Military Museum of Vytautas the Great

Museum of Vytautas the Great is located in Lithuania and offers visitors a unique collection of archaeological finds, weapons and firearms, military photos, the evolution of the military art, and more. Let us look at it and see some interesting exhibits. The museum is actually a little of everything. This is the first such fortifications.





This is the strengthening of the later period.



Middle Ages.



There are just wonderful gun.



Traditionally, military museums, armor.



Glamorous armor.



The mortars.



But this is a very cool collection of the evolution of small arms. From rifles and carbines.



Before Kalashnikov. Over there, too, SVD.



And it is developing weapons of Lithuania. I did not think that in Lithuania tried to exploit their trunks. Well, actually they do not produce, and were not armed. But no harm in trying.



It is from the same collection evolution pistols.



At the dawn of the era revolvers.



Bayonets.



Halberd.



And this does not even know the name of the Japanese thing.



Evolution helmets. Pickelhaube.



Various hard hats.



Flight helmet era piston aircraft.



This is something of a contemporary.



Helm of UN peacekeepers.



The form of the modern soldier.



But back to history. Guerrilla Front.



My own weapon guerrillas. This is good if you like. Partisans of all that came, then amiss.



Lithuanian partisans so good guerrillas rode Harleys. :)



This ...
In general, there are two national hero Darius and Stasys Steponas Girėnas military pilots. In the early twentieth century served USAF. They wanted to put distance record flight and fly across the Atlantic from New York to Kaunas. Bought plane proapgredili him and went flying. But before reaching the destination 600 km. broken. In Lithuania, they revered as heroes. The Museum of the wreckage of the plane. It is not a replica, not installation, in general, their plane crashed in the primary crumpled form is in the museum.



Military chess.



Lithuania's top honors. Left highest state award of the Order of Vytautas the Great, awarded for special merits before the state. Second right starshenstvu awarded the Order of the Cross of Vytis.



Source: antonio-j.livejournal.com