The built prototype of the C-40 gun was successfully shot out at the factory and field tests that took place in the 1947 year. Accuracy and armor penetration of substaber armor-piercing ammunition was higher than that of ...

The inability to install a 75-mm howitzer on the chassis of a light tank M3 Stuart upset the US military, but did not lead to the abandonment of the desire to get a high-speed armored car with good firepower. AT...

In the period between the two world wars, several different combat strategies were created. According to one of them - in the future it will clearly show its effectiveness - the main shock ...

The widespread use of high-precision weapons (WTO) was the key to victory in the military conflicts of the last decades, and its intensive development is the general line of development of the means of armed ...

Art Committee 23 April 1946 issued tactical and technical requirements for the design of the hull duplex consisting of 152- and 130-millimeter cannons on a single carriage, which should change ...

The battle of Stalingrad, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War, clearly showed how difficult it is to conduct military operations in the city with the help of weapons and equipment intended for ...

The most famous German self-propelled gun of the Second World War "Ferdinand" owes its birth, on the one hand, to intrigues around the heavy tank VK 4501 (P), and on the other ...

At the end of the 1940, the Soviet Army needed to replace the X-NUMX-mm A-122 cannon (М19 / 1931), which was developed in a hurry and was produced in small quantities until 37. A-1945 was ...

The howitzer was developed in 1990-ies for fire support of armored vehicles of combined-arms units. The howitzer was created as a modern technology, capable of performing its tasks, ...

By the end of 1943, the command of the Wehrmacht, it became clear that the light anti-tank SAU family "Marder" is not fully meet their objectives. This was due to the appearance of ...

Howitzer 2A61 is one of the newest artillery pieces of the Russian army. The howitzer was developed by the State Unitary Enterprise (State Unitary Enterprise) "Plant No. 9". The first data on 2A61 were published in ...

The fighting in Afghanistan, in which the United States and its allies took an active part, clearly showed that the towed artillery systems in service are rather cumbersome and bad ...

420mm Mortar Gamma Mörser was developed and built by Krupp before the start of the PRC as a heavyweight siege howitzer. During the WWI, siege howitzers were used during the capture of the Kovno ...

In the late forties of the last century in the Soviet Union a heavy tank, the EC-7, was created. He had excellent for his time armament and solid booking. However, a number of circumstances related to ...

The 122 millimeter howitzer M-30, which is known in the West as M1938, is a persistent veteran. The howitzer was developed back in 1938, and a year later its serial industrial production began ...

The first tests of a prototype of a new anti-tank gun begin in the middle of the 1943 year. By the end of the year, the main work on the prototype had come to an end, they began to plan a serial production ...

The development of the recoilless gun of the 107mm caliber began at the end of the 1940-s under the direction of B.Shavyrin in SKB-4. The work was carried out on the basis of the B-10 gun, a similar design and principle was used ...

The 152 mm D-20 howitzer cannon was designed at the Yekaterinburg OKB-9 under the leadership of Petrov. Serial production began in 55 at plant number 221 in Volgograd (now FSUE ...

Self-propelled howitzer guns made on the basis of a modified chassis of the main Israeli tank "Merkava". On the chassis installed tower part with a caliber 155mm. Barrel length 52 caliber ....

PTP D-48 caliber 85 millimeters developed in the second half of the 40-s team of designers under the leadership of Petrov. In the design of the new gun, some elements were used ...

Anti-tank gun D-44 caliber 85 millimeters designed in the design office of the plant number 9 ("Uralmash"). This gun can hit tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery guns, ...

The first public appearance of the new ACS is the spring of 1989. Two prototypes were transported from Spain to Iraq on the An-124 transport aircraft, to the second international exhibition of military equipment, ...

The X-NUMX-millimeter anti-tank gun X-57 was designed under the guidance of Charnko in OKBL-26 in 46 — 46. The barrel is a monoblock having a screwed breech. Muzzle brake high power on the length of 47 ...

In preparation for the invasion of the UK - Operation Sea Lion - the German command took into account the possibility of a collision with heavy British tanks. First of all, anxiety caused ...