Artillery Lovers Group
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Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons. These engines comprise specialised devices which use some form of stored energy to operate, whether mechanical, chemical, or electromagnetic. Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.
2B1 Oka (Russian: 2Б1 Ока) is a Soviet 420 mm self-propelled mortar. 2B1 is its GRAU designation.
An experimental model was ready in 1957. Its chassis (Object 273), was designed and built by the Kirov Plant. Its 20 meter barrel allowed it to fire 750 kg rounds up to 45 km. Due to its complexity of loading it had a relatively low rate of fire - 1 round every 5 minutes. Field tests showed various drawbacks of the entire design (the recoil was too strong for many components - it damaged drive sprockets, tore away the gear-box from its mountings, etc).
Its development continued until 1960, when the idea of such overpowered guns (along with the 2A3), was abandoned in favor of tactical ballistic missiles, such as the 2K6 Luna.
Wow dude o.O
Это не миномет, это таран! =D
Oh My ******* God! o.O
That thing is huge...
That's what she said.
Sexist comment is sexist :D
But, with such a sweet cannon, you don't need Neighborhood watch anymore!!
imagine the recoil....
Death looks similar to this baby.