Happy Monday, everyone. To kick things off I wanted to share this cool video of tons of what appear to be M2 Bradley fighting vehicles (without their Bushmaster chain guns installed, and yes, I know that M2’s aren’t really tanks) being shipped by train in California recently. The video posted after the jump is one […]
Armor
We here at DT and the press in general have focused a lot on China’s J-20 stealth figther and its new aircraft carrier. They’re the sexy toys of China’s military modernization and they will be key to China projecting military might someday, so it’s natural that they receive a good deal of press. However, we shouldn’t forget […]
So uh, how often do you see a brand new luxury SUV facing off against the latest in Russian tank tech? This video after the jump shows some Russian dude racing a Land Rover Discovery 4 against what looks like the new T-90M tank (though the video says its a T-90S). Both are very slick-looking […]
Improvised explosive devices — the hand-cobbled roadside bombs that have taken a terrible toll on troops in Iraq and Afghanistan — are a lot like malaria, the Army’s chief scientist said Friday. You can treat malaria, you can eradicate the conditions in which it occurs, but it’s been around a long time and probably it […]
Check out this video of the T-90M, the latest version of Russia’s most modern combat tank. The T-90M features a host of upgrades over its predecessor the T-90S. Here are those upgrades according to a tipster: Improved front and side armor protection against kinetic energy and high-energy anti-tank rounds. New V-93 1130hp diesel engine. A […]
