South Korea's HD breaks German reliance with K2 tank engine exports

S. Korea has crossed a major threshold in defense industrial self-reliance after HD Hyundai Construction Equipment secured ...
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Kharkiv V-2: The Soviet Tank Engine That Refused to Go Out of Style for Eight Decades

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a particular ...
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Check Out this Tank. It Fights Fires with a Jet Engine

Drawing on lessons learned during World War II, the T-34 family of tanks was improved by increasing their firepower and armor protection. The result was the T-54 and T-55 family of tanks, which hold ...
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The 18-Liter V8 Created By Chopping Four Cylinders Off A V12 Tank Engine

It's not unusual to find an engine that was built by chopping cylinders off of a bigger engine. Jaguar's supercharged V6 used to power the F-Type was created by blanking out a couple cylinders from a ...
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Russia Looked at Jet Engines & Thought Put it On A Tank… to Fight Fires

Here’s What You Need to Know: Rather than fighting off insurgents, the tank was used to beat down fires. Drawing on lessons learned during World War II, the T-34 family of tanks was improved by ...