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The new German Army, the Bundeswehr, demanded already in 1956 the production of new and capable Tank Destroyers Gun and Missile to deal with the Warsaw Pact armoured threat. Consequently a new vehicle family, the Kanonenjagdpanzer (Gun) and Raketenjagdpanzer (Missile), were developed. This publicati..

Encyclopedia of Modern U. S. Military Tactical Vehicles In the past two decades the modern U.S. Army underwent an enormous and unprecedented transition from a Cold War doctrine towards counter-terrorism asymmetrical warfare. Within this transition the vehicle pool of the U.S. Army changed constantly..

The M1 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV) is the newest and long expected addition to the M1 Abrams tank family. The M1 ABVs fielded by the US Army and US Marine Corps marked the end of a very long search and development by the US Armed Forces for a vehicle to clear mines, as well as one that can be use..

Tankograd Yearbook Armoured Vehicles of the Modern German Army 2022 The Tankograd-YEARBOOK provides an overview over the in-service armoured vehicles of the Modern German Army and updates Tankograd's vehicle monographs published over the past years by describing and listing all main types, their var..

Soviet Full-Tracked Artillery Tractors of World War 2 in Red Army and Wehrmacht Service A new standard in research on the subject expanding existing knowledge, correcting mistakes in other publications and providing completely new historical and technical information hitherto unknown.Complete Eng..

RG-31 Mk 5 US Medium Mine-Protected Vehicle - 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 86 colour photographs Language: English Number of Pages: ..

M88A2 HERCULES US Armoured Recovery Vehicle - 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 75 colour photographs Language: English Number of Pages: ..

M109A6 Paladin US Army Self-Propelled Howitzer - 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 89 colour photographs Language: English Number of Page..

Chevrolet 1.5 -ton 4x4 Trucks Cargo, M6 Bomb Service and others Production of the first Chevrolet 1 .5ton 4x4 trucks started in August 1940 with cargo and dump trucks with and without winch, panel trucks and the Bomb Service Truck M6. of these models only the cargo trucks kept rolling off the assemb..

U.S. WW II M24 Chaffee Light Tank 48 pages with 150-200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical drawings.Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal companion for modellers and fans of technology. Comple..

U.S. WW II M29 and M29C Weasel Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal companion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and variants.Quality Photos and Illustrations; illustrated with 150-200 illustrations..

The stalemate in the trenches is for many the very definition of warfare in World War one. only months after the hostilities had started the opposing armies began to dig in along the Western Front. Thus began a type of warfare completely unexpected by those in command.The war in the trenches deman..

Panzer IV in Combat The Panzer IV in its variants A to J was the backbone of the German Panzertruppe in World War 2. This publication is entirely based on contemporary private photographs rather than on official and propaganda pictures. By using photos taken in combat by the soldiers it is now possi..

Panzerkampfwagen III in Combat Many publications have already covered the technical and historical development of the Panzer III tank in detail. This publication for the first time avoids official and propaganda photographs but uses hitherto unpublished exclusive photographical footage taken by the ..

The idea of a unified design for a military passenger (field) car for the Wehrmacht began to take shape in the early 1930s. The intention was to avoid the many types of different vehicles that were used in the Reichswehr by concentrating on the so-called Leichter (light), mittlerer (medium) and schw..

The bulk of Wehrmacht transport of World War 2 was in the 3-ton payload range. The best known truck in this class, aside from the opel Blitz S, was the Henschel Typ 33. It is creditable that a peacetime design that saw the light of day as early as 1934 (when mass production for the Reichswehr was la..

Einheits Diesel Truck With the transition from the Reichswehr to the Wehrmacht intentions grew to create a standardised truck design for the army. The result was the "Light, off-road-capable Standardised Truck 6x6 Type HWA 526 D", or short "Einheits-Diesel" that was built by almost all German truck ..

It is the reality of the North Korean threat that South Korea faces daily and which explains, why the RoKA is the sixth largest army in the world. This publication grants for the first time an inside look into the vehicle pool and training of the army guarding the peace on the last Cold War frontlin..

Chinese Army Vehicles Vehicles of the Modern Chinese People's Liberation Army When a country possesses the largest army in the world, its equipment requirements will obviously be vast. Such is the case with China. With 2.3 million personnel in all four services of the Chinese People's Liberation Arm..

IFoR operation Joint Endeavour, the NATo-led deployment of the Implementation FoRce (IFoR) in order to end the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia), was the first combat operation of NATo ever. It also was a milestone in the quick change of NATo from an alliance focused mainly on p..

The vehicles of the Modern German Army in Afghanistan The ongoing peace-keeping mission of the modern German Army in Afghanistan, ISAF, turned out to be the key factor for modernisation programmes and new purchases for the army's vehicles fleet. Already today, the German ISAF contingent employs type..

The highly successful career of the Wiesel 1 weapon carrier in the German Army called for further specialised variants on this chassis. Consequently a new range on stretched chassis (Wiesel 2) was launched and introduced. This publication concludes the study "5022 - Wiesel 1" by showing the followin..

BAoR - The Final Years - Vehicles of the British Army of the Rhine 1980-94 The 1980s saw significant modernisation efforts for the British Army of the Rhine. The most important addition to the vehicle pool was the new Challenger 1 main battle tank. This publication describes, in photographs taken at..

BAoR - The Early Years Vehicles of the British Army of the Rhine 1945-79 After the end of World War 2 the British Army of the Rhine was one of the main pillars of the NATo defence doctrine on West German soil. This publication covers the history, organisation and motor pool of the BAoR from 1945 to ..