Soviet Union's ISU-122 and ISU-152 updated
The Soviet's upgraded their assault guns to use better guns and the IS-2's chassis and hull.
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The Soviet's upgraded their assault guns to use better guns and the IS-2's chassis and hull.
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The Soviets saw how successful the self propelled guns were for the Germans and the need to mount larger weapons persuaded them to produce the SU series.
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The Soviet Union produced over 12,000 of the SU-76 self propelled guns during World War II. They weren't popular with their crews and earned the nicknames Suka (bitch) and Golozhopil Ferdinant (naked ass Ferdinand) which was a reference to it being similar to the German Ferdinand tank destroyer.
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I'm starting through another source of Soviet armored vehicles and these are the updates so far:
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The next self propelled guns produced were the ISU-122 and the ISU-152. The penetration tables have also had some minor updates added.
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The Soviets saw the successful application of the German self propelled guns and worked on a design of their own. The result was the affective SU-152. It had a 152.4 mm howitzer-cannon that was very successful.
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Ok, last updates for today! Yes, more Soviet vehicles!
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I'm still working my way through updating Soviet vehicles used during World War II.
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I've made some minor historical information updates for the Japanese Ho-Ni series of self propelled guns.
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The United States was able to bring to bear some very accurate self propelled artillery in the last months of the war. The M40 and M43 Gun Motor Carriages were well liked by their crews and were even nicknamed "long range snipers" because of their accuracy.
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The United States needed close support for the troops and eventually decided upon the M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage in the early years of the war. It was a 75 mm Howitzer mounted in a large turret on top of an M5 Light Tank chassis.
I've added some new specifications information.
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I've now added additional information on the Lorraine Schlepper 15cm FH13.
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The Soviet Union used the very potent ISU-152 extensively as an assault gun.
I've made some minor additions.
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The well liked Hummel self propelled gun offered the German military a large mobile punch.
I've now added more information and reorganized the photos.
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I've now made some updates for Germany's 15cm sIG 33 auf PzKpfw 38(t) Grille series.
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The Germans wanted a close support vehicle that carried a 15 cm howitzer. The Brummbär "Grizzly Bear" was developed.
I've added some additional information and better organized it.
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The Bishop resulted from the British seeing the German Army using self propelled guns with success in North Africa. However, the Bishop was very tall which left it at a disadvantage in the dessert.
I've now updated the historical information for the Bishop.
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Britain's Archer self propelled gun was of a unorthodox design, but was well liked by its crews by it's low silhouette and ability to quickly move out of position as the gun faced towards the rear.
I've added some additional information for it.
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I've now added several photos of prototypes that never made it out of the T Designation prototype stage.
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I've added a photo of the M8 Howitzer Motor Carriage.
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I've been making some updates to the M7 and M37, M12, and M40 pages. Reorganized them a little, though still should rewrite much of the text and arranged the photos. Hope to add more photos later today, but Spring is calling me outside. . .
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Another very nice Dragon Armor 1/72 scale model that I purchased recently. It was only available at the Dragon Expo 2008. The 60368 German StuG III Ausf G is a very nice model. I do like the detail on the piece.
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I also purchase a Dragon 1/72 scale 10.5 cm StuH.42 Ausf G. This is the first StuH that Dragon has released. One can only hope that they branch out into other models other than the numerous Tigers, King Tigers and StuGs that they've produced.
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Thanks to Steve for pointing out an error on my page that covers the German Brummbär self propelled gun that was used during World War II.
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