Artillery
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September 44. The Uralmashzavod plant begins serial production of SU-100 self-propelled guns - one of the best medium guns of WW2. The caliber of a combat weapon is 100 mm, maneuverability and armor protection are not bad for their time. There were also disadvantages that are so characteristic of self-propelled guns of this type. Departure
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The self-propelled anti-tank gun for airborne purposes was built on the original chassis designed at OKB-40. Tests at the ASU-57 range are held in April 49. In June of the same year, the vehicle undergoes military trials. The ASU-57 series was launched in 51. Installation tools
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SU-100 - Soviet self-propelled gun of the Second World War, belongs to the class of tank destroyers, average in weight. The self-propelled gun was created on the basis of the T-34-85 medium tank by the designers of Uralmashzavod in late 1943 and early 1944. In essence, it is a further development of the SU-85 ACS. Developed for
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Object 416 is one of the attempts of Russian designers to create a tank with a minimal silhouette. During the design process, it turned out that the mechanisms used do not yet allow the construction of a tank with a minimum silhouette. Therefore, during the implementation of the project, the requirements for the machine were reduced, and
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Self-propelled artillery unit (SAU) is a self-propelled artillery gun capable of performing artillery fire missions from both closed and open firing positions. After a fundamental change in the Great Patriotic War, self-propelled guns began to appear in all the belligerent armies. V
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In September 1931, the government of the USSR assigned the state union enterprise Spetsmashtrest the task of preparing a mechanical mobile base for artillery of large caliber and high power. The history of the creation of this organization had to be reported to
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AT-1 (Artillery Tank-1) - according to the classification of tanks of the mid-1930s, it belonged to the class of specially created tanks; according to the modern classification, it would be considered an anti-tank self-propelled artillery installation of 1935. Work on the creation of an artillery support tank at the base
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The need for the creation and development of self-propelled artillery was determined by the views of Soviet military science in the 1930s. Their essence boiled down to the fact that in order to conduct successful hostilities, tank and mechanized formations of the Red Army may need to increase firepower. Since towed
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The transition of the Red Army to active offensive operations at the end of 1942 demonstrated the need to equip it with mobile artillery of special power. Sometimes it wasn't even enough to fight powerful bunkers and destroy fortified buildings during urban battles
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The main purpose of the tank is to provide the Austrian armed forces with their own anti-tank action vehicle capable of performing assigned tasks in mountainous and hilly terrain. The beginning of the design - 1965, the development is carried out by the company "Saurer-Werke". The first prototype was released in
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The main problem of mortars at all stages of their existence was mobility. The calculation could not have time to fold and leave the position and because of this fall under enemy fire. With the development of technology, it became possible to install mortars on self-propelled chassis, but this was also less useful than we wanted
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Georgian President M. Saakashvili, together with the head of the military department B. Akhalaya, at the beginning of March, took part in field tests of the first model of the MLRS of his own production. The vehicle was demonstrated at a base near Tbilisi - Vaziani. A multi-barrel rocket launcher uses 122 mm
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The Swedish self-propelled gun for more than a dozen years has been proof that not only world leaders in the production of weapons can create unique pieces of equipment. Neither the USSR-Russia nor the United States have such SPGs. Swedish designers have outstripped in this area of creating military equipment of all and
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The artillery mount, or as it was also called, the launcher of self-propelled active rockets, was designed according to the closed tube scheme. Work on the design of the ACS begins in 1963 at OKB-9 of the Sverdlovsk Art Plant No. 9. F. Petrov supervised the design work. TO
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The self-propelled artillery mount M10 Wolverine had the abbreviated designation GMC (3-in. Gun Motor Carriage) M10 and belonged to the class of tank destroyers. In the American army, this self-propelled gun received its unofficial nickname Wolverine, which was borrowed from
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The Chinese self-propelled gun of 122 mm type 89 (you can hear another name for the self-propelled gun - PLZ-89) was designed and created for the Chinese armed forces in the 80s, for the first time this technique was shown to the public in 1999. Somewhat earlier, the Type 89 howitzer was put into service
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The M36 Slugger is a medium-mass US self-propelled artillery installation during the Second World War, belongs to the class of tank destroyers. It was created in 1942-1943 on the basis of the M4 Sherman tank. It was mass-produced from November 1943 to September 1945, during which time it left the factory workshops
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If you use the terms of Darwinism, humanity initially, from the first day of its existence, began to undergo natural selection. In each tribe there was the best hunter, among the people - the leader, in the village - the farmer, and in the city - the best potter. This was no exception in the era of modernity
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The coastal defense artillery system "Bereg" is designed to destroy surface ships of small and medium displacement with speed characteristics up to one hundred knots, with a detection radius of up to 35 kilometers and a range of up to 22 kilometers. It is also possible to use this artillery system for
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The Great Patriotic War, as well as the Second World War in general, is often called the war of engines. Indeed, the appearance in the troops of a huge number of motorized equipment radically changed the tactics and strategy of the war. One of the classes of new technology was the tank. The emergence of more powerful engines
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ATGM "Chriznatema-S" (western classification AT-15 "Springer") was created in the Kolomna Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering in the 1990s under the leadership of General Designer S. P. Invincible. This anti-tank missile system is designed to destroy modern and promising armored vehicles
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MLRS "Fadjr-5" is designed to destroy the following targets: - communication and control points; - missile launch sites; - artillery positions; - radar detection equipment; - administrative and political centers. x years
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ACS PzH-2000 (the abbreviation PzH - from Panzerhaubitze, the number "2000" indicates a new millennium) is designed to destroy various point and area targets, primarily fire weapons (including tanks and other armored vehicles), fortifications, as well as live enemy forces. From
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For obvious reasons, there is still very little data on the S-500 anti-aircraft missile system being developed. This is quite understandable, because the development is still underway and the bulk of the details are secret, and part of the design work has not yet been completed. However, some aspects of the project are already known that
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2 С31 "Vienna" - Versatility Representative of the domestic military-industrial complex of the new millennium - 120 mm self-propelled gun 2 С31 "Vienna". First of all, we note that domestic mortars are called guns due to the versatility of performing tasks - they can play the role of both a mortar and a howitzer
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In the first few months of the Great Patriotic War, many advantages and disadvantages of Soviet weapons and military equipment were manifested. Something showed excellent results, and the performance of other types in a combat situation did not live up to expectations. For example, existing tanks, including
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Thanks to the beginning of the Cold War, weapons and military equipment in the fifties of the last century developed in accordance with the Olympic motto: faster, higher, stronger. Airplanes began to fly faster and further, bombs began to destroy targets over large areas, and artillery began to hit much further. V
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The Chinese CAO "Type 05" or "PLL05", put into service with the PLA recently, is a light gun mount on a wheel base. The first official mention of the new Chinese-made ACS is 2001. The NORINCO company demonstrated a new combat vehicle with a 120 mm cannon for foreign
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The high efficiency of the use of self-propelled 152-mm guns during the Great Patriotic War made this type of equipment one of the most promising. In the eyes of some specialists and military self-propelled guns with large-caliber guns, they have become a universal miracle weapon. Therefore, at the end
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The 37-mm anti-tank airborne gun of the 1944 model had a unique design of an almost recoilless gun. The recoillessness of the gun was achieved in two ways: thanks to the powerful muzzle brake, which is typical for anti-tank guns; due to the original system, which
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In 1947, at the Omsk plant No. 147, the production of the SU-100 self-propelled artillery unit (ACS) was stopped, where its production was transferred from the Uralmash plant at the beginning of 1946. In accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated June 22, 1948, the design bureau of the Omsk plant No. 174 (head
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One of the main problems in tank building from the very appearance of this area of technology was the gas contamination of the fighting compartment. Time passed, new tanks, engines, guns and other systems appeared. But there was no dramatic improvement in conditions in the fighting compartment. Of course, appearing at the beginning of the second
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The public has not yet recovered from the shock of the "double knockout" from the Ministry of Defense of Russia - after reports of the possibility of creating a joint venture in the Russian Federation for the assembly of Italian combat vehicles Centauro / Freccia, as well as after the statement of the chief of staff, General Makarov, that Russia could
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45-mm anti-tank gun mod. 1937 was the main weapon of the Soviet army during the initial stage of the Second World War. In the design of the gun, the development line continues, which begins with the 37-mm anti-tank gun, which was acquired from a German company, which was adopted by the Red Army in February of the 31st of the year
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The American aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin presented a unique solution - the EAPS kinetic interceptor missile, which is capable of completely changing the armament of air defense. In the creation of "EAPS" the designers used a miniature technology "hit-to-kill"
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At the end of last week, on the website of the press service of the Eastern District, a material was published about the successful execution of live firing by a special task unit of a brigade of ships for the protection of the coastal area. The shots were fired from the coastal PDRBK DP-62 "Dam" and grenade launchers DP-61 "Duel". Battle trials
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History of creation Versailles is a name that in the 1920s. was associated primarily not with a luxurious palace complex in the vicinity of Paris, but with the peace treaty of 1918. One of the results of the First World War was the elimination of the military might of Germany. The winners took care of this. Special
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Exactly 71 years ago, at the Comintern plant in Voronezh, the first 2 BM-13 combat mounts, better known as "Katyusha", were assembled. Such a love nickname was given to them by Soviet soldiers. Most likely, the installation received such a name in the wake of the song of the same name, popular at that time. Also title
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The heaviest of the Soviet field guns during the Second World War was the 203-mm howitzer of the 1931 model, bearing the designation B-4. This weapon was very powerful. However, the main disadvantage of the howitzer was its very large mass. This howitzer was one of the few guns that were installed on
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At the end of the Civil War, the Red Army had a small number of special and high-powered guns. The main mass was made up of foreign-made guns. Most of them are morally and technically outdated, the ability to maintain these weapons in combat readiness was limited