In Russia, anti-tank guns appeared in the fall of 1914. No, this statement is not a typo or the author’s desire to prove that Russia is the “birthplace of elephants”. Just PTP had in it ...

The high efficiency of use of self-propelled 152-millimeter guns during the Great Patriotic War made this type of equipment one of the most promising. In the eyes of some professionals and military ...

The first complex, which gave rise to all of history, was the “Hawk” complex with a radio engineering guidance system, the project of which was developed by the year 1963. As a base was used ...

or a story about how “Katyusha” became “Katyusha” and ousted from the history of an important hero “Luka” with an indecent but quite front-line “last name” About “Katyusha” - multiple launch rocket launchers, ...

Until now, it has not exactly been established how the Chinese clone of the Soviet SAU was created. Based on domestic sources, it can be stated with confidence that NONA-SVK self-propelled guns were not shipped abroad. And by ...

25 June 1941 - the fourth day of the war. In the book of notes, the chief of the German general staff, Colonel General Halder, one after another, the victorious reports and suddenly after talking on ...

Thanks to the beginning of the Cold War, weapons and military equipment in the fifties of the last century developed in accordance with the Olympic motto: faster, higher stronger. Aircraft began to fly faster and ...

In the first few months of World War II, many advantages and disadvantages of Soviet weapons and military equipment appeared. Something showed excellent results, and performance ...

The representative of the domestic military industrial complex of the new millennium - 120 mm gun 2 С31 self-propelled type "Vienna". First of all, we note that domestic mortars are called tools because of their universality ...

For obvious reasons, there is still very little data on the C-500 anti-aircraft missile system under development. This is quite understandable, because the development is still underway and most of the details are secret, and ...

ACS PzH-2000 (abbreviation PzH - from Panzerhaubitze, the number "2000" indicates a new millennium) is designed to destroy various point and area targets, primarily fire weapons ...

The artillery part consisting of 4-x tubular guides is assembled in one horizontal row. Accurate data on the design features of Iranian rocket artillery machines ...

The US Army replaces its old PQ-36 / 37 Firefinder radar reconnaissance radars with new and improved Enhanced AN / TPQ-36 / 37, EQ-36. The similarity in the designation of the two systems is sometimes ...

The Great Patriotic War, as well as World War II as a whole, is often called the war of engines. Indeed, the appearance in the army of a huge number of motorized equipment radically changed the tactics ...

The coastal defense system "Bereg" is designed to destroy surface ships of small and medium displacement with speed characteristics up to one hundred knots, with a detection radius of up to 35 ...

М1978 "Koksan" (cor. 곡 산포; the western name given to the car in honor of the city in which it was first noticed) is the North Korean 170-mm self-propelled artillery unit of the class of self-propelled howitzers ....

The M36 Slugger is a medium mass self-propelled artillery unit from the USA during the Second World War, belongs to the class of tank destroyers. It was created in 1942-1943 year on the basis of the tank M4 "Sherman" ....

The Chinese self-propelled gun caliber 122 mm type 89, or you can hear another name for self-propelled guns - PLZ-89, was designed and created for the Chinese armed forces in 80 years, the first time this technique ...

Many probably noticed that mentions of various weapons systems appear in the "wave mode." For example, last fall, there was another wave of talk about heavy flamethrowers ...

M18 Hellcat (English witch) - 76-mm self-propelled artillery installation class fighter tanks of the Second World War. This American PT-ACS is lightweight, unlike most ...

The M10 Wolverine self-propelled artillery mount had the abbreviation GMC (3-in. Gun Motor Carriage) M10 and belonged to the class of tank destroyers. In the American army, this self-propelled gun ...

Artillery installation or as it was also called, the launcher of active projectiles of self-propelled type was designed according to the scheme of a closed pipe. Design work on ACS begins in ...

For decades, Swedish SAU has been proof that not only world leaders in the production of weapons can create unique models of equipment. Neither the USSR-Russia has such SAUs, nor ...

In the USSR, after the Great Patriotic War, work was intensified on the development and creation of new types of military equipment and weapons, airborne equipment and transport aircraft for the airborne forces. New direction also ...