Artillery
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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BMO-T is a Russian heavy combat vehicle of flamethrowers, the main purpose of which is to transport the personnel of the flamethrower squad in direct combat contact with the enemy. The vehicle entered service in 2001. The combat vehicle of flamethrowers was created on the basis of
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For some reason, few people are greatly surprised by the anxiety of the "independent military review" about modern anti-tank missile systems. The NVO newspaper drew attention to the depressing pattern in the field of anti-tank defense. What is really happening, let's try to understand this
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Some aspects of the development of our artillery, but it is really forgotten. As evidenced by the pages of newspapers and magazines, television and radio broadcasts. 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 naval forces … But before starting a conversation on
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In 1976, a design team from the Czechoslovak company Konštrukta Trenčín Co. completed work on a new 152-mm self-propelled artillery unit. By that time, the weapon had several unique features that put this howitzer on a small list of the most modern in the world
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Today, mortars as a military weapon are firmly held in the niche of weapons due to their enormous efficiency and low cost. They are still one of the main types of weapons to support infantry fighting. And in hard-to-reach and difficult areas are almost
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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. This fully self-contained launcher can be recharged in 10 minutes. MLRS Lynx can
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The Falanga anti-tank complex was demonstrated to the leadership of the armed forces on August 28, 1959, after which, even before the state tests were completed, the military decided to purchase 1,000 ATGMs and 25 launchers based on the BRDM-1 combat vehicles. Factory tests of the new ATGM began on 15
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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 United States. However, the vast majority of foreign self-propelled mortars were conventional muzzle-loading field mortars
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IA "Arms of Russia" proposed for consideration new ratings of military weapons and equipment, in which foreign and domestic samples of weapons participate. At this hour, an assessment of MLRS of different manufacturing countries has been carried out. The comparison was made according to the following parameters: - the power of the object: caliber, range
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At the beginning of March 1943, the Krupp company presented its own project of a self-propelled assault gun with a caliber of 305 mm to the specialists of the German armament department “Wa Pruef 6”. The barrel of the gun had a length of 16 calibers. 1943 was full of amazing projects for
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After the development of a number of improvised and not always successful light tank destroyers, German designers in 1943 managed to develop a very successful vehicle that combined a low silhouette and light weight, fairly strong armor and effective weapons. New
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AU A-220M is a modernization of the universal AU A-220. In 1967, work began on the design of the universal AU A-220 of 1x57 mm caliber. By 68, the Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" completed work on the draft design. In 1975-77, the prototype of the installation was tested at the proving ground. Tests are recognized
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In the middle of the war, the Wehrmacht, in dire need of as many tank destroyers as possible, forced the German designers to improvise. Some of the improvisations were successful, some were not. One of the hasty attempts to create a tank destroyer was the adaptation of a self-propelled gun carriage, which
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By the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of March 4, 1968, it was required to create a new tactical missile system for hitting point targets deep in the enemy defense. The required accuracy of hitting the target is reflected in the title of the topic: "Point". Kolomenskoye was made the main contractor of the project
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The Jagdpanther was by far the best conversion option for the Pz.Kpfw V Panther medium tank. According to experts, she became one of the best anti-tank self-propelled guns of the Second World War. In many respects, it surpassed all the Allied self-propelled guns. Despite this excellent German
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Almost forgotten guns - Soviet and German When it comes to weapons and military equipment of the Second World War, they often talk about tanks, aircraft, divisional and regimental guns, mortars, rifles, machine guns and machine guns
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Following the tradition, which was formed in the early years of World War II and consisted in the use of tanks in service to create on their basis self-propelled guns by mounting a larger-caliber cannon on their chassis, German designers immediately saw in the new heavy tank PzKpfw VI "Tiger II"
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The Red Army entered the Second World War without having a single serial version of the self-propelled guns in the army, which could be used both to support the infantry in the offensive and to fight enemy tanks. Introduced into service in the late 1930s, the SU-5 self-propelled guns, created on the basis of a light tank
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A 152 mm caliber gun, model 37, known as the ML-20 and indexed 52-G-544A - a domestic howitzer-gun used during WW2. G-P was mass-produced from 37 to 46. Used (and is used) by many countries of the world. Used in almost all military
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SU-122 is a medium-weight Soviet self-propelled gun of the assault gun class (with minor restrictions it could play the role of a self-propelled howitzer). This machine became one of the first self-propelled guns, which were adopted in large-scale production in the USSR. The incentive for the creation of an ACS was the need
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In December 1942, the ChKZ design bureau (Chelyabinsk Kirovsky plant) received a task to develop a heavy assault gun. In record time, in just 25 days, the plant staff presented a finished prototype of the machine, which has the factory designation U-11. ACS was created on the basis of the KV-1S tank