Soviet-made T-55 medium tanks in the Egyptian army turned into ammunition transporters. To do this, turrets with 100 mm guns and paired 7.62 mm machine guns were removed from the tanks and massive armored cabins were erected into which shells are loaded.

In the 80s, Chinese designers began to look for a replacement for the 100-mm guns, which they installed on their Type 69 medium tanks. At this time, the leading tank-building powers of the world began to produce a new generation of combat vehicles with powerful multilayer armor, reinforced on some models (T-72BM, T-80U) with built-in dynamic protection.

GaardTech Company presented mock-ups of Russian tanks and BMP-3 for exercises

The Australian company GaardTech has shown new models of equipment that look similar to the Russian T-72, T-90 tanks and the BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle. The mockups are designed to simulate the equipment of a conditional enemy in European exercises. This is reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton announced the allocation of 3.5 billion on January 10. Austr. dollars (2.5 billion US dollars) for the implementation of projects for the purchase of OBT (LAND 907 Phase 2) and armored engineering vehicles (LAND 8160 Phase 1) in the USA.

The broken American Abrams main battle tank "escaped" from the M88A2 Hercules armored repair tow truck that tried to pull it.

This happened at one of the ranges of the Fort Hood base (Texas) in early 2019, then a heavy BRAM was sent to the disabled M1A1 to help.

Recently, interest in the wars in Chechnya has reawakened. However, there are many inconsistencies about the use of various military equipment in urban battles. For example, the need to introduce 2S9 "Nona-S" self-propelled artillery installations into Grozny is questioned. Say, why were they needed there?

By the end of this year, the Guards Tank Division of the Central Military District will receive 30 modern T-72B3M tanks with improved combat characteristics. This was announced by the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.

The railway connections of the Eastern Military District, stationed in the Amur Region and the Khabarovsk Territory, received two-link DT-10P all-terrain vehicles in 2021.

Over the past few years, the RVSN has received more than three hundred modern training equipment (TCB), all of them are unique in their own way and allow you to improve the skills of any specialist both individually and as part of a unit.

FAR EAST - Calculations of coastal missile systems "Bastion" of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) have started the first training in the coming year for the defense of the Kamchatka coast, the press service of the fleet reported on Wednesday.

North Korea has conducted its third official test of a hypersonic missile. During them, she was able to hit a target at a range of 1000 kilometers.

India launched an upgraded BrahMos missile from the Visakhapatnam destroyer

India has tested an improved sea-based cruise missile BrahMos. The missile was launched from the destroyer Visakhapatnam. This was announced by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of the Ministry of Defense of India on Twitter.

The Russian army has the strongest air defense in the world, according to experts interviewed by Forbes. Each battalion tactical group (BTG, the main combat element of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) is accompanied by a variety of anti-aircraft systems, each of which has its own task.

The new technology is capable of simultaneously aiming more missiles and firing more targets

The anti-aircraft missile Regiment of the Central Military District (CVO), stationed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, will receive upgraded S-300PM-2 Favorit anti-aircraft missile systems by the end of 2022. This was reported to journalists on Wednesday by the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin.

On January 7, Lockheed Martin Corporation announced the signing of a contract with the US Department of Defense as part of the modernization of 25 AH-64D Apache attack helicopters of the Egyptian Air Force to the latest version of the "E".

A video of the use of an attack drone to storm a building conditionally captured by terrorists has appeared on the Network. The video was shot at the exercises of the special forces of the People's Armed Militia of China.

Japanese companies KDDI, Prodrone and Chinese Qysea showed a system of a multicopter and an underwater robot. The multicopter delivers the robot to the dive site in the cage, sits on the water and releases it. The robot dives and transmits the video from its camera to the operator. After that, the drone takes the robot back, pulling it up with a cable.

The command of the Colombian Air Force has received the fourth turboprop training aircraft T-6C "Texan-2" manufactured by Beechcraft (Textron Aviation division).

The assembly of the first HÜRJET jet aircraft has begun in Turkey. January 11, portal savunmasanayist.com He announced that the new machine will be delivered in versions of a training aircraft and a light attack aircraft.

Defense News: the possible acquisition of the F-35 by Germany threatens the industry of the European Union

The fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter produced by the American company Lockheed Martin as a possible candidate to replace the German Tornado aircraft may threaten the joint program of France, Germany and Spain to create a new generation European fighter, Defense News recognizes.