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ANASTAS PALIGORIĆ –Artillery Design Legend

 

Miomir Kalezić

 

ANASTAS PALIGORIĆ died in mid 2017. He was the greatest modern chief designer and project manager in the majority of fire support artillery weapons development projects. During his successful engineering carrier he has created a considerable number of mortars, towed and self-propelled artillery weapons in calibers from 60 mm to 155 mm. Many of these systems are still attractive on the world market. His designer's genius found its substantiation in the optimization of the systems having in mind the interactive relationship between the user, the designer and the manufacturer.

 

Key words:   Anastas Paligorić, artillery system, artillery weapon, WME design, mortar, gun, howitzer, self-propelled artillery, 60 mm caliber, 100 mm caliber, 105 mm caliber, 120 mm caliber, 130 mm caliber, 152 mm caliber, 155 mm caliber.