In the eighties, the United States worked on the creation of a new howitzer self-propelled guns. One of the earliest projects of this kind suggested building self-propelled guns on the chassis of the M1 Abrams tank ...

The first recoilless guns that appeared in the PLA at the end of 1950 were the 57- and 75-mm artillery systems of US production captured during the hostilities in Korea ...

The industry completed the tests of the modernized self-propelled gun 2S7M Malka. The first updated model of equipment is already ready for transfer to the customer. Full-scale modernization will start soon ...

North Korea develops its artillery. As part of this program, tests are being conducted of a promising super-large-caliber missile system - a long-range MLRS ...

The cylindrical shape of the turret (gun mounts and armored stacking of shots) was due to the shape of the carousel. Forty-six shells and charges were placed in pairs in a single drum, ...

Russian industry is developing promising ultra-long-range artillery shells. With the help of new ammunition, the existing self-propelled guns will be able to fire at a distance of more than 100 km ...

In the United States, a new artillery gun is being developed with a firing range of more than 1000 nautical miles. A project called Strategic Long Range Cannon could be a real revolution in the field of barrel ...

In late March 1918, explosions began to be heard on the streets of the French capital. Excited city dwellers used to face an aerial bombardment, but this time, no one was visible in the sky ...

If you thought that “Tsar Cannon” was exclusively a Russian toy, then you were mistaken. Attempts to create a tool that would surpass all the others were carried out by many designers. One of them was ...

Serbia offers foreign customers several types of MLRS. The newest model of this kind is the "Tamnava" modular system for shells of caliber 122 and 267 mm ...

The Military Museum of the Chinese Revolution has a large collection of artillery pieces that took part in the Sino-Japanese war, in the fighting with the Kuomintang and the war in Korea ...

The original MLRS “Flute” model was created on the basis of ready-made components and uses well-known principles, which gives it certain advantages ...

Expensive, difficult and effective: something like this can be said in three words about the existing and promising artillery guided shells of NATO countries and allies ...

Trends in the global artillery weapons industry bring ABM (Air Burst Munition) ammunition to the forefront, capable of replacing a wide range of weapons up to ...

Self-propelled gun 2S7M "Malka" has a respectable age and needs to be updated. A similar project is already ready and will soon move to the stage of serial work. In the meantime, the experimental equipment is being tested ...

Recently, new photos of the experienced American XM1299 self-propelled guns have appeared in the public domain. It is noteworthy that they were not published by official services, but by some unknown foreigners ...

In the arsenal of Nazi Germany consisted of several rocket launchers / multiple launch rocket systems of the Nebelwerfer family. Such systems could be transportable, towed, and also applied on ...

In the mid-thirties, Germany developed the first active rocket shells for artillery. Soon, Dr. Wolf Trommsdorff proposed a new version of such ammunition, equipped with direct-flow ...

In the initial period of the war, German troops actively used captured Soviet 76,2-mm guns to fight tanks. The 7,62 cm FK36 (r) anti-tank gun, converted from the F-22 gun, was one ...

The peak of the development of medieval artillery can be considered the bombard - a special heavy large-caliber weapon capable of throwing stone or cast-iron cores. Weapons of this kind existed in Russia ...

During firing at the Alkantpan range in South Africa, it was possible to achieve the maximum firing range with an active-missile projectile: 76.280 meters ...

The Pentagon is carrying out another upgrade of the M109 self-propelled guns. In parallel, the development of the next project of self-propelled guns to replace existing equipment is underway. Perhaps, unlike the previous ones, it will be successful...

The German scientist Alexander Lippisch was engaged not only in aviation. At the end of 1944, he presented to the command a curious concept of an active-reactive artillery projectile with a direct-flow ...

In the past, superpowers prepared for real battles in space and even created special weapons. So, on board the Soviet space station Almaz they even tested a special automatic ...