Artillery

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The current mantra for any gunner is to reduce indirect losses. This is especially true for ground artillery, but with the rapid return of fire support for ground forces by naval artillery, these sacred words are increasingly heard in the naval forces of different countries

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The anti-ship complex ensures control of territorial waters and protection of coastal areas at a long distance So, for the transformation of Russia into an economically developed and

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A brief overview of the tractor and self-propelled artillery of the Entente powers during the First World War. The main draft means during the First World War was the horse. The horse moved packs, carts, tools. A pair of horses freely carried a load weighing a ton, a four - two tons, and an eight - up to 3.2

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The massive saturation of units and formations of modern armies with tanks and other armored vehicles ultimately led to the fact that they became one of the most important on the battlefields. Therefore, the confrontation of anti-tank weapons (PTS) with them, as shown by a number of local wars of the twentieth century, is the main

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On Sunday, June 5, in the suburbs of Astana, the exhibition of weapons and military equipment KADEX-2016 ended. The list of participants is more than representative. Representatives of 316 companies from around the world, including Russia, China, France, arrived in Kazakhstan to demonstrate their developments

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During 1940, British engineers from the Petroleum Warfare Department, Lagonda and others worked on projects for the Cockatrice family of self-propelled flamethrowers. Two models of such equipment went into series and were used by the troops in order to protect airfields from

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The 107-mm cannon of the 1910/30 model is a heavy Soviet artillery gun of the interwar period. It was a modernization of the 107-mm cannon, which was created with the participation of French designers for the tsarist army back in 1910. In the Soviet Union, the gun was produced until the mid-1930s

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Life is still a funny thing. Recently, at the request of his wife, he climbed into the sofa, where a heap of papers was gathering dust, in order to throw away all this waste paper and found there a number of old "tank-workshop" materials and … decided to "drive" them into the Antiplagiat system. I drove it and saw that they had a high level of novelty. That is

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Some time ago on the pages of "VO" there was an article about a Swedish self-propelled mortar. What is the history of this type of weapon and, most importantly, what are its prospects? What original technical solutions were proposed by the designers of self-propelled mortars? This is what the story will be about now

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Probably everyone has seen aerial footage showing Syrian cities that have become the arena of hostilities. At first glance, everything is terrible - broken glass, demolished brick walls and partitions. But take a closer look: the houses themselves are standing! The roofs are intact! I put new walls, I glazed the windows

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It has always been and always will be that need is both the best "teacher" and a stimulator of technical creativity, including military. For example, during the First World War, troops "buried" in trenches were not far from each other, often at a grenade throw distance. But still, it is not always so

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Probably, there are no such people in our country who at least once have not seen our impressive guns on a tracked transport cart of three calibers at once: 152-mm (Br-2), 203-mm (B-4) and 280-mm (Br- 5) - a cannon, a howitzer and a mortar. However, the idea of putting a heavy weapon on a tracked track was born long before

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It is hardly necessary to remind once again that the task of artillery is to transfer as much explosives as possible to the enemy. Of course, in a tank, say, you can "fire up" a solid "blank", and this will destroy it, but it is best to shoot at enemy fortifications with something that

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First of all, let us ask ourselves the question, what is a “non-standard caliber”? After all, since there is a gun, it means that its caliber is recognized as standard! Yes, this is so, but it so happened historically that the standard in the armies of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century was considered to be a multiple of one inch. That is 3 inches (76.2 mm)

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So, long before the start of the First World War, the military of the European armies, based on the experience of the Russian-Japanese and Anglo-Boer wars, decided that they needed new six-inch guns to work on the enemy's front line. It seemed to the majority that such a weapon should not be a cannon, but a howitzer. Her

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What do we know about the first multiple launch rocket systems? The legendary Katyushas are the first thing that comes to mind. However, there were also Nebelwerfer (with German - "foggun") - which together with the Soviet "Katyusha" were the first massively used multiple launch rocket mortars. However, in history

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From "Bal" to the ship … Last year, the coastal missile system "Bal" entered service with the Pacific Fleet, designed to destroy enemy ship groupings. This state-of-the-art missile system has replaced the outdated Redoubt, which is going on a well-deserved rest, by faith

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Modern means of shipborne air defense and missile defense in the fleets of the leading countries of the world every year increase their combat potential both in high-altitude and long-range and in production parameters; the flight characteristics of interceptor missiles are also becoming more perfect, just like the systems

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The self-propelled launcher MLRS 9K58 "Smerch" leaves the garage of one of the military units near the city of Tver. The system is one of the most powerful in its class, nevertheless, it needs an early modernization of the missile part. Lack of corrected or guided missiles

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Using the available opportunities and resources, the Republic of Belarus is currently re-equipping its armed forces. With the help of several foreign states, primarily Russia, the Belarusian military are mastering new weapons and equipment. In the near future, the armed forces

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In connection with the adoption in the fall of 1943 of the new heavy tank IS for the Red Army and the withdrawal from production of the KV-1S, it became necessary to create a heavy self-propelled gun on the basis of a new heavy tank. Decree of the State Defense Committee No. 4043ss of September 4, 1943 prescribed

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The first appearance in the Great Patriotic War of the BM-13 rocket launchers, later nicknamed "Katyushas", was a big surprise for the Germans. The troops of Hitlerite Germany that broke into the Soviet Union received many unexpected and unpleasant surprises. The first was steadfast resistance

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The most advanced self-propelled gun: Self-propelled howitzer PZH 2000 Country: Germany developed: 1998 Caliber: 155 mm Weight: 55.73 t Barrel length: 8.06 m Rate of fire: 10 rounds / min Range: up to 56 000 m The cryptic letters PZH in the name of the self-propelled howitzer, considered to be the most perfect today serially

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Relations between the Republic of China in Taiwan and mainland communist China have warmed in recent years. But, despite this, the military-political circles in Taiwan do not at all exclude the threat of amphibious landing on the island, as one of the possible types of invasion by the PRC army

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"Karl" (German factory index "Gerät 040" - "installation 040") - heavy German self-propelled mortar, which took part in the Second World War. This mortar was intended for storming fortresses or heavily fortified enemy defenses. A prominent representative of the most powerful self-propelled

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T-12 (2A19) - the world's first powerful smooth-bore anti-tank gun. The cannon was created at the Design Bureau of the Yurginsky Machine-Building Plant No. 75 under the leadership of V.Ya. Afanasyeva and L.V. Korneeva. It was put into service in 1961. The barrel of the gun consisted of a 100-mm smooth-walled monoblock pipe with

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Self-propelled artillery mount of increased power "Object 261" The self-propelled artillery mount "Object 261" was developed in the design bureaus of the Chelyabinsk and Leningrad Kirov factories on the basis of the experimental heavy tank IS-7. A modified engine was used as the engine

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At 5 hours 35 minutes on June 5, 1942, a thunderous sound shook the valley near Bakhchisarai, which in 20 years people would take for a thermonuclear explosion. Glass flew out at the railway station and in the houses of inhabitants in the southern part of Bakhchisarai. After 45 seconds, a huge shell fell north of the station

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"Javelin" - ATGM (anti-tank missile system) of the third generation with an automatic control system. Javelin Joint Venture began work on the creation of this ATGM under the AAWS-M (Advanced Anti-tank System Medium) program in 1986. The first ATGM "Javelin"

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The mobile missile system "Kalibr-M" (export designation Club-M) is designed to organize anti-ship defense and impart combat stability to coastal zone objects, as well as defeat a wide range of stationary (sedentary) ground targets at any time of the day or night

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MLRS 9K51 "Grad" - Soviet multiple launch rocket system of 122 mm caliber. Designed to engage manpower, unarmored and lightly armored enemy targets, and other missions in various conditions. What is this hellish machine and what kind of firepower does it have? Let's

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ATGM "Chrysanthemum" was developed on the personal instructions of the Minister of Defense of the USSR Marshal Dmitry Ustinov and became the most powerful anti-tank weapon in the world … In fact, Sergei Pavlovich Invincible was going to make a completely different missile. "The system," says the former general designer of the Kolomensky KBM

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Designed by GIAT Industries and LOHR Industries for Rapid Deployment Force. Work on the creation of the gun began in 1990. Initially, the howitzer gun had a barrel with a length of 39 calibers, but after testing the next prototypes, a barrel with a length of 52 caliber was used. Tests carried out in

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Howitzer M-30 plus chassis thirty-four For the first year and a half of the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army fought, practically without self-propelled artillery. The few pre-war samples were quickly destroyed, and the hastily built in 1941 ZIS-30 were created without taking into account and

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The 9K115-2 Metis-M portable anti-tank missile system is designed to destroy modern and promising armored vehicles equipped with reactive armor, fortifications, enemy manpower, at any time of the day, in adverse weather conditions

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In the early 90s, the Volgograd Tractor Plant Joint Stock Company created a new 2S25 self-propelled anti-tank gun on the extended base of the BMD-3 airborne assault vehicle. The artillery unit for this vehicle was developed in Yekaterinburg by specialists from the artillery plant No. 9

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Multiple launch rocket systems are weapons of past and future battles Reactive multiple launch rocket systems are a weapon known even to amateurs and people who are not interested in military affairs. If only because the famous "Katyusha" mortars belong to them. After all, whoever says anything, but exactly

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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. In the literal sense, this can be translated as "a cannon that shoots out of line of sight," that is, from closed positions. The self-propelled gun was developed in

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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 classify it as the perfect model of serial production of field artillery in the world

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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 equipment of the enemy, as well as to solve other tasks, depending on the prevailing situation. MLRS adopted by the army in