Crusader 155-mm self-propelled howitzer was developed for the US Army to replace Paladin. It was assumed that the United States Army would need some 800 self-propelled guns. Crusader program in ...
SG-122 is a medium-mass Soviet self-propelled artillery unit (SAU) of self-propelled howitzer class based on the German Pz Kpfw III and SAU StuG III captured by the Red Army. Production...
Even during the so-called "Winter Warriors" 1939-40. among other trophies of the Finnish army got a certain number of Soviet high-speed tanks - BT. However, despite the fact that their fellow ...
The development of the tactical nuclear weapons of the missile forces and artillery (RV and A) of low and ultra-low power (MIC, No. 15) can be an asymmetric response of Russia to new challenges. To the solution of this and others ...
Nowadays, a part of the barrel artillery of the ground forces of foreign countries includes towed and self-propelled guns, which are called "howitzers", because their main purpose ...
The battalion artillery appeared during the First World War, as an infantry escort artillery, designed to suppress suddenly appeared machine guns and other open and hidden gunfire ...
The company Forecast International, Inc., engaged in research and analysis of the arms market, after examining the market of self-propelled artillery installations, concluded that in the next ten years the most ...
How many derogatory nicknames got trudupe SU-76. A “dredge”, “a mass grave of four tankers”, “pulnul-escaped”, “cardboard armor” - it would seem that there is no place for anything good among them. AND...
In 1938, the Swedish company Landsverk developed a light anti-tank ACS L62 Anti on the basis of the L60B tank. A year later, the self-propelled gun arrived in Hungary, where it was planned to deploy it ...
Hardly any of the fans of the BTT, at the mention of the name "Hetzer", will understand what kind of car we are talking about. This short "coffin", armed with a powerful 75-mm gun, has become one of the most successful combat vehicles ...
End of 1920's in the USSR, there was marked a recovery in the industry, which was also hibernating due to the consequences of the four-year internecine and global division of the property of the former Russian ...
17 September 1931 Mr. Spetsmashtrest was given the task to develop a means of mechanization of artillery large and special power. In particular, it was proposed before 1 in May 1932 to submit projects to Arthurvol ...
SAU "Violet". "Astra" and "Lily of the Valley" remained experimental, but the rest of the "bouquet" of modern artillery systems entered service with the Soviet Army. The relevance of these systems has survived to the present day ....
In February, the international exhibition of weapons and military equipment IDEX-2013 was held in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). She did not remember any major contracts or unique ...
ASU-85 is an airborne self-propelled artillery unit, developed on the basis of the PT-76 light amphibious tank. The installation was intended to accompany tank and motorized rifle units, ...
After the Great Patriotic War, work on samples of weapons and military equipment for the Airborne Forces was widely launched in our country. If we talk about armored vehicles, the main efforts are focused ...
The high-power ACS (or rather, increased power) has already been described in the article “Peony is the seventh flower in an artillery bouquet and its unified heirs” (“TiV” No. XXUMX / 12). In it was ...
The station of artillery radar reconnaissance has become an integral element of modern control and reconnaissance of artillery fire. Modern armies have ground reconnaissance stations with ...
An important component of the armored system of the Red Army in the period of the confrontation of the USSR with Hitler's Germany and its satellites was self-propelled artillery. As is known, in the part of the Red Army ...
The main part of the railway artillery mounts manufactured by Schneider was supplied with hand drives, which serve for vertical gun guidance. Also charges and charges were given manually ...
Designed for the 240-mm gun G 240 mm M 1903 T. R. railway conveyor "carriage with a cradle" designers of St. Chamond was also used to create artillery ...
The fleet of the French railway artillery in 1918 was supplemented with the 340-mm 1912 M gun on the railway carriage with a cradle. This artillery was manufactured by St ....
“Peony” (also known as “Malka”, GRAU index - 2С7) - Soviet SAU, armed with 203-mm 2А44 cannon. The self-propelled artillery mount was put into service in the 1975 year, in the 1983 was ...
In 1916, the designers of the firm Schneider, gradually increasing the caliber of the cannon mounted on the railway transporter for the 274-millimeter cannon, drew attention to the outdated 340-millimeter implements, ...