Funny thing after all life. Recently, at the request of his wife, he climbed into the sofa, where a heap of papers was gathering dust, in order to throw out all this waste paper and found a number of old “tank workshop” materials and ... decided ...

What was it - German heavy artillery during the First World War? We will try to make a brief review, focusing on heavy-duty guns - 420-mm howitzers ....

Departing from Dunkirk, the British army lost the mass of weapons and equipment. To restore the defense capability of the UK, it was necessary to urgently increase the output of existing products, and ...

Usually, the latest weapons, built on the basis of the most modern technologies, are quickly used and gain deserved popularity. However, sometimes the fate of the prospective ...

Some plans of the command of the Swedish army concerning the renewal of the self-propelled artillery fleet have become known. After the failure of previous projects of this kind, it was decided to purchase ...

B-37 is a 406-mm naval gun, it was supposed to be installed in three-gun turrets MK-1, intended for battleships of the "Soviet Union" type of project 23. The lead ship "Soviet ...

The 107 mm 1910 / 30 model cannon is a heavy Soviet artillery gun of the interwar period. It was a modernization of the 107-mm gun, which was created with the participation of the French ...

Since the early sixties, the French military industry conducted work on the program Anti-Char Rapide Autopropulsé (ACRA), the purpose of which was to create a promising guided anti-tank ...

In the previous article about the battle at Tarapaki, I mentioned the la Hitt guns. Earlier in the materials about the Great Paraguayan War there were also repeatedly mentioned references to these weapons. Surely not all ...

The 4-I armored division, leading the fighting around Damascus, is armed with several types of tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, upgraded with additional armor. Having spent ...

The Russian anti-tank artillery owes its birth to the duel of the German howitzer battery with the German armored car. It was September 10 1915 of the year ....

As part of the Vostochny Shchit exercise, which took place in September 2016 of the year in Japan, the mortar crews of the American army conducted firing from the M120 battalion mortar ...

The fact that over half of all Turkish armed forces focused on the Caucasus ... testifies to the contribution of the valiant Russian Caucasian army to the victory of the Entente in the First World War ...

No matter what they say, but practice shows that artillery is still the god of war. By practice I understand modern military conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. The widespread use of artillery and ...

The combat capabilities of the TOS-1A flamethrowing system, which is in service with the troops of the radiation, chemical and biological defense of the RF Armed Forces ...

It has always been and will be that need is both the best “teacher” and a stimulator of technical creativity, including the military one. For example, during the First World War, the troops "buried" in the trenches, ...

Modern means of naval air defense and missile defense in the fleets of the leading countries of the world each year increase their combat potential in high-altitude and long-range as well as in productive parameters; ...

By 1944, the outcome of the Second World War was no one in doubt. Allies had to win it. The whole question was how long Germany, Japan and their remaining satellites ...

Effective use of artillery is impossible without proper intelligence and adjustment of fire. Gunners must know exactly where the attacked target is, and also receive timely information about ...

Artillery has long and deservedly bears the nickname "god of war." High firepower allows you to inflict the greatest possible damage to the enemy, who fell into the area of ​​responsibility of the guns. However,...

Most of the best self-propelled artillery mounts of the Great Patriotic War were built on the basis of a tank chassis, because of which they were distinguished by the front location of the combat compartment. Such a ...

In the first half of the nineties of the XIX century, the American inventor Dana Dudley proposed two variants of promising dynamite guns. One project implied some reduction in powder pressure ...

At the end of April 1898, the United States Patent Office received three applications for registration of new inventions in the field of artillery weapons. Two applications described the design and principle ...

In the framework of the program for the development of advanced weapons for armored vehicles, work is currently underway on promising ammunition for one purpose or another. According to recent reports, the work ...