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 ...

More than 100 residents of Mogilev Oblast named Yekaterina gathered at Unity Square on 7 May to perform the famous wartime ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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.

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 ...

As Russian athletes prepare for the day when they again hoist Olympic medals to the sound of an unfamiliar anthem and a generic flag, they are calling on Katyusha to help assuage their loss. The ...

Katyusha rockets targeted the US embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, and sirens sounded, security sources and witnesses said, though it was not immediately clear whether the rockets caused any damage or ...

Iraq’s capital is constantly pestered by attacks using Katyusha rockets, which has only increased since January, when the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani brought tensions to a boiling point ...