Artillery

2S4 Tyulpan [SM-240(2S4)]

AFV Artillery Soviet 3 Min Read

The Soviet forces used the 240mm 2S4 self-propelled Tyulpan mortar for the first time in combat in Afghanistan. It is a particularly accurate weapon when it fires the laser-guided Smel’chak round. Introduced in 1970, the 2S4 mounts a 240mm breech-loading mortar on a tracked vehicle based on the GMZ minelayer chassis. The mortar, complete with baseplate, lies along the length…

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47-mm Anti-tank Gun Type 1

The Japanese Anti-tank Gun Type 1 was the only indigenous Japanese weapon produced solely for the antitank role, and although it was effective enough against most light Allied armour it was never produced in significant enough numbers to make any overall impression. A tank gun version was produced and the…

Artillery Prussia 4 Min Read

Prussian Horse artillery

Horse artillery in action during the Seven Years’ War. Crew-member no. 2 (second right), the loader, carries ammunition in a large leather satchel around the neck; no. 3 (second left) is about to ignite the charge by means of a portfire, no. 4, the aimer (right) having stepped clear of…

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FLAKARTILLERIE IN AFRIKA

Kanonier, Flakartillerie troops, Libya 1942 The appearance of Luftwaffe anti-aircraft units on the battlefields of Europe and Africa in a conventional artillery role was not due to any personal ambition of the Reichsmarschall, but rather to a sound and admirable flexibility of thought on the part of the German staff.…

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US Army Railway Artillery Projects

Railway Artillery forms another chapter in the history of our wartime Ordnance preparation. An inventory taken by the Ordnance Department as soon as war was declared against Germany showed some 464 big guns available for mobilization on the western front. These ranged in size from the 8-inch Rifle to the…

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A NEW USE FOR AN OBSOLETE WEAPON

Here is a photo of a Priester. The firer is a bit close to it. Normally it was fired by tugging a cord about one metre long. The strange name Priester is allegedly due to the fact that the weapon was invented by a Hungarian priest named Vecer. Originally deployed…

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Cross Channel Duel

This map shows the fire pattern and coordinates of the four heavy batteries in the Pas de Calais at A. Sangatte, B. Framzelle, C. Haringzelle and D. La Treserorie. One of the lesser known campaigns of WW II was the cross channel bombardments in the Pas-de-Calais and Dover area between…

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Artillery of the Middle Ages

The earliest written evidence for the cannon is found in the ordinances of Florence for…

IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY – RUSSO–JAPANESE WAR

On the eve of the Russo–Japanese War, Russian land forces were the biggest in the…

American Civil War Rail-Weapons

From the very beginning of the war, the employment of railway batteries in the form…

French Artillery – Napoleonic Wars III

The artillery of the Imperial Guard, which grew into the Grande ArmĂ©e’s artillery reserve, had…