Articles by Yago Rodríguez Rodríguez

Throughout these brief lines we intend to provide an atypical and critical vision on the analysis of these new technologies that can lead us to a Revolution in Military Affairs or even a Military Revolution and that, however, although not given due attention, , are always accompanied by the development of hardware that can make the difference between victory and defeat. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

Vehicle Bombs (VB), understood as another battlefield weapon, have undergone a dazzling evolution between 2011 and 2016, when the Syrian rebels and Daesh have refined this concept until it became what we could call the guided bomb of the poor. In this brief article we are going to focus on the design of VBs for tactical use, and not on those for terrorist use, which have substantial differences from the former. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

Since the birth of armored vehicles, the armor made of steel or cast iron has been the main means of protection, although over time new materials have been added and its manufacture has been complicated with the adoption of spaced, sandwich-type designs, etc. . The objective, always, has been to achieve equal or superior protection, if possible with a lower weight that helps with another of the basic characteristics of the car -and also closely related to protection-, such as mobility. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

When you think about the armored weapon, its doctrine, its platforms, and its history, images of the European plain, Arab deserts, Soviet mudflats, or Chinese parades usually come to mind. We rarely remember that armored forces are also very present, and with a rich and varied history, in Latin America. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

In March 2015, the tanks of the Houthi coup plotters and the Yemeni army loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh managed to reach the last large city controlled by the government of Abd Rabbu Mansur al-Hadi. At that moment the Saudis, seeing their man fall, decided to intervene definitively to support the latter, initiating a series of operations that cannot be understood without considering the maritime scenario, surely the most unknown dimension of this bloody conflict. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

In recent years, a large number of small drones have appeared, often based on COTS technologies, and designed to provide reconnaissance and occasionally attack capabilities to platoon-type units, highlighting designs such as the Instant Eye tested in the Kingdom United, the Huginn X1 or the famous Phantom used by civilians. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

At the end of the 4th century, the Russian company Kamaz produced a limited number of new 4×97 vehicles called BPM-6, which were initially designed for Russia's internal security forces. A decade later, a 6×152 version went into production. called Bulat. There are those who have wanted to see in the latter a kind of spiritual successor to the BTR-XNUMX, due to the common details in its external design, and perhaps because of the massive use that will be given to it as an armored car, although this last extreme is very questionable. . (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

With this article we seek to be provocative, and provide a fresh vision about the future of the battle tank, even being aware of the multiple nuances and risks that an exercise of this nature entails, not in vain almost since its birth the tank has suffered from prophets who wrongly predicted his demise. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.