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the caliber of the cannon mounted on the railway transporter for the 274-millimeter cannon, drew attention to the outdated 340-millimeter implements, ...

The first attempts to increase the operational mobility of artillery by installing guns of various calibers on tracked or wheeled chassis were already made at the beginning of the 20th century. At the same time there was ...

Developed by Schneider in 1914, the railway transporter was also used to create an artillery rail installation with the 194-mm 1870 / 93 X gun. Originally this ...

In addition to the outdated 320-millimeter coastal guns, Schneider mounted transporters designed for 274-millimeter guns and modern 305-millimeter long-range marine ...

Railway conveyors, which were produced by Schneider under the coastal artillery guns caliber 155 and 194 millimeters, in essence, were only an improvisation based on standard railway ...

In the twentieth century, designers from only two countries — Germany and the Soviet Union — were fascinated with ultra-long guns. 23 March 1918 of the year at 7 hours 20 minutes in the morning in the center of Paris, on the Republic Square, ...

In the summer of 1937, a commission of prominent Soviet gunners visited the Skoda factory in Czechoslovakia. There she was presented with projects 210-mm gun and 305-mm howitzers. The barrel of the gun was lined, and ...

During the First World War, Schneider manufactured a series of large-caliber sliding-type artillery rail installations. For these installations, the common feature was that ...

One of the main reasons for the failure of the Red Army in the winter war with Finland was the lack of heavy guns. In 1941 – 1944, Leningrad was saved from complete destruction by German heavy artillery ...

The successful experience of installing the 155 X-mm cannon on the railroad transporter made it possible to create a whole series of railway artillery installations that used 1877 naval guns ...

In 1947, the design bureau of the plant No. 8 under the leadership of the chief designer L. V. Lyulyev developed those. 31410 project. This project is called "130-mm moving ...

The command of the French army quickly realized the full depth of the mistake made on the eve of the First World War, which was that the main focus was on the lungs ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian army got used to miniature artillery guns. But despite the fact that talented designers have proposed a number of advanced developments, in battle Russian guns-toys ...

“In 1942, Russian newspapers published the first photographs of strange German weapons seized on the Russian front,” writes Willy Leigh, a well-known historian of science and technology. - It had six short ...

At the end of the Second World War in the USSR, the development of new types of equipment and weapons for the airborne troops was widely launched. If we consider armored vehicles, then ...

In 2005, the Chinese company North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) presented the latest PLN-155 52-mm self-propelled howitzer at the International Aviation Expo in Beijing (also ...

9K58 "Smerch" (BM-30) - multiple launch rocket system from the "Katyusha" family. Based on the 4-axle combat vehicle 9A52-2 (MAZ-543A) or 5-axle 9A52-2T (Tatra 816). Reactive salvo system ...

The self-propelled howitzer Т5-52 was developed by Denel Land. It is similar to the French Caesar self-propelled howitzer caliber 155mm. The first prototype of the new howitzer was ready in 2002 year. T5-52 ...

Up to this point, the company's engineers have already had successful experience of installing gun mounts on the railway platform up to the caliber 274mm. Selection of the following 340mm guns on the coastal balance ...

As in the case of the solid "Strizh", for use in multiple launch rocket systems, the field variant P-110 - "Teal-H" was also developed. However, provided by a liquid rocket ...

The recoil energy of a new railroad cannon became its main feature — thanks to the applied solutions, the entire installation was rolled back only 40 centimeters after the shot. This allowed to fire without ...

The multichannel gun itself was a very interesting development, the abbreviated name “HDP” meant “high pressure pump”. In addition, the gun attributed to the class of weapons of retaliation as a "V-3" (sample number XXUMX) ....