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After the experience of World War One, the newly founded Red Army identified a need for heavy artillery pieces ranging from 152mm to 280mm. Despite the fact that the young Soviet state of the 1920s did not possess any major heavy industry, not to speak of experienced designers of military equipment,..

PANZER II History - Technology - Variants - Combat The legendary reputation of the German Panzertruppe is mainly based on the tank types Panther and Tiger. However, less than ten years before these legends entered the stage the German Armoured Corps had to make do with the Panzer I and Panzer II whi..

M915 Early Variants AM General-built Trucks of the M915 Family in the US Army The M915 is the baseline vehicle of a family of tractor trucks and construction vehicles that was manufactured initially by AM General (early variants, as covered in this publication: M915, M915A1, M916, M917, M918, M919, ..

Armoured/Gun Trucks of the US Army in Iraq Until recently the US forces had conducted a conventional war in Iraq fighting a technically far inferior Iraqi adversary, who was no match for the US military machine. Now, the war in Iraq has developed into an asymmetric conflict. Vehicles in service with..

Soviet Trucks of WW2 in Red Army and Wehrmacht Service The Soviet Union had a relatively standardised military vehicle park at the outbreak of the Second World War, consisting primarily of GAZ and ZiS vehicles. These trucks were simple to produce in massive numbers and were straightforward to operat..

The first tanks of the East German armed forces in the immediate post-war era became the Soviet T 34/76 and T 34/85. These vehicles came from Red Army wartime production and were soon supplemented by post-war Polish production vehicles. During its service in the armed forces of the German Democratic..

Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank International Service and Variants The Leopard 2 has repeatedly underlined its leading position as the most capable and most versatile main battle tank of the world. This publication grants an overview on the Leopard 2 today in service with no less than 15 export nations...

LEGUAN The Leopard-2-based Armoured Bridge-Laying SystemIn July 2018, the first Leguan armoured bridge-laying system was handed over to the Bundeswehr Engineer Corps. The ordered systems are being delivered between 2018 and 2021, enabling the German Armed Forces to cross water and terrain obstacl..

Feuertaufe Leopard 2 The Leopard 2 MBT's Baptism on Fire on Army Exercises 1984-86 The introduction of the Leopard 2 main battle tank from 1980 into the German Panzertruppe was a highly demanding task. This publication describes the teething problems and shows the early series production Leopard 2A0..

Bv 206 HUSKY The Bv 206 D Husky manufactured by the Swedish company AB Hagglund & Sonar is an oversnow and all terrain transport vehicle. Worldwide some 11,700 Bv 206 and Bv 206 D are serving in various variants in more then 40 countries. The German Armed Forces introduced the Bv 206 D in 1985 to th..

AT 105 SAXoN Wheeled Armoured Personnel Carrier of the British Army 1977 to Today The AT 105 Saxon is a wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) operated by infantry battalions and elements of supporting arms of the British Army from the mid-1980s right into the new millennium. Procured as wheeled a..

German Panzers and Allied Armour in Yugoslavia in World War Two German Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, Polizei and Italian Army, Soviet Army, British Army, Local Fighting GroupsWhen the Yugoslavia theatre of operations in 1941-45 is mentioned, the first description that comes to mind is Bandenkampf (anti-Pa..

Type 10TK Modern Japanese Army Main Battle Tank - In action photographs and a detailed walkaround, English. - Limited print-run 999 copies - As our series "In-Detail" but half size / half price!Quality Photos and Illustrations; Illustrated with 70 colour photographs Language: English Number of Pag..

Please Note: Language: German ONLYEinheiten der Bundeswehr: Gebirgspanzerbataillon 8 (8th Mountain Panzer Battalion) US Army: Bavarian School Bus Waffen systeme der Bundeswehr: DUKW und LARC - Amphibische Gruppe Bw Deutsche Rustungsprodukte Heer (German armament products): WISENT ARV und AEV Na..

REFoRGER 1969 - 1978 Vehicles of the U.S. Army during REFoRGER Exercises - Part 1 How would a war between NATo and the Warsaw Pact have ended? A conventional clash of the titans or an all-out nuclear confrontation? The REFoRGER series of exercises trained these scenarios on large scale on German soi..

UNIMoG U4000/U5000 The Unimog Series 437.4 - Development, Technology, Variants, Service The Unimog in service with the Bundeswehr is a longstanding success story. After the three volumes on the Unimog U1300L of the 435 series (Tankograd specials 5047, 5048 and 5049), here is the publication covering..

FV432 Variants While British Special 9014 - FV432 dealt with the vehicle in the armoured personnel carrier role and its mission-related kits this publication concludes the FV432 story with the variants and specialised vehicles on the chassis. Includes comprehensive text and many hitherto unpublished..

Panzerkampfwagen T 34 - 747(r) The Soviet T-34 Tank as Beutepanzer and Panzerattrappe in German Wehrmacht Service 1941-45 Beutepanzers, captured foreign tank designs in service with the Wehrmacht, played a much more influential role in German Panzer deployment and tactics than previously thought. Wh..

TAM - Tanque Argentino Mediano The Argentine Tanque Argentino Mediano - History, Technology, Variantsone of the most widely known modern combat vehicles is the medium tank TAM VC from Argentina. Yet a comprehensive documentation on the interesting TAM (Tanque Argentino Mediano) family of armoured ..

British Forces Germany The British Army in Germany - Post-BAOR to Today On 31 March 1994, the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) was disbanded. This did not, however, automatically mean that units of the British Army were no longer based on German soil. In fact, completion of the redeployment of Germa..

PATRIoT Advanced Capability Air Defence Missile System The mission of Patriot battalions and batteries of the US armed forces is to provide air defence artillery protection against all types of airborne threats to critical assets and manoeuvre forces belonging to corps and to echelons above corps. B..

U.S. Army Germany 1945-1969 The publications REFoRGER 1969-1978, REFoRGER 1979-1985, REFoRGER 1986-1993 and recently USAREUR 1992-2005 cover the history of the military vehicles of the U.S. Army in Germany in the past forty years. With this new publication the final gap, 1945-1969, is now closed pro..

Cold War Warrior - MAN KAT I LKW The 5-ton, 7-ton and 10-ton MAN-Kat I Trucks in Cold War Exercises with the German Bundeswehr Trucks of the Categories I (Kat I) family produced by MAN are tactical vehicles with extreme off-road capabilities that can follow the vehicles of combat forces, such as the..

Unimog 1,5-Tonner "S" The Legendary 1.5-ton Unimog Truck in German Service Part 3 - Box Body / Tank Dummy / Fire Engine / Armoured For many German ex-soldiers, Unimog means first and foremost the Unimog Type S, known as the "one-and-a-half tonner". This type of truck was their daily workhorse and, w..