In a popular form, the history of machine tool building is given, mainly on the examples of mechanical engineering in England the USA - the allies of the USSR during the Patriotic War as of 1944. The text material is supplemented with drawings and photographs. In the roar of the heavy act of tanks, in the roar of aircraft, in the thunder of artillery pieces, the victories of the Red Army over the hated enemy will be born. Front combat vehicles are reliable weapons of glorious divisions that defeated the German invaders and drove them west, beyond the sacred border of our homeland.