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Hello all. I am not sure if this post really belongs here or not, but I just found the photo below and I find the theoretical implications fascinating. It sure looks like a Panzer II turret with a 37mm gun. Sure enough, it is. This turret was used on the Atlantik Wall as a static defensive...

A Swedish modeler named Björn Bäcklund ( https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/ex72/modern.html ) created this 1:72 scale model of a hybrid Polish main battle tank combining the hull of a T-72 with the turret of a Leopard 2. Bäcklund created the model back when Poland had recently joined NATO in...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUBih8GFtfc

So I have been looking at various late cold war tank projects (abrams block 3, Panzerkampfwagen 2000 ect) and one thing that keeps popping up but which i can not find any information about is the mbt-90 program, aperintly Germany figured 3ed times a charm (after mbt-70 with the US and mbt-80...

After the end of the Second World War, the surviving Jews in the Nazi concentration camps set off a new wave of return to their hometowns and settle down in Palestine. Seeing that the time was right, Zionism began to raise up, calling on Jews living in different parts of the world to return to...

According to Spielberger, the Panther was tested with a BMW 132 radial engine. Tests were promising, but the book has no details. Anyone with further information?

A dictionary sized reference book on tanks and other armoured vehicles, the Taschenbuch der Panzer has been re-issued in various forms over the years. The most recent edition (8. Ausgabe) appeared back in 2001. A 9th edition was supposed to appear in 2018 but so far seems to have fallen victim...

View: https://youtu.be/RvlfWqCcMdk Essentially a British equivalent to the American Block III MBT, and Soviet Object 477.

After lessons learned from incursion into Syria. Turkey sought out to develop ways in which to increase survivability of it's MBTs Leopard 2A4-TM , Armour packages developed by Roketsan. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q84A9sM4TE8 M60-TM, Roketsan Improved armour packages replacing...

Giant wheeled armoured cars from any country and any war, I want to show some armoured cars and Landships I found in webs like Tank enyclopedia and Military Review Some of these are Russian, American, French and British but if you know other from other country, feel free to post it here Thx

Hi everyone, I've dipped my toe into a topic that I previously new next to nothing about and still find myself woefully under-equipped for. Long story short, I'm trying to determine which tanks had thermal imaging sights prior to the Persian Gulf War. Please correct my errors (I'll edit this...

It seems that CA Parsons suddenly constructed gas turbines in 1954 for Conqueror prototype P.7 07BA70 and made it the first AFV to have a gas turbine engine. Cuz I have never read any materials about the development of early British gas turbines for ground vehicles. Anyone knows something about...

I found this in a 1990s 'Yellow Peril (Japan)' techno-thriller called 'The War in 2020' (1991), the book ends with a note indicating that the writing of it was finished in April of 1990. It features this tank which I am guessing was based on the reports of these tanks in the west. Here are the...

As we know the Russians managed to standardise their tanks forces in the 60s and 70s on two designs: The T55 and later the T72. What tank should NATO have chosen if politics had been no object?

RM released this late last year. MGCS=Main ground combat system= the supposed Leo III MBT.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a127471.pdf

Source: http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog:27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post:2ce437ed-afc9-41be-83b6-a91c5c69887d What's behind the Saudi arms build-up? A counter to Iran? To put down potential internal opposition...

At present it looks unlikely if the Army will need a Challenger 2 replacement for the foreseeable future. I got into hot water for suggesting that when and if we ever did, we should take a leaf out of the Australian or Canadian book and buy off the shelf. What options are out there? What would...

An interesting Chrysler Corporation P.R publication from the immediate Post-WWII period: http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Tanks/Cover.htm H/t to Ordie over at MilitaryPhotos.net who found this first.

While searching patents for French tanks, found this German tank design put forth by Wegmann. I've attached the tank image from the patent as well as the patent itself. Did Wegmann ever build it or did it remain a patent design only?