ENTAC (Engin Téléguidé Anti-Char) or MGM-32A was a French MCLOS wire-guided Anti-tank missile. Developed in the early 1950s, the weapon entered service with the French army in 1957. Production ended in 1974 after approximately 140,000 had been built. Self…

85 mm M1939 52-K (GRAU code: 52-P-365) Museum of the Great Patriotic War (Moscow) The 85 mm air defense gun M1939 52-K (85-мм зенитная пушка обр. 1939 г. 52-К) was an 85 mm Soviet anti-aircraft gun, developed under guidance of leading Soviet designers M.…

Missile defense systems: the S-25 missile system with a 3RS (B-300) missile. The system was designed for Moscow’s air defense. The S-25 system consisted of 56 stationary anti-aircraft missile systems, deployed in the form of two rings around Moscow. Each…

The jet six-barrel mortar Nebelwerfer: smoke mortar. Smoke mortar was a World War II German series of weapons. They were initially developed by and assigned to the Wehrmacht’s “smoke troops” (Nebeltruppen). Museum of the Soviet Army, Moscow.

50 mm Flugabwehrkanone 41: German anti-aircraft gun Development of the gun was slow: it began in 1936, but the contract was awarded to Rheinmetall-Borsig only in 1940. The gun was produced in two models, one mounted on a two-axle trailer, the other one stationary…

The Mk 61 105 mm Self-Propelled Howitzer was a French self-propelled artillery piece designed and built during the late 1950s for the French Army.

The anti-aircraft gun 52 K (caliber 85 mm). The gun was created in Kaliningrad (the Moscow region) by M. Loginov. Actively used during the Second World War, and after a long time stood in service until the appearance of anti-aircraft missile systems. Subsequently…

75 mm Pack howitzer M1 (M116) Military Museum (Belgrade)

5,7 cm M1: American anti-tank gun Military Museum (Belgrade)

SPZB 41 – A German anti-tank gun from 1941

Skoda 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone Model 15: mountain gun Its development was quite prolonged, as the Austrians couldn’t decide on the specifications that they wanted. Initially, they wanted a gun that could be broken down into no more than five pack-animal loads…

Artillery of the USSR: the self-propelled artillery vehicle ISU-152. Developed in 1943 on the basis of the heavy tank Is-85. Power – 520 hp. Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow  

Barrel of a 9-pood (394 mm) siege mortar Country: Russian Empire Year: 1850 Material: bronze Weight: 3718 kg Artillery Museum (Petrograd District, St. Petersburg)

76 mm DRP-4: Soviet dynamo-reactive gun In the 1930s, when the economy of the Soviet Union was developing rapidly, free money appeared and the opportunity to spend it on experiments. For example, radio-controlled airplanes, torpedo boats and tanks, mines…

152 mm 2S19 Msta-S The 2S19 Msta (Russian: Мста, after the Msta River) is a 152.4 mm self-propelled howitzer designed by the Soviet Union, which entered service in 1989 as the successor to the 2S3 Akatsiya. The vehicle has the running gear of the T-80, but…

SU-76M Made in USSR in 1942-43 Crew: 4 people Motor: GAZ-203 (6 cylinders) Power: 150 HP Armor: 35 mm Armament: 1 gun ZiS-3 (76 mm) + 1 machine gun DT (7,62 mm) Speed: 41 km/h Weight: 10500 kg

105 mm Leichtgeschütz 42 (LG 42) The development history of the LG 42 is not clear, but it seems obvious that the success of the company’s 7.5 cm LG 40 during the Battle of Crete in 1941 spurred the Germans to continue development of recoilless guns in larger…