Artillery
La Spingarda
The drawings depict minors two shells with gunpowder, top «wants the bag inside the bullet“; a queue of bombs “that does not come back to dirieto to take in galley” (the galley was the typical warship used in the Mediterranean from the ninth to the eighteenth century.); Other casing with two types of powder a – b, “mode of foil…
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TORSION CATAPULTS
The word catapult is a generic term used to describe all ancient and medieval non-gunpowder propelled missile-throwing artillery. The first catapult may have been invented in the early fourth century BCE. In 399 in Syracuse, King Dionysius I, threatened by the Carthaginians and other enemies, assembled a large group of…
Fall Of Constantinople – Ottoman Superguns
Ottoman superguns It is not without some irony that bombards, all but abandoned as obsolete by most European powers by 1453, played a critical role that year in the fall of Constantinople, the last Christian stronghold in the East. For centuries the Byzantine capital’s great walls and defenders had repulsed…
Eighteenth-Century Artillery
Swedish Artillery of Charles XI- 17th-18th Century. American colonial artillery crew. 18th-century cannon projectiles. Spurred by evolving technology, organization, and tactics, smoothbore artillery achieved its maturity during the eighteenth century. Constantly improving metallurgy allowed for lighter and shorter gun tubes that did not sacrifice safety or accuracy. In addition, new…
The Big Guns At Dover WW2 World War Two
Wanstone 15-inch gun -‘Jane’ Winnie – Pooh – Clem – Jane – Gladiator – Sceneshifter – Piecemaker After the Battle of Britain had abated the bombing of the South Coast began the Luftwaffe making bombing raids on Dover and its harbour night and day. They not only crossed directly over…
Heavy artillery at Leningrad
The 35.5 cm Haubitze M1 was a German siege howitzer. It was developed by Rheinmetall before World War II to meet the German Army’s request for a super-heavy howitzer. Eight were produced between 1939 and 1944. It saw service in the Battle of France and spent the rest of the…
75-mm Pack Howitzer M1A1
The 75-mm (2.95-in) Pack Howitzer M1A1 on Carriage M8 was one of the Allies’ most successful light weapons of the type. It was a pack howitzer that could be readily adapted for para-dropping, and was used by both British and American airborne units in 1944 and 1945. Some are still…