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At the Future Armored Vehicles Central & Eastern Europe conference in Prague, the Slovak Ministry of Defense announced its plan to purchase more than 100 new main battle tanks. This was reported by Defence Industry Europe. Details of the deal Under an arms exchange agreement with Germany, Slovakia handed over 30 BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles […]
The Russian industry produces 500-600 new tanks annually, but the Russians lose more than a thousand tanks and about 2,000 combat vehicles a year. According to the newspaper, over 26 months of heavy fighting, the Russian military has lost 15,300 tanks, combat vehicles, howitzers and other weapons in Ukraine, as well as hundreds of thousands […]
The Brazilian army is preparing to test a Turkish-made Kaplan MT medium tank. Based on the results of the test, a decision will be made on the feasibility of purchasing these vehicles for the needs of the country’s armed forces. Earlier, Turkey sold some Kaplan MT to Indonesia. The medium Kaplan MTs are expected to […]
Two trophy T-90M tanks of the 2022 model were registered with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The very fact that such vehicles have been registered means that the Ukrainian Armed Forces can either already use these tanks in battles against Russian tanks, or these tanks can be repaired and put into service with our army. […]
In early January 2023, it became known that the Indian private company AVNL had created a kind of armored “hybrid” – a vehicle with a chassis from a T-72 tank and a turret from a T-90 tank, which then received the working T-79 Kumbhkaran or Nigama. Now it has become known that this “hybrid” will […]
Of the fewer than 100 Leopard 2 tanks in service in Ukraine, at least 26 have been disabled. Others cannot be used by the Armed Forces due to problems with their repair and maintenance. This was reported by Foreign Affairs. “Like all tanks, the Leopard 2 and Abrams depend on close whole-of-service coordination with infantry, […]
Footage has appeared in the public domain, which shows that the Russian military (probably one of the marine units) has installed RBU-6000 rocket launchers on the chassis of T-80 tanks, thus creating another home-made “Frankenstein.” The footage shows that the occupiers now have at least two T-80s with RBU-6000s at their disposal, the probable time […]
The German-British joint venture Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) has released images of the first prototype of the British Army’s Challenger 3 main battle tank (MBT) after the new vehicle was completed at a plant in Telford, England. The first public images of the prototype were unveiled at the IQPC International Armor Conference in London, […]
The media showed unique footage of Ukrainian tankers training to operate American M1A1 Abrams tanks, which were supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces as part of US military assistance. The footage was posted on January 14 by Military Land on Twitter (X). “Training of Ukrainian tank troops on US-supplied M1A1 Abrams tanks abroad, summer 2023,” […]
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have added 31 American tanks to their armored fist. The Pentagon supplied the vehicles in the simpler M1A1 modification. It is the most widespread in the US army. Experts believed that the Pentagon would supply Abrams tanks in the FEP modification, which had been decommissioned by the Marine Corps. A photo […]