Articles by Yago Rodríguez Rodríguez

The BMPT Terminator or Infantry Fighting Tank (Боевая машина поддержки танков) is one of the most interesting armored vehicle designs since World War II, as it goes against everything a vehicle of this type is supposed to do: It neither homogenizes, nor reduces the number of crew members, nor is it cheap, nor is it versatile. (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 our southern neighbor has been able to put together a modern and increasingly effective armored force. It is true that it still suffers from problems such as a vehicle park that is too diverse, a certain degree of corruption or logistical deficits, but it is also true that they have a significant degree of experience, the will to improve and increasingly modern and fearsome means. . He is, therefore, a rival to take into account. [Keep reading…]

September 1939. The Second World War had just begun, and in the no man's land between the Siegfried Line and the Maginot Line, a French reconnaissance patrol came across a German minefield that had a new device. La Mina-S. The allies nicknamed her Bouncing Betty, and she inaugurated a new saga of anti-personnel devices known as “jumping mines,” which were copied halfway around the world. The Italian Valmara series, the South African J-69, the North American M2 and M16, the Czechoslovak PP-Mi-Sr, or the Soviet OZM-3, OZM-4 and OZM-72, among many others. (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.

The Yemen Civil War is a conflict arising from the Arab Spring and difficult regional and national conditions. Its worsening, throughout 2014, precipitated just a year later the direct military intervention of a group of countries led by Saudi Arabia. This intervention would include the use of all branches of the Armed Forces of the Arab country and would lead to a fight that has caused a long series of small and bloody defeats and excessively high casualties for a regional power, which on many occasions has been in bad shape. place, as do some of his allies. What is true in the criticism and the reality of the facts will be the object of this analysis. (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 [Keep reading…]

The Turkish Army acquired 298 second-hand Leopard 2A4s from Bundeswehr depots, like many of NATO's European partners, including Spain. These Leopard 2A4TRs received a single modification in later years, consisting of the addition of new and improved air filters - something important for the dusty lands of the Middle East - although this improvement was possibly implemented without thinking that they were going to be put to the test in a conflict as complex as the Syrian one… [Keep reading…]