At the IDEX 2013 military exhibition, a new Chinese modular MLRS has been demonstrated called SR5. The SR5 medium range salvo jet fighting vehicle is ...
For half a century, the foundation of the US self-propelled artillery is the ACN of the M109 family. The latest modification of this self-propelled gun called M109A6 Paladin was put into service in the early nineties ...
The armies of the whole world are faced with the issue of defeating small targets at ranges up to 100 kilometers. For the solution of such tasks are used MLRS with special ammunition, operational-tactical ...
In the late eighties, the heavy flamethrower system TOC-1 was adopted, later called Buratino. The new combat vehicle was a multiple rocket launcher system ...
IHS Jane's Defense Weekly reports that a new self-propelled artillery mount has been adopted by the People's Liberation Army of China. The first batch of new combat vehicles known as...
Self-propelled howitzer, designed on the basis of the medium tank M3, and later - M4. This machine was designed to provide mobile fire support tank divisions. In February 1942 of the year ...
On November 19, the Russian Armed Forces celebrate the 69th anniversary of the establishment of the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery. Looking back at the past of Russia's military history, it should be noted that ...
The "Lars-2" (Leichtes Artillerie-Raketen-System) multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) is designed to destroy advanced crews of military equipment, dispersed manpower ...
The Ukrainian military-industrial complex offers a number of options for modernizing Soviet MLRS: the modernization of the BM-21 Grad to the Bastion-1 (2) option, and the 9K54 Uragan to ...
At different times in different countries, the designers started a fit of gigantomania. Gigantomania manifested itself in various directions, including in artillery. For example, in 1586 in Russia from ...
After the war, several types of anti-tank self-propelled guns were developed in the USSR after the war to combat the new medium and heavy tanks that appeared in the United States and Great Britain. In the middle of 50 began ...
T92 - one of the most powerful self-propelled artillery mounts mid-XX century. Developed in the USA at the end of the Second World War. Serially this 240-mm SAU was never produced, everything was ...
Before the war in the USSR, numerous attempts were made to create various self-propelled artillery installations (SAU). Dozens of projects were reviewed, prototypes were built for many of them ....
At the beginning of the 70-s, the Germans tried to create their long-range MRL of a decent caliber to partially replace the LARS-1 MLRS. I strongly suspect, by the way, that her main task ...
During the Second World War, German troops had the opportunity to see the high effectiveness of the Soviet MLRS BM-13 and BM-31. There were installations of the MLRS and in the German army. It is therefore not surprising that ...
During the Vietnam War, American gunsmiths proposed a new type of ammunition: a bomb sprayed around a combustible liquid, and then set it on fire. The explosive combustion of the fluid hit the target ...
The cold war pushed the Soviet defense industry to the development of unique types of weapons, which even after 50 years can excite the man in the street. Anyone who would ...
After the end of the war, anti-tank artillery was in service in the USSR: 37-mm airborne cannons of the 1944 model of the year, 45-mm anti-tank guns arr. 1937 year and arr. 1942 ...
The self-propelled gun "Condenser-2P", index GRAU 2А3 - heavy self-propelled unit weighing 64 tons, capable of sending 570 kilogram projectile at a distance of 25,6 kilometers. Serially not ...
In the middle of the last decade, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan appealed to the Israeli defense industry to help in the modernization of artillery. For several years, the Israeli ...
Multiple launch rocket systems have long and firmly taken their place in the structure of the land forces of many countries. Missiles of various types are capable of hitting targets in a wide range of ranges and ...
One of the main problems of mortars is their relatively low rate of fire. To improve the rate of shooting, various ideas are regularly offered that are related to the use of special mechanisms ...
In the seventies of the last century, several ideas emerged in the leading countries of the world that determined the further development of tank design. New main tanks were equipped with powerful combined armor and ...
It is possible that people who occasionally communicate with the military from armored forces have heard a strange catch phrase: “In order for the enemy’s broken tanks to be overgrown with chrysanthemums.” Yes,...