Mortar 2B9M "Cornflower"
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, in 1946, in the Soviet Union a new 82 mm mortar was developed, with automatic loading using recoil energy. Already in 1955, on ...
Domestic unrealized project - SAU "2С14" Sting-S
The 2S14 self-propelled gun was intended to counter a tank unit in direct combat. The chassis used from the BTR-70 combat vehicle allowed the ACS to constantly maneuver on the battlefield and ...
German self-propelled gun K-18 - a worthy opponent of the "KV-1"
Shortly before the beginning of the war with the USSR, in 1939, the German company for the production of military heavy equipment and guns "Krupp" receives an order of the military command to manufacture self-propelled ...
Ultra-Compact Nuclear Weapons - Recoilless Davy Crockett Gun
After the United States and the USSR developed the first nuclear bombs, the development of this type of weapon went in two directions. The first of these was “weighting” - increasing power and creating new ones ...
SAO 2С34 "Khosta" modernized SAU 2С1 "Carnation"
CJSC 234 "Khosta" was designed at the Motovilikha plant in Perm. In essence, this is the same ACS 2C1 "Carnation", but has undergone a major upgrade. According to some reports, the release of 2C34 started on 2003 ...
Railway artillery of the Soviet Union
In the Soviet Union, in 30, TM-1-180 platforms with an X-NUMX-mm B-180-P caliber began to be built using guns from the coastal MO-1-1 naval artillery unit ....
The winged artillery of the beginning of the 20 century - guns on railway platforms
The appearance of this type of weapon in Russia was a bit chaotic. In 1894, the first 152-mm howitzers delivered from France appear, and, interestingly, the customer of these guns is not ...
Russian guns learned how to shoot simultaneously
The Russian Ministry of Defense began to create a system for controlling artillery at a distance. With this system, the commanders of artillery and rocket troops will be able to simultaneously ...
Mortar system "Keshet", Israel
30 September 2011: Over the next four years, Israel will supply reserve units with at least two dozen 120 mm mortar Keshet systems per year. From 2007 onwards, 82 such systems have been ...
US Army received HIMARS
The Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade announced the transfer of a highly mobile HIMARS artillery system to the US Army by the Lockheed Martin 400. The first PU MLRS HIMARS ground forces ...
Tornado will replace Grad
The military of the whole world is well acquainted with the “Hail” - the multiple launch rocket system that appeared in the Soviet Union in 1964. It really was a terrible weapon, to oppose to which none of ...
Man-made element
During the Great Patriotic War, it became clear that rocket artillery could easily compete with the usual - barreled. The relative high cost of rockets is more than ...
Upgraded Msta-M
The new self-propelled artillery installation caliber 152 millimeter will go into service in the 2012 code. As it became known, its barrel is significantly elongated - from 47 caliber to 52. So her ...
Anti-ship missile systems. Part one. On the ground
Finally, work on the creation of new anti-ship missile systems (SCRC) "Ball" and "Bastion" was completed. New developments have entered mass production, automatically transferring Russia to ...
37-mm automatic recoilless gun Kondakova. THE USSR. 30
Before the war, we just developed exactly beztkatki with a loaded barrel. Much has been written about the adventurer Kurchevsky, and about M.N. Kondakova information is extremely ...
Terrible name Donar: a new self-propelled howitzer sweeps away all the principles of using artillery
The 155 mm caliber self-propelled artillery gun, which bears the proud name of the god of thunder, the Teutonic people Donar, is a common offspring of the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and the European ...
FH77 BW L52 Archer appears in the arms of Sweden and Norway
New military development of the Swedes - self-propelled artillery installation FH77 BW L52 Archer, is able to compete with such "stars" of modern artillery as K9, PzH-2000, CAESAR, the Russian ...
New Chinese MLRSs don't let Taiwan sleep well
As you know, there are a great many unsettled conflicts in the world, which overnight can go from the category of political to the category of military ones. This is exactly the situation between China ...
Italian heavy-duty fighting vehicle "Chentauro"
This machine was created by the consortium “IVECO-UTO Melara” in 1980-s, and its production began in 1991-m. The body of the machine is steel-welded, provides protection against small arms fire and ...
High-precision missile system "Cornet-EM"
The Kornet-EM multipurpose mobile missile system, which was developed by the Tula Instrument Design Bureau, will be presented to the general public at the MAKS-2011 air show (from 16 to 21 ...
Serbian MLRS LRSVM
From June 28 to July 1, 2011, the fifth international military-industrial exhibition Partner 2011 was held in Belgrade (Serbia). Despite the declared "international" character, the exhibition was ...
Hail on the head of the enemy
MLRS Grad (9K51) is a 122 mm multiple launch rocket system created in the USSR. "Grad" is designed to suppress manpower, unarmored and lightly armored vehicles of the enemy, and ...
Artillery monster
One of the most modern howitzers in the world is the German Panzerhaubitze 2000 (in an abbreviated form - PzH 2000, where the digital index indicates the new millennium). Experts unanimously attribute it ...
The program "Fighting systems of the future" - howitzer ХМ1203 NLOS-C
In the United States of America, a new self-propelled artillery installation was tested - the 155-mm XM1203 None-Line of Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) howitzer. Literally it can be translated as ...