Information collection No.140

THE CONTENT OF THE INFORMATION COLLECTION No. 140

(June 2020)

1. Armored vehicles. Protection.
   1. Protection of ground combat equipment. There is no such thing as a lot of armor
   2. Key trends in the modernization of armored vehicles on the example of leading companies and armies of the world
   3. The M1 Abrams tank is no longer the best
   4. Abrams tanks need to solve the problems of their obsolescence.
   5. The US Army began receiving upgraded Abrams tanks
   6. The French vision of the new European MGCS tank
   7. Analysis of armored vehicle losses in the combat zone in the Donbas: new details and conclusions
   8. Losses of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the ATO in 2014-2016.
   9. Defensive "Merkava" and offensive "Abrams": about the advantages of each of the tanks
   10. Serbia is preparing to modernize the M-84 tanks
   11. How many Altai tanks can be produced by 2021
   12. Digital Era for Polish tankovT-72
   13. The first modernized Polish Leopard 2PL tanks
   14. The latest Chinese ZTQ-15 tanks will be able to effectively destroy Indian T-72
   15. The Turkish company FNSS will begin qualification tests of the ZAHA amphibious armored vehicle in the fall of 2020
   16. BMP M2A4 Bradley may end up in Poland
   17. Greece will receive 350 American M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 1,200 M1117 armored vehicles
   18. Evaluation of the US Army Multi-Purpose Armored Personnel Carrier (AMPV) development Program
   19. The era of the Polish Borsuk combat vehicle is coming
   20. The newest version of the Kurganets-25 BMP with the Bulat complex and a 57-mm cannon
   21. New KORHAN Weapon System
   22. New armored personnel carrier "Dragon" from Spain
   23. Strikers" with a double V-shaped bottom will enter the army
   24. The "adventures" of Russians in Syria or how "Armata" and "Peresvet" gained "combat experience"
   25. About the reliability of advanced armored vehicles
2. Means of reconnaissance and guidance. Disguise
   1. Protection of ground combat equipment: take cover and dodge
   2. Armor with eyes in the distance. How drones will help tanks
   3. Electronic warfare: What to expect from the new US Army program
   4. The market for weapons reconnaissance and guidance systems (RINO) will grow to $15.32 billion by 2030
   5. Russia is creating new materials that hide weapons from radars
3. Means of destruction. Ammunition
   1. Georgia will purchase additional Javelins in the USA
   2. The United States supplied Ukraine with a batch of Javelin missiles of a new modification
   3. Spike NLOS ATGMS are installed on Polish armored vehicles
   4. Smart Sights SMASH 2000 (Israel)
   5. Why the army needs multi-caliber machine guns: a long-standing dispute about the caliber
4. Personal armor protection equipment
   1. From TIG to "Shako"
   2. In the Russian army, the "Warrior" will be replaced by the "Centurion"
   3. Creation of multifunctional smart fabrics for military purposes
5. Robotics
   1. An interesting military robotics project is being developed in Estonia
   2. Estonians hit the fantasy - an air-mounted unmanned tank
   3. The US Army allocates almost 3 million dollars for research in the field of mobility
6. New materials and technologies
   1. Armor made of "foam", "bronesota" and other cool ideas
   2. A printed Sky sPrinter UAV was built in Israel
   3. Rostec has created vandal-proof glazing made of a new generation polymer
   4. Airless tires: a promising curiosity
   5. Electric tank: prospects for the use of electric propulsion in ground combat equipment