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Republic of South Africa (1975) Infantry Combat Vehicle – 1,400+ Built “Ratel”, the African Bush Fighter The Ratel Infantry Combat Vehicle (ICV) takes its Afrikaans name from the South African honey badger. This animal, despite its small size, is a fierce creature which can absorb a large amount of physical damage as well as dish […]
About 2,000 armoured vehicles 1912-2016. Modern Vehicles Origins of the Greek Army Of course, we will not go into depth with ancient Greek history, as rival city states almost invented ancient warfare in this part of the Mediterranean, the Trojan wars, the classic era, the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta, or the rise of […]
Iraqi Republic/MEK (Circa 1988) Self-Propelled Gun – 1 Converted Forgotten in time The “T-55/130” is the unofficial name given to a very mysterious SPG that was photographed in Diyala, Iraq, 2007. According to a series of photos, it is simply a 130mm Type 59-1 field gun mounted on a T-55 chassis. However, the exact date […]
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About 12,000 armoured vehicles 1921-2016. Tanks Improvised Vehicles Background العراق (al-ʿIrāq) was known already since the 6th century. Long before that, the country saw not only one of the first and earliest civilizations (Sumer) and the first standing armies. Babylon and its empire also enlightened the bronze age and left us a legendary metropolis. None […]
About 5,000 armoured vehicles 1990-2016. Other Vehicles German Vehicles in Foreign Service Reunification challenges A source of immense relief in particular for the Berliners and separated families was the reunification that followed the destruction of the infamous wall and the dissolution of the GDR. The wall was erected in 1961, and only the peaceful Revolution […]
Modern Ground Forces of the Russian Federation (post-1990) Vehicles Russian Vehicles in Foreign Service It would be years after the political turmoil following the collapse of the Soviet Union before Russia could emerge as a potent military power, with the inheritance of a massive Soviet army counting many obsolete models, no wages, no ammunition or […]
US Tanks and Armored Vehicles From 1946 to 1991 Medium Tanks & Main Battle Tanks Light Tanks Engineering Vehicles Other Armored Vehicles Unarmored Vehicles Heavy Tank Prototypes & Projects Medium Tank & Main Battle Tank Prototypes & Projects Light Tank Prototypes & Projects M113 Prototypes HMMWV Prototypes Other Prototypes Fictional/Fake Tanks Tactics Technology US Vehicles […]
SADF armored vehicles (1948-2017) Tanks Wheeled Vehicles Self-Propelled Guns & Artillery Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Guns Armored Personnel Carriers Prototypes & Projects SANDF after WW2 M3 Stuarts were maintained for a long time in service (retired 1955) in resreve by 1961 but reactivated in 1962 for training (6th South African Division) until 1968. In 1946 two Churchill […]
Romanian armor 1919-2016 About 3,000 armored vehicles Vehicles Prototypes & Projects In August 1945 an insurrection overthrew Marshal Antonescu and the fascist regime. A new provisional regime sympathetic to the USSR as established and, until the end of the war, Romanian Forces fought under control of the Red Army against German Armies to claim back […]
Heavy Tanks Medium Tanks Light Tanks Armored Personnel Carriers Other Vehicles Heavy Tank Prototypes & Projects Other Prototypes & Projects Fake Tanks Soviet Vehicles in Foreign Service Situation in 1945 In 1945, the Red army seemed unstoppable. With almost twice the numbers of soldiers and armored vehicles than the Allies, some of the top staff […]
People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Around 25,000 armored military vehicles Tanks Prototypes & Projects Fake Tanks Chinese Vehicles in Foreign Service Context before 1949 (1937-1945) After the fall of the Empire and Qing dynasty in 1912, the first Chinese Republic was born. Sun Yat-sen was its first president, but he was forced to give way to […]
Tanks are still there. Since the sixties, there was a worldwide consensus about the main battle tank design (MBT), in terms of speed vs armor vs weaponry. The “magic triangle” is now filled by many models, in many armies. Those whose economic conditions allow access to second-grade foreign export models are now building derivatives under […]
Cold War Tanks Starting from the sundry families of light, medium and heavy tanks, the strategists and tacticians of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact got to work revising the tactics and technologies inherited from WW2. This led to the development of new armored vehicles including Main Battle Tanks (MBTs), Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs), and […]