The “Katyusha” is a famous type of rocket launcher first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II. The Katyusha is not the weapon’s official name, it is a loving nickname given by the ...

‘There were many cases of people becoming mad due to the Soviet’s rocket launcher fire,’ a captured German corporal said, according to a report written during the Red Army’s counteroffensive in 1941.

The US-made rocket artillery that Ukraine is using to destroy Russian ammunition dumps and command posts has been called "a game changer," but the weapon is a descendent of the legendary "Katyusha" ...

The Soviet-made Katyusha rocket-launcher, a highly mobile deadly weapon, figured in widespread attacks on Israeli civilian settlements over the weekend, Maj. Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev, Chief of Staff of ...

A Be'er Sheva court has sentenced Mamdouh Altanaah to 25 years in jail for firing Grad Katyusha rockets towards Israel and for participating in a terrorist attack. Altanaa, a Gaza resident, agreed to ...

MINSK, 15 April (BelTA) – The legendary rocket launcher Katyusha will be put on display at the exhibition of military machinery by the Mound of Glory near Minsk in May-June 2020, Artem Ignatenko, the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The shift back to big-power warfare once again puts the focus on rocket artillery. As the U.S. Army reorients back towards fighting conventional armies again, massed ...

Just as much as photographs and museum exhibits, the sounds of war are vital to telling their stories. World War II brought humanity many new sounds. The roar of a nuclear explosion, the howl of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soviet Katyusha rockets firing in the Carpathian mountains in 1944.Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Ukraine has put ...

Ukraine has put US-supplied rocket artillery systems to effective use against Russian forces. Modern rocket artillery, like the HIMARS in use in Ukraine, have a long history on the battlefield. The ...