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5 unusual facts about Self-propelled artillery


Metal Slug

There also a host of mechanized enemies, such as tanks, mobile artillery, aircraft, armored personnel carriers and technicals.

Panzerhaubitze

Panzerhaubitze is the German term equivalent to armoured howitzer.

Self-propelled artillery

The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade (the Experimental Mechanized Force) after the end of the War.

While not forming large batteries and employing only lighter 3- and 2-pound guns, they were still effective and inflicted serious losses to Prussian units in the Seven Years' War.

By 1943 the series of Samokhodnaya ustanovka casemate-armored vehicles had started to appear at the front, starting with the SU-85, and by late 1944 the SU-100, which mounted powerful guns on modern chassis adopting the full-casemate enclosure of the crew compartment as the Germans had done with the StuG III.


Uman–Botoşani Offensive

The main offensive effort was to be delivered from the staging areas at Vinograd, Zvenigorodok, and Shpola in the direction of Uman by forces of the 27th, 52nd, 4th Guard all arms, 2nd, 5th Guard and 6th Tank armies (415 tanks and 147 SPAs), supported by the 5th Air Army.


see also

M106

M106 mortar carrier a tracked, self-propelled artillery vehicle formerly in service with the United States Army

SU-8 photoresist

For the Soviet ground attack aircraft, see Sukhoi Su-8; for the Soviet self-propelled artillery project, see T-28#Experimental models