The advantage of towed guns is a small mass. In most cases, they are easier to maintain. The main limitation is that they must be towed by a tractor, as a rule, a tactical ...
31 March 2019 of the year, designer Nikolai Makarovets passed away at 81. Under his leadership in our country was organized the production of weapons, which to this day is the main fire ...
A great step forward in enhancing artillery capabilities was the invention of British officer Henry Shrapnel. He created a new ammunition, the main purpose of which was the fight against manpower ...
Set in 1756, at the head of the Russian artillery, P. I. Shuvalov drew attention to the need to have educated people and was forced to take up artillery schools ...
Damansky Island. 15 March 1969 of the year. The sky was suddenly cut through by fiery arrows, which crossed the Ussuri and hit the Chinese coast. Salts of the MLRS "Grad" transferred the known conflict to a fading stage ...
Schools established by Peter I did not provide trained personnel in general or artillery terms. Therefore, sending young people to study abroad was practiced ...
When do trained specialists working in the field of artillery education appear? Artillery science originated in Russia much earlier than the era of Peter I ...
In the Red Army, sound metering issues began to be dealt with in 1922, when a group of sound specialists was created under the Artillery Directorate ...
The Turkish army has several types of self-propelled artillery systems. One of the newest and most sophisticated designs of this class is the T-155 Fırtına ACS, created on the basis of ...
At the IDEX exhibition several countries, including Russia, showed modern developments in the field of self-propelled artillery. Several projects of this class first came to a foreign exhibition and now ...
The acoustics section, the subject of which is acoustic artillery instruments, as a branch of military knowledge arose in the first decade of the 20th century ....
In the past, the artillery parts of the United States were armed with a mobile reconnaissance point M981 FIST-V. This self-propelled machine was designed to monitor the battlefield, search for targets, then ...
Experts believe that artillery and rocket troops will retain the title of the main fire and strike force of the ground forces in the future. But the tactical and technical characteristics of many models have reached ...
Russia continues to work on increasing the combat capabilities of multiple rocket launchers. This class of artillery weapons meets the new military doctrine of the state ...
The development of mortar and artillery guided munitions capable of striking the main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers from above, was supposed to increase the anti-tank defense of NATO armies ...
The mortar is a Russian military invention. It is believed that it was created by Russian officer Leonid Gobyato. There are other candidates in Russian historiography, but they are all related to the siege ...