Engineering troops and transport 2024, May

The German half-track armored personnel carrier Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251 (abbreviated as SdKfz 251), better known in our country by the name of the manufacturer's company "Hanomag", became one of the symbols of the Second World War and was second only to the American

ZIL-4311 - slightly ennobled "Zakhar" Years of stagnation In fact, the entire production life of "Zakhar" was divided into three periods: the first - from 1958 to 1961, the second lasted until 1978, the third, final - until 1992. machine capable of taking on a dirt road

In 1928, the Yaroslavl State Automobile Plant No. 3 mastered the production of the promising Y-4 truck. From the previous I-3, it favorably differed in the main characteristics obtained through imported power units. However, the number of engines and other devices of foreign

In the post-war period, the Giant Viper rocket launcher was created in the interests of the Royal Corps of Engineers of Great Britain. This product perfectly coped with its tasks and showed high characteristics, which allowed it to remain in service for several

The demand for Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle trucks has only grown in recent years, with a focus on non-combat vehicles, especially logistics and engineering, in recent years. Industry experts

Tracked transporter-tractor, also known under the designation "Product 21", was created in the USSR in the late 1950s and was widely used in the Soviet Army and in the national economy. The start of serial production of GT-T became the reason for the termination of the development of a number of wheeled all-terrain vehicles in the Soviet Union

In 1925, the 1st State Automobile Repair Plant (later renamed Yaroslavl State Automobile Plant No. 3) developed its first truck. It was a three-ton class machine called I-3. After the necessary checks, the truck went into series and entered

Dodge. We have already talked about the most common car of this brand, the Dodge WC-51, which is "three-quarters". Today's exhibit belongs to the WC-21 modification, somewhat different from the WC-51 and WC-52, which were massively supplied under Lend-Lease. let's start today not with "Dodge", but with a product of the company

At the end of November, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the next delivery of armored vehicles to the ground forces. This time, the manufacturer handed over to the engineering troops six new armored demining vehicles BMR-3MA "Vepr". Delivery of similar serial production equipment

Believe it or not, the material about the next hero of our series is very difficult, even just to start. Difficult because this is truly an outstanding machine. A machine that was born during World War II and still lives today. And that's why it is known to everyone and not known to almost anyone. Okay, let's try

The hero of today's article was quite difficult to see even during the Great Patriotic War, even though more than 3000 (3100) of these cars were sent to the USSR under Lend-Lease. Even the manufacturers of these cars themselves are often confused when determining the brand of a particular car

The twenties of the last century were the most important period in the history of the domestic automotive industry. New enterprises were built and projects of promising equipment of all main classes were developed. The Yaroslavl State

At the end of the seventies, the UR-77 "Meteorite" mine clearing installation, which used elongated charges, entered service with the Soviet army. Shortly thereafter, development began on the next sample of this kind. The result of the work was the installation "Object 190" or UR-88. However, for a number of reasons, it does not

Have you ever thought about the paradoxes of our perception of beauty? What looks ugly enough at first glance can suddenly become beautiful. Conversely, the beautiful initially becomes ugly. Remember the wolverine? A small animal. Not graceful at all. A sort of walking bag of meat and fat

Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV) is ramping up production of military trucks at its Austrian plant in order to fulfill the growing number of local and foreign contracts. In addition to the production of military trucks, the Vienna plant also produces a number of civilian vehicles

During the recent exhibition "Army-2019", the Russian industry for the first time showed several promising models of equipment, including a whole family of new universal mine layers "Kleshch-G". These vehicles are built on different chassis, but use a unified target equipment and must

In the early eighties, a new "family of scattered mines" Family of Scatterable Mines / FASCAM entered service with the US Army. To use ammunition of this line, several remote mining systems have been developed. One of them was the M131 MOPMS device, made in the form

Mines and IEDs are increasingly used in modern global conflicts, becoming an integral part of them, which requires the development of a variety of solutions to combat them.In modern hand-held mine detectors, miniature electronic devices are widely used to reduce weight and advanced processing

In May 2018, Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin arrived at the inauguration ceremony in the latest Aurus Senat Limousine. He was accompanied by several other cars of the same family. The development of new models of equipment of the existing line continues. Project

"Beer, fish, churchkhela, baklava!" Since people came up with such a device as a caterpillar, their lives have changed a lot. Although it is difficult to say how much for good, and how much for bad

In the second half of the thirties, the leading Soviet automobile manufacturing enterprises began to modernize their production facilities. Taking into account the future technological capabilities, new projects of promising cars were created. Together with other enterprises, they were preparing for modernization and

One of the novelties of the Army-2019 military-technical forum held at the end of June was the civilian lightweight version of the Izhevsk Izh-Pulsar electric motorcycle. The new version of the serial electric motorcycle, intended for city use, was developed on the basis of the version for the Russian Ministry of Defense

In the Soviet Union, Belarus was responsible for the development of heavy multi-axle military equipment. It was in Minsk in 1954 at the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ) that a special design bureau was formed to develop multi-axle high-traffic vehicles for the needs of the military and civilian

Mine-explosive obstacles are the most important element of defense, and their organization requires the use of special equipment. The placement of mines on the ground can be carried out in various models using different methods of work. An interesting way of installing mines was implemented in an American project

In recent years, cars with an electric power plant have become noticeable. In this regard, the emergence of electric vehicles, originally intended for the armies, was obvious and expected. An interesting version of an army electric vehicle in 2017 was presented by the American company Nikola

Now in different countries in service are several samples of reactive mine clearance systems with different characteristics. Attempts are being made to improve such tools, but not all new projects are justified. So, over the past decades, American industry

In Runet, photos of an unusual vehicle built on the basis of the MAZ-543 four-axle chassis periodically pop up. Gigantic equipment today rusts in the open air on the territory of the V.V.Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy, near the village of Nikolo-Uryupino in the Moscow region. On the Internet, you can often

Mines are very simple in design and at the same time very effective. The effectiveness of mines allows them to remain one of the most important defensive weapons systems. And very controversial due to the danger to both the military and civilians. Therefore, the fight against mines remains

By the mid-thirties, the Yaroslavl Automobile Plant mastered the truly mass production of five-ton trucks. For several years, he was able to produce more than 8 thousand cars of the YAG-3 and YAG-4 types. In parallel with the production of existing machines, the development of new ones was carried out. As it later turned out

In 1929, the Yaroslavl State Automobile Plant No. 3 mastered the production of the country's first five-ton truck Y-5. The release of this technique did not last long - it was curtailed in 1931 due to the lack of the necessary engines. Still, the growing economy needed trucks

When, in the mid-thirties, the chief designer of GAZ, Andrei Lipgart, was working on options for modernizing a passenger car - GAZ M1, a licensed copy of the American Ford, he could hardly have guessed what tectonic scale the step would be in the course of this work. Most

The night of November 14, 1941 was already turning into early morning, when a deafening explosion shook Dzerzhinsky Street in Kharkov and the surrounding areas of the city. The mansion, located at 17 Dzerzhinsky Street, flew into the air. Before the war, a detached one-story residential building was built

At the beginning of 1932, the Yaroslavl State Automobile Plant No. 3 launched mass production of YAG-10 trucks - the first domestic vehicle with a three-axle chassis and a carrying capacity of 8 tons. This development made YAGAZ a real industry leader, but its designers did not rest on their laurels

"Lord of the Mud" is an almost literal translation of the name of the only commercially available MudMaster MM6 auger. It is produced by the Australian firm Residue Solutions Pty Ltd, which, according to some sources, supplied about 20 of these machines. No review of augers is complete without mentioning

Speaking of planes, tanks and guns, we tried to show as far as possible their less combat, but no less useful comrades. This time we will talk about the equipment that you could meet at any airfield during the Great Patriotic War. Of course, these machines could have been dispensed with

The promising search and evacuation complex PEK-490, created in the mid-seventies in the interests of cosmonautics, was supposed to consist of several ultra-high-performance vehicles. Together with other samples, it was planned to develop a snow and swamp-going vehicle with a rotary screw propeller, capable of

Since the end of the sixties, the Special Design Bureau of the Plant im. I.A. Likhachev was actively involved in the topic of auger snow and swamp-going vehicles. The construction and testing of three types of machines made it possible to find out the real capabilities of such technology, as well as to determine the ways of its further development. Taking into account

Working on projects of promising high and ultra-high cross-country vehicles, SKB ZIL by the mid-sixties created a large number of all-terrain vehicles of various types and with different characteristics. Experienced and serial wheeled vehicles showed high performance and successfully performed

Since 1966, a special design bureau of the plant. I.A. Likhachev dealt with the topic of all-terrain vehicles with the so-called. rotary screw propeller. The first experiments in this area, carried out using the original prototype, showed all the main features of the unusual chassis. Now it was possible

One of the ways to protect armored vehicles from cumulative ammunition is mesh screens of a special configuration. Such attachments are capable of destroying an approaching grenade or rocket, eliminating its detonation, or provoking a warhead to trigger at an suboptimal distance from the armor. Mesh