1942 the British General staff attended to the question: “How should a heavy “assault tank”, able without harm to themselves to act at the head of the offensive orders troops?” At that time, the military command has developed a new concept of development of armored forces, and I must say that attempts to give an exhaustive answer quickly laid down on paper in draft form. There are several development machines, for example, АТ33 “Exelsior”, АТ38 “Valiant”, but in most cases, more drawings have been done.
TURTLE, LATE FOR WAR
“Field guns on the mobile carriage” was initially called in the troops of the Wehrmacht 105-mm self-propelled howitzer Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe (“Vespa”, “Wasp”), They appeared at the front in the spring of 1943 and their baptism of fire had for the operation “Citadel”, to participate in the battle of Kursk. There is evidence that while the German combat formations were up to seventy guns, fifteen of which were destroyed by the fire of our divisions.
The development of anti-tank artillery in the second half of the 1930-ies, in particular the appearance of the guns of calibre of 37 — 47 mm, has questioned the effectiveness of the use of tanks with thick armor 20 — 25 mm. clearly this was proved by the experience of the civil war in Spain. Anti-tank gun of Franco easily punched well armed, but poorly protected tanks, the Republicans — the Soviet T-26 and BT-5. However, the problem of security was not only light, but medium and heavy tanks. They all had different weapons and sizes, but virtually the same reservation is applied to the heavy tank T-35.
In the early 1980-ies of the IVECO group by order of the Italian army began construction of armored vehicle of a new family of wheeled APCS (4×4 and 6×6), received the official name of the Light Armoured Vehicle (AVL) 6634. The customer wanted to get some bigger machine and use it to solve a wider range of tasks together with fighters of tanks “centaur”.
The German army during the Second world war widely used rockets In the Wehrmacht, they were called “mines”, and tubular launchers for them – “mortars”. Some sources claim that the Creator of the German propellant rockets caliber 100, 150, and 210 mm were engineer Nebel. Therefore, they were designated collectively as Nebelwerfergranate, which means “mine of the Month”. However, such an expression could be interpreted as “smoke mine” (Nebel – fog, smoke). The second assumption seems the most probable: the term the Germans used in the First world war to refer to the mines with smoke-forming or toxic substances.
In 1966, the military command of the British army felt that the troops needed a new car a solid class that would be easier and on dimensions less than the then car firms “Austin”, “Morris”, “Humber”. In accordance with the tasks the army needed a four wheel drive truck with a payload of one tonne, capable of towing artillery gun or transport trailers weighing up to a ton and a half. And provided the possibility of carrying up to eight soldiers in full combat gear. An important qualities of the new car was recognized its simplicity and manufacturability, small dimensions.
The modern concept of development in army units provides the transition to a combined arms brigade of several types:
In December 1941, the design Bureau of Chelyabinsk Kirov factory (up to October 1941 – Chelyabinsk tractor plant) representatives of the Armored Directorate of the red Army considered the draft design of the new tank “Klim Voroshilov” – KV-13 — “high-speed tank enhanced reservation”. According to the designers, it’s time to create a “single tank”, who would be able to combine all the positive characteristics of serial KV and T-34. The fact that KV was very difficult to manufacture, “not enough technologically advanced and not suitable to mass production in wartime”. They had surpassed the T-34 but more powerful armor.
CREATE МЕRKAVА TANK MK.1. In his first war, which began in December 1947, Israel, even before the proclamation as States do not come with any armor. Only by the end of hostilities in March 1949, two soldiers from the British 3rd hussars, was then under Haifa, drove to tel Aviv two tanks “Cromwell”. The reason they did that is still unknown, although the Israelis themselves call these people simply “sympathizers”.
At the beginning of world war II the threat of Japanese invasion on the island of New Zealand growing by the day. The country was in danger, not having any modern weapons. Under these conditions, the Public Works Department has proposed a draft tank on the basis of the tractor D8 Caterpillar (“caterpillar”). The army was interested.