Alternative Tank Design
Following the battleship “Mancikert” from the surviving Byzantine Empire, I decided to imagine what the tanks of our Megagresia might look like. To do this, I ...
Danila Karpenko
When American tank crews first encountered German Pz.Kpfw. VI “Tiger” tanks in Tunisia and Sicily, the effect was akin to a blow to the nervous system of the ...
The early postwar decades in the Soviet Union were a time not only of rebuilding the devastated industrial sector but also of bold engineering experiments. In ...
The morning of May 2, 1915, in Galicia did not begin with the usual roar of artillery, but with a low, guttural rumble that made the damp earth vibrate. ...
In the history of Soviet tank building, there were quite a few vehicles that fell just a few years short of transitioning from experimental prototypes to ...
Boroda
During assaults on well-fortified defensive lines, such as the Mannerheim Line or the fortified positions around Berlin and within the city itself, ...
Once upon a time, in the glorious city of Gorky, at an automobile plant, there lived a group of design engineers. The atmosphere was tense—it was the harsh ...
The simplest idea—to build flamethrower tanks based on the most common, lightweight models—turned out not to be very successful. The pillboxes—which the ...
When Russia unveiled the T-14 “Armata” in 2014, the global tank industry held its breath in anticipation of a new era. The vehicle, with its unmanned turret, ...
Vehicle: T-80 "Nosorog" (Project Rhino) Class: MBT (Main Battle Tank) Historical Background : By the mid-2030s, the nature of global conflicts had ...