Anti-tank SAU of Germany during the war (part 4) - Hetzer
After developing a whole series of improvised and not always successful light tank destroyers, German designers in 1943 managed to develop a very successful machine that combined ...
German self-propelled artillery installation "Bar"
At the beginning of March 43, the Krupp company presented its own project of an assault self-propelled gun, which has the 6 caliber, to specialists from the Wa Pruef 305 German ...
Super heavy self-propelled artillery gun SU-100Y pre-war
Successful combat tests of the super-heavy T-100 tank in the Finnish War 39 of the year allowed the designers of the plant # 185 to think about the serial production of their offspring. Moreover, according to the decision ...
Top five jet systems of volley fire of domestic and foreign production
The Arms of Russia news agency proposed for consideration new ratings of military weapons and equipment involving foreign and domestic weapons. At this time, an assessment of the MLRS of different ...
Anti-tank SAU of Germany during the war (part 1) - Panzerjager I
The presence in the armies of countries of likely opponents of a large number of tanks, forced the Wehrmacht leadership to attend to the issue of creating effective anti-tank weapons. Mounted artillery with ...
New ground artillery weapons
The self-propelled mortar itself is not new. For the first time, self-propelled mortars on the chassis of tanks and armored personnel carriers found combat use in World War II in the armies of Germany and the USA. However, in ...
Lynx Reactive Salvo Fire System
The Lynx is an economical multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) designed to fire 122 to 300 mm missiles mounted on a highly mobile 6x6 chassis ....
Pneumatic mortars: from Austria with zilch
The First World War will forever remain in the memory of mankind. It will remain not only because of the monstrous number of casualties at the time, but also due to the rethinking of the art of war and the emergence ...
Modern battalion mortars
Today, mortars as a military weapon firmly held in the niche of weapons due to its great efficiency and low cost. Today they are one of the main types of weapons ...
Self-propelled gun howitzer vz.77 Dana
In 1976, a design team from the Czechoslovak company Konštrukta Trenčín Co. finished work on a new 152-mm self-propelled artillery mount. By that time the weapon possessed several ...
What is equipped with a forgotten kind of troops
But he is really forgotten. As evidenced by the pages of newspapers and magazines, television and radio programs. If they are dedicated to the army and navy of Russia, then, as a rule, we are talking about the Strategic Missile Forces and aviation, air defense and ...
Flamethrower-heavy fighting vehicle (BMO-T)
BMO-T is a Russian heavy fighting machine of flamethrowers, the main purpose of which is to transport personnel of the flamethrower unit with direct combat contact with ...
Lightweight Hawkeye 105-mm howitzer with low-impact technology
At the annual exhibition of the Association of the US Army (AUSA - Association of the US Army), held in October, the general public received the Hawkeye light artillery system for the first time. Essentially this ...
“Thunderbolts” of the 21st Century
- The optimization carried out in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in a certain way affected both the missile forces and the artillery. The formations and units of the reduced staff, personnel were disbanded, carried out ...
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 ...