Friday, February 16, 2018 - 04:22 AM UTC
Tankograd has sent detail of the latest books on the way from them. This time around there are five new offerings covering both specific and general topics.
The five latest offerings from Tankograd are.

Publication ID: Nr. 9027
STALWART
High Mobility Load Carrier
Among the most iconic British military truck designs of the Cold War is the FV620 Stalwart family of vehicles. It is a series of 6x6, amphibious, high-mobility load carriers designed and manufactured by Alvis that served in the British Army over a period of thirty years, from 1963-93. Variants fielded (and covered in this publication) are the
• FV620 Truck, Cargo, High Mobility Load Carrier, 5-ton, 6x6, Mk 1 Alvis Stalwart
• FV622 Truck, Cargo, High Mobility Load Carrier, with winch, 5-ton, 6x6, Mk 2, Alvis Stalwart
• FV622 Truck, Cargo, High Mobility Load Carrier, Fitted For Radio (FFR), with winch, 5-ton, 6x6, Mk 2, Alvis Stalwart
• FV623 Truck, Cargo, High Mobility Load Carrier, with winch and crane, 5-ton, 6x6, Mk 2, Alvis Stalwart, Artillery Limber; and the
• FV624 Truck, Cargo, High Mobility Load Carrier, with winch and crane, 5-ton, 6x6, Mk 2, Alvis Stalwart, REME Fitters.


Extensively covered are also the development history, technology and active service with many hitherto unpublished in-action photographs.
Quantity Photos and Illustrations:
Illustrated with 76 colour photographs, 57 b&w photographs and 7 graphics
Text - Language:
English Text
Number of Pages:
64

Publication ID: Nr. 5072
BOXER A0-A1-A2
The Multirole Armoured Wheeled 'Mothership' of the German Infantry
Since the introduction of the multirole armoured wheeled vehicle GTK Boxer (nicknamed the ‘mothership of the infantry’) no other vehicle family in the Bundeswehr has seen a more intensive modernisation effort. With the most modern ‘A2’ standard now being fielded the following variants are currently in active service: Armoured Personnel Carrier, Command Vehicle, Heavy Armoured Ambulance Vehicle and Driver Training Vehicle. This publication covers the history of the entire Boxer-family and goes into extensive detail with its most modern production batches, the A1 and in particular the A2, with many hitherto unpublished in-detail and in-action photos.

Quantity Photos and Illustrations:
Illustrated with 173 colour photographs and one 1/35 scale drawing
Text - Language:
English Text
Number of Pages:
80

Publication ID: Nr. 3032
Carbine Fortress 82
REFORGER Show of Force against the Soviet Union
REFORGER 82 and its field training exercise Carbine Fortress were held at a time of increasing East-West tension in Europe. Since the mid-1970s, the Warsaw Pact was engaged in a large-scale build-up of its theatre forces stationed in Eastern Europe and in the western regions of the USSR. Carbine Fortress took place, therefore, against a darkening horizon, characterised by a determined and steady effort of the Warsaw Pact to develop a concept of operations and capabilities that, in a hypothetical war in Europe, would have overwhelmed NATO’s forward defences. Aside from new tactical aspects Carbine Fortress also served as the proving ground for new military technology, first and foremost the new M1 Abrams main battle tank that was deployed during the exercise alongside its predecessors of the M60 tank family. In this publication, both the exercise phases and the deployed military vehicles are shown in many hitherto unpublished action photographs.

Quantity Photos and Illustrations:
Illustrated with 106 colour photographs, 19 b&w photographs plus 11 graphics and maps
Text - Language:
English Text
Number of Pages:
64

Publication ID: Tank maneuver 01
Tank fight in ice and snow
The latest series from TANKOGRAD addresses primarily one of us recently neglected readers: the maneuver fan! The publication features outstanding maneuver-use photos, partly full-page illustrated, depicting modern battle tanks and armored vehicles wheel chain in their natural "habitat": the hard work around the world. In the well-known above-average image quality, exercises are presented dramatically and with short informative captions to the vehicles exciting. Attention: As this new series is especially for newcomers to the topic and a young audience, the text is less technical, but easier to understand than in our other series.

Let yourself be impressed by visually stunning photos!
Quantity Photos and Illustrations:
Illustrated with 70 color photograph
Text - Language:
German text only
Number of Pages:
40

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Except that the text in that one is German only, so actually many (most?) Tankograd customers, like myself, can't understand it at all...
FEB 16, 2018 - 12:15 PM
Except that the text in that one is German only, so actually many (most?) Tankograd customers, like myself, can't understand it at all...[/quote] Yep - my one year of college German won't cut it, so I'd just look at the pictures. It seems to be mainly "Bundeswehr on exercise" anyway, so the all-German text is in keeping with their other German-subject books I guess. But that Stalwart book is a must!
FEB 16, 2018 - 06:15 PM
No, actually it has Swedish, Norwegian and American stuff in it. Not sure if here is any Bundeswehr stuff in there at all...
FEB 16, 2018 - 10:46 PM
No, actually it has Swedish, Norwegian and American stuff in it. Not sure if here is any Bundeswehr stuff in there at all...[/quote] Ah - you're right. I was misled by all those Leopards! Still, I can't read it...
FEB 16, 2018 - 11:08 PM
I have not understood differences between this new book about BOXER and the first one released a few times ago (5039).
FEB 16, 2018 - 11:19 PM
Jochen Vollert has asked me to say the following on his behalf. Tankograd : German vs English language – ‘The ‘PANZERMANÖVER Act’ In several internet forums our approach towards languages in our publications is currently subject to intense debate. Here are the facts, first hand: Up till issue 1-2013 our MILITÄRFAHRZEUG quarterly magazine was bi-lingual German-English. After so many of our international outlets went out of business the local national sales (not the interest in the product) dropped dramatically. In the end there were a meagre 150 (one-hundred-and-fifty!) buyers of the MFZ left abroad, far to few to cover the costs of a translation. To maintain our quality and retail price we thus decided to do a magazine tailor-made to the German-speaking market. A decision that was wise on our behalf, as we are today one of the last magazines of this type surviving on the market. Yet, WE ARE EXTREMELY SORRY that we were unable to cater for the remaining 150 English-speaking fans of the MFZ any longer, but in the end a magazine needs to be profitable to survive. The situation is similar with our Series 7000 MISSIONS&MANOUVRES that sold so slow that we have now disbanded it completely. 90% of the print run of Series 7000 was sold in Germany, so we decided to launch PANZERMANÖVER as a replacement to keep at least our German exercise fans happy. To keep the retail price below €10 and with the small international sales base for printed media on the exercise topic in mind an English content was no longer an option. So SORRY to our English-speaking exercise fans for this decision which was not made to make anyone unhappy or keep anyone from reading our product but to secure the existence of the series (and sell it profitably) at all. IMPORTANT NOTE: MILITÄRFAHRZEUG and PANZERMANÖVER are the only German-language-only series we do, everything else will be kept bi-lingual English-German or English alone. Thus we hope to serve our esteemed readers best!
FEB 18, 2018 - 01:46 AM
I would like to add that some of the titles are in English only and so I find it hard to complain too loudly. I do agree it would be nice if they could be in English, but it has been clearly explained here why that cannot be.
FEB 18, 2018 - 01:46 AM
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