Armoured fighting vehicle equipment

system of tires, tire air, springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels and allows relative motion between the two

thumb|right|alt=Tank Ace Michael Wittmann, wearing Waffen SS dress uniform, sits atop the main gun of his Tiger tank. The tank is covered in a ridged paste.|Close view of Zimmerit on the turret and hull of Michael Wittmann's Tiger I. thumb|right|Close view of Zimmerit on the corner of a Tiger II thumb|right|Close view of Zimmerit on the glacis of a Tiger II

class of artillery mounted on a tank as its main armament

type of motor vehicle suspension system

device used in guns of armored fighting vehicles

military active protection system (APS) for vehicles

automotive suspension in which the spring action is from twisting-force applied to a metal bar

system designed to prevent line-of-sight guided anti-tank missiles/projectiles from acquiring and/or destroying a target

Russian active protection system for tanks

thumb|right|The advanced Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armour on this Indian Army T-90S is arranged in pairs of plates with a triangular profile Kontakt-5 is a type of second-generation explosive reactive armour (ERA) originating in the Soviet Union. Due to the shortcomings of Kontakt-1, NII Stali developed a new type of reactive armor, Kontakt-5, so that it also affects the penetration characteristics of APFSDS projectiles, unlike Kontakt-1. In addition, Kontakt-5 is not just additional armor, but is clearly integrated into the vehicle hull. The Kontakt-5 modules have a significantly thicker s

suspension system

armor protecting a vehicle

Shtora-1 (, "curtain") is an electro-optical active protection system or suite for tanks, designed to disrupt the laser designator and laser rangefinders of incoming anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs). The system is mounted on the Russian T-80 and T-90 series tanks and the Ukrainian T-84. The existence of Shtora was revealed in 1980 by spy Adolf Tolkachev.

thumb|T-55AD with "Drozd" APS. Kubinka Tank Museum Drozd () is an active protection system (APS) developed in the Soviet Union, designed for increasing tanks' protection against anti-tank missiles and RPGs. It is considered the world's first operational active protection system, created in 1977 and 1978 by the KBP design bureau of as Kompleks 1030M-01. Its chief designer, Vasily Bakalov, was awarded the Lenin Prize for his work on its development.

weapons countermeasure system

two-part hun turret with elevation hinge

Insulation on large caliber gun barrels

soft kill active protection system

thumb|right|300px|The V-hull on the Marine Personnel Carrier (highlighted in green) protects well against IEDs, but raises the center of mass, increasing the likelihood of rollovers.

brand of Ukrainian tank armor modules

thumb|Kontakt-1 on the upper glacis and turret of a T-80BV Kontakt-1 (; GRAU indice: 4S20) is an explosive reactive armour (ERA) created in 1982 by Soviet NII Stali to protect tanks from shaped charges. The first tank with Kontakt-1 put into service was T-64BV in 1985. The system is still widely used by different countries within T-55, T-62, T-64, T-72, T-80 tank families among others.

thumb|Close up of the Nahverteidigungswaffe at German Tank Museum|Panzermuseum Munster The Nahverteidigungswaffe was a roof mounted, breech-loaded, single shot, multi-purpose, 360° rotating grenade launcher that could fire a variety of ammunition. It was typically found on German tanks such as the Panzer IV, Panther I, Tiger I, and Tiger II from 1944 until the end of the war and was intended to replace three previous devices: the Nebelwurfgerät, the Minenabwurfvorrichtung, and pistol ports.

mine clearance system

type of Active protection system

type of vehicle suspension system

thumb|right|alt=An image of the Afghanit APS system with Russian text labeling various components|Estimated location of Afghanit components, labelled in Russian Afganit (Russian: Афганит, lit. 'Afghanite') is a Russian active protection system (APS) employed on modern Russian Armata family of vehicles. It is intended to supersede the Arena APS and utilises radar and electro-optical sensors in the ultraviolet and infrared bands. The millimeter-wavelength radar detects and tracks incoming anti-tank munitions. The system can reportedly intercept armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot kin