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.

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 ...

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 ...

Two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon landed west of the northern Galilee town of Kiryat Shmona at approximately 7 a.m. local time. No one was wounded and there was no damage reported from the ...

See the crafting of a detailed wooden Katyusha military truck, showcasing woodworking techniques and intricate model-making ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A rocket was fired into the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone Sunday night, landing less than a mile from the sprawling U.S. Embassy, an Iraqi military spokesman said. The ...

As a boy, I went for several years to a strongly Zionist, Hebrew-speaking summer camp. This was in the late 1940s and early ’50s, and our camp was designed to be a little microcosm of the new State of ...

Giant panda cub Katyusha (front) and her mother Ding Ding are seen at Moscow Zoo in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 21, 2023. Russia's first giant panda cub born at Moscow Zoo in August was named Katyusha, ...

Katyusha was born in August 2023 in a family of two giant pandas living in the Moscow Zoo, a male named Ru Yi and a female named Ding Ding MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. More than 40,000 Moscow residents ...