Recently, the community of "glory-Ukrainian" patriots received a fair push and a reason for shouting. The reason was the statement of "Ukroboronprom" about the beginning of the development of "an absolutely new ...

At the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition (TADTE) 2015, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense's Armaments Department presented the concept of an advanced self-propelled system based on...

The construction of several types of armored vehicles on the basis of a common chassis allows us to solve a number of important problems associated with their production and operation. However, not always similar projects with ...

In 1942, the self-propelled artillery mount M7 Priest, built on the basis of the M3 Lee medium tank, was adopted by the American army. In the near future, this combat vehicle became ...

Airborne gunners are waiting for the day of innovation comes to the troops, The problem of updating the park of barrel artillery of the Ground Forces, the creation of modern systems was raised in the article "Where are our guns?" ....

In 1861, American engineer Robert Parker Parrott patented a new method of making gun barrels, which made them much lighter and stronger than usual for those times ...

From the beginning of the forties, the American defense industry was actively engaged in the creation of new self-propelled artillery systems with various weapons. As the basis for such a ...

In preparation for the landing in Europe, the US military and defense industries have created several types of new equipment, including a number of self-propelled artillery installations. Successful application ...

In the summer of 1942, the M12 Gun Motor Carriage self-propelled artillery gun, armed with an M155 / 1917 18-gun, was adopted by the American army. The first few serial machines of this ...

German tanks E-series (from Entwicklung - development, development) was a program of the Second World War, which involves the creation of experienced tanks. In the future, new combat ...

In preparation for the upcoming landing in Normandy, the military and engineers of the United States began active work on the development of self-propelled artillery. Since the end of 1943, they have been engaged in the modernization of ACS ...

After the start of the Second World War, designers from the United States had to step up work to create new weapons systems and military equipment. In connection with the outbreak of war in Europe and ...

Rocket artillery has a rather long history. The first samples of rockets, fireworks and crackers were known in the Middle Ages. The first combat use of such weapons occurred throughout ...

Many VO readers liked the story about mortars of different times and peoples, but they thought that such a miracle of the technology of the nineteenth century, like Mallet’s 920-mm mortar, should have been told in more detail. Well...

Mortars - large-caliber guns with a short (15 caliber) barrel, bombarded their shells along a hinged trajectory, were born along with the bombardment. Just like she, mortar shot ...

Artillery in the Syrian conflict plays almost a decisive role. In recent weeks, news reports on the results of air strikes of the Russian group of Aerospace Forces in Syria, and ...

For the fifth year, there is a civil war in Syria. During the conflict, all its participants suffered heavy losses in manpower, weapons and equipment, as well as spent a huge amount ...

The most obvious way to increase the firepower of a weapon is to provide automatic fire. This technology has become the most widespread in small arms, and is also used in some ...

It is hardly possible to find a person who would not have seen the newsreels of the combat use of jet mortars of the Great Patriotic War. "Katyusha" or other battery machines lined up in a row, and with ...

It is considered to be. that for the entire 18th century nothing fundamentally new appeared in the artillery, and that the armaments of the Northern War practically did not differ from the guns of the times of Borodin and Waterloo. Regarding ...

The students of Vasily Grabin made a huge contribution to the creation of rocket technology. Our publicists often repeat that we met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War with an excellent T-34 tank, a magnificent ...

Russian gunsmiths managed to create a self-propelled gun, which is twice as efficient as all the other modern self-propelled guns. The Victory Parade participants in Moscow 9 of May 2015 were self-propelled howitzers ...

An increasingly relevant type of weapons are today medium and long-range multiple launch rocket systems. Meanwhile, in the modifications used today by modern MLRS reigns ...

Anti-ship complex provides control of territorial waters and protection of coastal areas at long range. Seaside areas are one of the most important trump cards in the development and ...