The first tank was produced with the only available original 37 mm Puteaux SA18 short-barreled gun. The rest would mostly be armed with 37 mm Hotchkiss naval guns modified by the Putilov factory. These had originally been procured for the Russian Navy, but had been deemed inadequate and subse...
94 carbines and rifles, 158 pistols and revolvers, two anti-tank weapons guns, a 45 mm infantry mortar, an automatic grenade launcher, an improvised explosive device, 15 manual fragmentation grenades, as well as over 4,500 cartridges of various caliber and silencers. ...
The Russian ZSU-23-4 SPAAG Series Around 70 ZSU-23-4 “Biała” self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are to be produced for the Polish army, as a cheaper alternative to the modern Polish 35 mm PZA Loara self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. The Russian ZSU-23-4 SPAAG Series Operators Afghanist...
Such a major public debate on Russia’s nuclear doctrine and deterrence strategy among think-tank representatives in Moscow was unprecedented—in both substance and tone.Footnote105 Some elements had appeared in debates before the war: Karaganov and Trenin had expressed anti-Western sentiments, ...
The tradeoffs were deemed worth it – the T-54 had a more powerful main gun than almost any main battle tank in the world at the time.The main gun was a 100mm D-10TK, an upgraded version of the D-10S of the T-44. The T-54 had a pair of bow machineguns. The T-54, unlike...
howitzers), and some of the antitank guns are at least at his disposal as far as fire control is concerned. Whether these latter units are placed completely under his command has never been clearly established. 3) The batteries of the artillery are normally employed so far to the rear tha...
It was found that the gun effectively pierced the armor of German and Austrian armored cars, predating the 1918 Mauser 13.2mm T-Gewehr anti-tank gun used against the first British tanks.Fortress gun Ghana arr. 1876 Photo Credit: http://zonwar.ru/news5/news_986_Rifle_Gana-1876.html...
GOST 10674-2022: Tank wagons. General specificationsGOST 10674-82: Tank cars of 1520 mm gauge main-line railways. General specificationsGOST 10674-97: Tank Car of 1520 mm gauge mainline railways. General technical conditionsGOST 10692-2015: Steel and cast iron pipes and fittings. Acceptance, ...
For attacking the enemy, the serviceman has a whole arsenal of rifles, assault rifles and machine-guns at his disposal. Depending on the type of troops and arm of service, the soldier can operate an AEK-971 Koksharov assault rifle, the latest Kalashnikov models (AK-12 and AK-15) or the...
Anti-Tank capability is a launcher with x2 firing tubes mounted on both the right and left hand side of the turret. These will fire The Kornet (Russian: “Корнет”; English: Cornet) ATM missiles. The gunner sighting equipment includes day and night channels. His sight is located ...