37 mm V-11 Country: USSR Production: 1872 Crew: 10 Armour: 6 mm Muzzle velocity: 880 m/s Rate of fire: 180/minute Fire range: 8100 m Weight: 3150 kg The Patriot Military Historical Park in Kronstadt (Russia)

7,5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz (GebG) 36: German mountain gun The 7.5 cm GebG 36 was designed by Rheinmetall to meet an Army requirement for a 7.5 cm howitzer to serve in the mountain divisions (Gebirgs Divisionen) and replace the World War I-era mountain guns still…

RDS-1: first Soviet atomic bomb The RDS-1 and First Lightning was the nuclear bomb used in the Soviet Union’s first nuclear weapon test. The United States assigned it the code-name Joe-1, in reference to Joseph Stalin. It was detonated on 29 August 1949 at…

RBU-1000 «Smerch-3» Design bureau: Московский институт теплотехники (Moscow, USSR) Year: 1964 Weight: 2900 kg The Patriot Military Historical Park in Kronstadt (Russia)

German 105 mm howitzer from 1935 (540 m/sec). Range: 12 325 m The 10.5 cm leFH 18 (leichte Feldhaubitze “light field howitzer”) is a German light howitzer used in World War II and the standard artillery piece of the Wehrmacht, adopted for service in 1935…

25 MLE – a French anti-tank gun (25 mm) from 1934. Range of fire: 1600 m

Schneider Obusier de 120 mm Modèle 1915 Tir Rapide The origins of the mle 1915 go back to a very similar design the mle 1909. The designation in Schneider’s catalog was O.C. 120 №2 (Obusier de Campagne de 120) or 120 mm Field Howitzer in English. Its description…

Soleil Royal (Royal Sun) was a French 104-gun ship of the line, flagship of Admiral Tourville. She was built in Brest between 1668 and 1670 by engineer Laurent Hubac, was launched in 1669, and stayed unused in Brest harbour for years. She was recommissioned…

2S6 Tunguska. GRAU classification: 2K22. NATO reporting name: SA-19 “Grison” Development of the 2K22 anti-aircraft system began on 8 June 1970. At the request of the Soviet Ministry of Defense, the KBP Instrument Design Bureau in Tula, under the guidance…

SO-152 (СО-152) is a Soviet 152.4 mm self-propelled gun developed in 1968. The SO-152 (Russian: СО-152) is a Soviet 152.4 mm self-propelled gun developed in 1968, as a response to the American 155 mm M109 howitzer. Development began in 1967, according to…

The 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (15 cm NbW 41) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War. It served with units of the Nebeltruppen, German Chemical Corps units that had the responsibility for poison gas and smoke weapons that were also used…

SET-40: anti-submarine homing acoustic torpedo Constructor: MPO Gydropribor (Leningrad, USSR) Year of production: 1962 Length: 4500 mm Caliber: 400 mm Max speed: 28 knots Depth: 200 m Weight: 550 kg The Patriot Military Historical Park in Kronstadt

The BM-13 Katyusha multiple-rocket launcher is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in WW II from Soviet Army Museum (Moscow). The Katyusha is a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World…