Weapons of great victory

  During World War II to fight the superior forces of enemy soldiers, some infantrymen have individual weapons and ammunition - pistol, rifle or shotgun, submachine gun and grenades. To combat the machine-gun nests - hand grenades to anti-tank - petrol bombs and anti-tank grenades and guns. Infantry platoons and the department received a collective weapons - machine guns, antitank guns, mortars, and various types of mines. Machine-gun units were armed with machine guns and anti-aircraft - anti-aircraft guns of various calibers.

  Major divisions of infantry got guns. In their possession were 50-mm mortars. On arms battalions - 82-mm mortars and 45-mm cannon. A regiment armed with 120-mm mortars and 76-mm cannon. Infantry divisions had their own divisional artillery - 122-mm howitzers and 76-mm cannon. All of these tools support the actions of his infantry on the battlefield, would have to destroy and suppress the enemy's firepower and destroy enemy Tank-Automotive vehicles, destroy enemy manpower, destroy buildings, to fight against the enemy artillery and mortars, to suppress the fire from the pillboxes and bunkers.

 The name "The Great Patriotic War" was used in the Soviet Union after Stalin's radio address to the nation July 3, 1941. The appeal of the word "great" and "domestic" are used separately.

 For the first time this phrase has been applied to this war in the articles of the newspaper "Pravda" of 23 and 24 June 1941 and initially was perceived not as a term, but as one of the newspaper cliches, along with other similar phrases: "a sacred people's war", the "sacred domestic people's war "," victorious Patriotic War. " The term "World War" was assigned to the military administration of the Order of the Patriotic War, established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on May 20, 1942. The name is preserved in the post-Soviet states. In countries that are not part of the USSR, where the Russian language is not the main language of communication, called the "Great Patriotic War" is almost never used. In English-speaking countries, it is replaced by the term - Eastern Front (World War II) (Eastern Front (World War II)), in German historiography - Deutsch-Sowjetischer Krieg, Russlandfeldzug, Ostfeldzug (German-Soviet war, the Russian campaign, eastern campaign.)

 Recently, the Russian popular culture to refer to the Great Patriotic War began regularly using the term "Great War" that, historically, is not entirely correct - in the late 1910s, the term is applied to the First World War. There are other variants of the name, for example - the Nazi-Soviet War (1941-1945).

Light armored vehicles

BA-64

   

BA-64 Soviet light armored vehicle.
  Was created in July - December 1941. on the chassis of the GAZ-64 with a pre-war developments in the Soviet armored four-wheel drive the next generation, and using the experience gained in studying the captured armored cars.

   

BA-64 was the first Soviet serial-wheel-drive armored car, was the only car of this class entered service in the USSR during the war.

  

Total production in the BA-64, April 1942-46 years., Was released 9110 armored vehicles of this type.

  BA-64 were widely used by Soviet troops in the summer of 1942 and until the end of the war, mainly in the role of intelligence, as well as for direct support of infantry.

Self-propelled artillery

 ICS-152

 


    

ISU-152 - Soviet heavy self-propelled artillery unit (SAU) period of the Great Patriotic War.

   The name of the machine ISU abbreviation means "self-propelled gun tank IP-based" index of 152 means the main armament caliber machine.

  Design Bureau developed a pilot plant number 100 in June - October 1943 and entered service on October 6 that year. Then it began production at the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant (CHKZ), which lasted until 1946. Several machines of this brand was released in 1945 from the Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ). ICS-152 is widely used in the final stages of World War II in almost all aspects of the use of self-propelled artillery, and played an important role in defeating Nazi Germany and its allies.

Anti-aircraft

37мм 61 КАА

       

Mm Caliber: 37
BH deg angle: -10 ° - +15 °
GN deg angle: 60 °
The length of the barrel with a funnel mm: 1550
The total length of the system, mm: 1650
System Weight in firing position: 63 lbs.
Practical skorstrelnost, rds. / Min: 30
RPTR prototype testing began at the end of NIAP in 1936. As the shell was taken as regular 37-mm armor-piercing shell from 37-mm anti-TB drugs arr. 1930 Weight 0.674 kg projectile, the fuze MD-5. On the NIAP RPTR revealed the same patterning as the 37-mm anti-TB drugs arr. 1930
Weight of projectile, 0.674 kg
Charge weight, 0.175 kg
Muzzle velocity, m / c 545
The pressure in the channel in 2450 kg/cm2

Cars

Voroshilovets

 

"Voroshilovets" - the heavy artillery tractor. Development started in 1935

  Constructors: linking led DM Ivanov, the motor group - PE Libenko and I.3. Stavtsev; transmission - V. M. Krichevsky, C.3. Sidelnikov and VP Kaplin; chassis - PG Efremenko and AI Avtomonov; Accessories - IV Dudka and S. Mironov. The development was carried out under the leadership of N. Zubarev and his deputy, JF Bobrov.

-Weight, t - 22
-Thrust, T - 13-17
-Clearance, m - 0.462 -
Track-width, m - 0.428
-Speed ​​- 42 km / h without a trailer on the highway, 20 km / h with a trailer on the highway, 16 km / h with a trailer over rough terrain.
-Cruising range, miles of highway - 270, Ground - 130

Tanks

T34-85

 T-34-85 - Soviet medium tank during World War II. Adopted January 23, 1944

  Is the final modification of the T-34 model 1943 A new, spacious, three-turret developed using structural and technological solutions implemented in the experimental tank.

  Installing a more powerful 85 mm gun, combined with a number of structural improvements greatly increased the efficiency of the T-34-85. The new tower has provided the increase in the crew compartment, the possibility of placing a more powerful 85 mm gun, a better distribution of tasks between the crew and its security.

  The T-34-85 almost did not lose the old agility - the main advantages of a medium tank in fights with heavy tank "Panther and" Tiger. "
   T-34-85 was produced in the USSR in January 1944.
In total, the T-34-85 was issued more than 35,000 units, while taking into account the previously issued T-34-76, the total output of about 70-80 thousand units. This suggests that the T-34 tank was the most massive in the world.

Artillery

76.2 mm ZIS-3

    

76-mm divisional gun model 1942 (ZIS-3) - 76.2 mm divisional and Soviet anti-tank gun.
  Chief Designer - V.G.Grabin, the parent company for the production - Artillery plant in Gorky.

  

ZIS-3 was the most massive Soviet artillery shells, manufactured during World War II. Due to his outstanding military, operational and technological qualities of this instrument is recognized by experts as one of the best guns of World War II. After the war, ZIS-3 was a long time in the Soviet Army, as well as actively exported to several countries, some of which she is in service and at this time.

Gun

DShK and DSHKM - krupnokoliberny machine gun chambered for 12.7 / 108mm.

 The result of modernization of large-caliber machine gun DK (Degtyarev Launcher). DSK was adopted in 1938. under the designation "12.7 mm heavy machine gun Degtyarev - Shpagina arr. 1938 "

 While maintaining the principle of work of Automation and schema locking the barrel machine gun DC, has been completely redesigned engine power (he provided a submission tape or cartridge to the right or the left). Accordingly, a design and has become the cartridge tape (such as the so-called "crab").

 Heavy machine gun mod. 1938 has a relatively high efficiency of fire. For muzzle energy, which ranged from 18.8 to 19.2 kJ, he surpassed almost all the existing systems of similar caliber machine guns. With this accomplished a great breakdown of the bullets on the armored targets: at a distance of 500 meters, it pierces the armor of high hardness steel 15 mm thick.

The machine gun has a fairly high rate of fire, hence the effectiveness of fire on fast-moving targets. Maintain a high rate of fire, despite the increase in caliber, promoted the introduction of a buffer device in the back plate machine gun. The elastic buffer is also softens the blows of the moving system in its rearmost position, which is beneficial to the vitality of detail and accuracy of shooting