Information collection No.145

THE CONTENT OF THE INFORMATION COLLECTION No. 145

(November 2020)

1. Armored vehicles. Protection.
   1. New directions for the development of the capabilities of the European Defense Agency (EDA). The "European tank" is again in the first place
   2. New details of the OMT program: options for the appearance of new tanks
   3. The present and future of the Polish Tank Army
   4. Italy offers Poland the development of a common tank
   5. Will Poland develop a new tank together with Italy and Spain?
   6. The Czech Republic refused to transfer from Soviet tanks to Polish ones.
   7. Norway in search of new tanks
   8. Norway will buy a K2 or Leopard 2A7 tank
   9. The German Leopard 2 tank may become an option to replace the Challenger 2 tanks of the British Army
   10. Russian tanks broke into Serbia
   11. Will the Russian T-14 Armata tank dominate the battlefields?
   12. T-14 vs M1A2C/D. The difference in development approaches
   13. "They are already remaking Abrams": the Americans have figured out how to destroy Armata
   14. "Altai" stalled without engine and transmission
   15. The Iranian Karrar tank is undergoing the latest tests
   16. Tanks with artificial intelligence: the chain from detection to defeat takes seconds
   17. The tender for the American BMP of the future will resume soon
   18. New modifications of M2 Bradley have entered military trials
   19. The Karabakh war exposed the weak point of the Russian army
   20. Uncertain prospects of Arena-M
   21. KF41 Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle for Australia
   22. The proposed delivery to Croatia of American M2A2 Bradley ODS infantry fighting vehicles
   23. The British army bought an armored personnel carrier for almost a billion euros
   24. The position of arms suppliers on the market of military equipment in Africa in 2011-2018.
   25. The Asia-Pacific region in the structure of global arms imports in 2011-2018 and the forecast for the period up to 2022
   26. Positioning of Russia in terms of exports in 28 categories of conventional weapons in 2011-2018
2. Means of destruction. Ammunition
   1. Australia intends to purchase Javelin ATGM in the USA
   2. High-precision ammunition for the Estonian Armed Forces
   3. New Spike ATGM for Polish military
   4. Turkish ATGM MAM-L vs T-72
   5. Triumph 57 mm
   6. Thermobaric weapons of Ukraine
   7. Towers of the company Huta Stalowa Wola
   8. The US military is looking for a replacement for the outdated M203 / M320 grenade launcher
   9. The US Army will receive new weapons and ammunition in 2022
3. Personal armor protection equipment
   1. Coconut body armor
4. New materials and technologies
   1. Dyneema or Kevlar
   2. The Chinese army is developing exoskeletons to solve problems in the highlands
   3. Disabling pulse
   4. Electrothermochemical tank guns. Weapons of the distant future