Hello and good day to everyone.
This thread was created in order to gain info about the new Italian army MBT and IFV projects currently in development.
Background: Since 2023, Italy started to look for new solutions for modernize it's armored compartments. The program aim to acquire two type...
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Here's a consolidation of the information I've found so far.
Komatsu B78 IFV
Built by Komatsu, the JSDF in the late ’70s started a project to design an Infantry Fighting Vehicle that would aid troops in the field while also providing armored fire support. Mitsubishi and Komatsu both built...
Looks like some of the Bradley’s will have a new home.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/biden-says-bradley-fighting-vehicles-are-table-ukraine-2023-01-04/
In the story I am planning, I would love to feature planes' fights and infantry fighting vehicles' fights.
I tried to look for myself but the research result were somewhat small or didn't correspond to what I was looking for.
Since I am not an aviation or aereospace engineer, military or...
G'day gents
Just been reading an extract from The Bradley and How It Got That Way: Technology, Institutions, and the Problem of Mechanized Infantry in the United States Army by by W. Blair Haworth
I found it interesting that "The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) conducted a...
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early 1970s
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late 1960s
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G'day once again gents
I've just recently posted a new topic titled Truth to The Pentagon Wars and the Bradley IFV?? (http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,20319.0.html). This got me think of both the movie and the difference that eventuated from the seemingly useful, logical...
From Sealordlawrence's post on MBT-80
I would add that at this point the British Army was also scheming 1,900 MICV's (which were originally meant to have Chobham armour and a 750hp engine with a total weight of 30 tons). MBT-80 was apparently cancelled in July 1980, it seems that prior to this...
The Russians introduced their BMP family of MICVs in the 1960s.
In NATO the only country to do likewise was Germany which replaced
its basic HS 30 vehicle (an early MICV of a sort) from the 70s with the
Marder. Modified Marders are still in service with the German forces.
In contrast Britain...
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