X-Nico

unusual facts about self-propelled gun



Lancia 3 RO

In North Africa and Sicily with the top of the cab cut away and lower sideboards the Lancia 3 Ro became well suited for desert warfare serving as a self-propelled gun porting the Cannone da 90/53 as well as the 100/17 howitzer.

M107 self-propelled gun

The top speed recorded by one M107 driver was 50 mph at the Grafenwöhr Training Area, Germany, on a tank trail.

The PAVN also captured a number of these M107s, fore example 4 of them were captured at Quảng Trị in March 1972, and 12 of them were taken during Tây Nguyên offensive in 1975.

When these guns were outranged by rocket fire from Tyre, they were upgraded with the addition of extended range, full-bore ammunition and new powder supplied by Gerald Bull's Space Research Corporation.

SU-100Y Self-Propelled Gun

When work was stopped on the T-100 project, the SU-100Y was transported to Kubinka in the summer of 1940.


see also

Georgy Sergeev

In 1970s Georgy Sergeev was Chief Designer of the missile systems RT-21 Temp 2S, OTR-21 Tochka, OTR-23 Oka and 203 mm 2A44 gun for the self-propelled gun 2S7 Pion.

Landkreuzer

Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster, a proposed German self-propelled gun in World War II