Both sides fielded rocket artillery that terrified anyone caught beneath it, but the Soviet Katyusha and the German ...

In 1941, the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher turned the Eastern Front into a battlefield of sudden destruction and fear.

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 ...

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 ...

‘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.

A new poem by Sean O'Brien, written in response to the latest phase of conflict between Israel and Hamas Katyusha, Katyusha, Arrow of fire: Kingdom Come, is it Below or above? Choked in a tunnel With ...

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 ...

Katyusha rockets targeted the Taji military camp, located north of Baghdad, on Tuesday but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility. The Iraqi base – located 85km (53 miles) north ...