MiniArt 35037 Soviet Self-Propelled Gun Crew (5)

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Red Army underwent intensive development, both in terms of increasing its number of jobs and saturation with technical weapons. In the 1930s, the first trials and experiments with the use of self-propelled artillery were also carried out. They appeared as prototype cars or were built in small series, such as the SU-1 (in 1931), SU-5-1, SU-5-2 or SU-T-26, based on the chassis of the T-26 tank. A very interesting design also appeared, designated the SU-14, i.e. the adapted chassis of the T-35 tank with the 152 mm Br-2 gun. However, the development of self-propelled artillery on a really large scale in the Red Army took place only during the German-Soviet war, and more precisely from 1942, when the successful SU-76 vehicles (a vehicle based on the chassis of the T-70 tank) and SU- 122 (the car is based on the T-34 chassis). In 1943, however, the SU-152 was put into production, and later the successful ISU-122 and ISU-152. Although it was assumed that the last three cars would be classic self-propelled guns, intended to support the attacks of own infantry and motorized units with direct and indirect fire, in practice they also turned out to be very effective tank destroyers, which perfectly complemented the SU-85 and SU-100 vehicles. It is worth adding that in 1945, 12 self-propelled guns were employed in the infantry division compared to 1941 - very often they were the SU-76.