The DShK started its combat service as an anti-aircraft gun. Note the spider web ring AA sight. A DShK serving as AA defense for a Soviet armored train. Photo courtesy of author’s collection.

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

Recently, some pictures and videos of modified Russian MTLB APCs with AA guns surfaced on the internet. Victor Davis Hanson explains why Judge Boasberg is the ‘most powerful man in America’ 41 ...

Those older AA guns have found new life in the effort to shoot down slow, low-flying drones. Flak is back. Russian and Ukrainian forces are both discovering that they need lots of air defenses ...

Screenshot from Telegram of the moment an AZP S-60 Soviet-era anti-aircraft gun self-destructs. The video, which was taken by an observer standing close by, shows the 57mm weapon, which appears to ...

The reverse also should be true. Ukrainian drones should be easy targets for Russian anti-aircraft guns—even ATS-59G/2M-3Ms—provided the guns are radar-laid. But we might not know which ...

The KS-19 is a towed Soviet anti-aircraft gun that has seen operational use in a handful of wars across Asia and the Middle East since it was first introduced in 1947, just a few years after the ...

the 88mm anti-aircraft gun…. (See the deadliest German U-boat attacks on World War II.) After Germany put the Soviet Union on the backfoot when it invaded that country in 1941, the Soviet Union ...

A notable creation of the Soviet Union that lands in the latter ... a 12.7-mm DShKM anti-aircraft machine gun, and two 7.62-mm SGMT machine guns. While they're a tad bit slower than the T-34 ...

Ukraine has intercepted a Russian cruise missile by using a ... Many of the modern anti-aircraft guns like the self-propelled German-made Flakpanzers, have radar-guidance for this reason, Hambling ...