There is a simple way to understand just how far the modernization of an old armored vehicle can go. Put an early British Centurion next to a South African ...

Put modern main battle tanks from different countries side by side, and something curious becomes apparent: despite their different design traditions, they ...

A modern tank is usually imagined as a huge computer on tracks: thermal sights, digital fire-control systems, satellite navigation, secure communications, ...

By the late 1930s, Germany was developing one of the most highly mechanized concepts of warfare of its era. Panzer formations were expected to break through ...

At first glance, the photograph looks almost comical. An American M2A4 Bradley is driving around with five small four-wheeled robots attached to the outside of ...

An event that looks almost unbelievable from the standpoint of armored warfare history has taken place on the Baltic Spit in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region. ...

There are some military vehicles whose return to production seems almost impossible to imagine. The BMP-1 certainly belongs in that category. It ...

A modern armored vehicle can easily become an extremely complex machine. Independent suspension, automatic transmission, sophisticated electronics, remotely ...

The Germans had the Hummel and Wespe, while the Soviet Union fielded an entire family of self-propelled artillery vehicles. Against them, the American M7 ...

In the late 1960s, Sweden achieved something only a handful of countries could do: it independently designed and mass-produced its own main battle tank. And ...

In the early 2000s, Poland was looking for a replacement for its aging Warsaw Pact-era armored vehicles and chose the Finnish Patria AMV. At first glance, it ...

Some armored vehicles become famous because of a single decisive battle. Others are forever associated with one particular war. Then there are machines of a ...