Engineering troops and transport
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Military-technical cooperation with foreign countries is always of great interest. In recent years, another topic of this kind has emerged, around which there is a constant debate. These are purchases of foreign weapons and military equipment. For example, according to the Russian-Italian agreement in
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The engineering team of Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems and Pratt & Miller celebrated the debut of the MAV-L SUV at the 2012 AUSA Show. The MAV-L is a modular vehicle capable of carrying up to seven soldiers and can be easily reconfigured for specific tasks
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History of creation As a result of hostilities in Afghanistan and Iraq, the need for special vehicles capable of withstanding the threats of the use of mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) was identified. For example, in Afghanistan, more than half of the losses of the coalition forces accounted for
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It is often necessary to transport military cargo within the territory of the Russian Federation and beyond. Today, cargo transportation of the military segment is used to prepare large-scale exercises at various bases and training grounds. It is reported that for the preparation of the Caucasus-2012 exercises, which caused
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On January 11, 2013, NSSF Savunma Sistemleri, a leading company in the land vehicle sector of the Turkish defense industry, presented the amphibious armored combat earthmover (Amfibik Zırhlı
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For armored forces, the greatest threat due to their wide distribution is posed by homemade landmines and high-explosive mines, which are installed at a shallow depth in the ground. In order to assess the magnitude of this threat in the United States of America, special studies were carried out
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In the USSR, a large number of unique vehicles were developed for various types of troops. The engineering troops also had their own "curiosity" - IPR - an engineer underwater reconnaissance. This car drove on the ground (which is quite natural for a car), overcame water obstacles by swimming (this also did not
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In April 2012, the site, in the article "Armored car" Punisher "Four-wheeled riddle", already provided information about this car. However, then, due to the lack of information, it was necessary to make guesses from the available photos and models. And now the veil of secrecy has been removed
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The tank is the main striking force of the ground forces, so their loss is painful for any army in the world. Main battle tanks are too expensive to destroy damaged vehicles or throw them onto the battlefield. Realizing this, for the evacuation of this type of military equipment
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One of the new vehicles for the Russian army is the Tiger armored car. After getting acquainted with these products of the GAZ automobile plant, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin was delighted and said that the "Tiger" could well be produced in a civilian version. Off-road vehicles of the army series, by the way, are often
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For many years, the KamAZ car has served faithfully not only in the civilian sector of the economy, but also works for the military sphere. In civil terms, KamAZ is a real workhorse of trade transportation. Of the North Caucasian republics of Russia, cargo transportation by KamAZ is about 68%. KamAZ
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GAZ-67 and GAZ-67B are well-known Soviet all-wheel drive cars with a simplified open body, in which cutouts were used instead of doors. The car was a further modernization of the GAZ-64, like the first model, it was developed by the designer V.A.Grachev based on
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The Kiev Armored Repair Plant will soon begin production of the Dozor-B light armored vehicle. This armored personnel carrier was developed in Kharkov, by specialists of the Kharkov Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering named after A. Morozov. New armored special purpose vehicle
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During the autumn-winter 1941-42. German campaign in the USSR revealed the weakness of many wheeled and half-tracked vehicles in service with the Wehrmacht. Cars skidded in the mud and got stuck in deep snow, and their high-speed engines did not start well in the cold and get out of
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Rough Terrain Container Handlers (RTCH, pronounced 'ratch') handle standard ANSI / ISO cargo containers, which have become the backbone of US and allied military logistics in recent years. For example, only when transporting the third and fourth
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In modern conditions, taking into account the growth in the cost of military equipment, the fastest repair in the field is becoming one of the highest priority tasks. For the timely repair of damaged military equipment, armored recovery vehicles (ARVs) of various models are used. In the present
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The fast trenching machine BTM is designed for cutting trenches and communication passages in soils up to category III inclusive with a dump of excavated soil on both sides of the trench being torn off. A rotor is used as a working equipment … Multi-bucket excavators (continuous
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Last Tuesday, May 28, Minister of Defense S. Shoigu visited the 3rd Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense in Bronnitsy, where he was shown the latest developments in military vehicles. During this visit, both modified machines of old projects and new developments were demonstrated. Of all shown
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Belarus does not often please the public with novelties of weapons and military equipment, therefore, each appearance of a new model causes a corresponding reaction. In the middle of May, journalists from the BelaPAN agency managed to take several photos of a new armored car built on one of the
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In 1906, the Imperial Garage was created at the court of Nicholas II. He was in Petrograd. Subsequently, it became the motor depot of the Soviet government. In 1917, the fleet of this motor depot consisted of 46 cars: among them are cars of the most famous foreign brands - "Mercedes"
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For the first time, the model range of "Wolf" cars with a carrying capacity of 1.5 to 2.5 tons was presented in the town of Zhukovskoye near Moscow three years ago. The multipurpose vehicle is based on Tiger-type vehicles that have been tested in hot spots. The direct purpose of the "Wolf" is the transportation of soldiers
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The auctions that sell military equipment are always of interest. But many people have a question: what are the decommissioned ZILs, Urals and KAMAZs capable of? Now the military has shown these machines in action. Well, the test drive was impressive! An Onliner.by correspondent visited Starye Dorogi
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One of the most controversial topics of recent times was the contract of the Russian Ministry of Defense with the Italian company Iveco, according to which Iveco LMV armored vehicles were to appear in our armed forces. The armored cars entered service under the new name "Lynx" and dispersed across
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Perhaps there is no more famous military vehicle in Russia than the GAZ-66 or, among the common people, "Shishiga" ("Sheshiga"). Although the car was designed in the distant sixties, its use is justified to this day. If we talk about the vehicle fleets of military units, then in the overwhelming number of the 66th GAZ
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As a legacy from the Soviet Army, the Armed Forces of the newly created Ukrainian state inherited a powerful electronic intelligence (RER) system
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History of creation By the mid-1980s, the Bundeswehr announced the need for a new armored reconnaissance vehicle. This vehicle was to be the successor to the Scout Lynx reconnaissance vehicle and replace it as a reconnaissance vehicle in armored and mechanized infantry
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You can defeat the enemy in a thousand different ways. This is the 1001st. The enemy can simply be blown away. Forever and ever. And burn at the same time. Fully. At any depth. Designed to detect and sweep mines installed on paved roads. TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS - combat weight - 37 t; - strip width
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Over the past years, the main trend in the field of military vehicles has been to increase the level of protection. Vehicles designed to transport people and goods have acquired massive bulletproof armor and have learned to protect a person from a mine being blown up. However, in some cases
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For construction work, truck cranes are used today. On most modern construction sites, you can see truck cranes that carry out work to lift loads to a certain height. Depending on the length of the boom and the base of the crane, a functional (specific)
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The priorities of Russian military development today are the construction of structures that meet modern technologies, which would fit within the specified time frame, and would not require extra costs. Military construction today is carried out by engineering troops, which, as it happened, often
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55 years ago, an all-terrain vehicle was created at the Kirov plant, which was officially named "Penguin". It was developed in the design bureau of the plant (now OJSC "Spetsmash"), which was led by the outstanding tank designer Joseph Yakovlevich Kotin. Tracked all-terrain vehicle "Penguin" (object 209) In 1957 in
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On Wednesday, August 28, at a military training ground near Yaroslavl, tests of the new Russian railway bridge-overpass IMZH-500, which should enter service with the Russian army in 2014, took place. State tests of prototypes of property and special
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At the recent exhibition of weapons and military equipment DSEI-2013, held in London, several new armored vehicles for various purposes were shown. Thus, the French company NEXTER Systems brought its new development titled TITUS to the exhibition. The design of this machine included
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Next year, strategic missile forces will begin to receive new equipment. To ensure the safety of mobile ground-based missile systems, a new remote demining machine (MDR) "Foliage" will be used. In early August, the latest development
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At the 9th International Exhibition of Military Equipment, Arms and Ammunition “Russian Exhibition of Arms. Nizhny Tagil-2013 "(Russia Arms EXPO 2013) one of the leading Russian manufacturers of trucks - the Ural automobile plant - presented several interesting new products designed for
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Kirovsky Zavod assembled the first all-terrain vehicle - a cross-country vehicle of the Yamal project. According to design engineers from St. Petersburg, this machine is able to become one of the main vehicles used today in the Russian Far North for maintenance
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TMPK "Mule" was created by the "Minotor-Service" enterprise on an initiative basis based on the study of the experience of combat operations of ground forces in local conflicts. The vehicle is designed to deliver ammunition, fuels and lubricants and other material and technical means to the positions of the first echelon troops
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The year is coming to an end, and therefore there are reports on the results of the activities of certain organizations. Thus, the Concern "Radioelectronic Technologies" (KRET) reported on the fulfillment of the state defense order for the supply of electronic warfare systems "Rtut-BM". In accordance with the current contract in 2013
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The rich combat experience gained by the engineering troops in Afghanistan remains of great importance today. About what technical and organizational measures were carried out by engineering units during this conflict, says the candidate of military sciences, professor, retired colonel Peter
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In 2014, the rearmament of the army and power structures will continue. So, in accordance with the existing agreements, this year the Interior Ministry troops will receive the first batch of new armored vehicles. Eight vehicles of the "Ural-VV" model will be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and after that they will be delivered to