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The rise and fall of oscillating turrets: France’s bold tank innovation

Oscillating turrets once promised a revolutionary leap in tank design, allowing smaller vehicles to mount powerful guns with ...
RedEffect Official on MSN

The promising Ukrainian tank that never entered full production

Designed to address well-known weaknesses in Russian tank layouts, the Ukrainian Yatagan introduced solutions to autoloader ...
StrategyPage

Armor: How An Autoloader Can Hurt M-1 Tanks

August 16, 2010: For about four years now, there's been an M1A3 version of the American M1 tank in the works. One of the most contentious aspects of this new model is the reduction of the crew from ...
NextBigFuture

Future of completely robotic tanks is near

Kalashnikov, famous small arms weapon maker, will create a tank-like robot weighing 20 tons. Kalashnikov’s BAS-01G Soratnik is a seven ton unmanned vehicle that can carry a machine gun and quartet of ...
The National Interest

A Tank of Firsts: For Russia, the T-64 was Special

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The T-64 was intended to fit the armor protection and firepower of a heavy tank onto a medium platform. This would, in theory, allow the tank to remain relatively ...
The National Interest

Here’s Where China’s ZTZ-96 Main Battle Tank Falls Short

The Chinese tanks also use Russian/Soviet-style carousel autoloaders, which will probably not be very safe for the crew in the event of a hit. It’s surprising that the ZTZ-99A was not designed with a ...
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Weapons: South Korean Growing Weapons Exports

South Korea is the tenth largest weapons exporter worldwide. South Korea is also the fifth largest defense manufacturer with $10 billion a year in defense exports. South Korea is increasing its own ...