RUSSIA’S MILITARY TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF MISSILE WEAPONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Popova, Victoria

PII

S0205-96060000460-3-1

DOI

10.31857/S60000460-3-1

Publication type

Article

Status

Published

Authors

Victoria Popova

Volume/ Edition

Volume 39 / Issue 2

Pages

355-362

Abstract

The paper is devoted to Russia's 19^th-century military technology policy concerned with military missiles. While European countries were developing their missile weapons, Russian government took interest in these weapons too. Some regarded rockets as a promising weapon that could replace the entire land-based smoothbore artillery. Alexander I and high-ranked statesmen encouraged the developments in the field of rocket artillery. However, industrial-scale production of rockets for the army had not been on the agenda for a long time because of their poor combat performance characteristics compared to their English analogs. An impetus for setting up the St. Petersburg Rocket Factory ("raketnoe zavedenie") was provided by the beginning of the Caucasian War during which the rockets had convincingly demonstrated their effectiveness. Despite the support on the part of the powers that be, the policy regarding the missile weapon was contradictory. On the one hand, the military brass favored the development and implementation of rocket weapons while, on the other hand, insufficient funding and poor facilities and equipment at the St. Petersburg Rocket Factory reduced rocket engineering in Russia to the level of fireworks manufacture, which was reflected in the poor combat characteristics of the rockets. The author attempts to analyze this situation and provide an answer to the question of why, with this weapons being so effective, the state failed to invest in its development and production.

Keywords

combat rocket, Congreve rocket, St. Petersburg Rocket Factory, Caucasian Corps, A. D. Zasyadko, A. I. Kartmazov, P. A. Kozen, V. M. Vnukov, K. I. Konstantinov, Mikhailovsky Artillery School

Date of publication

01.04.2018

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1262

References

GOST	Popova V. RUSSIA’S MILITARY TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF MISSILE WEAPONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY // Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. – 2018. – V. 39. – Issue 2 C. 355-362 .
MLA	Popova, Victoria "RUSSIA’S MILITARY TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF MISSILE WEAPONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY." Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. 39.2 (2018).:355-362.
APA	Popova V. (2018). RUSSIA’S MILITARY TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF MISSILE WEAPONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY. Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki. vol. 39, no. 2, pp.355-362

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