North and South: smooth-bore and rifled guns
Comparative characteristics of the guns of the Civil War of 1861-1865, which were in service with the southerners and northerners ...
US Civil War ammunition
Transitional gun ammunition: from smoothbore Napoleons to the rifled guns of Whitworth, Parrott and Griffen ...
What Soviet self-propelled guns were "St. John's wort"? Analysis of anti-tank capabilities of domestic self-propelled guns
The most perfect Soviet tank destroyer, released during the war, according to a set of characteristics, became the SU-100. Unfortunately, she appeared too late, which did not allow this self-propelled gun to the full ...
The most popular caliber of the North and South
What was this weapon massively used by both sides of the conflict? Caliber 3,0 inches (76 mm). The gun barrel weighed 820 pounds (371,9 kg), and fired a shell weighing 9,5 pounds (4,3 kg) ...
Cannons of Tredegar and the Noble Brothers
In the United States, there is a national registry of surviving artillery pieces of the Civil War era, which records all the guns that have survived to this day, their locations and surviving numbers and hallmarks ...
TOS-2 "Tosochka": from tests to series
Not so long ago, for the first time, the TOS-2 Tosochka new heavy flamethrower system was openly shown. Now the details of the work, the current stage of the project and plans for the future become known ...
Cannons of Brooke and Viard
Brook's guns were structurally simple. They had a conical muzzle and a cylindrical breech. The trunks were made of cast iron. Viard has developed two unique guns that could become ...
James and Sawyer cannons: rifled versus smoothbore
Let's talk about rifled and smooth-bore guns used by the warring parties in the US Civil War ...
Anti-tank capabilities of the Soviet self-propelled artillery systems SU-152 and ISU-152
The literature often gives high marks on the anti-tank capabilities of the SU-152 and ISU-152. But the authors, extolling the damaging effect of a 152-mm projectile when exposed to enemy armored vehicles, ...
Guerrilla missiles: Grad-P light reactive system
One of the most interesting results of Soviet-Vietnamese military cooperation was the Grad-P product. It was a light reactive system, unified with a full-sized MLRS "Grad" ...
"The parrot gun." Man and his instrument
A story about the guns of Robert Parker Parrott. October 1, 1861, he patented the design of the gun, which had a wrought iron bandage worn on its breech. A unique feature ...
Antitank capabilities of the Soviet self-propelled artillery mount SU-85
In the initial period of the war, Soviet tanks of new types had an advantage in security and firepower. But after the enemy appeared new heavy tanks and self-propelled guns, the situation was not in favor of the USSR ...
Anti-tank self-propelled guns "Object 416": why the project was closed
Original and bold technical solutions can not only improve the characteristics of the equipment, but also make it too complicated. This is what decided the fate of the project self-propelled guns "Object 416" ...
Bars-8MMK: mortar without mortar
Ukraine has created a new self-propelled mortar and now cannot use it. All the Bars-8MMK vehicles built are idle idle and have unclear prospects ...
Nordic Thunder: Northern Europe's mobile artillery
The Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish armies have chosen different solutions to meet the needs for self-propelled 155-mm artillery systems with 52-caliber barrels ...
Antitank capabilities of Soviet 122 mm self-propelled artillery mounts
The Soviet self-propelled gun SU-122, armed with a "self-propelled" modification of the 122 mm M-30 howitzer, was not very successful, and therefore its serial production did not last long. In April 1944, the series went ...
Antitank capabilities of Soviet 76,2 mm self-propelled artillery mounts
Soviet self-propelled artillery installations, armed with 76,2 mm caliber guns, made a significant contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany. But by the time the mass production of the SU-76 was established ...
Soviet self-propelled guns against German tanks in the initial period of the war
As of June 22, 1941, the Red Army had a very small number of self-propelled artillery installations, and their anti-tank potential was low ...
“Ram” versus “Dragon”. Why the Soviet Army did not receive a 152 mm anti-tank self-propelled gun
On May 30, 1960, by resolution of the Council of Ministers, work on the project of the anti-tank self-propelled gun "Object 120" / SU-152 / "Taran" was terminated. The reason for this was the progress in the field of anti-tank missile weapons ...
Faceted bore gun
Antique cannon with a bore of the barrel channel. What kind of gun is this, who created it? ...
Successes of the Coalition-SV program: tracked self-propelled guns in the troops, wheeled on trials
The armed forces received the first batch of 2S35 “Coalition-SV” interspecies artillery complex. In the near future, this equipment will go into mass production ...
Ukraine wants to catch up with Russia in the creation of MLRS
At the end of April 2020, the Ukrainian military tested new missiles for the Grad MLRS. The shells of the Typhoon-1 family, created by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau specialists, are characterized by an increased to 40 ...
God of War. SPG 2S19 "MSTA-S": more than 30 years in the army
One of the foundations of Russian self-propelled artillery is the 2S19 Msta-S divisional self-propelled gun. In the ranks there are about 500 such combat vehicles of several modifications ...
New Chinese self-propelled 155 mm howitzer PLC-181
Chinese television first showed in detail the new Chinese 155mm self-propelled howitzer on a wheeled chassis, known as the PLC-181. The export version of this howitzer is called SH-15. First ...