"groups called batteries. The English word """"howitzer"""" comes from the Czech word """"houfnice"""", from ""houf"", ""crowd"", and ""houf"" is in turn a borrowing from the Middle High German word ""Hūfe"" or ""Houfe"" (modern German ""Haufen""), meaning ""heap"". ""Haufen"", sometimes in the compound ""Gewalthaufen"", also designated a pike square formation in German. In the Hussite Wars of the 1420s and 1430s, the Czechs used short barreled """"houfnice"""" cannons to fire at short distances into crowds of infantry, or into charging heavy cavalry, to make horses shy away. The word was rendered into German as ""aufeniz"" in the earliest attested use in"
"Czechs called the handgun a ""píšťala"", and anti-infantry field guns ""houfnice"", from which the English words ""pistol"" and ""howitzer"" have been derived. The Germans had just started corning gunpowder, making it suitable for use in smaller, tactical weapons. A musketeer on an open field armed with only a single-shot weapon was no match for a charging knight on a horse; however, from behind a castle wall, or from within the enclosure of the wagenburg, massed and disciplined gunmen could use the handgun to its greatest potential. From his experiences at the Battle of Grunwald, Žižka knew exactly how his enemies"
"and variants. The second suggestion is less likely; the use of the word as a designation of a gun is not documented before 1605 in Italy, long after it was used in French and German. The Czech word is well documented since the Hussite wars in 1420s. The most common types of pistol are the single shot, and semi-automatic. Single shot handguns were mainly seen during the era of flintlock and musket weaponry where the pistol was loaded with a lead ball and fired by a flint striker, and then later a percussion cap. However, as technology improved, so did"
"semi-armor-piercing shells. 10.5 cm hruby kanon vz. 35 The 10.5 cm hrubý kanón vz. 35 (Heavy Gun model 35) was a Czech field gun used in the Second World War. Those weapons captured after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 were taken into Wehrmacht service as the 10.5 cm K 35(t). Former Yugoslav guns were designated as the 10.5 cm Kanone 339(j). It was used by a variety of German units during World War II, especially on coastal defense duties. 36 were in service with the Slovak Army. It was designed solely for motor traction. It fired HE,"
"produced in Europe. The English word was introduced in ca. 1570 from the Middle French ""pistolet"" (ca. 1550). The etymology of the French word ""pistolet"" is disputed. It may be from a Czech word for early hand cannons, ""píšťala"" ""whistle"", or alternatively from Italian ""pistolese"", after Pistoia, a city renowned for Renaissance-era gunsmithing, where hand-held guns (designed to be fired from horseback) were first produced in the 1540s. The first suggestion derives the word from Czech ""píšťala"", a type of hand-cannon used in the Hussite Wars during the 1420s. The Czech word was adopted in German as ""pitschale"", ""pitschole"", ""petsole"","
"by the earlier 10 cm houfnice vz. 28 and the later 10 cm houfnice vz. 30 guns. 8 cm kanon vz. 30 The 8 cm kanon vz. 30 (Cannon model 30) was a Czech field gun used in the Second World War. Guns captured after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 were taken into Wehrmacht service as the 8 cm FK 30(t). It was used by a variety of German units during World War II, including I./SS-Artillerie-Abteilung 3 between 1939 and 1940. The origins of the 8 cm kanon vz. 30 began in 1930 at the Škoda Works"
"the designation 15 cm hrubá houfnice vzor 37 and had just begun production when Czechoslovakia capitulated to Germany in 1939. The Germans continued production for service in the Wehrmacht as the 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 37(t) or sFH 37(t). The weapon was widely used, particularly on the Eastern Front, and some had been supplied to Axis-allied powers such as Slovakia. Yugoslav K1 guns captured by Germany were given the designation sFH 402(j). Romania acquired 180 howitzers between 1936 and 1939. The gun was known in the Romanian Army as M34. Skoda K series The Škoda 149 mm K series was"
"Vz. 50 The Vz. 50 (also known as the CZ 50) is a Czech made double-action, semi-automatic pistol. Vz is an abbreviation of the Czech (as well as Slovak) term ""vzor"" meaning model. After the Second World War, Czechoslovakia's Ministry of the Interior requested a new pistol design from Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod. The resulting gun was chambered in .32 ACP and designed by two brothers Jan and Jaroslav Kratochvíl. It combined elements from both the Walther PP and PPK. The pistol is fed from an 8-round single-stack magazine, located within the bakelite paneled grip. Small fixed sights are located"
"10.5 cm hruby kanon vz. 35 The 10.5 cm hrubý kanón vz. 35 (Heavy Gun model 35) was a Czech field gun used in the Second World War. Those weapons captured after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 were taken into Wehrmacht service as the 10.5 cm K 35(t). Former Yugoslav guns were designated as the 10.5 cm Kanone 339(j). It was used by a variety of German units during World War II, especially on coastal defense duties. 36 were in service with the Slovak Army. It was designed solely for motor traction. It fired HE, canister and"
"houfnice vz. 14 and 15 cm hrubá houfnice vz. 14/16. The German designation for captured Czech guns was ""15 cm sFH M.14(t)"". The M 14 and M 14/16 was kept in service by Hungary. Hungarian weapons were upgraded in 1935 by MAVAG and designated as M.14/35. Later in 1939 another batch of guns were updated and designated as M.14/39. M 14 and M 14/16 howitzers captured by Italy during the war or received as reparations, were put into service with the designation Obice da 149/13. Some 490 were on hand in 1939 and weapons captured by the Germans after the"
"82. The CZ 52 is technically known as the vz. 52 as its Czech military designation, but is often referred to as the CZ 52 to differentiate it from the vz. 52 rifle which entered the export market before the pistol. The CZ 52 pistol is a roller-locked short recoil–operated, detachable box magazine–fed, single-action, semi-automatic pistol chambered for the 7.62×25mm Tokarev cartridge (the gun was originally designed for 9×19mm Parabellum caliber but due to political pressures had to be redesigned for the then-standard Soviet pistol cartridge). It weighs approximately two pounds unloaded. Military models feature either a parkerized finish or"
"ballistic cap (APCBC), was ineffective at or beyond. The rarer tungsten Panzergranate 40 armor-piercing composite rigid (APCR), was ineffective at or beyond. 3,7cm ÚV vz. 38 The ÚV vz. 38 (), manufacturer's designation Škoda A7, was a 37 mm tank gun designed by the Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia prior to World War II. The gun was the primary armament of the Czech LT vz. 38 light tank, known in German service as the Panzer 38(t). The primary user of the A7 was the Wehrmacht during World War II where the weapon went by the name Kampfwagenkanone 38(t). In German service,"
"CZ 52 The CZ 52 (also known by the Czechoslovak military designations vz. 52, for (vz. - ""vzor"" = model) ""model of 1952"", and CZ 482) is a semi-automatic pistol designed by two brothers, Jan and Jaroslav Kratochvíl, in the early 1950s for the Czechoslovak military. Around 200,000 vz. 52s were made by Česká Zbrojovka in Strakonice from 1952 to 1954. Before standardizing on the 7.62×25mm vz. 52, the Czechoslovak military used several domestic and foreign pistol models in three different calibers. After 30 years of military service, the vz. 52 was eventually replaced by the 9×18mm Makarov caliber vz."
"Somalia, Cuba and Afghanistan and many of those were passed on to guerrillas. The Czech Castle guard uses chrome-finished, deactivated vz. 52 rifles with darkened wood stocks as ceremonial weapons. Vz. 52 rifle The vz. 52 rifle (often incorrectly called the ""CZ 52"") is a self-loading rifle developed shortly after the Second World War in Czechoslovakia. Its full name is 7.62mm samonabíjecí puška vzor 52. Vz. 52 is an abbreviation for ""vzor 52"", meaning ""model 52"". It fires the unique 7.62×45mm cartridge. It is considered both reliable and accurate. The first 5000 vz. 52 rifles were made by Považské strojárne"
"52 initially used the Czech 7.62×45mm vz. 52 cartridge, but in the mid-1950s it was converted to the standard 7.62×39mm Warsaw Pact round by Jaroslav Myslík, and named the vz. 52/57. Both models were replaced in Czech service in 1963–64 by the Universal Machine Gun Model 1959, also known as the Uk vz. 59. RP-46 URZ AP Heckler & Koch HK21 AA-52 Taden gun Type 67 machine gun Type 73 light machine gun Vz. 52 machine gun The vz. 52 (""7,62mm lehký kulomet vzor 52"") is a Czechoslovak light machine gun developed after the Second World War for the Czechoslovak"
"Vz. 52 machine gun The vz. 52 (""7,62mm lehký kulomet vzor 52"") is a Czechoslovak light machine gun developed after the Second World War for the Czechoslovak Armed Forces. The vz. 52 was originally called the ZB 501, and was designed by Václav Holek. It is gas-operated and uses a tilting bolt that locks into the roof of the receiver. Its overall action is based on the Czech ZB-26 light machine gun. It has an integral bipod and interchangeable barrels, and its feed system is designed to take metallic belts or box magazines interchangeably and without any modifications. The vz."
"24 cm Haubitze 39 The 24 cm houfnice vz.39 (German designation: 24 cm Haubitze 39) (Howitzer model 39) was a Czechoslovak-designed siege howitzer used in the Second World War. It was kept in production after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 and eighteen were delivered to the Germans. It was only used by the Army's ""Artillery Regiment 814"" and entered service shortly before the Battle of France in 1940. The regiment participated Operation Barbarossa and in the Sieges of Sevastopol and Leningrad. Škoda designed it for export and Turkey ordered a batch, but only received two before the"
"to it as the 80 mm M.28. The Romanian Army also ordered a 75 mm version the 75 mm Skoda Model 1928 which it used during World War II. Guns captured from Yugoslavia by the Germans were given the designation 7.65 cm FK 304(j). 8 cm kanon vz. 28 The 8 cm kanon vz. 28 (Cannon model 1928) was a Czech field gun used during World War II. The origins of the 8 cm kanon vz. 28 began in 1928 at the Škoda Works in Pilsen. The design attempted to combine the field gun, mountain gun, and anti-aircraft gun roles"
"pieces for transport, a feature also shared by the contemporary 10 cm houfnice vz. 28 and the later 8 cm kanon vz. 30 and 10 cm houfnice vz. 30 guns. The vz. 28 proved to be fairly successful as a field and mountain gun, but was a failure as an anti-aircraft gun. The Czech Army used the vz. 28 in limited numbers, but ordered its successor the vz. 30 in larger numbers. The vz. 30 lacked the vz. 28's firing table, otherwise their configuration, dimensions, and performance were largely the same. The Yugoslav Army ordered the vz. 28 who referred"
"Kartouwe A kartouwe is a siege gun used in European warfare during the 16th and 17th centuries. The name is a corruption of Latin ""quartana"" (quarter cannon). ""Kartouwe"" is of Dutch origin, in the Holy Roman Empire the gun was called Kartaune in German or cartouwe in contemporary Latin, in the Swedish Empire Kartow, spelling variants include kartouw, kartouve, cartow, cartaun, courtaun and others. Kartouwen were developed from bombards. A kartouwe has a caliber of , weighs about , and is designed to fire cannonballs weighing up to . As a minimum, twenty horses or oxen were needed to move"
"Vz. 33 The puška vz. 33 (""rifle model 1933"", sometimes referred to as krátká puška vz. 33 – ""short rifle model 33"") was a Czechoslovak bolt-action rifle that was based on a Mauser-type action, designed and produced in Československá zbrojovka in Brno during the 1930s in order to replace the obsolete Mannlicher vz. 1895 carbines of the Czechoslovak ""četnictvo"" (gendarmerie). The manufacturer's designation was vz. 16/33 (model 16/33), and although the rifle is often called carbine vz. 33, that was not an official designation of the Czechoslovak armed forces. The design was partially based on the Mauser Musketon M12, produced"
"stored as reserve weapons or given for very low prices to various fledgling states or rebel movements throughout the developing world. Both FN and CZ utilized a modified design, with the cleaning rod and stock disk omitted, but the bayonet lug restored. In Czechoslovakia it was known as P-18 or puška vz.98N, the first being the manufacturer's cover designation of the type, the second official army designation - rifle model 98, N for německá - German. In Romania, the Czechoslovak version was known under the informal name of ZB, after Zbrojovka Brno - the Czechoslovak state producer of small weapons"
"ground to anchor the weapon in place. The K series was an entirely new design by the Škoda Works company of Czechoslovakia. The original K1 model was in production by 1933, and was a successful export weapon, with sales to Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia. However, the Czechoslovak Army was not a buyer, but desired modifications to the weapon before any purchase. The newer weapon was titled the K4 and was accepted by the Czech Army as its standard heavy howitzer intended to replace the large variety of World War I era pieces still on inventory. In Czech service it received"
"Vz. 52 rifle The vz. 52 rifle (often incorrectly called the ""CZ 52"") is a self-loading rifle developed shortly after the Second World War in Czechoslovakia. Its full name is 7.62mm samonabíjecí puška vzor 52. Vz. 52 is an abbreviation for ""vzor 52"", meaning ""model 52"". It fires the unique 7.62×45mm cartridge. It is considered both reliable and accurate. The first 5000 vz. 52 rifles were made by Považské strojárne in Považská Bystrica, but due to production difficulties, its manufacture was taken over by Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod. The vz. 52 is a shoulder-fired semi-automatic rifle with a tilting-bolt locking"
"3,7cm ÚV vz. 38 The ÚV vz. 38 (), manufacturer's designation Škoda A7, was a 37 mm tank gun designed by the Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia prior to World War II. The gun was the primary armament of the Czech LT vz. 38 light tank, known in German service as the Panzer 38(t). The primary user of the A7 was the Wehrmacht during World War II where the weapon went by the name Kampfwagenkanone 38(t). In German service, in addition to conventional high explosive ammunition, the weapon fired two anti-tank rounds. The primary round the Panzergranate Pzgr.(t) umg. armor-piercing capped"
"notch; the rear sight was a rear tangent sight was graduated 100 to 2000 meters at 100-meter intervals. The weapon was equipped with a knife-type bayonet wz.29. This model was a clone of the Karabiner 98k built at the Radom factory for Germany. The Austrian firm Steyr was given control of the factory and they produced rifles for the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe. The name is a mixture of the German word for rifle ""gewehr"", the last two digits of the Polish model number 29, and the last two digits of the year it was placed in production for the Germans"
"German possession following the annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1938/39, and was renamed from ""42 cm houfnice vz. 17"" to ""42 cm Haubitze(t)""; it also served at Leningrad and Sevastopol, even though its barrel life was rated to only 1,000 rounds. Another piece, an M16 model, was captured at Győr in Hungary during the Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919, together with the 38 cm Belagerungshaubitze M 16 no 2 ""Gudrun"". It is exhibited at the National Military Museum in Bucharest. 42 cm Haubitze M. 14/16 The 42 cm L/15 Küstenhaubitze M. 14 (42 cm, 15 caliber, Coastal Howitzer Model 14) was a"
"Dusack A dusack (also ""dusägge"" and variants, from Czech ""tesák"" ""cleaver; hunting sword"", lit. ""fang"") is a single-edged sword of the cutlass or sabre type, in use as a side arm in Germany and the Habsburg Monarchy during the 16th to 17th centuries, as well as a practice weapon based on this weapon used in early modern German fencing. The Czech term entered German usage in the Hussite Wars, after the sidearm used by the Hussites. In the late 16th century, ""Dusägge"" could refer to a type of weapon combining a sabre blade with the hilt of a sidesword (the"
"a document dating from 1440; later German renderings include ""haussnitz"" and, eventually ""haubitze"", from which derive the Scandinavian ""haubits"", Croatian, Polish and Serbian ""haubica"", Finnish ""haupitsi"", Russian and Bulgarian ""gaubitsa (гаубица)"", Italian ""obice"", Spanish ""obús"", Portuguese ""obus"", French ""obusier"" and the Dutch word ""houwitser,"" which led to the English word ""howitzer"". Since the First World War, the word """"howitzer"""" has been increasingly used to describe artillery pieces that, strictly speaking, belong to the category of ""gun-howitzers"" – relatively long barrels and high muzzle velocities combined with multiple propelling charges and high maximum elevations. This is particularly true in the armed"
"8 cm kanon vz. 28 The 8 cm kanon vz. 28 (Cannon model 1928) was a Czech field gun used during World War II. The origins of the 8 cm kanon vz. 28 began in 1928 at the Škoda Works in Pilsen. The design attempted to combine the field gun, mountain gun, and anti-aircraft gun roles into one weapon. The vz. 28 combined a two-wheeled box trail carriage, horizontal sliding wedge breech, hydro-pneumatic recoil system, muzzle break, high angle elevation and a firing table for 360° degree traverse. For the mountain gun role it could be broken down into three"
"transported in three loads. Skoda Model 1928 Gun The Skoda Model 1928 Gun was a Czechoslovak long-range, dual-purpose cannon designed for the attack of static fortifications and coastal defence duties. About 20 were bought by Yugoslavia and possibly more by Romania, although this latter has not been confirmed from Romanian sources. Guns captured by Nazi Germany after the Invasion of Yugoslavia were used by the Heer as the 15 cm Kanone 403(j). It was tested by the Czechs as the 15 cm kanon NOa, but was not purchased. The gun was mounted on a metal firing platform to give it"
"attended by Pakistan Army officials. CZ 807 The CZ 807 is a Czech dual-caliber assault rifle originally developed by Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod for the Indian military. The rifle was announced by the company in 2013 at an event in Liberec. However, in June 2015, the Indian tender was scrapped. The CZ 807 is derived from the CZ 805 BREN series of rifles. The basic characteristics of the rifle are that it is a piston operated, gas-driven select-fire rifle of dual calibers. The ambidextrous charging handle is easy to change sides on. It has a modular design, with an aluminum"
"the name ""ČZ"", ""Brno"" or ""Vz"". ""ČZ"" (or ""CZ"") is an abbreviation of ""Česká zbrojovka"", while ""vz."" (or ""Vz."", ""vz"", ""Vz"") is an abbreviation of ""vzor"" (""model""). In most cases, only weapons adopted by the Czechoslovak or Czech military have sign ""vz."" in the name, although there are some exceptions from this rule. ""Sa"" (or ""Sa."") is an abbreviation of ""samopal"" (""submachine gun""). The Czech army used the term ""samopal"" for Sa vz. 58 though it is an assault rifle, so this may be as an analogy to Russian term ""automat"". Note that military weapons were after World War II"