Russian models. Russian self-propelled tracked systems are currently at a disadvantage due to the decline in global interest in 152-mm caliber, whose ballistic ...

The available material part is rapidly becoming obsolete, at the same time many armies have gone through a radical process of reduction in numbers and in some cases were completely transferred to the professional ...

The caliber is the diameter of the bore of an artillery gun, as well as a pistol, machine gun and a hunting rifle. Anyone who is somehow connected with military affairs is familiar with this term ...

At the recently concluded exhibition of arms and military equipment Eurosatory 2014, the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) for the first time showed a prototype of its new combat vehicle. KMW built and ...

Soon after the end of the Battle of Kursk, the designers of the Gorky Automobile Plant proposed to develop a new self-propelled artillery unit. This combat vehicle, according to the authors of the project, ...

During the Second World War, the American infantry quite successfully used the 60-mm M1 and M9 Bazooka grenade launchers against enemy tanks. However, it is an effective weapon for its time ...

The artillery of the Indian army has long been confronted with longstanding corruption scandals and new procedural and bureaucratic delays, but at present it is in dire need of modernization and ...

Mitraleza (canister, tracing paper from French mitraille - “canister, shrapnel”) is a type of salvo cannon with a multitude of rifle-caliber barrels that can shoot either with several bullets ...

Work on the creation of combat rockets began in the UK at the end of the 30s. The British military leadership was focused on the traditional means of hitting targets on the battlefield (receiver ...

In February, the 1943 of the German armed forces adopted the 300-mm high-explosive mine 30 cm Wurfkorper Wurfgranate Spreng (30 cm WK.Spr.42), taking into account the experience of combat ...

Created before World War II in Germany, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) were originally intended for firing shells filled with chemical warfare agents and shells ...

Mortars remain an important element of ground force artillery. Mortar mounted fire can effectively hit various targets and support infantry operations. The main development trend ...

The 100 mm MT-12 anti-tank gun (ind. GRAU - 2А29, in some sources is designated as "Rapier") is a towed anti-tank gun developed in the late 1960-ies in the USSR ....

The history of creation of recoilless, whether dynamo-jet guns (DRP), as they used to say, began in the USSR in the middle of the 20-ies, in the workshop of the laboratories of the Invention Affairs Committee, which ...

Deliveries of new multiple launch rocket systems to Brazilian ground forces continue. As part of the ASTROS-2020 program, Avibras Industria Aeroespacial is building new systems ...

The Soviet Union ended the war with an extensive fleet of mortar weapons. In the Red Army, there were 82-mm battalion and 120-mm regimental mortars that had proven themselves in the course of hostilities. On...

Mobile artillery systems still play an important role on the battlefield, despite the use of UAVs and other advanced systems and technologies. Traditionally, self-propelled artillery systems ...

Until the mid-thirties, all American attempts to create a self-propelled artillery installation ended in failure. All projects of the time offered to build self-propelled guns based on existing ...

In the second half of the sixties, Germany and Great Britain agreed to create a joint project of a promising towed howitzer. The FH70 gun was supposed to have a caliber 155 mm and a range ...

The first battles of the Second World War allowed the German military to test their strategies in practice and adjust them in accordance with the results of real battles. One of the results of the Polish ...

During the Second World War in Germany created a huge amount of the most diverse weapons. Often the proposed projects looked fantastic. Some of them, in spite of everything, ...

The exposition of almost every regional museum of Russia and Ukraine exhibits small cannons. Many people think that these are miniature copies of guns or children's toys. And it is quite ...

According to the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) of 172 in May, 14, No. ПХNUMX / 1941, produced a prototype of an anti-tank gun of 32 mm. When ...

Bhim - 155-millimeter self-propelled artillery, developed in Awadi by DRDO. As the chassis self-propelled artillery installation Bhim used the chassis of the tank Arjun, ...