List of military equipment of the Soviet Union during World War II

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The following is a list of Soviet military equipment from World War II, in

which includes artillery, vehicles and ships. World War II was the deadliest war in history, starting in 1939 and ending in 1945. Following increasing political instability in Europe since 1930, Germany, seeking to dominate Europe, attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, marking the start of the World War. II. The USSR (Soviet Union) joined in the attack on Poland on September 17, 1939. The war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945 with the surrender of Germany to the Allied (including Soviet) forces. By the end of the war, the Soviet Union had produced 19.8 million rifles; 1.477 million machine guns; 516,648 artillery pieces; 347,900 mortars; 119,769 tanks and self-propelled guns; 265,600 army trucks; 213,742 military aircraft; 2 cruisers; 25 destroyers; 52 submarines.[1]

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• 1 knives
• 2 small arms 2.1 Revolvers and pistols
• 2.2 Rifles, sniper rifles and battle rifles
• 2.3 Submachine guns
• 2.4 Machine guns

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Post-war and modern technology

There are much more sites in the capital with military equipment produced in the 1950s–1980s, as well as modern ones. Samples of the domestic aviation industry can be appreciated at VDNKh, on Industry Square. The main object is the Yak-40 passenger aircraft, which in 1981 flew 8,200 kilometers without landing. There is also a Mi-8 helicopter and a Su-27 fighter jet here.

Interesting exhibits can also be seen on the main alley of the Russian State Social University. Artillery pieces, tanks, including the famous T-34, are on display here, as well as memorials in memory of fallen soldiers.

Another place with military equipment is located in the east of the capital, surrounded by three metro stations - Kuzminok, Okskaya and Ryazansky Prospekt. In the park named after Fyodor Poletaev, the Alley of Heroes of the Soviet Union was set up, 15 memorial plaques were installed there, and opposite them were six samples of military equipment, including aviation.

The Submarine Museum is also worth a visit. It is located right inside the B-396 submarine “Novosibirsky Komsomolets”, which is moored on the bank of the Moscow Canal in the Severnoye Tushino Park. The boat was in service from 1980 to 1998, and now anyone can feel like a submariner and see what it’s like to serve at depth.

Small arms [edit]

Revolvers and pistols[edit]

Rifles, sniper rifles and combat rifles[edit]

Submachine guns[edit]

Machine guns [edit]

Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill

Victory Square, building 3

The main place in Moscow dedicated to the worst military conflict in history is the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, or the Victory Museum. It is located on Poklonnaya Hill in the Dorogomilovo district, right next to the Park Pobedy metro station. The museum's holdings contain more than 300 thousand exhibits - various uniforms, equipment, insignia, paintings, sculptures and, of course, military equipment, of which there are more than 400 units. These are armored vehicles, aviation, warships, artillery pieces, engineering structures, not only Soviet, but also those belonging to the allies, as well as countries of the Hitlerite coalition.

Alexander Mikhailov notes that the museum displays equipment that fought on all fronts of World War II, and cites as an example one of the main exhibits - the 305-mm naval railway installation TM-3-12. She took part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War on the Hanko Peninsula in southern Finland, defending the waters of the Gulf of Finland and besieged Leningrad. However, in December 1941, our troops had to dismantle the installation and flood it during their retreat.

“The Finns decided to restore it, but the trunks were destroyed irrevocably. Therefore, they asked the Germans from occupied France for barrels from Russian battleships, which in 1920 were parked in French Tunisia (in the city of Bizerte) and which were then stored in warehouses until the start of World War II. These were the ships of the Russian Volunteer Army, which, retreating from Crimea, came by ship to North Africa. The Finns placed these guns on our assembled installation, but did not have time to fire a single shot from it. In September 1944, an armistice was signed between Finland and the Soviet Union, and the installation returned to its homeland. Until the 1960s, it was in service with the Soviet army, then it was mothballed, and in 1998 it was transferred to our museum,” says the historian.

Another exhibit has an interesting fate - the Il-4 medium bomber. It was these planes that carried out daring raids on Berlin at the very beginning of the war. The car, which is located in the Victory Museum, was made in 1945. She took part in battles in the Far East and was shot down in Manchuria. So the bomber lay in the forest until in 1993 it was found by amateur Afghan pilot Vladimir Safronov, who wanted to restore it in memory of his father, a front-line soldier, who flew the same one during the war.

Alexander Mikhailov emphasizes that not only Soviet cars are exhibited in the museum. Captured equipment from Nazi Germany is displayed at one of the sites. There are about 20 units assembled there - half-track tractors, medium tanks Panzer III, Panzer IV, Sturmgeschütz III assault mounts, tank destroyers and so on.

“The second trophy area is dedicated to Japanese equipment brought from the Kuril Islands. This is the second site in the world for the number of military equipment of the Imperial Japanese Army. The fact is that after the end of World War II, the American administration, as part of the demilitarization policy, asked Japan to destroy all its military equipment. And now, in the Land of the Rising Sun itself, there are literally a few tanks and guns left from it. And we have this equipment in the museum,” says Alexander Mikhailov.

The Victory Museum did not forget about the allies. American Sherman tanks, British Matilda tanks, British Hurricane fighters, American Bell P-63 Kingcobra, American anti-aircraft guns and much more are on display here.

Explosives, hand-held anti-tank and incendiary weapons[edit]

Grenades and grenade launchers[edit]

Mines[edit]

Recoilless rifles[edit]

Infantry anti-tank rifles and rocket launchers[edit]

Flamethrowers and anti-tank incendiaries[edit]

Central Museum of the Armed Forces

Soviet Army Street, building 2

Another museum site where you can look at military equipment is located in the very center of the capital - the Meshchansky district. The Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was founded in 1919. Today, the museum building has 24 halls with exhibits, and combat vehicles are placed in an open area.

The basis of the museum's outdoor exhibition was formed from 1965 to 1979. At this time, equipment of the ground forces, aviation and navy appeared here. Since the late 1980s, samples used by the strategic missile forces have been brought here.

Currently, 160 pieces of military equipment are displayed in the open area. There are examples from the Second World War, as well as modern ones that are in service with the Russian army.

“There is a collection of weapons there that were from the 1930s to the late 1980s. These are tanks, planes and even a ballistic missile. Also there you can see installations that are currently in service, such as “buks” and “tors,” says Alexander Mikhailov.

He emphasizes that one of the features of the exhibition are prototypes of weapons. At one time they passed tests, but for various reasons they were not delivered to the army. “As for the period of the Second World War, this museum presents typical equipment that took part in the battles: IS-2, BT, T-34 tanks and so on,” adds the historian.

Artillery[edit]

Light and heavy infantry mortars[edit]

Rocket launchers[edit]

Car guns[edit]

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Anti-tank rifles[edit]

Weapons of the USSR 1964-1982: anti-aircraft missile systems, armored vehicles and warships

During the reign of L.I. Brezhnev, the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system was adopted, designed to cover the most important troop groups and rear facilities from tactical missile attacks, as well as from aircraft and cruise missiles.

The first sample of the S-300 was created in 1979 at the Almaz Central Design Bureau. The Americans called it SA-10. “To shoot down a flying bullet with a bullet... The S-300 made this fantastic dream come true... The American Patriot spent six shots on one Scud-type missile. S-300V is one,” says M. Kalashnikov.

In total, the S-300 has 48 missiles and deploys into combat position in five minutes. The American Patriot is much worse than the S-300. “Its heavy launcher container must definitely be turned towards the target. If the S-300 hits at 90 km, then the American system only at 60. Ours destroys targets in the altitude range from 10 to 25,000 meters, and the Patriot from 60 to 24 thousand. One of our installations aims at targets with 12 missiles at the same time, while the American one - only eight... The Patriot in Arabia failed due to the heat and clouds of rising sand, and the S-300 is capable of operating in both fifty-degree frost and fifty-degree heat. At the same time, a conventional S-300 can shoot down targets flying at a maximum speed of 2,255 kilometers per second, and the Patriot can only shoot down no more than 1.2 kilometers per second” (94, p. 265). In the 1991 war with Iraq, the Patriot shot down only 36% of our old Scud (R-17) missiles of the 1965 model. According to experts, under Brezhnev in the 1980s, we had anti-missile weapons almost three times more effective than American ones.

“In the spring of 1996, Valentin Smirnov, Academician, was shot in the face on the landing of his house. Lenin Prize laureate. Imperial designer, one of the creators of the Russian superweapon - the S-300 complex,” writes M. Kalashnikov. Eternal glory and memory to the brilliant Russian scientist V. Smirnov, killed and forgotten by insignificant descendants who erect monuments to destroyers, not creators.

Another particularly effective weapon of our troops was the 2S6 Tunguska self-propelled gun, equipped with missiles and rapid-fire guns. It began to be created at the Ulyanovsk mechanical plant of the Ministry of Radio Industry. The general designer of the installation is academician Arkady Shipunov.

“Tunguska” is a weapon against cruise missiles and aircraft, and in 1995, six “Tunguska” were thrown for destruction in the city of Grozny.

"Tunguska" is armed with two 2A38 cannons. The rate of fire of the guns is up to 5 thousand shells per minute. To imagine how much this is, it is enough to say that the Kalashnikov assault rifle has a rate of fire measured at 600 rounds per minute, which, of course, is limited by the expediency and consumption of bullets. The installation has eight launch tubes for 9M311 anti-aircraft missiles.

“She can fire on the move and from a standing position. It does not have “dead”, non-shootable zones, like Western systems, “dead craters” right above the machine itself. Any flying target within a radius of 8 km (for Tunguska missiles) and 4 km (for its cannons) will be shot down. The target can fly at low level: 9M311 missiles operate in the altitude range from 10 meters to 3.5 kilometers. And the guns hit the enemy at altitudes from zero meters to three kilometers...

The targets are monitored by two noise-resistant locators. One is for detection and target designation with a range of 20 kilometers. It clearly identifies moving targets against the background of local objects. Another locator guides airplanes and helicopters, transmitting control commands to Tunguska missiles.

The “brain” of the machine is a digital computer system that controls the guidance hydraulics. If the locator detects a target, it will give an accurate indication of the electro-optical system, consisting of a sight with eight times magnification and data output equipment for precise missile guidance.”

"Tunguska" fights alongside the infantry, shooting down attack aircraft and other enemy air targets, saving thousands of soldiers' lives. The West did not have weapons equal to the S-300 and Tunguska. It is important that the Tunguska, S-300 and MiG-31 fighter-interceptor are equipped with “linking” systems to each other and are able to create zones of continuous impenetrable defense.

Also, between 1964 and 1982, the ground forces of the Soviet Army received a huge amount of new armored vehicles. Since the war, the technology for producing tanks in the USSR has been brought to perfection, just like the production of passenger cars in the USA.

Up to 100 thousand tanks of the first post-war generation T-54 and T-55 were produced.

The most popular tank of the second post-war generation was the T-72 tank. It was created under the leadership of V.N. Venediktov at Uralvagonzavod. It was put into service in 1973.

The T-72 tank has an automatic gun loader. The tank's armor is welded from sheets and plates of rolled homogeneous armor steel and combined armor.

In 1976, the T-80 tank with a gas turbine power plant was put into service, providing it with unprecedented dynamic capabilities. The sides of the tank are covered with anti-cumulative screens made of reinforced rubber with armor plates.

In addition, tank-mounted missiles were designed, manufactured and passed state tests, which automatically destroy an enemy shell or missile flying towards the tank.

The perestroika that had just begun did not make it possible to place the indicated compact missile launchers on the armor of our tanks. Currently, similar installations are placed on the armor of Israeli tanks.

In addition to the wonderful BTR-60 armored personnel carriers, the army began receiving the BTR-70 armored personnel carrier in 1976. The eight-wheeled amphibious BTR-70 is armed with KPVT PKT machine guns in a rotating turret, has all-round armor, and is capable of immediately overcoming trenches, trenches and water obstacles.

In 1980, the army began to receive armored waterfowl tracked armored personnel carriers (infantry fighting vehicles) BMP-2, which replaced the BMP-1 vehicles. Armed with an automatic 30-mm cannon 2A42 and a PKT machine gun. In addition, they have ATGMs “Fagot” or “Konkurs”.

And if the relatively inexpensive BTR-70 wheeled armored personnel carriers, one of the best in the world, were intended for transporting personnel to the front line, then the BMP-2 was additionally intended for joint operations with tanks in battle.

Our Soviet Motherland did not forget about equipping the USSR Navy with warships. Despite the fact that Russia is not a maritime, but a continental power, the government of the USSR, when the opportunity arose, paid more and more attention to equipping the Navy, which allowed the USSR, together with the United States, to become the ruler of the world's oceans and, on the eve of perestroika, to begin building aircraft carriers.

The first Soviet missile cruisers of Project 58 were distinguished by their enormous striking power and were intended to destroy enemy aircraft carrier formations. The armament consisted of two quadruple launchers of P-35 anti-ship cruise missiles (16 missiles), a launcher of the Volna anti-aircraft missile system (16 missiles) and four 76-mm guns. Without a doubt, in combination with aviation and the submarine fleet, they guaranteed the destruction of any enemy aircraft carrier formation.

Such cruisers include the cruiser Grozny, which entered service in 1962. These are not only very powerful, but also very beautiful ships. They were destroyed by M. S. Gorbachev’s “perestroika” in the early 1990s. The Project 1164 Atlant cruisers, which entered service in 1983, were among the most powerful ships in their class in the world.

The P-500 “Basalt” cruise missiles with a powerful warhead and a firing range of 550 km gave a great advantage over the enemy. One of the representatives of these remarkable warships is the cruiser "Slava", which was put into service in 1983.

The USSR also built heavy cruisers with a nuclear power plant. Such ships began to be built at the Leningrad Baltic Shipyard in 1973 and were built until the time of Gorbachev - until 1989. These Project 1144 Orlan cruisers were equipped with Granit attack cruise missiles and a variety of anti-submarine and anti-aircraft missile weapons. These include the heavy nuclear cruiser "Peter the Great".

The USSR also built destroyers of Project 956, designed to combat enemy ships, fire support for amphibious assault forces, air defense and missile defense of formations of warships and convoys, as well as joint use with large anti-submarine ships of the USSR Navy of Project 1155 of the Udaloy type. Destroyers include the Sovremenny destroyer, which entered service in 1981.

The destroyer "Udaloy" was, according to experts, a masterpiece of military shipbuilding. Developed under the leadership of V. Mishin by the Northern Design Bureau. He protected squadrons and convoys from enemy submarines, aircraft and torpedoes. It was equipped with a remarkable sonar system, helicopters, the most modern radars, anti-aircraft missiles and multi-channel target guidance. It is also protected by two 30-mm AK-630 radar-guided naval artillery mounts and has two turrets of 100-mm AK-100 guns. The ship's powerful electronic computer control system can concentrate the impact of all onboard weapons in one direction needed at the moment, which guarantees both the protection of the ship from an enemy attack and the defeat of the target.

The USSR did not have time to complete the construction of aircraft carriers before the destroyer Gorbachev came to power, but we built aircraft-carrying cruisers. For example, aircraft-carrying cruisers of the "Kyiv" type. Further development of the aircraft carrier fleet was Project 1143.5. Such a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser is the Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov.

Modified versions of the Su-27, Mig-29 and Su-25 aircraft are based on it. For this purpose, it has a significantly enlarged flight deck and a springboard for aircraft take-off.

Armed with eight anti-aircraft missile launchers, two rocket launchers and 12 anti-ship cruise missile systems. This is a very formidable weapon. It is quite reliably protected, both from attack from the air and from attack from the sea, even with the loss of all its aircraft. It can fire volleys of anti-missile missiles with very precise targeting. With onboard weapon fire, it can sink a destroyer, cruiser, aircraft carrier and even a battleship. American aircraft carriers do not have such protection and their only hope is in the ships accompanying the aircraft carrier.

Our fleet was equipped with the best anti-aircraft missile systems in the world. According to experts, the latest modification of the S-300 PMU-1 in the naval version “Reef” hits enemy aircraft at a distance of 150 km, and the American sea-based complex “Sea Sparrow”, similar in function, hits at a distance of 20 km, and the “Sea Dart” complex — 30 ​​km.

Targets flying below 156 meters are inaccessible to the American complex, but our complex hits targets at altitudes from 10 to 27,000 meters. Our S-300 PMU-1 complex can even shoot down a ballistic missile within a radius of 40 km.

It can even shoot down targets flying at a speed of 10 thousand kilometers per hour, that is, 2.77 km per second, which is three times faster than a bullet from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Fires at 6 targets simultaneously, aiming 12 missiles simultaneously and firing three of them per second. Currently, an even more modernized S-300 PMU-2 complex has been created.

Based on the Tunguska, the Instrument Engineering Design Bureau under the leadership of A. Shipunov created the 3M87 Kortik missile and artillery complex. It is capable of hitting all flying targets with missiles at a distance of 8 to 1.5 km. At distances from 1.5 km to 0.5 km, two 30-mm six-barreled Kortika automatic artillery mounts fire at a total speed of 10 thousand rounds per minute, and the pride of the United States, the Vulcan-Phalanx assault rifle, fires 2 thousand rounds per minute. In 1994, under the rule of reformers Yeltsin, Chubais and Urinson, we stopped the production of Dirks.

The third weapon of the USSR Navy Fleet that needs to be discussed is the Moskit 3M-80E anti-ship missile. Americans call it "Sunburn", that is, "Sunburn". It is designed to destroy all types of enemy ships. The chief designer of the design bureau that designed the Mosquito is S. Klimov.

The mosquito is an achievement of the scientific power of the USSR. The rocket is propelled by a ramjet engine and moves at a gigantic speed of Mach 2.5, that is, 2.5 the speed of sound. Its flight altitude is only 5 meters above ocean level among water splashes that poorly reflect the radar rays. In addition, the enormous flight speed at an altitude of 5 meters does not leave the enemy time to alert the anti-missile system.

Even knowing about the launch of the Mosquito, the enemy will be able to begin fighting it at a distance of no more than five to seven kilometers from the ship, since the combat computers available to the United States simply will not be able to calculate the data for anti-aircraft fire in three to four seconds when the first attacking Mosquito "will appear within the visibility range of American locators. It should be taken into account that, as a rule, not a single missile is fired at a target. Our Tarantula boat is capable of releasing four Sunburn Mosquitoes in 15 seconds.

I think that the previously mentioned destroyers, or as some authors call them, destroyers of the Sovremenny type, are capable of firing an even larger number of missiles in a few seconds.

“At the very target, which the missile captures with its active-passive homing head, the imperial supersonic kamikaze robot writes a sharp zigzag: “left - right - left - to the target.” At full speed it turns almost 90 degrees. This zigzag disrupts the targeting of enemy rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns and makes other people's guidance computers smoke. When throwing from side to side, the body of our rocket experiences 15-fold overloads. It is so strong that it can withstand them. But American anti-aircraft missiles fired towards the Mosquito, forced to rush after it, are often broken in half from such stress. Before hitting the target, the Mosquito makes an unpredictable maneuver. And no one knows where it will end up: on board, on the navigation bridge or on the deck.

According to Klimov, the enemy can fire at a Mosquito rushing towards him only once. There's simply no time for repetition. And if an American ship is attacked by three or four Russian missiles at once, it will only have time to shoot down one - the rest will hit it.

The rocket is devilishly smart. Its on-board computer itself finds a target among many others, selecting it according to specified parameters. She is “ordered” to hit an Aircraft Carrier-type ship - and she will ignore smaller targets. It is additionally aimed at the operation of the locators of the selected victim. Crashing into it at two and a half speeds of sound, a colossus weighing almost four tons with an armor-piercing head is capable of piercing even a multi-inch armor belt of a battleship and exploding inside. Other American ships have only light protection, and the Mosquito will enter them like a bullet into soft flesh, tearing apart the ship’s belly with an explosion,” M. Kalashnikov wrote about the Mosquito.

“Mosquito” was launched even from “Caspian monsters”, from our combat ekranoplanes. Along with ships, missiles are installed on ground-based coastal defense systems and carrier-based Su-27 aircraft.

The American Harpoon missile is inferior to the Mosquito in all respects: its speed is subsonic, its weight is 667 kg versus 4000 kg, its charge weight is 150 kg versus 300 kg, its maximum range/min., km 13 versus 120. When the Mosquito is installed on ships that have locators that detect targets even beyond the horizon, the characteristics of the Mosquito are further improved.

The P-700 Granit missiles are also guaranteed to hit the enemy. These missiles are designed to combat powerful ship groups. In the case of a salvo launch, the missiles act together to detect, classify and distribute targets among themselves. One of the missiles is the leader. When approaching the target, it occupies a higher echelon, which ensures a maximum increase in the target capture area. The missiles are resistant to enemy electronic countermeasures and use a number of methods to evade enemy air defense fire.

Named above are literally a few of the mass of naval weapons systems and naval ships that existed in the USSR. But they can also be used to judge the power of the USSR Navy.

We were the only ones in the world to have ekranoplane-missile carriers, for example, “Lun” designed by Rostislav Alekseev, as well as high-speed skeg-type hovercraft “Sivuch” (project 1239). The developer is a team headed by V. Korolkov. A ship of this type, Bora, became part of the Black Sea Fleet.

If perestroika had been delayed a little, and we had completed the production of aircraft carriers designed and put into production, we would have become masters of the seas, and the ocean that today separates us from America would bring it closer to the possibility of striking with inexpensive carrier-based aircraft.

In the 1980s, despite all the power of the Navy and military aviation, having only coastal, continental aviation instead of aircraft carriers, we could not compete on equal terms with the United States for the world's oceans, and therefore for increasing the security and well-being of our people.

The first aircraft carriers with long-range radar detection aircraft, with nuclear power plants, a large displacement of 70 thousand tons, 66 aircraft on board and a speed of over 30 knots were the aircraft carriers Varyag and Ulyanovsk. They were laid on the stocks of the USSR in Nikolaev. “Varyag” is a huge aircraft carrier, 304 meters long and 38 meters wide. But it was not, like American aircraft carriers, a floating island. It was a warship capable of standing up for itself even without carrier-based aircraft.

"Varyag" had a defense and attack system in the form of twelve launchers of winged "Granites" to combat enemy ships. It was protected from air attacks by twenty-four Kinzhal anti-aircraft missile systems, eight Dirks and six six-barreled automatic guns. Two ten-barreled Boa constrictor bombers were intended to combat submarines. All of the weapons listed were very effective and knowledge-intensive.

“Varyag” had already been launched by August 1991. "Ulyanovsk" had just been laid down on the stocks by this time. But the time has come not to build, but to destroy Navy warships.

In 1993, the cruisers Minsk and Novorossiysk were scrapped, and the aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Gorshkov was decommissioned. On February 4, 1992, Vice President of Ukraine Masik ordered the dismantling of the Ulyanovsk hull to begin. Work has stopped on the Varyag, the readiness of which has reached 70 percent. Russia did nothing to save the Varyag, on the construction of which it spent huge amounts of money.

They write that the main instigator of the campaign to destroy aircraft carriers was Gorbachev’s associate, a prominent “reformer”, director of the Institute of the USA and Canada, Georgy Arbatov. A representative of the nation in whose hands were the most profitable enterprises and deposits of the former USSR. Subsequently, a number of Russian warships began to be written off and sold. For example, the aircraft-carrying cruisers Leningrad and Minsk.

The first blow to the Russian fleet, as throughout the USSR, was struck by N. S. Khrushchev. I previously wrote about his malicious actions. “Admiral Vladimir Kasatonov (“Combat Journal”, 1995) recalls with bitterness how four of the six cruisers of the famous Kirov type were cut into metal, how the Admiral Makarov (formerly Nuremberg) and Kerch were destroyed by autogen... A series of 32 heavy missile and gun cruisers 68bis-68zif, thirty years ahead of their time, was killed at the root.”

They killed pride and part of the history of Russia, the beauty of the creation of the hands of our Soviet people, military glory, for example, the legendary “Kirov”, which entered service with the IMF in 1938 and became famous during the defense of Leningrad. In addition, they could defend their homeland at the present time, since the armor plates of ships of this type withstand cruise missile attacks much better than modern magnesium-aluminum ships.

In the 1970s, we could not reactivate our ancient ships, equip them with missiles and commission naval warships, as the Americans did, because the USSR did not have such ships left.

It should be noted that in the USSR, all unseemly actions to destroy weapons and our historical memory occurred during the rule of the country by N. S. Khrushchev and M. S. Gorbachev.

But we must admit that many citizens of the USSR showed disrespect for their past and many citizens of today's Russia show disrespect for their past.

Museums of the Navy, Air Force and other types of weapons were not created, which would include all types of ships, aircraft and other equipment created under Tsarist Russia and in Soviet times.

Under Khrushchev, the first Russian battleship “Peter the Great” was cut into metal, which has a glorious military history and characterizes the development of the Russian nation and its fleet. The powerful icebreaker Ermak, which was designed by Admiral Makarov himself, was also cut down. By the way, the Ilya Muromets aircraft, made in Tsarist Russia, was not previously preserved.

But these ships and planes connected the past with the present, Tsarist Russia with Soviet Russia. If the ships were preserved, the Russian people would see their past not in American, but in their Russian power.

Under Khrushchev, the first and only Russian dreadnoughts were cut up. Under him they began, and under Brezhnev they completed, the destruction of all Soviet destroyers that went through the fire of the Great Patriotic War and survived the battles.

Gray-haired veterans and privates and admirals cried when they killed the destroyer Soobrazitelny, which had traveled sixty-three thousand miles under fire, fought with the enemy, and transported the wounded, children and women from Sevastopol.

They shot with cruise missiles the participants in the fierce battle for the Black Sea, participants in the defense of Sevastopol and the landing of troops in the Crimea - the guards cruisers "Red Crimea" and "Red Caucasus". Submarines from the war were destroyed.

The Russian “flying fortresses” Pe-8 and long-range bombers Il-4, which should be in museums in every major city, were not preserved.

On these aircraft, Long-Range Aviation pilots flew at night through the cities of the USSR occupied by the German army and bombed Berlin, Leipzig, Königsberg and other cities of Germany and its allies in Europe. They took part in the battles of Yelnya, Smolensk, Kiev, Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and other military operations.

In 1942, V. M. Molotov flew across the Atlantic Ocean to the USA on a Pe-8 plane. In the cities of the country you will not see the legendary, most popular aircraft of the war, the “flying tank” attack aircraft Il-2, which saved tens of thousands of lives of Soviet soldiers. You won’t even see the torpedo bomber Il-4.

The huge TB-3 bombers of the 1930s and the SB-2 medium bombers, which bombed the Japanese in 1939 at Khalkhin Gol, dropped airborne assault forces and bombed German tank columns in 1941, have not been preserved.

You will hardly even see heavy IS and KV tanks on the pedestals of cities, not to mention Soviet self-propelled guns and heavy artillery.

You won’t see particularly heavy artillery either – 203 and 280 mm guns – tracked mortars, which the Finns nicknamed “Stalin’s sledgehammers”, thanks to which we managed to destroy the pillboxes and bunkers of the “Mannerheim Line”. There are individual units of this equipment in the museum, but, firstly, not all, and, secondly, for a country like Russia, this is a drop in the ocean of destroyed equipment of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

But behind every ship, plane, tank or gun are our heroes, events that represent the pride of the nation. Young people have not seen this famous technology and therefore believe that we fought without the necessary types of weapons and did not have them in the required quantities.

For what purpose were our weapons of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 destroyed, while their quantity was enough to be installed in every city and village of the Soviet Union? Perhaps someone destroyed it thoughtlessly. But the main initiators knew well what they were doing - they deprived the Russian nation of historical memory and thereby deprived the nation of the future. Even at the walls of the Kremlin, an unknown soldier was buried, and not a hero-soldier known to the whole country, whom the whole country would have worshiped in the days of memory and glory.

Today we are paying for all this unconsciousness, tantamount to betrayal, oblivion of the great deeds of our glorious ancestors, and if we do not come to our senses, we will pay until we completely disappear from the face of the planet.

Leonid Petrovich Maslovsky. May 24, 2016

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Ground-based anti-aircraft guns[edit]

Light anti-aircraft guns[edit]

Heavy anti-aircraft guns[edit]

Armored combat vehicles[edit]

Wedges [edit]

Tanks [edit]

Self-propelled guns [edit]

Wheeled anti-tank self-propelled guns[edit]

Tracked anti-aircraft guns[edit]

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Half-tracks[edit]

Tanks and self-propelled guns under Lend-Lease [edit]

Pre-Petrine guns and the first Soviet tanks

Combat vehicles of the Second World War can also be seen in the Artillery Yard of the State Historical Museum. Among the equipment of that time there is, for example, the ZiS-3 cannon from 1942 and the M-42 anti-tank gun. However, mostly older weapons are presented. Russian cannons of the 16th–17th centuries, regimental squeaks of the 17th century, and five-pound bombs are displayed in the open air. You can also find guns from the early 20th century (for example, a 1911 armor-piercing shell).

Alexander Mikhailov says that military equipment from the early 20th century is difficult to find in the capital. Very little of it has survived. For such exhibits, he advises going to the Vadim Zadorozhny Museum of Technology or the Museum of Victory.

“We have the first production Soviet tank, the T-18, or MS-1, developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. These were the first tanks that were not developed based on some foreign vehicle. This technique also took part in the Great Patriotic War. It is known for certain that several such tanks were on the Moscow defense line. Also in our museum you can see mountain cannons from 1909, which were in service with the Russian Imperial Army. We also have a three-inch gun from 1902, which took part in the First World War,” says the historian.

Cars[edit]

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Lend-Lease cars[edit]

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Airplane[edit]

Main article: List of aircraft of the Red Army Air Force

Fighter[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of World War II weapons
• List of military equipment of World War II
• List of British military equipment of World War II
• List of United States Army equipment during World War II
• List of German military equipment of World War II
• List of equipment of the Italian Army in World War II
• List of Japanese military equipment of World War II

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Armored Museum in Kubinka and Patriot Park

Moscow region, 63rd kilometer of the Minsk highway, Kubinka-1 village

The world's first site in terms of the quantity of Japanese captured equipment is also located in Russia - this is the armored tank museum in Kubinka. The Victory Museum is about an hour away by car. It’s easy to get there by train - you need to get off at MCD-1 Slavyansky Boulevard station, get off at Kubinka station and wait for the bus.

In addition to Japanese captured equipment, there is also German equipment in Kubinka. For example, a unique exhibit is the Maus super-heavy tank. Only two examples were built. It is no coincidence that there is a large amount of captured equipment, including rare and unique ones.

“This museum was originally conceived as a research institute, so all captured enemy equipment ended up here so that it could be studied and used. Later, weapons that were supplied to the Soviet army were tested here. These samples can also be seen today on the museum’s premises,” explains Alexander Mikhailov.

Among the interesting examples of German equipment, you can also see the self-propelled mortar "Karl" - only seven of them were produced. The Soviet tank industry is represented by light, heavy and medium tanks, as well as self-propelled artillery units.

The Armored Museum in Kubinka is a branch of the Patriot Park, which is located nearby. Here, on a huge area, one of the world's largest exhibitions of military and semi-military equipment (both modern and from the Second World War) is presented.