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2S4 Tyulpan, the Glossary

The 2S4 Tyulpan (often spelled Tulpan, translation) is a Soviet 240 mm self-propelled heavy mortar.^[1]

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240 mm artillery
Mortars of the Soviet Union
Nuclear artillery
Self-propelled artillery of the Soviet Union
Tracked mortars
Uraltransmash products

Armour-piercing ammunition

Armour-piercing ammunition (AP) is a type of projectile designed to penetrate armour protection, most often including naval armour, body armour, and vehicle armour.

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Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones.

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Breechblock

A breechblock (or breech block) is the part of the firearm action that closes the breech of a breech loading weapon (whether small arms or artillery) before or at the moment of firing.

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Chemical warfare

Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons.

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Cluster munition

A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions.

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Counter-battery fire (sometimes called counter-fire) is a battlefield tactic employed to defeat the enemy's indirect fire elements (multiple rocket launchers, artillery and mortars), including their target acquisition, as well as their command and control components.

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Defense Companies (Syria)

The Brigades for the Defense of the Revolution, commonly referred to as Defense Companies, Defense Corps or Defense Brigades (سرايا الدفاع) were an all-Alawite paramilitary force in Syria that were commanded by Rifaat al-Assad.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Donetsk People's Republic

The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika (DNR),; ДНР) is a republic of Russia, comprising the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, with its capital in Donetsk.

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Fire-control system

A fire-control system (FCS) is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director and radar, which is designed to assist a ranged weapon system to target, track, and hit a target.

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First Chechen War

Chechen resistance against Russian imperialism has its origins from 1785 during the time of Sheikh Mansur, the first imam (leader) of the Caucasian peoples.

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Gun barrel

A gun barrel is a crucial part of gun-type weapons such as small firearms, artillery pieces, and air guns.

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Hydraulic recoil mechanism

A hydraulic recoil mechanism is a way of limiting the effects of recoil and adding to the accuracy and firepower of an artillery piece.

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Iran–Iraq War

The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.

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Laser guidance

Laser guidance directs a robotics system to a target position by means of a laser beam.

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Lebanese Forces (militia)

The Lebanese Forces was one of the main Lebanese Christian factions of the Lebanese Civil War.

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Main Missile and Artillery Directorate

The Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to by its transliterated Russian acronym GRAU, is a department of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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Marine Corps Intelligence

The Marine Corps Intelligence is the intelligence arm of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and an element of the United States Intelligence Community.

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Mortar carrier

A mortar carrier, or self-propelled mortar, is a self-propelled artillery piece in which a mortar is the primary weapon.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Neutron bomb

A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.

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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia.

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PK machine gun

The PK (Пулемёт Калашникова, transliterated as Pulemyot Kalashnikova, or "Kalashnikov's machine gun") is a belt-fed general-purpose machine gun, chambered for the 7.62×54mmR rimmed cartridge.

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Ramrod

A ramrod (or scouring stick) is a metal or wooden device used with muzzleloading firearms to push the projectile up against the propellant (mainly blackpowder).

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Russo-Ukrainian War

The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014.

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Second Chechen War

The Second Chechen War is also known as the Second Chechen Campaign (Втора́я чече́нская кампа́ния) or the Second Russian Invasion of Chechnya from the Chechen insurgents' point of view.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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Syrian Army

The Syrian Army (SyA or SA), officially the Syrian Arab Army (SyAA or SAA) (al-Jayš al-ʿArabī as-Sūrī), is the land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces.

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Syrian civil war

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing multi-sided conflict in Syria involving various state-sponsored and non-state actors.

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TNT equivalent

TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.

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Ton-force

A ton-force is one of various units of force defined as the weight of one ton due to standard gravity.

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Torsion bar suspension

A torsion bar suspension, also known as a torsion spring suspension, is any vehicle suspension that uses a torsion bar as its main weight-bearing spring.

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Transporter erector launcher

A transporter erector launcher (TEL) is a missile vehicle with an integrated tractor unit that can transport, elevate to a firing position and launch one or more rockets or missiles.

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Tulip

Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the Tulipa genus.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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Uraltransmash

Uraltransmash (Уральский завод транспортного машиностроения) is a company based in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

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War in Donbas

The war in Donbas, or Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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180 mm gun S-23

The 180 mm gun S-23 (180-мм пушка С-23) was a Soviet heavy gun of Cold War era.

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2012 Homs offensive

The 2012 Homs offensive was a Syrian Army offensive on the armed rebellion stronghold of Homs, within the scope of the Siege of Homs, beginning in early February 2012 and ending with the U.N. brokered cease fire on 14 April 2012.

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240 mm mortar M240

The Soviet 240 mm mortar M240 is a 240 millimeter (9.4 in) breech loading smoothbore heavy mortar that fires a 130 kilogram (290 lb) projectile. 2S4 Tyulpan and 240 mm mortar M240 are 240 mm artillery and mortars of the Soviet Union.

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2A3 Kondensator 2P

The 2A3 Kondensator 2P (2А3 «Конденсатор» – "Condenser" or "Capacitor") was a Soviet 406 mm self-propelled howitzer. 2S4 Tyulpan and 2A3 Kondensator 2P are self-propelled artillery of the Soviet Union.

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2B1 Oka

2B1 Oka, ("2Б1 Ока" - "Oka River"), is a Soviet 420 mm self-propelled heavy artillery. 2S4 Tyulpan and 2B1 Oka are self-propelled artillery of the Soviet Union.

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2K11 Krug

The 2K11 Krug (2К11 Круг; English: 'circle') is a Soviet and now Russian medium-range, medium-to-high altitude surface-to-air missile (SAM) system.

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2S1 Gvozdika

The 2S1 Gvozdika (2С1 «Гвоздика», "Carnation") is a Soviet self-propelled howitzer introduced in 1972 and in service in Russia and other countries. 2S4 Tyulpan and 2S1 Gvozdika are military vehicles introduced in the 1970s.

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2S3 Akatsiya

The SO-152 (Russian: СО-152), usually known by its GRAU designation 2S3, is a Soviet 152.4 mm self-propelled gun developed in 1968, as a response to the American 155 mm M109 howitzer. 2S4 Tyulpan and 2S3 Akatsiya are military vehicles introduced in the 1970s and Uraltransmash products.

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2S5 Giatsint-S

The 2S5 Giatsint-S (hyacinth) is a Soviet 152 mm self-propelled gun. 2S4 Tyulpan and 2S5 Giatsint-S are military vehicles introduced in the 1970s and self-propelled artillery of the Soviet Union.

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2S7 Pion

The 2S7 Pion ("peony") or Malka is a Soviet self-propelled 203 mm cannon. 2S4 Tyulpan and 2S7 Pion are military vehicles introduced in the 1970s and self-propelled artillery of the Soviet Union.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S4_Tyulpan

Also known as 2S4, 2S4 Tulpan, Tyulpan.

, 2S5 Giatsint-S, 2S7 Pion.

2S4 Tyulpan, the Glossary

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See also

240 mm artillery

Mortars of the Soviet Union

Nuclear artillery

Self-propelled artillery of the Soviet Union

Tracked mortars

Uraltransmash products

References