During World War II Wehrmacht entered, armed only with light tanks.They were enough to make rapid advances and workarounds specific to blitzkrieg in 1939, 1940 and 1941 years.Army countries have become a victim of Nazi aggression, armed with machines of the same class, and often worse.
Germans crossed the borders of the USSR with the same arsenal consisting of tankettes, tanks, TI, T-II and T-III.TI was armed with a machine gun, other types of armored vehicles had a small-caliber gun.
What happened to the soldiers of the Wehrmacht met in the first armored battle on Soviet territory, greatly puzzled them.Captured samples "tridtsatchetverok" and HF were significantly superior to everything they had at their disposal and force Panzerwaffe.As a matter of urgency, work began on the accelerated development of self-propelled guns and heavy tanks that could withstand the Soviet medium-weight vehicles, armed with long-barreled guns 75 caliber.
history SU-152 became part of the overall race weapons systems, running the war years.This battle was invisible, its engineers were the belligerent countries, standing at drawing board, leading the calculations on slide rules.
Within two years, the Germans created a "zoo" consisting of the "Tigers", "elephant", "Panther" and even "mice", however, it is very large.For all its design flaws, and sometimes defects, these heavyweights has a significant advantage: they could from a distance accurately hit armored targets.
State Committee of Defense before the Soviet designers had a specific task: to create a self-propelled gun, capable of destroying the enemy's equipment, has a powerful armor and do not let close to him our tanks.Case assigned to CDB-2 (Central Design Bureau), which was led by Colonel Kotin.A specific reserve engineering team have already had the entire 1942 they worked on the project of the new tank, and chassis as a whole was ready.It remained to set it howitzer ML-20 caliber 152.4 mm.In honor of this gun got its modest title of Soviet self-propelled gun SU-152.The task was accomplished in 25 days.
Soviet technique frightening enemy is not a big name, and his terrible work.Almost polutsentnerny projectile left the muzzle of the barrel with tremendous speed of 600 m / s, sending it to a distance of 2 km.The howitzer can fire armor-piercing, not only, but also high-explosive and concrete-munitions, which was very important for use in offensive military operations.We had to release the captured enemy territory hack fortified lines, destroy bunkers, suppressing artillery batteries, and this was a very useful self-propelled gun SU-152.
first major battle in which participated "Deerslayer," was the Battle of Kursk.In addition to its formal designation of the car still got the nickname, though informal.It was well-deserved, Nazi zoo very quickly felt the presence of the new Soviet technology, they say, the hard way.
How Tank Destroyer SU-152 proved to be very good.Contact with "Tiger" or "Panther" left no chance for the survival of any technique or crew - heavy armored tower just flew by tens of meters.Problems still are mainly due to inadequate quality of domestic optics.Scopes did not provide the necessary accuracy for a guaranteed hit.
support offensive operations did not require high accuracy of fire, and the challenge Soviet self-propelled gun SU-152 coped well.Rate it may seem low (only two shots per minute), but should be considered a feature howitzer cannon with separate power sleeves and shells.
heavy guns could not be installed in a rotary turret, but the resetting angle (12 ° in each direction) was enough for the guidance and with the closed and open positions.
self-propelled gun SU-152 took part in the storming of Berlin.Although they were not created for the street fighting, the caliber has become a very strong argument in favor of the surrender.
