Reusable manned return space vehicle of the Almaz rocket (actual sample). Designed by V. Chelomey. First flight – 1976 In 1959, Chelomey was appointed the Chief Designer of Aviation Equipment. OKB-52, along with designing ICBMs, started to work on spacecraft…

The BOV (“Combat Armored Vehicle”) is an all-wheel drive armoured vehicle manufactured in the former Yugoslavia and today in Serbia. BOV 3 equipped with three 20 mm anti-aircraft Oerlikon machine guns.

German Sturmhaubitze (Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. G – Sd.Kfz. 142/2). 105 mm light howitzer. Sturmgeschütz units held a very impressive record of tank kills, totaling some 20,000 enemy tanks by spring of 1944. As of April 10th of 1945, there were 1,053 StuG IIIs…

A German light howitzer gun leFH 18M from WW2. Fire range – 10675 m, projectile weight – 14.8 kg, projectile speed – 470 m/s, crew – 5

1-pood (195 mm) bronze cannon by Albert Benink Made in Germany Year: 1843 Weight: 4 t Artillery Museum (Petrograd District, St. Petersburg)

Canon de 155 mm C Modèle 1915 Saint Chamond The Canon de 155 C modèle 1915 Saint-Chamond was a French howitzer used during World War I. The French government ordered 400 Saint-Chamond howitzers in 1915, these being delivered starting in late 1916. Small numbers…

Soyuz: Russian spacecraft Soyuz (Союз) is a spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. It was designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau (now Energia). The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraft…

French fort mortar 81 mm from 1934. Range: 3200 m

Barrel of a ¼-pound (123 mm) mortar Made in Russian Empire Year: 1805 Material: bronze Length: 41 cm Weight: 73 kg Artillery Museum (Petrograd District, St. Petersburg)

A French artillery tractor Laffly/Licorne V15T from WW2. Four cylinders, 2.3 L, 60 HP, 60 km/h

12.7 mm DsHK The DShK 1938 (Cyrillic: ДШК, for Russian: Дегтярёва-Шпагина Крупнокалиберный, “Degtyaryov-Shpagin large-calibre”) is a Soviet heavy machine gun with a V-shaped butterfly trigger, firing the 12.7×108mm cartridge. The weapon was also used as a…

203-мм гаубица обр. 1931 г. (Б-4) 242. Index GRAU: 52-G-625 During the Second World War, it was under the command of the Stavka’s strategic reserve. It was nicknamed “Stalin’s sledgehammer” by German soldiers. These guns were used with success against Finnish…