The most massive rocket launcher of the Great Patriotic War was the BM-13 system, also known as “Katyusha”. These systems used M-13 rockets and were built on the basis of ...

The January offensive of 1945, the troops of the 1 of the Byelorussian and 1 of the Ukrainian Front, launched on the Vistula, went down in history as the Vistula-Oder strategic offensive operation. One of the brightest ...

It is generally accepted that the legendary Katyusha was never used against German tanks. And, in principle, it could not be applied. "Katyusha" is a multiple launch rocket system, that is ...

9 May in Minsk held a military parade on Victory Day. During this event, the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus for the first time showed their new rocket launcher “Polonez”. AT...

From the Bala to the ship ... Last year, the coastal missile system "Ball" entered the Pacific Fleet's armament, intended for the destruction of enemy ship groups. This...

Self-propelled artillery became massively used by the Red Army relatively late - only at the end of the 1942 year. However, the machines issued by Soviet designers made a great contribution to the overall ...

In the late sixties and early seventies, the leading countries of the world took up the issue of building long-range multiple launch rocket systems. As practice has shown, the presence of such ...

In 1926, the Red Army command came to the conclusion that it was necessary to create several new artillery pieces. The troops needed new guns for various purposes with different ...

Let's start with the question: what can be considered a "commercial tool"? And here's what: a weapon produced specifically for another country and sold to it ...

Everyone knows that samurai were masters of fighting with swords. But what about firearms and above all artillery - the “god of war”? It is known that the first muskets were delivered to them by the Portuguese ...

When the First World War began, it turned out that Germany had neither heavy nor super-heavy long-range artillery, although their "Big Bertha" was out of competition on the battlefield ....

Over the past few years, China has been actively promoting its weapons and military equipment on the international market. To meet the demand of potential buyers, special ...

CAESAR is an abbreviation that is read from the first letters of the words CAmion Equipé d'un Système d'ARtillerie, which translated from French means “a truck equipped with artillery...

In 1937, in America, work began on the creation of aircraft guns .90 caliber. As part of the work on this project, the models T1, T2, T3, T4 were assembled, the latter being created by Colt ...

The howitzer М777 was created by experts of the British defense company BAE Systems. This howitzer is designed to replace the outdated M198. At the same time, the novelty was distinguished by improved ...

The story of the Germanic mortars of the First World War should begin with a very interesting weapon, called the German Granatenwerfer m16. Designed it in Austria-Hungary, but also used in ...

As for France, as soon as the Western Front moved to a “positional position,” the French military literally bombarded the proposals to organize the issue of the most simple and at the same time ...

In addition to their full 105 mm, 122 mm and 155 mm towed and self-propelled artillery systems, the Chinese company North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) is currently in the Middle East ...

First of all, let us ask ourselves the question: what is a “non-standard caliber”? After all, if there is a weapon, it means that its caliber is recognized as standard! Yes, it is, but it’s historically so that the standard ones ...

25 February 1916, the Germans captured the French fort Duamon - the largest and well-protected of the 19 forts that surrounded the fortress of Verdun. Duamon was built from 1885 to 1913 year and according to its calculations ...

So, long before the outbreak of World War I, the European armies, based on the experience of the Russian-Japanese and Anglo-Boer wars, decided that they needed new six-inch guns to work on ...

Israel has formed a new unit of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in order to improve the interaction between the combat brigades and their supporting artillery. This is a new division ...

Everyone knows large-caliber guns, such as, for example, the Big Burt 420-mm howitzer, the Dora X-gun, the Karl 800-mm self-propelled mortar, the Yamato battleship, the Russian Tsar-gun. and...

The caliber is the diameter of the bore of an artillery gun or small arms, and the minimum caliber in artillery is 20 mm, and the largest is 914 mm. However, the most effective among ...