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The Obukhovskii 12"/52 Pattern 1907 gun was a 12-inch (305 mm), 52-caliber naval gun. It was the most powerful gun to be mounted aboard battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy and later the Soviet Navy during both world wars. It was later modified by the Soviets and employed as coastal artillery and as a railway gun during World War II.
BL 12 inch Mk IX Railway Gun United Kingdom: World War I 305 BL 12 inch Railway Howitzer Mk I, III, V United Kingdom: World War I, World War II: 305 TM-3-12 Soviet Union: World War II - 1991 305 12-inch coast defense mortar United States: World War I - World War II: 305 12-inch Bethlehem Model 1918 railway gun United States: World War I: 320
Soviet 180 mm ТМ-1-180 guns may be seen at Krasnaya Gorka fort, at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, and at the Railway Station in Sevastopol, Ukraine. The last surviving American-made 7-inch (178 mm) railway gun is now on display at Museu Militar Conde de Linhares in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
76mm Field gun Soviet Union: Used during the Winter War. 76 mm divisional gun M1939 (USV) 76mm Field gun Soviet Union: 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3) 76mm Field gun Soviet Union: Field gun first deployed in 1941, very well-liked by Soviet and German soldiers because of its reliability, durability, and accuracy. 100 mm field gun M1944 (BS-3)
The 130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936 was a 130 mm (5.1 in) 50 caliber Soviet naval gun. The weapon was the standard primary armament of Soviet-built destroyers from about 1935 to 1954 (although it would remain in-service well into the 1990s), and it was also utilized as a coastal gun and railway gun. The gun was produced in three different versions ...
The field gun featured: a D-74 122 mm howitzer, which the Soviet Union developed in the late 1940s. Yet its age wasn't the main attraction. Russia has, after all, been regularly deploying Cold War ...
The 180 mm Pattern 1931–1933 were a family of related naval guns of the Soviet Navy in World War II, which were later modified for coastal artillery and railway artillery roles. They were the primary armament of the Soviet Union's first cruisers built after the Russian Civil War.
In the Continuation War the battery was expanded to four guns. On 21.9.1941 the battery was renamed the 2nd railway battery after the 1st railway battery had been formed from captured Soviet 180 mm railway guns. The battery was disbanded and the guns removed from the railway carriages after the war, but the plans for re-forming it remained in ...