from the Nimr armored vehicle family was demonstrated. We are talking about the Ajban Nimr 447A MRAV (Multi-Role Armored Vehicle) armored vehicle with a wheel

At the international defense industrial exhibition IDEX-2019, which was held from February 17 to 21 in Abu Dhabi (UAE), the military-industrial group Paramount Group from South Africa presented its new product - the Mbombe 4 MRAP armored vehicle with a 4x4 wheel arrangement. The novelty is positioned by South African

At the IDEX-2019 international defense and industrial exhibition held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) in February, the Serbian state defense company Yugoimport SDPR first showed the general public a new tactical (anti-tank) missile system, designated RALAS. This complex

In 1966, a revolutionary combat vehicle, the BMP-1, was born in the Soviet Union. This tracked infantry fighting vehicle was distinguished by the presence of a fairly powerful armament, consisting of a 73-mm smooth-bore gun 2A28 "Thunder", paired with a 7.62-mm PKT machine gun, and an ATGM "Baby". This complex

If you doubted the existence of real luxury armored vehicles, you can rest assured that they exist. These include the T-98 "Kombat" model - an armored SUV developed in Russia and intended for the transportation of VIPs, including in the combat zone. The car was

In 1985, the BMD-2 (airborne assault vehicle) was adopted by the Soviet Army, which replaced the BMD-1. This tracked amphibious combat vehicle is intended for use as part of the airborne forces and can be parachuted both by landing and parachute with

By the time the Second World War began and up to the German attack on the USSR, the Red Army had only one light armored car - the morally obsolete BA-20 with a 4x2 wheel arrangement. By that time, the Wehrmacht, on the contrary, had traveled almost all of Europe on its wheeled

For a long period of time, Soviet military developments in the 1980s in the field of tank building remained a secret behind seven seals. Only in our days, already in the XXI century, this veil of secrecy is gradually disappearing, and we begin to learn about what amazing projects of combat vehicles

In the late 1980s, German factories were completing the Leopard 2 A4 main battle tanks ordered by the Bundeswehr, but practical Germans were already thinking about the further development of tank technology, the need for tanks in the future and their intended appearance. Several

The golden era of wheeled armored vehicles fell on the 1930-1940s, during that period wheeled armored vehicles were actively designed and built in many countries of the world. These countries included France, which was then still a major European colonial power. Traditions of creation and production

At the very end of the war, in February 1945, in the design bureau of plant No. 100, whose branch at that time was located in Leningrad, work began on the project of a new heavy tank, which was to become a development of the IS-6 project. By June, a detailed draft design of the future combat was ready

The love of the German military for assigning the names of animals to armored vehicles, especially representatives of the cat family, did not disappear anywhere after the end of World War II. In 1975, the Bundeswehr adopted a new wheeled combat reconnaissance vehicle, which received the designation SpPz 2

Wheeled tanks are now in the arsenal of the armies of many countries. The most famous and one of the most powerful is the Italian Centauro, armed with a 120mm cannon. At the same time, wheeled armored vehicles with a tank-caliber cannon as the main armament are in South Africa, the USA, China, and France. Precisely France

Britain, being the birthplace of tanks, for many years produced armored vehicles that could not be called outstanding. Dominating the sea and creating excellent warships, Great Britain in the interwar period and during the Second World War used very specific tanks and armored personnel carriers, with

Written in 1938, the march of Soviet tankmen, which sounded in the pre-war feature film "Tractor Drivers", forever entered Russian life and culture. The line opening the march "The armor is strong and our tanks are fast" became winged and popularly known. This catch phrase has not lost

For most of us, Switzerland is primarily associated with banks and the financial system, cheese and watches. Most of the associations are absolutely peaceful, even the famous Swiss knife is a purely practical invention. And the country itself, which has achieved a high standard of living for its citizens

Within the framework of the IDEX-2019 international forum of the defense industry held in Abu Dhabi, a giant Belarusian road train-tank carrier with a carrying capacity of up to 136 tons was shown. At an exhibition in the UAE, the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant presented a three-link model of a road train: an all-wheel drive tractor MZKT-741351 with

Concluding the story about the little-known tanks of the Second World War, it is worth talking about the Italian P26 / 40 tank, which was supposed to occupy the same niche in the Italian armed forces as the T-34 in the Red Army. The history of this tank is interesting at least because work on it began back in 1940