This is a blog about world history in general, world war ii, i, vietnam war, middle ages, boer war, weapons, and biographies of famous people, etc.
This is a list of the top ten 5 machine guns of World War II, from the point of view of reliability of its mechanical parts, rate of fire, accuracy, versatility, and stopping power. 1- Maschinengewehr (MG) 42: a German recoil-operated machine gun, chambered for the 7.92x57mm Mauser cartridge and produced by Mauser-Werke Fabrike. Extremely [...]
The Caesar is a French, 155mm, self-propelled howitzer, mounted on a truck. It was developed by GIAT Industries and was delivered to the French Army in 1999 after prototype trials. With an 8m-long barrel, the Caesar had a maximum range of 42 km, with conventional shells, and more than 50 km using rocket-assisted ammunition. A [...]
The AMX-30 AuF1 is a 155mm self-propelled howitzer, mounted on the AMX-30 tank chassis. Developed by the French state-owned firm GIAT Industries in Roanne, France, it entered service with the French Army in 1979, being used in combat situation for the first time in the 1980s Iraq-Iran War as it had been acquired by Iraq [...]
The Oto Melara 76/62 is an Italian, automatic, 76mm naval gun developed in the 1960s by the Italian firm Oto Melara. Equipped with a 4.7m (186-in) long barrel, it has a maximum range of 20 km, firing SAPOMER armor-piercing ammunition, and 16 km using SAPOM HE shells. There are three variants, all of them operated [...]
Germany is a country with one of the largest territorial losses in history, with part of her population living in the regions she lost. It was not as a result of secession or emancipation of any of her states, or of selling land to a neighboring nation, as in the case of Mexico, but of [...]
The M198 is an American 155mm field howitzer, developed by the government-run manufacturing arsenal on Rock Island, on the Mississippi River, Illinois, for the US Army and Marine Corps, entering service in 1979. It had its baptism of fire in the Gulf War, in 1991, and was also used in combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom [...]
