Artillery 2024, November

After the end of World War II, in 1946, a new 82 mm mortar was developed in the Soviet Union, with automatic loading using recoil energy. Already in 1955, a casemate automatic mortar under the designation KAM was adopted by the Soviet Army

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 self-propelled guns to constantly maneuver on the battlefield and conduct aimed fire at enemy armored vehicles. It was planned to use the ACS in

Shortly before the start of the war with the USSR, in 1939, the German company for the production of military heavy equipment and guns "Krupp" received an order from the military command for the production of a self-propelled unit with a large weapon to destroy enemy bunkers and reinforced fortifications. Design and construction

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 them consisted in "weighting" - an increase in power and the creation of new delivery vehicles, which ultimately led to the emergence of strategic ballistic missiles and charges, whose

SAO 2S34 "Hosta" was designed at the Motovilikhinsky plant in Perm. In essence, this is the same ACS 2S1 "Carnation", but it has undergone a major modernization. According to some reports, the release of 2C34 was launched in 2003. The crew consists of four people, the armor is sheet, rolled, the combat weight is 16 tons

In the Soviet Union, in the 1930s, they began to create the TM-1-180 platforms with a 180-mm "B-1-P" gun, they used guns from the coastal installation of the MO-1-180 naval artillery with minor changes. The shield was reduced by the armor foliage, the frontal part became 38 mm, on the sides and on top 20 mm. Decreased

The appearance of this type of weapon in Russia was a bit chaotic. In 1894, the first 152-mm howitzers appeared, imported from France, and, interestingly, the customer of these guns was not artillery troops, but engineers. After the first shooting practice, it turned out that the French

The Russian Ministry of Defense has begun to create a system for remote control of artillery, with the help of this system, commanders of artillery and missile forces will be able to simultaneously control several dozen systems and weapons. Western armies are already using similar systems in

September 30, 2011: Over the next four years, Israel will supply reserve units with at least two dozen 120mm Keshet mortar systems per year. Since 2007, 82 of these systems have been delivered to active forces. The US also uses Keshet systems on its Stryker armored personnel carriers. Keshet like

The Center for Analysis of the World Arms Trade announced the transfer by Lockheed Martin of 400 samples of the highly mobile artillery system HIMARS to the US Army

The military all over the world are well acquainted with the Grad, a multiple launch rocket system that appeared in the Soviet Union in 1964. It really was a terrible weapon, against which none of the probable opponents could do anything. Nothing could survive within a radius of tens of meters - tanks

During the Great Patriotic War, it became clear that rocket artillery could well compete with the usual - barrel artillery. The relative high cost of rockets was more than offset by their power - action on the target. So, for example, they sometimes talk about the legendary "Katyusha"

At the very beginning of the eighties, the Design Bureau of the Ural plant of transport engineering, headed by L.I. Gorlitsky, received an order from the GRAU to create a self-propelled howitzer that could replace the "serving" in the troops "Akatsia" - 2S3. It was supposed to make a universal howitzer

Before the war, it was precisely the recoilless with a loaded barrel that was developed here. Much has been written about the adventurer Kurchevsky, and M.N. Kondakov's information is extremely scarce. Moreover, Kondakov, unlike Kurchevsky, was not only repressed, but also permanently

The 155 mm self-propelled artillery mount, which bears the proud name of the Teutonic god of thunder Donar, is a common brainchild of the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and the European division of General Dynamics Land Systems (GDELS). Field tests of this artillery complex

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 precisely the situation between China and Taiwan. The Chinese have been representing Taiwan as part of one big

This machine was created by the IVECO-OTO Melara consortium in the 1980s, and its production began in 1991. The body of the machine is all-welded steel, provides protection against small arms fire and fragments of artillery shells (along the front arc - from shells of caliber up to 20 mm, and the rest of the projection

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 August). This was officially announced by the press service of the CPB. Gunsmith experts say that the new

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 actually a local show of the Serbian military industry led by the Yugoimport-SDPR association

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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"

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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