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Dodge WC-54 & WC-64 (KD) Ambulance The third part of our Dodge series covering the vehicle family in service in WW2 and Korea. As each other volume in the Technical Manual Series this book is lavishly illustrated with wartime photos and technical manual excerpts and also features a detailed textual ..

German-British Amphibious Engineer Battalion 130 On 30 September 2021, the reorganisation ceremony of the German Panzerpionierbataillon 130, the British 23 Amphibious Engineer Squadron and the 3rd, 4th and 5th Companies of schweres Pionierbataillon 901 took place in glorious sunshine. The German-Bri..

Development History - Technology - Modernisation and Upgrades By experts considered as the best main battle tank in the world, the Leopard 2 in 2014 reached a vital stage of modernisation: the 2A7. This publication covers the introduction and the many technical improvements of the new 2A7-variant of..

FV4201 Chieftain Britain's Cold War Main Battle Tank The FV4201 Chieftain was the first purposely designed main battle tank (MBT) of the British Army, and the main weapon system of the Royal Armoured Corps for most of the Cold War era. When it entered service in the 1960s it replaced the medium an..

RAC Germany Armoured Vehicles of the Royal Armoured Corps during the Cold War in West Germany 1950-90 Almost 85 years ago, the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) was formed and it can be found today in every theatre of operations of the British Army. One of the most important episodes in the RAC's history w..

REFORGER 78 Saxon Drive / Certain Shield US Army and Allied Armies train to counter a Conventional Attack from the East During REFORGER 78 forces from the USA were mainly deployed in the autumn manoeuvres Saxon Drive and Certain Shield in West Germany. During the corps training exercise Saxon Drive ..

US Military Vehicles on Exercise in Australia US Army and USMC stem the tide against Chinese ambitions in Asia-Pacific Australia has long enjoyed a strong defence relationship with the USA. It was strengthened by Australian support for the USA's Global War on Terror, specifically the operations in I..

The HEMTT family of vehicles is a series of heavy off-road-capable 8x8 trucks in the 10-ton class. Introduced into service in 1982, these vehicles have formed the backbone as transport and logistic assets of combat and combat support units of brigade combat teams and divisions of the US Army until t..

The HEMTT family of vehicles is a series of heavy off-road-capable 8x8 trucks in the 10-ton class. Introduced into service in 1982, these vehicles have formed the backbone as transport and logistic assets of combat and combat support units of brigade combat teams and divisions of the US Army until t..

Cold War Warrior M1/IPM1 Abrams The M1/IPM1 Abrams Main Battle Tank during the Cold War 1982-88 The last decade of the Cold War was dominated by the introduction of state-of-the-art weapon systems for the American units in Europe, first and foremost receiving the revolutionary new M1 Abrams main bat..

AERoSAN Soviet Aero-Sleighs of World War Two in Service with the Red Army, Finnish Army and the German WehrmachtThe Aerosan (Russian for "Aero-Sleigh" or propeller-driven sleigh) is a very specific form of military vehicle that was used operationally in snowbound winter regions of northern Europe..

With amalgamation of the German army's main reconnaissance forces into the Army Reconnaissance Force in 2008, this troop type has a broad, complementary spectrum of ground-based and airborne reconnaissance capabilities. This variety of different assets, from reconnaissance to unmanned aerial vehicle..

Development of the protected Bandvagn (Bv) 206 S, successor to the world-famous Bv 206 D, began in the late 1980s. At the beginning of the 1990s, the German Armed Forces began to take an interest in the vehicle. Since 1985, its predecessor, the Bv 206 D Husky was used very successfully, but the Germ..

JACKAL High Mobility Weapons Platform CoYoTE Tactical Support Vehicle - Light Due to its involvement in Northern Ireland, the British Army had a lot of practical experience in fighting a counterinsurgency, plus it owned the vehicles to do so. However, in Afghanistan these had to be used in deserts a..

CVR(T) Scorpion - Scimitar - Sabre Development of vehicles of the CVR(T) family and their introduction into service with the British Army 50 years ago can be considered a revolution in the field of conducting armoured reconnaissance. Never before had the attributes of mobility, speed, protection and..

Cold War Warrior LEOPARD 1 The Leopard 1 MBT in Cold War Exercises with the German Bundeswehr At the end of the 1950s, the German Bundeswehr decided to replace its M 47 / M 48 tanks of American origin as soon as possible with a new main battle tank built in West Germany. In many respects, the Americ..

Sanitatsfahrzeuge - German Field Ambulances and Medical Evacuation VehiclesThe German Sanitatswesen im Felde (Army Medical Service) played a major role during campaigns on the frontlines of World War One, saving millions of soldiers' lives. The core task of the Sanitatswesen was the evacuation of ..

The All-Protected Transport Vehicle Dingo 2 is a development of the ATF Dingo 1 that was fielded in 2000 and has since proven its value in various missions worldwide. With comprehensive text and pictorial documentation the following variants of the Dingo 2 are covered in this publication:ATF Dingo..

Leopard 1 MBT in German Army Service - Early Years The Leopard 1 MBT was a decisive step for the young German Army towards a German-built main battle tank. only ten years after the Bundeswehr had been founded the first Leopards were delivered to the army. Continued improvements and the extreme relia..

BAOR-SLTA Vehicles on the Legendary Soltau-Luneburg Training Area of the British Army of the Rhine On 01 July 1963 the Soltau-Luneburg Agreement between West Germany, Canada and the UK on the use of German land for exercises came into force. The Soltau-Luneburg Training Area (SLTA) was born. More th..

World War One Special 1012 Spezialfahrzeuge - German Specialised Motor Vehicles The backbone of motor vehicles in the Imperial German Army comprised cargo trucks, staff cars and motorcycles. Yet with many new military tasks arising on the German side in World War One, the demand for motor vehicles i..

GECoN-ISAF Wustentarnung Desert Camouflage of the Vehicles of the German ISAF Contingent In 2003 the Bundeswehr introduced "Umtarnfarben" non-permanent camouflage colours into service in order to allow effective camouflage for vehicles and equipment when operating in desert and steppe-dominated arid..

Lionheart 84 The largest British Exercise of the Cold War Exercise Lionheart ran for little over a month, from 03 September till 05 October 1984. It comprised three phases: a deployment phase (Full Flow), the employment phase (FTX Spearpoint) and a redeployment phase (Full Flow). Lionheart was the l..

With the arrival of the 2nd (US) Armored Division "Hell on Wheels" as a regular occupation force, the history of the U.S. Army began in Berlin in July 1945. In addition to the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France, the American troops took over the administration of a sector of the city. In the fo..