Engineering troops and transport 2024, May

Over the past decades, the main factors ensuring the mobility of troops have been railways and road transport. At the same time, due to some objective reasons, much more attention is paid to the second. In any military unit, regardless of its affiliation to

Soon after the outbreak of the First World War, the leading countries of Europe stepped up work on the creation of promising combat vehicles for various purposes. One of the main problems that required an urgent solution was the complex landscape of the battlefield, formed by numerous craters from shells

The first half of the 20th century was the time of the dreamers. At this time, people dreamed of the North and South Poles, believed in communism, and ran around with completely insane projects. Construction of one hundred-story buildings, a ship for 2,500 passengers, tanks weighing 1,500 tons, an aircraft carrier and the development of spaceships

Currently, with the aim of developing the fleet of automobile and special equipment of the armed forces, several new projects are being developed. The most important element of the new program is the Tornado projects, within the framework of which promising wheeled chassis with high performance are being created

Within the family of armored vehicles "Typhoon", several projects of protected vehicles are being created. To date, two samples of such machines have reached trial operation in the army. These are the Typhoon-K and Typhoon-U armored cars, developed by the KamAZ and Ural automobile plants, respectively. Several

The Soviet four-wheel drive passenger car with an open body GAZ-67 did not become the most massive military vehicle of the Great Patriotic War, but it is rightfully considered one of its brightest symbols. It is also important that the GAZ-67 became one of the first domestic "jeeps", although the concept of an all-wheel drive

At the end of 2014, the armed forces received the first batch of Typhoon armored vehicles. Soon, several dozen more similar armored vehicles were handed over to the troops, which are to undergo trial operation. According to some reports, at present, the units of the Southern Military District in

At the beginning of the last century, engineers from leading countries of the world worked on the creation of promising propulsion systems for technology that could improve its performance. The wheels showed insufficient maneuverability on rough terrain, while the tracks, having the required mobility characteristics, were too

The Pentagon is going to develop flying motorcycles in conjunction with the British company Malloy Aeronautics. Work in this direction will be carried out by a military research laboratory located in Maryland. Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Boyd Resenford told about this to reporters. In that

One of the main novelties of the Russian Arms Expo-2013 exhibition, held at the end of September, turned out to be a promising heavy infantry fighting vehicle "Atom". This BMP is the result of cooperation between Russian and French specialists. French companies Renault Trucks Defense and Nexter Systems

The light armored reconnaissance vehicle VBL (Véhicule Blindé Léger) on a 4x4 wheeled chassis was developed and manufactured by the French company Panhard in 1988. It is also referred to as M-11. This vehicle is intended for the French Rapid Reaction Force as well as

The Spicer system is designed to increase the vehicle's cross-country ability by regulating the tire pressure to obtain the optimal tire imprint size on any ground Damage to a wheel or tire should not lead to extremely costly repairs, let alone a stuck combat vehicle

The Turkish company Nurol Makina has developed the Ejder Yalcin patrol car, which was purchased in small quantities by the Turkish military and police At IDEF 2015, FNSS (a joint venture between Nurol Holding and BAE Systems) presented a prototype PARS 4x4

At the last exhibition IDEX-2015, several dozen new models of military equipment and weapons were presented. The Canadian-Emirates company Streit Group, known for its developments in the field of armored vehicles, showed two prototypes of new armored cars. An interesting feature of both designs

For more than three and a half years, the US military has ordered about 29,000 MRAP vehicles for a total of approximately $ 50 billion. Shown here is Cougar Cat 1 4x4 (left) and MaxxPro Dash (right) A deserved savior of lives in asymmetric Afghanistan. But what life has in store for MRAP machines in

Ferrying troops across water obstacles is one of the most difficult engineering tasks. The famous military engineer A.Z. Telyakovsky wrote in 1856: "Crossings made in the sight of the enemy belong to the most courageous and difficult military operations."

The pontoon park is intended for the construction of ferry and bridge crossings over water obstacles on the path of the movement of troops. The pontoon park PP-91 was developed at the 15th Central Research and Testing Institute of the Ministry of Defense named after D. M. Karbyshev. It was created on the basis of a pontoon park

In early March, the domestic industry announced the launch of mass production of the newest multipurpose vehicle intended for use by the army and security forces. A project of a "buggy" class car was created by the efforts of several enterprises. So far, one model is

Since 1939, German specialists have been working on remotely controlled equipment for the ground forces. The first example of such a system brought to mass production was the Sd.Kfz.300 minesweeper, created by the Borgward company. Based on common ideas and solutions, several machines have been developed

In early May, an exhibition of military-technical equipment KADEX-2012 was held in Astana. Among other novelties, special attention of the public was attracted by the products of the KAMAZ plant. According to the established tradition, the Kama Automobile Plant presented both civilian and military equipment. Moreover, the greatest

In 2013, a snapshot of a previously unknown model of a car from the Great Patriotic War was discovered. We are talking about the very famous army car "Dodge" three quarters "(WC-51), or rather about its Soviet version with a special body. Previously it was believed that only

Demonstration of the patency of the Sherpa Light armored vehicle, offered with two different power units. Development of the VLRA 2 platform led to the emergence of a new Bastion High Mobility armored vehicle, which is based on a modern chassis with increased characteristics. Back to Renault Trucks Defense

If we talk about the most massive truck that was supplied to the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, then this, of course, is the famous American Studebaker US6. More precisely, this car was generally the absolute leader among all types of military equipment, which, under Lend-Lease, came to

The Second World War is very often called the "war of engines", in which technology played a key role. As a rule, aviation and armored vehicles are in the foreground, but cars made no less contribution to the Victory cause. Reliable provision of the Red Army with road transport played

The production of this amphibian was launched in the United States in April 1941 by the General Motors concern together with the shipbuilding company Sparkman and Stefens from New York. With this unusual vehicle, much was the first time. For the first time, an amphibious truck went into mass production, for the first time all

In the late nineties, to replace the well-deserved "old man" GAZ-66, a new all-wheel drive truck GAZ-3308 "Sadko" was adopted by the Russian army. The creation of this machine made it possible to begin updating the fleet of the armed forces, even in difficult economic conditions. Several

This article will focus on foreign analogues of the Soviet ferry-bridge machine PMM "Volna". But for the sake of truth, I must say that the Soviet PMM "Volna" was an analogue of the French development "Gillois" and the American machine from the MFAB-F park. So, "American" appeared 11 years earlier, and "French"

During the conduct of hostilities, there may be a need for fast and dense mining of a dangerous direction. Time constraints do not allow assigning such a task to sappers, since a person has low productivity. For this reason, for quick mining of relatively large

The accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant "Fukushima-1" once again made people talk about safety problems during the operation of nuclear power plants around the world. It seems natural that as long as there is no real alternative to nuclear power, no man-made collisions will stop its development

The M60A1 armored bridge guidance vehicle has been in service with the United States since 1967; the army is changing this outdated system to a new one based on the chassis of the M1 Abrams

All of us, who grew up on war films and books, can easily imagine soldiers on motorcycles. Usually, the image of German motorcyclists from the mechanized units of the Wehrmacht is born in the head, pictures of the Red Army men pop up less often, while almost always these are motorcycles with a sidecar

Today, light and high-speed military vehicles are gaining in importance. The armies of many countries are armed with ATVs and buggies. In Russia, not so long ago, the AM-1 army all-terrain vehicle was adopted. At the same time at the Automotive Research Center

An old military adage says that a sapper gets it wrong once. And so it was. Very rarely, fate gave a second chance to any of the sappers. Therefore, this work was hard, but respected in the troops. Technical progress simply had to do something that would transfer the sapper from the category of disposable

A multipurpose mechanized complex for the operational deployment of temporary roads, abbreviated as KVD. It is intended for the passage of wheeled and tracked vehicles on difficult and swampy areas of the terrain, as well as on approaches to crossings and bridges. The complex consists of two sets, placed

Actually, here we will be talking not so much about machines, although about them too, as about an innovation in the Russian engineering troops. Based on the results of the work of sappers in Syria, it was decided to return to the practice of the Great Patriotic War, when not just assault

The First World War quickly came to the so-called. positional deadlock. The armies created various obstacles that impeded the advance of the enemy, and in order to organize a breakthrough through such obstacles, the troops needed some kind of engineering means. A variety of destruction options were offered

A very useful and interesting setup. "Hygiene" is already in service with our army, which is a reason for the story about this station. SKO-10 is produced by the Krasnodar plant "Polimerfilter". The difference between SKO-10/5 and SKO-10 is in the presence of a water desalination unit. The station can take water anywhere

The activities of the American company Higgins Industries were extremely versatile. Over the years, its specialists have designed and produced not only all kinds of shallow-draft ships, boats and landing craft, but also torpedo boats and even helicopters. For example, the Higgins EB-1 helicopter, created by

Just last week, the media reported that the 20th Army of the Western Military District received at its disposal a new training ground with a section of the river, where it is now possible to practice skills to overcome a water barrier. And literally a week later, we received an invitation to see how everything

Obviously, the troops must be able to operate at any time of the day. Nevertheless, until a certain time, up to the appearance of the appropriate technical means, the work of the army in the absence of natural light was associated with certain difficulties. Later funds appeared