Armored Trains.
The New section in development

The same database as for tanks: Railroad networks developed in the XIXth soon found a military use. Before even WWI, train attacks led to armed and armored trains. This had going on for more than a century now. This will cover all WW1, WW2, but also cold war and even recent armoured trains on the long run.

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20/10.2025 D-3 Draisina (1934)

The D-3 armored draisine was a self-propelled, armored railcar built by for Soviet in the interwar, up to the summer of 1941. The D-3 was developed from 1932 to fill the needs of the Red Army for a mass-produced, heavily armed patrol railcar. To make it affordable, as many of already existing and proven elements were used. The armament consisted in two T-26 tank model 1933 and its engine, coupled with the D-35 gearbox...

Trucks
Military Trucks and staff cars.

A dedicated section for softskin vehicles, from WWI to this day: Trucks, staff cars, reconnaissance vehicles, and artillery tractors: Truck-Encyclopedia.com.

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Renault AHS

07.12.2025 The Renault AH series were light to medium-duty trucks (three chassis) produced by Renault between 1941 and 1944, under the German occupation and supervision and after the liberation until 1947 at Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. First update on this post, mostly illustrations, the Renault AHS which was the smallest in the series, a 2t payload lorry. Series production started from August 1941 until March 1944 to 7,985 units. It had a cab and dropside platform, wooden or metal bin walls, roll bars and tarpaulin, 1937 Renault Primaquatre 603 4-cyl. petrol 2,3L 46 hp. Most produced of all three variants. Three illustrations to go with it.

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The Antitank-Encyclopedia.
All the means to destroy a Tank.

From early antitank cannons and rifles to missiles, mines and RPGs.

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203 mm field gun (tracked) B4

➾ Tracked Gun produced 1931-41, 1011 manufactured.
One of the most recoignizable ordnance of the Red Army in WW2, the development of the B4 tracked heavy artillery started all the way back to 1927, with a final prototype tested betwen 1931 and 1933 when it was accepted in service. Its 60° elevation and dozens of propellant charges to choose form as well as its unique tracked chassis (unpowered) made it unique and appreciated. Costly, it was used only by the Stavka's strategic reserve. Firts used in the winter war against Finland and afterwards in 1940 it was nicknamed the "Karelia Sculptor", the Germans in turn called it "Stalin's sledgehammer". It was especially valuable to deal with fortfications and in urban combat, levelling the plain field and entire blockhouses. It soldiered on until the battle of Berlin in 1945. No fortified position was strong enough.

Albeit not obviously used to deal with tank, the sheer explosive power of its massive navy-rated HE shells, like the SU-152 led to rare occasion of direct line of sight fire by some Soviet crews, notably the one used Captain Ivan Vedmedenko (Hero of the Soviet Union) to knock-out a serie of panzers and break a counter-offensive. A few were also captured by the Germans, but also Romanian and Bulgarians. Polish forces used it from 1945. In WW2 there were two attempts at self propellers, the Su-14 and S-51. Both failed as the recoil destroyed the chassis and wounded crewmen. The B-4 howitzer remained active amazingly until 1990 with the last unit still having 150 kgs tactical nuclear shells in inventory, towed by the AT-T artillery tractor.