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…

A Soviet 152 mm gun 2A 36 Giatsint. Developed in 1968. Crew – 8, fire range: 28000 m (high explosive fragmentation shell); 40000 m (rocket assisted projectile), five shots per minute, projectile speed – 800 m/s

Artillery of the USSR: the self-propelled mortar Tulip 2S4 of the 1972 model. Museum of the Soviet Army, Moscow  

152 mm M1937 (ML-20) The ML-20 was officially classified as howitzer-gun, an artillery system which combines characteristics of a howitzer and (to lesser extent) of a gun and therefore can be used in both roles. This universality was achieved by wide range…

Barrel of a 3-pood (76 mm) cannon Country: Rzeczpospolita Year: 1559 Material: bronze Weight: 921 kg Artillery Museum (Petrograd District, St. Petersburg)

120 mm GrW (Granatwerfer) 42: German mortar Developed in 1942, the 12 cm (about 4.7 in) GrW 42 was an attempt to give German infantry units a close support weapon with greater performance than the mortars used in general service at the time. This weapon was…

ZiS-2 (57 mm) M1943: Soviet anti-tank gun In the beginning of 1940 the design office of Vassiliy Grabin received a task from the artillery department to develop a powerful anti-tank gun. The head of this department, Marshal Kulik, and his subordinates estimated…

10,5 cm Škoda M.16/19 Horska Houfnice: Czechoslovakian mountain artillery Military Museum (Belgrade)

APX SAL 37 – a French 25 mm anti-tank gun from 1938  

20 mm Flugzeugabwehrkanone (FlaK) Model 30 Military Museum (Belgrade)

The German 8 cm breech-loading Leichte Feldkanone M76 Krupp Military Museum (Belgrade)

Studebaker BM-13N (Normalized version) Katyusha Made in the USSR in 1944 Chassis: Studebaker US6 (USA) Engine: Hercules (6 cylinders) Power: 95 HP Max. speed: 72 km/h Weight: 6200 kg

SAG-2: underwater German mine Military Museum (Belgrade)

The Sd.Kfz. 124 Wespe (German for “wasp”), also known as Leichte Feldhaubitze 18/2 auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen II (Sf.) (“Light field howitzer 18 on Panzer II chassis (self-propelled)”), is a German self-propelled gun developed and used during the Second…

Marder 38H (Sd. Kfz. 138) from 1942. Marder III was the name for a series of World War II German tank destroyers. They mounted either the modified ex-Soviet 76.2 mm F-22 Model 1936 divisional field gun, or the German 7.5 cm PaK 40, in an open-topped fighting…

2 cm Flakvierling 38: German anti-aircraft gun Even as the Flak 30 was entering service, the Luftwaffe and Heer (German army) branches of the Wehrmacht had doubts about its effectiveness, given the ever-increasing speeds of low-altitude fighter-bombers and…

The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier and sometimes simply the Bren Carrier from the light machine gun armament, is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrongs and other companies.