Moon landing the first Soyuz flight in 1967, the co-ordination of the Soviet Moon landing program quickly unraveled. The Soviets built a landing craft and selected cosmonauts for the mission that would have placed Aleksei Leonov on the Moon's surface, but with the successive launch failures of the N1 booster in 1969, plans for a manned landing suffered first delay and then cancellation. A program of automated return vehicles was begun, in the hope of being the first to return lunar rocks. This had several failures. It eventually succeeded with Luna 16. But this had little impact, because the Apollo 11 and
76 mm mountain gun M1938 light enough to be moved in combat by its crew. By 1 June 1941, the Red Army possessed about 1068 pieces. In addition to mountain units, the weapon was issued to some airborne units. In Wehrmacht service the gun was designated as 7.62 cm GebK 307(r). 3.1944 21. 16 on west and 5 on ost. The Finnish army operated five captured pieces, known as 76 VK 38. 76 mm mountain gun M1938 The 76 mm mountain gun M1938 (Russian: 76-мм горная пушка обр. 1938 г.) was a Soviet gun used in World War II. In 1937, USSR got a license