Feb 19, 2011: Finally we got to the Hall #2, dedicated to the History of artillery from second half of 19th century to 1917. We saw at once, that all these kawaii details — horses, flowers, etc. — went away, further development was just enhancing engineering and manufacturing techniques. Still we were sure that there`s a lot of interesting things to see.

Here is an example: experimental guns using disk-form missiles. The idea was to make the disk missile rotate inside the gun barrrel (by different methods), and due to this it flew 5 times further. Still, testing shown that this also spoils grouping of shots and disk missiles can carry very little charge. For this reason, the guns were not adopted for usage.

… And then they asked us to go away. :) Because we are so slow and detailed, and the Museum was already closing. We were asked to move to the exit through the rest exposition, and when leaving it, I saw that the last Hall had #8. “That`s enough to make a few other visits», — I thought :).

St. Petersburg Museum of Artillery