The Pig was a simple wheeled armoured personnel carrier, created by fitting an armoured body to a four-wheel drive 1-ton Humber truck. It was intended…
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The OT-64 is a wheeled armoured personnel carrier, developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a joint project between Poland and Czechoslovakia. It…
The Nahuel (“Tiger” in Mapuche, an aboriginal langauge) was an Argentinian World War II medium tank, designed in 1943. Although the design was indigenous, it…
A turretless prototype was ready by the end of 1943, and tests were carried out with a mock turret. The extreme weight meant that Maus…
Although “light tank” can be a generic term, in this case it refers to the series of light tanks (Marks I to VI) produced by…
The Kangaroo was an early armoured personnel carrier, created by simply removing the turret from a tank or (as in the photograph above), by removing…
The Jaguar 1 and Jaguar 2 are West German ATGM-armed tank destroyers, also known as Raketenjagdpanzer 3 and Raketenjagdpanzer 4, respectively. They were conversions of…
“Ikv 91 a” by Mats Persson – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The Infanterikanonvagn 91 is a Swedish tank destroyer…
The FV1620 Humber Hornet was an early ATGM carrier, which mounted two Malkara missiles on a Humber Pig APC. The missiles were carried on a…
The 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled 122mm howitzer was accepted for service with the Soviet army in 1970 and began volume production in 1971. The hull is…