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The Kurganets-25 (Russian: Курганец-25) is a tracked amphibious, 25-ton modular infantry fighting vehicle and armored personnel carrier being developed for the Russian Army. The Kurganets-25 is planned to evolve into various models, gradually replacing BMP, BMD, MT-LB and other types of tracked Soviet armored platforms.
The M75 has an almost identical layout to later U.S. armored personnel carriers: the driver sits in the front left of the hull, with the air-cooled six-cylinder horizontally opposed Continental AO-895-4 gasoline engine to his right. The driver is provided with an M19 infra-red night vision periscope in later models and four M17 periscopes.
One of the first armored vehicles to be used in combat was the Spanish Schneider-Brillié, which saw action in Morocco. It was built from the chassis of a Schneider P2-4000 bus and could carry 12 passengers. [2] The genesis of the armoured personnel carrier was on the Western Front of World War I.
Dragon's teeth: Triangular obstacles acting as roadblocks for armoured vehicles. Dutch Water Line: a series of water-based defensive measures designed to flood large areas in case of attack. Earthworks; Embrasure: an opening in a parapet or casemate, for a gun to fire through.
Heron, like the smaller Waran 4×4 transporter, is the result of cooperation between Huta Stalowa Wola and the Czech company Tatra Export s.r.o. The basis for the transporter from HSW is the Czech design of the TADEAS 6×6 vehicle (Tatra Defence Armoured Solution), built on the chassis of the Tatra 815-7 truck.
The system is to include both FT-5 reconnaissance drones and a new type of Gladius 2 search and strike drones with a range of at least 100 km, developed in accordance with the requirements of the Rocket and Artillery Troops. The subject of the contract, worth PLN 2 billion, is the delivery of four battery modules of the Gladius unmanned search ...
Namer (Hebrew: נמ"ר, pronounced; meaning "leopard," and also a syllabic abbreviation of "Nagmash" (APC) and "Merkava") is an Israeli armoured personnel carrier based on a Merkava Mark IV tank chassis. [5] Namer was developed by and is being assembled by the Israeli Ordnance Corps.
The basic M113 armored personnel carrier can be fitted with a number of weapon systems. The most common weapon fit is a single .50 caliber M2 machine gun. However, the mount can also be fitted with a 40 mm Mk 19 automatic grenade launcher.